Re: Beta vs. Stable

On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Arkady V.Belousov wrote:

> 8-îÏÑ-2002 19:27 [email protected] (Bart Oldeman) wrote to FreeDOS
> <[email protected]>:
>
> BO> * mem - isn't command-switch compatible with MSDOS mem
>
>      Is it required?

yes; see my reply to Eric

> BO> * kernel - is missing in config.sys:
> BO> (see http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/spec/config.html)
> BO> - buffers=nn[,n] - we have no secondary buffers
>
>      This is _not_ required. You may simply ignore second argument similar
> as MS-DOS ignores second argument of FCBS statement or assumes default
> values for BUFFERS if wrong values given.

The spec just says this:

buffers
Allocates memory for disk buffers during kernel startup.

buffers=nn[,n]


Options:

nn is the number of buffers, in the range 1-99.

  n is the number of secondary buffers, in the range 1-8.

> BO> - fcbs - this one is stupid in the FreeDOS context; we simply don't need
> BO> system FCBs for the FCB functions. It is parsed but ignored.
>
>      So what the problem with this?

That the spec doesn't describe the kernel behaviour.

Bart