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1.7 KiB
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This should be considered an initial port - there will probably be some
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bugs and non-functioning features.
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The only functionality that has had any real testing is "unzip filename",
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anything else is basically untested.
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This has been cross-compiled from DOS using Metaware's High C compiler
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and the DOS version of pamake (v3.0). It should compile with the FlexOS
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hosted version of HighC, and the makefile could be converted to work
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with the native FlexOS make.
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The following considerations apply:
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)Compiled against and linked with portlib.
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)Used on FlexOS 286 v2.32
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)Volume labels are not supported - this is due to the way FlexOS decides
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if a drive has case-sensitive filenames based upon the contents of the
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volume label.
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)No special handling for case-sensitive media (see above).
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)Not using the PORTLIB wildarg routine (i.e., UnZip does its own globbing).
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)Based upon the MSDOS port.
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)Filenames are in FAT format.
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)The current version of getch is a cheat (simply using getchar()). I
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should interrogate stdin and if it's a FlexOS console use special code
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to turn off echo and just read one char.
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)Only the basic MSDOS FAT file attributes are saved/restored. There is
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currently no support for the FlexOS extended file attributes.
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)There is some code that should attempt to do the correct thing when a
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pathspec with a logical name definition is used (e.g., "system:path/to/it");
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however it again has not been stress-tested.
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)There is no special handling for floppy drives, there probably should
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be.
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)The dateformat is compiled in as DMY (shoot me I'm British), I'm not
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sure if there is actually a way to get locale info.
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)The assembler speedups haven't yet been ported to ASM86 (should simply
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be a change of syntax)
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--
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D.Fawcus 17 July 1997
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