DR-DOS anyone?

[Douglas C. Horner]

Has anyone tried to develop a PBCC 2.0 app using this OS? It run's on a Symbol 6800 hand held scanner.
I don't have copy to test it on. It looks like it should work but I don't want to drop $$$$$ and find out it doesn't
Here's the link

www.drdos.com

Thx
Doug

Added: PBCC is a 32Bit compiler doubt it!

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[This message has been edited by Douglas C. Horner (edited September 18, 2003).]

[Peter Lameijn]

You can download DR-Dos 7.03 at http://www.drdos.net/download.htm


[This message has been edited by Peter Lameijn (edited September 18, 2003).]

[Davide Vecchi]

I developed several PB/DOS apps under DR-DOS 7.03,
and it worked very fine. About PB/CC, i don't even know whether
any Windows version will install under DR-DOS.

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Davide Vecchi
[email protected]

[mark pruitt]

Originally posted by Davide Vecchi:
About PB/CC, i don't even know whether any Windows version will install under DR-DOS.

Davide, I think you're correct on this. DRDOS is a genuine DOS OS, subject to the same
limitations as MS DOS. If you use an operating system other than Windows 95, you need to
make a seperate partition on the drive to install DRDOS. On the plus side, DRDOS is a
great OS in itself. I have an old junker Compaq LTE 5280 (a whole 24 Meg of RAM!) that has
two partitions; one for DRDOS 7.02 and PBDOS/Vision, the other for Debian Linux (very low
GUI install). I haven't had a problem with it since I installed it many moons ago.



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Mark Pruitt
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[Douglas C. Horner]

Gent's

Thanks for the feedback. Since I don't have PB/DOS only PBCC,PBWIN70 etc. I'll just use good'ol QB 4.5 to develop the app!

Doug

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[Criss French]

QB 4.5

For the price of PBdos3.5, I will never touch QB again. Ever.

After years of grief programming data collection software for
my survey company, after many hours in the feild spent re-surveying
to recover randomly wiped data files over COM errors (I can't
understand how a file opened as append only can get fully erased
either) PB3.5 has rendered the same code (with only very minor
tweaks) absolutely rock solid stable.

IMHO, if it's worth coding, then PB is the cheapest part of your
job. M$ never gave a $*|^ about QB as far as I can tell. All of
the hours I put in trying to prod a vuage semblance of predictability
out of the buggy <%^p that QB compiled, make the $100 price
seem like very cheap entertainment. Hours spent having fun instead
of test coding to work around bugs.

What I like:
ALL compiler controls built into the code : nothing to remember years later.
COM port control flags that do almost everything (incl. ignore errors YEAH)
USING$
HUGE arrays
fixed strings
byte, int(16bit), int(32bit), int(64bit), including unsigned to 32bit
Extended precision for native x87 code.
ITERATE
good variable scope control
localized error handling
reliable event handling

God it just goes on and on. PB ain't totally perfect, but I've not
seen better. The years I went without (I only found it at V3.5)
are a true regret to me.

Rant over. Good luck. And no, I don't own stock.



[This message has been edited by Criss French (edited September 19, 2003).]

[Douglas C. Horner]

Criss

You probably right in your assessment. Considering the cost of the scanners $99.00 to purchase PB/DOS is immaterial.

Doug

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