Question About PB/DOS

[Clay Clear]

Has PB, Inc. made a firm decision on whether it will or will not
come out with a PB/DOS upgrade? I am not looking for a beginning work/release
date, as I do not want to violate your "no vaporware" policy.
All I am looking for is "yes," "no," or "undecided."


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[Mel Bishop]

I saw somewhere on this BBS that PB is, indeed, going to release
at least one more PB/DOS upgrade. Can't remember where I saw it
tho. I, for one, am really looking forward to it but due to their
"no vaporware" policy......


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[Clay Clear]

Thanks, Mel, very much. Now that I have confirmation, I will forego
recreating my OBJ/PBU files that added LFN disk file support to my PB/DOS
EXE's. Mr. Hanlin believes that that might very well be natively
supported in the next release. At this time, I have no need for LFN
support. 'Sides, it'd be easy to create them as PBU's if I did
develop need for them. I long ago stopped using OBJ files for pretty
much everything except the fundamental ASM subs/functions, because
string handling in MASM-created OBJ files is such a pain. With PBU's,
it's easy to do because a person can combine BASIC/ASM functionalities.
The thing I REALLY look forward to in the next upgrade is support
for more modern CPU's in its inline assembler. It is the very anachronistic
inline assembler support in the current release that has me still doing some stuff
as OBJ files. The MASM 6.14 OBJ-compiler can go all the way up to
and including support for 486/387 ASM opcodes. But, even with the
antiquated inline assembler, there is still a workaround, which is to embed
unsupported opcodes/addressing modes as ! db statements. But, that's such
a pain in a large ASM PBU, because you have to constantly go back and forth to
the Intel PDF's to look up the opcodes/addressing.

Anyway, sorry for rambling. <grin>

Did you get the e-mail I sent to you?



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[Mel Bishop]

clay, if you need lfn in your dos programs, check out:
http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pb...ad.php?t=23451


as noted, this will not work in a pure dos environment. it will
work only in a windows dos window.

e-mail: yup. thanks.
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[this message has been edited by mel bishop (edited may 01, 2004).]