DOS ain't dead

MicroWeb 2.00 (Announce)

posted by roytam, 25.04.2024, 04:15

> I tested this on ST-DOS. Characters that are not 7-bit ASCII don't work,
> and also character escape sequences like & auml; and & ouml; don't work.
> (Also this forum doesn't seem to escape them correctly.) Also it seems to
> somehow parse the link targets completely wrong. Most links just lead to a
> page that has address "=" without quotes. It probably reads the string from
> a null pointer.
>
> Without fixing these bugs it isn't really usable.

Since it use most of things from Watcom's C runtime, that means either their runtime library and/or your DOS implementation have problems.

Complete thread:

• MicroWeb 0.3 Prototype Release - rr, 27.06.2021, 18:04 (Announce)
  • MicroWeb 0.3 Prototype Release - RayeR, 28.06.2021, 02:25
    • MicroWeb 0.4 Prototype Release - RayeR, 06.07.2021, 01:54
      • MicroWeb 0.5 Alpha release - dggionco, 23.07.2021, 08:57
        • MicroWeb 0.5 Alpha release - RayeR, 23.07.2021, 14:07
        • MicroWeb 0.51 Alpha release - dggionco, 13.08.2021, 13:56
          • MicroWeb 0.51 Alpha release - RayeR, 17.08.2021, 16:21
            • MicroWeb 0.53 - dggionco, 30.07.2023, 14:05
              • MicroWeb 0.53 - bocke, 19.08.2023, 12:53
                • MicroWeb 2.00 - RayeR, 18.04.2024, 02:42
                  • MicroWeb 2.00 - bocke, 18.04.2024, 11:10
                    • MicroWeb 2.00 - samwdpckr, 23.04.2024, 01:00
                      • MicroWeb 2.00 - roytam, 25.04.2024, 04:15
                      • MicroWeb 2.00 - tom, 25.04.2024, 20:13
                        • MicroWeb 2.00 - rr, 25.04.2024, 20:32