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miau tuh! | CTL-C-BUG of what ??? (Announce)

posted by DOS386, 24.01.2009, 09:20

> Wouldn't it be more reasonable to assume a bug in FreeDOS?
> Judging from my experience ("Ctrl-C" bug) I'd say the FreeDOS kernel has
> done a couple of significant steps backwards in 2008.

http://www.mail-archive.com/freedos-kernel%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg02156.html

> in the latest FreeDOS kernels (from 03/2008 and 09/2007, AFAIU they are called
> 2038 and 2038pre) there might be a tiny incompatibility
> concerning the Ctrl-C handling.
> As a test case I use this version of the FTE editor:
> http://www.japheth.de/Download/FTE-HX.zip
> Once a text file has been loaded and one wants to press Ctrl-C to copy a line,
> the program terminates due to an exception. The kernel 2036 (date of binary is
> 05/2007) has no problems, and other DOS versions (MS-DOS) also work

I can't reproduce such a bug with FASM IDE

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