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MadAdmin:

    My response to your response as follows:

MadAdmin wrote in message <7cogaj$kca$3@news-2.news.gte.net>...
>On 17 Mar 1999 13:58:18 GMT, "saddle" <saddle@bigpond.com> wrote:

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>Do you use FCBs or file handles?

Occasionally, though not very often, it would depend on the hardware and OS.

>10 years ago we were staying away rom FCBs in DOS since file handles worked
a lot cleaner.

They did.

>My understanding was DOS didn't do FCBs nearly as well as CP/M did.

It doesn't

>Also the embedded stuff I dealt with back then used either
>proprietary/homegrown OSes that were small enough to fit in ROM.

Ah...the good old days :) When people who used computers actually understood
how they worked :)

 >Most of the stuff I dealt with was Z-80 based at the time but some of the
>devices used ladder logic rather than assembler for programming!

That makes some sense. Sounds like you have been around my friend.

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