MSDOS Python

Mark Anacker (marka%dsinet@uunet.UU.NET)
Thu, 21 May 92 8:40:41 PDT

>
> This is just a little note telling that Mark's patches for Python
> 0.9.6 to make it compile with Turbo C (Borland 2.0) under MS-DOS are
> now available for anonymous ftp as
>
> ftp.cwi.nl:/pub/python-dos-patch
>
> (Mark, do you have any interesting Python modules that use your pc
> module? Would you care to post them to the list as examples?)

Actually, no. I have a lot of ideas, but right now it's more of a solution
in search of a problem :-)

To anyone who plans on using the pcmodule - I'm planning on totally revising
that module into three parts. There will be a "pc" module that will have
Intel CPU functions (inp, outp, etc), a "bios" module that will have an
interface to all of the BIOS functions, and a "dos" module that will contain
MS-DOS functions. Of course, programs using these won't port to anything
besides an IBM-PC clone, but they'll at least be there so you can play with
the system.

I'm also starting on making a PC version of the socket module, using the
Waterloo TCP libraries. This one I want to make a duplicate of the unix
module, so socket-based programs will port straight across (well,
within reason - still no forks in MSDOS).

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