Stewart Gordon wrote:
> I know somebody who was, until a year or three ago, still doing everything in MS-DOS.

I know someone who was, until a day or six ago, still doing everything in MS-DOS. With about 4MB RAM. At 12 Mhz (IIRC).

Of course, "everything" here means "everything pc-related he does" which in turn means "run one specific program". All he did with it was use it as a terminal that connected (over an old-fashioned modem) to a special-purpose feeding computer on the farm he runs.

Some people use old stuff because it works and they don't need more than it provides. Especially if they never connect to the net (so no security updates, latest-browser-features, etc. required).

That said though, he has since upgraded... to Windows 98 ;)

He still only runs one program that would run fine in DOS though. But now he runs it at 1 GHz.

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------- Comment #7 from jpelcis@gmail.com  2006-09-30 14:11 -------
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> But at least something that can be done now is to find out on which Windows versions the bug occurs.

Works Vista RC1.


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> ------- Comment #4 from smjg@iname.com  2006-09-30 11:47 -------
> Alas, it's a bug with the OS.  I've tried the C stdio API (both DM and Borland
> implementations) and the Windows file I/O API with the same effect.  And I'm
> still lost for a workaround.

For a workaround, test to see which version of Windows you're running under, and generate an extra line of output for the buggy one. Look in std/file.d for how to determine the version.

Walter Bright wrote:
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> For a workaround, test to see which version of Windows you're running under, and generate an extra line of output for the buggy one. Look in std/file.d for how to determine the version.

That's what I thought for a moment.  But how do I detect whether stdin or stdout is redirected?

Stewart.

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Stewart Gordon wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
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>> For a workaround, test to see which version of Windows you're running under, and generate an extra line of output for the buggy one. Look in std/file.d for how to determine the version.
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> That's what I thought for a moment.  But how do I detect whether stdin or stdout is redirected?

C's isatty()

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------- Comment #8 from smjg@iname.com  2006-10-14 15:58 -------
We've got that it works on 2000, XP and Vista RC1.  And that it fails on 98SE. this leaves 95, 98FE, NT 4, ME and Server 2003.

My guess would be that the bug is in 95 and 98FE as well as 98SE, and in Server 2003 as well as the others from 2000 up.

But what about NT 4 and ME?  I can't guess whether these have the bug at the moment.

(OK, so there's also Win32s and NT 3.x - but do we really need to worry about
these?)


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> (OK, so there's also Win32s and NT 3.x - but do we really need to worry about
> these?)

No.

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--- Comment #9 from Stewart Gordon <smjg@iname.com> 2011-05-28 09:28:45 PDT ---
It's been established that it's a bug in some versions of Windows, not in Phobos or any of the C libraries it uses.

Thinking about it now, I don't suppose it's worth adding a workaround layer.
For all I know, the versions of Windows that suffer the bug are probably no
longer supported.  And those who want this compatibility anyway can use my
library....
http://pr.stewartsplace.org.uk/d/sutil/

What are we going to do with this bug report now?

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--- Comment #10 from notna <more.more@ist-willig.de> 2012-04-08 16:02:39 PDT ---
As dlang-Win9x support will be stopped soon, close it?

(In reply to comment #9)
> It's been established that it's a bug in some versions of Windows, not in Phobos or any of the C libraries it uses.
> 
> Thinking about it now, I don't suppose it's worth adding a workaround layer.
> For all I know, the versions of Windows that suffer the bug are probably no
> longer supported.  And those who want this compatibility anyway can use my
> library....
> http://pr.stewartsplace.org.uk/d/sutil/
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> What are we going to do with this bug report now?

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--- Comment #11 from Oleg Kuporosov <Oleg.Kuporosov@gmail.com> 2012-05-12 00:05:02 PDT ---
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> As dlang-Win9x support will be stopped soon, close it?

 Validated on Windows 7 x86_64 - works fine.

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