On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Henry Taylor<htaylor_at_agristats.com> wrote:
>> When you say "DOS Box" do you mean a cmd.exe window running in Windows XP/Vista/7 or do you litterly mean that they run a PC with DOS 3.31 as the primary operating system?
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>> If the former, sure you can use SVN in a cmd window. If you mean the latter... ug. I would suggest setting up a DOS VM that has access to mapped drives on the host machine where your working copy is.
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>> BOb
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> I mean the latter. We literally have PC with DOS as the primary operating system. Funny, isn't it?
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I don't know if [for example] Sun's Virtualbox allows DOS as a client
OS, but here is another off the wall suggestion.
Have your developers develop and test in an actual copy of MS/PC/Open
DOS, running in a virtual 8086 machine with OS/2 as the host operating
system. [this is not using OS/2's built in 'better DOS than DOS'
emulation - but that may be an even better option]. Revision control
[svn command line] is then run from an OS/2 command prompt.
OS/2 is still available with the unfortunate name of 'eComStation',
and will install on extremely low end commodity hardware [20 MHz i386
or better]. The virtual machine capability is surprisingly versatile -
at one point I tested running a CP/M-86 virtual machine [had to give
it a private filesystem on a separate partition].
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Received on 2009-09-03 20:13:04 CEST