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Release Notes for DOS/NT version 1.03
December 15, 1994
Differences between release 1.03 and 1.02:
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1. Boot now knows about 1.2MB and 1.44MB drives.
2. sys.exe error handler improved. Now 5 retries are attempted on any disk
operation before it exits.
3. Kernel and ipl.sys exe loader bug fixed. Kernel appears more stable as a
result.
4. "Production" code is now being distributed. Symbol tables no longer in
all exe files and remote debugger support no longer in kernel.
Differences between release 1.02 and 1.0:
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1. Partitions >32 MB are now supported with this release.
2. Undocumented get/set switchar is now supported.
3. A new utility, sys.exe, is now supplied to create bootable floppies.
The following differences exist between DOS/NT kernel and MS-DOS:
1. The following interrupts are supported:
20h
21h
22h
23h
24h
27h
28h
2fh
2. Interrupts 28h and 2fh are stubs in this version.
3. A separate list, int21.txt, is provided to document the supported DOS int
21h functions.
4. Directory updates do not occur until the final open handle to a file is
closed.
5. Seeks past eof on files with write permission do not extend the file.
6. Reading of config.sys is disabled for this release.
7. Invalid function calls cause a register dump.
7. There are no drivers for aux and lpt devices in this release.
8. Command line editing does not support insert and delete.
10. Error Handling is done entirely within the kernel.
The following differences exist between DOS/NT command.com and MS-DOS:
1. The command cls is not supported.
2. Pipes are not supported.
3. The dir command does not support the sort option.
4. The copy command does not support append and device drivers.