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From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: pre 1983 computers / Borland Pascal
Message-ID: <237ae086@ralf>
Date: 11 Nov 88 12:43:50 GMT
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In article <12897@ncoast.UUCP>, allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
}As far as your discussion of compatibility:  I don't know of any current DOS
}programs that still use the DOS 1.x file calls.  By your arguments, all

COMMAND.COM!  It uses the DOS 1 "delete files" call because it can handle
wildcards, while the DOS 2 version can only delete one file per call (which is
slower, since DOS has to scan the directory for each file being deleted,
rather than once for all deletions).

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