Bug 1661

Summary: choice compatibility chart
Product: Choice Reporter: jhall@freedos.org <jhall@freedos.org>
Component: coreAssignee: tom ehlert <tom.ehlert@ginko.de>
Status: CLOSED FIXED    
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: PC   
OS: FreeDOS   
Attachments: CHOICE compatibility chart
CHOICE compatibility chart-2

Description:   Opened: 2003-05-24 18:14
"Achim Sondermann" <achim_sondermann@web.de> sent me this submission, which
looks like a good thing to add in the next release of CHOICE:


I was bored and wrote the attached "choice compatibilty chart".
Annotation 3 and 4 show bugs in Freedos choice imho.
Accepting extended keys is debateable, MS/PC-DOS does it.
Not beeping on invalid keyhits is cosmetic but still incompatible.
Nifty batch files that check for the existance of choice.com won't work with
freedos.



(I'll add the chart as an attachment. -jh)
------- Comment #1 From jhall@freedos.org 2003-05-24 18:15:15 -------
Created an attachment (id=5) [details]
CHOICE compatibility chart
------- Comment #2 From jhall@freedos.org 2003-05-24 18:30:23 -------
Achim sent me an update to the chart.  I'll attach it.  -jh
------- Comment #3 From jhall@freedos.org 2003-05-24 18:30:58 -------
Created an attachment (id=6) [details]
CHOICE compatibility chart-2
------- Comment #4 From jhall@freedos.org 2003-05-26 11:23:37 -------
Reassigning bugs to Tom Ehlert, the new CHOICE maintainer.  -jh
------- Comment #5 From jhall@freedos.org 2003-05-28 07:29:38 -------
Never mind on this one.  Achim sent me a followup that he would prefer his
CHOICE compatibility chart not be included in a release of CHOICE, but instead
posted as  a technote.  I've posted it here:
http://www.freedos.org/freedos/news/technote/191.txt


Here's Achim's note:
--
Please don't distribute any beta version of choiccmp.txt anywhere and don't put
the final version into the choice package, make it a technote or sth. I don't
plan to update that file after version 1.0.

------- Comment #6 From jhall@freedos.org 2003-05-28 07:30:49 -------
And just as a final note: any new lists that Achim sends me will be updated on
the FreeDOS site.  I'll block access to 191 until finalized.

-jh