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voidmain:
Do you know any of the programmers from the pre MS-DOS Microsoft days? Back when they were in to UNIX (Xenix)? I was reading that they did all of their DOS development, and Windows development on Xenix all the way up into the 3.x series. And I understand that the only reason they decided to get their own OS is so they could have complete control over it (politically).  Was just curious if you knew anyone with more insight into that part of the MS era.

dbl221:
Ok I asked and although he wasnt at M$ that far back he said the did most of their development work on Xenix back before they sold it to SCO.  M$ believes in the "eating your own dog food" style of development...bye the way what is SCO doing these days.

voidmain:

quote:Originally posted by dbl221:
Ok I asked and although he wasnt at M$ that far back he said the did most of their development work on Xenix back before they sold it to SCO.  M$ believes in the "eating your own dog food" style of development...bye the way what is SCO doing these days.
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I don't know but I was never a fan of SCO.  I had several machines set up with it for a special app and it was a UNIX that was not like the others.

kinky:

quote:Originally posted by caustic:
I hexedited two windows shortcuts so that they point to each other....
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really? ... hmmmm if you say so

caustic:

quote:Originally posted by MxCl:
Caustic, are shortcuts easy to hexedit? Could you give us a * brief * rundown on how you did it?
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Quite easy, but sounds confusing. Make a file eg.123.txt and make a shortcut to it and then make a copy of this shortcut, open the first shortcut in a hex editor (i recommend winhex) and change the second reference to the oringinal filename (should be chracter-spaced unicode style) to the filename of the second shortcut (make sure the the shortcut has the same number of characters as the first file) and then hexedit the second shortcut so that it points to the first (*stops for air*). Press save and enjoy the fireworks. (use dos prompt to rename or delete the files when youre done)

By the way, I done this in XP. Thats progress for you.

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