felsqualle,
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Well... I wanted to look into compiling MS-DOS 4.0 after Microsoft released the sources today.

Looks like it won't compile from scratch because the conversion to git killed some characters and inlined byte-sequences :(

https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/main/v4.0/src/SELECT/USA.INF

jason,
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@felsqualle maybe bring it to @shanselman attention. As far as I understand it, he was vital in releasing it to the public. The issue tracker is probably not enabled, is it?

shanselman,
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@jason @felsqualle yes, that was a miss and I apologize, we didn’t think about the UTF-8 problem. Someone did already get it to build, however, so it’s confirmed possible, and I’m gonna try to put together a script to fix. I’ll also try to put together a correct zip file in a few weeks.

felsqualle,
@felsqualle@manitu.social avatar

@shanselman thank you, that’s great to hear!

felsqualle,
@felsqualle@manitu.social avatar

@shanselman What both you and @starfrost did here is simply amazing, a great piece of history. I was always wondering how different the IBM PC-DOS and MS-DOS builds were - well, now I can see that the differences are really minor thanks to the "IBMCOPYRIGHT" defines. Let's see how long it takes to compile on period-correct emulated hardware.

shanselman,
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@felsqualle @starfrost ya that was hilarious to find

shanselman,
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@felsqualle @starfrost this was the person who I saw build it first https://x.com/virtuallyfun/status/1783645325388865685?s=46

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