And yes it is doable in Win32, it is NOT a relic of older DOS.ĪLSO: Not command.exe, the standard Win32 command interpreter is CMD.EXE, the standard DOS command interpreter is COMMAND.COM. Play any game and you will see, press a key for input, it changes things, the program does not sit there locked till the press. What I am trying to do is something very common even today. That is why the old Windows command console got killed in favour of the new emulator. If you are really interested in commandline apps you can now write for both linux and windows in one target. For those who don't know Windows 10 now comes with a linux bash command console and Visual Studio 2017 can target linux bash apps. SIDE BAR: One of the more interesting back parts is the whole linux console way of doing things is going to become far more common. You will have no more luck with any language on any operating system with that technique and use it on your new choice (Risc OS) and you will fair no better. So you tried to learn C by not using any standard, or any modern teaching source and targetting the O/S properly and when you failed it was C's fault What you are doing is pretty much dead on any modern operating system and isn't going to be coming back because it is useless on the modern O/S.

You probably can't play your old vinyl records on your CD player either.

What you are trying to do was for some old historic DOS based machine circa 1980 and that is about all it will work on going forward.

The old command.exe is gone replaced with an emulated console with locale support and it doesn't work like DOS anymore either. Most of what your trying to do won't even work on Windows either. That comment gets me what has this got to do with linux ? Linux has the advantage of having a few useful programs, for that Linux I will use until I either figure out how to port or replace the few useful programs to RISC OS. This giving Linux a fair shake is losing me hair. I may indeed just keep it simple and just use RISC OS.

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