Might be a dumb question - but why creating so many micro tools? Would it be possible to have all of them inside one binary, with behavior adapted with a switch? (a la busybox - like "V8POWER VCURSOR HIDE") ?
It would certainly make the toolbox much more space-efficient on big (fat) clusters :) If I see right, the effective space of the toolbox would be around ~100 KiB now on 4K clusters. Having them all in a busybox-like package would probably take one tenth of that. cheers, Mateusz On 01/09/2015 16:45, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > Hello all, > > I’ve done a little bit of restructuring. > > The http://up.lod.bz/V8Power precompiled version will no longer include the > source files. > Those will be maintained over at http://github.com/LoopZ/V8Power > > Also, I have started making detailed examples on usage of V8PT. They are in > both > downloads under the EXAMPLES directory. What each example demonstrates is > described in a readme.txt file in that directory. > > At present, the following examples are: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Example 0 (EX00.BAT) > > Simple test to see if V8Power Tools are installed. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Example 1 (EX01.BAT) > > Simple test to determine if the batch file is running under DOSBox. > > DOSBox does not support I/O redirection at present. This is not a limitation > of V8PT. But, it is to be noted that DOSBox does not support it. Therefore, > batch files that run on DOSBox must work around this limitation. Things like > querying the current cursor shape with "vcursor /q" will function, but there > is now way to save it's output. See Example 2 for a workaround to this issue. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Example 2 (EX02.BAT) > > Hiding and restoring the cursor. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Example 3 (EX03.BAT) > > Simple application style screen drawing with a delay and cleared screen on > exit. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Example 4 (EX04.BAT) > > Simple pause with timeout example. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Example 5 (EX05.BAT) > > Simple choice box with intentional to many choices that returns errorlevel > of selected choice. Please note that under DOSBox or under FreeDOS without > a memory manager installed, choices with multiple colors are flattened to > to a single color. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Example 6 (EX06.BAT) > > Simple choice box that returns the text of the selected choice to stdout. Will > not work under DOSBox. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
