Re: [Freedos-devel] suggestion - add fdshell to freedos 1.1

2011-07-21 Thread Jim Hall
Long story short: Doszip is pretty perfect unless you need 8086 support. http://sf.net/projects/doszip (Anyways, a decent file manager isn't essential by any means, and surely there are dozens of other file managers, I'm probably forgetting a few. Maybe they're open source, who knows, I

Re: [Freedos-devel] suggestion - add fdshell to freedos 1.1

2011-07-17 Thread Jim Hall
I don't know that I've used this DOSSHELL before. I just tried it now, and once I got used to the key commands, it seemed easy to use, and very nice. The source requires Microsoft BASIC Compiler to build. Is there a free version of Microsoft BASIC Compiler (DOS) out there? I haven't found it on

Re: [Freedos-devel] suggestion - add fdshell to freedos 1.1

2011-07-17 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On 7/17/11, Jim Hall jh...@freedos.org wrote: I don't know that I've used this DOSSHELL before. I just tried it now, and once I got used to the key commands, it seemed easy to use, and very nice. It looks okay, but it's fairly minimal. I'd heavily prefer Doszip, honestly. The source

Re: [Freedos-devel] suggestion - add fdshell to freedos 1.1

2011-07-17 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011, Rugxulo wrote: Hi, On 7/17/11, Jim Hall jh...@freedos.org wrote: I don't know that I've used this DOSSHELL before. I just tried it now, and once I got used to the key commands, it seemed easy to use, and very nice. It looks okay, but it's fairly minimal. I'd heavily

Re: [Freedos-devel] suggestion - add fdshell to freedos 1.1

2011-07-17 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 17-7-2011 23:01, Jim Hall schreef: To keep FreeDOS free we need to use free software tools wherever possible. That's why we encourage NASM and OpenWatcom, and other free tools. We have a few programs still that use Borland's TurboC compiler, but I believe this is still available for free

Re: [Freedos-devel] suggestion - add fdshell to freedos 1.1

2011-07-17 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On 7/17/11, Steve Nickolas lyricalnan...@usotsuki.hoshinet.org wrote: On Sun, 17 Jul 2011, Rugxulo wrote: Doszip at least can build with OpenWatcom and JWasm, so that's good. Can the 16-bit version of DOS Navigator be made to build on OpenWatcom? That's a pretty good shell (Norton