Re: [Freedos-devel] [Freedos-user] after find, Error reading from drive A: DOS area: general failure: fixed

[Jerome Shidel]

Hello Tom,

Did you get hold of the maintainer? 

The package lists that as Eric Auer. But, that could be incorrect.

I just haven’t heard anything for a couple days and was wondering what was 
going on with find.

Jerome
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Re: [Freedos-devel] free-non-gnu-distros.en.html

[Jim Hall]

On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 6:18 PM, David Hedlund  wrote:
> I would love to have your operating systems listed in
> https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-non-gnu-distros.en.html, however the Free
> Software Foundation "staff said that those who want their distros listed
> have to request it. Being listed involves a commitment to remove any nonfree
> software present" to quote Richard Stallman. Please mail to this address if
> you would like to get listed: campai...@fsf.org
>
> Can you do that?
>

We've discussed this topic previously on freedos-devel, and I think
the short version is this:

I would very much like for FreeDOS to be listed on the FSF's website,
but FSF has some issues with the compilers used in FreeDOS
(specifically OpenWatcom) and no "FSF-approved" compilers exist for
DOS that can do the job on a system lower than a '386. So we don't
worry too much that the FSF doesn't list us as a "Free Non-GNU
Distribution."

So we make sure FreeDOS remains as close to the free software ideal as
possible - and as practical. We only include open source software in
the FreeDOS distribution, for example.

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Re: [Freedos-devel] [Freedos-user] after find, Error reading from drive A: DOS area: general failure: fixed

[Eric Auer]

Hi Tom and Jerome,

it is correct that I have once compiled a version of FIND,
but I have yet not found time to find out what *changes*
the updated code snippet by Tom provides. Because I would
be interested to understand what originally was wrong :-)

Of course, if somebody else wants to compile FIND with the
updated code, it would be just as good. As mentioned earlier,
compilation with Turbo C (NOT Turbo C++ and not OpenWatcom C)
has the advantage of creating a SMALL binary for FIND, which
is good when you want to put it on a classic tool floppy disk.

Maybe Tom could mail a diff -u to illustrate his patch here?

Thanks! Cheers, Eric

> Hello Tom,
> 
> Did you get hold of the maintainer? 
> 
> The package lists that as Eric Auer. But, that could be incorrect.
> 
> I just haven’t heard anything for a couple days and was
> wondering what was going on with find.
> 
> Jerome



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[Freedos-devel] free-non-gnu-distros.en.html

[David Hedlund]

I would love to have your operating systems listed in 
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-non-gnu-distros.en.html, however the 
Free Software Foundation "staff said that those who want their distros 
listed have to request it. Being listed involves a commitment to remove 
any nonfree software present" to quote Richard Stallman. Please mail to 
this address if you would like to get listed: campai...@fsf.org 



Can you do that?

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