> The site is there, but there are no files shown for download [by 1.67].
I saw a bundle of downloadable files, but wasn't using Arachne. Downloading
with Arachne is user-unfriendly, Lynx so much easier.
>It appears that soon the only repository for DOS files of this nature
>will be non-public archives maintained on an underground network. As
>with any underground, the more members the better.
What about FreeDOS, and where is that going? Last time I explored in any depth,
some documented DOS functions were not supported, including int 21h function 6Ch
(DOS extended open/create), introduced beginning with MS-DOS 4 and PC-DOS 4.
FAT32 with allocation unit size 2048 bytes or less would help, so would 32-bit
flat memory model, and the ability to read Rock Ridge and/or Joliet long file
names on CD-ROMs.
I noticed PC-DOS and MS-DOS versions and wondered if they were legal. I don't
think IBM would knowingly make PC-DOS 2000 available for free download.
TM> cluster size/allocation unit for FAT32?
Ricsi> it could be 512 bytes ... but than MUCH RAM would be wasted ...
so M& has chosen to use 4KB for sizes up to 8 GB and 8 KB for larger
partitions ... and maybe even larger clusters for huge partitions
That somewhat dilutes the advantage of FAT32. No advantage to FAT32 on anything
< 256 MB, including the Zip 250.
I once downloaded the Win98E emergency bootdisk image from
http://www.bootdisk.com, to see if it would read my DOS partitions, and it
failed on the DOS partition on my second hard disk ("Invalid media"), just like
MS-DOS 6.22, which I no longer use. Boot disk created from the image file had
FORMAT.COM (or was it EXE?), but I don't know if it would format for FAT32, or
what the syntax would be. Otherwise I don't have anything that can format for
FAT32. No Win 95/98/ME. How to get DOS mode on Win ME (which does not win me)
is not obvious, but there was an article on windows.about.com on how to do it.
