Glenn,
Your Arachne bootable diskette shows:
Makedisk.bat will create this structure on a diskette.....
Volume in drive A is ARACHNE_170
Directory of A:\
ARACHNE <DIR> 2-04-01 4:11p
COMMAND COM 55077 2-27-97 7:01a
CONFIG SYS 123 8-29-99 9:19p
AUTOEXEC BAT 1219 2-04-01 11:05p
COMPORTS COM 46 3-24-94 12:00a
DRMOUSE COM 17692 5-06-98 10:40a
HIMEM SYS 14573 2-27-97 7:01a
VDISK SYS 4077 2-16-98 7:02a
VDRVCHNG COM 605 3-10-98 2:34p
XCOPY EXE 16748 2-27-97 7:01a
!AR170 EXE 1194639 2-04-01 4:01p
11 File(s) 91136 bytes free
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(!AR170.EXE is a self extracting .ZIP file)
This setup creates a RamDisk, unzips Arachne v1.70;r3 to there and runs
it completely on that RamDisk. (no HDD is needed)
The setup can be easily changed to use HDD if you so choose.
The OS is OpenDos v7.01 and every piece of software on the diskette is
either currently available for free D/L or was at some time in the past.
IMHO,
This makes the setup I've chosen "free from encumbrance" so far as free
distribution is concerned.
If I am mistaken on this point..... sue me. ;-)
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My response:
I don't know about the legal issues, I am not a lawyer. I guess you'd have to
read the license statements, but things might have changed since then.
What is HIMEM.SYS doing on that boot diskette? Is it for 286 CPU or for 386 or
better? With DR-DOS 7.03, HIMEM.SYS is intended primarily for 286 CPU, while
386 CPU would use EMM386.EXE without HIMEM.SYS. Was it different in
OpenDOS 7.01?
