Tom wrote:
> > Maintaining is more than just having your
> > fun writing code.
> well - I certainly know better then you.
What a sage comment. I don't work with people that
make gutter comments like that.
You say this about me, yet you know full well that I
re-wrote the entire help html files -- with only a few
of developers providing files for their programs.
Wonder why the development of the html has slowed
down? Because I'm sick of developers who write code
and don't bother submitting documentation for the help
command. Why am I expected to know everything, and
keep files up-to-date, for an actively developed,
entire operating system?
How many times have I asked on these lists for
assistance? Sure, most programs only need one
developer, but large projects like the kernel and
command.com have many developers. How many people work
on the help file system?
One less. I resign as maintainer of the help system.
It is only fair, as I must be honest I've pretty much
given up trying to keep on top things. Life is too
short. I suppose maybe you are right after all Tom, I
haven't been tending to my duties. I'm tired. I'm sure
someone with more time and enthusiasm can take the
help project much further. I've just reached that
limit where I couldn't care anymore. And that isn't
fair on FreeDOS.
Well, the help program, that still needs to be
re-written from the ground up. There is a bug
somewhere that seems to cause help it to crash when
HIMEM is loaded. Maybe you could roll back a few
versions, whatever. Maybe you could return to Joe
Cosentino's last version, but beware that that had
even more bugs, no memory management (it used the
stack for browsing links!) and little in the way of a
keyboard user interface. As for the help files, just
remember Joe's help file set that stole work from
MS-DOS Help.
Now THAT was a copyright breach, Tom.
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