Hi again, On 7/12/11, Bernd Blaauw <[email protected]> wrote: > Op 12-7-2011 18:51, Rugxulo schreef: > > I was more thinking of running INSTALL for each disk. Pity we lack an > INKEY option like 4DOS has. It's a mixture between CHOICE (single key > except special keys) and SET /P (input requires pressing ENTER to confirm).
I'm sure somebody has a small util for that, if direly needed. (J. Hoffman's DOSUTILS?) Or it could be whipped up pretty easily. > I've always disliked (UN)ZIP with so many switches/options, confusing me > a lot. PKZIP itself had quite a lot, too; though, admittedly, UNZIP 6.0 has way more than before! (See "-h2" for second help!) > CST, EST and UTC are confusing me. All I know is GMT, which would be > UTC? SET TZ=UTC (and be done with it, unset right after install) CST = U.S. Central Standard Time (Chicago, etc.) -> me EST = U.S. Eastern Standard Time (Florida, etc.) Can't remember if Pacific (PST) is same as Mountain, most likely yes. (Jim is in Minnesota, can't remember what he is, probably Central also.) >>> If you do, please use UPX-UCL instead of NRV. >> >> If you use --lzma, it doesn't matter as they should be identical >> anyways. But yes, otherwise use UPX-UCL 3.07 (latest): >> >> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/upx/v3.07/ > > Thanks for pointing me to that. Disadvantage of 586+ binaries though > instead of 386 (or even 8086 but doubt UPX runs on that at all). Not > sure what minimum platform is. GCC and DJGPP don't do anything specific to 486 or 586, AFAICT (neither of which added barely any instructions anyways, nothing hugely useful for general purpose stuff). IIRC, GCC never did anything for 486 (vs. 386) but extra alignment. GCC 2.8.1 (1998) was the first to even support 586s, and all it does there is instruction (re)scheduling for the U/V pipelines. It's only with -march=i686 (aka, pentiumpro, in GCC [incorrect??] terminology) that uses extra instructions, e.g. CMOVxx series. And I didn't use that, only safer "mtune" (and only "just in case" it sped up somehow, just for completeness and convenience). At least, I've run previous UPX-UCLs on my (now disconnected) 486 Sx without issue. There *may* be an implicit FPU requirement (esp. since GCC itself always assumed an FPU), but you can put a small 40 kb .dxe emulator file there if necessary (dunno without testing again but personally doubt it's needed). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology on "Lean Startup Secrets Revealed." This video shows you how to validate your ideas, optimize your ideas and identify your business strategy. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appsumosfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
