Hi Mike, > - Are all of the binaries always put into the one "bin" dir? I expected
Yes, like with Linux. Also remember that DOS often has small environment variable space, so we keep PATH short and have no "opt" or "usr local" ;-) However, FreeDOS 1.0 did have a few packages using further directiories because they have so many files, e.g. Arachne, Emacs, Freebasic, Ghostscript, Fdsmtpop, Openxp, Pacific C, Pegasus Mail and Setedit :-) If you want, you could think of those as being the "opt" part of FreeDOS as KDE was "opt" in older Linuxes and Acroread is now. > the optional packages to be separated into subdirectories, not lumped in > with the critical OS commands. Actually I think it is nice that way, but of course many users are already quite happy with the many(!) packages which are in the BASE category. Yet FreeDOS 1.0 with "base versus full" maybe gave them the idea that base would be very minimalistic, so many use full. > - I noticed the PCNet packet driver, which was a happy coincidence > because I was installing under VMWare. Has their been any thought to > including other common packet drivers? I could guess that Bernd also uses vmware, but I would say that RTL8139, 3com, ne2000 and a few others would be common (also in/for virtual machines). On the other hand, we can simply include all free crynwr drivers :-) > - Did I miss the option to install the WATTCP based programs? Networking stuff is in a non-base category and Bernd probably is not done with adding everything yet... > - Do I have time to do a minimal mTCP configuration program that can be > used to walk users through setting up the configuration file? If I have to guess, Bernd will probably try to offer some DHCP. Regards, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
