Hello Jim, hello Rugxulo. Thank you for your replies. I'm sorry for the delay. I needed more time for this reply.
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 23:06, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > > Also, the very latest versions of DELTREE are still at our FreeDOS > Files archive at ibiblio: > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/deltree/ On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 21:40, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Right. Last I saw, his "new" page only had like one link to 4NT > plugins or such. I guess his old stuff is stable enough. The reason for my question: The listed package, v1.02f [2005-04-06], on ibiblio.org have some bugs, I'm afraid. Here is the list of bugs that I have found: - Error in the the "ROOT-SAFETY-CHECK"-warning-message: After printing the string a never ending and strange chain of characters was displayed. The PC seems to be frozen. A "$" is missing at the end of the "ROOT-SAFETY-CHECK"-message-string. - The "YNQ"-prompt is missing after the "ROOT-SAFETY-CHECK"-warning-message. - The "ROOT-SAFETY-CHECK"-warning-message will be displayed even the specified file or directory does not exist. - Filelist-Error: At the end of the filelist (EOF) at least a "CARRIAGE RETURN", "LINE FEED" or a "SPACE" was needed otherwise the last filename-entry isn't handled correctly. DELTREE can't delete it. - Errorlevel is 0 (Success) even a file or directory or a filelist was not found. There aren't dangerous, but the "ROOT-SAFETY-CHECK"-prompt message ends in a never ending chain of characters till the "$"-character is found in the memory. Now the user believes that the machine is frozen because the "YNQ"-prompt message wasn't displayed (but the check for the keys is active, only [Y], [N], [Q] or [CTRL] + [C] are allowed.) On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 21:40, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > (And in case anybody is wondering, I don't think Eric intends to maintain it > either, despite > having slightly tweaked it.) First I saw that the last update was taken by Eric. I believed that he's the actual maintainer. I asked him and he told me he's not. So I desided to try to fix the bugs by myself. Now, there are fixed. But I have to do several tests if all is working well. I added some things I think there are necessarry (my opinion): - Added the error-message "File or Directory not found!". If a specified file or directory was not found, this message will be displayed now instead of nothing. - Changed the errorlevel to 1 if a filelist, file or directory was not found. - Added the message: "DELTREE is in TEST-mode" if the "/X"-switch is given - Only in the DEFAULT-BUILD: Added the message "The "ROOT-SAFETY-CHECK" is active." - Only in the DEFANGED-BUILD (DELTREE2.COM): Added the message "DEFANGED-version of DELTREE" - Only in the DANGEROUS-BUILD: Added the message "DANGEROUS-version of DELTREE" - Include %ifdef ... %endif for the X-switch to exclude it if you need. Now I'm not sure if my changes are O.K. with the open-source licence. I don't know if the author like it. I've never written and released a software or fixed bugs before. I don't have any experience of releasing an open-source-program which the originally source was written by another person. So I have to ask first what's the correct way to release my bug fixes and changes. On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 21:53, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:07:23 -0500 > Rugxulo <rugxulo> wrote: >>> Hey, >>> Seems you moved or something! New URL, new e-mail, but no sign of >>> your DOS software! (Okay, in fairness, you didn't need any major >>> updates of them, I guess.) >>> >> I don't know how useful any of that DOS-only stuff is anymore. But it's >> GPLed; no need to >> delete it, anyone who does have a use for it is welcome to do anything with >> it. Yes, you >> may update my email addy if you like. But I don't foresee doing updates to >> any of those >> old utilities, unless someone finds a serious bug -- unlikely at this late >> date. >> >> -- >> Charles Dye cdye_AT_NOSPAM_unm.edu OK. In fairness I try to contact him twice. Best regards Christian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master HTML5, CSS3, ASP.NET, MVC, AJAX, Knockout.js, Web API and much more. Get web development skills now with LearnDevNow - 350+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122812 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
