Thanks Steve!
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Steve Nickolas <usots...@buric.co> wrote:
> On Wed, 8 May 2013, Charles Belhumeur wrote:
>
> Oh wait I couple of points though. One fairly embarrassing, I made a
>> mistake on the size of the genome files. The big ones are in the range of
>> 300 to 600 MB not GB! So doable on 2 GB partition. The trouble is some
>> sources deliver them in Zip format so you need enough space to hold the
>> Zip
>> and unzipped file. 2 GB is still kinda tight depending on the
>> manipulations
>> being done to file, copied with corrections or updates etc. Its kinda
>> nice
>> and handy to have all your genome files in one folder and that gets up
>> into
>> the many GB range.
>>
>
> I've had FAT32 drives of 128 and up GB. It's the individual files that
> are limited in size.
>
>
> The other point... DOS had some notable shortcomings like no spell
>> checker
>> and no pocket calculator emulator. Remember piping simple one off calcs
>> into GWBasic from the command line? I remedied the pocket calculator
>> emulator by writing one of my own in MS Quick C. I have the source code
>> and
>> exe. It still runs under Windows XP. I'd be more than glad to contribute
>> it to FreeDos. I tried to pass this on to Eric when I first signed on but
>> he said this wasn't the right procedure. Its small stand alone and
>> non-TSR
>> unlike Borland's. Who would I pass this on to for review and considering
>> including in FreeDos?
>>
>
> How about bc, as in GNU?
>
> http://ibiblio.org/pub/micro/**pc-stuff/freedos/gnuish/gnubc.**zip<http://ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/gnuish/gnubc.zip>
> http://www.delorie.com/pub/**djgpp/current/v2gnu/bc106b.zip<http://www.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/bc106b.zip>
>
> It's not the most obvious such program but it does the job well enough
> that on my winbox I keep it around.
>
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