Thanks. Any chance to split up the Unix utilities separately, like we have
already done with the others?
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/unix/
On Sun, Jun 24, 2018, 6:01 AM David McMackins <cont...@mcmackins.org> wrote:
> I've hosted the source code here:
>
> https://mcmackins.org/dl/dos/UTILSSRC.ZIP
> https://mcmackins.org/dl/dos/MDSAISRC.ZIP
>
> The first archive has my UNIX utils and arg parser (since I used the arg
> parser for them), and the second has the installer.
>
> No docs at this time. MDSAI probably needs a short doc before being
> published explaining the configuration. Basically in the first diskette
> there needs to exist MDSAI.INF which contains literally a number in
> ASCII text of how many diskettes make up the full archive. The
> executable can be named anything, so even though the build script
> creates MDSAI.EXE, you may want to rename to INSTALL.EXE when making a
> distribution.
>
>
> Happy Hacking,
>
> David E. McMackins II
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> On 06/24/2018 05:36 AM, Jim Hall wrote:
> > Excellent! Do you have a website you could post these to? If so, put
> > them there and share the link. If not, email me off list and we'll
> > arrange to get them to me so I can share them on our files archive at
> > ibiblio.
> >
> > I like the very permissive license, especially for a library. For those
> > who don't know this license, it's this:
> >
> > Copyright (c) ___________
> >
> > Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
> > are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
> > notice and this notice are preserved.
> >
> >
> > I'll be curious to see the command line parser. Did you write something
> > like getopt, or something new? FYI that there's a getopt here:
> >
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/libs/getopt/
> >
> > Also FYI that our Unix workalikes are here:
> > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/unix/
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Jim
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 23, 2018, 10:57 PM David McMackins <cont...@mcmackins.org
> > <mailto:cont...@mcmackins.org>> wrote:
> >
> > In my playing about with FreeDOS, I wrote my own versions of cat,
> head,
> > wc, and split.
> >
> > For these, I also wrote a small library for parsing command-line
> options
> > in a typical DOS-like fashion.
> >
> > Finally, I also wrote a program called the Multi-Disk Split Archive
> > Installer (MDSAI) which is an installer program designed for
> deploying
> > software too big for a single floppy disk. You put the installer on
> the
> > first diskette, along with a file that describes what's being
> installed,
> > and then on each diskette, have a sequential piece of a ZIP archive.
> > MDSAI will cat them together and then extract in the C drive.
> >
> > I wrote these for myself. They may need to be modified or have new
> > options before they are ready for others to use. If you are
> interested
> > in these, let me know where I should publish them. I'm releasing them
> > all under the GNU All-Permissive License.
> >
> > Happy Hacking,
> >
> > David E. McMackins II
> > Supporting Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation (#2296972)
> > Associate Member, Free Software Foundation (#12889)
> >
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