I suppose I could do that. I left them together for the simplicity of
the build script.

What if I added a deploy script that created separate distributions for
each one while keeping the source together?


Happy Hacking,

David E. McMackins II
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Associate Member, Free Software Foundation (#12889)

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On 06/24/2018 08:30 AM, Jim Hall wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>     Supporting Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation (#2296972)
>     Associate Member, Free Software Foundation (#12889)
> 
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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>
>     > <mailto: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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