<sorry, first version was send prematurely>
> Here's the DropBox link (again), in case it wasn't obvious: > * https://www.dropbox.com/s/6whjgmb9xhdgw29/metados-0.7.zip?dl=0 how in god name would that be obvious? are we all required to note all your more or less old emails? anyway, I downloaded this, and replaced the 32-bit system\unzip.exe with 16-bit unzip.exe from ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/msdos/unz600x3.exe which makes everything behave *much* faster under VirtualBox. then I created 3 instances of this machine, replacing command.com by commandT/W/G.com in https://github.com/FDOS/freecom/releases/tag/com084pre6 everything else identical. tested on Windows-32, VirtualBox, 256 MB machine size. the idea is that they should behave identical. They don't. ********************************************************************* here's a watcom bug: start the machine. run TESTS JED this should download a lot of stuff, build JED (whatever that is), and keep the machine busy for 10 minutes. FreeCOM-watcom will stop fairly quickly with unzip: cannot find any matches for wildcard specification fil4*.zip .... and short after abort the build. strange side effect: after this test, the command a:>copy commandW.com system\command.com results in the COPY destination must not contain plus ('+') characters. this might be easier to locate freecom-T and -G (seem to) behave as expected. ********************************************************************* just to save everybody else some time: restart machine. TESTS AWK (seems to) work ********************************************************************* restart machine. TESTS OBERON16 seems to work, but nearly at the end (after bef93om.mod) , commandG results in 'out of memory error' not good. ********************************************************************* restart machine. TESTS JWASMDJ after 1572 seconds, everything seems to have worked. ok it worked, but slow as molasses. ********************************************************************* restart machine. TESTS CTAGS all 3 fail quickly with a ctags58.zip problem. might be a unzip.exe bug. ********************************************************************* restart machine. TESTS PICOC ...patching... after a short time, the WATCOM machine reports several times the COPY destination must not contain plus ('+') characters. the COPY destination must not contain plus ('+') characters. the COPY destination must not contain plus ('+') characters. later, time.c fails to compile. bad. commandT and -G build success ********************************************************************* restart machine. TESTS P7ZIP aborted on all 3 machines after waiting forever. identical bug, or no freecom bug at all. ********************************************************************* restart machine. TESTS SHSURDRV success. ********************************************************************* restart machine. TESTS NASMWAT all 3 report 'bad command or file name "tar.exe", but proceed in the end, all 3 fail in identical way. ********************************************************************* restart machine. TEST KE2041 freecomW fails with 'bad command or filename - "patch.exe" freecom-T and -G build kernel.sys ok. ********************************************************************* summary: both watcom and gnu builds have at least one bug left. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
