Hi, > On May 8, 2021, at 12:32 AM, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > A quick side-note; I sent Ralf a quick email a while back simply asking if he > was still accepting updates to the RBIL and he kindly affirmed he was, > although he did indicate slight surprise that anyone was working on new DOS > applications these days and would be interested in contributing additional > data . :)
Thanks for the note. It definitely would not hurt to send an update to Ralph. But as you are aware, accepting updates and doing anything with them, is not really the same thing. The latest version of RBIL is over 20 years old. My hopes aren’t that high that he will provide an update. But, you never know. I’d love to see one. The "just in case he does" was something I though about when making my RBIL2HTML parser. It is why it does many of the things the way it does. For example, the original RBIL has some formatting, typographic and doubled line errors. Surprisingly, few considering the enormous amount of data it contains. But, they are there and I noticed several. Instead of me manually correcting them in the source docs. The parser knows about them and fixes them through a simple spell checker type algorithm that is targeted at that version of RBIL. Also, additional content is done on-the-fly and appended to the original RBIL content. No modifications are required to the original RBIL docs themselves. I don’t even provide a copy of them with the parser. If someone wants to use the parser to create a copy of the HTML version, they would download the RBIL docs and extract them. RBIL2HTML is far from perfect. But as a work-in-progress, it does a reasonable job. Even though some docs are processed more than others, I think it is the only complete "file list” conversion to html. :-) Jerome _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
