Hi Paul,
While thinking about 64k limit for edit... I come to think about 16 bits and 32 bits programs... Why there is no two separate versions of FreeDOS, one for 16 bits CPUs (8086) and one for 32 bits CPU (386+)?
That is not necessary - you mentioned a 32-bit version of some text editor, which already IS included :-) See http://freedos.org/software/ ==> https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/group-edit.html for example SETEDIT is 32-bit and can edit large files, but maybe we should explicitly tell WHICH editors are 32-bit. To be honest, I do not know for several others.
It seems there is a lot of programs that cannot run on 8086...
Those should be excluded in 8086 installs, but as far as I remember, at least one of the installers already pays attention to that. Mateusz and Jerome might know more :-)
and others that could take advantage of 32 bits compilation.
See above.
Does it should not suggest to have two separate versions foir this relatively different needs?
As said, not necessary, but we could advertise 32-bit apps more clearly as such. For which other apps do you prefer to use a 32-bit version? Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
