>> HX DOS-Extender is a free DOS extender with built-in Win32 PE file format support
> I see. Remarkable! > Doesn't seem to make it much of a Win9x replacement to me, but hey, to > each their own. :-) I do all my serious work (developing software) on the command line. It doesn't make any difference to me whether I am using Win95 or Win10 or Win11 or Freedos+HX or Linux Wine or PDOS/386. Well - it depends on whether the tools I use are available on the platform, because all of those platforms, except Win11 and maybe Win10, are subsets of Windows. So I need to get my tools down to a low level, or I need to get the relevant OSes up. I largely go the former route. And I select a platform based on a variety of things - cost, source code available, support available, public domain, robustness, level of API support. Today I managed to build CVS (latest stable) from source code as a win32 executable that seems to work under Freedos+HX. I also built an older zip from source code, which also seems to work. And I got an older 7z that seems to work (didn't need to recompile it). That is actually all the "missing" tools that I can remember. Tomorrow or whenever I will see if I can run my build script (.bat file) to build PDOS under Freedos. And then I will run that under Virtualbox and I can pretty much go to any system at that point - "have a vhd - will travel". And I can burn the VHD to the bare hardware so long as it has a BIOS. Something like 10 months ago I was using an old PC with only freedos and pdos installed. Plus I had a smartphone so I could upload files. For something like 2 months there were no Windows or Linux PCs in the house, and I was still able to develop PDOS/386. Next time that happens I should have CVS. Before I had no version control available at all, so I just created new directories and copied the relevant stuff across. When the 2 months finished I was able to commit them all to git, one change at a time. One day I might disappear for 20 years rather than 2 months. BFN. Paul.
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