Hi! Willi has asked Jerome and me whether RUNTIME and TERMINAL in the auersoft.eu versions were real updates or just tests. Jerome asked him to ask on the LIST, so I answer HERE ;-) *Runtime* Jim's version is a small C program, 120 lines, using catgets for messages which can be translated in different languages. The binary is a 22kB EXE (31kB without UPX). There were text files with EN, RU, DE, HU and LV translations, I believe? My version is a small ASM program, made with NASM. It has a main file, circa 450 lines, and a language include file, circa 150 lines, which at the moment contains EN, DE, NL, PT, ES, FR, TR, IT, PL and RU messages :-) To add languages, you have to build a new binary. Not very hard, but harder than just editing a text file which can be used by CATGETS. The binary is a 2kB COM (3kB without UPX). Note that texts in all 10 language are INCLUDED in the 2kB COM file of my tiny version. No separate NLS files there. As a task left as an exercise for the user, one could port the C version to Tom's small KITTEN alternative to CATGETS. My preferred option would be to add HU and LV translations to my small RUNTIME and use that instead of the big one ;-) *Terminal* Regarding TERMINAL, the distro contains version 3.2a 2015-05-16. The files in the ZIP have timestamps between 2001 and 2005 for source code and 2021-2022 for translations. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/unstable/pkg-html/terminal.html The version mentioned by Willi, terminal-2007jun20, contains 2007 changes to terminal.asm, term-irq.asm and term-data.asm, with the following minimalist changelog: "update in V3.3 6/2007: added a forgotten in al,dx term-irq.asm:217" The change in terminal.asm are just adding the above as a comment. The change in term-irq.asm is just adding that "in al,dx". The change in term-data.asm is just changing version and date in the msg_hello string. Note that the sources have LONG FILE NAMES which somehow got lost in the download available on Ibiblio! The version on ibiblio comes with more metadata in APPINFO: The LSM file and small TERMINAL.xyz files in different languages xyz, for example the French APPINFO/TERMINAL.FR file says: Begin3 Language: FR, 850 Title: terminal Description: Un petit terminal vt100/ansi pour tous les PC Keywords: terminal, rs-232, vt100 End I guess it would be nice if the ibiblio version got updated with my 2007 version, but preserving the nice added ibiblio metadata. Please take care to preserve source LFN and timestamps, though. Thank you :-) Cheers, Eric [...]
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/runtime/ there is a version from Eric Auer from 03sep2012 FDT2404 uses ver. 2.1 from Jim Hall, 2002 Is it an update? You should bring it up on the mailing list or ask Eric if it should be updated. terminal https://www.auersoft.eu/soft/ terminal-2007jun20 (3.3) FDT2404 uses 3.2a Like RUNTIME, these versions predate me performing package updates. So, I don't know if those are updates, experiments or just different. You should ask Eric.
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