Hmm... JSIL does have a nice ring to it. :)
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On Saturday, July 27th, 2024 at 4:11 PM, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
<freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The other day someone asked me to make a “general” improvement the the RBIL
> HTML edition created by my rbil2html utility. It would be nice if pages like
> list of BIOS or DOS Kernel interrupts included the function call information
> (like AH=03h) in the list. Such a simple little improvement. It had been a
> very long time since I wrote that conversion program. It would be nice for a
> small diversion from the other things I have been doing lately. So, why not.
> LOL.
>
> That was a core and a half to add. For one, those pages don’t exist in RBIL.
> They are generated entirely by the program after conversion. Then there was
> where does that information on other pages come from and how to get it from
> one place to another.
>
> Anyhow, It now has that info on those types of pages. Plus, I included the
> very very small update to the actual RBIL information. For example, if you
> visit the page regarding the DOS LOAD AND/OR EXECUTE PROGRAM[1] function, you
> can see a “MORE:” down towards the end. This is information discussed
> recently while helping fix a couple long command line bugs in FreeCOM.
>
> Here is an interesting thing about the rbil2html conversion program. At
> present, no changes are made to the original RBIL. Things like the addition
> to the Exec function, some typographic errors and a few other minor things
> are replaced or glued in by the conversion program at runtime. Which is
> handled by a corrections section for the specific RBIL release version in the
> data files for appending it.
>
> Because, What if there is a new release of RBIL? Then, I could just check if
> the changes are still needed or need adjusted. But in reality, we all know
> that there is not every going to be another official release. So, I should
> probably just update the actual RBIL files and make periodic releases with
> the new information.
>
> Anyhow, if there is any specific additional information you’d like included
> in the HTML Edition, you could always send it to me or submit it to the
> rbil2html project’s appended data[2]. Be warned… It must be in the format
> used by the rest of RBIL with the correct section headers and such. I have
> far to much to do already to spend time on converting generic text into the
> correct format.
>
> :-)
>
> Jerome
>
> [1] https://fd.lod.bz/rbil/interrup/dos_kernel/214b.html
> [2]
> https://gitlab.com/DOSx86/rbil2html/-/tree/master/source/rbil?ref_type=heads
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