A little follow-up.
> On Oct 27, 2024, at 6:06 PM, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
> <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> Per the recent discussions on moving some packages to different groups, I
> have begun doing that.
>
> Created a new group directory called TOOLS or “Basic Tools” for programs that
> are needed by the release but not part of BASE. For the foreseeable future,
> these Basic Tools will always be installed with either a BASE or FULL install
> of FreeDOS.
>
> I've moved V8Power Tools, Callver and AMB Reader into that group.
AMBHELP and AMBREAD only get installed with FULL. If the
mailing list makes a final decision to use HTMLHELP over AMBHELP,
I can move both of those back to the UTIL group.
> Maybe move CWSDPMI?
Since CWSDPMI gets installed with BASE, I moved it to the TOOLS
group. It is required for UNZIP.
> Maybe PKGTOOLS which is used by some batch files in FDHELPER to show
> information on installed packages.
Still on the fence with this utility. However, since it gets
used by batch files in FDHELPER, I’ll move it to TOOLS as well for now.
We may change our minds on it later. :-)
>
> I’ve moved FDNPKG into the Networking group.
>
> But, I think CALLVER should probably be moved to BASE. It replicates the
> functionality of MS-DOS to set a specific DOS version for executing programs.
>
> However, there are a couple packages that are in BASE at present that should
> probably be moved to the TOOLS group.
>
> AMBHELP - FreeDOS Help in AMB file format. Requires AMBREAD.
>
> FDHELPER - This contains several batch files used by the system to do things
> like: Determine which help system is installed for help. Initialize
> the CD-ROM. Display Welcome to FreeDOS. And a couple other things.
>
> HTMLHELP - I don’t think it really qualifies as replicating MS-DOS
> functionality.
>
> SAMCFG - Sample configuration files.
>
> Also, I will be making a new “Disk Utilities” (aka disk) group and moving
> some of the programs from Utilities into it.
>
> AEFDISK
> DOSSFCK
> EDICT
> FINDDISK
> OSPIMG
> RAREAD
> RAWRITE
> TESTDISK
> WDE
> WHICHFAT
> XFDISK
> ZEROFILL
PART was overlooked in the list of packages moved to DISK.
>
> Maybe these file system utilities?
>
> SEARCH
> STAMP
> WCD
> XDEL
> ZDIR
>
>
> Any additional thoughts?
>
> :-)
>
> Jerome
:-)
>
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