>What about 4DOS, should we ship it as well? By the way, one of the last maintainer of 4DOS was Lucho (Luchezar Georgiev). Does anybody know how I can reach him? The mail address at "romdsk" has gone. Klaus Meinhard told me that he also "lost" him. Reason: Maybe some of you remember chkdsk from TU Varna, he published it as freeware - but without sourcecode because the source code was from one of the students. In the meantime in about 20 years have gone, interest in DOS has gone back, so it may be that the former student is no longer interested in keeping the source code. I think it is worth a question. Why all this? FD chkdsk only supports max. FAT16, dosfsck - oh, it works a little, if your DOS machine has more than 1,5 GB RAM - and even then it has problems with FAT32 and 2 TB HD size. I tested the latest Linux version of dosfsck - it is close to the DOS result. The chkdsk of TU Varna seems to be not perfect too (it worked a little too fast... ehm???) but it had no problems with FAT32 2TB and needed only 40 or 50 MB RAM. It is still available via wayback. So it would make sense to ask for the source code.
Willi Sent: Monday, November 18, 2024 at 4:12 AM From: "Wolf Bergenheim via Freedos-devel" <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> To: "FreeDOS developers" <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: "Wolf Bergenheim" <wolf+...@bergenheim.net> Subject: [Freedos-devel] Shells (command interpreters) in FreeDOS Hey all, In the last FreeDOS get-together we were talking about package groups, Jerome mentioned that he was moving things around, and I asked about a SHELLS group which we don't have. Jerome mentioned maybe these types of programs belong in the APPS group instead. They fit the description of the APPS group very well: Interactive programs and applications that are more than just a command-line tool So my question is: should we move DOG and other Shells to APPS? Maybe some other utils also fit this description? Also on the topic of command interpreters, I noticed that we have SvarCOM in the Gitlab repository, but not in the installer. It was added in July to the repo. Is this an oversight or intention? What about 4DOS, should we ship it as well? It's Open Source sort-of~ish[https://4dos.info/sources.htm]... --Wolf -- |\_ | .\---. / ,__/ / /Wolf <wolf+...@bergenheim.net[mailto:wolf%2b...@bergenheim.net]>_ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel[https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel] _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
