On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 at 19:23, Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Part of the problem there was MS didn't have full copyright.
[[citation needed]] Who else? There were 3rd party extras in later DOSes: disk compression, memory optimisers, anti-virus, and things. But not in the DOS 3 or 4 era. > When mentioning DVX I meant also X Window as part of it. Aha! I believe there _were_ X servers for DOS, but I never used X in those days. I first deployed it on Windows for Workgroups 3.11 running over DECnet to a cluster of VAXstations. I used the copy of Hummingbird eXceed bundled in with DEC PATHWORKS. > The issue with GEM as I understand is that a postprocessor needs to be run > after installing to adjust internal paths. I did some troubleshooting and debugging work on the FreeGEM project, as well as a little documentation. No, this was not the case. The copy in the FreeDOS repositories is misconfigured: it expects to be run from the root directory of a drive, but FDIMPLES installs it into a folder -- C:\GEM I think. That is possible but it is not configured for it, and TBH -- I helped Shane Coughlan get those installation and runtime batch files working, and while they're very over-engineered, I'm not sure they support configuring it for a subdirectory. To get it working, just SUBST its subfolder into a drive of its own SWSUBST G: C:\GEM G: GEM ... and it should work fine. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 227612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
