On Tue, 17 Dec 2024, Liam Proven via Freedos-devel wrote:
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?
IBM. They owned the copyright jointly from version 3.1 onward (note that
they specifically said they had to get the OK from IBM to release the 4.0
sources).
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.
emm386 was originally developed by Compaq, and was in MS-DOS 4.
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.
That's baroque when http://www.seasip.info/Gem/Software/resdir.zip exists
(the postprocessor I was referring to).
I think most people's issues with GEM come from not being aware of this
tool.
-uso.
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