hey jim it works on the 286... i should pick up this project for now,
But for quality reasons i'd leave it in repo but not in distribution
disks of 1.4 until i fix it xD ok? <3 +1 for leaving it out of disks but
not repo
On 2/16/25 15:20, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel wrote:
I'm bringing back an item we talked about on the video call this morning.
Folks have discussed a few times on this email list about dropping the
FDTUI program from the distribution. But FDTUI was always "just one
item in a long list of other topics" in whatever thread it was brought
up in, so FDTUI never really got much discussion.
FDTUI is only a file manager, but not a very good one. We have other
file managers in FreeDOS (like Doszip). The program doesn't really do
anything and is buggy. See below for details.
I think we need to drop FDTUI, and not include it in FreeDOS 1.4.
ACTION: I'm looking for consensus. Please release with "+1" if you
agree or comments if not.
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If you haven't used FDTUI: When you start the program, you get a blank
blue screen with a white menu at the top. The menu shows only two
items:
- "Internal Applications"
- "Exit"
The "Internal Applications" menu only has two sub-items:
- "File Manager"
- "Run"
The File manager is very bare-bones. It also has a serious display
issue where the upper-left part of the file manager window is
immediately wiped out when FDTUI erases the "Internal Applications"
drop-down menu.
In the file manager, if you click on any file (like a document called
SAMPLE.DOC) then FDTUI tries to *run* the file, and you get "Bad
command or filename." A better solution would be to let the user
associate file extensions with applications (like "DOC" ==
C:\WORD55\WORD.EXE) with a default association of "BAT" ==
C:\COMMAND.COM, and otherwise only launch EXE and COM programs.
I think FDTUI was someone's hobby project that was never finished.
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