let me test it on my 286 and see if it even works on there. if 386 only then u got my vote. if it works on 16-bit machines then maybe i can pick it up..
On Sun, 2025-02-16 at 15:20 -0600, 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. > > -- > > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel -- with love comrade Victoria, cell chair of Emma Tenayuca-Woody Guthrie- Dave Robbins Cell chair of tech committee of the organization department chair of ACNHS chair of CFS founder of yellow rose group 💛️ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
