HI Tom, > On Feb 17, 2025, at 10:52 AM, tom ehlert via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > [..] > >> I think it becomes difficult to draw the line of what is useful or not >> without letting our personal bias get involved. > >> But once again, I think a lot of the programs of questionable usefulness or >> popularity should probable relegated to online only. > +1 > > I don't mind having them online, downloadable.
That’s how I feel about my DONUTS package (Disk and Other New Utility Tool Suite for DOS) [1] It contains several very small simple tools. BOOTDRV Returns system boot drive. DOSOEMID Returns DOS OEM ID. DOSVER Returns DOS version number. LASTDRV Returns LASTDRIVE setting. SWITCHAR Returns Switch Character setting. TESTANSI Returns status of ANSI support (network terminal compatible) VERIFLAG Returns state of DOS write verify flag. VIDKIND Returns video card graphics support kind (MDA through SuperVGA). They output the data in a format like “BOOT_DRIVE=C:” which could be redirected to a batch file to change env settings. Compiled, the current set of utilities adds up to a total of 738 bytes worth of binaries. Although these tools can be useful, I don’t think they are useful enough to even suggest their inclusion on the release. In fact, they are not even in the official download repository. They are only on my unofficial repo and in the VCS. Maybe someday I add more tools. Possible even more complex things. But as it sits now, I don’t think it is worthy. It’s just all mostly very simple assembly stuff. > >> I watch a lot of FreeDOS related videos for a couple reasons. But mostly, to >> see how we could improve things. > >> On occasion, the video creators will comment about a program being useless, >> broken, etc. > >> So, those users would likely agree that at least some packages should be not >> included in the release. > +1 > > > Tom :-) Jerome [1] https://fd.lod.bz/repos/current/pkg-html/donuts.html _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
