Hi Eric, > On Feb 17, 2025, at 4:15 PM, Eric Auer via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, > >> ... 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. > > It would be better to have 1 tool which can do all, using > command line options. Depending on your cluster size, DONUTS > will take between 4kB and 256kB (or 512kB) of disk space :-p
Yes, many of those float around 50 bytes compiled. However, if more tools are added and are possibly much larger, you can end up wasting a lot of space dragging around support for things not needed. For example, if all you need is check the OEM ID on a boot floppy, you’ll only use 512kb. So, it is a trade off. There really is no reason it can’t also contain a DONUTS executable that supports all the different functionality of the separate tools. I just have not made one. Hopefully, someday I will find the time to get back to creating V8Turbo. And all this type of stuff will be build into that command interpreter/shell. Actually, the current incomplete version has some of it already. Too much to do. To little time. :-) Jerome _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
