hey my friend Jim! :D
On 2/21/26 4:32 PM, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel wrote:
Jim Hall wrote:
It looks like we have very old copies of FDNPKG in the FreeDOS Files
Archive at Ibiblio. Should we be mirroring the new versions too? If
so, can you also share a link to a source zip file in your *next*
announcement? I can start mirroring from that version.
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/fdnpkg/
victoria crenshaw <[email protected]> wrote:
FDNPKG is the original project and is not in development anymore as it
is 32 bit and i made FDNPKG16 a 16 bit port of it's latest code.
i got the FreeDOS package with source (of the program not the libraries
they are found on the repository) available on
http://4ch.mooo.com/freedos/repos/1.4/net/fdnpkg16.zip
That tells me we don't have FDNPKG16 mirrored at ibiblio, so I should
do that. :-) I'll create a new directory for it, probably under the
'fdnpkg' directory. See also my note below:
please do i am about to release a new minor version with polished stuff
and translation updates for French and Turkish.
Jim i have a question...
should i merge the 2 projects? i made FDNPKG16 distinct as it is my
version of it. To let people know it is a different version of it.
the latest version of FDNPKG is found on source forge
https://sourceforge.net/projects/fdnpkg/files/latest/download
this is where i started on FDNPKG16
I think my question back to you is: is FDNPKG16 meant as a full
drop-in replacement of FDNPKG?
actually yes. a 16 bit full replacement of it.
If it has all the features of FDNPKG,
same command line and everything (and I think that's correct) then I
think the FDNPKG program is just a previous version.
it dose and yes that is correct. it is the same program just 16-bit
ported. same code same functions but way more features and bugfixes.
And that means I
should mirror your FDNPKG16 under files/util/system/fdnpkg
Since the old versions are numbered 0.99.xx and you seem to have
picked up the version numbers from there (latest is 0.99.8253b) then I
think that makes it easier for me to organize the
files/util/system/fdnpkg directory on ibiblio.
thanks Jim! <3
also there is a 0.99.8253b version out rn
i did some cleaning to code and comments
I assume "rn" means "right now" instead of something else?
correct
I missed the "b" version announcement.
i forgot to make that announcement, but i will announce the new version
of fdnpkg16 tomorrow (2-24-2026)
Is there a homepage for
FDNPKG16 somewhere that I could link to instead of a zip file? Even a
simple page that shows the latest version and a link to download the
zip would be enough for me. Then when you announce new versions, you
can point to that page, and I can use it in the announcement -- then
people will always find the latest version, even if there's a newer
version since the latest news item.
technically yes
https://4ch.mooo.com/freedos/repos/1.4/net/fdnpkg16.zip
https://4ch.mooo.com/freedos/repos/1.4/html/en/net/fdnpkg16/ is
technically the current home page for it
for everyone else:
i am testing the next release of fdnpkg16 it is a minor version with
translation updates and polish here and there.
the announcement will be tomarrow.
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