Hi Jay, of course FreeDOS has a list of utilities which need tweaking! You can go to www.freedos.org -> FreeDOS 1.0 TODO list, or to www.freedos.org -> Bugzilla -> query -> select sort by assignee.
Chart of bugzilla entries: 23 kernel, 19 shell, 13 distro (installer etc.), 9 fdisk, 6 format, 5 cdrom... You can of course not only improve utilities but also test them, e.g. to mark Bugzilla entries as closed/fixed or to check the TODO list. For example I think that at most mirror, recover, undelete, unformat would trash LFN entries (kernel and non-disk utilities should not...). I also think that codepage 858 and right KEYB layout for Euro should already work. Things which really need work are: MEM - maybe Bart or Arkady wants help SETVER - we only have CALLVER UNDELETE - the TSR functions (delete log and trash can) and UNDELETE of files from trash can or with help of delete log are missing (And PAtric wanted to add FAT32 support eventually) SCANDISK - this should be implemented as an user interface to DOSFSCK DOSFSCK - this DJGPP compiled tool should be fixed, both the 2.8-fat32 and the 2.10 DOS disk drivers are incomplete, but combining them would give you an almost complete driver. Ask Imre or me or... if you want to help. MIRROR - support for FAT12/FAT32 missing (well, FORMAT has a MIRROR function which should work for all FAT types but has a bug for FAT32) FORMAT - 720k disks and Win9x FAT32 compatibility gives me the creeps, let me know if you want to help. FDISK - can fail to detect (SCSI) disks. Ask Brian if you can help testing. DEFRAG - always needs daring testers. PRINT/PRINTQ - long time no news about this, I think the maintainer needs help! NLSFUNC - missing APPEND - ask Aitor if you want to help ATAPICDD - ask Jeremy if you want to help (e.g. add DMA mode) ... As you can see, there is always something to do for people who want to train their DOS programming skills a bit. And I did not even mention the post 1.0 wishlist (which seems to be offline right now) ;-). Eric PS: Should we take this discussion to freedos-devel instead? ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Robotic Monkeys at ThinkGeek For a limited time only, get FREE Ground shipping on all orders of $35 or more. Hurry up and shop folks, this offer expires April 30th! http://www.thinkgeek.com/freeshipping/?cpg=12297 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
