>> PS: What does all that tell us about compressed FS...? > > I'm a gentle and polite person, so I will try to answer your question, just > in > case you asked me: it probably tells us nothing about compressed FS. > > However, if someone decides to reply to your extraordinary brief posts then > it's virtually inevitable to be off-topic here and there.
Blush... Uhm yes my mails sometimes get extremely long ;-) > I'll have to admit that there was a tiny slice of irony in my last reply. > After all, I was surprised that - in your reply to Robert - you did suggest > that there should be no development of FreeDOS in any direction which makes > it > more similar to Linux. I said "I was surprised" because I wasn't aware that > such a restriction - let's call it "Auer-Law" - exists and is to comply with. > Could you please tell us more? This is neither a law nor would I be in position to make any laws. It is just my impression that making DOS like Linux would not be so useful... Dos is good for Dos things because it is small and simple and stuff. Make it big and complex and you only get a clone of the existing big and complex OSes, with the limitation that it still only runs DOS apps. On the other hand, you already showed that gib and complex can be useful even in DOS, for example with HXRT HXGUI which runs Win apps in DOS. I do not know whether HXGUI would be easy to debug or fine-tune in case it has user-accessible config or registry or similar... Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
