Hi Eric, >> Once I received source code for >> <http://web.archive.org/web/20070608155633/http://user.rol.ru/%7Edxover/speedsys/> >> under "do whatever you want this it, but don't bug me". >> >> I think, it's a 1.75 WIP version, so I'm not sure, it works or even >> builds. (Requires TASM to build.) >> 386+ required. > > How well does it work? I think TASM is what that NoMySo (not my
I ran it in 2006 last time. See <https://www.bttr-software.de/members/robert/tp770/> for an example. (Change the encoding in your browser from Unicode to Western to avoid "artifacts".) As you can see, SPEEDSYS' output is more about hardware. It doesn't report, e.g., country settings, environment variables, ... > source) script can use as input to translate to free assemblers? Yes, but I didn't try. Perl is not my thing. >>> I remember that MS DOS came with MSD (and MEMMAKER, a wizard to >> >> MSD is really nice for early hardware and easy to use. > > Which features does it have which COMPINFO is lacking? MSD? 1) It doesn't barf on Windows XP. COMPINFO always gives me RTE 205. 2) Here's a screenshot of the main window: https://winuxinfocenter.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/msd1.png >>> As you can guess, FreeDOS is missing cool apps here. How about >>> >>> https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/compinfo/ >>> >>> Would COMPINFO be sufficient? >> >> Pros: >> - FOSS (GNU GPL & GNU LGPL) >> - it's already there >> >> Cons: >> - no docs >> - C and Pascal versions avaiable >> - "unfree" toolchain (Turbo Pascal) > > I would not worry too much about the toolchain. How much > work would it be to write documentation? I dunno. I also couldn't get it to work in MS Virtual PC. Same RTE 205. >> Also "unfree" toolchain (TP+ASM): >> INFOPLUS by Andrew Rossmann, last updated in 1993. >> License is public domain. >> https://ftp.sunet.se/mirror/archive/ftp.sunet.se/pub/simtelnet/msdos/sysinfo/ifp1p158.zip >> (binary) >> https://ftp.sunet.se/mirror/archive/ftp.sunet.se/pub/simtelnet/msdos/sysinfo/ifp1s158.zip >> (sources) > > Nice license! How does it compare to MSD etc. feature-wise? It's very complete for it's time and is very similar to MSD. But because of it's age, it doesn't show anything about PnP, PCI, and other newer stuff. I prepared some screenshots: https://www.bttr-software.de/tmp/infoplus/ >> FM: >> - DOSZIP > > DOSZIP sounds like something to agree upon? Yes. It's small, fast, FLOSS. >> - DN OSP > > DOS Navigator, open source variant: Pros/Cons versus DOSZIP? More features: * SmartPad editor * (Text) screen grabber * Memory and (tiny) system info * Calculator * Calendar * ASCII table * Phone book * Spreadsheet * CD player * Terminal program (Xmodem, Kermit and similar) * Navigator Link * (Disk editor?) * and: Tetris ;-) >> PE: >> - Ranish? > > Maybe a bit too different? How about the classic XFDISK, SPFDISK, You asked for. ;-) > AEFDISK? I guess AEFDISK is more for scripts and SPFDISK is not > part of the distro? How would you people like XFDISK then, in > comparison to Ranish? I think XFDISK deserves an upgrade from > being only on the Bonus CD. Ranish is not in the distro now? Just ignore my previous vote. I didn't use any partitioning tools for a long time. > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/disk/ > > has Ranish, XFDISK, SPFDISK and FDISK, even FIPS and file managers, > apparently incl. DOS Navigator (1.51, 2.14, no NDN any more?) while > > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/file/ > > is where file managers should be and DOSZIP actually is, alone, now? Not sure what "disk" and "file" mean from the content that's currently in. For managing your *disk*'s content, you could use a file manager. For managing *files*, one could use a file manager, of course. But looking at <https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/file/> it seems, that "file" should be understood as "handling, i.e., viewing or creating, files of different formats". We have 7zip, bzip2, dos2unix, dospdf, info-zip, mupdf, sqlite, a WordStar converter, ... It also has DUPLICIT ("Finds duplicite files on your disks"), locate, search. These belong to file management like DN or DZ. Either we need a third folder, or we move DUPLICIT, locate, search, DZ to https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/file/ for the easy way. By the way: 1) https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/file/linklib.zip should go to https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/libs/ 2) There is an UNSHIELD (InstallShield) in <https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/ushieldx.zip> , but a different one in <https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/file/unshield/unshielx.zip> 3) <https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/trch/> should be moved to <https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/file/>. 4) <https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/wcd/> probably too. 5) And <https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/ogg/>. It's all a mess... What is "user" at all? There should be a description, what each folder stands for. :-) Cheers, Robert -- +++ BTTR Software +++ Home page: https://www.bttr-software.de/ DOS ain't dead: https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
