Hi, > On May 28, 2026, at 7:23 PM, victoria crenshaw via Freedos-user > <[email protected]> wrote: > > https://git.gay/sparky4/fdnpkg16/releases/download/0.99.8254b/fdnpkg16.zip > <https://git.gay/sparky4/fdnpkg16/releases/download/0.99.8254b/fdnpkg16.zip> > https://4ch.mooo.com/freedos/repos/1.4/html/en/net/fdnpkg16/ > <https://4ch.mooo.com/freedos/repos/1.4/html/en/net/fdnpkg16/> > > get it here or use fdnpkg16.exe to update to it > > > > change log: > > > * 0.99.8254b: fixed a bug with downloading a file not existing in repository > * added a feature when downloading a package it will ask if the user wants to > override the existing file on disk with same name. > * the documented features not in help are in the help now.
I had a few minutes to test out the new/improved features. It has improved a lot over previous versions. I did not notice any major issues with the new changes. However, there were some things which I think could improve user experience. 1) When using /DL (download package) or /DU (download updates), it first downloads the package. Then, if a file already exists with the same name, it prompts to Overwrite. I think it would be better to check for the conflicting file name before downloading. That way, if the user does not want to overwrite the local file, they do not waste time downloading it. Sometimes, these files are pretty big and can take several minutes for a download to complete. 2) It would be nice to provide the option to “Abort”, when a conflicting file name already exists. 3) When downloading a package or available updates, it shows the message “An update was found… Update in progress”. It should really say “Download in progress” or since the next line says “Downloading…”, that “Update in progress” could simply be removed when just downloading. 4) After downloading a package and wanting to update it, the command to do this could be a little confusing to the end user. For example, the was an update to DOSLFN. After it was downloaded, a user may thing running “fdnpkg16 update doslfn.zip” would update it. But, that will issue an error message that “DOSLFN.ZIP is not installed". So, they may then try to run “fdnpkg16 install doslfn.zip” which shows the error “DOSLFN is already installed! You may want to use ‘update’ action.” This may confuse a user who does not know about the RI option to reinstall a package. 5) After downloading all of the updates, it would be nice be able to update them all at once. While they could be done one at a time, if it has been a while since the packages were updated, there can be a lot of them. For example, this machine had 13 updates. It can be tedious to do one at a time. Using something like “fdnpkg16 ri *.zip” would be awesome when there are a couple dozen packages to (re)install or update. :-)
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