On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, gaw zay wrote: > On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Sreeji K Das wrote: > > > > > I have checked in 0.66.7, 1.0.0 & 1.0.1. In all of these mkdexe is in the > > mentioned dir. May be that is changed from later versions onwards ? If > > it's there 'find . -iname '*dexe*' should show it. > > so it is in fact, gone. This is the exact command I had used. I'll > grab an old version and grab it from that. thanks for the tip. b.
In case anyone wonders why, the reason is - I'm quoting Hans Lermen, hoping he doesn't mind: > correct, DEXE support is dropped since 1.0.2. In the past mkdexe was > needed for the following reasons: > > 1. to create bootable hdimages > > 2. to have some sort of out-of-the-box running packages (DEXEs), > which you can distribute without license infringements > > (1) became obsolete because of the bootdir feature and (2) because > FreeDos now has redirector support and you easily can replace a DEXE > with a simple bash script. If we happen to get some 48 hour days(;-), > we might document this and give examples. Bart - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
