On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How old is this project ?
11.5 years. DOSEMU 0.1 was released September 3, 1992. > Isn't it time that someone explained to the 'contributors' that > in scientific english "everywhere" is critically different from > "anywhere" ? > "... the dosemu binaries can reside everywhere in the system. > ..you can call dosemu from everywhere." !! In this case (global.conf) "everywhere" was written by a non-native speaker who didn't understand all the nuances between everywhere and anywhere. Sheez! Be thankful that he at least wrote the documentation. He could just sit on the bench and watch TV instead. No native speaker so far has bothered to *thoroughly* check the documentation for any errors of these sorts. This is a volunteer project, and like in many other open source projects people will often just fix what scratches their itch and can't be bothered to do anything else. We don't have money to spend on an extensive specialist technical writer department (note that technical documentation should ideally be written by other people than the developers, but in open source projects this is often not feasible). > Does any[not every]body KNOW how to drive port hex378 under > pre- ver. 1.1.99.1, or do you all just 'suck it and see' eg. "this works > for me" ? The 1.0.2.1 update doesn't have the root restriction that 1.0.2 had, so it should be able to access port 0x378 in the setup you wrote about yourself. About README.bindist -- this file is included in the tarball as reference but is also linked to from www.dosemu.org/stable (and was, for two years). It's much easier to keep this file the same inside and outside the tarball. Just like a car instruction manual contains some redundant instructions about how to open the doors when it's already inside the car. I'd love constructive contributions like patches and specific improvement suggestions. But by the style you are using you're putting people off. If only people like you would try to use DOSEMU then the fun would completely disappear for me and i would just stop maintaining it. And then, indeed, suck it completely! Bart Free Software: If you contribute nothing, expect nothing -- Uwe Bonnes - 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
