Thanks for the analysis. I'm still trying to really get a grip
on the dosemu internals at the moment (for the record the
coding for the original hack is all David Hindman)
On Tue, 9 May 2000, Hans Lermen wrote:
>
> I've also to 'answer' on the implicit complain in the README (;-):
>
> "I just got tired of waiting for mode 12h X support and did it for my
> own use."
>
> Well, one needs not to wait for 'someone' in a developer team to fulfill
> personal wishes;-) One simply can go forward and implement it.
> This is the normal way OpenSource development works. Its not enough to
> specify wishes on a project's mailing list, it also needs someone to do
> the work. Hence, doing the here discussed patch and giving it to the
> comunity was the right thing. I cannot see any reasonable other way.
>
I just want to say that it wasn't really meant in a mean spirited
way. David Hindman ment it as a throw away line explaining his
motivation for getting involved. I don't think it was a real complaint
about the progress of dosemu.
(I know David Hindman doesn't read this list, so I just wanted
to explain things.)
David Pinson
