Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

[Alain M.]

Imre Leber escreveu:
>> whatever 'this' technique is - DeskView was stable multi tasking for
>> DOS. So this is at least possible.
> Yes the rumored to once have existed deskview/X. Was that not the reason for 
> the bankrupcy of quarterdeck?

I used a lot Desqview-386 (I check the box, that is how to spell it) and 
it was 100% stable.

> Anyway windows 95 was stable too.

please send me the coordinats of that parallel universe ;)

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Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

[Imre Leber]

> whatever 'this' technique is - DeskView was stable multi tasking for
> DOS. So this is at least possible.
>
Yes the rumored to once have existed deskview/X. Was that not the reason for 
the bankrupcy of quarterdeck?

Anyway windows 95 was stable too.

Point remaining is that tridos tries to intercept all interrupts and then 
still wants to pass them to the real mode DOS/BIOS instead of being a full 
PC simulation with DOS running on top.

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Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

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> AFAIR this has been done; this is called 'linux' ;)
yup
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Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

[Tom Ehlert]

> - Original Message - 
>> - tridos (multitasking, not a freedos packet but interesting, licence
>> unclear (free?),
>> http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.TripleDOS)

> The license for this is GNU GPL.
BS. the published license in ibiblio is anything but GPL.

> Anyway i wouldn't put my time in this one.
neither would I

> I don't think multitaking in
> FreeDOS using this technique would have ever worked (been stable).

whatever 'this' technique is - DeskView was stable multi tasking for
DOS. So this is at least possible.


> If anybody would have still had the energy, the way to do multitasking in
> FreeDOS would have been, according to me, a port of qemu running on a 
> multithreading kernel.

AFAIR this has been done; this is called 'linux' ;)

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Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

[Imre Leber]

- Original Message - 
> - tridos (multitasking, not a freedos packet but interesting, licence
> unclear (free?),
> http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.TripleDOS)

The license for this is GNU GPL.

Anyway i wouldn't put my time in this one. I don't think multitaking in 
FreeDOS using this technique would have ever worked (been stable).

If anybody would have still had the energy, the way to do multitasking in 
FreeDOS would have been, according to me, a port of qemu running on a 
multithreading kernel.

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Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

[Jim Hall]

>>> There are many programs with no development ongoing.
[...]
>>> - 4dos
>
> Afair Lucho is still maintaining 4DOS after JP opened sources.

I understood that Lucho stopped working on 4DOS Revived after
releasing version 8.00, in February 2009.


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Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

[Eric Auer]

Hi,

>> There are many programs with no development ongoing.
>> - DOSLFN

Dunno... Does it need updates?

>> - Arachne

Indeed that one could use some updates...

>> - FreeDOS installer

I hope Blair and Mateusz etc can do some minor updates
here - if you ask me, the installer is more or less okay
as it is, but see the wiki pages about some issues...

>> - 4dos

Afair Lucho is still maintaining 4DOS after JP opened sources.

>> - freecom

Agree, maybe Blair could take it up again?

>> - tridos (multitasking, not a freedos packet but interesting, licence
>> unclear (free?),
>> http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.TripleDOS)

Might be interesting, yes.

>> - freedos kernel

In both stable and unstable branches, to be more exact. Unstable
should first be documented more before the adventure can continue,
but stable can have (carefull / small) updates when they come up.

See also:

http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=Unstable_Kernel_Branch

www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.UnstableFreeDOSKernelBranch

Updates for page "unstable freedos kernel branch" are welcome :-)

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Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

[Eric Auer]

Hi Jim M,

> I personally would like to see Arachne renamed to simply "browser"

Then you cannot google for it any more, too common word...

> mbr - http://jesusnjim.com/code/mbrsaverestore.html

You can use free FDISK for that but it would be nice to update it.

> diskwipe& wipegui - http://jesusnjim.com/code/diskwipeandrattledisk.html
> bracematcher- http://jesusnjim.com/code/bracematcher.html
> extract512bytesfromfile - 
> http://jesusnjim.com/code/extract512bytesfromfile.html

If available, you would typically use GNU DD for such tasks.
I think it is in GNU textutils, coreutils, fileutils or so.

> createfile - http://jesusnjim.com/code/createfile.html

> df - http://jesusnjim.com/code/df.html
> du - http://jesusnjim.com/code/du.html

Should be available as DJGPP GNU ports to DOS, dunno...

By the way, could somebody make a DOS version of the *SVN client*?

> md5 - http://jesusnjim.com/code/md5.html
> sha512 - http://jesusnjim.com/code/sha512.html

Blair already implemented those for DOS afair.

> uniq - http://jesusnjim.com/code/uniq.html

Should be available via DJGPP GNU ports...

> phone - http://jesusnjim.com/code/phone.html
> phonelist - http://jesusnjim.com/code/phonelst.html
> whereis - http://jesusnjim.com/code/whereis.html
> which - http://jesusnjim.com/code/which.html

I think FreeDOS 1.0 already had something like WHICH and
WHEREIS. The latter can also be done by DJGPP GNU FIND.

> zapdupes - http://jesusnjim.com/code/zapdupes.html


> zapdupes deletes duplicate files in a subdirectory tree.
> phonelist is a phone list database.
> phone converts phone letters to digits.
> diswkwipe and wipegui are for securely wiping or zeroing hard disks.
> mbr is for saving and restoring and printing the MBR of a hard disk.  you can 
> also print MBR of a file.
> extract512bytesfromfile is for extracting boot records from files for making 
> bootable cd's with ripcord.
> bracematcher does just what it says on files.
> createfile creates a random-content file or specific-byte-content file of 
> whatever size you choose, only limitation is the OS and 63-bits.
> uniq is a holdover from the unix pipe filters which only lets through unique 
> lines.  mine has an optional presort switch.
> df - like UNIX df - disk free space.  except mine is in SI units and gives a 
> graph.  sevral switches.
> du - like unix du - disk usage, but mine doesn't list subdirs, and lists 
> numbers in SI units.
> sha512 calculates the sha512 hash on a file and shows the result. handles 
> large files.
> whereis - finds files, starting in a specific subdir if you want.
> which - finds the executeable that would be executed first in the PATH 
> according to microsoft conventions.  for instance, .com comes before .exe 
> comes before .bat, etc.
> 
> If I remember correctly, I these all have DOS and Windows versions in the zip 
> files.

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Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

[Eric Auer]

Hi,

> when I wrote my installer .BAT files, I ended up with 3 of them.
> all of them set the PATH first.
> the 1st does fdisk, which ends with a reboot.
> the 2nd does the format and sys
> the 3rd xcopies the files

When I install DOS and/or OpenGEM, I would typically first
use a big Windows or Linux based non-destructive partition
resizer, maybe with a nice GUI like GPARTED, to make space
for DOS and format the partition. So it is good if there
is an option to skip all steps before the SYS. Even SYS is
risky, there should be an option to write the boot sector
only to a file and put all DOS files at places where they
do not overlap with other Win / DOS versions, for cases
where users want to install several OSes on a FAT drive.

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Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

[Aitor Santamaría]

Not quite, but thanks for the ideas about scripting anyway.

Aitor

2009/4/14 Bruce Axtens :
> 2009/4/12 Aitor Santamaría 
>>
>> Appart from this change, there are a couple of ideas that Jim and I
>> exchanged on the topic of the installer that I hope to be able to
>> write on the wiki soon, with the intention to make the installer
>> modular.
>
> Using a scripting language other than batch? Like maybe Agena, seeing as it
> works on a variety of platforms including DOS?
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Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

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On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Jim Michaels wrote:

> There is that, and also the official GNUISH MSDOS site which does contain a 
> bourne shell.
> http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/msdos/msdos.html
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Same site.

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Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

[Jim Michaels]

There is that, and also the official GNUISH MSDOS site which does contain a 
bourne shell.
http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/msdos/msdos.html

 
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Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 9:38:55 PM
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On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Jim Michaels wrote:

> gnuish MDSOS
> http://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/unix.html
>
> there are several shells (I didn't see bourne, but I did see C), shar, awk.

Yeah, ibiblio mirrors GNUish in the FreeDOS tree.  I contributed the 
updated CPIO myself.

There's no shell there other than Ian Stewartson's shell.  Not open 
source, only source-available.

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Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

[lyricalnanoha]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Jim Michaels wrote:

> gnuish MDSOS
> http://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/unix.html
>
> there are several shells (I didn't see bourne, but I did see C), shar, awk.

Yeah, ibiblio mirrors GNUish in the FreeDOS tree.  I contributed the 
updated CPIO myself.

There's no shell there other than Ian Stewartson's shell.  Not open 
source, only source-available.

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Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

[Jim Michaels]

gnuish MDSOS
http://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/unix.html

there are several shells (I didn't see bourne, but I did see C), shar, awk.


 
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On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Jim Michaels wrote:

> what about the sh.exe which comes with djgpp?  that's available as a zip file 
> I believe...
>
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32-bit BASH.

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Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

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waitaminnit - I saw a 16-bit unix package around somewhere.  let me look.

 
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On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Jim Michaels wrote:

> what about the sh.exe which comes with djgpp?  that's available as a zip file 
> I believe...
>
>
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32-bit BASH.

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Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

[Antony Gordon]

Probably the best idea would be to have multiple script engines. Existing DOS 
apps use .BAT kinda like PowerShell in W2K. It would even be possible to use 
BASIC (or any other programming language). Default to .BAT, but the script 
engine could be swapped out...remember overlays?


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lyricalnanoha escreveu:
>
> Though, a truly free 16-bit bash or ash would be nice.

Why do you need it to be 16 bit. DOS's programs can be 32 bits without
any problem.

How many 286 PC are there still around? Most are dead, but DOS in new
machines is alive just fine :)

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Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

[lyricalnanoha]

On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Jim Michaels wrote:

> what about the sh.exe which comes with djgpp?  that's available as a zip file 
> I believe...
>
>
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32-bit BASH.

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Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

[Jim Michaels]

what about the sh.exe which comes with djgpp?  that's available as a zip file I 
believe...

 
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Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 5:23:21 PM
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On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Alain M. wrote:

> I would say that the ideal script language is BASH, which exists dor
> DOS... (or at least sh)
>
> Alain

Though, a truly free 16-bit bash or ash would be nice.

I tried it several times and ALMOST got there with msh, but not quite. :/

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Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

[Alain M.]

lyricalnanoha escreveu:
> 
> Though, a truly free 16-bit bash or ash would be nice.

Why do you need it to be 16 bit. DOS's programs can be 32 bits without 
any problem.

How many 286 PC are there still around? Most are dead, but DOS in new 
machines is alive just fine :)

Alain

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Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

[lyricalnanoha]

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Alain M. wrote:

> I would say that the ideal script language is BASH, which exists dor
> DOS... (or at least sh)
>
> Alain

Though, a truly free 16-bit bash or ash would be nice.

I tried it several times and ALMOST got there with msh, but not quite. :/

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Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

[Alain M.]

I would say that the ideal script language is BASH, which exists dor 
DOS... (or at least sh)

Alain

Adam Norton escreveu:
> I would use something more common like python. 
> (http://www.caddit.net/pythond/)
> 
> 
> Bruce Axtens wrote:
>> 2009/4/12 Aitor Santamaría http://aitor.sm>@gmail.com 
>> >
>>
>> Appart from this change, there are a couple of ideas that Jim and I
>> exchanged on the topic of the installer that I hope to be able to
>> write on the wiki soon, with the intention to make the installer
>> modular.
>>
>> Using a scripting language other than batch? Like maybe Agena 
>> , seeing as it works on a variety of 
>> platforms including DOS?
>>  
>> Kind regards,
>> Bruce.
>>  
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Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

[Adam Norton]

I would use something more common like python. 
(http://www.caddit.net/pythond/)


Bruce Axtens wrote:
> 2009/4/12 Aitor Santamaría http://aitor.sm>@gmail.com 
> >
>
> Appart from this change, there are a couple of ideas that Jim and I
> exchanged on the topic of the installer that I hope to be able to
> write on the wiki soon, with the intention to make the installer
> modular.
>
> Using a scripting language other than batch? Like maybe Agena 
> , seeing as it works on a variety of 
> platforms including DOS?
>  
> Kind regards,
> Bruce.
>  
> 
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Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

[Bruce Axtens]

2009/4/12 Aitor Santamaría 

> Appart from this change, there are a couple of ideas that Jim and I
> exchanged on the topic of the installer that I hope to be able to
> write on the wiki soon, with the intention to make the installer
> modular.
>
Using a scripting language other than batch? Like maybe
Agena,
seeing as it works on a variety of platforms including DOS?

Kind regards,
Bruce.
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Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

[Jim Michaels]

I personally would like to see Arachne renamed to simply "browser" (makes more 
sense anyway) rename what's in the code too - no remnants.  Or eliminate it 
altogether. I don't like spiders anyway after what happened to me.  it's one of 
the reasons I won't download a freedos iso.

I have several projects I would like to add to FreeDOS distribution if I can.
mbr - http://jesusnjim.com/code/mbrsaverestore.html
diskwipe& wipegui - http://jesusnjim.com/code/diskwipeandrattledisk.html
bracematcher- http://jesusnjim.com/code/bracematcher.html
extract512bytesfromfile - http://jesusnjim.com/code/extract512bytesfromfile.html
createfile - http://jesusnjim.com/code/createfile.html
df - http://jesusnjim.com/code/df.html
du - http://jesusnjim.com/code/du.html
md5 - http://jesusnjim.com/code/md5.html
sha512 - http://jesusnjim.com/code/sha512.html
uniq - http://jesusnjim.com/code/uniq.html
phone - http://jesusnjim.com/code/phone.html
phonelist - http://jesusnjim.com/code/phonelst.html
whereis - http://jesusnjim.com/code/whereis.html
which - http://jesusnjim.com/code/which.html
zapdupes - http://jesusnjim.com/code/zapdupes.html



zapdupes deletes duplicate files in a subdirectory tree.
phonelist is a phone list database.
phone converts phone letters to digits.
diswkwipe and wipegui are for securely wiping or zeroing hard disks.
mbr is for saving and restoring and printing the MBR of a hard disk.  you can 
also print MBR of a file.
extract512bytesfromfile is for extracting boot records from files for making 
bootable cd's with ripcord.
bracematcher does just what it says on files.
createfile creates a random-content file or specific-byte-content file of 
whatever size you choose, only limitation is the OS and 63-bits.
uniq is a holdover from the unix pipe filters which only lets through unique 
lines.  mine has an optional presort switch.
df - like UNIX df - disk free space.  except mine is in SI units and gives a 
graph.  sevral switches.
du - like unix du - disk usage, but mine doesn't list subdirs, and lists 
numbers in SI units.
sha512 calculates the sha512 hash on a file and shows the result. handles large 
files.
whereis - finds files, starting in a specific subdir if you want.
which - finds the executeable that would be executed first in the PATH 
according to microsoft conventions.  for instance, .com comes before .exe comes 
before .bat, etc.

If I remember correctly, I these all have DOS and Windows versions in the zip 
files.

Jim Michaels






From: Antony Gordon 
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Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 8:44:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

 I didn't think JP Software had 'abandoned' 4DOS...

> Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 18:01:13 +0200
> From: michael_reichenb...@freenet.de
> To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?
> 
> Well, there is a list more or less up to date.
> http://www.freedos.org/freedos/software/
> 
> There are many programs with no development ongoing.
> - DOSLFN
> - Arachne
> - FreeDOS installer
> - 4dos
> - freecom
> - tridos (multitasking, not a freedos packet but interesting, licence
> unclear (free?),
> http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.TripleDOS)
> - freedos kernel
> - ...
> 
> Perhaps it's more easy to make a list where development is ongoing?
> 
> -mr
> 
> Bruce Axtens schrieb:
> > G'day everyone,
> > 
> > Is there a list of projects and maintainers anywhere? What projects are
> > currently without a developer / maintainer?
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > Bruce.
> > 
> > P.S. If this has already been covered in that long thread about
> > volunteering, my embarrassed apologies in advance.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

[Antony Gordon]

I didn't think JP Software had 'abandoned' 4DOS...

> Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 18:01:13 +0200
> From: michael_reichenb...@freenet.de
> To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?
> 
> Well, there is a list more or less up to date.
> http://www.freedos.org/freedos/software/
> 
> There are many programs with no development ongoing.
> - DOSLFN
> - Arachne
> - FreeDOS installer
> - 4dos
> - freecom
> - tridos (multitasking, not a freedos packet but interesting, licence
> unclear (free?),
> http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.TripleDOS)
> - freedos kernel
> - ...
> 
> Perhaps it's more easy to make a list where development is ongoing?
> 
> -mr
> 
> Bruce Axtens schrieb:
> > G'day everyone,
> > 
> > Is there a list of projects and maintainers anywhere? What projects are
> > currently without a developer / maintainer?
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > Bruce.
> > 
> > P.S. If this has already been covered in that long thread about
> > volunteering, my embarrassed apologies in advance.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

[Aitor Santamaría]

Hello,

2009/4/6 Blair Campbell :
>> - FreeDOS installer
>
> IMHO the FreeDOS installer should really be re-written.  It was never
> really designed to be able to manage packages properly and such.

Appart from this change, there are a couple of ideas that Jim and I
exchanged on the topic of the installer that I hope to be able to
write on the wiki soon, with the intention to make the installer
modular.

Aitor

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Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

[Bernd Blaauw]

Blair Campbell schreef:
> FreeCOM I have worked on in the past and I have done some
> modifications here that I have not released.  If anyone else wants to
> develop it they should get a copy of the changes I have made (like
> xms-like-disk-swapping without external utilities).
>   
Seems like an interesting change. I wouldn't mind having a look at this, 
though you know I can't program for 1 single bit :)

Goodnight,

Bernd

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Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

[Blair Campbell]

> There are many programs with no development ongoing.
> - DOSLFN
> - Arachne
> - FreeDOS installer

IMHO the FreeDOS installer should really be re-written.  It was never
really designed to be able to manage packages properly and such.

> - 4dos

4DOS is maintained.

> - freecom

FreeCOM I have worked on in the past and I have done some
modifications here that I have not released.  If anyone else wants to
develop it they should get a copy of the changes I have made (like
xms-like-disk-swapping without external utilities).

> - tridos (multitasking, not a freedos packet but interesting, licence
> unclear (free?),
> http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.TripleDOS)
> - freedos kernel
> - ...
>
> Perhaps it's more easy to make a list where development is ongoing?
>
> -mr
>
> Bruce Axtens schrieb:
>> G'day everyone,
>>
>> Is there a list of projects and maintainers anywhere? What projects are
>> currently without a developer / maintainer?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Bruce.
>>
>> P.S. If this has already been covered in that long thread about
>> volunteering, my embarrassed apologies in advance.
>>
>>
>>
>> 
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Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

[David Ormand]

 > There are many programs with no development ongoing.
 > - DOSLFN
 > - Arachne
 > - FreeDOS installer
 > - 4dos
 > - freecom
 > - tridos (multitasking, not a freedos packet but interesting,
 > licence unclear (free?),

What is the status of USBDOS?

When I tried to mount a flash drive to a DOS machine,
about six months back, it didn't work.  I haven't seen
any messages here or on the website to indicate that
anything had changed.

Or maybe I was doing something wrong.  I just can't
rule out that possibility...

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Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

[Michael Reichenbach]

Well, there is a list more or less up to date.
http://www.freedos.org/freedos/software/

There are many programs with no development ongoing.
- DOSLFN
- Arachne
- FreeDOS installer
- 4dos
- freecom
- tridos (multitasking, not a freedos packet but interesting, licence
unclear (free?),
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.TripleDOS)
- freedos kernel
- ...

Perhaps it's more easy to make a list where development is ongoing?

-mr

Bruce Axtens schrieb:
> G'day everyone,
> 
> Is there a list of projects and maintainers anywhere? What projects are
> currently without a developer / maintainer?
> 
> Kind regards,
> Bruce.
> 
> P.S. If this has already been covered in that long thread about
> volunteering, my embarrassed apologies in advance.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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[Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

[Bruce Axtens]

G'day everyone,

Is there a list of projects and maintainers anywhere? What projects are
currently without a developer / maintainer?

Kind regards,
Bruce.

P.S. If this has already been covered in that long thread about
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