Re: [fd-dev] FreeDOS installer ideas

2002-11-25 Thread Aitor Santamaria Merino
But=- FD.EXE could be made by RAR.EXE, and self extract into any 16 bit dos directory, or maybe even a floppy. You seen the drdos 7.03 install?It is, by far, the fastest of all of the above. I don't think plain unpacking will upgrade the boot sector, as required by the install disk. Since

Re: [fd-dev] codepage IDs

2002-11-25 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Axel C. Frinke wrote: On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 01:39:39 -0500 (EST), Bart Oldeman wrote: BO This is what the Linux console does: its console driver first translates BO from the used character set to Unicode, and then maps the Unicode to BO the font used. How does this work

Re: [fd-dev] Fonts

2002-11-25 Thread Day Brown
murphy wrote: One of the things that would be neat for FD, is a codepage for english, which replaces all the other foreign letters with diagonal and curved geometric shapes which would go a long ways twards smoothing out the appearance of ANSI color scrollbar menus. Back in the BBS days, I