[Freedos-devel] Removing old distributions from ibiblio

2007-10-02 Thread Jim Hall
I keep getting the occasional user who has downloaded a really old version of the FreeDOS distribution (usually Beta5) and even though they ftp'd it from 'official.old' on the ibiblio archive, these users still ask me why things are out of date or do not work correctly. I keep pointing them to the

[Freedos-devel] Very importand message from Freepascal team

2007-10-02 Thread Ladislav Lacina
They are looking the beta testers for DOS version of Freepascal 2.2.0 Read here: http://lists.freepascal.org/lists/fpc-devel/2007-October/011473.html - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges.

Re: [Freedos-devel] lfn in freecom?

2007-10-02 Thread John Elliott
Ok, thanks, that's good news. I'm used to such feature in UNIX, and mistrusted it would ever be possible in DOS. For argv/argc parsing, it depends exactly how the author of your compiler implemented it. For example, Pacific C doesn't do anything special with quoted strings. This program:

Re: [Freedos-devel] lfn in freecom?

2007-10-02 Thread Imre Leber
- Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: John Elliott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: dinsdag, oktober 2, 2007 08:30 PM Aan: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Onderwerp: Re: [Freedos-devel] lfn in freecom? Ok, thanks, that's good news. I'm used to such feature in UNIX, and mistrusted

Re: [Freedos-devel] Removing old distributions from ibiblio

2007-10-02 Thread Aitor SantamarĂ­a
I've lost the hint of floppy distributions, but I think there should be at least one. (Just in case) Aitor 2007/10/2, Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I keep getting the occasional user who has downloaded a really old version of the FreeDOS distribution (usually Beta5) and even though they ftp'd

Re: [Freedos-devel] Removing old distributions from ibiblio

2007-10-02 Thread Jim Hall
Both Balder and ODIN are floppy distributions. I am not deleting them. On 10/2/07, Aitor SantamarĂ­a [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've lost the hint of floppy distributions, but I think there should be at least one. (Just in case) Aitor