Re: [Freedos-devel] Cleanup on FreeDOS Ibiblio

2021-05-02 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jim, my argument was not that search engines should help us to advertise specific apps. My point is that it should be possible to find anything on ibiblio. If I google freedos kernel 2042 i386 and google returns a HTML of the LSM which in turn points me to 5fc559f6.zip this would still help

Re: [Freedos-devel] Cleanup on FreeDOS Ibiblio

2021-05-02 Thread Jerome Shidel
> On May 2, 2021, at 6:29 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > > On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 5:13 PM Eric Auer wrote: >> >> Dos compatible filenames are irrelevant for URL, just give >> the file ANY name you like after downloading the file, it >> is better to have search-friendly URL which contain both >> name

Re: [Freedos-devel] Cleanup on FreeDOS Ibiblio

2021-05-02 Thread Jim Hall
On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 5:13 PM Eric Auer wrote: > > Dos compatible filenames are irrelevant for URL, just give > the file ANY name you like after downloading the file, it > is better to have search-friendly URL which contain both > name and version. Something like krn386x.zip is ridiculous > for

Re: [Freedos-devel] Cleanup on FreeDOS Ibiblio

2021-05-02 Thread Eric Auer
> On Sat, 1 May 2021 at 21:13, Wilhelm Spiegl wrote: >> >> hi jim, >> i think you should feel free to rename filenames to a unique system e.g. >> program_-mm--dd -at least within a single command. creating >> subdirectories is nice but not absolutely necessary if the user knows that >>

Re: [Freedos-devel] Cleanup on FreeDOS Ibiblio

2021-05-02 Thread Liam Proven
On Sat, 1 May 2021 at 21:13, Wilhelm Spiegl wrote: > > hi jim, > i think you should feel free to rename filenames to a unique system e.g. > program_-mm--dd -at least within a single command. creating > subdirectories is nice but not absolutely necessary if the user knows that > the latest

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS kernel distro and package repository update moments?

2021-05-02 Thread tom ehlert
> I might have an opportunity to > try next weekend - this week is very full with work projects. as for any one else here. > In the > meantime, would anyone else like to compile this and help test it? even if anyone else could compile this: how exactly would you test this? although a) I'm

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS kernel distro and package repository update moments?

2021-05-02 Thread Jim Hall
Interesting! I didn't realize that kernel development was still active. We should share this update with the freedos-devel email list (I'm cc'ing the email list). Good news for developers, so we shouldn't try to keep this conversation "off list." :-) I grabbed the source zipball from the link you

Re: [Freedos-devel] Cleanup on FreeDOS Ibiblio

2021-05-02 Thread Robert Riebisch
Hi Jim, >> Maybe you would find some volunteers to assist you, *if* you ask. >> > > I think we first need to agree what the file and directory layout > should be, or we'll have a "bunch of cooks" each doing their own > thing, and we'll be in the same situation. Sure! :-) > Still trying to

Re: [Freedos-devel] Cleanup on FreeDOS Ibiblio

2021-05-02 Thread Robert Riebisch
Hi Jim, >> solution, 2.01, 2.02, 2.11, 2.20. if necessary 2.02.01 for minor updates or: >> 2-01, 2-02, 2-11, 2-20, 2-02-01. but of course this will run out of 8.3. >> compared with checking and changing thousands of htm help files renaming is >> a five minutes job. >> > > Using "2.02.01" is an