Re: [Freedos-devel] Updates to software list

Le dimanche 17 juillet 2011 à 16:11 -0500, Jim Hall a écrit : > And yes, OpenGEM is the only graphical package included in the "GUI" > package set. This is basically the same as DRDOS ViewMax, which was a > competitor/analogy to MSDOS DOSSHELL. > > Over the years, we've included other GUI's in Fre

Re: [Freedos-devel] Updates to software list

>> But, IIRC, this was verbatim the version from OpenWatcom. My point was >> that people who are developers already have it (or similar). If we're >> going to include it, we should also include "link" (like MS-DOS used >> to). Also, there's no DOSSHELL or BASIC there either, and nobody >> complaine

Re: [Freedos-devel] Updates to software list

On Sun, 17 Jul 2011, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On 7/17/11, Eric Auer wrote: > >> Comp: You are right, FC replaces it. > > Well, yes, I know all (most?) DOSes have both, but FC can do ASCII > (default) or binary (/b), so I don't ever use COMP. In DOS 2-4, PC DOS had COMP (which it had since 1.x) a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Updates to software list

>> To be completely honest, please don't take this the wrong way, but >> some of those I literally never use (or can't remember how!): >> >> * append >> * assign [...] > The idea of BASE is to provide at least clones of all commands that > MS DOS users had in their standard installation of MS DOS,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Updates to software list

Hi, On 7/17/11, Eric Auer wrote: > >> XMGR. HIMEMX (AFAICT) has no maintainer (and/or we really need to push >> out that "jmp $+2" fix for old 386s, i.e. unofficial version 3.33, > > In other words, Japheth took over HIMEMX but does not add the patch? No. In fact, he has explicitly said he is *n

Re: [Freedos-devel] Updates to software list

Hi! > XMGR. HIMEMX (AFAICT) has no maintainer (and/or we really need to push > out that "jmp $+2" fix for old 386s, i.e. unofficial version 3.33, In other words, Japheth took over HIMEMX but does not add the patch? >> www.freedos.org/software/ > > To be completely honest, please don't take thi

Re: [Freedos-devel] Updates to software list

Hi, On 7/16/11, Jim Hall wrote: > >> Mirroring to Ibiblio has to improve still, might want to doublecheck >> that. Kernel, SHSUCDX and Edlin (what's a binary?) are easy examples of >> being outdated. > > Yes, this seems to have been (mostly) ignored while I was away from > FreeDOS. Some things we

Re: [Freedos-devel] Updates to software list

Hi, On 7/16/11, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > > Anyone got experience with the watcom port of FreeCOM yet? Or too > experimental / work-in-progress? Bart said it works pretty well, but it's only in SVN (and I don't have a client installed on this machine), so you'll have to grab and build it by yourself

Re: [Freedos-devel] Updates to software list

Hi, On 7/16/11, Jim Hall wrote: > > Based on discussions with Bernd as we prepare for FreeDOS 1.1, I've > done some cleanup on the Software List. The major edits: > > * DOSFSCK: moved Util -> Base While I agree this is "better", it's still nice to have CHKDSK for 16-bit cpus (since DOSFSCK is DJ

Re: [Freedos-devel] Updates to software list

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > Op 16-7-2011 19:44, Jim Hall schreef: >> * XMGR: added to Base (removed FDXMS, FDXMS286) > > I'd keep FDXMS286 if possible, it's the only XMS-driver for 286 machines. Ok, I restored FDXMS286 back on the software list (Base). >> Please have

Re: [Freedos-devel] Updates to software list

Op 16-7-2011 19:44, Jim Hall schreef: > * XMGR: added to Base (removed FDXMS, FDXMS286) I'd keep FDXMS286 if possible, it's the only XMS-driver for 286 machines. > Please have a look and let me know if I need to update anything > else. UTIL: you could delete UD

[Freedos-devel] Updates to software list

Based on discussions with Bernd as we prepare for FreeDOS 1.1, I've done some cleanup on the Software List. The major edits: * COUNTRY: edited to reflect that it is part of KERNEL * DOSFSCK: moved Util -> Base * DEVLOAD: moved Util -> Base * EMM386: deleted (replaced by JEMM386) * FDSHIELD: moved