Re: [Freedos-devel] re: Don't you think its better to use Msdos file names?

2004-03-05 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, I posted the message the 24th, and we all received it today. Unfortunately, I am already used to the "quality" of service of my ISP, Wanadoo/France Telecom... :-((( Sorry, there isn't much that I can do... Aitor Bill Marcum escribió: On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:18:28PM +0100, Aitor Santamar

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: Don't you think its better to use Msdos file names?

2004-03-05 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 24-Фев-2004 21:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aitor Santamari'a Merino) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> Data usually not separated as "binary" or "not binary" (ie. textual), ASM> Most people doesn't know that this difference even exists, and get ASM> puzzled when they open binary data files with TY

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: Don't you think its better to use Msdos file names?

2004-03-05 Thread Bill Marcum
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:18:28PM +0100, Aitor Santamari'a Merino wrote: > Most people doesn't know that this difference even exists, and get > puzzled when they open binary data files with TYPE. This message dated Feb. 24 just arrived today. Maybe it's some problem with the list or your ISP (

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: Don't you think its better to use Msdos file names?

2004-03-05 Thread Aitor Santamari'a Merino
Hi, Arkady V.Belousov escribio': ASM> (as a side note, this is unix-ish notation that I never liked much, ASM> because in my understanding this folder is to be used in Unix/Linux for ASM> executables in machine-binary language, whereas there might be BINary ASM> DATA files, that are binary but no

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: Don't you think its better to use Msdos file names?

2004-02-24 Thread Johnson Lam
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:00:50 +0300 (MSK), you wrote: Hi, > Yes, though, "DOC" is not liked for me, because reminds MS Word. This >directory, probably, may be called MAN (from "manual"). For better and much clearer definition, "TXT" should be best. For example, you see PG.TXT or UDMA.TXT you

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: Don't you think its better to use Msdos file names?

2004-02-24 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 24-Фев-2004 21:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> BTW, keyboard.sys may be placed into NLS. EA> No, is only 1 file. Keep it on traditional place: Same directory where EA> keyboard binary is. I say "may", not "should". :) >> Data usually not separa

[Freedos-devel] re: Don't you think its better to use Msdos file names?

2004-02-24 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > BTW, keyboard.sys may be placed into NLS. No, is only 1 file. Keep it on traditional place: Same directory where keyboard binary is. > Data usually not separated as "binary" or "not binary" (ie. textual), > whereas BIN is not worsest name. :) How else? EXE? Calling it "bat-com-

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: Don't you think its better to use Msdos file names?

2004-02-24 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 24-Фев-2004 20:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aitor Santamari'a Merino) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ASM> (I've always considered it a very bad idea that Microsoft ASM> chose DOC for the Microsoft Word native files, precisely because there ASM> are many plain text files with extension DOC already too).

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: Don't you think its better to use Msdos file names?

2004-02-24 Thread Aitor Santamari'a Merino
Arkady V.Belousov escribio': Hi! 24-Фев-2004 01:06 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: DOS- all exe/com/sys files DOS\APPINFO- lsm files DOS\DOC\project- documentation for 'project' DOS\HELP - all help files DOS\NLS- n

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: Don't you think its better to use Msdos file names?

2004-02-24 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 24-Фев-2004 01:06 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> DOS- all exe/com/sys files >> DOS\APPINFO- lsm files >> DOS\DOC\project- documentation for 'project' >> DOS\HELP - all help files >> DOS\NLS- national lang

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: Don't you think its better to use Msdos file names?

2004-02-24 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
>Hi! > >> DOS- all exe/com/sys files >> DOS\APPINFO- lsm files >> DOS\DOC\project- documentation for 'project' >> DOS\HELP - all help files >> DOS\NLS- national language support files >> DOS\SOURCE\project - source code for 'project' > >S

[Freedos-devel] re: Don't you think its better to use Msdos file names?

2004-02-23 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > DOS- all exe/com/sys files > DOS\APPINFO- lsm files > DOS\DOC\project- documentation for 'project' > DOS\HELP - all help files > DOS\NLS- national language support files > DOS\SOURCE\project - source code for 'project' Sounds oka

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: Don't you think its better to use Msdos file names

2004-02-20 Thread togermano.com
Then its your problem if ur installing it with msdos. - Original Message - From: "Eric Auer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 5:10 PM Subject: [Freedos-devel] re: Don't you think its better to use Msdos file names &

[Freedos-devel] re: Don't you think its better to use Msdos file names

2004-02-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I disagree. At least if there already IS a c:\dos directory, FreeDOS should stay separate in its own c:\fdos or c:\freedos directory. Otherwise, c:\dos is possible, but it would have to contain the "bin" subdirectory of FreeDOS only. You would still need a separate FreeDOS directory for the re