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

2004-02-24 Thread Steffen Kaiser
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Jim Hall wrote: I would prefer a C:\DOS directory with all exacutables inside. Users will feel more confortable with it ;-) My thought would be to put them inside C:\DOS as subdirs. Note that the install dir from the install program would need to use C:\DOS as the

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

2004-02-24 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Hi, to answer your question: DOS\HELP - all help files This contains only files which are called project.*, like project or project.cn or project.es or project.htm ... Actually the CURRENT way is even simpler: DOS\HELP\ contains files which are called project. So for example the

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

2004-02-24 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
.. I keep my binary files inside BIN of PGnnn.ZIP now, it looks like I ought to drop the BIN directory to align with your idea, give me a 'yes' please. Eric. BAHCL Not if you are only doing it for distribution package reasons, otherwise go ahead. While I encourage all maintainers to

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' Sounds okay BUT

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

2004-02-24 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
.. 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' Note that the install

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

2004-02-24 Thread maintainer freedospg
Hi Jeremy, Thanks for you explanation. Looks like DOSEMU's setting, I'll take your suggestion. BIN\PG.EXE DOC\PG\PG.MAN regards, BAHCL --- Kenneth J. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not if you are only doing it for distribution package reasons, otherwise go ahead. While I encourage all

[Freedos-devel] Q: Watcom debugging

2004-02-24 Thread freecom
Hello, I'm trying to setup a functional OpenWatcom environment on WinXP (using BINNT tools) building real-mode DOS programs. Till now it builds objects and executables fine. I have these problems: a) When I try to use a normal librarian (aka LIB.EXE), the Watvom linker does accept the library,

RE: [Freedos-devel] Q: Watcom debugging

2004-02-24 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Hi, comments embedded. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 2:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Freedos-devel] Q: Watcom debugging Hello, I'm trying to setup a functional

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

2004-02-24 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 24--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 language support

[Freedos-devel] Directory hierarchy (was MS-DOS names)

2004-02-24 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
Yet another 3-letter maniac's proposal ;-) DOS\BIN executable files DOS\LSM linux software map files DOS\HLP help files DOS\MAN manuals and other documentation DOS\NLS national language support DOS\SRC source code, divided into project subdirectories I'd divide *only* SRC into project

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--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-

Re: [Freedos-devel] Directory hierarchy (was MS-DOS names)

2004-02-24 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 24--2004 20:44 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luchezar Georgiev) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: LG Yet another 3-letter maniac's proposal ;-) LG DOS\BIN executable files LG DOS\LSM linux software map files LG DOS\HLP help files LG DOS\MAN manuals and other documentation LG DOS\NLS

[Freedos-devel] re: Directory hierarchy

2004-02-24 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, thanks for changing to a shorter subject! LG I'd divide *only* SRC into project subdirectories. BIN, INF, HLP, MAN and LG NLS better be common for *all* projects, as they usually contain only a LG single file per project (with some exceptions). Not really true, and not really a problem!

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

2004-02-24 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 24--2004 20:04 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aitor Santamari'a Merino) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: mf C:\DOS - same as above + any support files I think, if there will be too many support files of some type (say, fonts), then they should be moved into own subdirectory (say,

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

2004-02-24 Thread Aitor Santamari'a Merino
Hi, Arkady V.Belousov escribio': Hi! 24--2004 20:04 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aitor Santamari'a Merino) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: mf C:\DOS - same as above + any support files I think, if there will be too many support files of some type (say, fonts), then they should be moved into

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

2004-02-24 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 24--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).

[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-exe

Re: [Freedos-devel] 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--2004 21:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aitor Santamari'a Merino) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ASM In MS-DOS for most of the countries (I'd say) you rarely use much more ASM than EGA.CPI (or EGA2.CPI). So what? If many files are not used, you may remove them (to

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: Directory hierarchy

2004-02-24 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 24--2004 20:39 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: EA The INF (APPINFO?) already is ONE directory with ONE .lsm file per project Me liked this name! :) FDOS\FONT\*.cpi ... EA (and \fdos\man\pg.man ...) EA NOT useful. There are only very FEW files like *.cpi,

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

2004-02-24 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 24--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 separated as

Re: [Freedos-devel] Directory hierarchy (was MS-DOS names)

2004-02-24 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
.. Otherwise, I agree with Arkady. No need to have 50 files called COPYING with equal contents ;-) .. We don't (well not really). Within the distribution there is a package called GPLv2, which contains nothing but the GPL license which is installed to the base dirctory (e.g. C:\DOS\COPYING ).

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'll

Re: [Freedos-devel] Directory hierarchy

2004-02-24 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
LG I'd divide *only* SRC into project subdirectories. BIN, INF, HLP, MAN and LG NLS better be common for *all* projects, as they usually contain only a LG single file per project (with some exceptions). _Not_ agreed - many distributives contains similar files (readme, what.new, etc.), so MAN