[Freedos-devel] Tree v3.7.3 Was: Re: Xcopy 1.5

2024-02-17 Thread perditionc--- via Freedos-devel 
On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 9:09 AM Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
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>
> Hi Jim,
> thanks for your response. Xcopy is not the only thing, maybe you remember 
> tree 3.72 in this forum?
>
...
>
> tree: do not know the actual situation, I got a promise that someone will 
> check whats the matter.
>
...

Good evening,

Please see http://server.fdos.org/fdos/tree/TREE373.zip for an update
to the tree program that should fix the issues (sorry for the long
delay).

Changes from tree v3.7.1/3.7.2
  - reverted argument processing back to code from v3.7 [.0], the
changes to use getopt were really broken
  - minor tweaks to included cats to default NLSPATH to ".;.\NLS", a
future version will update tree to kitten
  - added extra check so if no serial# returned, assumes call failed
and doesn't print invalid serial# (note, the way it calls int21h is a
bit funky, in pdTree the carry flag is forced set before the call as I
recall some kernels don't set it on error for the called function, but
this version just clears struct and assumes if still clear then call
failed as I'm not sure how to set the flags register prior to the
int86 call (it's not the standard version, no regs struct passed) and
don't have all the compiler variants easily available anymore to test
changes to it.
  - included in the zip is all the current? message catalogs, note:
these are straight from the FreeDOS nls archive on gitlab, hopefully
didn't miss/mess any up.
  - some documentation updates to reflect that I no longer have
@computer.org email address.

A version 4 will be released eventually, but I'm not making any
commitments for when.  In the meantime, if anyone has any issues with
this version, please let me know and I'll try to push out an update a
little quicker. :-)


(ps a new test kernel release is pending, but I'm trying to figure
out/fix a driver hang during load issue first).

Thanks,
Jeremy


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Re: [Freedos-devel] Append

2024-02-17 Thread Eduardo Casino via Freedos-devel 
Hi Jerome,

I'm the autor of Append. I'll have a look at it, although it's been a long
time...

Thanks,
Eduardo


El sáb., 17 feb. 2024 22:51, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel <
freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> escribió:

> Hi All,
>
> Append received a “critical” merge request in the GitLab Archive.
>
> https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base/append/-/merge_requests/1
>
> Since, no know developer is maintaining that program, it would be great
> for someone to volunteer to take a look at the patch, verify it is needed
> and recompile the program for testing.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jerome
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[Freedos-devel] Append

2024-02-17 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel 
Hi All,

Append received a “critical” merge request in the GitLab Archive. 

https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base/append/-/merge_requests/1 


Since, no know developer is maintaining that program, it would be great for 
someone to volunteer to take a look at the patch, verify it is needed and 
recompile the program for testing. 

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Re: [Freedos-devel] NewDOS source code has been published!

2024-02-17 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-devel 
On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 8:39 AM Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
 wrote:
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> I forgot to mention that there is another great new thing: NewDOS and its 
> source code is free since 2024-02-06!
> NewDOS itself is freeware since 2018.
>
> You can grab it here: https://www.newdos.de/home/download.htm
>
[...]
> @Jim: Would it be possible to keep a copy ad ibiblio or anywhere else?
>


Sure thing. We've mirrored a few other DOS projects when they went
offline. For example, before GNUish went offline, they reached out to
me to ask if I'd mirror GNUish at Ibilbio. And I did. Since NewDOS is
GNU GPL, I'm comfortable mirroring the last copy at Ibiblio.

As with GNUish, I mirrored this outside the standard "FreeDOS Files"
area. You can find it here:

https://ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/mirrors/www.newdos.de/




*By the way, GNUish was mirrored here:
https://ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/mirrors/gnuish/

..although the "gnuish" location is really a Unix symlink to here:
https://ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/mirrors/ftp.sunet.se/pub/simtelnet/gnu/gnuish/


*And: If anyone here is already linking to GNUish from another
website, FYI that I just now created the 'mirrors' subdirectory, to
keep things organized on Ibiblio. If you have a website that links to
the GNUish mirror, you should change your link from
https://ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/gnuish/
..to
https://ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/mirrors/gnuish/


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[Freedos-devel] Directory cleanup on Ibiblio

2024-02-17 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-devel 
FYI that I've done a little reordering in the 'dos/debug' directory on
Ibiblio. We actually have three versions of DEBUG here, so I wanted to
make clear which was which:


The change: Because it was the "original" FreeDOS DEBUG, we had each
version of Vojta's DEBUG as a separate directory under
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/debug/

These are the DEBUGversions:
> 0.95  1.01  1.06  1.08  1.10  1.12  1.14  1.16  1.18  1.20  1.22  1.24
> 0.98  1.02  1.07  1.09  1.11  1.13  1.15  1.17  1.19  1.21  1.23  1.25

And because Debug/X picked up where Vojta's DEBUG left off, we tracked
each version in the same directory at
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/debug/

These are the Debug/X versions:
> 1.27  1.28  1.29  2.0  2.01  2.02

And because lDebug was a variation from Debug/X, I originally put them
in a subdirectory at
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/debug/ldebug/

These are the lDebug releases:
> rel1  rel2  rel3  rel4  rel5  rel6  rel7


But I wanted to make clear which versions were which. Specifically, it
seemed unclear (to me) to have Vojta's DEBUG and ecm's Debug/X "mixed"
in the same directory, but not lDebug. So I made a new directory for
'vojta' and 'debugx'. So now each variation on DEBUG has its own
directory:


*"parent" directory:
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/debug/

vojta - Paul Vojta's original DEBUG, the original FreeDOS DEBUG
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/debug/vojta/

debugx - Japheth's Debug/X, based on Vojta's DEBUG
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/debug/debugx/

ldebug - ecm's lDebug, based on Debug/X
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/debug/ldebug/



I'll add a text file in the "parent" directory to clarify which is which.


Jim


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[Freedos-devel] NewDOS source code has been published!

2024-02-17 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel 
Hi Jim,

 

I forgot to mention that there is another great new thing: NewDOS and its source code is free since 2024-02-06!

NewDOS itself is freeware since 2018.


 

You can grab it here: https://www.newdos.de/home/download.htm

 

NewDOS from André Olejko is no complete OS but a collection of more than 60 DOS commands and 3 games!

 

See: https://www.newdos.de/home/befehle.htm

 

There is a free assembler asm86 available from André Olejko, but the source code has not been published till now.

I am not sure if he will publish it at all.

 

See: https://assembler86.de/home/download.htm

 

And now the bad news:

NewDOS and the assembler are in GERMAN only. It should be possible to translate it to english, but this will be a lot of work.

 

André informed me that he is NOT willing to give any feedback or to answer questions about his work.

He thinks that it is very good to keep his work alive for the future, but he does no longer program.

So PLEASE DO NOT SEND MAILS ETC to him.

 

@Jim: Would it be possible to keep a copy ad ibiblio or anywhere else?

 

THX.

 

Willi

 

 

 

 



Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2024 at 6:20 AM
From: "Jim Hall via Freedos-devel" 
To: "freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" 
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Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Xcopy 1.5



Answering my own question on this:
 

I don't know that anyone was aware of an updated version of Xcopy (1.5). So this was just missed. 

 

I think we should include Xcopy 1.5 in the next test release, T2403.

 

 
*We're all volunteers, if you see a new version of a program and no one is talking about it, share that news on the email list.

 

On Fri, Feb 16, 2024, 11:14 PM Jim Hall  wrote:



I noticed over on the BTTR forum, Fritz asked this question about Xcopy 1.5. But freedos-devel is really the best place to discuss FreeDOS distribution topics, so I wanted to start a thread here to make sure the question was asked in the right place:

 

Fritz asked:

 

>>>
[...]
version 1.5
---
- improved Open Watcom support (utilizes pieces from TCC2WAT), shared.inc


In xcopy.txt you can read:

Compiling the source code
-
Compiling the source code is possible with the following compilers:
- Borland C++ (tm) 3.0 or higher
- Borland Turbo C++ (tm) 3.0 or higher
Version 1.2 and newer can also be compiled with the now freeware
- Borland Turbo C 2.01 compiler :-)
Version 1.5 and newer
- Open Watcom C/C++ 1.9/2.0pre (includes portions of tcc2wat)

So my question: Is it useful to implement version 1.5 into the future FDT24xx versions? 




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Re: [Freedos-devel] Xcopy 1.5

2024-02-17 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel 
Hi Jim,

thanks for your response. Xcopy is not the only thing, maybe you remember tree 3.72 in this forum?

 

Independent from this here is an update of my actual list of tools / programs where you / the group should have your focus on.

I simply copied them out of my actual list, I can / do not give a comment about if it really makes sense to change / update something,

maybe some are nonsense or not, let the mailing list decide what to do (e.g. updating FDTxx, adding newer files at ibiblio, github, gitlab, whatever):

("FD uses" means: It is in use by FDT2402, some were already mentioned by you).



amb: https://ambook.sourceforge.net/ - version 2024-01-31 - FD uses 2020-12-23

 

debug: https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/DOS-debug - version 2.0.2 - FD uses 2.0

 

dojs: https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOjS/releases - version 1.12.1 - FD uses 1.11

 

dosview: https://github.com/SuperIlu/DosView - version 1.5 - NOT in use by FD?

 

fbc (free basic compiler): https://sourceforge.net/projects/fbc/files/ version 1.10.1 - seems
    to be version 1.0.9.

 

hx DOS extender: https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/HX - version 2.21 - NOT in use by FD?

 

jemm: https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/Jemm - version 5.84 - FD uses 5.83

 

jwasm: https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/JWasm - version 2.17 - FD uses 2.16

 

lDebug: https://pushbx.org/ecm/download/ldebug/ - version 7 - NOT in use by FD?

 

lzip: https://www.bttr-software.de/ports/#lzip - version 1.20 by rr - seems that FD still uses
  version 1.9

 

lziprecover: https://www.bttr-software.de/ports/#lzip - version 1.21 by rr - seems that FD still uses
  an older version.

 

localcfg: http://svardos.org/?p=repo - goto localcfg - version 20231227,
  Jerome mentioned that there is no source code, it is anywhere here: