Re: [Freedos-devel] EXE2BIN

2011-07-29 Thread dos386
Who gives a shit? It's included in MS-DOS 6.22, it'll be included in FreeDOS. It's not hurting you is it? You don't suffer from erectile disfunction because you ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erectile_dysfunction - because you can't write

Re: [Freedos-devel] EXE2BIN

2011-07-29 Thread dos386
BTW, what's the goal of EDLIN ??? Never used it ... But please keep DEBUG, I'm using it (but not as ASS'embler, maybe add FASM also ?) -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online.

Re: [Freedos-devel] EXE2BIN

2011-07-29 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! BTW, what's the goal of EDLIN ??? Never used it ... It is there for nostalgic reasons and aims to be the DOS text editor which is translated into most languages ;-) But actually even the author of MS EDLIN barely used it, so we can be happy to also have our EDIT text editor. But please

Re: [Freedos-devel] EXE2BIN

2011-07-29 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, Eric Auer wrote: Hi! BTW, what's the goal of EDLIN ??? Never used it ... It is there for nostalgic reasons and aims to be the DOS text editor which is translated into most languages ;-) But actually even the author of MS EDLIN barely used it, so we can be happy to

Re: [Freedos-devel] EXE2BIN

2011-07-29 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 2:03 AM, dos386 dos...@gmail.com wrote: In short, I don't think EXE2BIN belongs in BASE for FreeDOS. So do I. I don't know of anybody using it I don't use it and have no clue for what it is supposed to be useful. In old days, MASM, LINK, EXE2BIN was the norm.

Re: [Freedos-devel] EXE2BIN

2011-07-29 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: BTW, what's the goal of EDLIN ??? Never used it ... It is there for nostalgic reasons and aims to be the DOS text editor which is translated into most languages ;-) Presumably it's for limited automated scripting (e.g.

Re: [Freedos-devel] EXE2BIN

2011-07-29 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 29-7-2011 19:02, Rugxulo schreef: - KERNELS 2040 - WDE 0.30 - UPX UPX is too useful, IMHO, though I know some shun it (which seems weird). And I don't think WDE is included in there (yet). At least a quick search couldn't find it in BASE or UTIL. I can't even recall what WDE was for

Re: [Freedos-devel] EXE2BIN

2011-07-29 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: Op 29-7-2011 19:02, Rugxulo schreef: I can't even recall what WDE was for anymore. disk editor, basically for viewing raw disks and/or editing or saving bits to wherever. Not useful except for hardcore nerds.

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCOM SVN (was: Updates to software list)

2011-07-29 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/16/11, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl 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

Re: [Freedos-devel] UPX and XFDISK (was: EXE2BIN)

2011-07-29 Thread Rugxulo
Hi again, On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: UPX is convenient to have around indeed, if space limited. The bugreports showed that the extra FDISK utility included in FreeDOS doesn't like UPX due to a file checksum (integrity test) being done before running.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Edlin 2.15 binaries (was: Updates to software list)

2011-07-29 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: We use an online tool to edit the software list via a web browser, and several admin folks have the ability to update the software list in this way. You can also contact Pat, Aitor, Eric, Rugxulo, Mateusz, or Jeremy.