Re: [Freedos-devel] freecom/command.com

2017-08-09 Thread Richard Fine via Freedos-devel
Hi Tom, Thank you for the quick replay .. I'll plan to apply your suggestions ASAP .. regards rich.. On Wednesday, August 9, 2017 11:59 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: correction: after changing nothing (ahem), the script now suddenly compiles the DEBUG variant, and results in > 64K and MKDIST

Re: [Freedos-devel] freecom/command.com

2017-08-09 Thread Tom Ehlert
correction: after changing nothing (ahem), the script now suddenly compiles the DEBUG variant, and results in > 64K and MKDIST.BAT seems to use bc5 investigating this Tom -- Check out the vibrant tech community on on

Re: [Freedos-devel] freecom/command.com

2017-08-09 Thread Tom Ehlert
Hi, > I have a question regarding building/installing "command.com". The > latest install (FD12LITE) shows command.com @~67K bytes. command.com uses UPX to compress it's size. compressed 38.302 command.exe, + ~25 K uncompressed string resources. build with Turbo CPP, code segment size is 0EB3

[Freedos-devel] freecom/command.com

2017-08-08 Thread Richard Fine via Freedos-devel
Hi, I have a question regarding building/installing "command.com". The latest install (FD12LITE) shows command.com @~67K bytes. When I attempt to build command.com (in trunk) from the latest version (1.2) source, the linker indicates total CODE >64K -- thus exceeding the 'small' model limits. Ma