Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99

>> I want to make a 16 bit version of this program... >You are most certainly welcome to do so - that's what open-source is all >about. >I can't help but wonder though - is there any practical need behind such >work? IBM XT I don't really see what this would improve. Sure, it would make

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99

On 04/09/2015 12:32, sparky4 wrote: > my XT is overkill and it has EMS so yeah i when you stabilize it i will > defiantly port it to 16 bit > > > is it a good time to port it? i been working on memory management software Sure it is. It won't get any updates in nearest months, so, by all

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99

oh shizam!! i will start when i can~ -- View this message in context: http://freedos.10956.n7.nabble.com/FDNPKG-v0-99-tp23151p23186.html Sent from the FreeDOS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99

On 9/2/2015 9:12 AM, dmccunney wrote: > On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 1:37 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: >> On 02/09/2015 04:43, Ralf Quint wrote: >>> You are making a totally wrong assumptionn that 16bit software means you >>> are limited to 640KB of memory. >> Absolutely not - my

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99

On Wed, 9/2/15, Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste.fr> wrote: Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99 To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2015, 1:37 AM On 02/09/2015 04:43, Ralf Quint wrote: > You a

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99

Hi Bob, Dennis, Good point on these hardware EMS cards, it is indeed a way of providing additional memory irrespectively of the CPU model. I never had one of these, but I did hear about them. I stand corrected on that one! :) cheers, Mateusz On 02/09/2015 18:12, dmccunney wrote: > On Wed,

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 1:37 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > On 02/09/2015 04:43, Ralf Quint wrote: >> You are making a totally wrong assumptionn that 16bit software means you >> are limited to 640KB of memory. > > Absolutely not - my assumption is that running on 8086/80186 means I

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99

A 16 bit database engine is a little bit of a stretch, is it not? I don't think that keeping some data in memory and indexing to records on disk qualifies as a database engine. I agree that it is more work, or in this case rework. And I agree that when time is limited, projects like this become

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99

Hi, On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 4:26 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > On 31/08/2015 22:46, Dale E Sterner wrote: >> Is there an Ibiblio link for this? > > Sure, here it is: > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/repos/util/fdnpkg.zip It may be

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99

Hi Michael, nice to hear from you! Of course disk-based structures are easy to implement - FDNPKG already uses them extensively for storage. The key word here is speed - keeping packages metadata in RAM is fast. Parsing and searching through on-disk data structures is at least a magnitude

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99

Hi Sparky, On 31/08/2015 19:38, sparky4 wrote: > I want to make a 16 bit version of this program... You are most certainly welcome to do so - that's what open-source is all about. I can't help but wonder though - is there any practical need behind such work? I don't really see what this

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99

On 9/1/2015 10:02 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > Now, of course I could implement some indexing mechanisms on top of > that, and end up designing a specialized 16 bit database engine that > would fit in the 640K limit of memory... You are making a totally wrong assumptionn that 16bit software means

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99

On 31/08/2015 22:46, Dale E Sterner wrote: > Is there an Ibiblio link for this? > > DS Sure, here it is: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/repos/util/fdnpkg.zip Mateusz --

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99

On 01/09/2015 19:47, Rugxulo wrote: > And I also announced it for News (but it hasn't shown up on front page yet). That's cool, thanks! > P.S. I knew that LZMA was slower for older-class machines, but I > traditionally just unpacked/repacked But keep in mind that you are a "special case" ;)

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99

On 02/09/2015 04:43, Ralf Quint wrote: > You are making a totally wrong assumptionn that 16bit software means you > are limited to 640KB of memory. Absolutely not - my assumption is that running on 8086/80186 means I am limited to 640KB (or let's say < 1M). Hence for software with higher memory

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99

The current memory requirement is a function of your design, which I think could be improved. Disk based data structures are not that difficult to implement. I have a PCjr with a 20GB Maxtor drive on it, of which 600MB is in use. There are lots of 8086 and 80286 class machines with larger than

[Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99

Hello all, Today I released a new version of FDNPKG. Nothing major here, just a few details that were a little annoying on the long run. See the changelog below. FDNPKG v0.99 [31 Aug 2015] - [new] support for "link" files to include third-party apps into %PATH%, - [fix] compiled FDNPKG

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99

Is there an Ibiblio link for this? DS On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 19:29:00 +0200 Mateusz Viste writes: > Hello all, > > Today I released a new version of FDNPKG. Nothing major here, just a > few > details that were a little annoying on the long run. See the > changelog > below.