Hello,
I think that it's a good idea overall that one can decide the folder
where one can install the big programs, as could be to have a
OpenWatcom or FreePascal distribution, whereas the single-binary ones
(or equally smaller) should be merged into the freedos\bin directory.
2009/4/6 Eric
Hi,
as long as core / tool programs are in some directory in PATH,
things will be fine. For other apps, people can add a batch
into one of the directories in PATH or they can use ALIAS or
just chdir to the place to run stuff :-). Of course PATH can
differ between different DOSes and different
Hi!
It appears that any binary package installed on FreeDOS goes to /BIN.
Almost. Packages which need many files in the same BINish
directory have separate directories. This includes for
example Arachne, DOG, Emacs, Network and USB driver bags,
FBC, GhostScript, the 1.0 game collection,
On Monday 06 April 2009 01:50, Jim Hall wrote:
I once had an idea that we should put an LSM header/comment in the zip
file. If the FD package tool saw an LSM there, it would know the zip
file was really a FD pkg and not a third-party zip file.
Hi Jim!
We already may check that, simply looking
On Monday 06 April 2009 01:18, Michael Reichenbach wrote:
I am working on an DOS application I wanted to package into FreeDOS's
format by default.
My exe is using a file called cwsdpmi.exe but cwsdpmi.exe is actually a
renamed hdpmi32.exe. Normally I would assume to cd to the folder where
On Monday 06 April 2009 00:14, Marco Antonio Achury Palma wrote:
Any usual commercial and shareware apps for msdos with an install
create its own dir. To have 100+ folders at apps is not good. why not:
/office
/dev
/audio
/video
/games/adventure
/games/arcade
/games/puzzle
I guess
Hi!
Any usual commercial and shareware apps for msdos with an install
create its own dir. To have 100+ folders at apps is not good.
We do not have many apps: Everything in BASE can go into
the same fdos/bin directory for example, and many of the
UTIL things can be sorted into relatively few
Hi!
My exe is using a file called cwsdpmi.exe but cwsdpmi.exe is actually a
renamed hdpmi32.exe. Normally I would assume to cd to the folder where
my app is inside and to start it from there.
But if it's all mixed into the /bin directory the normal cwsdpmi.exe
will be overwritten.
It is a
Hi,
We already may check that, simply looking wheter there is a \appinfo\*.lsm
file or not.
The idea was rather to make a difference between FreeDOS packages containing
system files, like format and FreeDOS packages containing some other apps,
like Arachne. Something in a concept similar
Hi again and sorry for adding to the high mail traffic :-p
there are many approach to do this,
but we need to follow a practical approach
so, i'm in favor of a \bin directory for all
fd packages and 3rd party sw should be
separeted with their developers don't want to
create a 'fdished
Hi Folks!
It appears that any binary package installed on FreeDOS goes to /BIN. Besides
that, there's no clear directive about how to install 3rd party apps.
I would propose the following rules:
- Any DOS replacement stuff (move, tree, format...) goes to \BIN\
- Any system enhacement (grep, ls,
- Any DOS replacement stuff (move, tree, format...) goes to \BIN\
- Any system enhacement (grep, ls, pcisleep, cwsdpmi, fdupdate...) goes
to \SBIN\
Why should I want two directories with binaries? Plus, some of the
binaries might be appropriate for both \BIN and \SBIN (even FORMAT!).
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Christian Masloch c...@bttr-software.de wrote:
- Any DOS replacement stuff (move, tree, format...) goes to \BIN\
- Any system enhacement (grep, ls, pcisleep, cwsdpmi, fdupdate...) goes
to \SBIN\
Why should I want two directories with binaries? Plus, some of the
On Sunday 05 April 2009 16:11, Jim Hall wrote:
I think Mateusz is suggesting separating the programs from the base
list (in ...\BIN) from those that are in devel or util (in
...\SBIN). In this case, FORMAT would show up in ...\BIN.
Yes, it was indeed my idea...
Imagine all the (new?)
Utilities too late the party?
Because I think the utilities and freedos core should be separated.
Here is one reason why.
Say I am working on a program that I want to be dos compatible.
any Dos and not just free dos, or I need to test the compatibility.
C:\FDOS
C:\MSDOS
etc
and this could be
I agree is nice to have separated paths for base system and apps. This
is the good old way to make things. The most of the dos apps are self
contained without dependencies. One problem I remember is to have
path to all the apps, sometimes become bigger than the available
environment variable
On Sunday 05 April 2009 19:15, Marco Antonio Achury Palma wrote:
I agree is nice to have separated paths for base system and apps. This
is the good old way to make things. The most of the dos apps are self
contained without dependencies. One problem I remember is to have
path to all the
Any usual commercial and shareware apps for msdos with an install
create its own dir. To have 100+ folders at apps is not good. why not:
/office
/dev
/audio
/video
/games/adventure
/games/arcade
/games/puzzle
2009/4/5, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste-family.net:
On Sunday 05 April 2009 19:15,
Well, I also thought about that.
I am working on an DOS application I wanted to package into FreeDOS's
format by default.
My exe is using a file called cwsdpmi.exe but cwsdpmi.exe is actually a
renamed hdpmi32.exe. Normally I would assume to cd to the folder where
my app is inside and to start
However, it's not a trivial thing to do, as we would need a way to tell this
is a FreeDOS package, while this one is 3rd party one. Nothing like that is
ready today. Obviously, it would require some additional developpement on
FDPKG, too...
I once had an idea that we should put an LSM
It appears that any binary package installed on FreeDOS goes to /BIN. Besides
that, there's no clear directive about how to install 3rd party apps.
It should be %DOSDIR%\bin
I would propose the following rules:
- Any DOS replacement stuff (move, tree, format...) goes to \BIN\
- Any system
Is better to do something like %DOSAPPS% so you can have apps on their own dir
2009/4/5, Blair Campbell blaird...@gmail.com:
It appears that any binary package installed on FreeDOS goes to /BIN.
Besides that, there's no clear directive about how to install 3rd party
apps.
It should be
Hi guys,
well, as we can see,
there are many approach to do this,
but we need to follow a practical approach
so, i'm in favor of a \bin directory for all
fd packages and 3rd party sw should be
separeted with their developers don't want to
create a 'fdished package'
of course, this is my opinion
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