Re: [Freedos-user] Next freedos version...

2007-05-25 Thread someone
What is wrong with free defrag? Is anything wrong with it? For every machine I've tried it on, a red box pops up that says ERROR, undefined problem, and it halts. I don't know how to be specific about what's wrong with free defrag with an error like that. Free defrag has failed on an

Re: [Freedos-user] Next freedos version...

2007-05-25 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! What is wrong with free defrag? For every machine I've tried it on, a red box pops up that says ERROR, undefined problem, and it halts. Did you try the newest version 1.22 from www.freedos.org/cgi-bin/freedos-lsm.cgi?q=fa=base/defrag.lsm already? The failure should not depend on

[Freedos-user] Next freedos version...

2007-05-24 Thread someone
Michael I want the focus to be on fixing defrag along with other utilities and implementing a package management system similar to Slacwkware's. What some of the programs do could be documented better. I get the impression that people are expected to have old manuals lying around, but dos died

Re: [Freedos-user] Next freedos version...

2007-05-24 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Someone / Michael, please explain the package mgmt suggestion. At the moment, we have a system where each package is in a ZIP and you could simply use unzip and zip -mf to install and un- install a package. But we even have a package mgr with support for batch scripts and dependencies :-).

Re: [Freedos-user] Next freedos version...

2007-05-24 Thread Eric Auer
Hi again, I just checked the Exult (Ultima engine clone) page: http://exult.cvs.sourceforge.net/exult/exult/?sortby=date#dirlist seems to be still actively maintained :-) Eric - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2

Re: [Freedos-user] Next freedos version...

2007-05-24 Thread someone
On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 23:05 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: Hi Someone / Michael, please explain the package mgmt suggestion. At the moment, we have a system where each package is in a ZIP and you could simply use unzip and zip -mf to install and un- install a package. But we even have a package

Re: [Freedos-user] Next freedos version...

2007-05-24 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, so in short, our package manager should show a list of already installed packages. After you set eg SET DOSDIR=c:\fdos you can use FDPKG /? to see that FDPKG /DISPLAY * will let you see all installed packages. It is a BUG that you need DOSDIR correctly set to even be able to use FDPKG /? -

Re: [Freedos-user] Next freedos version...

2007-05-24 Thread chris evans
Crynwr pkt driver collection sources are good for porting to other drivers. Atleast that is the use I find of them :) 1/3rd of the source for network.asm I nxdos comes from crynwr. Unless you have a specific need to connect to to novell network servers then tcp/ip should be fine. They