Hi Mateusz,
> I didn't release FDUPDATE in a long time, as I thought people
> were not interested in it...
There is one very interesting use for FDUPDATE: Turning
a FreeDOS 1.0 system into 1.1 :-). Do you have a list of
updates since 1.0 (eg the LSM list on freedos.org or a
list from Rugxulo or
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, robinson-west user wrote:
> How do I use curl with freedos update? The first trick was finding
> curl. Copying curl over wget prevents fdupdate from crashing, but
> it doesn't make the updater work.
Indeed, it can't work, as CURL requires different parameters.
>
On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Jim Hall wrote:
> Looks like fdupdate is just doing a simple shell call to wget:
> >> SHELL "wget " + UpdateChannel + "/fdupdate.tab"
>
> So, if wget isn't working for you but curl is, then one possible
>
> workaround is to write a wrapper for curl. The difference is
Sorry, that should be the "-O" option. For example:
curl -O http://-/file.zip
.. will download the file and name it "file.zip".
The "-o" option is only if you want to name the local file ("-o local.zip").
To provide an example, the WGET.BAT wrapper should be fairly straight
On 2/13/08, robinson-west user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do I use curl with freedos update? The first trick was finding
> curl. Copying curl over wget prevents fdupdate from crashing, but
> it doesn't make the updater work. On the todo list there is make
> fdupdate able to use curl, is th
