Hi! > One of the design goals of FreeDos is MSDOS back compatibility. > I think all the OS base files must be in the dir c:\dos, there is where > the old MS-DOS programs and user will look for an aplication.
You can always copy the contents of c:\fdos\bin there, and adjust your PATH setting... However, I know no old DOS program which is fixed to using c:\dos, you can often configure it. > Also many of the aplications must to be renamed to the original > MS-Dos name. (At least create a .bat that calls the current > equivalent) You should make a list of cases where names differ and how. > Also I think the standar distribution ay be very small. http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/ is a distro of only 2-4 diskettes. It is planned to become a FreeDOS 1.1 base distribution :-) > I remember last MS-DOS was only 3 diskettes. I the base install > must be this, only the base and generic device driver. > No more than 10 or 20 Mb. I agree. Note that fdbasecd already is relatively small ;-). > The base system may include an aplication installer, to look > and install the aplications from CD or from the net. Fdupdate or fdpkg might be nice :-) Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
