Hi! > XMGR. HIMEMX (AFAICT) has no maintainer (and/or we really need to push > out that "jmp $+2" fix for old 386s, i.e. unofficial version 3.33,
In other words, Japheth took over HIMEMX but does not add the patch? >> www.freedos.org/software/ > > To be completely honest, please don't take this the wrong way, but > some of those I literally never use (or can't remember how!): > > * append > * assign The idea of BASE is to provide at least clones of all commands that MS DOS users had in their standard installation of MS DOS, while of course not limiting ourself to that list. You are right that some tools are less frequently used but almost everything in your list actually is useful for me... Append / assign: Some old software uses it in startup scripts. Comp: You are right, FC replaces it. Choice: Important for batch scripts. Exe2bin: Not all software uses compilers which create COM directly. Fasthelp: Was meant to work like "apropos" in Linux, see htmlhelp. Graphics: For ESC/P, HP PCL and Postscript printers, but of course many now make PNG screenshots of their DOS window, no hardcopy. Mirror: Can be sort of replaced by functionality in FORMAT. Nlsfunc: Not really clear for me how to use this and CHCP. Also, neither 2039 nor 2040 support NLSFUNC yet, only unstable 2037. Print: Not really useful with modern printers but some like it. Recover / unformat: Partially also in FORMAT? Share: Apparently useful for Windows and similar software? Tree: How else do you check your directory tree? I use "LCD". Undelete: In what way buggy for FAT32? It is just horribly non- user-friendly as far as I remember. > I mean, if we want to mirror MS-DOS, we should include BWBasic BWBasic, the Shell-based GWBasic clone? That was pretty painful to use but of course it is much smaller than the cool freebasic. > Almost forgot, yeah, I would (personally) add sed, specifically > "cheap sed", which already is GPL and has a DOS 16-bit binary: > > http://lvogel.free.fr/sed.htm A lot smaller than the DJGPP GNU SED it seems. I do like SED but if we go that way, I would like EGREP, SORT, UNIQ, WC, XXD etc. > www.exactcode.de/site/open_source/minised/ Yet more less sed :-D > Perhaps we should include Awk (old Mawk 1.2.2? old 16-bit Gawk 3.0.6?) Awk has awkful syntax, but some people like it... > www.gknw.net/mirror/awk/ > reminds me, MOVE still needs the +R bug fixed. (And a lot of these > should be upgraded to support LFNs, for DOSEMU if nothing else.) Poke the maintainer, although I only give +R any priority at all. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology on "Lean Startup Secrets Revealed." This video shows you how to validate your ideas, optimize your ideas and identify your business strategy. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appsumosfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
