Good "netiquette" is to only discuss one topic per email thread, so I started a new thread for Terminal:
On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 4:12 PM Eric Auer via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Willi has asked Jerome and me whether RUNTIME and TERMINAL > in the auersoft.eu versions were real updates or just tests. > > Jerome asked him to ask on the LIST, so I answer HERE ;-) [..] Yes, and please avoid sending off-list emails. We have the email list so we can talk about things in the open. > *Terminal* > > Regarding TERMINAL, the distro contains version 3.2a 2015-05-16. > The files in the ZIP have timestamps between 2001 and 2005 for > source code and 2021-2022 for translations. > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/unstable/pkg-html/terminal.html > > The version mentioned by Willi, terminal-2007jun20, contains > 2007 changes to terminal.asm, term-irq.asm and term-data.asm, > with the following minimalist changelog: > > "update in V3.3 6/2007: added a forgotten in al,dx term-irq.asm:217" > > The change in terminal.asm are just adding the above as a comment. > The change in term-irq.asm is just adding that "in al,dx". > The change in term-data.asm is just changing version and date in > the msg_hello string. Note that the sources have LONG FILE NAMES > which somehow got lost in the download available on Ibiblio! > > The version on ibiblio comes with more metadata in APPINFO: The > LSM file and small TERMINAL.xyz files in different languages xyz, > for example the French APPINFO/TERMINAL.FR file says: > > Begin3 > Language: FR, 850 > Title: terminal > Description: Un petit terminal vt100/ansi pour tous les PC > Keywords: terminal, rs-232, vt100 > End > > I guess it would be nice if the ibiblio version got updated with > my 2007 version, but preserving the nice added ibiblio metadata. > Please take care to preserve source LFN and timestamps, though. I see the 2007 Terminal in the Ibiblio archive, so it looks like we made a copy at some point. It is here: https://ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/terminal/ The 2007 version has these file dates/times: $ ls -l total 224 -rw-r----- 1 freedos users 6014 Nov 16 2001 README -rw-r--r-- 1 freedos users 46662 Nov 18 2001 terminal-2001nov18.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 freedos users 48049 Nov 6 2002 terminal-2002nov06.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 freedos users 44538 Apr 23 2005 terminal-2005apr23.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 freedos users 44520 Jun 20 2007 terminal-2007jun20.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 freedos users 13608 Apr 23 2005 terminal-rom.tar.gz And: $ unzip -l terminal-2007jun20.zip Archive: terminal-2007jun20.zip Length Date Time Name --------- ---------- ----- ---- 0 06-20-2007 11:17 terminal/ 4175 10-20-2001 01:37 terminal/term-comm.asm 6613 06-20-2007 11:17 terminal/term-data.asm 1823 10-18-2001 14:55 terminal/term-def.asm 635 10-19-2001 17:39 terminal/eecho.asm 6333 04-23-2005 14:16 terminal/term-tty.asm 3867 06-20-2007 11:17 terminal/terminal.com 123 10-19-2001 17:40 terminal/eecho.com 11944 06-20-2007 11:17 terminal/terminal.asm 197 11-16-2001 13:05 terminal/prn-term.inf 7962 06-20-2007 11:16 terminal/term-irq.asm 2516 11-16-2001 11:27 terminal/term-menu.asm 17061 10-20-2001 15:15 terminal/term-ansi.asm 8359 10-19-2001 15:32 terminal/term-disp.asm 3175 04-23-2005 14:14 terminal/term-set.asm 6014 11-16-2001 13:04 terminal/terminal.txt 18349 03-01-2002 08:29 terminal/copying.txt 3975 11-06-2002 14:04 terminal/term.bat --------- ------- 103121 18 files _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
