Hi, > I really wish there was a 16 bit port of fdnpkg! > but it is quite difficult to port it over....
I have tried porting an older version of FDNPKG to Open Watcom in the past. My changes became obsolete once a newer one (0.95, I think) was released, so I deleted them. (Modifying the makefile was quite simple, by the way.) The biggest problem, I think, was that FDNPKG assumes 32-bit ints and "#define int long" obviously wouldn't work because some #included headers (for example Open Watcom's stdio.h) declare variables as "long int", which would then become "long long" and mess everything up. Mateusz also wasn't very enthusiastic about it - he told me that FDNPKG relies quite heavily on having a large non-segmented address space (probably for ZIP decompression) and that porting it to real mode would make the code a mess. So, to update FreeDOS installations on your pre-80386 machines, you can use my own FreeDOS offline updater - http://matejhorvat.si/en/freedos/fdoffupd/ - it's a bit of a kludge, but it's better than having to download all the updates manually. Matej Horvat http://matejhorvat.si/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
