Ok so when I installed FREEMACS via FDIMPLES, I tabbed down to the info
panel and it shows a ton of different directories in which I'm guessing
that the program itself and it dependencies are located.
I see that there is a .exe file titled emacs.exe, that has the path of
'c:\fdos\doc\progs\emacs.exe'.
I have searched and searched for the progs directory, and I have even
tried going through all of the other directories trying to find it, but
there is not one to be found.
Why would this be? Am I missing something?
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 9:15 AM Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote:
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> On Sep 25, 2019, at 12:41 AM, dps <christopherbwilliams1...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> That most definitely provided some clarification! Thank you!
> Just to clarify: when I install a program, say from fdimples, a text
> file I created and placed in the PACKAGES directory, and from there I am
> view it with my editor of choice?
>
>
> Correct.
>
> Can I move these programs around? Or would moving the executables
> without the rest of whatever is in the directory cause some dependency
> issues?
>
>
> The list file is used by package managers to remove the installed files.
> If you were to just move the program to a new directory, you would need to
> manually uninstall it.
>
> Also, there may be settings in an application’s configuration that are set
> to use the installed location.
>
> Maybe I could circumvent this by finding the program that I want to
> execute, an creating the freeDOS equivalent of a bash script, or maybe a
> shortcut to my programs on the home directory?
>
>
> It is possible to write a script or executable utility that can relocate a
> package. It would need to update the list to the new location for the
> files. Under some conditions, this is more or less one of things that the
> installer for FreeDOS 1.2 does during installation.
>
> Just adjusting the LST file won’t take care of any “hard coded”
> configuration settings in any applications. However, generally speaking, it
> could move the program and the user could make any additional configuration
> changes by hand.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2019, 10:32 PM Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote:
>
>> As for ... where is that stuff I installed?
>>
>> There are a couple ways.
>>
>> 1) while in FDIMPLES, you can TAB down to the description area. Then
>> scroll down to see a list of files in the package and there path
>> information. Some paths are translated and changed durin mg installation.
>> So, this is not exact, but with a little knowledge, you can easily figure
>> out where things will go.
>>
>> 2) once a package has been installed a simple text file is created with
>> all the files and directories that were installed. Generally, this file is
>> used to uninstall packages. It is located in e %DOSDIR%\PACKAGES directory.
>> So for example you want to know where PGME is installed. You could issue
>> the following command...
>>
>> Type %DOSDIR%\PAGKAGES\PGME.LST | more
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>>
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