Hi Jerome,
it worries me that you SILENTLY dropped a newer fdisk and switched to an older version because they both have bugs, but the older version has less bad bugs. Please explain all bugs which you have encountered and what keeps us from using a fixed even newer FDISK version. About the space savings: 20-30 kB for fdisk ini files and 44 kB for a duplicate file is quite a lot. I do not think it should be that hard to work with just 1 copy of the file. UPX (remember to use --8086 here) saves only a few kB, as your tools are many small files which compress less than fewer, larger files would. Of course I still do not really understand what SLICER can do but it seems to be optimized for usage during 8086 installs. About UNZIP (sure there is no 8086 variant?), FIND, GREP, DEBUG, WHICHFAT, MORE etc., EDIT / TED3, MODE, CHKDSK... Even when the disk is just a tool itself for installation, it can be very useful to have some self-help applications at hand, as the TED3 text editor or DEBUG. I think FIND and MODE would not hurt either, unless you prefer GREP instead of FIND. You say people with CD drives should prefer the CD version: I say people with CD drives can not necessarily boot from it and people with modern hardware do not necessarily still have a CD drive. In both cases, CD/DVD drivers, caches and drivers to mount ISO files without needing physical CD help a lot :-) Also, if you have user interaction, it helps to have MKEYB and (if mouse interaction is relevant) CTMOUSE around. Both are a lot smaller than COUNTRY SYS which I doubt that you would need. You probably do not need FDAPM on 8086 at all. If you think you need it to reboot, I think FDISK also has that feature for you. Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
