If I manage to build the command line mode of Rob Pike's sam editor [1] for DOS, I could probably do a writeup on how to use it. Because of the so-called structural regular expressions [2, 3], it is a really interesting editor. Excellent for processing arbitrary strings that spawn across multiple lines, since sam doesn't expect the input to be full, terminated lines.
I'm definitely more of an end user, but I like the simplicity of both DOS and traditional Unix tools. Not a native English speaker, but as a trained and experienced (albeit currently "former") journalist, I suppose I could try, especially when somebody would find the time to proofread my work. Provided I first manage to compile sam, somehow, some way, ha. Another article worth considering is an overview of SvarDOS, or is it not ready for this yet? A comparison of SvarDOS versus FreeDOS -- or am I currently in the wrong church with this? :) An article about "Ultra minimal minimal minimal FreeDOS" (which is how I sense SvarDOS) might be interesting to many curious (newbie-) readers, I suppose. How to stripe FreeDOS only to the most essential components. I have really enjoyed Jim's articles on Opensource.com in the past, and the Youtube videos are really-really good! Thanks Jim! Best, Mart, from Estonia 1: http://http://sam.cat-v.org/ 2: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/sam_lang_tutorial/sam_tut.pdf 3: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/structural_regexps/se.pdf On 29/01/2023, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 1:38 PM Linvel Risner <linvelris...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> I’m by no means a FreeDOS expert, I’m just a user, but if anyone >> would like help writing an article I’m here to help. I know our >> community is very diverse linguistically and as a result I’m >> more than happy to lend a hand to an English as a second language >> speaker/writer. I would take no credit, you’d have 100% ownership of >> the article, I’d just like to help in some way. Reach out if y’all >> need anything :) >> > > The editors are very cool with multiple authors on > articles. So it's fine to buddy up with someone to write > an article. They will list both of you as the author. > > And they don't pay for articles (it's a volunteer writing > site) so it's not like you have to split proceeds. > > Opensource publishes articles under a Creative Commons > license. You still "own" the article, Opensource.com > doesn't claim it. You can even run the article somewhere > else if you want. > > Jim > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
