[Freedos-user] FreeDOS links page

[Jim Hall]

On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 10:23 AM, dos386  wrote:
[...]

>
> 1. for years until now I've been having issues with
> http://users.ohiohills.com/fmacall/ ... worx or not depending from
> what location or using what proxy I access it
>
>
Interesting site, but I don't have this listed on the FreeDOS Links page.
I've added it.




> 2. freedos.org still doesn't work without the "www"
>
>
I haven't had much time (or interest) to fiddle about with DNS to get this
to work.



> 3. http://www.freedos.org/links/ many links are DEAD or have issues :
>
> - drdos.org (moved)
> -  Access DOS Menu (dead)
> - RAR for MS-DOS (better link to UNRAR DGJPP port?)
> - Avaya DOS Wi-Fi drivers (dead)
> - Programming (FASM missing)
> - NASM is redirected
> - Goodie Domain Service - is a mirror of ibiblio ???
> -  An inside look at DOS (dead)
>
>
I just visited every link on the FreeDOS Links page, and fixed/removed
these. I left the link to rarlabs for RAR, but we don't mirror it on the
FreeDOS archives (or I don't think we do). We do include the
UNRARDJGPP part on our
FreeDOS software list. I didn't add FASM to the list, but
we do include FASM  in our
FreeDOS software list.



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Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS links page

[Rugxulo]

Hi, just for clarity,

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Jim Hall  wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 10:23 AM, dos386  wrote:
>>
>> 3. http://www.freedos.org/links/ many links are DEAD or have issues :
>>
>> - RAR for MS-DOS (better link to UNRAR DGJPP port?)
>
> I left the link to rarlabs for RAR, but we don't mirror it on the
> FreeDOS archives (or I don't think we do).

No, not that I know of, although they are shareware, so it's not
illegal (but obviously not free software either).

(16-bit version circa 1999)
ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/pack/rar250.exe

(32-bit EMX version circa 2010)
ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/pack/rarx393.exe

> We do include the UNRAR DJGPP part on our FreeDOS software list.

The latest version of RAR is 5.0.1, which only supports Windows,
Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X. Basically it's a big rewrite with
multi-core and Unicode support, which obviously DOS is not very good
at. The "new" .rar format (v4?) basically only supports "Windows" and
"Unix". That is their target, nothing else. DOS is not supported, and
their website doesn't even directly link to download the "obsolete"
DOS version (3.93) anymore (although it's still on their FTP).

Due to lack of wchar_t support, the current UnRAR 5.x sources do not
compile with DJGPP. I don't think 4.x did either. The last version
that I know compiled and worked fairly okay was "old" 3.93. So that is
all we have.

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Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS links page

[dos386]

Hi

> I just visited every link on the FreeDOS Links page, and fixed/removed these

Thanks ... drdos.org is still commented out despite it works again ... it just
redirects elsewhere (and is sometimes lazy).

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