[Freedos-devel] Removing old distributions from ibiblio
I keep getting the occasional user who has downloaded a really old
version of the FreeDOS distribution (usually Beta5) and even though
they ftp'd it from 'official.old' on the ibiblio archive, these users
still ask me why things are out of date or do not work correctly. I
keep pointing them to the 1.0 distribution, and that seems to work
fine for them.
So to remove any confusion, I plan to remove the old FreeDOS
distributions from ibiblio, effective next week. Specifically, I will
remove these files:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0-Testing/
old/ (Jul 2006)
old-aug19/ (Aug 2006)
old.old/ (Jul 2006)
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/official.old/
0.05.ALPHA/ (12 Jan 1998)
0.1.BETA/ ("Orlando", 25 Mar 1998)
0.2.BETA/ ("Marvin", 29 Oct 1998?)
0.3.BETA/ (21 Apr 1999?)
0.4.BETA/ ("Lemur", 9 Apr 2000?)
0.5.BETA/ ("Lara", 10 Aug 2000)
0.6.BETA/ ("Midnite", 18 Mar 2001)
0.7.BETA/ ("Spears", 7 Sep 2001)
0.8.BETA/ ("Nikita", 7 Apr 2002)
0.9rc1.BETA/ ("Methusalem", Jul 2003?)
0.9rc2.BETA/ (23 Aug 2003)
0.9rc3.BETA/ (27 Sep 2003)
0.9rc4.BETA/ (5 Feb 2004)
0.9rc5.BETA/ (20 Mar 2004)
0.9.BETA/ (28 Sep 2004)
0.9sr1.BETA/ (30 Nov 2004)
0.9sr2.BETA/ (30 Nov 2005)
ripcord/ (2001-2003)
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/
afdbd.1/ (2005)
blairdistro.old/ (2005)
bootfd.1/ (2003)
cddjgpp/ (2006)
easy-fd32.old/ (2002)
fdosgame/ (2006)
fdoslite/ (2005)
gingging.old/ (2000)
gnudos/ (2006)
nethack.1/ (2004/2005)
newcreations.old/ (2003)
rxdos.old/ (2000)
The "balder" distribution ("unofficial") is fairly recent (Mar 2007)
so I will not delete that. And while "odin" ("unofficial) is from
2006, I think a few people still recommend it, so I will not delete
that either.
Those of you running rsync'd mirrors will notice about 3GB to
disappear from your archives.
-jh
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Re: [Freedos-devel] lfn in freecom?
>
> Ok, thanks, that's good news. I'm used to such feature in UNIX, and
> mistrusted it would ever be possible in DOS.
For argv/argc parsing, it depends exactly how the author of your compiler
implemented it. For example, Pacific C doesn't do anything special with
quoted strings. This program:
#include
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int n;
for (n = 0; n < argc; n++)
{
printf("%d. %s\n", n, argv[n]);
}
return 0;
}
when compiled with Pacific and run with a quoted string, splits it up into
two:
C>echoargs "file name"
0.
1. "file
2. name"
whereas when compiled with DJGPP, it does understand quoted strings:
C>echoargs "file name"
0. c:/echoargs.exe
1. file name
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Re: [Freedos-devel] lfn in freecom?
>- Oorspronkelijk bericht -
>Van: John Elliott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Verzonden: dinsdag, oktober 2, 2007 08:30 PM
>Aan: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>Onderwerp: Re: [Freedos-devel] lfn in freecom?
>
>>
>> Ok, thanks, that's good news. I'm used to such feature in UNIX, and
>> mistrusted it would ever be possible in DOS.
>
> For argv/argc parsing, it depends exactly how the author of your compiler
>implemented it. For example, Pacific C doesn't do anything special with
>quoted strings. This program:
>
>#include
>
>int main(int argc, char **argv)
>{
> int n;
> for (n = 0; n < argc; n++)
> {
> printf("%d. %s\n", n, argv[n]);
> }
> return 0;
>}
>
>when compiled with Pacific and run with a quoted string, splits it up into
>two:
>
>C>echoargs "file name"
>0.
>1. "file
>2. name"
>
>whereas when compiled with DJGPP, it does understand quoted strings:
>
>C>echoargs "file name"
>0. c:/echoargs.exe
>1. file name
>
It works for turbo c too (does the same as djgpp).
Imre
>
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Re: [Freedos-devel] Removing old distributions from ibiblio
I've lost the hint of floppy distributions, but I think there should
be at least one.
(Just in case)
Aitor
2007/10/2, Jim Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I keep getting the occasional user who has downloaded a really old
> version of the FreeDOS distribution (usually Beta5) and even though
> they ftp'd it from 'official.old' on the ibiblio archive, these users
> still ask me why things are out of date or do not work correctly. I
> keep pointing them to the 1.0 distribution, and that seems to work
> fine for them.
>
> So to remove any confusion, I plan to remove the old FreeDOS
> distributions from ibiblio, effective next week. Specifically, I will
> remove these files:
>
>
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0-Testing/
> old/ (Jul 2006)
> old-aug19/ (Aug 2006)
> old.old/ (Jul 2006)
>
>
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/official.old/
> 0.05.ALPHA/ (12 Jan 1998)
> 0.1.BETA/ ("Orlando", 25 Mar 1998)
> 0.2.BETA/ ("Marvin", 29 Oct 1998?)
> 0.3.BETA/ (21 Apr 1999?)
> 0.4.BETA/ ("Lemur", 9 Apr 2000?)
> 0.5.BETA/ ("Lara", 10 Aug 2000)
> 0.6.BETA/ ("Midnite", 18 Mar 2001)
> 0.7.BETA/ ("Spears", 7 Sep 2001)
> 0.8.BETA/ ("Nikita", 7 Apr 2002)
> 0.9rc1.BETA/ ("Methusalem", Jul 2003?)
> 0.9rc2.BETA/ (23 Aug 2003)
> 0.9rc3.BETA/ (27 Sep 2003)
> 0.9rc4.BETA/ (5 Feb 2004)
> 0.9rc5.BETA/ (20 Mar 2004)
> 0.9.BETA/ (28 Sep 2004)
> 0.9sr1.BETA/ (30 Nov 2004)
> 0.9sr2.BETA/ (30 Nov 2005)
> ripcord/ (2001-2003)
>
>
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/
> afdbd.1/ (2005)
> blairdistro.old/ (2005)
> bootfd.1/ (2003)
> cddjgpp/ (2006)
> easy-fd32.old/ (2002)
> fdosgame/ (2006)
> fdoslite/ (2005)
> gingging.old/ (2000)
> gnudos/ (2006)
> nethack.1/ (2004/2005)
> newcreations.old/ (2003)
> rxdos.old/ (2000)
>
> The "balder" distribution ("unofficial") is fairly recent (Mar 2007)
> so I will not delete that. And while "odin" ("unofficial) is from
> 2006, I think a few people still recommend it, so I will not delete
> that either.
>
> Those of you running rsync'd mirrors will notice about 3GB to
> disappear from your archives.
>
>
> -jh
>
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Re: [Freedos-devel] Removing old distributions from ibiblio
Both Balder and ODIN are floppy distributions. I am not deleting them. On 10/2/07, Aitor Santamaría <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've lost the hint of floppy distributions, but I think there should > be at least one. > (Just in case) > > Aitor - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
