Re: [Freedos-devel] Volunteering - Arachne
Jim wrote: > Also: IMHO, Arachne should not be a file manager or email client. I > think the most progress could be made by simplifying the code, and > putting the focus on the web browser. > The browser is in core.exe, filemanager in wwwman.exe and insight.exe (formerly mailman.exe) handles email. I agree on simplifying the code, Ray has done a great job on this and has reduced the code but still keep most of the functionality (XT and CGA support are two things his port has dropped that very few people use). Unfortunately due to time contraints from almost all of the developers little else is happening. -- Bernhard Eriksson, Wermlandsdata Fryxellsgatan 2, 652 22 Karlstad 054 - 15 69 00, http://www.wermlandsdata.se/ Datorer, tillbehör, service, programmering mm. -- ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] Volunteering - Arachne
Michael wrote: Arachne has GPL license so you can force WebSpyder/Lineo to make their Arachne modifications public. No, them have purchased a proprietary license from the copyright holders (original developers). GPL doesn't surrender rights. It's dual licensing like with Qt. Additionally Arachne wasn't GPLed when Michael Polak sold the code to Caldera (who released DR-Webspyder) or Suntech. Orignally if you wanted to get a hold of the source code you would need to sign a NDA and sent it to Michael. I did so after I told Michael I had copied his code (I still have an account at arachne.cz BTW), which influenced him to later release it as GPL. -- Bernhard Eriksson, Wermlandsdata Fryxellsgatan 2, 652 22 Karlstad 054 - 15 69 00, http://www.wermlandsdata.se/ Datorer, tillbehör, service, programmering mm. -- ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] Freecom concatenation problem (to be patch)
iw2evk skrev: > Hi at all, > it's possible patch in kernel or freecom this problem caused a problem when > arachne work under freedos? > > See in attachment the comment of Joe da Silva (arachne developper) > -Snip- > Hi Roberto, > s you may recall, the problem I found with FreeDOS compatibility > was with the following line in 'mime.cfg' : > > file/apm.dgi >HTM|[100]copy $eapm.htp+$esystem\\apm.db\\*.htm $2>NUL > > Unfortunately, the command processor in FreeDOS gets confused > by the somewhat elaborate concatenation required here. OTOH, > both M$-DOS and DR-DOS handle it without any problem. > > In searching for a solution, I tried a few file copy and > concatenation utilities. The one I found that could be made > to work was 'cat.exe' from the lynx386 distribution (BTW, > I think this utility originally came from www.delorie.com). > > If you copy this 'cat.exe' into the Arachne directory (or if > we include it in future distributions), then the following > line in 'mime.cfg' works with FreeDOS (and other DOSes) : > > file/apm.dgi >HTM|cat -s $eapm.htp $esystem\\apm.db\\*.htm >$2 > > Note that the "-s" option (must be lower case) forces 'cat.exe' > to treat files as ASCII, so doesn't copy any ^Z characters ... > > Joe. > > > Instead of requiring that the freeDOS developers understand mime.cfg I'll make a more simplified command: copy infile directory\*.htm outfile An easy solution would of course be to add the mentioned cat.exe into the Arachne distribution(s) but it would also be nice if this could be fixed in freecom. -- Bernhard Eriksson, Wermlandsdata Fryxellsgatan 2, 652 22 Karlstad 054 - 15 69 00, http://www.wermlandsdata.se/ Datorer, tillbehör, service, programmering mm. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] Minor proposal for FreeDOS 1.1
Eric Auer wrote: Hi Robert, OK, but how should a newbie know this? [that you can switch off a DOS PC without doing a shutdown first] That is how DOS works. Always has. *I* know, but I'm talking about a newbie trying FreeDOS in QEMU or another VM. Why does the newbie use DOS when he has no idea what DOS is? He will get stuck because there is no button to klick anyway. I agree about Eric on this. Besides both Windows XP, Vista and most Linux distros IIRC do an orderly shutdown or ask if you really want to shutdown when you press the button. I guess a newbie using DOS on a physical computer is more likely to just press the power button than typing "halt". Inside a virtual machine he or she will probably close the VM down in whatever fashion is common in the users OS. On the other hand a newbie who has run Linux before might try "halt" or "shutdown", but I wonder if a Linux user does it that way in Windows as well (shutdown is available in, atleast, the Windows NT family). To some extent the user needs to actually want to learn the new OS - why else use it? -- Bernhard Eriksson, Wermlandsdata Fryxellsgatan 2, 652 22 Karlstad 054 - 15 69 00, http://www.wermlandsdata.se/ Datorer, tillbehör, service, programmering mm. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] Maintainer of p7zip?
Bernhard Eriksson skrev: > Hi > > I've been trying to get a hold of Michael Kostylev, but unfortunately > sending a mail to mik at niipt dot ru fails. I can't access his website > either, and when I asked Jim Hall he pointed me to the list. Does anyone > know of a different email for Michael or some other way to contact him? > Or perhaps his still around reading this very mail under a different > email? the reason I ask is that there's a new version of p7zip out, but > it's not compiled for DOS yet. Seeing as Michael is the current > maintainer I would just like to inform him that there's a new version > out. If we can't get a hold of Michael we need a new maintainer. > > Just to let you know, Michaels webpage is up and running again so I've been able to mail him. -- Bernhard Eriksson, Wermlandsdata Fryxellsgatan 2, 652 22 Karlstad 054 - 15 69 00, http://www.wermlandsdata.se/ Datorer, tillbehör, service, programmering mm. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
[Freedos-devel] Maintainer of p7zip?
Hi I've been trying to get a hold of Michael Kostylev, but unfortunately sending a mail to mik at niipt dot ru fails. I can't access his website either, and when I asked Jim Hall he pointed me to the list. Does anyone know of a different email for Michael or some other way to contact him? Or perhaps his still around reading this very mail under a different email? the reason I ask is that there's a new version of p7zip out, but it's not compiled for DOS yet. Seeing as Michael is the current maintainer I would just like to inform him that there's a new version out. If we can't get a hold of Michael we need a new maintainer. -- Bernhard Eriksson, Wermlandsdata Fryxellsgatan 2, 652 22 Karlstad 054 - 15 69 00, http://www.wermlandsdata.se/ Datorer, tillbehör, service, programmering mm. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
