Re: [Freedos-devel] Is there an open source fmt clone for DOS?

[tauro via Freedos-devel]

This seems to be exactly what you're looking for.

https://www.bttr-software.de/freesoft/unix.htm

Under "GNU Textutils", you will find fmt.

Here's a direct link for a 16 bit version:

ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/gnuish/dos_only/tut111ax.zip


On 24/1/24 20:10, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel wrote:

I'm looking for a way to keep my text files (like README.TXT) tidy and
easy to read. One problem is that if I modify a plain text file in a
regular text editor, and change the line length in the middle of a
paragraph, now I have to fix all the lines around it so the lines are
all about 77 characters wide.

On Linux, I'd use the BSD 'fmt' command to do it. This is a trivial
program to write (and I just did) if you don't want cool features like
preserving indents. But there are probably lots of similar existing
programs to do the same thing - so I wondered if anyone knows of an
open source DOS version of 'fmt' (or something like it)?


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Re: [Freedos-devel] Bonus/Devel CD

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On 23/10/22 20:46, Jim Hall wrote:

I keep meaning to test Rufus  to see if it will
successfully create a bootable USB flash drive based on the FreeDOS
LiveCD. If it does, I don't think we need to keep either the FullUSB
or LiteUSB.

Has anyone here used Rufus to create a bootable USB flash drive from
the LiveCD image?
I think users shouldn't depend on software that's exclusively designed 
to work on Windows (Rufus).


I have used the LiteUSB image to create a bootable flashdrive with dd in 
the past and it's been quite useful.


I suggest not to remove it, or at least keep the FullUSB or some USB image.


On 23/10/22 15:44, Jerome Shidel wrote:

Although the next major version of FDIMPLES will most likely support online 
repositories, it is being written %100 in assembly and not coming soon. Even 
once the new version of FDIMPLES is ready, general networking support under 
FreeDOS is very limited. This leaves us with providing additional packages on 
the release media for the near future.
Nice! That will be very useful, as the user won't depend on removable 
media to remove/update/install new software.



Tauro


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