Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS T2306

2023-06-07 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl 
Hi Jerome,

ok, I will try to add as many files as possible myself so that it is no need for you to integrated help at the moment. FD is not so urgent.

 

From the online meetings I had the feeling that you are several years younger than I (I am 64 and retired now). So I was always astonished how you found the time to make all this support beside another job. You wrote mails when I still was in bed (and this with several hours of time delay!).

The social system in Germany is a little different (e.g. everybody here has to pay for medical health and gets medical health - I will never understand why american governments do not change their law referring to this). Even the Syrian and Ukrainian refugees get social support (appartments and a certain amount for food etc.) from the first day - independent if they will get the right to stay or not). So Patreon is also new to me. But I saw in german TV that many Americans have to beg for medical help.

 

Is there a way to help you at least a little?

 

Willi

 

PS: It was my mistake to send the last mail to the fd group, I oversaw it. Sorry for that.

 
 

Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2023 at 12:28 PM
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Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS T2306


Hi Willi,
 

On Jun 5, 2023, at 10:06 AM, Wilhelm Spiegl <wilhelm.spi...@mail.com> wrote:




[..] 

b) I had the hope that the english test version of help 1.1.0 would be in FDT2306 for testing, but nothing happened. I had informed Andy Stamp before too. So what can I do  that this version english version comes into one of the next FDT versions to see if everything works fine? And to ask the group which commands should be added / removed?






I did receive the latest HTMLHELP text files you sent a few days back.  

 

Those have been added to FD-NLS at https://github.com/shidel/fd-nls/tree/master/htmlhelp/v1.1.0 . 

 

However, those files have not yet been integrated into the HTMLHELP package at https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base/htmlhelp . 

 

Therefore, the updated files were not included in T2306. Since no one has updated the GitLab package, it is waiting for me to do it. 

 

Unfortunately, do mostly to financial reasons and the lack of sufficient community support threw means like my Patreon page, the amount of time I can dedicate to working on FreeDOS and related items has been dramatically curtailed. Of the very limited amount of time remaining, I must prioritize even the smallest of tasks. For the most part, that means I can only allocate time to nibble away at one problem or project at a time. It is also the reason for the increased response time regarding email.

 

At present, my “FreeDOS time” is dedicated to creating a new command-line utility that will be included with V8Power Tools for DOS. When that is finished, I will be working on assisting another FreeDOS developer run down a file truncation issue that is occurring under FreeDOS EDIT in specific circumstances. Following that, I will integrate the new HTMLHELP text into the GitLab Package before looking in to the visual glitch that sometimes occurs in the FreeDOS installer when using the new FDISK. Hopefully, that integration will be before T2307 is released.

 

Once those items are knocked out, almost everything related to FreeDOS will be going into maintenance only mode. At that point, only bug fixes and general FreeDOS package updates will get allocated time. The exceptions being V8Turbo and the FD-NLS desktop application. However, based on the amount of time I can dedicate to working on FreeDOS related items, It will be a while for V8Turbo and I may not get back to the FD-NLS app for a year or more. As for things like the next version of FDIMPLES with mouse and networking support, a couple games and other new programs I was going to create, those have been put off indefinitely. 

 

It is unfortunate. But, it is what it is. 

 

Jerome

 

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Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS T2306

2023-06-07 Thread jerome 
Hi Willi,

> On Jun 5, 2023, at 10:06 AM, Wilhelm Spiegl  wrote:
> [..] 
> b) I had the hope that the english test version of help 1.1.0 would be in 
> FDT2306 for testing, but nothing happened. I had informed Andy Stamp before 
> too. So what can I do  that this version english version comes into one of 
> the next FDT versions to see if everything works fine? And to ask the group 
> which commands should be added / removed?

I did receive the latest HTMLHELP text files you sent a few days back.  

Those have been added to FD-NLS at 
https://github.com/shidel/fd-nls/tree/master/htmlhelp/v1.1.0 
 . 

However, those files have not yet been integrated into the HTMLHELP package at 
https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base/htmlhelp 
 . 

Therefore, the updated files were not included in T2306. Since no one has 
updated the GitLab package, it is waiting for me to do it. 

Unfortunately, do mostly to financial reasons and the lack of sufficient 
community support threw means like my Patreon page, the amount of time I can 
dedicate to working on FreeDOS and related items has been dramatically 
curtailed. Of the very limited amount of time remaining, I must prioritize even 
the smallest of tasks. For the most part, that means I can only allocate time 
to nibble away at one problem or project at a time. It is also the reason for 
the increased response time regarding email.

At present, my “FreeDOS time” is dedicated to creating a new command-line 
utility that will be included with V8Power Tools for DOS. When that is 
finished, I will be working on assisting another FreeDOS developer run down a 
file truncation issue that is occurring under FreeDOS EDIT in specific 
circumstances. Following that, I will integrate the new HTMLHELP text into the 
GitLab Package before looking in to the visual glitch that sometimes occurs in 
the FreeDOS installer when using the new FDISK. Hopefully, that integration 
will be before T2307 is released.

Once those items are knocked out, almost everything related to FreeDOS will be 
going into maintenance only mode. At that point, only bug fixes and general 
FreeDOS package updates will get allocated time. The exceptions being V8Turbo 
and the FD-NLS desktop application. However, based on the amount of time I can 
dedicate to working on FreeDOS related items, It will be a while for V8Turbo 
and I may not get back to the FD-NLS app for a year or more. As for things like 
the next version of FDIMPLES with mouse and networking support, a couple games 
and other new programs I was going to create, those have been put off 
indefinitely. 

It is unfortunate. But, it is what it is. 

Jerome


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Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS T2306

2023-06-05 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl 
Hi Jerome,

two things:

 

a) while working on updating FD help I found fdrc, freedos resident calculator. While testing it, I came so far that I was able to start it with "CTRL -" and got the UI, but I am too stupid to understand what I have to do to achieve simple results, e.g. 22+4 = 26 or 23*3 = 69 or 25/5 = 5. I simply do not understand the syntax.

As I want to add some examples in the help file, is there anybody that can explain such simple examples to me?

 

fdrc is not part of the actual distribution.

 

b) I had the hope that the english test version of help 1.1.0 would be in FDT2306 for testing, but nothing happened. I had informed Andy Stamp before too. So what can I do  that this version english version comes into one of the next FDT versions to see if everything works fine? And to ask the group which commands should be added / removed?

 

 
Willi

Sent: Monday, June 05, 2023 at 10:32 AM
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Subject: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS T2306


Hi All, 
 

The FreeDOS Interim Test Build T2306 for June is now available for download at: 

 

https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/test/

 

:-) 

 

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[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS T2306

2023-06-05 Thread jerome 
Hi All, 

The FreeDOS Interim Test Build T2306 for June is now available for download at: 

https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/test/ 


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