Re: [Freedos-devel] Executable compression

2004-02-10 Thread tom ehlert
DT> I heard that you were considering a proprietary executable compression DT> scheme for FreeDOS. could you explain 'proprietary' ? is everything non-GPL 'proprietary' ? the compressor is available to everyone, but simply does not allow free distribution of compressed executables, if used comerc

Re: [Freedos-devel] Executable compression

2004-02-10 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 10-Фев-2004 12:48 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Turner) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: DT> I heard that you were considering a proprietary executable compression DT> scheme for FreeDOS. I'm just writing to let you know the licensing and DT> freedom implications of this. DT> The compressor rewrites a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Executable compression

2004-02-10 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, David Turner wrote: > I heard that you were considering a proprietary executable compression > scheme for FreeDOS. I'm just writing to let you know the licensing and > freedom implications of this. Now that you're here anyway ;) I have some questions too: first of all many F

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS ODIN 0.6

2004-02-10 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Gregory Pietsch wrote: > Well, if you don't want to put the configure script in there, at least > leave everything else in there so that the configure script can be > reproduced with standard tools such as autoconf! well configure.in is at least small :) Anyway it's Bernd's de

Re: [Freedos-devel] Executable compression

2004-02-10 Thread Steve Nickolas
At Tue, 10 Feb 2004 12:48pm -0500, David Turner wrote: > I heard that you were considering a proprietary executable compression > scheme for FreeDOS. I'm just writing to let you know the licensing and > freedom implications of this. > > The compressor rewrites an executable (in the FreeDOS case,

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS ODIN 0.6

2004-02-10 Thread Gregory Pietsch
Bart Oldeman wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Gregory Pietsch wrote: I just checked the source for edlin from the Odin 0.6 package, and it's missing various files such as the configure script. Please put these files back into the distribution, as they are referenced in the README and INSTALL files t

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS ODIN 0.6

2004-02-10 Thread Gregory Pietsch
Steve Nickolas wrote: At Mon, 9 Feb 2004 12:38pm -0500, Gregory Pietsch wrote: I just checked the source for edlin from the Odin 0.6 package, and it's missing various files such as the configure script. Please put these files back into the distribution, as they are referenced in the README and

[Freedos-devel] New ODIN.720 that works on 8086/88!

2004-02-10 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 09:35:27 +, Bryce wrote: Oh - i could be wrong about the laptop with the 720k disks being a 286, some pages peg it as an 80C88, others a 286... It's probably a 80C88, so the ODIN.720 disk had I prepared wouldn't work because I had forgotten the --8086 UPX switch. So I just

Re: [Freedos-devel] Executable compression

2004-02-10 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 12:48:43 -0500, David Turner wrote: I heard that you were considering a proprietary executable compression scheme for FreeDOS. I'm just writing to let you know the licensing and freedom implications of this. The compressor rewrites an executable (in the FreeDOS case, one unde

Re: [Freedos-devel] Running Windows 98 setup from freedos.

2004-02-10 Thread Nicu Pavel
A suggestion from Bernd Blaauw: Patrick, I'm not subscribed yet, so maybe you can give the hint of SETUP /NM /IS (IS=ignore scandisk) (NM=NoMachineDetection) I just wanted to confirm that /nm switch fixed the error message of windows 98 setup.

[Freedos-devel] re: FreeDOS ODIN 0.6

2004-02-10 Thread Eric Auer
Hi all, I very much agree that AUTOCONF is a waste of space for compiling EDLIN for DOS. A 2 line BATCH script would have been enough. Please offer a download with the sources and a classic Makefile but no AUTOCONF stuff. People with very strange BSD versions on their toaster or whatever can still

[Freedos-devel] Executable compression

2004-02-10 Thread David Turner
I heard that you were considering a proprietary executable compression scheme for FreeDOS. I'm just writing to let you know the licensing and freedom implications of this. The compressor rewrites an executable (in the FreeDOS case, one under the GPL), inserting decompression code. This creates a