Re: [Freedos-devel] Mkzftree.exe

2005-08-29 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:43:17 +0200, you wrote: Hi Bernd, >Johnson's site is lacking your 7Zip compressor/decompresser binary >(7z.exe) which is able to run on DOS, yet you provide files in 7z format >there. Blair told me use "HX-DOS Extender" to run 7-Zip command line. Rgds, Johnson. -

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: LAME for DOS

2005-08-29 Thread Blair Campbell
> You do a great job about porting the linux apps to DOS. I have a question - > do they support the long file names? Thanks, and yes, they should, as they were compiled in an LFN environment and DJGPP itself supports LFNs. --- SF.Net email is S

Re: [Freedos-devel] Mkzftree.exe

2005-08-29 Thread Blair Campbell
> Anyway, to my knowledge it's GPL, which means for example SHSUCDX won't > be able to handle any ZISOFS (compressed ISO) file, because it uses > another license (freeware, with source available) Perhaps if Jason extended SHSUCDX to accept modules, this would become possible. Then it would also b

[Freedos-devel] Re: LAME for DOS

2005-08-29 Thread Ladislav Lacina
Whoa! You do a great job about porting the linux apps to DOS. I have a question - do they support the long file names? --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Developmen

[Freedos-devel] re: DJGPP on FreeDOS LiveCDs

2005-08-29 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, adding to the wishlist... > IMHO, both are needed: DJGPP is perfect for compiling Unix tools. > Openwatcom is very good for new or simple programs. DJGPP is good for tools which would suffer from the usual real mode limitations (only little memory reachable directly / usual pointer trickery

Re: [Freedos-devel] DJGPP on FreeDOS LiveCDs

2005-08-29 Thread Alain
Wesley Parish escreveu: I'm wondering what the advantage of choosing any one particular C compiler over the rest, might be. (Admittedly, one major advantage of DJGPP and OpenWatcom is portability, which TurboC/C++ doesn't have; nobody's every ported BCC to anything other than a *DOS that I'm

Re: [Freedos-devel] DJGPP on FreeDOS LiveCDs

2005-08-29 Thread Alain
IMHO, both are needed: DJGPP is perfect for compiling Unix tools. Openwatcom is very good for new or simple programs. Porting from Borland to OpenWatcom is ususaly not too dificult. I have a lib of functions for OW that contain all the screen functions, this is the worst part of converting. If

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: Chasing MS-DOS compatibility

2005-08-29 Thread Bernd Blaauw
David O'Shea schreef: Fixed, I put a download link for the existing releases on there and mentioned that they are pretty much identical to what is in CVS. I also put an "alpha" version on there which is my code in its current state which I think is not too bad.. not too bad at all, indeed.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Mkzftree.exe

2005-08-29 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Blair Campbell schreef: There was an outdated mkzftree.exe compiled, so I updated it to 1.06. If anyone wants it, e-mail me. BTW, if anyone doesn't know what mkzftree is, it is a tool to work with zisofs trees. and if anyone doesn't know what zisofs trees are? Anyway, to my knowledge it's GPL

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: Chasing MS-DOS compatibility

2005-08-29 Thread David O'Shea
Hi Bernd, >Having all of my notes on a web page that everyone can see, > and using a tool which is very quick to edit those nodes so that I am > more likely to keep them up-to-date, will be of great benefit to > everyone when I suddenly disappear from the community :) But the page doesn

Re: [Freedos-devel] DJGPP on FreeDOS LiveCDs

2005-08-29 Thread Wesley Parish
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 03:21, Blair Campbell wrote: > > > Is OpenWatcom's DOS compiler 16-bit DPMI too? > > No. Openwatcom is only capable of producing straight 16-bit apps or > 32-bit DPMI apps. I'm wondering, does anyone have a set of test apps that can test the comparative performances of the