Blair Campbell schreef:
Hi. Just wanted to let everyone know that I quickly made some
modifications to the text install program that causes it to create
FDPKG-compatible zip lists on the install disk that will later allow
removal of packages if there was a package installed on the system
that a user does not want or need (such as UDMA2 or DOSFSCK). The new
exe will probably be included on my next distro but if anyone wants it
for testing right now then give me an e-mail. The changes are not
tested at the moment but definately will be before I release it with
my next distro. Unfortunately, the binary size increased by about a
kb. Turbo C was used to compile it so the makefiles were difficult to
get working. Also, I can send a patch if anyone wants to test it and
commit to CVS.
I'd like to test it. Please also implement the same feature as the
graphical installer has:
switch to destination installation directory immediately.
That way the LOCATE program isn't needed for determining/finding the
FreeDOS directory.
Which saves 10KB, and thus 1KB size increase isn't bad.
Another nice trick might be to:
*work with TUNZ (2.5KB simple unzipper, has its limitations. Made by
students at Lucho's university)
*read LSM packages from inside the ZIP files. Eliminates the need for
duplicating them
(inside the package, and next to the package).
*make a better description/implementation for the diskset identifier
files (BASE.1 for example):
currently it's KERNELX: Y
while it's unknown if it's allowed to be: KERNELX.ZIP: Y
that way it's easier to create the identifier files:
@echo off
echo # > base.1
for %%x in ( *.zip ) do echo %%x: Y >> base.1
any advantages to size of programs, now that Openwatcom 1.4 has been
released? You listed many interesting things,
including a realmode compiler program (I wonder how long it would take
on a 8086! :) )
Bernd
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