Re: [Freedos-devel] Installed Application Database Hypothesis

2008-01-09 Thread Tony G
I was thinking Perl (or awk) for the line processing to remove lines because you may install a lot of apps in between the one you want to delete. -T - Original Message - From: "Eric Auer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:36 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Ins

Re: [Freedos-devel] Installed Application Database Hypothesis

2008-01-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Antony (please use plain text mail without html!), > Implementing an Installed Application Database along with an associated > install API would make installing applications easier (perhaps somewhat > akin to Windows). There is not an API but a tool. We do have that tool. It does have an inst

[Freedos-devel] Installed Application Database Hypothesis

2008-01-09 Thread Antony Gordon
Hypothesis: Implementing an Installed Application Database along with an associated install API would make installing applications easier (perhaps somewhat akin to Windows). What I've learned: Each application comes packaged in a ZIP file that contains a text file with a list of conflicting

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Movies

2008-01-09 Thread Antony Gordon
I just installed VMWare 6 and how cool is this feature--- you can make movies of a session. So...first up will be why WfW 3.11 crashes during setup. I will have error messages and all that. -T _ Share life as it happens with the n

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS directory standard (1.1?)

2008-01-09 Thread Antony Gordon
Well, MSDOS.SYS (which some wierd DOS programs actually look for) could be an INI file repository of sorts that could store this information. FreeCOM could parse it as a 'default' environment ahead of AUTOEXEC.BAT and FDAUTO.BAT. So an F5 bootup would give you a basic DOS path and a SYSTEMROOT v