Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting rid of kitten

Hi Gregory, > be easier if I started from scratch because I had a lot of low-hanging > fruit to throw in. Seeing that MS-DOS was vaguely Unix... Otherwise, > we would have a half-assed implementation, and nobody wants that. Well in that case you probably want a DJGPP style port of the original c

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting rid of kitten

I didn't write the spec, I just have to implement it. I thought it would be easier if I started from scratch because I had a lot of low-hanging fruit to throw in. Seeing that MS-DOS was vaguely Unix-like, it makes sense to implement as much of what was in the Posix standard unless what's writte

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting rid of kitten

Hi! Given your description it definitely makes sense to keep all those features in catgets - it is good that kitten is smaller than that :-) Of course for being portable to Unix, catgets can be useful. Yet I never saw any % escape in and i18n setting on a Linux yet, so most people would not even

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting rid of kitten

The catgets implementation that is with FreeDOS edlin was one I wrote myself after looking at kitten and noticing that it was too DOS-specific (i.e. using low-level system calls to INT 21H to read and write to files) and tiny. It only had the ability to open one catalog at a time. I never looke

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting rid of kitten

Hi! > I doubt Jim would mind very much. :-) He says on his page > that Kitten is not currently > maintained, so he would probably be happy for someone to take this on > and provide some updates. But that's just a guess - you might try > emailing him. ;-) Well the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting rid of kitten

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Gregory Pietsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FreeDOS maniacs, > > I was playing around with the implementation of edlin as it has been > over a year since 2.10c, and was wondering if I could get rid of the > ancient kitten.c and kitten.h files in the implementation.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting rid of kitten

Hi Gregory, the problem is not that KITTEN is worse than CATGETS, the problem is that your kitten seems to be too old. You say "I want to switch to catgets because catgets uses LANG and NLSPATH". That reasoning is odd if you ask me - KITTEN uses LANG and NLSPATH as well! :-) > I was playing aro

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting rid of kitten

Hi, I think that it sounds good! Bye Flo 2008/8/24 Gregory Pietsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > FreeDOS maniacs, > > I was playing around with the implementation of edlin as it has been > over a year since 2.10c, and was wondering if I could get rid of the > ancient kitten.c and kitten.h files in the