Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI 1.2

2015-10-06 Thread Jerome Shidel
> On Oct 6, 2015, at 5:41 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > Hi, > >> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. >> wrote: >> >>> On Oct 4, 2015, at 10:02 PM, Antony Gordon wrote: >>> >>> It was nice of whomever wrote FreeCOM to include that Windows NT command >>> interpreter function. >

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI 1.2

2015-10-06 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
> On Oct 6, 2015, at 8:55 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, for clarification: I was referring to > the specific case where your tools are used as a > part of the install process of FreeDOS :-) I know, I was just using an easy to state example. :) > > In your given "pick a file and unzip

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI 1.2

2015-10-06 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
> On Oct 6, 2015, at 12:12 PM, Antony Gordon wrote: > > Hi, > > Sometimes doing the "needful" exceeds the "requested". Jim has a vision of > what he wants, basically a batch file based simplified install. You (Jerome) > have created some very useful utilities for managing the screen and such.

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDNPKG16 port!

2015-10-06 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Tue, 6 Oct 2015, sparky4 wrote: > ah ok!! > > i am now stuck at the converting the net code from wattcp to mtcp Why not leave it WatTCP? WatTCP supports 16-bit too. -uso. -- __

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDNPKG16 port!

2015-10-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > On 06/10/2015 17:49, sparky4 wrote: >> >> Yeah thats what i am doing and apparently there is no ungz function in watcom >> C > > Of course there isn't, since that's a function I wrote myself. It's a > core part of fdnpkg. see libgz.c

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI 1.2

2015-10-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > >> On Oct 4, 2015, at 10:02 PM, Antony Gordon wrote: >> >> It was nice of whomever wrote FreeCOM to include that Windows NT command >> interpreter function. Presumably Stefan Kaiser (who sadly long ago disappeared). >> I never

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI 1.2

2015-10-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 2:08 AM, Joe Forster/STA wrote: > > Also, while executing config.sys (_not_ autoexec.bat yet), the (master) > environment variable block is not pointed to anywhere. I've unable to finish > another DOS program that would record the boot drive into an environment > variab

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDNPKG16 port!

2015-10-06 Thread sparky4
ah ok!! i am now stuck at the converting the net code from wattcp to mtcp On 10/06/2015 11:38 AM, Mateusz Viste-4 [via FreeDOS] wrote: > On 06/10/2015 17:49, sparky4 wrote: > > Yeah thats what i am doing and apparently there is no ungz function > in watcom > > C > > Of course there isn't, si

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDNPKG16 port!

2015-10-06 Thread Mateusz Viste
On 06/10/2015 17:49, sparky4 wrote: > Yeah thats what i am doing and apparently there is no ungz function in watcom > C Of course there isn't, since that's a function I wrote myself. It's a core part of fdnpkg. see libgz.c. Mateusz --

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDNPKG16 port!

2015-10-06 Thread sparky4
Yeah thats what i am doing and apparently there is no ungz function in watcom C i just want it to compile 1st then i will debug the crap out of it -- View this message in context: http://freedos.10956.n7.nabble.com/FDNPKG16-port-tp23398p23557.html Sent from the FreeDOS - Dev mailing list

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI 1.2

2015-10-06 Thread Antony Gordon
Hi, Sometimes doing the "needful" exceeds the "requested". Jim has a vision of what he wants, basically a batch file based simplified install. You (Jerome) have created some very useful utilities for managing the screen and such. My thought was basically to incorporate your V8 tools as a part of

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI 1.2

2015-10-06 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jerome, for clarification: I was referring to the specific case where your tools are used as a part of the install process of FreeDOS :-) In your given "pick a file and unzip" example, it would be possible to do alternative tricks like: VASK-PRO /F *.zip "Pick a file to unzip" "unzip $F" The

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI 1.2

2015-10-06 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
> On Oct 5, 2015, at 8:14 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, > > combining 20 tools of 1-2 kilobytes each into one tool of 10 kB > sounds like a good plan and using "residency" sounds even better: > Yes and maybe there will be an edition that does that at some point. But, for now that is

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI 1.2

2015-10-06 Thread Joe Forster/STA
Hi guys, Having resident data will reduce issues with needing SET /P which has limitations (e.g. using pipes, which in most DOS command.com variants need temp files on a writeable drive) and is not in the classic MS DOS version of command.com (in case somebody tries to use your batch files to up