Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

2018-12-31 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi > On Dec 31, 2018, at 11:51 AM, Ivan Ivanov wrote: > > I do not trust clouds since many of them have been compromised > already, and all those Snowden revelations etc... So I sincerely hope > that it will be always possible to build FreeDOS locally. Happy coming > New Year ! :) > > Best

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

2018-12-31 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi, > On Dec 31, 2018, at 8:44 AM, TK Chia wrote: > > Hello Jerome, > >> The short answer is — At present, the online repo management tools do not >> support multi-line descriptors. Everything after the first line is ignored. >> So, stuff on additional lines is excluded from the automatically

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

2018-12-31 Thread Ivan Ivanov
I do not trust clouds since many of them have been compromised already, and all those Snowden revelations etc... So I sincerely hope that it will be always possible to build FreeDOS locally. Happy coming New Year ! :) Best regards, Ivan пн, 31 дек. 2018 г. в 16:45, TK Chia : > > Hello Jerome, >

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

2018-12-31 Thread TK Chia
Hello Jerome, The short answer is — At present, the online repo management tools do not support multi-line descriptors. Everything after the first line is ignored. So, stuff on additional lines is excluded from the automatically generated web pages, rss feed and listing.csv files. This is

Re: [Freedos-devel] aefdisk/masterbooter open sourced

2018-12-31 Thread TK Chia
Hello Nils, also it is very small (your exe ~17k). What about having watcom producing a com file? This would save a few bytes for the exe header. As exe is not necessary (I assume) this would be nice. Is there are reason for having exe? No particular reason that I know of, but I have not

Re: [Freedos-devel] aefdisk/masterbooter open sourced

2018-12-31 Thread stecdose
Thank you tkchia! This looks like a tool very good for using from a script/text ui and also it is very small (your exe ~17k). What about having watcom producing a com file? This would save a few bytes for the exe header. As exe is not necessary (I assume) this would be nice. Is there are