Re: [Freedos-devel] Historical vs. Hysterical Edlin Versions

2022-05-17 Thread Gregory Pietsch
If anyone finds any bugs or errors in my code, don't hesitate to tell me, as long as it's legitimate. I do not believe that I introduced new bugs in 2.20, but you never know. As far as I know, there are two giant missing pieces of Edlin that I can surmise from all I have read about it. One is

Re: [Freedos-devel] Historical vs. Hysterical Edlin Versions

2022-05-17 Thread Jim Hall
I'm resharing an announcement from the website about Edlin 2.20: Thanks to Gregory Pietsch, there is a new version of the classic FreeDOS Edlin editor. If you haven't used Edlin, it's a text-mode "line editor" for DOS that's similar to the Unix "ed(1)" editor. Some of the more visible changes

Re: [Freedos-devel] Thinking about FreeDOS test releases

2022-05-17 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi, I just wanted "to add my mustard" (=denglish, =german english) to make this FD update discussion a little useful for end users (for improved files) by adding the "to-do-list" and "plans for the future" that I found at the FD base section while working on help 1.1.0 (will surely not be publishe

Re: [Freedos-devel] Thinking about FreeDOS test releases

2022-05-17 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi, > On May 16, 2022, at 7:24 PM, Louis Santillan wrote: > > Any thoughts about the ability to build (more than kernel, FreeCOM, ISO) from > source? > The release build process does not compile individual programs. It pulls pre-compiled versions staged in package format from the Official F