Re: [Freedos-devel] Documentation Formats

2022-02-23 Thread Jim Hall
On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 1:04 AM Robert Riebisch wrote: > > Hi Jim, > > > Why is PDF format needed? The kernel documentation is in plain text, > > which is readable everywhere on every system. > > If you use ASCII only. > > Otherwise you might get into the trouble of codepages. ;-) > > But yes,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Documentation Formats

2022-02-21 Thread Robert Riebisch
Hi Jim, > Why is PDF format needed? The kernel documentation is in plain text, > which is readable everywhere on every system. If you use ASCII only. Otherwise you might get into the trouble of codepages. ;-) But yes, plain text works for most documentation. Cheers, Robert --

Re: [Freedos-devel] Documentation Formats

2022-02-21 Thread Robert Riebisch
Hi Jim, > Python isn't really meant for DOS. But hey, we've had other things > ported to FreeDOS that weren't really "meant" for DOS. > > If you want to port Python to FreeDOS, I'm sure some folks would like > to use it. So, if you're looking for permission: go ahead and port > Python for DOS.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Documentation Formats

2022-02-21 Thread Jim Hall
> On 2/21/2022 9:33 AM, Prime Seal wrote: > > > [..] I have also noticed that FreeDOS does > > not have python On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 3:37 PM Ralf Quint wrote: > > A programming language that requires a multi-megabyte virtual machine to > run is just not suited for use on FreeDOS (or any DOS

Re: [Freedos-devel] Documentation Formats

2022-02-21 Thread Jim Hall
On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 11:33 AM Prime Seal wrote: > > Dear Sir[Jim Hall] > > I like FreeDOS but I have noticed the shortage of documentation of different > formats e.g downloadable PDF. There is also a lack of documentation of kernel > customizations for compilation. > making it unfriendly for

Re: [Freedos-devel] Documentation Formats

2022-02-21 Thread Ralf Quint
On 2/21/2022 9:33 AM, Prime Seal wrote: Dear Sir[Jim Hall] I like FreeDOS but I have noticed the shortage of documentation of different formats e.g downloadable PDF. ... There is also a lack of documentation of kernel customizations for compilation. You are not working with another version

[Freedos-devel] Documentation Formats

2022-02-21 Thread Prime Seal
Dear Sir[Jim Hall] I like FreeDOS but I have noticed the shortage of documentation of different formats e.g downloadable PDF. There is also a lack of documentation of kernel customizations for compilation. making it unfriendly for forking. I once commented on you YouTube channel about UPX giving