Re: Building 4DOS.COM? [Solved]

Jaelani пишет:
It's a bit discouraging for potential contributors, IMO. I consider myself lucky that you are still around. If we want 4DOS to live longer or even maybe forever, it should be made as easy as possible for programmers also - regardless how dumb he/she can be. Who knows, even the dumbest of the dumbest can spark a silly but good idea. After all, the 4DOS is very short in contributors.

Klaus requested and I sent him a single archive of all 4DOS source code and all non-standard libraries used except the non-free Mix C/WinDOS toolchest.

Since building preparations are mostly manual, it would be better if there is a batch file that can automate the patches, setup the MSC7.BTM file and check all required tools according to the user provided paths. Consider it as a development environment setup application. Including the batch file in the patch package itself would be best, IMO.

I don't think that these two should be mixed. The setup batch file is run only once, whereas the build batch file - on every build. But you're free to write a setup batch file yourself, if you feel it is really necessary. But I don't think so, because the setup is done only once, and that's it.

I've tested them and the difference is only the month and the date portion of the text - 5 bytes in total (the space character position is identical).

Good to know.

No, I never consider Windows to be a good DOS testing environment even under Windows 98 safe mode simply because Windows interferes the system too much. My system is dual boot to Windows XP NTFS and to DOS FAT-32 (this includes FreeDOS, Windows 98 DOS and Windows 98). I had to abandon Windows 98 for my main OS since there's no driver for my nForce motherboard and since I'm only doing a test build. And no, I don't use 4DOS for my Windows XP because it's much slower than TCC.

Great.

For me, real mainteance is keeping the website up to date which I'm not very good at. If I do become the only contributor left, I would hand the website maintenance to other person who dwells in this newsgroup longer than me, a long time 4DOS user, already has a 4DOS dedicated web page and knows to handle website better than me (I'm just a novice :p ).

Very well, send your patches to Klaus and let him integrate them. I hope you both can form a good team! :) I myself wouldn't like to be involved.

I do have many of other DOS versions in archive for testing and educational purposes. Still have plenty of room in my FAT-32 partition and multi boot entries. So that won't be a problem.

Great.

But really, I'm not aiming to become a 4DOS maintainer, just a free contributor which are not bound by anything except for my own contributions as a programmer. Besides, I still don't fully know the general inner working of 4DOS. Any single error can be disasterous. It would be too risky to make a public 4DOS.COM patch at this time.

That's the current status, but in the future you will be better and better.

Is there anything else I forgot? If not, I'll leave you and Klaus and stop any 4DOS activity. Hopefully you can cope with everything without my help, as I've coped with what I could without the help of Rex Conn or Tom Rawson (of course, I won't remove my 4DOS sites, just will stop updating them...)

Regards,
Lucho
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