Mail Archives: djgpp/2007/08/23/19:31:14
On Aug 23, 10:06 am, DJ Delorie <d DOT DOT DOT AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> > Could you update this item with FreeDOS and Dr-DOS? Or a second item with
> > "DOS, which supports LFN"?
>
> Assuming you mean the zip picker, why? Does it change the list of
> things you need (mostly, cwsdpmi), or the installation instructions
> (mostly environment variables)?
Yeah, the ZIP Picker still recommends 2.03p2 for XP, what gives? ;-)
I think he meant which binaries are best for FreeDOS or DR-DOS (but I
could be wrong). DJGPP 2.04 beta has better support for FAT32 (e.g.
statfs, _creat, _open), and since EDR-DOS and FreeDOS support that, I
assume it would be the preferred version (unless you don't need such,
e.g. only using FAT12, FAT16 like me).
DR-DOS 7.03 works fine with DJGPP and its programs for me, but didn't
OpenDOS 7.01 (which EDR-DOS is based) have problems re: their DPMI
server? Anyways, CWSDPMI is better in some ways (swapping) and
*usually* most DJGPP programs were written for it (obviously not
FreeDOS' p7zip 4.42 compile, but anyways ...). So I would always
recommend getting it.
"DOS, which supports LFN"? Sounds like he means Datalight ROM DOS
(which supposedly? supports LFNs natively). Or he could mean e.g.
FreeDOS w/ DOSLFN. Either way, don't most packages work in either
case? You only have to unzip to SFN form if you want to use under both
SFN and LFN modes, right?
No extra environment variable changes are needed, AFAIK.
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