Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 00:43:52 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com> Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DOS Emulation KLD Message-ID: <200012190843.eBJ8hqQ11067@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 18 Dec 2000 21:14:45 PST." <001601c0697a$9abb8100$aa240018@cx443070b>
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(I've taken the liberty of moving this thread to the -emulation list,
since that's the best place to be discussing this topic.)
> > > What's wrong with doscmd ? I hadn't noticed this one used BSD
> filesystems
> > > in addition to image files. That was my #1 issue with some of the other
> > > emulators.
> >
> > It needs a lot of TLC; there are plenty of places where it could be
> > usefully extended as well.
> >
> > One might also consider abandoning it entirely and making plex86 work, if
> > one was really interested in that sort of thing.
>
> Thanks for the information. I have alot of DOS programming experience, and
> although little BSD programming experience, I have read quite a bit and
> attended a 4.x KLD authoring conference at ToorCon. Since I understand low
> level DOS implementation (I've worked with the FreeDOS project too), I'm
> taking a look at doscmd and I'm going to try to contribute to this project.
Cool! Careful though, or you'll end up as its maintainer. 8)
> It seems delightfully simple in its design. I see some of the rough edges
> you're talking about, but I believe you're right, it's nothing a little TLC
> can't take care of.
I'm glad to hear that. For better or worse, I spent quite a bit of time
working on doscmd some years back, and I might be able to help you if you
get stuck. I can certainly dig out a few of the ideas that I thought
ought to be implemented, if you find yourself looking for new things to
add. 8)
Regards,
Mike
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