Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 09:00:04 +0600 (NOVT) From: "Maxim M. Kazachek" <stranger@sberbank.sibnet.ru> To: Juan Rodriguez Hervella <jfrherve@ing.uc3m.es> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: doscmd removal Message-ID: <20040322085810.F762@sbk-gw.sibnet.ru> In-Reply-To: <200403161054.31153.jfrherve@ing.uc3m.es> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0403141318110.1317-100000@pancho> <xzpr7vvx9x9.fsf @dwp.des.no> <20040315175559.GG755@saboteur.dek.spc.org> <200403161054.31153.jfrherve@ing.uc3m.es>
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I don't think that fuctionality you need is much dependent whether it's
ports or whether it's base. I vote for ports just because we have some
platforms that is unsupported by doscmd.
Sincerely, Maxim M. Kazachek
mailto:stranger@sberbank.sibnet.ru
mailto:stranger@fpm.ami.nstu.ru
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Juan Rodriguez Hervella wrote:
>On Monday 15 March 2004 18:55, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 12:53:38AM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
>> > Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> writes:
>> > > So, you'll be submitting the patches to install it to the ports
>> > > tree, then?
>> >
>> > Yes.
>>
>> Excellent. I use doscmd for certain things such as running flash and
>> BIOS related tools. I'd be happy to see it 'bumped down' to ports status.
>>
>
>I think doscmd works very well, I've been playing with it a couple of
>days, and its great.
>
>The pity is that it doesn't have support for int13, which is used by
>most of the old MS_DOS games (like Prince of Persia, my favourite).
>
>If it's going to be well mantained, I would prefer to see it on the ports
>collection, but on the other hand I wouldn't like to see
>this program dissapear from FreeBSD at all.
>
>I've never tested it with flash utilities and such (Im afraid of upgrading
>my flash :), but I think it is a useful thing to have, either on the base
>system or in the ports.
>
>Regards.
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