Hi Lucho! > we ought to support the only graphical DOS browser > or we won't be taken seriously!
Even worse, the GUI installer (with the inappropriate click-wrap license display and the installshield graphics, see some mail from somebody a few hours ago on some freedos list) displays a LYNX banner all the time. While LYNX is more or less the only text mode DOS browser (LINKS browser for DOS? W3M? Anything else?) but we removed it from the distro. Bad luck for people who cannot use GUI browsers (hardware limitations, visually impaired people...) ... and the beta9*release candidate* versions only contain the BASE software and no network anyway (bad luck for SSHDOS / SCPDOS...). It just has "minimal" and "full" selection, which should more correctly be called "ALL BASE" and "ALL BASE with sources". Using manual selection you can only disable source files individually... Probably a good idea to tune the meaning and name of "full" and "minimal" in the next release candidate. LZW-free GIF are no solution. They are uncompressed and huge. Better use PNG or if not supported JPG. Or even PCX, who knows. Or wait until the patents expire. I think patented file formats are stupid, but in fact you are allowed to READ GIF files. Only CREATING LZW-compressed files requires you to have a licensed software for doing so if you are in a country which is affected by the patents. Info-ZIP and GZIP had to waste lots of time to create implementations of more or less well-known and "clever but kind of obvious once you know it" algorithms just because of those software / algorithm / ... patent stuff without violating any license things. Natural reaction if Unisys patents suck is to use PNG. Not to keep using GIF and telling "haha, I will not pay because your patent sucks!". Excluded are GIFs which you have had before - converting them to PNG would probably be overdoing things. This mail includes comments on "Re: [Freedos-user] comments on install ...", so I would like to say: YES, Imitating InstallShield is a bit childish or bloated. Come on, this is DOS. Luckily that object oriented GUI toolkit which is the base for the GUI installer supports OTHER designs (e.g. Linux style), too. But then, who needs a GUI for installation at all? Big problem for me: Both GUI installer and text mode installer use ZIP libraries in their binary, so there is no UNZIP,EXE around on the CD-ROM :-((. Not to forget that we should make the CRYPTO-ENABLED UNZIP the default. Only the crypto-enabled ZIP could be subject to export limitations, but UNZIP can be freely spread. Eric. (Hope that Bernd / Jeremy read this...) ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
