I don't want a graphical web browser at all in freedos. The current option does not support out of the box filtering or plugins comparable to what Internet Explorer and Firefox have. Freedos is not a system that completely insulates the hardware nor is it a multiuser system, so it's appropriateness for network applications is questionable. Especially, considering that the general attitude seems to be use whatever exists for dos to network it, networking generally isn't attractive. Freedos currently doesn't support Netware 4.11 very well where a lot of the netware IPX drivers, if you can find any, are designed to be opened on a Windows system.
As far as compressed filesystems are concerned or supporting NTFS, you are getting away from being 100% MS DOS compatible. Freedos isn't 100% compatible yet, more reverse engineering needs to be done to make it so. MS-DOS 6.22 supported disk compression, but that was a late addition to dos and it created a lot of problems for some dos programs. Porting MARS netware emulator to freedos would make it far more attractive for networking than it currently is. The advantage of supporting NTFS is that freedos could be used as a tool potentially to work on and repair a modern NT based Windows system. There are so many versions of NTFS though, a lot of work would be involved to create a decent implementation of NTFS for a dos based environment. It makes more sense to support NTFS under Linux as NTFS is meant for use on a multi user system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
