Hi! > It appears that any binary package installed on FreeDOS goes to /BIN.
Almost. Packages which need many files in the same "BINish" directory have separate directories. This includes for example Arachne, DOG, Emacs, Network and USB driver bags, FBC, GhostScript, the 1.0 game collection, FDSMTPOP, LYNX, OpenXP, PacificC, Pegasus Mail, SETEDIT with plugins and maybe other packages in FreeDOS 1.0 ... Note that some of the packages have few enough files to move them to the main BIN directory while others got replaced etc etc :-). > Besides that, there's no clear directive about "how to install 3rd party apps". > > I would propose the following rules: > - Any DOS replacement stuff (move, tree, format...) goes to \BIN\ > - Any system enhacement (grep, ls, pcisleep, cwsdpmi, fdupdate...) goes to > \SBIN\ You can do that but should not overdo it. For example the 2.88 MB one disk variant of the Rugxulo distro has: utils, system, media, games, fdos and docs as main "category directories". For a normal FreeDOS CD / DVD / USB / harddisk distro, I think the structure of FreeDOS 1.0 is better than the structure of Rugxulo 2.88, though. > - Any 3rd party program (SEAL, Arachne, FreeBASIC, MPXPLAY...) goes to > $apps\programs\ > - Any 3rd party game (Doom...) goes to $apps\games\ See above - but APPS is just the same as DOSDIR in FreeDOS 1.0 :-) Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
