Hi Mateusz,

> On Nov 24, 2021, at 12:51 PM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste.fr> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I tend to use FreeDOS mostly on old computers that often have no more than 1 
> MiB of RAM. On such setups FreeDOS doesn't leave much memory to applications, 
> mostly due to FreeCOM.
> 
> This is the main reason that led me to develop a new command interpreter 
> named SvarCOM. This interpreter will soon become the standard shell of the 
> SvarDOS distribution. It's resident size is under 2K.
> 
> Today I published the first version of SvarCOM, version 2021.0. This version 
> must be considered as a "functional preview", since there are still a few 
> things missing. It is stable, though, and what is implemented works pretty 
> well. I use it since a few days on my museum-grade machines without major 
> troubles. The most annoying thing is probably the lack of an INT 24h handler: 
> it may lead to surprising results if one tries to access an empty floppy 
> drive.
> 
> While I developed SvarCOM specifically for the SvarDOS distribution, it works 
> just as well on plain FreeDOS. As such, the FreeDOS project is welcome to 
> mirror it or use it as an alternative shell, should that be of any interest 
> to the community.
> 
> Read more on http://svardos.osdn.io/svarcom/
> 
> Mateusz

Kinda busy right now, don’t know when I’ll get around to testing it. But, I did 
turn it into a package already. :-)

https://fd.lod.bz/repos/current/pkg-html/svarcom.html 
<https://fd.lod.bz/repos/current/pkg-html/svarcom.html>

Jerome
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