Hi! Today is a day full of announcements on BTTR-SOFTWARE.DE :-) https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=18797
RDRVSX32: FAT32 RAM drive for HimemSX (Announce) posted by jadoxa, Queensland, Australia, 13.03.2022, 13:58 I had a request (via email) to create a RAM drive greater than 4GiB. It sort of works (works on his and mine 8GiB AMD, but has issues with his 32GiB Intel) so if anyone has the time and inclination to test, that'd be great. You will need more than 4GiB RAM (in order to access super-extended memory), preferably more than 8GiB (in order to test accessing beyond 4GiB). Our testing has been simple so far: just copy large files (he was able to create a 28GiB RAM drive, copy hundreds of 64MiB files, but it fails copying a 1GiB file).
Link: http://shsufdrv.adoxa.vze.com/rdrvsx32.zip https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=18799
Doszip Commander version 2.63 available (Announce) posted by rr, Berlin, Germany, 13.03.2022, 14:20 On 02 March 2022 Hjort Nidudsson released a new version. Home page: https://github.com/nidud/doszip Download: https://github.com/nidud/doszip/releases/tag/v2.63 Changes since version 2.55 are: Changes in 2.63 - 2 Mar 2022 - extended country-specific date format Changes in 2.58 - 15 Feb 2022 - added country-specific date format Changes in 2.57 - 12 Feb 2022 - changed "Jump" to "Skip" in Delete dialog - fixed color issue in Move dialog - fixed issue with pipe command -- unzip -hh | more
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On 13 March 2022 Mateusz Viste released SvarCOM version 2022.3. What is SvarCOM? Quoting from http://svardos.org/svarcom/: SvarCOM is the SvarDOS command line interpreter, known usually under the name "COMMAND.COM". It is designed and maintained by Mateusz Viste, and distributed under the terms of the MIT license. For the time being, it is a work-in-progress project that - although functional - is not entirely polished yet and might miss a few bits and pieces. SvarCOM version 2022.0 must be considered a "preview" version. See the documentation included in the zip file for details. SvarCOM is minimalist and I'd like to keep it that way. It aims to be functionaly equivalent to COMMAND.COM from MS-DOS 5.x/6.x. No LFN support. As of version 2022.0, SvarCOM's resident footprint is under 2 KiB. What is new in version 2022.3? Here is his 2022.3 announcement to the SvarDOS mailing list: Hello all, SvarCOM 2022.3 has been published right now. It comes with many improvements and bug fixes. Many thanks to Robert Riebisch who dedicated a lot of time to perform extensive tests on SvarCOM and had the strength to annoy me over and over about the various glitches he found. The new SvarCOM package is already available on the SvarDOS packages repository. It can also be downloaded from the SvarCOM sub-project page at http://svardos.org/svarcom As an experiment I did a SvarDOS build that uses SvarCOM instead of FreeCOM. It is the build 20220312, available in the "files" section of the website: http://svardos.org/?p=files If this build proves stable enough, it might become the default download presented on the main page, but for now it needs some testing. There is also still one or two things that needs to be added (like DIR/O support). The main advantage of SvarCOM over the legacy FreeCOM is that the former is much lighter (2K of memory footprint), which is esp. important on pre-386 machines. An interesting side effect of replacing FreeCOM by SvarCOM is that some of the SvarDOS floppy sets decreased: 720K set went from 4 floppies to 3 floppies 1.2M set went from 3 floppies to 2 floppies Other sets remained the same amount of floppies (6x 360K, 2x 1.44M and 1x 2.88M) Note for the future: there are cases where it is possible to decrease the amount of floppies simply by ordering files on the floppies differently. For instance, it is possible to decrease the 360K set to 5 floppies now, just by moving files from disk #6 to other disks. This is something that will be optimized in the future, but I don't want to do it manually, it has to be an automated process, and the installer must be aware of the exact disposition of files on floppies to avoid asking twice for the same floppy. Mateusz Changes since last release (2022.2) are: - fixed stdin redirection handling (was broken since 2022.1) [#44027] - only COM, EXE and BAT files are allowed for execution [#44068] - FOR command: accepts control characters as pattern delimiters [#44058] - FOR command: patterns without wildcards are processed as messages [#44058] - implemented the TRUENAME command [#44051] - DIR command: /a:xxx is supported like an equivalent to /axxx [#44077] - VER command: displays DOS memory location (low, HMA, ROM...) [#44050] - VER command: displays true DOS version and DOS rev (bttr) [#44050] - REN command: allows renaming directory names [#44060] - implemented CTTY and LOADHIGH/LH as no-ops (LH loads programs low) - LN creates %DOSDIR%\LINKS directory when needed and warns on error [#44042] - LN ADD outputs an error message when link already exists [#44043] - added Polish translations - added German translations, courtesy of Robert Riebisch (bttr) - added French translations, kindly contributed by Berki Yenigun (thraex) - added Turkish translations, submitted by Berki Yenigun (thraex) - fixed and improved English help screens
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