Re: [Freedos-user] cmcp compress copy utility

2013-10-12 Thread Louis Santillan
I would suggest porting miniz or lzham . Dunfield has a Huffman compressor in his mc323exa package . LOTS of other great packages there as well. -L On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 12:2

Re: [Freedos-user] Apps for OpenGEM?

2013-10-12 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Richards, Toby wrote: > > Are there any apps available for OpenGEM, or is what I see all that I get? Check John Elliot and Owen Rudge's websites: http://www.seasip.info/Gem/ http://www.owenrudge.net/GEM/ > Also: How can I resize the windows? There aren’t

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG update

2013-10-12 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Mateusz Viste schreef op 12-10-2013 21:52: > argument). So for such need, a full-blown script (like the one you did) > will probably be inevitable anyway... I'm lazy, so prefer INSTALL KERNEL instead of remembering to type FDNPKG INSTALL KERNEL. Even for a single package thus :) Something like

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG update

2013-10-12 Thread Mateusz Viste
That's true - IIRC, there are a few packages in BASE that lack sources (these are the few packages that I dumped long ago from the FreeDOS 1.0 CD). I will look into this matter when I will have a moment. Unfortunately it won't be soon, but I'll try to straighten this issue by the end of the year.

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG update

2013-10-12 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Mateusz Viste schreef op 12-10-2013 21:28: > This could be an interesting feature. It doesn't make as much sense as > in a linux distro, because there is no dependencies between FreeDOS > packages, but it could be nice anyway to be able to install a few > packages in one command (especially when t

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG update

2013-10-12 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hello Bernd, On 10/12/2013 05:01 PM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > Does the program have to write all the "mkdir" lines all the time when > installing a package? I'd expect only the non-existing ones to be listed. Indeed, this is useless. It never bothered me, but you are right - it's useless, and it ta

Re: [Freedos-user] cmcp compress copy utility

2013-10-12 Thread Chris Evans
I researching lzh so I can make it better at compressing text files -Chris Http://tawhakisoft.com On Saturday, October 12, 2013, Louis Santillan wrote: > Extremely useful for bitmaps, fonts, sprites. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-length_encoding#Applications > > -L > > On Sat, Oct 12, 2

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG update

2013-10-12 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Mateusz Viste schreef op 12-10-2013 16:52: > Hi Marcos, > > That's great, I'm glad you sorted it out :) Does the program have to write all the "mkdir" lines all the time when installing a package? I'd expect only the non-existing ones to be listed. >>mkdir C:\FDOS\doc\fdnpkg\ instead o

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG update

2013-10-12 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hi Marcos, That's great, I'm glad you sorted it out :) cheers, Mateusz On 10/12/2013 02:54 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros wrote: > Hi Mateusz, > >> FDNPKG was not 'installed' before, but just wildly decompressed > > ! > >> The solution is to move all the files that you decompressd >> ma

Re: [Freedos-user] cmcp compress copy utility

2013-10-12 Thread Louis Santillan
Extremely useful for bitmaps, fonts, sprites. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-length_encoding#Applications -L On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > >> i made a dos version of this, version 1.0.3.2 , i still have to >> test it out but it getting late linux version seems work okay

Re: [Freedos-user] cmcp compress copy utility

2013-10-12 Thread Tom Ehlert
> i made a dos version of this, version 1.0.3.2 , i still have to > test it out but it getting late linux version seems work okay though. > it used rle encoder to compress the file and is only effective on > data that repeats alot, it is in the git repository Features 'Rle compression'. wow. doe

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG update

2013-10-12 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi Mateusz, > FDNPKG was not 'installed' before, but just wildly decompressed ! > The solution is to move all the files that you decompressd > manually somewhere else, and then run "fdnpkg install fdnpkg" > to install fdnpkg for real :) It worked, as we can see by the messages: Downloadi