Date:	Fri, 02 May 1997 17:53:55 +0100
From:	Matthias Paul <PAUL-MA AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Subject:	IBMBIO.COM sources
To:	opendos-developer AT delorie DOT com
Reply-to:	Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
Message-id:	<21539F94C11@reze-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de>
Organization:	Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen

Hi,

to avoid doubled work and problems with later synchronization, I would 
like to announce that I am currently in the process to update the 
OpenDOS 7.01 IBMBIO.COM sources (which at present are at the Novell 
DOS 7 update 11 level as of December 1994) to include *all* the 
patches of update 15/2 (as of January 1996).  It appears to me, as if 
Caldera cannot provide these patches for-what-reasons-ever, and thus 
requires ca. 30-50 KByte of the code to be rewritten, in snippets all 
over the source files...
Also I would like to do some size optimizations, and if I find enough 
time for this schedule, I'd also like to smack in some new patches, 
including some AddOns for better MS-DOS 7 compatibility.  Maybe, 
optionally MS-DOS alike boot-menus as macros/aliases to the DR DOS 
style.  I hope, this could be finished within the next 3 weeks or 
at least during this month (no promise), and I will sure make the 
changes available to Caldera and all other interested people from 
the list.

IMHO, *before* further enhancing the kernel, we should at least 
move all the kernel files to the update 15/2 level.  Otherwise, if 
other patches will be put in before, we'd loose alot of significant 
Novell DOS patches and would come completely out of sync.  So, after 
finishing with IBMBIO.COM, I plan to go further with IBMDOS.COM and 
COMMAND.COM.  But, to get a stable OpenDOS working, if in the meantime 
someone else was willing to take this necessary job for COMMAND.COM or 
IBMDOS.COM, we could have it sooner and I would be glad...

I still hope, someone will stop me from damaging my brain by saying 
the remaining patches were available somewhere in source-code form... 
:-(

 Matthias
 
 


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