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Subject: Re: coff boat loader
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Hi,

On Nov 30, 8:02=A0pm, "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_h DOT  DOT  DOT  AT nohavenot DOT cmm> wrote:
> "Rugxulo" <rugx DOT  DOT  DOT  AT gmail DOT com> wrote in message
>
> news:ea06fa9a-4ab0-4da5-b4a8-1396e322d956 AT f16g2000yqm DOT googlegroups DOT com...
>
> > Apparently I didn't download his kernel.zip file, only others:
>
> > Archive: =A0bill_currie.zip =A0 2574989 bytes =A0 5 files
> > -rw-a-- =A0 =A0 3.0 fat =A0 =A030052 b- defX =A08-May-99 21:35 djasm.zi=
p
> > -rw-a-- =A0 =A0 3.0 fat =A0 =A011608 b- defX =A08-Nov-96 17:13 djpy.zip
> > -rw-a-- =A0 =A0 3.0 fat =A0 =A053927 b- defX 18-Jun-99 20:27 lfn.zip
> > -rw-a-- =A0 =A0 3.0 fat =A0 344576 b- defX 27-Mar-98 10:43 ed.tar
> > -rw-a-- =A0 =A0 3.0 fat =A02163364 b- defX 26-Oct-96 03:03 PYTHON1.4GZ.=
gz
> > 5 files, 2603527 bytes uncompressed, 2574499 bytes compressed: =A01.1%
>
> In old NG messages, Bill says he extended djasm. =A0He wasn't sure if cha=
nges
> ever made it into djasm proper. =A0Those changes may be of interest to yo=
u.

http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/kb/kb_6.html

... seems to mention various changes of his being incorporated into
stock DJGPP.

> Well, it seems the djpy.zip is widely available, usually where Python is.
> I'm not sure if this is the same package as his. =A0Search for "djpy.zip"=
.

It doesn't look like his work, just a generic way of compiling Python
with DJGPP (2.01). I personally didn't try it, too old!

> Of course, the Henrik Haftmann LFN driver, or Jason Hood variants, should
> probably be used instead of Bill Currie's lfn.zip.

Apparently, Martin S. hacked it a bit, so he would know more, but
AFAICT, it was always buggy. (To be honest, I almost like StarLFN's
idea better as it doesn't directly access the hard drive, uses
LONGNAME.DAT, hence should be patent free, heh. But it has some very
small incompatibilities with various DOSes by default. I never pushed
myself to mess with it too much.)

Eli : "Could you please make this available somewhere?  I'd like to
look into
the Python-related stuff which seems to be part of this. "

It's very very old Python, and I think it's meant for his editor, but
since it was all sources (no .EXEs) and really old, I didn't feel the
need to torture myself trying to compile it. But sure, I'll upload it
for ya.

http://rapidshare.com/files/314955602/bill_currie.zip.html
MD5: 1778883EAD5E83D8565C0CD2F9921546

Rod:  "And, Alexei Frounze also has some COFF related utils for DJGPP
in "COFF
UTILS" section:
http://alexfru.chat.ru/epm.html "

Thanks! I knew he had something useful (and knew you knew, heh), but I
couldn't find it myself!