Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 17:53:55 +0100 From: Matthias Paul 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 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Precedence: bulk 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Snail mail: Matthias Paul, Ubierstrasse 28, D-50321 Bruehl, Germany New eMail : Web : URL: http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html --------------------------------------------------------------------