From: "Tim Bird" <tbird AT caldera DOT com>
Message-Id: <9705051420.ZM19565@caldera.com>
Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 14:20:04 -0600
In-Reply-To: physmsa@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz (Mr M S Aitchison)
        "DOS utilities (was Re: A few FS notions)" (May  2,  5:40pm)
References: <199705020540 DOT RAA18892 AT cantua DOT canterbury DOT ac DOT nz>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DOS utilities (was Re: A few FS notions)
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Mr M S Aitchison wrote:
>
> > But this is all a bit pre-emptive. Already we're making suggestions
> > about reorganizing the basic filesystem while the OpenDos utils
> > are still markedly inferior to MS-DOS's:
> >         1) The dir command doesn't give the total bytes allocated
> >            in a directory and doesn't recurse
> >
> >         2) The EDIT program is very slow [on my 386] ...
>
> Is there somewhere I can upload replacement MOVE, SORT, FDISK, etc
> programs for people to beta-test??

This raises the general question of someone (besides Caldera) creating
a "distribution" of OpenDOS.  A careful reading of the new license
will reveal that this is allowed.  That is, redistribution of binaries and
source for non-commercial use (and for no commercial gain) is now
allowed.

I have an ftp site I could make available, if no one else wants to do this.
Obviously the desire is for these changes to make their way back to Caldera
eventually, but I believe they will proceed somewhat slowly and cautiously,
and that they have their eye on the OEM market right now, not the
hacker (rapid-development) market.  There should probably exist a forum
for devotees to share code and binaries.  Caldera may want to make a
directory available also (not the same one that they use for their
official releases). I do NOT have a whole lot of time to manage incoming
files and/or test things, so it would mostly be something like just a
"contrib" area, but I do have the space and a stable (24 hour available) site.

In December, largely because I had a somewhat "liberal" ftp configuration,
I was attacked by the WAREZ people, and the load crippled my machine.
(While I was out of town I was getting 30 hits a minute, over a 56kb line)
Even after I cleaned up the configuration and removed all the files,
I continued to get hits for months afterwards.  I'd like to avoid this
in the future, so I may do something with a password (that I'd pass out
on this list).  Let me know if this is desirable.

Tim Bird