Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 09:44:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
To: Pierre Phaneuf <pp AT gulliver DOT qc DOT ca>
cc: OpenDOS List <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: OpenDOS distribution
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On Mon, 5 May 1997, Pierre Phaneuf wrote:

> On Mon, 5 May 1997, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> 
> > Well, RPM is only "theoretically" the way to go.  I have NOT been
> > able to get it running on my Slackware system despite several
> > mailing list postings to different lists and newsgroups including
> > this one, as well as over 12 hours of reading HOWTO's,
> > FAQ's, fiddling, downloading, redownloading, re-redownloading,
> > posting to lists, ftpsearching, compiling, deleting, recompiling,
> > redeleting, redownloading, installing, SIGSEGVing, and finally
> > permanently giving up.
> 
> I completely agree with you. Thinking more about this, maybe we could do
> something similar but more appropriate for DOS systems... Like use ZIP
> (using the Info-ZIP libraries), have batch files for pre/post-installation
> scripts (or maybe an integrated scripting language (or even better, make 

Yes, something ZIPish.

> BASH the default shell for OpenDOS! ;-) ))

I love bash, but setting it as the default shell is not going to
impress DOS users at all.  Tech support lines will melt.

bash is only useful to UNIX people and programmers (such as
myself)  even so, I don't use bash at all when in DOS, I use
4DOS.


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