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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 11:25:21 +1200
To: Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
From: Perry Lorier <pl5 AT waikato DOT ac DOT nz>
Subject: Re: Anyone working on ext2 support for OpenDOS?
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>At present, I'm under heavy workload, so I cannot jump into it and 
>help you with COMMAND.COM.  Also, I would first like to bring 
>IBMDOS.COM to the update 15/2 level, which would cost me some more 
>weeks (if not months).  If you do any changes to IBMDOS sources, 
>could you please put them all in conditional defines, so that we can 
>synchronize them relatively easy with my sources after including the 
>U15/2 patches.
>
>BTW, my updated IBMBIO.COM is running stable now (with OpenDOS 
>*and* Novell DOS since U10), and it actually contains *all* the 
>patches of NWDOS 7 U15/2 (huh, there were many...), including a 
>bunch of other fixes, optimizations, and enhancements, although 
>its some KBs smaller now...  Since I'm planning to add some 
>more stuff to it (if I find the time), I'm still holding it back 
>for the moment...

Is there any mailling list for kernal hacking?  I've just made minor changes
by optimising everything for 286+'s with the idea that you choose an
appropriate kernal on startup,  If I get a copy of WC++ sometime I'll try
and optimise command.com and the rest for 386 use too giving hopefully a
much faster and smaller kernal.  (eg SHR ax,1 x4 -> shr ax,4, saves space, &
time, PUSHD/POPD, ENTER/LEAVE all save precious space.)