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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 10:41:38
From: "Morris" <b52g AT usa DOT net>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Are you sure you _want_ the sources?
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>Hi b52g,

>you wrote 11.09.97 in the Area /List/OpenDOS
>to the mail "Are you sure you _want_ the sources?":

>> Are you sure that you really want the utility sources anyway?
>It depends on the utilities ... I _am_ sure I want the sources of 
HIMEM, 
>EMM386, DPMS, FDISK, FORMAT and CHKDSK. The others are less 
>interesting.

Yes... I'll go with that.  Emm386 should really be classed as part of 
the
Kernel.  

Trouble is, emm386 is pure asm (of course) and very very strange
stuff it is too.  That's why it gives us such problems.  We're going 
to
get the drdos Godfather to fix it for us when he's not so busy.
Perhaps we can see the sources released when it is stable..

As for Himem.sys, perhaps.  I have a feeling the DPMS core is part
of EMM386.

Chkdsk needs overhaul for LFN support and there are (supposedly) 
better FORMAT programs out there.

Fdisk is rather messy and ugly, consisting largely of goto statements.
I'm hoping to restructure it for the next major release, to use the 
'wizard-style' menu arrangement.  Then it will be 'proper' code 
inside,
but using the technology from 'old' Fdisk.

>[some interesting and quite funny comments]

>Regards, MJS

DISCLAIMER:
This is not the official Caldera line, and neither was
"Are you sure you _want_ the sources?"!!



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