Well, to be like our more refined OS counterpart (MacOS), there was typically a 3-6 month update cycle (the longest I remember was 9 months)...hence the 7.5, 7.5.1, 7.5.2, 7.5.3, etc....
Or, we could go the Microsoft route...issue a big patch file that updates and fixes based using a patch program (I remember PATCH.EXE being included at one time with DOS, perhaps that was only a Tandy thing, go figure)...thereby offering existing users a download of diffs (so to speak) that PATCH runs against the affected files thereby bringing them to current status... So in effect, FreeDOS 1.0 Build xxxx SP1, etc, etc....and so forth.... Oh, another thing I thought about, did you ever notice the time on DOS files (specifically from Microsoft)? The time after version 4.0 (if I remember correctly) always reflected the DOS version. When I was younger, I wondered what idiot was up at 5:00am compiling DOS 5.0 and how he managed to compile all those files in 60 secs. (Thank God for TOUCH.COM)... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
