On Wed, 8 May 2013, Charles Belhumeur wrote:
Oh wait I couple of points though. One fairly embarrassing, I made a
mistake on the size of the genome files. The big ones are in the range of
300 to 600 MB not GB! So doable on 2 GB partition. The trouble is some
sources deliver them in Zip format so you need enough space to hold the Zip
and unzipped file. 2 GB is still kinda tight depending on the manipulations
being done to file, copied with corrections or updates etc. Its kinda nice
and handy to have all your genome files in one folder and that gets up into
the many GB range.
I've had FAT32 drives of 128 and up GB. It's the individual files that
are limited in size.
The other point... DOS had some notable shortcomings like no spell checker
and no pocket calculator emulator. Remember piping simple one off calcs
into GWBasic from the command line? I remedied the pocket calculator
emulator by writing one of my own in MS Quick C. I have the source code and
exe. It still runs under Windows XP. I'd be more than glad to contribute
it to FreeDos. I tried to pass this on to Eric when I first signed on but
he said this wasn't the right procedure. Its small stand alone and non-TSR
unlike Borland's. Who would I pass this on to for review and considering
including in FreeDos?
How about bc, as in GNU?
http://ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/gnuish/gnubc.zip
http://www.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/bc106b.zip
It's not the most obvious such program but it does the job well enough
that on my winbox I keep it around.------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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