Hi, On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Matej Horvat <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've released the FreeDOS offline updater, which is a set of two programs, > GENPKGLS ("generate package list") and GETPKGS ("get packages"), that are > used together to semi-automatically update software packages on a FreeDOS > machine that is not connected to the Internet, with the help of a Windows > machine. > > Download and documentation: > > http://matejhorvat.si/en/freedos/fdoffupd/
This sounds way too complicated (for me), but anyways, your efforts are nevertheless appreciated. Just a few random comments: 1). "GETPKGS, which runs on Windows, has only been tested with Windows XP. It requires GNU Wget to be installed and obviously an Internet connection." What did you compile it with? Did it use any XP-specific APIs? IIRC, latest MSVC claims to need XP SP3 or higher, but I don't know of any such limitations in, say, MinGW or OpenWatcom. 2). Regarding Wget, actually I don't use a lot of such tools (though I've used it sparingly before), but couldn't you just automatically grab (via Windows' existing FTP.EXE or maybe something better I'm not aware of) the Win32 WGET.EXE if not found in %PATH%? 3). "Edit GETPKGS.CFG so that the "WGET=" line contains the path and filename of your Wget executable." Again, wouldn't just checking the %PATH% for it be easier? 4). "The DOSDIR environment variable must be set and it must not end with a backslash. Usually, it will already be set." I hope your error checking is good. :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
