Hi Mercury, nice to hear that you are a long time (Free)DOS fan :-)
If you want to offer software for FreeDOS, it has to be free open source software in the first place. The next question is whether it is okay for widespread use, or only for users with very special interests. Depending on that, you can either have it listed in a category of our list of recommended "part of the distro" tools, where the "util" category for example already has the 4DOS shell. You will not make it into the "base" one, unless your command.com is more "like MS DOS, but at the same time better" than the current FreeCOM which holds the "base" spot for shells. So it would be util: http://www.freedos.org/software/?cat=util If your software has a more exotic target audience, it can still be added to our collection of DOS software hosted on IBIBLIO. Modern drivers such as Jack's and Bret's disk and USB drivers are there, too... http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/ As you see, the recommended / distro things also are on ibiblio. The licensing is important. For the rest, there are no exact rules for what gets on ibiblio and what not. Basically if it is too specific and already has a good website for itself, it makes less sense to mirror it on ibiblio. It can still get linked from the links collections on the FreeDOS website nevertheless. Regards, Eric PS: I speak as experienced FreeDOS guy here, for more elaborate answers you better wait for Jim and Rugxulo who are more into the (not formal) "formal procedure". > fully functional Command.com replacement built into the otherwise graphical > shell to serve as a debugging aid. I am currently extracting it from the > shell it was a part of seven years ago, making selected updates and > recreating it as a standalone application. > > My shell provides several improvements over the traditional command > interpreter, such as multiple directory locations (which can be switched > between using alt-tab) background file copying / deleting and new commands > like "drives" which displays the letters of all available drives as well as > details for each one (e.g. hard drive, floppy, mapped network drive, > CD-ROM, etc.) and other niceties. > > I would like to make this software available on the FreeDOS site once > completed; what is the formal procedure for doing so? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
