Hi, Jim,

I haven't read the other thread yet, so I'm not sure what you've done so far.

On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Jim Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Rugxulo <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> P.S. You might do better with TxWin (LGPL, C), which does explicitly
>> support DOS via OW:   http://trac.netlabs.org/txwin/
>
> Thanks for the link, Rugxulo!
>
> Looks like they updated txwin in June 2014. They have directory indexing on
> the web server, so I found it here:
>
> http://www.dfsee.com/txwin/
> http://www.dfsee.com/txwin/txwin2xx.zip
>
> I'll give it a try.

I have no idea if it will do what you want, though.

> I thought to try something new with the updated installer. Rather than have
> one big program that does everything, why not create a few simple tools that
> can be used in an INSTALL.BAT to install FreeDOS? Enhanced Batch File tools
> already exist, I suppose, but I wanted to use free software tools that
> stamped "FreeDOS 1.2" at the top of the screen, and always gave a consistent
> appearance.

Depends on what you're trying to do.

> (If you want to point me to such Enhanced Batch File tools, with source code
> under some free license like the GNU GPL, please let me know.)
>
> I'll post a note in the 'Working on FreeDOS 1.2' email thread, so people who
> are watching there will see it.

I don't know of much of anything super obvious offhand because I don't
know what specifics you're trying to do. I'm far from exhaustive in
all these obscure corners (even though I try sometimes).

One tool in particular, which maybe you forgot about, not that I ever
tested it, is Blair's old port of *nix "Dialog":

http://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/mailman/message/21584451/
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/menu/

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