Hi,
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Mercury Thirteen
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> If it's still maintained, we can ask the developer to do it.
I don't think it is. I haven't seen or heard from that guy (Brian
Reifsnyder) in a few years. Somebody could send him a quick message,
but I don't think it's crucial enough at this late time. (Sorry for
being so pessimistic.)
> If it's not... well, Idk the legitimacy of us poking around inside the binary
> and editing the text strings manually.
Probably easier to just recompile (TurboC?).
> The best option would be to make it controllable from the command line
> a'la *nix ("never assume humans will be the sole users of your program")
> so that the user never has to deal with it directly, it simply executes
> commands the installer gives it.
I'm pretty sure it indeed can be controlled semi-automatically like
this, but I never heavily used it like that, so I don't know the
details offhand. This kind of thing is obviously a bit dicey, so you
have to be careful! (Then again, I hate to say it, but anyone trying
to install DOS better know exactly what they are doing anyways.)
P.S. Technically, FreeDOS usually came with three FDISKs: FD FDISK,
XFDisk, SPFdisk. (AFAIK, they're all abandoned.) The second one was
written in Turbo Pascal (although I doubt it would compile easily, if
at all, under recent FPC 3.0.0 16-bit target). I did recently grab a
few SPFdisk copies (latest?) from some website but haven't looked
closely yet. Obviously there are some translations for that (separate
binaries), but I don't know what languages (Chinese? Which??).
P.P.S. Sorry if this wasn't more helpful info. And sorry to Jim (who
hates "P.S."). ;-)
> On 12/22/2015 11:51 AM, Paul Dufresne wrote:
>> When testing the installer, it was not feeling right to go from the
>> french installer to the english fdisk... how could fdisk be
>> translated?
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