Re: VC on FreeDOS

Hi all,

I don't want to miss this ocasion to tell people about my little toy, a 
file manager for DOS that I am creating.
I call it FD-Shell, not for being the SHELL= in CONFIG.SYS, but to 
provide some of the functionality that the old DOSSHELL.EXE did in DOS 
(don't expect task switching, though).
It runs in FreeDOS (with CWSDPMI or other DPMI server), uses LFN (seems 
to work with DOSLFN, that seems to work well under FreeDOS, although not 
thoroughly tested), free, but it has some differences with the ?C 
family, as I have preferred a Win4.0 look&Feel rather than the 
traditional NC one (there's a small tool to configure FDS so that it 
looks a bit similar to NC, though).
It is in an early stage of development, although you can execute 
programs, copy, move and delete files and dirs, rename and change 
attributes, and create folders and symbolic links, in a similar manner 
as you do for Windows, but in text mode.
 From the last time I mentioned it, I have introduced mouse in many 
aspects of the program (not for all the widgets, not for the taskbar), 
and the ability to open several windows at a time (and to switch amongst 
them), and now I am polishing the source, and rewriting some parts (the 
parts that are older, and that I made several years ago, when I was 
younger and had a narrower view of the project).
Unfortunately, the mixture of old and new code doesn't seem to be making 
any good to the stability, and there are some bugs here and there, that 
I expect to fix the sooner.
For the moment, those interested in having a look are encouraged to 
download the version 'j' from this page:
http://inicia.es/de/aitorsm/FreeDOS/shell/fdshell.htm
The only version available is entirely in English language, no other 
languages are yet supported.
Should you find new bugs, please do let me know, just in case the bugs 
you encounter are not in my list already ;-)

Aitor

>Gerard wrote:
>
>>BTW: there was some time ago a mentioning of Midnight-Commander in a DOS
>>port. I was wondering where I could find that one? There seems to be a
>>Windows 9x/NT Version available, but aparently that doesn't run under DOS.
>>Would be great to have an mc for DOS with FTP support similar to that of the
>>original Linux/UNIX mc...
>>
>
>I personaly use NDN - Necromancer's Dos Navigator. the real mode version
>runs fine in FreeDos (lbacache recomended), the dpmi32 doess not and
>I didn't have time to test the dpmi16 version. NDN's strong point is _full_
>LFN handling in a dos-box an it has became my favorite Win navigating tool.
>
>BTW: it is fully free. That means that I can go around installing it in any
>client without bothering about shareware expiration times.
>
>Alain
>