DOS ain't dead

Hi,

just noticed that http://mik.dyndns.org/dos-stuff/ is back... but the (new) files cannot be downloaded...403 Forbidden

Bye
Flo

> just noticed that http://mik.dyndns.org/dos-stuff/ is back... but the
> (new) files cannot be downloaded...403 Forbidden

Yeah I really wanted another copy of links for DOS .
Is there another place where I can find it?

> > just noticed that http://mik.dyndns.org/dos-stuff/ is back... but the
> > (new) files cannot be downloaded...403 Forbidden
>
> Yeah I really wanted another copy of links for DOS .
> Is there another place where I can find it?

http://www.glennmcc.org/download/mik/


File Name             Last Modified        File Size
elin013b.zip    -- 08/02/08 | 19:20 -- 1309270 bytes
ffmpeg.zip      -- 08/04/08 | 19:15 -- 5573274 bytes
hdpmi32.zip     -- 08/04/08 | 18:47 -- 46538 bytes
links21b.zip    -- 08/02/08 | 19:29 -- 3105702 bytes
mencoder.zip    -- 08/02/08 | 19:43 -- 4862443 bytes
mplayer.zip     -- 08/02/08 | 19:59 -- 5163972 bytes
setvmode.zip    -- 08/04/08 | 18:47 -- 3621 bytes
smbc3b.7z       -- 11/19/08 | 18:49 -- 900081 bytes
smbc3b.zip      -- 11/20/08 | 16:06 -- 933023 bytes
wget111b.txt    -- 09/07/08 | 16:17 -- 8093 bytes
wget111b.zip    -- 08/02/08 | 18:30 -- 901092 bytes


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> > Yeah I really wanted another copy of links for DOS .
> > Is there another place where I can find it?
>
> http://www.glennmcc.org/download/mik/

Thanks

> Hi,
>
> just noticed that http://mik.dyndns.org/dos-stuff/ is back... but the
> (new) files cannot be downloaded...403 Forbidden

I noticed this too yesterday, and I couldn't download anything either (even his compile of p7zip 4.61, which is the latest although 7-Zip official is 4.62). Nevertheless, I decided to build my own, and it seems to work. (E-mail me if you want it. But it's still a fair bit slower than 7ZA + HX.)

For some reason, though, p7zip's makefile for DJGPP has a few defines that aren't needed (and uses -O, strangely), but it still builds fine ... except for using "-lsocket". Not sure what lib they mean because Richard Dawe's ls080b.zip doesn't work although I think I did accidentally build with it when using headers from WATT-32 (and it was like 200k smaller than the WATT-32 build, seemed to work too, but I don't trust it). Also, WATT-32 prints a LOT of (useless) warnings when itself is being built via GCC 4.3.2. Not sure if using something else (3.4.4) would cease some of that.

rr, you've built WATT-32 before, right? Any ideas about any of this?

> rr, you've built WATT-32 before, right? Any ideas about any of
> this?

No, sorry. Try asking Gisle.

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> > rr, you've built WATT-32 before, right? Any ideas about any of
> > this?
>
> No, sorry. Try asking Gisle.

Nah, not a biggie. Seems (on very superficial inspection) to be an issue with errno.h in DJGPP 2.03p2 (among others). Not really a problem.

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> just noticed that http://mik.dyndns.org/dos-stuff/ is back... but the
> (new) files cannot be downloaded...403 Forbidden

It's dead. BTW, the MPLAYER port could be hosted at ibiblio, but Jim Hall requires full and exact source for 100% GPL compliance.

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> > just noticed that http://mik.dyndns.org/dos-stuff/ is back... but the
> > (new) files cannot be downloaded...403 Forbidden
>
> It's dead. BTW, the MPLAYER port could be hosted at ibiblio, but Jim Hall
> requires full and exact source for 100% GPL compliance.

Well, iBiblio and the GPL probably make Jim want to have full sources anyways, and plus he IS the head of FreeDOS (which is "free" as in GPL, at least BASE), so it's kinda important to him.

I hope Michael doesn't mind me quoting his recent e-mail response to me:

>> Is your website supposed to be available to the public for
>> downloads? I mean, we at the BTTR Forum see it occasionally, but it
>> doesn't allow downloads (403 Forbidden).
>
> I wonder that it seems accessible at all.
>
>> I see that you compiled p7zip
>> 4.61. While I also am able to compile it now (thankfully), if you've
>> already done it, that may be better somehow. (BTW, did you use WATT32
>> or ls080b / libsocket?? Seems to need the former but if at final
>> linking you use -lsocket, it seems smaller, oddly, and yet I don't
>> trust libsocket because it's too old. Alas.)
>
> IIRC initial port of p7zip was linked against gnu pth (provides
> pthreads api), which requires bsd sockets. I always used the fsu
> pthreads implementation but the harmful -lsocket dependency was
> removed only in 4.58. I think you should be happy with your build.