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seeking a DOS developer for a possible coding gig? (Developers)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 27.01.2020, 00:54

> What I desire is finding a dos software developer who has the skills
> to perhaps code this program for DOS, or create a new one. I come
> across individuals all the time working in low graphics environments
> who cannot access fanfiction.net content, or for whom existing
> fanfiction downloader programs do not work.
> depending on the details I hope to pay the developer for their
> efforts. at the moment however I am gaging interest and seeking
> talent. Any thoughts?

As a hobbyist only, I fiddled around with my own unofficial FreeDOS mini-distros. One floppy image (used mostly under VMs) was MetaDOS, which has packet drivers that work under QEMU and VBox. (This was taken from Crynwr and also used in FDNET package.) So you can use Links2 or Wget or Curl (depending on compiled version available). As mentioned, Links2 (full version) works pretty well for what it does!

Curl has had several older builds, but most of them were weak or buggy. Even now, the Curl website points to Michael Kostylev's server, but it's down (as always). Not complaining, he's done decent work, but it's hard to find. So I'm not even sure I have his latest files!

Even though I have minimal access to mirroring files to iBiblio for FreeDOS, I've never rebuilt Wget nor Curl. There's too many files, I haven't vetted it, so I don't fully know the licensing situation (should be okay, but ...). So, even though I've mentioned it to several people, no one else seems to know or care enough to clarify or try. (It's not a big priority for anyone.) So I never mirrored it. (It needs some cleaning up to be able to separate the DOS/DJGPP-specific diffs from the upstream code. It also should probably be rebuildable atop DOSEMU2 or native DOS, maybe even with SFNs! But I may be the only one who cares about that. Sigh. Cross-compilation is good, too, maybe Andrew Wu's toolset would work, but I haven't tried. We just really need something easily reproducible.)

The latest version of M.K.'s Curl (7.64) and Wget (1.20.3) I have are here (20 MB, with full? srcs): curlwget.zip . I haven't tested the Wget as much in recent years, but it worked. But Curl (even CURLTINY) seems to work pretty well, so these days I'd prefer that.

For simplicity, I also uploaded only the three Curl .EXEs here (2 MB, no srcs, which is allowed by license): curlexe.zip

If someone here (Glenn?) wants to mirror it all, go ahead. I'm just saying, it's not ideal by any means. It needs cleaning up and needs to be reproducible with public tools (and libs) on public OSes, e.g. FreeDOS under QEMU or whatever. (I saw one mention that DJGPP 2.04 [sic] scanf() was buggy for Curl, but I don't even know if or how that was resolved. Hidden bugs are no fun.)

Just FYI.

 

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