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posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 30.07.2010, 15:16

> Ok. I added FD MOVE to my list of FreeDOS "dontuse"-tools - which already
> contains quite a few items ( DEFRAG, FDISK, CHKDSK, HIMEM.SYS, ... ). All
> in all a rather dismal FreeDOS status.
Patches welcome. (I know, standard lame thing to say.) For MOVE alternative, try DJGPP's mv (I think? in FIL41B.ZIP). Or any file manager.

DEFRAG is mostly okay, just it has the unenviable task of needing to work on 8088 on up, even with FAT32. So it's somewhat understandable. (maintainer - Imre Leber)

FDISK is compatible but vaguely buggy. You'll need SPFDISK for SATA. Or you can try XFDISK. FreeDOS includes all three. (maintainer of FD FDISK - Brian Reifsnyder, who I guess never did finish latest beta, someone needs to e-mail him again I guess)

CHKDSK is for 16-bit machines only. For 32-bit use, DOSFSCK is recommended. (maintainer - maybe none, else Eric Auer)

HIMEM - why, what's wrong with it? Even your HIMEMX still doesn't have the fix for old 386s (sorry, Ninho). (maintainer - nobody, originally by Michael Devore, some improvements by you Japheth). At least we also have XMGR as an option (hi, Jack!) or FDXMS (Martin Stromberg).

> > Known issue. Why ? This is because of EDR-DOS 2009 immature experimental
> > NTLFN support + Volkov NTLFN addiction.
>
> Oooh, it is a "known" issue. Then everything's alright of course.
No, but lacking corporate sponsorship (or someone to actually want to hack it to death), it won't get fixed.

> > Remove NTLFN support from VC and problem is gone :hungry: If for some
> > reason you can't fix Volkov, launch UI21DEB and activate N ;-)
>
> Thanks, but I don't "use" EDR-DOS. However, I guess Steve will happily
> follow your valuable hints.
You well know that we could all band together and test / fix these bugs in FreeDOS or EDR-DOS if we wanted. Do we want to?? Or aren't we always busy with other projects?

> > > instead of EDR-DOS better use MS-DOS 7.1 or 8.0 if you love your data!
> >
> > I'm excited !!! :-) Now please give us the link where one can download
> the
> > thing. :hungry: I'll test it ASAP :hungry:
>
> You'll have to format a floppy disk under WinXP. You'll see an option to
> create an MS-DOS boot disk. If you don't own WinXP or your comp has no FD
> anymore - bad luck!
You can use a USB floppy drive or maybe emulate one on USB flash drive somehow.

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