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RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release (Announce)

posted by ecm  , Düsseldorf, Germany, 03.05.2020, 16:18

> Sorry, when I say it's working I was speaking of starting an external
> software, I test FreedOS MEM 1.11 (27/08/2006), it give 412320 bytes with
> Jemmex.

Okay, that's to be expected.

> You're right no shell command are working (dir, cd, ver...).
> I use FreeCom 0.84-pre2 (28/08/2006).

Okay, thanks.

> Regarding the building, I try to follow your manual but some needs were
> hard to find (mostly because I'm a win user and at work on solaris without
> any right to compile...).
> So I clone your source,

How? Do you use Mercurial/hg?

> then I extract the files from
> https://ulukai.org/ecm/rxdos-7.2x-2a9fce7d8975.zip without replacing
> existing files, that give me some missing files I cannot find. And I change
> nothing to the config files. Then I launch ./mak.sh multiple times and fix
> each error by adding missing software one by one.
>
> Here are the screen building output :
> https://www107.zippyshare.com/v/5r1MdlMP/file.html

This page seems to give a 403 error code for german IPs. I did get the file another way, though.

You can just use a line like this in ovr.sh (place next to cfg.sh):

[ -z "$INICOMP_METHOD" ] && INICOMP_METHOD=exodecr

Then you wouldn't have needed to install all the compression programs, just the one you use. Or use "none" to only build the uncompressed RxDOSU.COM, you can rename this and use it as RxDOS.COM instead. I may add some instructions for this to the manual eventually.

> I use winimage to build a floppy image using boot12.bin as bootsector. And
> I test the floppy using 86Box.

That's all right. Would be better to build boot12.bin from ldosboot though. I think oldmak.sh should do that too.

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Complete thread:

• RxDOS 7.24 release - ecm, 08.10.2018, 19:09 (Announce)
  • RxDOS 7.24 release - Guti, 09.10.2018, 10:14
  • RxDOS 7.24 release - ecm, 09.10.2018, 12:54
    • RxDOS 7.24 release - Doug, 11.10.2018, 09:32
      • RxDOS 7.24 release - ecm, 11.10.2018, 11:53
        • RxDOS 7.24 release - roytam, 11.10.2018, 15:37
          • RxDOS 7.24 release - ecm, 11.10.2018, 18:16
            • RxDOS 7.24 release - tom, 12.10.2018, 13:44
              • RxDOS 7.24 release - ecm, 12.10.2018, 14:01
                • RxDOS 7.24 release - ecm, 12.10.2018, 14:34
                • RxDOS 7.24 release - ecm, 12.10.2018, 14:53
                  • RxDOS 7.24 release - nico7550, 15.04.2020, 23:37
                    • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - ecm, 16.04.2020, 17:13
                      • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - nico7550, 02.05.2020, 13:15
                        • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - ecm, 03.05.2020, 15:11
                          • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - nico7550, 03.05.2020, 15:59
                            • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - ecm, 03.05.2020, 16:18
                              • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - nico7550, 03.05.2020, 16:37
                                • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - ecm, 03.05.2020, 16:46
                                  • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - nico7550, 03.05.2020, 16:54
                              • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - tom, 30.01.2021, 13:53
                                • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - ecm, 30.01.2021, 14:37
                                  • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - tom, 31.01.2021, 12:55
                                    • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - ecm, 31.01.2021, 13:10
                                      • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - tom, 31.01.2021, 16:55
                                        • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - rr, 31.01.2021, 17:47
                                        • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - Japheth, 31.01.2021, 18:21
                                          • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - tom, 31.01.2021, 23:58
                                        • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - rr, 03.02.2021, 21:06
                                          • RxDOS: Progress since 7.24 release - Japheth, 04.02.2021, 09:54
                            • RxDOS building - RXD_Build.txt - ecm, 03.05.2020, 17:11
                            • RxDOS building - Prerequisites - ecm, 03.05.2020, 17:29
                              • RxDOS building - Prerequisites - nico7550, 03.05.2020, 18:29
                                • RxDOS building - Prerequisites - nico7550, 03.05.2020, 18:50
                                  • RxDOS building - Prerequisites - ecm, 03.05.2020, 19:21
                                    • Building boot32fd.bin - ecm, 03.05.2020, 19:31
                                • RxDOS building - Prerequisites - ecm, 03.05.2020, 19:00
                • RxDOS 7.24 release - roytam, 12.10.2018, 15:27
        • RxDOS 7.24 release - ecm, 11.10.2018, 18:15