DOS ain't dead - F-PROT / ClamAV for DOS / RHBVS

F-PROT / ClamAV for DOS / RHBVS (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 29.11.2007, 11:18

> Maybe you want to revive Eric Auer's Clam
> AntiVirus port.

Eric didn't do the port, Joergen Ibsen did. And I recently contacted him via e-mail, but he's too busy to (probably) do it again these days:

> I don't have a working DJGPP compiler environment anymore since it
> does not appear to work correctly under Windows XP, but back when I
> compiled the mentioned version it was just using the latest DJGPP
> release at the time.
>
> It was primarily some differences in readdir and *nprintf functions,
> and looking through the diff and the current source it appears most of
> the places I changed now have similar changes for cygwin
> compatibility. It might work to compile with C_CYGWIN, but it's a bit
> of a long shot.
>
> I might try to get DJGPP running in a VM at some point, but right now
> I am afraid I don't have the time for setting it up.
>
> Regards, Joergen Ibsen

I pointed him to my FreeDOS mini distro, hoping that would help get him up and running. But he needs time, so I didn't press him too hard. (Besides, we still have F-Prot, as mentioned above, and others like RHBVS).

FYI, here's what Eric has on his site:

2071 2004-03-05 04:18:25 clamav-0.67-dos.diff.gz 135206 2004-02-28 22:20:44 clamscan-dos-exe.zip

http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/

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Complete thread:

F-PROT is dead - Deniska, 29.11.2007, 09:52 (Announce)
- F-PROT is NOT dead - rr, 29.11.2007, 09:55
  - OT: BTTR links - Rugxulo, 29.11.2007, 10:20
    - OT: BTTR links - rr, 29.11.2007, 11:05
  - F-PROT is NOT dead - Deniska, 29.11.2007, 10:59
    - F-PROT is NOT dead - rr, 29.11.2007, 11:10
      - F-PROT / ClamAV for DOS / RHBVS - Rugxulo, 29.11.2007, 11:18
        F-PROT / ClamAV for DOS / RHBVS - rr, 29.11.2007, 11:27
        F-PROT / ClamAV for DOS / RHBVS - Steve, 30.11.2007, 13:22
- F-PROT is dead - DOS386, 12.12.2007, 01:50
  - F-PROT is dead - sol, 12.12.2007, 01:52
    - F-PROT is dead - DOS386, 12.12.2007, 02:17
      - F-PROT is dead - Steve, 12.12.2007, 05:36