DOS ain't dead - Homepage from Michael Kostylev

Homepage from Michael Kostylev (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 30.12.2008, 00:23

> > 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.

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Complete thread:

Homepage from Michael Kostylev - flox, 12.12.2008, 16:44 (Announce)
- Homepage from Michael Kostylev - rCX, 12.12.2008, 22:28
  - Homepage from Michael Kostylev - Rugxulo, 12.12.2008, 22:52
    - Homepage from Michael Kostylev - rCX, 13.12.2008, 01:09
- Homepage from Michael Kostylev - Rugxulo, 13.12.2008, 22:24
  - Homepage from Michael Kostylev - rr, 14.12.2008, 20:53
    - Homepage from Michael Kostylev - Rugxulo, 15.12.2008, 00:14
- Homepage from Michael Kostylev - DOS386, 29.12.2008, 01:46
  - Homepage from Michael Kostylev - Rugxulo, 30.12.2008, 00:23