DOS ain't dead - Custom RDISK Build ("RDISK-S")

Custom RDISK Build ("RDISK-S") (Announce)

posted by roytam, 17.07.2009, 13:12

> > > RDISK /: switch added to use any free drive letter, when loaded
> > > thru AUTOEXEC or later. RDISKON program added.
> >
> > I have modified this version of RDISK to make it work with kilobyte
> > (rather than megabyte) accuracy.
> >
> > The download is here:
> >
> http://superkeen.com/peacecorpsfiles/drvrs-pb.zip
> >
> > I made this change because:
> > -RDISK has an amazingly small footprint, so wanted to stick with it.
> The
> > closest competition is the IBM RAMDRIVE.SYS that comes with PC-DOS 7.1,
> > and that's over double the size of RDISK.COM!
>
> (snipped)

I think you can use INSTALL=rk.com /s5632 /:l and get rip of s.sys

> P.S. I noticed you used (and semi-worried) about PC-DOS 3.30 COMMAND.COM
> for its small size. Just for comparison, you could consider FreeDOS' old
> GCom
> 0.85. It's approx. 12k UPX'd, but it lacks FOR, IF, SHIFT. Still,
> it's quite small, so if you don't need complex .BATs, it might do what you
> want.
>
> P.P.S. As much as I typically shun overformatting, I don't see how you can
> get around that without using stronger, more memory-intensive compression.

just hex-edit COMMAND.COM for getting rip of version=3.30 line in config.sys:
00000D3A: 74 EB

15KB UPX'd with FOR, IF, SHIFT :-D

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