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posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 30.07.2010, 05:30

> Thanks for the info!

:-|

> FD move.exe is dated 30.8.2006, which is kind of
> "brand-new" for dos tools,

I'll admit that's not really "old", but what I meant was that it hasn't been updated since then (while much else of FreeDOS has, despite no official 1.1 release yet still, ahem like Tom Ehlert predicted [why??]).

> so I wasn't aware of its abandoned state ( OTOH,
> isn't more or less all DOS software "abandoned"? ).

No, not all DOS software is abandoned (e.g. Doszip, Mpxplay, JWasm). ;-)

What I mainly meant was that I had reported the +R bug to the (alleged) maintainer many moons ago and go no response. And no one else (nor me) stepped up to do it yet. FreeDOS is an exclusively volunteer project, and uncoincidentally it is very very low on manpower.

> Honestly, I usually
> don't use it at all, but VC fails to copy or move any directory with the
> mentioned EDR-DOS version, so I was in need of a tool which at least
> partially works.
Understandable, but ...

> > Also, most people don't put attributes on directories, most
> > tools don't expect it, and I think DR-DOS doesn't even (directly) let
> you
> > do so (at least not with its Attrib).
>
> I'm slightly tempted to ask "So what?", but since this is regarded as
> impolite I will swallow this question down.
Well, if DR-DOS doesn't let you do it at all, it's obviously not important enough to do! (At least not in their eyes.) Besides, permissions on DOS are pretty heavily unenforced or ignored in most circumstances (as is apparent by obscure bugs in FD move, touch, etc).

EDIT:

> I know, e.g. DJGPP distro can be unpacked in pure DOS and cutting
> the filenames and it works. But for my own SW and source files I
> will always use 8.3 :)
Considering that DJ himself wrote DOSCHK, that's no surprise that DJGPP does work (which I indeed knew). ;-)

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