[ros-dev] Command line

[Imre Leber]

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>From: Brandon Turner [mailto:turnerb7 at msu.edu]
>Sent: Sunday, September 3, 2006 05:58 PM
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>Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Command line
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>Imre Leber wrote:
>> A few hours ago the base part of FreeDOS version 1 was released.
>>
>> Now is probably a good time to port all the relevant FreeDOS commands: move, diskcopy, diskcomp, chkdsk, fc, ... to reactos.
>>
>> Some of them are written in assembly and would inherently not be portable (deltree, ...).
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>> Imre
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>Well as long as windows has these application(and they have all the ones 
>you mentioned excluding move which is internal to cmd) they can be moved 
>to ReactOS\base\applications which is where we keep all these apps.  
>Though, we might want to stay away from the asm ones.  My question is 
>whether we are going to do vendor drops and treat them like wine code 
>where we sync them back all the time and submit patches back to the 
>original project to get them when we sync again or whether we we are 
>just going to add them to the our tree?
>
>Either way, I can probably help in the process to move them over.
>

Some of them I personally maintain, like diskcopy and chkdsk. 

I would very much like to extend this maintenance into reactos. I actually would like to volunteer for all these other tools coming from FreeDOS too.

But then we do talk about fully 32/64 bit binaries that are fully aware of reactos.

You could build thess from scratch for the reactos project, but I think it would be much more productive to start from an already very stable code base. Instead of maybe again spending 12 years of development.

Imre

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