A dos port of the Linux program neofetch.
Hi folks, I may only end up using Linux via dos ssh into Linux shells, but boy am I happy when someone ports a Linux tool for DOS. https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/2024/03/fetch4fd-system-info-program/ My goal was something comparative to MSD, and Poof! Cheers, Karen
Interesting. The blurb about MySysInf is a little confusing. I haven't seen a clearer blurb. Maybe there is one in the ZIP file. The first confusing thing is that the blurb seems to call it MySysInf one place and Fetch4FD another. And the URL calls it Fetch4FD (apparently the old name). Googling for MSD gets a lot of unrelated hits. Here's a useful description <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Diagnostics> MySysInf is a port of a BASH script called Neofetch <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neofetch> The program lists a bunch of interesting things about your System. There seem to be a lot of variants of this program! I've added an entry for fetch4fd and MySysInf to the Wikipedia page. I would think that the code for discovering low level resources would be very different for Linux and DOS. Porting this code must have been hard. | From: Karen Lewellen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | To: talk@gtalug.org | Cc: Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> | Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 13:37:24 -0400 (EDT) | Subject: [GTALUG] A dos port of the Linux program neofetch. | | Hi folks, | I may only end up using Linux via dos ssh into Linux shells, but boy am I | happy when someone ports a Linux tool for DOS. | | https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/2024/03/fetch4fd-system-info-program/ | | My goal was something comparative to MSD, and Poof! | Cheers, | Karen
D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote on 2024-04-28 06:38:
MySysInf is a port of a BASH script called Neofetch <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neofetch> The program lists a bunch of interesting things about your System.
I run it on at least one system, and it's a nice *initial* screen when starting a terminal session (invoked by the last line of .bashrc).
There seem to be a lot of variants of this program! I've added an entry for fetch4fd and MySysInf to the Wikipedia page.
Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia. I looked at the linked page, and...
Neofetch development has been discontinued as of April 26, 2024. [5]
Awe, shoot. I guess it's pretty complete now anyway. https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/issues/2453
This repository has been archived by the owner on Apr 26, 2024. It is now read-only.
dylanaraps/README.md
Have taken up farming.
Oh, I can relate, good luck, good sir. Oh, gawd, he wrote a *file manager* in bash, as well as his own Linux distro. I'd take up another occupation too after that. rb
Hi, Cannot speak to how hard it was / is. My understanding is that the author contributes to a couple of DOS projects, there is djgpp, www.dolorie.com/djgpp <I think I misspelled that sorry. And of course freedos itself, www.freedos.org I believe one if not both sometimes gets installed on commercial systems wanting to avoid installing Windows. Djgpp is commercial as well I believe. At the end of the day, is it not just a coding language? Karen On Sun, 28 Apr 2024, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
Interesting.
The blurb about MySysInf is a little confusing. I haven't seen a clearer blurb. Maybe there is one in the ZIP file.
The first confusing thing is that the blurb seems to call it MySysInf one place and Fetch4FD another. And the URL calls it Fetch4FD (apparently the old name).
Googling for MSD gets a lot of unrelated hits. Here's a useful description <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Diagnostics>
MySysInf is a port of a BASH script called Neofetch <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neofetch> The program lists a bunch of interesting things about your System.
There seem to be a lot of variants of this program! I've added an entry for fetch4fd and MySysInf to the Wikipedia page.
I would think that the code for discovering low level resources would be very different for Linux and DOS. Porting this code must have been hard.
| From: Karen Lewellen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | To: talk@gtalug.org | Cc: Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> | Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2024 13:37:24 -0400 (EDT) | Subject: [GTALUG] A dos port of the Linux program neofetch. | | Hi folks, | I may only end up using Linux via dos ssh into Linux shells, but boy am I | happy when someone ports a Linux tool for DOS. | | https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/2024/03/fetch4fd-system-info-program/ | | My goal was something comparative to MSD, and Poof! | Cheers, | Karen --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 03:31:00PM -0400, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote:
Cannot speak to how hard it was / is. My understanding is that the author contributes to a couple of DOS projects, there is djgpp, www.dolorie.com/djgpp <I think I misspelled that sorry. And of course freedos itself,
Only one character off. https://www.delorie.com/djgpp/
www.freedos.org I believe one if not both sometimes gets installed on commercial systems wanting to avoid installing Windows. Djgpp is commercial as well I believe. At the end of the day, is it not just a coding language?
djgpp is based on gcc and is free software. It seems it exists (it is claimed) because Richard Stallman said gcc could not be ported to DOS because of memory requirements and someone took that as a challange. -- Len Sorensen
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