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• FreeDOS documentation Wiki back online

  A few days ago, I restored a backup of our documentation Wiki and removed heavy spamming (link farms) from dozens of pages. Twelve hours later, everything was totally spammed again. So, following JeremyD's example from http://wiki.fdos.org/ (the tech wiki), the user documentation wiki on http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/wiki/ now uses a blocklist to stop spammers. I hope you will enjoy using the resurrected wikis for DOS-friendly things again now :-). The doc wiki also features the MetaFaq, which has pointers to our best FAQ entries...! By the way - the FAQ engine now has spam filtering, too...

  posted by mceric 1249 days ago

• Problems

  We had a few problems with the site, including wiki and faq. Soon, everything will be back to it's normal state.

  posted by carlosab 1526 days ago

• New coordinator

  The FD-DOC project has a new coordinator, me, Carlos Bonamigo and also a new homepage for the project that will be ready soon. Everybody is invited to collaborate and we will be using the pmwiki wikiwiki engine to ease the maintenance of the FD-DOC documentation.

  posted by carlosab 1819 days ago

• German FreeDOS Kompendium

  Thought everyone might like to see Stefan Mayrhofer's terrific effort to create a Germn documentation Wiki for FreeDOS. Stephan writes: "hi, I'm working on a German wiki book called 'FreeDOS Kompendium' at http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/FreeDOS-Kompendium based on the wiki concept so everyone is invited to contribute (in German) to it. of course all content is under the terms of gfdl. Maybe someone wants to translate this to other languages."

  posted by jhall1 1835 days ago

• FreeDOS How-tos in DocMan

  Hi! I've (finally!) finished moving all of the FreeDOS How-tos into the DocMan system (https://sourceforge.net/docman/index.php?group_id=18412). My next step now is to insert the Spec/Manifesto into DocMan.

  posted by jhall1 1970 days ago

• Mini How-tos in DocMan

  Just a note to let you know how I'm doing on the Mini How-tos, and migrating them into DocMan. I've finished moving all of the FreeDOS Mini How-tos (except the emacs/freemacs Mini How-tos - see http://www.freedos.org/jhall/freemacs/) into the DocMan system (https://sourceforge.net/docman/index.php?group_id=18412). My next step now is to insert the full How-tos and Spec/Manifesto into DocMan. This may be easier, since I can just upload the html directly.

  posted by jhall1 2103 days ago

• FreeDOS Migration Guide in DocMan

  As an experiment, I've taken Johnson Lam's "FreeDOS Migration Guide" and put it into DocMan: http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=20916&group_id=18412 It's easy enough to define "FreeDOS How-tos" and "FreeDOS Mini How-tos" in the SF documentation manager, and you can submit and edit documentation fairly easily. But I'd really prefer to have an audit trail of some kind within DocMan, to show who edited a document at what date/time (currently only shows last modified date/time.)

  posted by jhall1 2121 days ago

• Moving FD-DOC into DocMan?

  I'm considering how to improve the FD-DOC project, to make it easier for new users to contribute to our documentation. I'm concerned that by using 'roff -ms' as our documentation standard, we have set the bar too high for new documenters. It doesn't make a lot of sense to require that a user learn what is essentially a document-programming language (roff) just to contribute to a FreeDOS How-to. So I'm thinking about moving our FreeDOS documentation into the SF DocMan. What do you think? Join the discussion on fd-doc-list.

  posted by jhall1 2121 days ago

• Code committed

  jhall1 committed patchset 14 of module mini to the FreeDOS Documentation Project CVS repository, changing 2 files

  posted by jhall1 2233 days ago

• Code committed

  jhall1 committed patchset 64 of module howto to the FreeDOS Documentation Project CVS repository, changing 2 files

  posted by jhall1 2236 days ago