#398 please populate links dir

[Stas Sergeev]

Hi!

Currently it seems only Gopherus package
adds a bat file to c:\links. Other packages do
not do this.
Please consider populating links for those
packages for which it makes sense (not for
those going to c:\bin, but most of others
probably should).

[Jim Hall]

Not every program or package needs to have a link in the \freedos\links directory. Some larger packages do, and some games. For example, this is my \freedos\links from a FreeDOS 1.4 "plain DOS" install, plus installing the OpenWatcom compiler, IA-16 GCC compiler, and all of the games:

C:\>dir /w /b freedos\links
[.]            [..]           BLKDROP.BAT    FLPYBIRD.BAT   I16ADDR2.COM
I16AR.COM      I16AS.COM      I16BUTIL.COM   I16CPP.COM     I16CXXFI.COM
I16DWP.COM     I16ELFED.COM   I16GCC-A.COM   I16GCC-N.COM   I16GCC-R.COM
I16GCC.COM     I16GCOV-.COM   I16GCOV.COM    I16GOLD.COM    I16GPROF.COM
I16LD.COM      I16NM.COM      I16OBJCO.COM   I16OBJDU.COM   I16RANLI.COM
I16READE.COM   I16SIZE.COM    I16STRIN.COM   I16STRIP.COM   SAYSWHO.BAT
SENET.BAT      SMILEY.BAT

Note that in the 1980s and 1990s, DOS applications assumed you would cd to the application directory and launch the program from there.

[Jim Hall]

This feature request will likely not be addressed as it is not needed. I am closing as won't fix

[Stas Sergeev]

Sorry for not mentioning the
exact packages for which I needed
this. At least that seems convenient
for DN2 and some networking apps,
like wget, links etc that can be used
from scripts.