Re: [Freedos-devel] About CABinet

[Johnson L. <jo...@tm...>]

On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 02:19:10 +0800 (CST), you wrote:

>Hi,=20
>
>It's good to know Program CABinet is a topic here.

It's useful.
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>I remember when I had many many games installed into my harddisks, =
different directories, different settings, It was not easy to remember =
all, and felt so tired to retype.


>Program CABinet reminds me where they are; a description, what parameter=
 if ever required. Just a few keystrokes away. It does not resemble DOS =
Navigator, nor Night Commander. It is works more like a Window program =
manager, just better, in my point of view.

The reason of asking you about sub-menu or parameter come from
PowerMenu, an old commercial-ware. It can define some job or task to
run. Years ago I use it to run some disk copy program such as
Locksmith or HD-Copy, after finish copying it return to the menu, then
I can run other programs or quit to DOS. Your CABinet remind me of
that, very useful.

I notice a lot of disk access so I think making it TSR (just like
SIDEKICK) will increase efficiency. Using RAMDISK is OK but the user
may delete or alter the content and destroy the program.

>To extend its functionality, when we develop application programs for =
end user, a menu is definitely required to bind different modues =
together. Program CABinet may serve well.=20

Great ... it cost US29.5 ten years ago! Now you release it free!

>Program CABinet has a tiny footprint, it needs 4-6k memory, and works =
with 8088 CPU with floppy drives.

You even take care of the 8088 user ... actually IMHO you can start
with 80386.
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>I hope I have my points clear, thanks!

I got your idea, thanks.
We've similar thoughts, maybe we're neighbor in the past ;-)


Rgds,
Johnson.