From: Johnson L. <jo...@tm...> - 2004-03-30 11:47:48
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On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 10:48:20 +0200, you wrote: Sorry for breaking in ... >The case is not comparable either. I seem to recall (Alain was it you?) that it was mentioned copyright issues over the label "SMARTDRV", but I don't think there is any over "SCANDISK" (I may be wrong). I'll think this way ... When FreeDOS kick off, the aim is to smoothly transfer the applications/games/utilities from dead M$-DOS to FreeDOS environment which most of the program are OpenSource. For the convenient of most users, we try to use the same name such as XCOPY or CHKDSK. But it's not a must! If there're sufficient reasons, program like LBACACHE or CDRCACHE is acceptable, but it must come together with a transition guide and documentation in order to let the old DOS user to switch to FreeDOS without much pain. If DOSFSCK can do the job similar or better than SCANDISK, then we don't need to insist on the name. For me, I think using the name DOSFSCK is better because it's NOT a direct replacement of SCANDISK. It's good that some nice guys here want to make a GUI for it, but the GUI may have a better name than SCANDISK. Rgds, Johnson. |