Anyone interested in helping me start a new project?

Enrico Weigelt weigelt at metux.de
Thu Mar 27 02:11:13 UTC 2008


* Ian Hawdon <ian.hawdon at gmail.com> schrieb:

> Hello, been using Midnight Commander for a while, it's a good replacement to
> NC from the old DOS days. Back in the day, I used to use 2 programs to
> manage my DOS system, NC, and a little known set of tools known as "IBM/TI
> PC Directory File Editor (DF-EDIT)" or just DF-EDIT. I would love to see the
> DF-EDIT tools ported to *NIX systems. I've started a sourceforge project:
> 
> http://odfedit.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Over there I've put a small description of the tools and what they did, and
> a few mockups of one of the programs.
> 
> Sadly, I have no programming knowledge (BASIC doesn't really count now does
> it ;-) ) and it would be great if a few people could get the project off the
> ground.

Oh, porting ancient DOS apps to *nix is not a trivial task, as they tend to
do lot's of direct hw access and take lot's of assumptions that are in no
way valid in *nix world. But your idea is interesting.

As you're not experienced yet, you'll first have to learn a lot of things
about C-programming. 

I'd like to offer you mentorship if you could help me in some of my own
projects. 


cu
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