Steven Hirsch wrote:
BluPhoenyx wrote:David Sugar has agreed to allow his Command.com shell et.al to be available as free usage. I don't want to post the actual email here but I will supply it for inclusion in the archive to be made for distribution.I have no Command.com materials on hand and sadly, neither does David Sugar. If he did, the source could be available also.So I am looking for the following. 1) Any released versions which someone has possession of.I can help with that.
Excellent.
2) Any documentation which someone has possession of. If necessary, scanning can be performed and documents will be returned as required.Ditto. I will have to dig for the manual, but I have both the user and developer manuals. May take some time to reach the proper archeological stratum.
Also excellent but please don't lose yourself out there. :)Developer's manual would be a boon as well. IIRC, Command.com also supports Kyan Pascal but I might be mis-remembering this information.
If you can't or don't want to scan the manuals, I can get that done and then return them to you. Contact me in email when you locate them for arrangements.
3) Any source code which someone might possibly have. I realize this is a stretch but one can hope.It's distressing that so many folks who moved on beyond the A2 allowed the sources to fall into the bitbucket. Is it a matter of not being able to read older media, or does he literally not have it?
For some of us it's unavoidable disasters. David Sugar lost his in a house flood. It was in the basement and when the contractors cleaned things up the removed everything. Too bad, it might have been possible to recover something from the floppies.
In a pinch, I wonder if PinPoint Publishing has a copy of the sources. They marketed Command.Com as a boxed product for a while.
Well, you never know. I would expect the source to stay with the developer in the cases where the developer is not an actual company programmer. Of course different distributors may have different requirements.
Any contact info available on them? Cheers, Mike T