[syslinux] Planning a 2.08 release

[H. Peter Anvin]

Murali Krishnan Ganapathy wrote:
> 
> I dont know if adding that feature (making memdisk force BIOS to choose 
> the last possible drive letter), would help in any situation except the 
> situation I described. Right now, having a 10MB floppy image is more 
> than enough for me.
> 
> BTW, Thanks to the new MEMDISK interrupt, I have one DOS image which 
> does a whole lot of things depending on the arguments it gets. I have 
> implemented an an rc.d style autoexec.bat and that makes things really 
> useful. The key is a program which parses the boot time arguments and 
> sets appropriate environment variables (a simple modification of the 
> sample program which comes with syslinux). This is also available for 
> download (http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~gmurali/gui), in case anyone is 
> interested.
> 
> This feature has reduced the number of DOS images in my CD and hence 
> maintaining them is a lot easier.
> 

Hi Murali,

I think it would be a good idea to preserve the comment I put in into 
mdiskchk.c:

  * This program can be compiled for DOS with the OpenWatcom compiler
  * (http://www.openwatcom.org/):
  *
  * wcl -3 -osx -mt mdiskchk.c

... it's not exactly obvious what compiler to use and how to use it, and 
saving people that trouble would certainly be a good idea.

	-hpa