[ros-general] writing file manager / how to use lex?
Tom Lee Mullins
tomleem at attglobal.net
Wed Mar 24 16:53:19 UTC 2004
Brian Palmer wrote:
>This reminds me of all the linux guys saying "why not just use and improve
>linux instead of writing your own". I say go ahead and have fun with it.
>
>My $0.02
>Brian
>
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>[mailto:ros-general-bounces at reactos.com] On Behalf Of Jason Filby
>Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 10:38 AM
>To: ros-general at reactos.com
>Subject: Re: [ros-general] writing file manager / how to use lex?
>
>Jan Tisje wrote:
>
>
>
>>it seems to me, ROS exp is far from finished, too.
>>and first view was not what I was expecting from a file manager.
>>Well, i do not know anything about the internals. is anything
>>
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>available?
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>
>>Jan
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>
>Hi Jan
>
>ROS Explorer being far from finished doesn't seem like a valid reason
>to
>start from scratch again. There's no reason you can't write an
>alternative, but I do think that you should first consider furthering
>
>ROS Explorer. Another plus for ROS Explorer is that it's written in
>C++
>and can be compiled with MingW. A Delphi shell will not easily be
>included with the ReactOS distribution - but perhaps that's not what
>you
>want anyway. These are not reasons not to begin work on your file
>manager - just things to be aware of before you begin.
>
>The webpage for ROS Explorer is here:
>http://www.sky.franken.de/explorer/
>
>The source code is in the ReactOS source under:
>reactos\subsys\system\explorer
>
>Cheers
>Jason
>
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It seems to be what some are trying to do with the OSFree project - a clone
of IBM's OS/2 Warp ver 4. http://www.osfree.org
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osfree . I am hoping those working on
OSFree (and ReactOS) won't heed those words/comments since it might
bring both under scrutiny of SCO who seems to want to destroy Linux.
TomLeeM
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