Values his own, and I don't think "collective authorship" I value my time and (limited) skills as highly as anyone
"public domain" nor "GPLed" code : you may alter source codeįor your own private use, provided your alterations remain privateĪnd are not spread to the public, whatever the reason. Please note freeware status and sources providing do NOT mean Second, to let user fix and/or enhance any programįor his own *private* use, should he want or need to. Should a stupid virus-scanner pretend otherwise Source code is provided here for two reasons :įirst, to let you know there are no malicious code in the programs, good codeĪnd not a work of art, however clever, elegant or functional it may be). To reading an essay or a novel, good code being just. (contrarily to what so-called "hackers extraordinaires"ĭare and say, even good code is not literature,Īnd reading source code cannot be assimilated Providing protected source code is mere *courtesy*,Īnd a courtesy which is not even really educational When they're not even able to spot obvious flaws.) Just have a look at QD_ERIS.MOD and at "Fun with XOSL installer" sectionĪbout those GPL guys so willing to give lessons and lectures That someone actually reads the dozens of thousands of lines of codeĪvailable in open source projects ? (If you're for a good laugh, Is almost useless for most users - and who is to believe
QDTOOLS.ZIP archive is probably the largest Modula-2 compilationĪvailable today (about 150000 lines of code),įor it included, the last time I cared to check,ġ90 TS JPI M2 DOS various programs (165 with source code),Ĥ8 XDS M2 Win32 ports (all but one with XDS-uglyfied source code),Īs well as 15 PB DOS programs (all with source code)Īnd 15 VB programs (13 with source code, 2 with partial source codeĬontrarily to what GPL-men think, providing source code (beyond informative help screens for each program, of course)īut this should not be a problem for command line users.Īnd the package is freeware, after all - which does not mean Reading Steve Gibson's pages about passwords may be *very* instructive.īut back to Q&D Tools, now. May be useful too for modern PCs.) For the third example, Using good programs such as Nero or Rufus an external USB floppy disk One can create a DOS boot CDROM or a DOS boot USB key
(Fortunately for those unfortunate floppyless PC boxes, On a DOS partition will help, even if you're a Vindoze WIMP addict. While TEXTGEN (f)utility can help creating rather *good* passwords.įor the first two examples, note a boot floppy and/or XOSL multiboot
Tiny DOS utilities can quickly, easily and safely performĮssential tasks : UCLONE does full or partial hard disk cloningĮven on SATA drives, VITAL saves or restores hard disk partition data, When any *nx would be overkill for many tasks. It does have virtues, even today, including simplicity and efficiency, But don't despise DOSĪnd its command line : although primitive an operating system, Yes, almost all of these tools are DOS programs. If you still happen to run any flavor of real DOS,Ĭommand line console or even DOSbox (possibly with LFN support,Īlthough in that case, I've yet to see one actually workingĪs it should even when it's "Made in Germany"). Maybe you'll find several of them of some interest, too,
Programming is the only really never ending story). Their main code was supposed to be frozen years ago (exceptįor a few functions added and glitches fixed : (yes, this was written long before the WinXP/Vista/Seven/EightĬoming Age of Darkness).
They use C, C++, Python and PHP."Īlthough Q&D Tools programs were created in good (?) old DOSĭays, most of them are still useful in those (censored) Win9X days "- Why do we have to hide from the Code Police, Daddy ? Other Web sites are *NOT* (they can provide a link to authorized ones). The most recent archive as found on "") : *Only* Modula-2 Web sites, Simtel, Garbo, FreeDOS, UBCD and MDGx sitesĪre authorized to host the Q&D Tools archive (provided they supply
Please *respect* letter and spirit of license as specified infra ! You can use these tools without any cost, but they're not yours. It's a *freeware*, but definitely *NOT* public domain nor even GPL. Note QDTOOLS.ZIP distribution and usage policies *ARE* restrictive :