Project History

There was a 4os2 netlabs project since a long time. There are 4.xx versions floating around on various places in the net. But the 4.xx branch was dropped in favour of the 'more' offical 3.xx branch which is in the repository at - ​http://perforce.openwatcom.org:4000/@md=d&cd=//depot/public/&c=TNZ@//depot/public/4os2/?ac=83

Most probably there was no work on the 4.xx branch since years, while there was continuous development on the 3.xx branch by Michal Necasek and Steven Levine.

Starting with version 3.05x Andreas Buchinger made a few changes to the 4os2 sources. Andreas goal was to replace the cmdshl from the mlrxshl package which he used for many years. As probably every potential contributor will have the same questions Andreas had, we thought it would be a good idea to refresh the 4os2 pages here and make a netlabs project out of the perforce 3.xx branch.

Version History

2022-01-22 - 3.11

Steven Levine and Gregg Young updates. ​https://github.com/StevenLevine/4os2

2011-11-20 - 3.08

Fix for ticket#14 - CDWithoutBackslash=2 breaks some scripts

2011-01-23 - 3.06

Most notable fix is cd into directories which names contains [ now works

2010-04-15 - 3.05A

3.05A package released

2010-02-07 - 3.05Arc4

exe only, copy over your current installation. To run debug version you need pmprintf.dll.

• fixed various LargeFileSupport issues with copy, tree, dir.... commands
• experimental code to enable type on devices (f.i. type ibms506$ /P/L)

2009-09-04 - 3.05Arc3

• fixed dir for files >=4GB
• added wrapper functions for older system which do not support LargeFiles (pre Warp Server for e-bussines)

Other Notes

• At some point of history the Netlabs 4OS2 mailing list used to be mirrored on ​Gname, but in July of 2016 the service was discontinued.