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Debugger command to dump the first System File Table entries
I added to the ~/.dosemu/drive_c/ldebug.sld file so it contains the following:
Early mid January work on the MCP
2026-01-18
This week I put some work into the Master Control Program (MCP), and a new helper utility called the Codified Likeness Utility (CLU). (Both, of course, named for programs in the Tron franchise.) The MCP is stored in a file named ldosmcp.com or ldosmcpz.com which contains the lDOS kernel, a triple-mode lDebug build, the lDOS pre-boot loader, the instsect tool to install boot sector loaders, the patldos tool to patch lDOS kernel files, an Extension for lDebug library with over 60 extensions, and newly a FreeCOM build.
CLU is in a file named clu.exe, which can be used as the file pointed to by the COMSPEC variable. It finds ldosmcp.com and replaces its own process with the MCP, with a special handshake so that the MCP will load its FreeCOM build.
Idiom on having written
There’s the old quote "I don’t like writing, I like having written."
2025-11-21 article, "I'd rather outsource watching sunsets", by mingyuan
