How to install programs on DOS
How do you install DOS programs if you can't use FDIMPLES? DOS programs are what's called "statically linked." That means for the most part, paths don't matter. You can install a DOS program pretty much anywhere, and as long as DOS can find the program, you can run it. Let's take a look at how to unzip a program from a zip file so we can run it.
I'm using FreeDOS Edlin 2.19, recently released by Gregory Pietsch. This is a minor bugfix release. I think the changes will be visible if you compile this on Linux, the functionality on FreeDOS should remain the same. And yes, you really can compile Edlin for FreeDOS (I have). You can find FreeDOS Edlin on SourceForge. I've also mirrored this release on the FreeDOS files archive at Ibiblio, under /dos/edlin. Thanks Gregory!
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