OpenDOS has several mailing lists which provide an excellent source of information of all kind about the operating system. All lists are managed by a listserver installed on DJ Delorie's server. Click here to skip the description part and jump directly to the instructions on how to subscribe. The discussion lists currently available are:
- opendos
- this list is meant for all users of OpenDOS. Questions and answers posted to this list should be related to all general aspects of OpenDOS.
- opendos-developer
- on this list meet all programmers, developers programming for/with OpenDOS. The list is rather more specialized than opendos and a certainl level of understandig of computer programming and operating system issues is
assumed.
- opendos-support
- this is the OpenDOS Tech Support line. You can ask here all questions you'd ask when calling to your company's hotline. The advantage of opendos-support is that it is active 24H - there are always people around the world who can answe r your question almost immediately.
In addition tho the lists mentioned above, there are several one-way ones. These are meant to help you deal with the heavy traffic on discussion groups. The digest lists come in two flavors - weekly and daily . The daily lists are always chunked into packages not larger than 50 kb, weekly digests may be slightly larger. The following digests are available:
- opendos-digest
- daily digest for the opendos list
- opendos-weekly
- weekly digest for the opendos list
- opendos-developer-digest
- daily digest for the opendos-developer list
- opendos-developer-weekly
- weekly digest for the opendos-developer list
- opendos-support-digest
- daily digest for the opendos-support list
- opendos-support-weekly
- weekly digest for the opendos-support list
Subscribtion is easy. You just send a message to the listserver with body of message containing appropriate commands and directives (A detailed description of the process follows). Alternatively you can use our mailing list gateway to subscribe.
Portions enclosed in square braces are optional. You may put more than one command in a single message. The listserver will respond separately to each of the requests.
- subscribtion
- unsubscribtion
- help on a specific list
- general help on listserver interface
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To: listserv@delorie.com
Subject: whatever_you_want
HELPlist_name
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HELP
