Welcome to midpec.com

The Developer's Home

Welcome to the world of free software. I don't have anything here whose source code isn't available. I request you not to call these "open source" software. See why you shouldn't call free software "open source".

I have some simple webmaster tools that I wrote for my own site. Check out the counter and statistics tools with sources (source code released under GPL). It may not be highly reliable, but works with 99% accuracy for my site (which is fine with me ;-)). Anyone who wants to improve on that is very welcome :-).

It seems like some people have problems extracting tar files.

Please see the note on extracting tar files at the end of this page.

Things You Might be Looking For

DJGPP, the best 32-bit compiler for DOS
DJGPP Resource Center
Webmaster Tools
GNU Manuals for Various GNU Tools
Software Archives (My Free Software) (*Updated*)
Simtelnet Mirror Pick
DJGPP Enhanced Zip-picker
Beta Software that needs work/testing
What I Have to Say About myself
About midpec.com

Documentation You Might Find Useful

The Protected Mode Documentation I'm writing
The DJGPP Frequently Asked Questions
The short and sweet FAQ which I wrote back in April 2000.

Some Software I'm Currently Working on

pdiag - A Free Diagnostic similar to the Norton Utilities (*New*)
pdialog - A Dialog-box Utility to create dialog boxes like in Norton Utilities

See http://www.midpec.com/software.html for the complete list.

What's New

Pre-Alpha release of sysinfo - v1.12

What's in the DJGPP pages

The DJGPP resources contain a number of frequently asked questions about DJGPP such as "Why use DJGPP?" which are some of the basic questions that come to any user. Yes, why use DJGPP? Find out...

What's in the Resource Center

You'll need these tools to build or modify most software that you download from here. Some are available on the Simtelnet mirrors. Please check the available mirrors for downloading the software. You can get the Simtelnet mirror closest you from this list. Or simply use the links provided here. I haven't put in much stuff due to space considerations.

Protected Mode Documentation

Note: The Protected Mode documentation is currently in development. If you'd like to contribute something or have any questions about protected mode, please join or send E-Mail to the "PMode group". To join, send a blank E-Mail to pmode-subscribe@yahoogroups.com and reply to the confirmation message you'll be getting. If you have further questions, please write to me (tr@midpec.com).

Projects where I'm looking for help...

pdiag - If you know something about hardware or you know some good DJGPP programming and if you're interested in writing a hardware diagnostic, please send me a mail. You'll need to be familiar with C and DJGPP.

pdialog - It's a dialog library that allows you to create windows, checkboxes, etc. similar to the ones you see in Norton Utilities. It's intended to work on DOS and Linux, If you know how to use ncurses and you're interested, please drop me a note.

Support Free Software and Help Fight For Your Rights!

Join or donate to Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Free Software Foundation and the League for Programming Freedom. If you have a website, you can encourage this by adding links to them.

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Notes

Note: You can unzip .tar.gz files using Winzip, DJGPP's "tar" utility, "DJTAR" that comes with DJGPP and of course, the "tar" in Unix/Linux. To unzip using "tar", use a command line like this:

tar zxvf somefile.tar.gz

If you have Winzip, you can still extract tar files.

Prashant TR <tr@midpec.com> - Last updated on September 05, 2001