
FDNPKG - a network-enabled package manager for FreeDOS
 Copyright (C) Mateusz Viste 2012,2013


* What is FDNPKG *

FDNPKG is an online update tool for FreeDOS. FDNPKG is released under the GNU GPL license. It allows to install/remove software on a FreeDOS installation using network repositories. It is written by Mateusz Viste, for the FreeDOS (tm) Project, altough it can be used on other DOS systems as well.
FDNPKG means "FreeDOS Network Package manager".


* Configuration *

The configuration of FDNPKG is stored in %DOSDIR%\BIN\FDNPKG.CFG. This is a text file that contains repositories declarations.


* Requirements *

To use FDNPKG, you will need to fullfill following conditions:
  - i386 class CPU
  - a loaded packet driver
  - a WatTCP working environnement (ie. a valid wattcp configuration file)


* Usage *

Syntax: FDNPKG action [parameters]

Where action is one of the following:
 search [string]   - Search net repositories for package containing 'string'
 vsearch [string]  - Same as 'search', but prints also source repositories
 install pkg       - Install the package 'pkg' (or local zip file)
 install-nosrc pkg - Install the package 'pkg' (or local zip file) w/o sources
 remove pkgname    - Remove the package 'pkgname'
 listrep           - print out the list of configured repositories
 license           - print out the license of this program
