Repository contains intermediate _*.SYS

[dcoshea]

As at 2d19bc1, SOURCES/src/mos5src contains a number of files which appear to be redundant intermediate build artefacts.

_286N.SYS
_386.SYS
_ALL.SYS
_ARNET.SYS
_CHARGE.SYS
_EMS.SYS
_GIZMO.SYS
_KBBE.SYS
_KBCF.SYS
_KBDK.SYS
_KBFR.SYS
_KBGR.SYS
_KBIT.SYS
_KBLA.SYS
_KBNL.SYS
_KBNO.SYS
_KBPO.SYS
_KBSF.SYS
_KBSG.SYS
_KBSP.SYS
_KBSV.SYS
_KBUK.SYS
_MOUSE.SYS
_NETBIOS.SYS
_PIPE.SYS
_RAMDISK.SYS
_SERIAL.SYS
__SHELL.SYS

For each of those files, a corresponding file exists in the same directory with 1-2 leading underscores replaced with $, and that corresponding file is identical. The only exception is _SERIAL.SYS whose corresponding identical file is called $$SERIAL.SYS (i.e. one underscore is replaced with two dollar signs).

Also, the corresponding $*.SYS versions are in SHIPMOS/SHIPMOS.ZIP (file content comparisons were not performed here), confirming that the $*.SYS filenames are used for shipping whereas the _*.SYS filenames are just intermediate build artefacts. There are two exceptions to this:

• $KBUK.SYS is not present in SHIPMOS/SHIPMOS.ZIP, which instead contains two files $KBUK3.SYS and $KBUK4.SYS; and
• $$SERIAL.SYS , is not present in SHIPMOS/SHIPMOS.ZIP, which contains a corresponding filename with only one dollar sign.
  These exceptions don't invalidate the assumption that the _*.SYS files are intermediate build artefacts.

Given the above, it seems like the files whose names are listed above don't belong in the repository as they are intermediate build products, and once you run MAKEMOS.BAT and it performs the renaming steps (see issues #6 and #7) those files should all disappear, resulting in git status showing those files as having been deleted.

[andrewbird]

After #37 was merged these are no longer in the build directory, so I believe this can be closed.

[the-grue]

After #37 was merged these are no longer in the build directory, so I believe this can be closed.

I'll second that.

[roelandjansen]

closed.