Laaca recently announced "After a quite long period I prepared a new version of my unicode (and not unicode) text editor and image viewer Blocek." Features include: - fixed graphical glitch causing garbage in some circumstancies when opening a new window - mouse sometimes caused noticeable slowdown of program - reenabled the char typing using ALT + <codes on="" numeric="" keyboard=""> - fixed crash when "word wrapping" on empty file was selected + implemented function keys CTRL+right arrow and CTRL+left arrow + implemented function CTRL+A (select all) + CTRL+Del deletes selected block + selected blocks are now visible just in the text + program language can be switched directly from menu system (no manual editing of conf. files is needed). You can download the latest release from Laaca's website.

On USENET, in comp.os.msdos.djgpp, Andris Pavenis posted about the updated DJGPP port of GCC-5.5.0. See the GCC 5 website for more information about GCC-5.5.0 and about changes in comparison with earlier versions. You can find the announcement of the DJGPP port of GCC-5.5.0 also at Google Groups with links to all the downloads.

Jim is attending the Kieler Open Source und Linux Tage in Kiel, Germany (15 + 16 September, 2017). He is giving a presentation about the history of the FreeDOS Project, and a little about where things are headed. In the afternoon, he will give a talk about usabilty testing in open source software. If you'd like a copy of the slides, you can find them on Jim's personal page. These presentations are available under the Creative Commons Attribution.

On June 29th, 2017, FreeDOS turned 23 years old. There’s nothing special about "23," but I thought it would be great to celebrate the anniversary by having a bunch of past and current users share their stories about why they use FreeDOS. So, I made a call for users to write their own FreeDOS stories. This eBook contains the voices of many of the users who contributed their stories, as well as the history of FreeDOS. Many individuals have helped make FreeDOS what it is, but this eBook represents only a few of them. I hope you enjoy this collection of 23 years of everything FreeDOS! 23 Years of FreeDOS (ebook)

WCD (Wherever Change Directory) is a command-line program to change directory fast. It saves time typing at the keyboard. Erwin has released wcd 6.0.1. This release fixes a bug in the DOS, OS/2, and Windows versions that was present since version 5.3.3. When a user typed drive and directory name (e.g. wcd d:games), wcd did not find the directory. Also: New Brazilian Portuguese translations have been added for the UI messages and the manual. You can find the new version at the WCD website. See also the full release notes.