FDNPKG16 - 0.99.8249b

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 15:00:08 -0600

16-bit Network-enabled package manager

* updated code
* Added the ability to retry downloading indexies and packages
* Added QoL commands
* BUG FIX FOR WATTCP VERSION! FDNPKG16.EXE is now the watt32 version. FDNPKG86.EXE is the mTCP version
* added reinstall feature! and fixed a bug with it!
* added ability to reinstall local packages
* minor update for translations so now we can update translations
* french and turkish translations are in!
* The cfg file now needs to be in same dir as program instead of being in a hard coded place like %DOSDIR%\bin\
* added force install feature!
* international support added back!
* 0.99.8240 you can now install multiple packages!
* minor update fixed a string in spanish translation
* updated translations a bit more...
* minor update polished and implemented the memory detection function for reliability reasons
* bug fix for loop
* FIXED ANOTHER BUG FROM MULTIPACKAGE INSTALL UUUGH this time it is local packages not installing.
* added back lzma support!
* fixed a bug with listlocal argument alone prints once now
* another bug found in search. give me a bit to squash them all.
* disabled unused code
* added full Danish support and added an extra function to see avalible ram for the program
* Fixed ANOTHER multi package bug. This time it is the removing of multiple packages.
* more hard coded single package code removed
* minor update bug fix on / eater
* German updated
* Got a int long bug fixed again, and polished some things.
* added a bunch of translations! :D No function changes. as development is frozen for testing reasons.
* merged the 2 programs into 1 and using an external wattcp httpget.exe to download files. this works on every system i can test it on with more than 480k of avalible ram!
* added a string to tell user what tcp/ip program it uses, and fixed languages with it
* 0.99.8249a got httpget.exe to be optionally quiet
* 0.99.8249b added back fdinst16.exe for installer scripts or external use outside of fdnpkg16 (never called by fdnpkg16)

Download fdnpkg16.zip (1,005,637 bytes)