Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 9:25 AM

With the recent announcement of FAST being empowered by FreeDOS, and
the interest on porting some UNIX utilities to DOS, I decided to
combine both.

Since current UPTIME v7.02 by Mark Aitchison is written in Turbo
Pascal, I tried to do an approach in fast. It is still WIP, and not
yet as complete as the other, but it is a mere COM file of 1.077
bytes, while the current version is 49.746.

What I like of my approach, is storing initial startup time on the
CMOS, using the unused alarm records, which is by far more efficient
than storing a file.

Hope you like the idea. Next steps will be parsing the command-line to
allow output in different formats, and try to mimic format such as:

08:11:22 up 146 days, 34 min, 3 users, load average: 0.28, 0.45, 0.38

Sources and binaries are available at:
http://javiergutierrezchamorro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/uptime.zip

Once more complete, I will upload to my Sourceforge page:
https://www.sourceforge.net/projects/nikkhokkho

-Javier Gutiérrez Chamorro
guti.bitacoras.com@gmail.com