UDMA 6.8 is out. Besides the ubiquitous optimisations, the main news in it is that especially for some badly written BIOS's pretending to meet but *not* meeting the EDD standard, a special hardware-only scan mode has been added. If anyone can test it on the latest Intel south bridge, 82801EB (ICH-5), please do so. We're pretty confident that it'll work, but our beta-tester with such a chip vanished and we'd like to add this chip to our "hardware compatibility list" (HCL).
I'm happy to announce a small freeware utility written by graduate students at my Computer Science and Technologies Department of our Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria. It's called TUNZ (Tiny UNZip). This is a tool which, albeit only 2.5 KB (2560 bytes!) long, knows how to unzip most ZIP archives and is thus very suitable for the FreeDOS auto-installers instead of the CAB files some used so far. Each package can be placed in an appropriate ZIP file and unzip it on demand during the install process. Despite some limitations (like inability to extract directories) this tool can hopefully be very handy. Its source code is still too ugly and unintelligible to publish, but maybe this will be changed some day... So far, its license is all-permissive (MIT/Expat license). TUNZ Version 1.0 can be downloaded from my site (http://linux.tu-varna.acad.bg/~lig/tunz/). Enjoy!
Lucho
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