Hi all,
There is an incompatibility issue with the "File Selection" dialogs of one of
our legacy engineering MS-DOS programs. We don't have the source code of the
program but I know it was written in Borland Turbo-Basic a long time ago. For
years I thought it was a flaw in the FreeDOS compatibility. In fact I found
recently this is because the output of the "dir" command is dumped in a
temporary text file and parsed by the program in a fragile way. I discovered
three requirements for this program to work. The display of the "dir" command
must be formatted in a way that :
1 - The file dates must be printed with a 2 digits year representation
2 - The file times must be printed without the AM/PM flag (24 hours
representation)
3 - The thousands delimiter of the file sizes must be a blank space (" ")
instead of a comma (",")
The first requirement is easy to handle in autoexec.bat with: SET DIRCMD=/-4.
The second and third requirements need an appropriate fdconfig.sys setting, for
example: !Country = 002, 863, C:\FDOS\BIN\Country.sys
But when installing FreeDOS 1.2 in DosBox, we can't configure the fdconfig.sys.
I want to use the program this way in order to operate it automatically with a
Python script on the Host machine while sharing files and directories. So now
I'm trying to patch and recompile the FreeCom's COMMAND.COM program to meet the
above requirements.
I am not proficient in C but all seems to happen in the DisplaySingleDirEntry()
function of the DIR.C file. At least I can remove the AM/PM flag with an ugly
"p[strlen(p)-1] = 0;" just before the "fputs(p, stdout);" at line of code n°884.
The compilation works well but now I struggle to modify the thousand delimiter.
I thought it could be easy with the convert() function of NUM_FMT.C (see
temp[30 - c++] = nlsBuf->thousendsSep[0];) but it have no effects and I don't
see how to change the country settings.
Does someone have an idea how this could be done?
By the way, I really like the FDIMPLES provided with the new FreeDOS 1.2 !
Regards,
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