Re: [Freedos-user] Command Line Parsing
Jack Jackson wrote:
I've noticed a difference in command line parsing between FreeDOS and
PC-DOS.
Both FreeDOS and PC-DOS put the command line, starting with the
character after the executable, in a buffer at offset 0x80 in the PSP.
The behavior difference I see with FreeDOS is if the first non-blank
character after the executable is a left parenthesis, then FreeDOS sets
0x80 in the PSP to zero so the rest of the command line is not
available.
Examples of what is in PSP 0x80:
Command Line: SOMEPROG (aa bb cc FreeDOS: \0 DOS: (aa bb cc\0
Command Line: SOMEPROG abc (cc dd ee FreeDOS and DOS: abc (cc dd
ee\0
Does anyone know why FreeDOS behaves differently when the first
character after the executable is a left parenthesis?
Hi Jack,
I not know how to determine the value PSP 0x80, but when I try this
simple program (compiled/linked with OpenWatcom):
#include stdio.h
#include stdlib.h
void main(int argc, char const *argv[]){
int ii;
for(ii=0; iiargc; ii++){
printf(argv[%d] = %s\r\n, ii, argv[ii]);
}
}
then parameters seems be fine:
E:\pokusydosparm
argv[0] = E:\POKUSY\DOSPARM.COM
E:\pokusydosparm p1 (p2
argv[0] = E:\POKUSY\DOSPARM.COM
argv[1] = p1
argv[2] = (p2
E:\pokusydosparm (p1 (p2
argv[0] = E:\POKUSY\DOSPARM.COM
argv[1] = (p1
argv[2] = (p2
It is tested with FreeDOS 1.1 under DOSEMU, probably no reason why
it would be different in pure FreeDOS.
Franta Hanzlik
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Re: [Freedos-user] Keyboard issue
About (de)compressors: have you checked with UPX (it's quite heavily used nowadays) and LZEXE (this one was kind of popular in old days...) ? Maybe could you check with a hex editor for some compressor signature? As for patching the borland runtime 200 error, TPPATCH always worked fine for me.. Mateusz On 05/16/2014 03:06 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros wrote: Hi, This is just an update on the keyboard issue, i.e., I'm not asking any questions this time. From Dale E Sterner sunbeam...@juno.com on 11 May 2014: There is a good program avaiable for download from a German site. It's a TSR that traps runtime 200 errors and puts your computer back on track. Go to Google and search runtime 200 errors. The name begins with TP. I tried TP7P5FIX (v1.01) and also TPPATCH, but neither of them worked with my two programs that have the Borland runtime 200 bug. Because the instructions said that the EXE might have to be decompressed first, I tried that too, with two EXE decompressors, UNP (v4.11) and CUP386 (v3.4). Apparently none of the two EXE files was compressed. So perhaps we should call off this whole effort. As I said, I can easily live without Vision Edit. Marcos -- Marcos Fávero Florence de Barros Campinas, Brazil -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Keyboard issue
FWIW, the one that works for me is called PROT200. I only have a couple of programs that need it (and they aren't Editors). Another possibility might be to use my SLOWDOWN program, which will let you change the effective CPU speed on the fly with keyboard hot-keys. The Runtime Error 200 fix is only needed when the program is first starting, and after that can run at full speed again. With SLOWDOWN you should be able to do that, and with SLOWDOWN and my SCANCODE program you can do it all automatically (SCANCODE can type the hot-key for you automatically at the appropriate time). -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:31 AM, TJ Edmister damag...@hyakushiki.net wrote: On Thu, 15 May 2014 11:30:22 -0400, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Dale E Sterner sunbeam...@juno.com wrote: Oh by the way if you want to install XP on FAT32, it will work without being activated. XP on FAT32? shudder I have always run XP on FAT32 without problems. The only downside in my book is the 4GB file limit. NTFS is overly complicated. What's complicated about it? If you don't use optional capabilities like compression or encryption, you mostly don't have to do anything to use it. __ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Keyboard issue
I believe the exe is self extracting zip file. Its safer to open with winzip in case of a bug. Just run the exe in a directory and it should expand itself. DS On Fri, 16 May 2014 10:06:21 -0300 Marcos Favero Florence de Barros fav...@mpcnet.com.br writes: Hi, This is just an update on the keyboard issue, i.e., I'm not asking any questions this time. From Dale E Sterner sunbeam...@juno.com on 11 May 2014: There is a good program avaiable for download from a German site. It's a TSR that traps runtime 200 errors and puts your computer back on track. Go to Google and search runtime 200 errors. The name begins with TP. I tried TP7P5FIX (v1.01) and also TPPATCH, but neither of them worked with my two programs that have the Borland runtime 200 bug. Because the instructions said that the EXE might have to be decompressed first, I tried that too, with two EXE decompressors, UNP (v4.11) and CUP386 (v3.4). Apparently none of the two EXE files was compressed. So perhaps we should call off this whole effort. As I said, I can easily live without Vision Edit. Marcos -- Marcos Fávero Florence de Barros Campinas, Brazil - - Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user Get Athena Pheromones Enjoy more affection! Biologist Winnifred Cutler#39;s unscented formulas. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3165/53762ec1e1d572ec11e99mp03duc ** From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 *** -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] hpa
Have you read this information about HPA (host protected area) on Wikipedia? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_protected_area It might provide some help with removing it. However, I suspect that the problem is as you have assumed that it can't be done with an usb-to-ide adapter because of the way the firmware of the adapter accesses the hard drive. There are also very compact sata-to-ide adapters like this: http://www.amazon.com/PSATA-Ultra-SATA-Converter-Adapter/dp/B003AG5CN6/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8qid=1400254863sr=8-15keywords=sata+to+ide that might allow you to fit it in your computer. However, I am not recommending this particular item. I have brought one myself in the past and it does work with IDE hard drives, but I could not get it to work with IDE CD-ROMs (as is depicted in the ad). It is a tricky little piece of hardware to use and you have to be careful with it (read the comments with the ad). But, if your lucky to get a good one, it does allow connecting an IDE hard drive in a SATA machine with very limited space. It requires a 5 volt connector for power like is used on the old 3.5 inch floppy drives, so you may need an additional power adapter beyond what comes with the package to use it. On 5/15/14, kurt godel wb2...@gmail.com wrote: I too have always used xp on fat! As for ide to sata adapter, the sata machine is too cramped to fit it. As for wipe, is that a dos app? Are you sure it could remove the HPA partition? I have already used a bootable cd with active killdisk to wipe the drive, but, ostensibly, regular wipers cannot even access the HPA to delete it. I know 'hdparm' can do it at low level access. Trust me, the ide machine is kaput!. -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)
On Fri, 16 May 2014 11:29:09 -0400, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:31 AM, TJ Edmister damag...@hyakushiki.net wrote: On Thu, 15 May 2014 11:30:22 -0400, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Dale E Sterner sunbeam...@juno.com wrote: Oh by the way if you want to install XP on FAT32, it will work without being activated. XP on FAT32? shudder I have always run XP on FAT32 without problems. The only downside in my book is the 4GB file limit. NTFS is overly complicated. What's complicated about it? If you don't use optional capabilities like compression or encryption, you mostly don't have to do anything to use it. The aforementioned lack of support among different OS (owing to the complexity of the low-level implementation), as well as incompatibilities between versions of Windows and the filesystem itself (eg. the Win7 installer would crash without explanation when attempting to install on an existing NTFS partition created with an earlier version of Windows) Links are problematic. I have seen links to a directory inside its own directory tree. This results in a situation where eg. a DIR /S command runs indefinitely. And the only way I know to remove such a link is with a sector editor. I never liked the idea of file metadata (or alternate data streams, which are possible but not commonly used AFAIK) as they tend to not be preserved when copied to another filesystem, archived, or uploaded. Making a change to file permissions on an NTFS volume involves a minutes-long process of updating the attributes for every individual file affected (just a base Windows install is tens of thousands of files these days) -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Annual Inform
Annual Inform: To FreeDOS project: Sorry, I don’t speak English. Thanks a lot for your Operative System, programs and resources. I’m totally convinced your project is very useful for humanity. To preserve old source is sufficient for me, but in this letter I’m thinking in the future. I’m programming LibreN3D for animations in FreeDOS-POVRay. It’s a lot of work. Maybe we have satisfactory videos in 2020. This year I donate to POVRay library twenty 3D objects with HTML documentation, only eighteen of them are FreeDOS compatible with POVRay 3.1. You will see in this temporary link http://www.filefactory.com/file/4zko0fsusvh9/FreeRay_2013%20y%20CAFE2011.zip with older objects and CAFE2011 also. In 2013, I accelerated 3D display of meshes (picture meshes with transparent color inclusive) for games with a lot of assembler 32bit code, and most in pure FreePascal. Soon, I want to donate LGPL code of the general core. LibreN3D will be terminated afterwards 2020, you will need a modeler still. ¡Not in Panic! I recommend Moray3.5, and POVRay3.5 in Windows XP with Virtual Box. I really want to help other 3D programmers, but source is obscure and documentation is poor; you can write me of course. Patience, I’m planning CAFE version of core source without graphics, only virtual pages. You will use, some intermediate for display. But, it can be a bad idea, I don’t know. Sorry, I don’t have any competitive 3D free games for now, only commercial games for FreeDOS, Windows and MAC: “Bloques Iniciales” and “Origamis Iniciales”. I’m very interested in Linux, but I had a lot of problems to display graphics, text mode is O.K. CAFE2011, my virtual LGPL spreadsheet is essentially the same this year. I detected an ugly bug in older package, I’m terrible pained. This year I will traduce CAFE2011 to Windows, Mac and Linux. ¿Why primitive sounds in FreeDOS, and *.mdi, *.flac, *.wav in MAC and Windows? I read in your letters, exists FreeDOS alternatives now, patience… Marie and Jesus bless you. Rafael Angel Campos Vargas RofoelCompos@hotmail.comOffice box. 964-1250 -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] FreeDos on 86Duino
Hi All Long time user of FreeDos on CFC in Industrial environment. Long time user of FreeBasic in the same environment. Retired and experimenting with a new device. Have recently purchased an 86Duino in the form of EduCake. Basically an x86 with breadboard on top. Fairly new product using a Vortex86Ex processor. The support is minimal, cause there are still only a few users. It is being sprouted as Dos. FreeDos, Windows Linux compatible. They supply an image for the SD card, which boots as intended. I am having difficulty running programs in this environment. Basically: if I load CWSDPMI and run say Edlin32.exe it works (or appears to) If I dont load CWSDPMI and run Edlin16.exe it works (or appears to) Loading CWSDPMI and running a FreeBasic (Dos) compiled two line program it generates an exception. Division by Zero. Print Hello World End Compiling this program with PB7 (16 bit Dos) and running it, doesn't create any exceptions but no message printed. Now I have dealt with this processor before on Industrial CPU boards, and have not had this problem. At this stage I should note that there is no monitor facility on this device, so the serial port becomes the monitor with: MODE com4:9600,N,8,1,P ctty com4 Autoexec.bat (the relevant bits) @echo off SET dosdir=C:\FDOS set PATH=%dosdir%\bin set NLSPATH=%dosdir%\NLS set HELPPATH=%dosdir%\HELP set temp=%dosdir%\temp set tmp=%dosdir%\temp SET autofile=C:\autoexec.bat alias reboot=fdapm warmboot alias halt=fdapm poweroff MODE com4:9600,N,8,1,P ctty com4 C:\FDos\Bin\DosLFN.com C:\FDos\Bin\cwsdpmi.exe cd\ rem C:\FDos\Bin\ctmouse C:\FDos\Bin\LBACache C:\FDOS\Bin\SHARE.com FDConfig.sys device=c:\FDos\Bin\himemx.exe dos=high,umb LASTDRIVE=Z switches=/N break=off dos=high,umb dosdata=umb files=60 rem stacks=16,256 Bootup detail. DOSLFN 0.41 (haftmann#software jmh 12/2011): loaded consuming 11776 bytes. LBAcache disk read cache for XMS + 386, E. Auer e...@coli.uni-sb.de 2001-2006 License: GPL 2. Up to 8 harddisks, 2 floppy, LBA / CHS. Version: 07apr2008. Detecting harddisks: disk 0x80 heads=0255 sectors=0063 [done] [No floppy cache: no change lines] XMS allocated: 2.00 MB, driver size with tables and stack: 7427 bytes. SHARE installed. C:\ The exception in 32bit protected mode. C:\test Exiting due to signal SIGFPE Division by Zero at eip=401d, x87 status= eax=0001 ebx=00230880 ecx=0001 edx= esi=000202e0 edi=00230cdc ebp= esp=00230820 program=C:\TEST.EXE cs: sel=00a7 base=0040 limit=0023 ds: sel=00af base=0040 limit=0023 es: sel=00af base=0040 limit=0023 fs: sel=00bf base= limit=0010 gs: sel=00bf base= limit=0010 ss: sel=00af base=0040 limit=0023 App stack: [00230e38..00030e3c] Exceptn stack: [00030d58..0002ee18] Can sks give me some direction here please. - Regards Dinosaur -- View this message in context: http://freedos.10956.n7.nabble.com/FreeDos-on-86Duino-tp20567.html Sent from the FreeDOS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
