[Freedos-devel] about pth and pthreads

2014-07-19 Thread Jim Michaels
PTH for long-running math-type processes gives the equivalent performance of coroutines, where the thread runs until it blocks, then the other routine runs until it blocks, etc. this can run in user-space and requires no kernel mods. but threading requires kernel mods according to the pth

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS JetDirect driver (was: Getting started)

2014-07-19 Thread Jim Michaels
- Original Message - From: Steve Nickolas To: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 11:21 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS JetDirect driver (was: Getting started) On Fri, 18 Jul

[Freedos-devel] major paradigm shift - light processors from HP and memristors

2014-07-19 Thread Jim Michaels
if you didn't know, HP has started inventing a light-based computer using memristors instead of an SSD and it moves 6TB of data/sec, it's based on a continuum and uses very little power. so we have a paradigm shift here... should be out at end of decade. they showed it at vegas, and are

Re: [Freedos-devel] Difference between command.com and frecom.com when parsing command line arguments of a batch file.

2014-07-19 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 12:00 AM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote: I think this problem goes beyond path separators. As I understand it, any argument including a slash character will get exploded. So yes, this might be used as path separator, but not only. For eg. sed expects

Re: [Freedos-devel] about pth and pthreads

2014-07-19 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 4:07 AM, Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com wrote: PTH for long-running math-type processes gives the equivalent performance of coroutines, where the thread runs until it blocks, then the other routine runs until it blocks, etc. this can run in user-space and

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS JetDirect driver (was: Getting started)

2014-07-19 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Steve Nickolas To: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 11:21 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [Freedos-devel] major paradigm shift - light processors from HP and memristors

2014-07-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jim, DOS fans, (your signature is too long! Who needs all those kilo mega giga tera numbers explained so often?) It seems that memristors are actually not really slow to write :-) The article that you cite says Windows, Linux, HP-UX, Tru64, and NonStop were in the experiments. It does not

Re: [Freedos-devel] Difference between command.com and frecom.com when parsing command line arguments of a batch file.

2014-07-19 Thread Juan Manuel Guerrero
Am 19.07.2014 00:37, schrieb Ralf Quint: On 7/18/2014 3:09 PM, Juan Manuel Guerrero wrote: This is not really disappointing. I was only testing for the possibility to recommend the FreeDOS 1.1 distribution as an alternative to WinXP and/or Win98SE to build DJGPP ports but this seems not

Re: [Freedos-devel] Difference between command.com and frecom.com when parsing command line arguments of a batch file.

2014-07-19 Thread Juan Manuel Guerrero
Am 19.07.2014 07:35, schrieb Steve Nickolas: On Sat, 19 Jul 2014, Mateusz Viste wrote: Hi all, I think this problem goes beyond path separators. As I understand it, any argument including a slash character will get exploded. So yes, this might be used as path separator, but not only. For

Re: [Freedos-devel] Difference between command.com and frecom.com when parsing command line arguments of a batch file.

2014-07-19 Thread perditionc
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Juan Manuel Guerrero juan.guerr...@gmx.de wrote: I do not know if this is the right place to report this FreCom issue and I do not know if this issue is already well known but I would like to report it anyway. Please inspect the following batch file: @echo

Re: [Freedos-devel] Difference between command.com and frecom.com when parsing command line arguments of a batch file.

2014-07-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jeremy, In shell/command.c the following patch should fix the issue (assuming switchar changed). @@ -331,8 +331,10 @@ break; case CMD_SPECIAL_DIR: /* pass '\\' '.' too */ if(*rest == '\\' || *rest == '.' || *rest == ':') break; +if (!isoptch(*rest)

Re: [Freedos-devel] Difference between command.com and frecom.com when parsing command line arguments of a batch file.

2014-07-19 Thread perditionc
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: Hi Jeremy, In shell/command.c the following patch should fix the issue (assuming switchar changed). @@ -331,8 +331,10 @@ break; case CMD_SPECIAL_DIR: /* pass '\\' '.' too */ if(*rest ==