Hallo Herr Jerome Shidel,
am Montag, 19. Juli 2021 um 17:04 schrieben Sie:
> Hi Tom,
> On Jul 19, 2021, at 10:17 AM, tom ehlert wrote:
> [..]
> similar to what original MSDOS did: have a language specific
> distribution for everything.
> this could be done the way COMMAND does this: somhow
Hi Tom,
> On Jul 19, 2021, at 10:17 AM, tom ehlert wrote:
> [..]
> similar to what original MSDOS did: have a language specific
> distribution for everything.
>
> this could be done the way COMMAND does this: somhow combine (actually
> append) the translated stuff to the .exe and have kitten
Hi Jerome,
of course you can say you prefer a command.com which
can load translations on the fly. On the other hand,
you know that the installer could do whatever it takes
to put a command.com in the desired language on the
fixed disk of the user :-) Actually my 3 floppy Brezel
distro already
> On Jul 19, 2021, at 9:27 AM, Eric Auer wrote:
>
>
> Hi Jerome,
>
>> Out of curiosity, what would your perfect solution to multi-language support
>> entail?
>> Everyone live with English, compile your own or something else entirely?
>
> the current solution is quite nice if you ask me:
Hallo Herr Jerome Shidel,
am Montag, 19. Juli 2021 um 14:33 schrieben Sie:
> Hi Tom,
>> On Jul 19, 2021, at 7:22 AM, tom ehlert wrote:
>> [..]
>> DOS was never intended this way.
> I’m not sure what that has to do with it.
> DOS wasn’t intended to have Megabytes of RAM, Gigabytes of disk
Hi Jerome,
> Out of curiosity, what would your perfect solution to multi-language support
> entail?
> Everyone live with English, compile your own or something else entirely?
the current solution is quite nice if you ask me: You can create a
command.com in the language of your choice by
Hi Tom,
> On Jul 19, 2021, at 7:22 AM, tom ehlert wrote:
> [..]
> DOS was never intended this way.
I’m not sure what that has to do with it.
DOS wasn’t intended to have Megabytes of RAM, Gigabytes of disk space,
CD ROM drives, a Mouse or even subdirectories. The list of things DOS was
not
Hi Jerome,
>> On Jul 19, 2021, at 2:49 AM, tom ehlert wrote:
>> [..]
>> your approach has has a deep disadvantage for programs like
>> Norton/Volkow/Midnight Commander, make utilities, etc. that shell out
>> to a new instance of command.com.
>>
>> they will start a new instance of %COMSPEC%
Hi Tom,
> On Jul 19, 2021, at 2:49 AM, tom ehlert wrote:
> [..]
> your approach has has a deep disadvantage for programs like
> Norton/Volkow/Midnight Commander, make utilities, etc. that shell out
> to a new instance of command.com.
>
> they will start a new instance of %COMSPEC% with IMO no
Hallo Herr Joe Forster/STA,
am Montag, 19. Juli 2021 um 10:05 schrieben Sie:
> Hi guys,
>>> shell=c:\freedos\bin\command.com c:\freedos\bin /e:1024
>>> /p=c:\autoexec.bat /nls:c:\freedos\nls\command.es
>>
>> your approach has has a deep disadvantage for programs like
>> Norton/Volkow/Midnight
Hi guys,
shell=c:\freedos\bin\command.com c:\freedos\bin /e:1024
/p=c:\autoexec.bat /nls:c:\freedos\nls\command.es
your approach has has a deep disadvantage for programs like
Norton/Volkow/Midnight Commander, make utilities, etc. that shell out
to a new instance of command.com.
they will
Hallo Herr Jerome Shidel,
am Sonntag, 18. Juli 2021 um 21:30 schrieben Sie:
> Hi,
> Couple quick questions…
> Is this a “(hopefully) ready-to-ship" version? Or, an intermediary
> “ready-to-test (more changes/fixes coming)” version?
> I’ve never examined the code. But, based on your email…
Hi,
> On Jul 18, 2021, at 4:42 PM, perditi...@gmail.com wrote:
> [..]
> ready-to-ship, but I sent the announcement to the dev list for wider
> feedback. I tested it, but I am still improving the testing
:-)
> [..]
> So FreeCom's design is pretty cool. The critical error handler and messages
On Sun, Jul 18, 2021, 3:31 PM Jerome Shidel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Couple quick questions…
>
> Is this a “(hopefully) ready-to-ship" version? Or, an intermediary
> “ready-to-test (more changes/fixes coming)” version?
>
ready-to-ship, but I sent the announcement to the dev list for wider
feedback. I
Hi,
Couple quick questions…
Is this a “(hopefully) ready-to-ship" version? Or, an intermediary
“ready-to-test (more changes/fixes coming)” version?
I’ve never examined the code. But, based on your email… All someone needs to
do to make a version of FreeCOM for another language is “copy /b
Good morning,
I have published an updated (a) release of FreeCOM to address some
shortcomings from the previous 0.85 release.
https://github.com/FDOS/freecom/releases/tag/com085a
As before, the release provides multiple variants with the
recommendation to use one of the Open Watcom xms-swap
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