[Freedos-devel] LFNDOS source available

2015-02-14 Thread Joe Forster/STA
1.07 alpha 2. You can find it at http://sta.c64.org/dosprg/lfndssrc.zip . Joe (author of Star LFN and maintainer of http://sta.c64.org/lfnemu.html ) -- KOVÁCS Balázs alias Joe Forster/STA s...@c64.org; http://sta.c64.org Don't E-mail spam, HTML or uncompressed files! More contacts on homepage

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel.sys and fdos (dir)

2015-06-29 Thread Joe Forster/STA
whatever they want anyway so don't try to stop them, you'll eventually fail. ;-) Joe -- KOVÁCS Balázs alias Joe Forster/STA s...@c64.org; http://sta.c64.org Don't E-mail spam, HTML or uncompressed files! More contacts on homepage

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI 1.2

2015-10-06 Thread Joe Forster/STA
it is there, useful discussion can only be about _where_ it is. What? Behind exFAT? It _is_ exFAT. ;-) Joe -- KOVÁCS Balázs aka Joe Forster/STA; s...@c64.rulez.org; http://s

Re: [Freedos-devel] The block device driver interface

2015-10-09 Thread Joe Forster/STA
of SHSUCDX (but not MSCDEX anymore) if A) SHSUCDX is already loaded or B) the "c+" option is specified on the command line so it can't be that complicated. Joe -- KOVÁCS Balázs aka Joe Forster/STA; s...@c64.rulez.org; http://sta.c64.org Don't E-mail spam, HTML or uncompressed files! Mor

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: CheckHDD for FreeDOS 1.2 Installer

2015-09-01 Thread Joe Forster/STA
Pascal's System unit, that are 16-bit code implementing 32-bit arithmetic, and turn it into 32-bit code implementing 64-bit arithmetic. ;-) See the source in http://sta.c64.org/arclist.zip . Bye, Joe -- KOVÁCS Balázs aka Joe Forster/STA; s...@c64.rulez.org; http://sta.c64.org Don't E-mail spam, HTML

Re: [Freedos-devel] mTCP/IP stack by M Brutman is now closed source

2015-09-09 Thread Joe Forster/STA
ase, don't be mad about it! Joe -- KOVÁCS Balázs aka Joe Forster/STA; s...@c64.rulez.org; http://sta.c64.org Don't E-mail spam, HTML or uncompressed files! More contacts on homepage-- Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI 1.2 Questions?

2015-09-16 Thread Joe Forster/STA
be enabled or disabled by default; rather disabled. Joe -- KOVÁCS Balázs aka Joe Forster/STA; s...@c64.rulez.org; http://sta.c64.org Don't E-mail spam, HTML or uncompressed files! More contacts on homepage-- Monitor Yo

Re: [Freedos-devel] XFTOOLS - exFAT access a la LTOOLS

2015-10-01 Thread Joe Forster/STA
ve already started to port it to Free Pascal, with good results.) In any case: Do not panic. Actually, I don't think you could dissuade me from this anymore. ;-) Now I have a bit more work to do with my daily job but I'll continue development. I'll keep you informed. Joe -- KOVÁCS Balázs aka J

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI 1.2

2015-10-05 Thread Joe Forster/STA
hard disk etc.) Joe -- KOVÁCS Balázs aka Joe Forster/STA; s...@c64.rulez.org; http://sta.c64.org Don't E-mail spam, HTML or uncompressed files! More contacts on homepage-- ___

[Freedos-devel] XFTOOLS - exFAT access a la LTOOLS

2015-09-30 Thread Joe Forster/STA
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Re: [Freedos-devel] Incompatibility issue due to FreeCom Dir command's output layout and Dosbox kernel limitations

2017-02-19 Thread Joe Forster/STA
our program as soon as possible, though. :-) Joe -- KOVÁCS Balázs aka Joe Forster/STA; s...@c64.rulez.org; http://sta.c64.org Don't E-mail spam, HTML or uncompressed files! More contacts on homepage-- Check out the vibrant tech

Re: [Freedos-devel] Why unzip now requires a 386?

2017-01-10 Thread Joe Forster/STA
There is supposed to be no difference _at_all_ because I compiled them from the original source. The point was that when I compiled them there was no official binary package for DOS yet (and no DJGPP 2.05 either). :-) Joe -- KOVÁCS Balázs aka Joe Forster/STA; s...@c64.rulez.org; http://sta.c64.org Don

Re: [Freedos-devel] odd FreeDOS batch %1 %2 %3 behavior (differs from MS-DOS, too)

2016-12-03 Thread Joe Forster/STA
ot;suspicious" command line arguments into quotation marks so that they won't be reinterpreted in unexpected ways and that's not even DOS- or COMMAND.COM-specific. Joe -- KOVÁCS Balázs aka Joe Forster/STA; s...@c64.ru

Re: [Freedos-devel] Linux commands in DOS - Minibox

2017-05-26 Thread Joe Forster/STA
will not become 100% shell scripts but, at least, as similar as possible. If so, are there any other commands that would be nice to add to them? I missed a few things from "tr" and it was relatively simple to implement. Joe -- KOVÁCS Balázs aka Joe Forster/STA; s...@c64.rulez.org; http://s

Re: [Freedos-devel] What is FreeDOS 2.0?

2017-10-20 Thread Joe Forster/STA
ense. Joe -- KOVÁCS Balázs aka Joe Forster/STA; s...@c64.rulez.org; http://sta.c64.org Don't E-mail spam, HTML or uncompressed files! More contacts on homepage-- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiling with gcc

2017-11-18 Thread Joe Forster/STA
in the Ralf Brown Interrupt List for the PSP structure). Joe -- KOVÁCS Balázs aka Joe Forster/STA; s...@c64.rulez.org; http://sta.c64.org Don't E-mail spam, HTML or uncompressed files! More contacts on homepage-- Check out

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3 list of packages

2018-11-07 Thread Joe Forster/STA
directory, a la UMSDOS.) Honestly, I think we can't afford to omit DOSLFN from the distribution. Joe -- KOVÁCS Balázs aka Joe Forster/STA; s...@c64.rulez.org; http://sta.c64.org Don't E-mail spam, HTML or uncompressed files! More contacts on homepage___

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel.asm question

2019-09-21 Thread Joe Forster/STA
remainder (the remainder is the length of the partial last paragraph). Paragraphs are a feature of the segmented memory model of x86 CPU's. Joe -- KOVÁCS Balázs aka Joe Forster/STA; s...@c64.rulez.org; http://sta.c64.org Don't E-mail spam, HTML or uncompressed files! More contacts on homepage

Re: [Freedos-devel] Inexplicable ambiguous name flags error from TurboC

2019-10-04 Thread Joe Forster/STA
orce the type: mov ax,word ptr z_header+16 // no error In the SET_WORD etc. macros, prepend "word ptr" wherever needed. Good luck, Joe -- KOVÁCS Balázs aka Joe Forster/STA; s...@c64.rulez.org; http://sta.c64.org Don't E-mail spam, HTML or unc

Re: [Freedos-devel] Inexplicable ambiguous name flags error from TurboC

2019-10-03 Thread Joe Forster/STA
_t)flags); or SET_WORD(H_FLAGS, z_header.(struct zcode_header_struct)flags); That is, there is no dot between the type qualifier and the member name. Have fun, Joe -- KOVÁCS Balázs aka Joe Forster/STA; s...@c64.rulez.org; http://sta.c64.org Don't E-ma

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3 packages

2021-06-08 Thread Joe Forster/STA
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Re: [Freedos-devel] Additional notes on Games

2021-06-17 Thread Joe Forster/STA
Hi guys, there is absolutely no need to waste memory for everybody just because someone might try GNUCHESS. Why doesn't a program, that uses ansi.sys (or an equivalent), check for its presence?! :-) I found INT 2Fh, AX=1A00h for this purpose. Joe -- KOVÁCS Balázs aka Joe Forster/STA; s

Re: [Freedos-devel] JEMM can't completely replace EMM386 (yet). Solutions?

2021-08-09 Thread Joe Forster/STA
do so and I make a living off them. (And, before you'd ask, I _am_ a software developer. :-) ) I assume Japheth feels similarly about his software. This is a different kind of "software scope". Bye, Joe -- KOVÁCS Balázs aka Joe Forster/STA; s...@c64.rulez.org; http://sta.c64.org Don't

Re: [Freedos-devel] JEMM can't completely replace EMM386 (yet). Solutions?

2021-08-09 Thread Joe Forster/STA
t;society". I never had the feeling that someone here tried to sell anything, only be proud of their accomplishments that became part of FreeDOS. Bye, Joe -- KOVÁCS Balázs aka Joe Forster/STA; s...@c64.rulez.org; http://sta.c64.org Don't E-mail spam, H

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCOM 0.85a release

2021-07-19 Thread Joe Forster/STA
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

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fw: Aw:  I need win32nasmbase.zip

2022-10-15 Thread Joe Forster/STA
Hi guys, I found Tomcat's (Kaproncai Tamás) probable current email addrss and wrote him (in Hungarian). Hopefully, he won't mind the intrusion and dig up the ftp://ftp.szif.hu/pub/demos/tool/w32nasm.zip file from his archive. Joe___ Freedos-devel

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fw: I need win32base.zip

2022-11-15 Thread Joe Forster/STA
Hi guys, I just received W32NASM.ZIP from TomCat but it's older (version 0.06, file date 1999-11-01) than the one inside the http://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/win32nasm-cache/Win32NASM__60c5ed87f2e79d6259e9b2846049e051..7z?viasf=1 package (version 0.08, file date 2000-11-29). In case

Re: [Freedos-devel] Ré : Ré : T2308 invalid partition signature after format

2023-09-17 Thread Joe Forster/STA via Freedos-devel
Hi guys, b0 7c 00 00 bb aa 55 b4 41 cd 13 72 32 81 fb 55 aa [...] I am a bit surprised the signature is also at the end of 0xb0 address line. Don't be: that's code checking the signature and it only _happens_ to be "aligned" there. :-) Joe