Re: [Freedos-kernel] FreeDOS 2035a detail discussion: FreeCOM, menu compatibility

2004-07-19 Thread Steffen Kaiser
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Unfortunately, FreeCOM (included into 2035 package) wrongly handles empty enviornment (easy to reproduce in MS-DOS, as I report this in group). Looks like Steffen fixes (at least, one) bug, related to environment, but up to now I don't know where to

Re: [Freedos-kernel] FreeDOS 2035a detail discussion: FreeCOM, menu compatibility

2004-07-19 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 19--2004 08:29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steffen Kaiser) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unfortunately, FreeCOM (included into 2035 package) wrongly handles empty enviornment (easy to reproduce in MS-DOS, as I report this in group). Looks

Re: [Freedos-kernel] FreeDOS 2035a detail discussion: FreeCOM, menu compatibility

2004-07-19 Thread Steffen Kaiser
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hello, Unfortunately, FreeCOM (included into 2035 package) wrongly handles empty enviornment (easy to reproduce in MS-DOS, as I report this in group). Looks ^^ like Steffen fixes (at

Re: [Freedos-kernel] FreeDOS 2035a detail discussion: FreeCOM, menu compatibility

2004-07-19 Thread tom ehlert
steffen) put MSDOS + current distributed FreeCOM on floppy. boot, and say F5 (skip everything) and you'll have a load complaining FreeCOM, although it definitively gets it's startup path. Arkady) it's a plain dull idiotic mathematicians braindead idea to 'improve' freedos kernel, but break

Re: [Freedos-kernel] FreeDOS 2035a detail discussion: FreeCOM, menu compatibility

2004-07-19 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 19--2004 21:56 Arkady V.Belousov wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SK the PATH=. variable? AVB MS-DOS (neither kernel, nor MS-command.com) NEVER INCLUDES SUCH AVB VARIABLE INTO ENVIRONMENT (empty or not). If in config.sys not present menu AVB or some SETs, then for INSTALL= MS-DOS passes

Re: [Freedos-kernel] FreeDOS 2035a detail discussion: FreeCOM, menu compatibility

2004-07-19 Thread FreeCOM
Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hello, 19--2004 13:59 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steffen Kaiser) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You mean Arkady called MS-DOS-style empty environment broken? Yes, I call this. But this is MS-DOS and all its bugs become standard and called SK So, you've fixed the

Re: [Freedos-kernel] FreeDOS 2035a detail discussion: FreeCOM, menu compatibility

2004-07-19 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 19--2004 21:14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (FreeCOM) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SK What does the kernel do now, when the originally correct empty SK environment layout arrives there? Originally correct - with one empty ASCIIZ string? Currently prepared MS-DOS-style empty environment. (DO WE

Re: [Freedos-kernel] FreeDOS 2035a detail discussion: FreeCOM, menu compatibility

2004-07-19 Thread tom ehlert
My dear Mr. Belousov, _I_ _report_ bug in FreeCOM. If now FreeDOS is closer to MS-DOS and FreeCOM now incorrectly works in both under MS-DOS and FreeDOS (with empty environment), who wrong? do you really think a new kernel that breaks all installed FreeCOM's in the wild is an improvement

Re: [Freedos-kernel] FreeDOS 2035a detail discussion: FreeCOM, menu compatibility

2004-07-19 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 19--2004 22:11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (tom ehlert) wrote to Arkady V.Belousov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: te do you really think a new kernel that breaks all installed FreeCOM's te in the wild is an improvement ? Workaround for current bug in FreeCOM is easy, this is question of two lines in main.c

[Freedos-kernel] FreeDOS 2035a detail discussion: FreeCOM, menu compatibility

2004-07-16 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Arkady, please UNFIX the environment then! Seems to be a very bad idea that people get throw out of FreeDOS after updating to your kernel just because they forgot to update FreeCOM as well! You could add a temporary SWITCHES=/P flag which would mean improve environment size - might be

Re: [Freedos-kernel] FreeDOS 2035a detail discussion: FreeCOM, menu compatibility

2004-07-16 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 17--2004 00:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: EA Hi, when I press F5 at the 2035a boot choice, an improper EA shell command line is selected: I get an error message from EA FreeCOM that it cannot find itself (even though I have copied EA it to c:\ to be easier