Re: [Freedos-kernel] kernel 2038 discussion stuck? history.txt changes

2009-09-01 Thread Aitor SantamarĂ­a
Hello Bart, I added the hook... very sorry about this delay... Aitor 2009/6/5 Bart Oldeman bartolde...@users.sourceforge.net: Hi Eric, 2009/6/5 Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de: Bart seems to work on this a lot, but unfortunately there is nothing about the progress on the mailing list.

Re: [Freedos-kernel] kernel 2038 discussion stuck? history.txt changes

2009-06-06 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bart, well, at the time of setting up SVN I asked Jim if he could set up sourceforge so the patches to go to the existing freedos-cvs mailing list (where CVS commits were sent) I do not know how many people read that list, but my suggestion was more to talk about the code rather than

Re: [Freedos-kernel] kernel 2038 discussion stuck? history.txt changes

2009-06-05 Thread Eric Auer
Hi dos386! Can you forward details about that dmidecode / bttr forum thing? PS: I would like to quote IBID_AG 4. I would rather see more of the features from 2037 in stable Ask IBID... country sys support is very useful for SOME languages, but which other features of 2037 are really hot? :-)

Re: [Freedos-kernel] kernel 2038 discussion stuck? history.txt changes

2009-06-05 Thread Bernd Blaauw
dos386 schreef: PS: I would like to quote IBID_AG 2. Congratulations on a great kernel/OS 4. I would rather see more of the features from 2037 in stable List ??? * external Country.sys support (including MODE, DISPLAY, NLSFUNC etc) * That FNODES stuff (Bart seems to be working

Re: [Freedos-kernel] kernel 2038 discussion stuck? history.txt changes

2009-06-05 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Eric Auer schreef: Hi dos386! Can you forward details about that dmidecode / bttr forum thing? http://www.bttr-software.de/ http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum.php software: http://www.bttr-software.de/misc/dmide29b.zip (I guess) Nowadays a hardware diagnostics tool at boottime seems

Re: [Freedos-kernel] kernel 2038 discussion stuck? history.txt changes

2009-06-05 Thread Tom Ehlert
* Windows 3.1x support seriously: is ANYBODY using Windows 3.x ? IMHO Windows 3.x is 100% obsolete, so why would anybody want windows 3.x support ? WfW support in stable, these might be handy. Windows for Workgroups , which is a flavor of Microsoft Windows 3.11 WfW support will probably

Re: [Freedos-kernel] kernel 2038 discussion stuck? history.txt changes

2009-06-05 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bernd, Tom, Bart, others, * external Country.sys support (including MODE, DISPLAY, NLSFUNC etc) Definitely useful. I hope it can be combined with compiled-in 2038 style basic support: Things like date/time/number format. While only external country.sys adds sort/uppercase/lowercase override

Re: [Freedos-kernel] kernel 2038 discussion stuck? history.txt changes

2009-06-05 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Eric Auere.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: Hi Bernd, Tom, Bart, others, ... WfW support will probably never come; WfW was tighly coupled to the kernel (at least according to Schulman et. al., WfW is MUCH more then just a flavour of Windows 3.11) What is Schulman et

[Freedos-kernel] kernel 2038 discussion stuck? history.txt changes

2009-05-31 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, as there was no reaction to the mail of dos386 ten days ago, I would like to repeat it as new thread: Tested and didn't find anything eclatantly evil so far :-) - It works mostly, see shot: http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/4611/ker2038.png This screenshot shows a 46208 byte kernel,

Re: [Freedos-kernel] kernel 2038 discussion stuck? history.txt changes

2009-05-31 Thread Pat Villani
Folks, I am not as up to date on the changes as you may be. I'm looking for a volunteer (or volunteers) to update history.txt for 2038 and 2039. When I get the updated files, I'll follow through and get them on the web sites. Pat On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de

Re: [Freedos-kernel] kernel 2038 discussion stuck? history.txt changes

2009-05-31 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bernd, Pat, Jeremy, Pat, Jeremy: Please FIRST update history txt BEFORE we make a sourceforge file release of kernel 2038. Thank you :-). I just uploaded updated history.txt / readme.txt / contrib.txt as subversion revision SVN r1412 for Pat :-). NOTE: Please ONLY updated those 3 when