Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2023-05-04 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hi, On Thu, 4 May 2023 at 20:38, Ralf Quint wrote: > > * Collating/lowercase/uppercase tables, which in turn implies that > > DBCS are handled where strings are handled, and my worry is about > > filenames: how are filenames stored? how does it relate to 8.3 > > limitation, does it become 4.1

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2023-05-04 Thread Ralf Quint
On 5/3/2023 12:29 PM, Aitor Santamaría wrote: Hello! Although I am some years late, my thoughts on this thread. By the way, a very interesting thread on localisation for a hard case (the need for DBCS). Well,.. These thoughts are provided from the simple logic, not knowing about DOS/V. In

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2023-05-03 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello! Although I am some years late, my thoughts on this thread. By the way, a very interesting thread on localisation for a hard case (the need for DBCS). These thoughts are provided from the simple logic, not knowing about DOS/V. In my understanding, supporting Japanese would *at least*

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2015-07-08 Thread Ralf Quint
On 7/7/2015 10:41 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: Sorry if this is obvious -- what is FreeDOS/V ? cheers, Mateusz Well, as Sparky4 already mentioned, it is (supposed to be) for FreeDOS what DOS/V was for MS/PC-DOS: A double-byte aware Japanese localized version of FreeDOS...

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2015-07-08 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Jim Hall jh...@freedos.org wrote: I clicked Send before I meant to. The date (version 5/93) suggests this is GNU GPL v2. The GNU GPL v2 was released in 1991, and the GNU GPL v3 was released in 2007. Just FYI, I did mirror NNANSI to iBiblio recently. It is

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2015-07-07 Thread sparky4
http://4ch.mooo.com/fdos/pack/jp.zip here i made a package I hope this is OK -- View this message in context: http://freedos.10956.n7.nabble.com/FreeDOS-V-tp19922p22999.html Sent from the FreeDOS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2015-07-07 Thread sparky4
I did not expect this thread to take off ok i did find some utilities and their sources! i am very worried about licensing -- View this message in context: http://freedos.10956.n7.nabble.com/FreeDOS-V-tp19922p22998.html Sent from the FreeDOS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2015-07-07 Thread sparky4
http://4ch.mooo.com/fdos/pack/nnansijp.zip http://4ch.mooo.com/fdos/pack/jp.zip here the 2 packages! if you find any bugs PLEASE let me know! -- View this message in context: http://freedos.10956.n7.nabble.com/FreeDOS-V-tp19922p23001.html Sent from the FreeDOS - User mailing list archive

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2015-07-07 Thread Jim Hall
Package nnansijp is missing its copy of the GNU GPL. From a comment at the top of NNANSI.ASM: ;--- nnansi.asm -- ; New, New ANSI terminal driver. ; Optimized for speed in the case of multi-character write requests. ; Original NANSI

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2015-07-07 Thread sparky4
I removed it! thank you for telling me! I think i should build my own DOS/V system for FreeDOS! -- View this message in context: http://freedos.10956.n7.nabble.com/FreeDOS-V-tp19922p23004.html Sent from the FreeDOS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2015-07-07 Thread Jim Hall
On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 11:37 AM, sparky4 spar...@cock.li wrote: http://4ch.mooo.com/fdos/pack/jp.zip here i made a package I hope this is OK Looks like jp.zip is not ok to redistribute. There is no license information to indicate if these programs can be shared. Just because it has

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2015-07-07 Thread Jim Hall
I clicked Send before I meant to. The date (version 5/93) suggests this is GNU GPL v2. The GNU GPL v2 was released in 1991, and the GNU GPL v3 was released in 2007. -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2015-07-07 Thread Jim Hall
On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 3:53 PM, sparky4 spar...@cock.li wrote: my compiled nnansi version? From my other email, looks like nnansijp is missing its copy of the GNU GPL. This is free software, but it would be best to include the corresponding copy of the GNU GPL in your distribution of nnansijp.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2015-07-07 Thread sparky4
it is located in doc\nnansijp\ -- View this message in context: http://freedos.10956.n7.nabble.com/FreeDOS-V-tp19922p23008.html Sent from the FreeDOS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Don't Limit Your

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2015-07-07 Thread Mateusz Viste
On 07/07/2015 22:53, sparky4 wrote: my compiled nnansi version? Looks good to me, although I find it lacks some clarity: if I understand well, you took the standard nnansi and recompiled it and/or added some #defines to include japanese support, is that right? If so, then I don't think you

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2015-07-07 Thread sparky4
ah! i will fix that asap i just changed the configuration and compiled it thats all FreeDOS/V is to DOS/V like what FreeDOS is to DOS -- View this message in context: http://freedos.10956.n7.nabble.com/FreeDOS-V-tp19922p23010.html Sent from the FreeDOS - User mailing list archive at

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2013-11-09 Thread Matej Horvat
On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 04:02:58 +0100, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: If that just returns a charset-specific static table, maybe it would be some sort of charset rendering and keyboard / input method driver that actually implements this, not the kernel? Sure, it could also be a TSR. I

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2013-11-09 Thread Matej Horvat
On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 06:36:49 +0100, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Matej Horvat matej.hor...@guest.arnes.si wrote: PS: I just wrote all that and found this: http://nokonoko365.cocolog-nifty.com/blogfile/freedos/index.html Is that third party software for

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2013-11-09 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 5:13 AM, Matej Horvat matej.hor...@guest.arnes.si wrote: On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 06:36:49 +0100, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Matej Horvat matej.hor...@guest.arnes.si wrote: PS: I just wrote all that and found this:

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2013-11-09 Thread TJ Edmister
On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 00:36:49 -0500, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Matej Horvat matej.hor...@guest.arnes.si wrote: ... irrelevant comments by me deleted ... PS: I just wrote all that and found this:

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2013-11-09 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 1:43 PM, TJ Edmister damag...@hyakushiki.net wrote: On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 00:36:49 -0500, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Matej Horvat matej.hor...@guest.arnes.si wrote: PS: I just wrote all that and found this:

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2013-11-09 Thread TJ Edmister
On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 18:22:40 -0500, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: The two main files seem to be (as mentioned) fdos0138.exe (.ZIP sfx of .IMA) and jis4pack.lzh (three .fnt files, the first of which is huge, presumably only useful with something on the .IMA, perhaps FONTNX.EXE ??). Yes,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2013-11-08 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 12:46 AM, sparky4 insano sparky44...@gmail.com wrote: Will there ever be any official support for the Japanese language in FreeDOS? At risk of stating the obvious, FreeDOS is free to modify, but support can only improve if someone decides to volunteer to do

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2013-11-08 Thread Chris Evans
Would this accomplished by loading a Unicode Japanese code page font file using mode? On Nov 8, 2013 3:59 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 12:46 AM, sparky4 insano sparky44...@gmail.com wrote: Will there ever be any official support for the Japanese

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2013-11-08 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Chris Evans aaxiomfin...@gmail.com wrote: Would this accomplished by loading a Unicode Japanese code page font file using mode? No because Unicode, esp. for CJK languages, would never fit into 256 or 512 bytes, which (AFAIK) is a EGA/VGA hardware (text

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2013-11-08 Thread Ralf Quint
On 11/8/2013 4:43 PM, Rugxulo wrote: Hi, On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Chris Evans aaxiomfin...@gmail.com wrote: Would this accomplished by loading a Unicode Japanese code page font file using mode? No because Unicode, esp. for CJK languages, would never fit into 256 or 512 bytes, which

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2013-11-08 Thread Matej Horvat
I downloaded a Japanese MS-DOS bootdisk (I'm not giving out any links because this is probably not very legal) and started experimenting. Let me report my findings. It seems that there is just one special API function for double byte character sets, 6300h:

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V - dbcs support for japanese chinese korean

2013-11-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Matej, thanks for your research :-) It seems that there is just one special API function for double byte character sets, 6300h: http://www.ctyme.com/intr/rb-3142.htm http://www.ctyme.com/intr/rb-3143.htm It returns a table of ranges of valid DBCS leading bytes. This allows

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2013-11-08 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Matej Horvat matej.hor...@guest.arnes.si wrote: ... irrelevant comments by me deleted ... PS: I just wrote all that and found this: http://nokonoko365.cocolog-nifty.com/blogfile/freedos/index.html Is that third party software for Japanese support or

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2013-11-08 Thread Louis Santillan
The full simtel mirror is at archive.org (all 10GB in a zip file) https://archive.org/details/simtelnet_bu_mirror_2013_04 -L On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Matej Horvat matej.hor...@guest.arnes.si wrote: ... irrelevant

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

2013-11-07 Thread sparky4 insano
Will there ever be any official support for the Japanese language in FreeDOS? -- November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore techniques for