arachne-digest Tuesday, January 11 2000 Volume 01 : Number 939
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 23:26:32 -0500
From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: (OT) memory management.
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 20:58:01 -0800, Clarence Verge wrote:
> L.D. Best wrote:
>> Clarence,
>> I've seen mention of dropping the page frame, and wondered about why UBM
>> should be selected when NOUMB is the default.
>> But when I go to Manifest it clearly shows that the page frame 64K is
>> placed *above* the 1Mb portion of memory. So getting rid of the page
>> frame wouldn't make any addition memory available for loading EPPPD
>> high.
> Hi L.D.;
> I think you must have misinterpreted the Manifest display. It definitely
> should go above the standard 640k low memory barrier but it must be placed
> in the first meg.
Clarence,
Right you are.
This out put from Qemm's "manifest" should clear thins up.
Quarterdeck
MANIFEST
Memory Area Size Description
0000 - 003F 1K Interrupt Area
0040 - 004F 0.3K BIOS Data Area
0050 - 006F 0.5K System Data
0070 - 0286 8.4K DOS
0287 - 1E0A 110K Program Area
1E0B - 9FFE 519K [Available]
9FFF - 9FFF 0.1K Unused
���Conventional memory ends at 640K����
A000 - AFFF 64K VGA Graphics
B000 - B7FF 32K High RAM
B800 - BFFF 32K VGA Text
C000 - C0FF 4K ROM
C100 - CAFF 40K High RAM
CB00 - CBFF 4K Adapter RAM
CC00 - E9FF 120K High RAM
EA00 - EBFF 8K ROM
EC00 - FBFF 64K Page Frame
FC00 - FEFF 12K High RAM
FF00 - FFFF 4K System ROM
HMA 64K First 64K Extended
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Glenn McCorkle mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
North Jackson, Ohio, USA
Arachne, The Web Browser for DOS
Open the 'DOOR' to the WWW. Keep the 'windows' closed.
http://home.arachne.cz/ or http://arachne.browser.org/
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 23:39:51 -0500
From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Funny sites
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 02:42:05 +0100, Hans-Juergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Do me a favor, Glenn, and fix your sig dashes from "--" to "-- ", so
> that my newsreader can cut out everything that is mentioned below ... ;-)
> Just fill in the blank space behind the two dashes - if your text editor
> (or InSight in this case) doesn't support spaces at the end of a line,
> use EDIT.COM from MS-DOS, it will not delete them.
Hans,
You're right....
The "modify .TBS" choice within Arachne is removeing the space.
Michael, did you already find this one and get it fixed in v1.60 ???<g>
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Glenn McCorkle mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
North Jackson, Ohio, USA
Arachne, The Web Browser for DOS
Open the 'DOOR' to the WWW. Keep the 'windows' closed.
http://home.arachne.cz/ or http://arachne.browser.org/
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 06:28:47 +0100 (CET)
From: Petri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Long filenames howto ?
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Gregory J. Feig wrote:
> petri.....which means that we don't have to worry about buggering
> about with the file system (a lot of work) but just about coping with
> and responding to (insome way) ADDITIONAL information tacked on to
> whatever filesystem/filename we encounter in Arachne....???
Uh, the LFN's are stored as *volume labels*, so you'll have to do stuff
with the file system anyway. Or, you could always use the LFN libraries
avaliable, but as said, they are a bit bad. :) But anyway, my point was
just that the LFNs aren't part of the FAT standard, Arachne is a DOS
program, DOS doesn't use LFNs (usually), and thus needn't Arachne
either. =) Under Linux, though, long file names exist, but that's an
entirely different story.....you just treat long and short file names
equally. No special code required. =) (btw....how much work has been done
on Arachne/linux? I forgot =P)
/petri
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 08:45:09 +0100
From: "Rebel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Oldies but goodies [was Re: HIMEM.SYS, are there different versions?
From: "Clarence Verge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Gregory J. Feig wrote:
> >
> > Clarence.......I have the complete "Programmers Tool Kit" package for
> > Zenith DOS, which I believe is MSDOS 3.31.....and it includes ALL
> > the BIOS and DOS source files.......are you interested in something
> > like this......?????
>
> Hi Gregory;
> YES. I am very interested. How big is it ?
>
> - Clarence Verge
> --
You mean, you have a full bios source code?
I'm interested too. please send it to me too.
Thx
Rebel
Programozasi segedletek, hardware-software ismertetok:
http://thoth.banki.hu/doksi
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 09:55:09 +0100 (CET)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter)
Subject: Re: Secure web sites
Hi
"Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The messages aren't secret that's not the point. The point is to create
>> messages that let us know who we are talking to. (And with erspect to the
>> secure sites who we are ourselves).
SH> You mean to say that my internet shopping order for goods does not bear
SH> an
SH> encrypted credit card number? Anyone listening could find out my credit
SH> card number, but would experience great difficulty trying to falsely
SH> identify himself as me?
Nope ... Bernie was talking about signing in the part you quoted.
Read through his whole mail, and you understand.
Basically there are 2 possibilities:
* encryption (only the receiving party can read it)
* signing (everybody can read it, and there is a small part, which is a
encrypted 'checksum' of the message, which is encrypted with YOUR secret key.
So if the message is changed, the checksum doesn't match, and everybody knows
that the message is not authentic.) Sure it also shows that the message is
really from you!
SH> Sam Heywood
CU, Ricsi
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Richard Menedetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ICQ: 7659421] {RSA-PGP Key avail.}
- -=> You *must* be kidding! <=-
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 10:01:19 +0100 (CET)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter)
Subject: Re: Secure web sites
Hi
"Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
SH> <snip>
SH> Your input explaining how the system works was very straight-forward and
SH> enlightening.
Thanx !
SH> I agree that the regulations are absurd and very outdated and most
SH> certainly should be abolished. I don't have any idea how the US
SH> Government ever envisioned any attempts at enforcement anyway. Isn't it
SH> a
SH> simple matter for someone outside the U.S. to simply click on a link on a
SH> U.S. web site, or visit an ftp site located in the U.S. and download an
SH> encryption program prohibited from export?
The sites where you can download such programs, let usually only those users
in, which have an american IP address. (there are lookup tables .... IMHO)
One possible solution is using a free american proxy.
So the actual address would be OK, and the proxy forwards the data to you ;)
SH> Sam Heywood
CU, Ricsi
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Richard Menedetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ICQ: 7659421] {RSA-PGP Key avail.}
- -=> Guns don't kill. Fast-moving projectiles do <=-
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 06:23:08 -0500 (EST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Howard Eisenberger)
Subject: Re: UMB's and free memory
Ken Martwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Still, it is not clear to me why more memory is needed;
>I run Arachne on two different 486's and generally have in the
>range of 540K free. I have never had any memory problems.
I have often wondered the same thing myself.
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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 20:41:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: (Howard Eisenberger)
Subject: Re: Arachne under DR-DOS
As a matter of fact, since I have a bit more in my boot
configuration than Glenn, I have 602K free conventional memory
at startup. If I don't use CD-ROM support, I can load EPPPDD
(I use the debug version which occupies 80K) in upper memory
which leaves the full 602K for Arachne. If I do use CD-ROM
support, I have to load EPPPDD in low memory which only leaves
521K for Arachne. But it still works! I don't see why you should
have a problem.
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 03:55:16 -0500 (EST)
From: (Howard Eisenberger)
Subject: Re: Speed improvements
After I load EPPPDD in low memory, I have 537K free, and have no
problem running Arachne online.
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Bye the way, I am running v150s.r.c.
Howard Eisenberger
Ottawa, Canada
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... DOS TCP/IP for NCF **** <URL:http://www.ncf.ca/~ag221/dosppp.html>
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 06:36:34 -0500 (EST)
From: "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Long file names, also DOS source
Bernie, Rebel and others,
Long file name support with FAT12/16/32 is really a kludge as far as I can tell,
not part of the directory information, in contrast to the true long filename
support in HPFS (OS/2) and Unix. But perhaps a more serious problem with DOS is
lack of FAT32 support, meaning large partitions are very wasteful of disk space.
Anybody looking for DOS source code can go to http://www.freedos.org. FreeDOS
is the only really open DOS.
Support the International Alliance for Compatible Technology
http://pages.cthome.net/iact/
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 11:53:47 +0000
From: Charles Boisvert and Catherine Clinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: arachne-digest V1 #938
>By the way, NewDeal exellently work under Linux,
>overperforming all GUIs such as KDE, CDE, GNOME and
>ecpecially WordPerfect and StarOffice.
>
>Sergei
>
NewDeal runs under Dosemu, so it won't replace a Linux window manager.
Some users of that combination say it's their favorite office suite under
Linux - yes, over wordperfect and staroffice, but it's not an alternative
to KDE/CDE/GNOME.
Charles
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 09:11:04 -0500
From: Roger Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Secure web sites
Let me give you my idea of public key/private key usage by going back about
40 years. This is in the day where encryption was performed by mechanical
crypto machines that had a number of rotors that could each be assembled in
various manners. As the encrypter typed the plain text message, the crypto
machine would generate a letter, increment the rotor so that if the same key
was typed, a different letter would be generated. There would be literally
thousands of ways the rotors could be assembled. The message would be the 5
character group messages that Sam Heywood mentioned.
Everybody had machines capable of decoding the message and anyone that had a
radio receiver tuned to the proper frequency could receive the message,
however, in order to decode the message, the recipient had to know how the
rotors were assembled by the sender. Obviously, the sender could not send a
plain text message giving instructions on how to assemble the rotors, yet,
the sender had to tell the intended recipient how to assemble his/her
rotors. This was done at the beginning of the message before the 5 character
groups started, thus:
ALPHA ROMEO ALPHA CHARLIE HOTEL ... (etc.)
This is the PUBLIC KEY. Everyone who received the message received the
Public Key. The people to whom the message was intended would pull out their
code book, turn to the page for the date (and possibly time) the message was
originated, and see that under rotor 1, ALPHA meant to assemble parts a, b,
c, and under rotor 2, ROMEO meant to assemble parts e, f, g, etc. The code
book page is the PRIVATE KEY. A person receiving the message who didn't know
how to set up the rotors, i.e., did not have the PRIVATE KEY, would have to
try the thousands of combinations of rotors in order to decode the message.
The necessary parts are that everyone uses the same procedure to encrypt a
message and that there is some way for the originator to tell the recipient
how the message was encrypted.
In using a secure site, the person sending his/her order would encrypt
his/her order, possibly without knowing it, attach a PUBLIC KEY to it that
would somehow tell the recipient what PRIVATE KEY was used to encrypt the
message.
PC Magazine had an article on how this was done several years ago and I can't
remember exactly (or even generally) what they said.
Hope this helps.
Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 15:34:26 +0000
From: "Joerg Bartels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Arachne on TV and arcademachine (!! Warning !!)
- -- Arachne V1.50;s.r.c., NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://home.arachne.cz/
> > In combination with a SCART-plug it blows away every videocard with
> > TV-out when you use it together with M.A.M.E (Multi.Arcade.Machine.Emulator)
>
> Joerg .......what is a SCART-plug, and where do I get one/get plans
> to fabricate one.....
>
> gregy
You must have SCART plug at TV set. It look like
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\ * * * * * * * * * * * * /
\ * * * * * * * * * * * /
\_____________________/
Always at the back side of TV set.
But maybe its only european standart ?
If you have some electronic backgrounds, it's easy
to connect signals right to PAL decoder, if you have not
such connector.
Sergei
- -------------------------------! Warning !------------------------------------------
See it !!! There it is !!! The way to massdestruction !!!! That was my fear !!!!
All I wanted to show was that it is possible to connect a computer to a tv with
an easy to setup cable and smart software. -I know, it was my fault to go into a
public list without enough knowledge in electronics and english to handle the
follow-ups -shame on me-.
!!!!! Please Mel and other people from ham radio help me out !!!!!
Joerg
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 21:35:30 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Long filenames howto ?
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 15:56:14 +0200, Sergei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Yes, i am trying sometime to run Arachne
> under Windows 98 at Celeron 710Mhz.
> I need Windows for few very big PCB designing package.
> Accel EDA, OrCAD and At&T ORCA if you need to know
> (in past i was eletronic engeneer, and i still love to
> assemble something by myself). Also Netscape 4.7 much more
> faster then Arachne at this hardware, so i can reduce phone
> and on-line bills.
>> ..If you are running under Win95, you might send me some details
>> - of this list, for now - at my email above....I can edit and
>> post back to this list later....
> What kind of details ?
> And what is GERALD MNonitor problem ?
Sergei .........Gerald has some problems with using his monitor,
and he mentioned running under Win9x.......but....he doesn't
want to run Arachne under Win9x, so that becomes academic...now
I/m running around looking for the files that used to be on the
IBM PCCompany BBS before they shut down....Gerald's monitor is
an IBM 9517 and they run with non-standard scan frequencies...
but, I think I can find some drivers for it....
gregy
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Ultimate Internet Client
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 09:10:30 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Long filenames howto ?
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 06:28:47 +0100 (CET), Petri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Gregory J. Feig wrote:
>> petri.....which means that we don't have to worry about buggering
>> about with the file system (a lot of work) but just about coping with
>> and responding to (insome way) ADDITIONAL information tacked on to
>> whatever filesystem/filename we encounter in Arachne....???
> Uh, the LFN's are stored as *volume labels*, so you'll have to do stuff
> with the file system anyway. Or, you could always use the LFN libraries
> avaliable, but as said, they are a bit bad. :) But anyway, my point was
> just that the LFNs aren't part of the FAT standard, Arachne is a DOS
> program, DOS doesn't use LFNs (usually), and thus needn't Arachne
> either. =) Under Linux, though, long file names exist, but that's an
> entirely different story.....you just treat long and short file names
> equally. No special code required. =) (btw....how much work has been done
> on Arachne/linux? I forgot =P)
petri.........I think I miss-stated my point.....what I wanted to
say was....we are in DOS...we don not need to worry about LFN....
UNLESS we run into a situation where some site/OS/application is
pushing them upon us, and insisting that we acknowledge them, then
we only have to take them and truncate them any way we choose...
LFNs should not be a major hindrance to our using DOS worldwide..
gregy
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 09:14:49 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Oldies but goodies [was Re: HIMEM.SYS, are there different versions?
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 08:45:09 +0100, "Rebel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: "Clarence Verge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Gregory J. Feig wrote:
>> >
>> > Clarence.......I have the complete "Programmers Tool Kit" package for
>> > Zenith DOS, which I believe is MSDOS 3.31.....and it includes ALL
>> > the BIOS and DOS source files.......are you interested in something
>> > like this......?????
>> Hi Gregory;
>> YES. I am very interested. How big is it ?
>> - Clarence Verge
>> --
> You mean, you have a full bios source code?
> I'm interested too. please send it to me too.
> Thx
Rebel .......OKAY...Clarence, Sergei, Petri, Rebel....any others...
probably better send me email at my personal address...
gregy
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 09:03:39 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Oldies but goodies [was Re: HIMEM.SYS, are there differentversions?
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 06:13:33 +0100 (CET), Petri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Gregory J. Feig wrote:
>> > I would really like to see those DOS sources (and BTW does anyone have the
>> > sources for Open-DOS? I lost mine). Gregy could you send them to me?
>> If anyone else wants them.....Hey..there's no postage needed, so just
>> ask......
> I'd like them, too, thanks. =)
> /petri
OKAY.....I've got Clarenc, Sergei, and Petri on the list.....anyone
elso...???......I'll send them in the next day or two....I know I
can dig them out, because I just saw them a few days ago whe I was
digging out something else...
gregy
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 08:48:25 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Arachne on TV and arcademachine (!! Warning !!)
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 15:34:26 +0000, Joerg Bartels wrote:
> -- Arachne V1.50;s.r.c., NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://home.arachne.cz/
>> > In combination with a SCART-plug it blows away every videocard with
>> > TV-out when you use it together with M.A.M.E (Multi.Arcade.Machine.Emulator)
>> Joerg .......what is a SCART-plug, and where do I get one/get plans
>> to fabricate one.....
>> gregy
> You must have SCART plug at TV set. It look like
> ---------------------------
> \ * * * * * * * * * * * * /
> \ * * * * * * * * * * * /
> \_____________________/
> Always at the back side of TV set.
> But maybe its only european standart ?
> If you have some electronic backgrounds, it's easy
> to connect signals right to PAL decoder, if you have not
> such connector.
> Sergei
> -------------------------------! Warning
> !------------------------------------------
> See it !!! There it is !!! The way to massdestruction !!!! That was my fear !!!!
> All I wanted to show was that it is possible to connect a computer to a tv with
> an easy to setup cable and smart software. -I know, it was my fault to go into a
> public list without enough knowledge in electronics and english to handle the
> follow-ups -shame on me-.
> !!!!! Please Mel and other people from ham radio help me out !!!!!
Joerg ........Yes..!!!...extreme caution must be used,...but, Joerg,
nobody is going to do this over here in North America.....those in
Europe already have this connector/interface.....we here in North
America have our own connector/interface we can use....it is our
Video IN/OUT connector.....in addition, anyone who doesn't have
these connectors (both in Europe and North America) will never
try to install one, unless we already are technician types who have
experience inside TV sets......I think you can rest easy....we
have heard your warning, and (you will notice that I echo your
warning at this top, I did not discount it) no one will carelessly
do this......
gregy
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 09:18:19 -0800
From: "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Secure web sites
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 09:11:04 -0500, Roger Turk wrote:
> Let me give you my idea of public key/private key usage by going back about
> 40 years. This is in the day where encryption was performed by mechanical
> crypto machines that had a number of rotors that could each be assembled in
> various manners. As the encrypter typed the plain text message, the crypto
> machine would generate a letter, increment the rotor so that if the same key
> was typed, a different letter would be generated. There would be literally
> thousands of ways the rotors could be assembled. The message would be the 5
> character group messages that Sam Heywood mentioned.
> Everybody had machines capable of decoding the message and anyone that had a
> radio receiver tuned to the proper frequency could receive the message,
> however, in order to decode the message, the recipient had to know how the
> rotors were assembled by the sender. Obviously, the sender could not send a
> plain text message giving instructions on how to assemble the rotors, yet,
> the sender had to tell the intended recipient how to assemble his/her
> rotors. This was done at the beginning of the message before the 5 character
> groups started, thus:
> ALPHA ROMEO ALPHA CHARLIE HOTEL ... (etc.)
> This is the PUBLIC KEY. Everyone who received the message received the
> Public Key. The people to whom the message was intended would pull out their
> code book, turn to the page for the date (and possibly time) the message was
> originated, and see that under rotor 1, ALPHA meant to assemble parts a, b,
> c, and under rotor 2, ROMEO meant to assemble parts e, f, g, etc. The code
> book page is the PRIVATE KEY. A person receiving the message who didn't know
> how to set up the rotors, i.e., did not have the PRIVATE KEY, would have to
> try the thousands of combinations of rotors in order to decode the message.
> The necessary parts are that everyone uses the same procedure to encrypt a
> message and that there is some way for the originator to tell the recipient
> how the message was encrypted.
> In using a secure site, the person sending his/her order would encrypt
> his/her order, possibly without knowing it, attach a PUBLIC KEY to it that
> would somehow tell the recipient what PRIVATE KEY was used to encrypt the
> message.
> PC Magazine had an article on how this was done several years ago and I can't
> remember exactly (or even generally) what they said.
> Hope this helps.
Roger.....greetings, fellow former Crypto Technician
gregy
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 18:01:03 +0100 (MET)
From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: load EPPPD high
Hans-Juergen wrote:
>The HMA is used by the first program that calls for its use during
>the boot sequence, but that can be changed with switches to their
>command lines. Normally MS-DOS itself will use this 64k space, if
>there's a line like DOS=HIGH in the config.sys. DOS=UMB means -
>well, take a guess... ;-)
And DOS=HIGH,UMB means what then?
I would recomend that you do a "help dos" in MS-DOS 5.0 or above, the
syntax is:
dos=low|high,[umb|noumb]
UMB makes the UMB available to DOS (granted M$have screwed up the
translation but that's what I remember from the two DOS courses I went
95/96 - to bad we don't have any easy courses like that anymore :(
>And another BTW: Those of you who use a MS-DOS version newer than 5.0
>can get extensive help to all DOS commands by just typing "help" or
>"help emm386.exe" (for example) and will be lead to the new DOS help
>screen that is even mouse-clickable for those who need it... ;-)
>The advantage of this help system is that it is easier to use and it
>goes much more into details (with examples etc.) than the short one-
>page-only-syntax-screens of the older versions.
And "fasthelp emm386.exe" will give the old one :)
Actually if you want to be able to use fasthelp on a program that didn't
come with DOS there's a file (doshelp.hlp) which you can edit. (In fact
fasthelp only searches the doshelp.hlp file and if it finds the
command/program it will do ex. "emm386.exe/?")
But in fact the content of the file doshelp.hlp is useless since only the
program names are in there. So, it can be removed if you want to, together
with fasthelp.exe, and voila I've saved 17K (actually 24K due to allocated
units).
//Bernie
http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/index.htm DOS programs, Star Wars ...
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 18:01:06 +0100 (MET)
From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: no packet driver found
Guenter wrote:
>Now let's make some tests what's going on in the COMPAQ.
I tried the same test (haven't had time any other idea that requires me too
actually get connected in a while).
>0000:400 F8 03 F8 02 00 00 00 00..............
> ----- ----- ----- -----
> ^ ^ ^ ^
>ADDR. COM1 COM2 COM3 COM4
>
>Please check what port-address you get in which position.
Exactly what I got.
>2. Let see what the COMPAQ does with software interrupt 60h
> to load the packet driver.
>
>- Start your machine to pure DOS.
>- type 'debug' (it's in the DOS subdir)
>- type 'd0:180' CR
>
>you get some lines with hex numbers. We only need the first line:
>
>0000:180 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> ----------- ----------- ----------- -----------
> ^ ^ ^ ^
>ADDR. Int60h Int61h Int62h Int63h
>
>If there are all zero in it, these interrupts are free, otherwise
>they are used by the COMPAQ :-((
All are 0's :)
So we could atleast eliminate two things from my machines then...
As a side note I I've had quite a few problems with getting the CD to work
with the smaller ATAPI driver and shsucdx, just in case someone else has
the same problems...
//Bernie
http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/index.htm DOS programs, Star Wars ...
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 18:01:05 +0100 (MET)
From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HIMEM.SYS, are there different versions?
Clarence wrote:
>Hmmm. Peter Norton seems to think MS-DOS 3.31 WILL recognize big partitions.
>
>Can you tell from the manual just what the difference between 3.30 and 3.31
>might be ? Could it be possible that that portion of the manual was not
>updated from 3.30 ?
I just read a little in the "Programmer's Technical Reference for MSDOS and
the IBM PC" (it was downloadable from my homepage, I might have removed it
due to space problems on the server - look for a file called dosref.zip).
Anyway what it says is the following:
> MS-DOS 3.31 November 1987 over-32 meg DOS partitions. Different
> versions from different OEMs (not
> Microsoft). Compaq and Wyse are most
> common.
(snip)
> PC-DOS 4.0 August 1988 32mb disk limit officially broken, minor
> EMS support, more new function calls,
> enhanced network support for external
> commands. PCjr support dropped.
(snip)
>Early Compaqs labeled DOS 2.0 as DOS 1.x. Other
>versions incorporated special features - Compaq DOS 3.31 and Wyse DOS
>3.21 both support >32mb disk partitions in the same fashion as DOS
>4.x.
So perhaps there is some diffrence after all?
Also there's this mentioned (nothing about MS-DOS 3.30)
> PC-DOS 3.3 April 1987 for PS/2 series, 1.44 meg support,
> multiple DOS partition support, code page
> switching, improved foreign language
> support, some new function calls, support
> for the AT's CMOS clock.
//Bernie
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 18:01:08 +0100 (MET)
From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UNIVESA adaptor
Hans-Juergen wrote:
>This brings up a question for me: Are the Arachne mail users on
>this list able to decode a "base64"-encoded attachment with InSight?
>As far as I know the UUENCODE/DECODE.EXE delivered with Arachne can
>only handle this method and not "base64" - but perhaps I'm wrong?
Not that I've ever used the mailreader but there's atleast a function in
the code called "base64" so I would guess so.
BTW: Is your name Hans-Juergen or Hans-J�rgen? (I'm just curious that's all...)
//Bernie
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 18:01:07 +0100 (MET)
From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Load EPPPD on COMPAQ 590
Dale Mentzer wrote:
>I have had no complaints about MemMaker and I certainly have no
>complaints about doing it "by hand" ;) and I would hardly consider
>myself a memory guru. Of course for a typical pre-Windows DOS user it
>was probably OK, but of course many, most, or all of the memory
>manager programs I have used include some type of memory optimizer
>program to "simplify" their installation and setup, so there
>certainly is or was a demand for such programs, or I doubt the
>software publishers would have spent their resources developing them.
Yes some people seem to need them (although the way I explained is works
and can't actually worsen the situation), I've come to realize this myself
this last week. I visited http://www.easydos.com/ and the forum there
really showed me that people desperately need help with DOS.
IMO there's a big need for some sort of free help for these people. I've
answered a few questions (ranging from how to switch directory to how to
get indata to a BATch file), but couldn't "waste" more time as it was.
Please feel free to continue answering them but I think that some sort of a
free downloadable documentation is needed if we don't want to remain to be
reduced in numbers... (If someone wants a command index for DOS there's one
at that site as well).
//Bernie
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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 12:27:29 -0500
From: Roger Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Geralds Monitor Problem
Gregy and Gerald,
Gregy's reply to Sergei's question prompted me to research some of the books
that I have, most of which I don't understand, some of which I pretend to
understand, and the rest of which I will pass on in hopes that someone will
understand. Now, if you understand that ....
In Scott Mueller's, "Upgrading and Repairing PCs" 6th Edition, Page 1137, it
states,
"Monitor ID Pins
The following table shows the settings used for the Monitor ID bits for
several different IBM displays. By sensing which of these four pins are
grounded, the video adapter can determine what type of display is attached.
This is especially used with regards to monochrome or color display
detection. In this manner, the VGA or XGA circuitry can properly select the
color mapping and image size to suit the display."
The table shows:
Display: 9517
Size: 17-inch
Type: Color
ID0: Ground
ID1: No Pin
ID2: Ground
ID3: Ground
Hope this helps.
Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona USA
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