Hi Frantisek, DOSEMU people, > Eric, You are using latest (2041?) FreeDOS kernel? dosemu-freedos > package contains older 2036 version. And dosemu-freedos FreeCom
My DOSEMU uses 2038, but I am not sure why I picked that version. Let me check http://sourceforge.net/projects/freedos/files/ and the history.txt in there... 2036 is dated 2007-07-21, version 2037 was experimental, 2038 is from 2009-05-16 with some compatibility fixes and FAT and other foolproofing, 2039 from 2009-08-04 has a lot of small changes e.g. in build process, FAT32 init improvement (for USB etc.), code tuning and stripping, includes country.sys of the 2037 unstable branch, various smaller fixes, reduced "fnode" dependency, can cross-compile from Linux. Kernel 2040, 2011-06-21, has relatively small changes: Allow memdisk control of config.sys, 386 register save/restore fix, Watcom C memory layout fix, better error handling, more stack, FAT32/FAT1x decision fix, various. In version 2041, finally (2012-02-07) only has a few small fixes such as ignoring CHS warnings in LBA mode or memdisk versus 8086 / 386. In short, 2036 (dosemu) is really old. 2038 improves stability. 2039 changes a lot, while 2040 and 2041 improve stability again. I think 2041 (maybe 2038) would indeed be a good DOSEMU choice! > version should be '0.84-pre2 XMS_Swap [Aug 28 2006]', but freedos.org > web page (http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=command) say that this > version is from 2011-07-29 - almost five years newer!? I vaguely remember 0.84pre2 had some hard-to-reproduce issue in which it sometimes stopped running external commands, so special cases *might* still prefer 0.82pl3 instead. The FreeDOS.org list of software has timestamps about when the list was updated. You can see when the software actually was made by looking at the software instead. A collection of FreeCOM command.com is here: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/command/ > And, do You think, that would update the current dosemu freedos to > newest FreeDOS versions had any advantages? That depends on which other tools in the freedos-for-dosemu tarball you would like to update :-) Maybe you even would like to add some, but notice that the tarball aims to provide a relatively basic DOS. A few more tools or drivers might not hurt nevertheless. On 1 to 5 megabytes disk space, you can put enough components to have MS DOS 6 or 7 style feature sets and even (eg htmlhelp) documentation :-) FreeDOS and the software listed on www.freedos.org/software/ are quite disk-space efficient, luckily. RAM usage also is nicely low. Regards, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start Your Social Network Today - Download eXo Platform Build your Enterprise Intranet with eXo Platform Software Java Based Open Source Intranet - Social, Extensible, Cloud Ready Get Started Now And Turn Your Intranet Into A Collaboration Platform http://p.sf.net/sfu/ExoPlatform _______________________________________________ Dosemu-devel mailing list Dosemu-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dosemu-devel
