I don't recall off hand what is new with the kernel, for stable only bugfixes I think, and for dev I can't say off hand. The cvs logs (or cvs mailing list archives) are the best place to look, but the history file within the kernel source docs should give a good indication of the changes. Most recently I've been playing with sys, so I can easily make an alternate DOS kernel boot, allowing me to more easily test various programs and how the FreeDOS kernel compares (working or not, not speed).
As for FreeCom, again I don't recall offhand, but if you look in the readme I've included there is a detailed all the changes and which files the fix or enhancement was for; also included is a diff file. As best I can recall, there is a bug fix for errorlevel when loading high, a few language file updates/compile fixes, support for dir showing 4DOS descriptions, added support to SET so it will set a user response to uppercase and I think I added the code so you can do an IF ignoring case, a couple other bugfixes, and some build fixes (valid mini-suppl library based on an prerelease version I had access to and implemention for a missing but referenced file). The size difference, I believe is due to compression, I'd have to check to be sure, but I do not believe the FreeCom builds on my site are compressed, whereas the released one is. To check for yourself just run upx --8086 --best command.com and if it does not give already compressed error, then the size should be comparable. Not a change I did, but cvs FreeCom (at least I don't think the release has them, but maybe it does) can display LFNs with dir if the LFN api is available; I think the switch to dir /lfn. And for seeing error codes, it supports the /z option, I believe command.com /z. Check the docs for them though, I could be mistaken on the proper switch. Please note that I don't maintain FreeCom, I just maintain a small patch set that my builds use until they are committed to cvs by a FreeCom maintainer. Send me another note this weekend (Fri/Sat) and when I am back at my computer and give a better answer if needed. And if I get to it, I will see about updating my FreeCom builds to include loadfix and one that has less features but works with an 8086+. (Almost forget, my FreeCom builds are compiled with 186+ due to size increases mostly unrelated to any changes I made, just the set of features I wanted enabled). Jeremy :-) ---------- Original Message ------------- Subject: [Freedos-devel] To: Jeremy - What's new with latest kernel/freecom? Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 10:58:44 +0800 From: Johnson Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Hi Jeremy, Can you write a few lines of "what's new" about the latest unstable Kernel/FreeCOM? Both of them were larger especially FreeCOM grow from 63.2K to 93.5K. And I fail to locate any documentation around, if there "what's new", can you please provide a link? Thank you very much! Rgds, Johnson. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77&alloc_id492&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
