On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 04:09:18 -0000, you wrote:

Hi Jeremy,

>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).

Thanks for reminding me to read the Kernel mailing list archive, I
forgot that.

But will you consider put a few lines on your homepage for easier
browsing?

>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.  

Thanks.

>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.  

Since no news going to 'devel' and 'user', I wonder what's going on
without news.

>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).

Thanks for your work, just want to know what's been updated.


Rgds,
Johnson.



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