Hi! Andre Tertling wrote: > James Tabor wrote: > >>I never tested DosC, so I do not recall writing this. This must be from Bart, >>dont know~ >>The documentation I only had at hand was Ralf Browns Interrupt list and the >>shcucd?? >>source to go by. The rest was trial and error. > I never tested or worked on DosC, only until it became FreeDos. > > It may be a bad idea to announce it now, but recently I made quite some > efforts to grab a copy of the classic Andrew Schulman et.al. book > "Undocumented DOS, 2nd Edition". My primary aim is to have a decent > solution to read NTFS properly under DOS. I tested about every solution > that's currently on the market, and I'm not really satisfied with any of > them. They either have bugs that noone cares about, consume tons of > memory or require copyrighted files from your Windows installation. And > I can't even start to complain about license issues :) > Read the kernel source and shcucd source.
> So I intend to implement a better NTFS reader through the network > redirector. I read that the network redirector implementation in FreeDOS > isn't really "uptodate" and more like in MS-DOS 2.11 - I'll try to > improve it where needed. Maybe I'll have to make up a new network > redirector first, time will tell. :) > No! FreeDos is more 6+'ish now, I had to update FreeDos from 2.xx to a minimum of 3.xx just to get the directories and redirector code to work. It was a complete restructure and rewrite. So, 2.xx never had a redirector, it was later 3.?+ that had it. Need to read more from RBIL and check out the "List of List" structures. It should illustrate the differences between 2.x & (3.x to 7.x). Novel network redirector for 2.xx did it by intercepting int 21h. > For the moment, I'm busy reading the 856 pages of this incredible book. > It's a pity that it lacks the companion disks. One of them contains a > version of RBIL so it's not really important, but the other one should > contain a lot of interesting stuff. > > I can't predict if, when, and how it will be done, but I'm dedicating > most of my free time to this project, because the NTFS problem is a > major nuisance to me at present :) I just thought it may be a good idea > to announce it now, before I start anything, only to inform about this > gadget being in the works. > > If someone wants to join in on this, feel free to contact me. And of > course, any suggestions, questions, etc. are always welcome. > > Best regards, > Andre > > Good Luck, 8^) James ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
