Op 29-6-2011 23:07, Rugxulo schreef: > COUNTRY.SYS isn't needed for DISPLAY-only stuff, e.g. codepages on > screen, nor for KEYB either. It's only other stuff (collate tables, > y/n), I think.
Ah yes thanks for mentioning that. I'd like kinda 'full' support. > 2037, 2039 are the only ones supported (not counting 2040, which is > "unreleased"). You might want to check the kernel list archives. Jim seems to be on holiday so nothing listed yet. Don't know about Sourceforge files. > This involves the following: > * COUNTRY= (config.sys, COUNTRY.SYS / COUNTRY2.SYS / COUNTRY3.SYS) > Eh? I'm only actively aware of COUNTRY.SYS, not any others. Ask > Eduardo Casino (I think) for more info. You might be right, maybe I'm confusing country.sys with keyboard.sys. Oops http://eduardocasino.es/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=4&Itemid=9 is on Eduardo's site, not sure this made it into 2040 or not. > The only difference here is it lacks certain int 21h calls, no huge > problem. Also, FreeDOS may not (much, if at all) support PRINTER.SYS. > Otherwise, it shouldn't matter (much). I remember DISPLAY 2.0 being troublesome with regard to UMBs, but that was years ago. >> * NLSFUNC (with optional COUNTRY support, but only if not listed in >> config.sys yet?) > I don't think CONFIG.SYS' "COUNTRY=" affects NLSFUNC. You still need > to run NLSFUNC at runtime (I think) to activate the collate tables, > y/n, currency, time, etc. NLSFUNC seems to be able to take COUNTRY.SYS file as an argument/parameter > Isn't MODECON deprecated / unnecessary?? Guess so, but that's what my entire help request is about. > Well, what explicit languages are you trying to support? Honestly, if > you don't care about "full" NLS, you don't need everything and the > kitchen sink. Latin-1 (850 or 819) is pretty much all you need for the > common folk. (I'm not trying to marginalize anyone, just saying it's > easier to support a subset.) Really, just including EGA.CPX alone (and > without *.CPX) is probably sufficient for basic needs. It's easy enough to add full support once someone's able to give me a fully implemented specific configuration. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/60080 seems to list a specific example, but that's tied to MSDOS and I'm not sure it's complete. Thought Win98 bootdisks had some codepage stuff also but bootdisk.com website only shows modified file images. > Kinda a hack, ain't it? Just don't use DEVLOAD at all unless really > required. (That may not be what you want to hear, though.) It's not > meant to be used in 100% of cases, IMHO. Fair enough, but I like the flexibility. The loading works, but the /H option appears to have been modified from "use UMBs if available, otherwise still load in normal memory" into a "use UMBs if available, otherwise refuse to load at all" Changing it to "0123?DEVICEHIGH=" should be a solution yes, as that won't refuse to load when no UMBs (only give a huge warning) >> * EDIT 0.9a prints its version and DFLAT banner at every invocation. > Recompile? :-) Or just include a different editor (I'd cram TDE, if > possible, or EZEDIT if not). Pretty stuck at using EDIT as a baseline replacement of MS EDIT. Other programs always welcome as extension. > You mean the name or contents? "set BLAH=name " TDE can (optionally) > trim trailing spaces upon save, if that bothers your .BATs. ;-) Or > just use: sed -e "s/ *$//" myfile.bat > myfile.new Contents indeed. I've thus got a batchfile to fix somewhere. >> * I'm not sure which version of SHARE to include, there's quite a few of >> them floating around the internet > It's supposedly mostly non-functional anyways, doesn't fully support > MS SHARE. I think Japheth had a hacked one for some old Win 3.x Office > tools (Word, etc). Other than that, I don't know of any huge reason > for it (and never use it personally). Not even sure what SHARE was used for, was it MS-Client (TCP/IP) and Windows 3, to gain multiple accesses to same file by locking? >> (FD)CONFIG.SYS so far: >> !COUNTRY=001,437,C:\FDOS\BIN\COUNTRY.SYS > I don't think you need to specify this COUNTRY line at all for 437 (U.S.). I know, just want a full implementation/example so people can modify it themselves if desired so, without finding syntax and dependencies. > Is that enough? Should be for most stuff, but 80 would be safer (in > theory). Worth considering, I'd have to check the memory increase. If stuff goes into HMA anyway, I don't mind :) >> 1?DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\JEMMEX.EXE NOEMS X=TEST > Should probably have an "ultra-safe" choice somewhere in here: > > JEMMEX NORAM NOEMS X=TEST I=TEST > > The docs list a different safer value, probably preferable, but I > don't have it here. I'll read up on those parameters, thanks for your info. > (easier) set TMP=%TEMP% you're right, thanks. > This should be echoed at bootup, IMHO, so that people know what it's > default set to (in case of troubles). echo. echo %%BLASTER%% = > %BLASTER% echo. worthwile considering. Perhaps I should even add DHCP and packet driver to the standard setup. Getting complicated then though. >> SET DIRCMD=/P /OGN /4 > set DIRCMD=/P /OGN /4 /LFN > lfnfor on > lfnfor complete on Are these FreeCOM 0.84pl2 abilities? I've used many versions, some had LFN, other had different abilities (/Z for errorlevel reporting for example). Confusing :) >> DOSLFN >> SHSUCDX /QQ /D3 > Wasn't there a /~ needed somewhere?? I'd have to checkup on that. Not needed but for some reason usefull yeah. >> MOUSE > Eh? Renamed CTmouse or ... ? Make sure to use 2.1b4, possibly with > "/w" and maybe (?) "/o". Ah yes renamed CuteMouse. With the update to 2.1b4 I'm not sure how much is left of the separate language versions. Did I mention hating CuteMouse 2.1b4's cursor/pointer refreshing speed in EDIT ? Like 5 times per second instead of once every 2 seconds or so :( > I always put all aliases in a single file, e.g. MYALIAS.BAT. Then, in > autoexec, I could say "if exist MYALIAS.BAT call MYALIAS.BAT". And of > course "alias myalias=edit myalias.bat" for easy tweaking. Nice trick. Now to find out again if it's possible to set Mozilla Thunderbird to newsgroup conversation style (textmode, no HTML, bottom-posting etc) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? 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