On 5/24/2015 2:29 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > Hi all, > > Not sure that anybody cares about this, but just in case - I recently > tested the 1-diskette FreeDOS distribution "ODIN" on an 8086 PC, and > spotted a few more or less serious problems. > > I got the ODIN image from odin.fdos.org, and more specifically this: > http://odin.fdos.org/fdodin06.8088.zip > > Now, here goes the list. > > > MEM: The command MEM is missing. Ok... > MEMA: Prints out garbage to screen and quits. What is MEMA? > KEYB: immediately crash with "Runtime error 105 at 0000:252F" Do you use any country modifier? If so, it's bug in KEYB opening up the language/country file NOT in a read-only mode, showing up due to having the floppy disk write protected... > DEFRAG: Blanks the entire screen, and freezes Don't think that program work at all, in a useful way, anyway > SORT: Freezes. When executed with "DIR | SORT" it tries to write > something to my diskette (!) that I had write protected, fortunately. To be expected on a write protected disk, as it uses a temporary file on the "current" disk for the piped output that needs to be sorted > MORE: Exactly same symptoms as SORT. ditto. > > DIR: When using DIR/P, DIR seems to think that the screen is 1-row high, > and asks for a keypress for every line (the screen is CGA-based, 25 rows). That must be some issue with your PC, works fine for me and should not be related to 8086 code or not at all... > MODE: MODE MONO makes the screen blank. Had to type in blindly "MODE > BW80" to recover. Might not be a bug, but would be nice if MODE could > check if a given mode is supported, before running it. Would have to test but that could be "compatible" behaviour with MS-DOS...
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