Hi, On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 11:24 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Tom Ehlert <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> just wondering what the 'official' most recent version of COMMAND.COM >> is. > > I checked and I have been using the Open Watcom v1.9 to build and run > for a while. I have not found the OW compiled version to be any less > stable than the Borland version.
It maybe wouldn't hurt to have a prebuilt copy lying around somewhere publicly for the rest of us to see if there are any obvious regressions. > Building with OW on Windows XP (32bit in a VM) works with current SVN > source (after configuring config.bat & config.mak accordingly) as long > as the mkfiles\watcom.mak line is changed from > BINPATH = $(CC_BASE_PATH)\BINW > to > BINPATH = $(CC_BASE_PATH)\BINNT > else weird faults occur. Although I don't use XP anymore, I'm pretty sure that is NTVDM's fault. It has some glaring bugs in the DOS bits that they never fixed. DJGPP worked around most of them, but I guess OpenWatcom did not. So yeah, the Win32-hosted version is (sadly) more stable there. >> (**) doing DIR on a directory with more then 4 GB, > > I think this will require using 64 bit ints and a change in how the > free/used space is calculated, but would be great to see this fixed. > If there is anything I can do to help, please let me know. Well, OpenWatcom does support 64-bit ints in DOS, right? I never heavily used it, but what little I tested seemed to work. But anyways, I don't think DIR is the biggest problem with FreeCOM. There are presumably more pressing issues (that of course even I never looked into, too busy with other stuff). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
