Hi all, Laaca writes that FreePascal works fine in FreeDOS 2036, our stable kernel version. So far so good. 2036 rocks.
But FreePascal shows abnormal behaviour in FreeDOS unstable / testing kernel version 2037. So if any of you wants to figure out what is going wrong... would be really nice. Because at the moment 2037 is "the kernel with zillions of improvements which never got debugged well enough to be good for serious production system DOS work", which means that the many improvements are kind of stuck in 2037... See also the 24/25 August mails from Diego: FreeDOS kernel 2037 unstable confuses CHKDSK 0.9, not good either... Another bug in 2037 is in BPB handling: Somebody reported that FORMAT would be confused by kernel 2037 as well (Get_Device_Parameters function, to be more exact). In short, that kernel really needs some debugging :-!. And we should make it very clear on the kernel download page that 2037 is EXPERIMENTAL. All normal users should get 2036 stable instead. > Yesterday was released the new version of Freepascal. > The problem is that it's IDE doesn't work in FreeDOS. Laaca explains more details of the IDE problem: The IDE starts up as usual, even opens and shows a file, but then it suddenly returns to the DOS prompt. No error message. The sources and binary of FreePascal are at http://www.freepascal.org/ ... Suggestion by Laaca: Look at the FreeVision (Turbo Vision clone/port) package. Because the FreeVision demo app misbehaves in FreeDOS 2037, too: Clock is not shown, heap info reports 0, pull down menus close earlier than normal: http://www.laaca.borec.cz/testbug.zip I hope a few of the mentioned kernel 2037 bugs can be tracked down by any kernel expert who is not on vacation at the moment. Thanks in advance :-). Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-kernel mailing list Freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
