> I looked at oZone 0.6 some. My first questions/observations while *running > it on a pure FreeDOS machine with DOSLFN loaded*:
Cool - thanks! > 1) I take it that CWSDPMI is not required when FreeDOS EMM386 is loaded and > providing whatever DPMI support it has. True? (I did not notice any > difference when I loaded CWSDPMI first.) It needs CWSDPMI in the path or directory. oZone uses it automaticly. Btw: You don't need any himem.sys or emm386! > 2) It takes a long time to load, about 25 seconds on this Pentium 100 with > 16 MB. (DOSSHELL loads in 2-3 seconds.) Should it take that long to load? That's very slow. But may have some reaseon: (1) it is a debug version with debug infos etc. -> very slow. The "final" version will be optimized. (2) maybe it needs more than 16MB, then it uses virtual memory on the hard disc. > 3) It is a much more modern and pleasing looking interface than DOSSHELL. Yes...DOSSHELL use the textmode I think? > 4) The Console did not work for me. The window appeared, but I could not > enter anything. This is a known bug. I will work on it! > 5) Copy-and-paste would not work for me in Navigateur. I tried to copy a > LFN file from floppy to the C drive. With the file selected, nothing > appeared when I clicked the Edit menu. I right-clicked on the file and got > a popup menu that let me select Copy, but in the folder on C, when I > right-clicked, the popup menu did not show Paste, nor did the Edit menu show > anything. This is a new problem. I have no problem with copy and paste. Have you tried Drag&Drop? Did you want to paste the file in another navigator window or in the same? Very important question :-) Maybe there could be a problem in an other windows. > 6) DOSLFN observations (from the command prompt, not in oZone): > a) I entered MD "DOS Games" and successfully created a directory. But > CD "DOS Games" does not work. The directory created is DOS GAME (an > 8-character name) and must be referenced that way. DIR /LFN reports the > directory name as DOS GAME, not DOS GAMES. So it seems like DOSLFN does not > support long directory names. FreeCOM doesn'T support LFN now. Try 4DOS or Dr-DOS's commandc.com. > b) I entered EDIT "Flight Of The Amazon Queen.LN" and entered a command > line, saved and exited. When I EDIT "Flight Of The Amazon Queen.LN" again, > it opens the file, so LFN support seems good on that point. But DIR /LFN > displays FLIGHT O.LN, so it fails to report a LFN created under its own > driver. Only new programs support LFN. All programs which are compiled with DJGPP support it. I am using Setedit ( http://setedit.sf.net ). Also most File manager like Necromancer DOS Navigator or VC support it. > c) On the other hand, it properly reports a LFN created under Windows XP > and not edited or otherwise operated on under FreeDOS, just doing a DIR /LFN > A: for a floppy where I had copied a LFN file from Win XP. > 7) I could not figure out how to create program folders or items from within > oZone, but poked around and found that folders created in OZONE\SYSTEM\MENU > become program folders, and .LN files are program items - simple command > lines as far as I could see. Yes... > 8) In accord with my observations in (6), "Flight Of The Amazon Queen.LN" > was rendered as a short-name program item named FLIGHT O. Rendered under pure DOS or in oZone? In oZone it should be displayed right. And I have no problem. How did you created it? With FreeCOM? Then this may be a problem with FreeCOM. Under pure DOS + DOSLFN I am using Necromancers DOS Navigator - it supports LFN very good. Also if you rename the file in oZone there should be no problem. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS VERY LONG BUG REPORT AND FEEDBACK!! Bye Flo -- Florian Xaver <http://www.flox.at.tf> Dr-DOS Wiki <http://www.drdos.org> oZone-a GUI operating system for DOS,Linux,Win SWORD-a nice GUI library for DOS/DJGPP <http://www.flox.at.tf> _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
