Don: It's not the FreeCOM (COMMAND.COM), it's the kernel (KERNEL.SYS). No, I don't have a copy of the kernel that makes the Online Bible work, but I'm putting in a request to add the fix to the next kernel.
KERNEL FEATURE REQUEST: Online Bible expects one of the old CP/M-derived functions, that uses file control blocks (FCB) as opposed to file handles, to fail in a particular way when passed a filename containing a path, because the function was written back before subdirectories were implemented. I haven't exhaustively tested anything, but I did load a copy of Online Bible up, and can verify that it works under MS-DOS (Windows 98 Second Edition) and EDR-DOS (7.01.07 from the Ultimate Boot CD) but not under FreeDOS kernel 2041. In 2007, Eric Auer identified the function as interrupt 21 function 29, Enter Filename into FCB (FcbParseFname in FreeDOS.) In the link below, Eric shows what FreeDOS does differently from MS-DOS, and provides a kernel patch to the FcbParseFname function in fcbfns.c, and finally provides a modified kernel to a user of Online Bible. http://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/mailman/message/8335127/ It looks like it's checking for a backslash to see if the filename contains paths, then causing it to exit in the expected way. Could we please similarly patch any FCB functions that require it so that they behave as expected (for a function written before subdirectories were implemented) when presented with a filename containing paths? I believe there are fifteen FCB functions in DOS, but I don't know how many of them (other than function 29) directly deal with filenames. - - Shane > Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 16:00:17 -0400 > From: donr...@gmail.com > To: Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Freedos-user] Online Bible Revisited > > I have searched high & low for a "fix" for the Online Bible > incompatibility with FreeDOS. I read several threads referring to a > patch, I have downloaded all available FreeCom versions that I can > find (found one that fixed every other program I had problems with), > but cannot find a solution for the Online Bible. > In 2007, Frank Finley posted that it had been solved, (see link below) > but this was after I gave up on FreeDOS 1.0. Now I am back with > FreeDOS for as long as it exists, and would desperately love to have > this program back on my Desktop. Would someone kindly point me in the > right direction? > > http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.freedos.general/month=20070501/page=1 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
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