Re: [Freedos-kernel] Announce: COUNTRY.SYS

2004-08-23 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 22-Авг-2004 15:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luchezar Georgiev) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> All that MS does - enclose _public_ information into own file format. LG> What is permitted for Zeus, is not permitted for mortals! :-( That's LG> exactly what I meant when I wrote that Microsoft are the bi

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Announce: COUNTRY.SYS

2004-08-23 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
Ciao, Eduardo, We strive for MS-DOS compatibility, and MS-DOS, PC-DOS, PTS-DOS, OS/2, Windows 9x and Windows NT all use the same format that is so well described in the RBIL tables 2619-2622. So I chose that. IMHO, the COUNTRY.SYS format does not affect compatibility, as the information is acces

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Announce: COUNTRY.SYS

2004-08-22 Thread Eduardo Casino
Lucho wrote: > We strive for MS-DOS compatibility, and MS-DOS, PC-DOS, PTS-DOS, OS/2, > Windows 9x and Windows NT all use the same format that is so well > described in the RBIL tables 2619-2622. So I chose that. IMHO, the COUNTRY.SYS format does not affect compatibility, as the information is

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Announce: COUNTRY.SYS

2004-08-22 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
Hello, All that MS does - enclose _public_ information into own file format. What is permitted for Zeus, is not permitted for mortals! :-( That's exactly what I meant when I wrote that Microsoft are the biggest thefts. Even their first Basic interpreter was from public domain sources. Not speaki

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Announce: COUNTRY.SYS

2004-08-22 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 22-Авг-2004 02:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (tom ehlert) wrote to Aitor Santamarэa Merino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: te> and IMO the way that all your 100+ keyboard tables were obtained is - te> even if it *might* not be strictly illegal - certainly far beyond any te> means of 'fair use' te> simply sort of

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Announce: COUNTRY.SYS

2004-08-22 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
Hello, In fact, I've had a working NLSFUNC for some weeks now. The only thing it needs for general availability is a kernel with functions 2f.1226 to 2f.1229. Actually, it works with the implementation of these functions that I posted to this list (I modified NLSFUNC to avoid running out of sta

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Announce: COUNTRY.SYS

2004-08-21 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
btw, no source for your country.sys provided (or did I not look good enough?) Yes. Source file COUNTRY.ASM is in the patch file, CVSPATCH.TXT ;-) --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Announce: COUNTRY.SYS

2004-08-21 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi Bart, Thanks for pointing out! Actually I ignore if Linux works with some notion similar to codepges at all (I once tried to port a single ASCII chart drawing program from DOS to Linux and found out lots of "blanks" #219 in the table. If Unicode is the only collating table present, as you say

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Announce: COUNTRY.SYS

2004-08-21 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi Tom, tom ehlert escribió: and IMO the way that all your 100+ keyboard tables well, I have to merit Henrique for the creation of the tables from some time now were obtained is - even if it *might* not be strictly illegal - certainly far beyond any means of 'fair use' simply sort of 'disassembli

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Announce: COUNTRY.SYS

2004-08-21 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: > Yes, but as I mentioned, the problem is that, how do we get collating > tables, etc for other countries than US and Germany? We could rely on > user's efforts to create those tables, but this can be quite laborious Probably best to have a look

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Announce: COUNTRY.SYS

2004-08-21 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Aitor, > Yes, but as I mentioned, the problem is that, how do we get collating > tables, etc for other countries than US and Germany? We could rely on > user's efforts to create those tables, but this can be quite laborious > (provided that, for copyright issues, the COUNTRY.SYS of the > "c

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Announce: COUNTRY.SYS

2004-08-21 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, tom ehlert escribió: Hello Eduardo, Lucho, Steffen, everybody, we should have some discussion to determine which COUNTRY.SYS format we should use in FreeDOS. 1'st let me state that I never used NLSFUNC, so I may be the wrong person. Well, neither do I because as I never change codepa

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Announce: COUNTRY.SYS

2004-08-21 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Eduardo, > Lucho, Steffen, everybody, we should have some discussion to determine > which COUNTRY.SYS format we should use in FreeDOS. 1'st let me state that I never used NLSFUNC, so I may be the wrong person. 2'nd, all I needed for FreeDOS was 24 hour time/european date, and I implemented

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Announce: COUNTRY.SYS

2004-08-21 Thread Eduardo Casino
El sáb, 21-08-2004 a las 18:51, Bernd Blaauw escribió: > Lucho, impressive progress. > Though I don't use any COUNTRY/codepage/keyboard_layout things myself, > this can be quite usefull. > I can imagine Aitor being happy, for example. > He does a lot with these things. > Now only NLSFUNC is missi

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Announce: COUNTRY.SYS

2004-08-21 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Lucho, impressive progress. Though I don't use any COUNTRY/codepage/keyboard_layout things myself, this can be quite usefull. I can imagine Aitor being happy, for example. He does a lot with these things. Now only NLSFUNC is missing (in progress by Eduardo Casino)? btw, no source for your country