Re: [Freedos-devel] Historical vs. Hysterical Edlin Versions
On Thu, 12 May 2022, Gregory Pietsch wrote: FreeDOS Mavens, I'm thinking of editing Edlin to match historical behavior after downloading a 1982 IBM DOS manual and a 1987 Microsoft OS/2 manual I found floating around the 'Net. I want to make Edlin still the small program it has always been without adding things that would make the executable super-huge, so I want to get some feedback from the list before I do anything. Well, there wouldn't be anything wrong with poking around at the MS-DOS 2.11 version since it's MIT-licensed now and we legally have the sauce ;) -uso. ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
[Freedos-devel] Historical vs. Hysterical Edlin Versions
FreeDOS Mavens, I'm thinking of editing Edlin to match historical behavior after downloading a 1982 IBM DOS manual and a 1987 Microsoft OS/2 manual I found floating around the 'Net. I want to make Edlin still the small program it has always been without adding things that would make the executable super-huge, so I want to get some feedback from the list before I do anything. The things I am considering are below: 1. At the beginning of the program, when Edlin reads the file whose name is on the command line, the historical thing to do is output "End of input file" if the entire input file has been slurped in or "New file" if the file does not exist yet. FreeDOS Edlin just runs the same code as the T command to slurp the file in and give the output of that command, which is the number of lines read. 2. The IBM DOS manual adds "#" as the line number that's one beyond the last line. This should be an easy add that doesn't change existing behavior. 3. The historical behavior for the Q command is to always verify that the user wanted to quit the program with an "Abort edit (Y/N)?" message. 4. Historically, the E command erased any backup copy (i.e. the file with the .BAK extension) after writing and before quitting. I don't know if I want to emulate this behavior. I'll probably come up with some more. I am reluctant to add strings to Edlin, though, because it would make Jerome's i18n project more hairy. Nevertheless, part of the project's goals are to emulate historical behavior and eliminate hysterical behavior. There's a lot more there that I want to tackle just as soon as I figure it out, but I want to tackle the low-hanging fruit first. What do the list-subscribers say? Gregory ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] Testing translations
On Wed, 11 May 2022 21:41:40 -0400 Jerome Shidel wrote: > Possibly. Keyboards and Codepages are vary different things. To which > program are you referring? The program “could” have hard-coded > keystrokes (always need Y/N…), maybe a setting in its NLS or use an > environment variable. > > :-) > > Jerome I figured it out. For some reason the translation file (for xcopy in this case) had some unintentional spaces before the strings. So you had to type space and then the character you wanted (e.g. at a Y/N prompt) for it to register. I've fixed it now on xcopy and put up a pull request. However, I seem to have "broken" the non-UTF8 file(xcopy.no), so unfortunately I think you may have to "regenerate" it. Special characters are now displayed incorrectly when set to Norwegian language. It worked before I removed the spaces, maybe I've accidentally saved it as a UTF-8 file. I'm sorry if that causes any trouble. Daniel > > ___ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.50
On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 7:24 AM tom ehlert wrote: >[..] > > Tom: Are you planning to remain the maintainer of mKEYB, or is Davide > > the new maintainer now? Wanted to check what is your preference. > > I'm planning to remain the maintainer, even this means just copying > Davide's changes over to into 'my' version. > I'm just busy with other stuff now, but this should soon change. > > It doesn't make sense to have 2 different versions of mKEYB. > expect the same 0.50 version from me soon. > Sounds good! I'll watch for your version. Jim ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.50
Hallo Herr Jim Hall, am Mittwoch, 11. Mai 2022 um 22:54 schrieben Sie: > On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 3:51 PM Jim Hall wrote: >> >> FYI that Davide has released mKEYB version 0.50. You can find it here: >> https://github.com/davidebreso/mkeyb/releases/tag/v0.50 >> >> The change log is: >> >> >Turkish Q and Turkish F layout >> >better support for AltGr+Shift modifier >> >less obscure uninstall warning messages >> >executable compressed with UPX >> >> >> I'm trying to keep watch on Davide's mKEYB, since Tom brought it to >> our attention, and I am mirroring these releases to the FreeDOS Files >> Archive at Ibiblio. But to keep from confusing which are Davide's and >> which are Tom's, I have moved Davide's new versions into a new >> directory: >> >> https://ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/mkeyb/davide/ >> > Tom: Are you planning to remain the maintainer of mKEYB, or is Davide > the new maintainer now? Wanted to check what is your preference. I'm planning to remain the maintainer, even this means just copying Davide's changes over to into 'my' version. I'm just busy with other stuff now, but this should soon change. It doesn't make sense to have 2 different versions of mKEYB. expect the same 0.50 version from me soon. Tom ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
