[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS on Google Trends
I think this is an interesting outcome: http://www.google.com/trends?q=freedos Ciao begin:vcard fn:Roberto Mariottini n:Mariottini;Roberto org:Prima Electronics S.p.A.;RD Departement adr:;;Strada Carignano, 48/2;MONCALIERI;(TO);10024;ITALY email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Dott. tel;work:+39-011-6827.211 tel;fax:+39-011-6404.277 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.primaelectronics.com/ version:2.1 end:vcard - 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=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] 32 bit
Imre Leber wrote: Well I for one think that FreeDOS should move into the 32bit realm after version 1. All the 32bit stuff was written by the DJGPP project. But it didn't make any sense philosophicaly as long as it did not run on a free DOS operating system. Now that we did the time and have a free operating system, we should embrace all of free DOS and develop it further. So that this project can still uphold a semblence of hacking, instead of becomming archeology. You are talking of our sister project FreeDOS-32: http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/ Ciao - 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=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] Surprise!
Daniel Verkamp wrote: Blair Campbell wrote: Hey folks. If you check out the website, you may be in for a surprise. Excellent work! However, in testing the base CD in Virtual PC 2004, I came across this problem during postinst.bat: Batchfile 'C:\FDOS\POSTINST.BAT' does not contain label 's4_801586'. The same here. It seems that the install procedures don't like Virtual PC. Ciao - 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=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
[Freedos-devel] Announce: updated italian translations
On my site at http://www.mariottini.net/freedos/english.html you can find updated translations for most of the internationalized FreeDOS utilities, and for the FreeDOS install system. _New in release 3_ - Fixed some typos in the old translations - At the beginning of every translation file is mentioned the version of the utility used as a basis for the translation. - Added translated strings for FASTHELP, MOVE and XCOPY. Maintainers can include those files in the official distribution of their utilities if they want to. If this is not possible, maybe creating an Italian language pack can be of some help for users. _New translation for the Install program/batch files_ - Updated and completed most translation files and added a few that were missing. - Changed to use the correct codepage (IBM CP 850/858) instead of the wrong one they used before (windows 1252). _Bugs and other issues_ 1) I've found a bug in Move when it asks for confirmation to overwrite (move.c in the prepare_move() function), it does: scanf(%4s, input) thus reading only 4 characters from the input, then does if (stricmp(input, kittengets(2,1,N)) == 0) that fails if the translated string is longer than 4 characters, like the Italian word Tutti for All and Nessuno for None. I suggest to either test only the first 4 characters of the string or raising the input limit to 8-10 characters. Maybe using only the first character, like XCOPY does, is a good idea, provided that one can find words with all different initials (something that for XCOPY was difficult to find in Italian, I eventually found a compromise). 2) The choice of the language during installation doesn't work. See my previous mail for more information. 3) Provided that the above works (it works changing manually some environment variable), the actual install program is run in English only. This is because NLSPATH is not changed to point to the right directory before invoking TEXTINST. 4) Once the installation correctly terminates, the COMMAND.COM installed is English-only. Since I've chosen Italian as a language, it should be installed CMD-IT.EXE as COMMAND.COM. _Suggestions_ IMHO non-English-speaking people would find difficult to get right the first 3 choices to eventually get the language choice menu. Language choosing should be done early in the install process, as soon as possible can mean in the very first menu after the boot: prompt. The language choice menu is big and bloated of main configurations and uncommon sub-configurations, like the normal Italy numbered 12 and the Italy (NumPad ,) numbered 72. I suggest dividing it in two parts, with the most common choices in the first menu and the most specialized one in the second. _Questions_ I suppose someone is writing the new documentation for the 1.0 release. I would like to translate also this document, is this something feasible, or the 1.0 release will go out with Beta 9 READMEs? Ciao begin:vcard fn:Roberto Mariottini n:Mariottini;Roberto org:Prima Electronics S.p.A.;RD Departement adr:;;Strada Carignano, 48/2;MONCALIERI;(TO);10024;ITALY email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Dott. tel;work:+39-011-6827.211 tel;fax:+39-011-6404.277 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.primaelectronics.com/ version:2.1 end:vcard - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] Contributions towards FreeDOS 1.0
Imre Leber wrote: Thanks, I'll look more into the diskcopy translation tonight. Question: From diskcopy.it reserved to condition for example yes, no, quit 0.0:S 0.1:S It seems you are using S for both yes and no. Should this not be: 0.0:S 0.1:N Of course. I'll re-check all the translations, since they are from 2004, in the next week, if I find the time. I've already found another typo. Thanks. Ciao begin:vcard fn:Roberto Mariottini n:Mariottini;Roberto org:Prima Electronics S.p.A.;RD Departement adr:;;Strada Carignano, 48/2;MONCALIERI;(TO);10024;ITALY email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Dott. tel;work:+39-011-6827.211 tel;fax:+39-011-6404.277 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.primaelectronics.com/ version:2.1 end:vcard - 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=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] Format and errorlevel
Johnson Lam wrote: On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:01:34 -0200, you wrote: Hi, MS-format errorlevels are 0 = ok, ok with bad-sectors, sintax errors or help msg. 3 = aborted by user 4 = fatal error, disk broken or wrong name 5 = harddisk format confirmation not given (user selected no) outputs = 0, 3 and 4 confirmed my myself. THE QUESTION is: I wish to add error level = 1 format terminated ok, but floppy has bad sectors. Anyone has a comment about that? You mean the new error level 1 is: format terminated successfully. I think he means: 0 = ok, syntax errors or help msg. 1 = ok with bad-sectors 3 = aborted by user 4 = fatal error, disk broken or wrong name 5 = harddisk format confirmation not given (user selected no) I would like to add that while you are modifying it, you can get: 0 = ok 1 = ok with bad-sectors 2 = syntax errors or help msg 3 = aborted by user 4 = fatal error, disk broken or wrong name 5 = harddisk format confirmation not given (user selected no) Ciao --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637alloc_id=16865op=click ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiling FreeCOM...
Bernd Blaauw wrote: Guess I should read up about what the difference is between these large/normal/small models. In short: tiny: one segment for everything, CS = DS = SS, data pointers are near, function pointers are near (everything must fit in in 64 KB, no segment reserved for stack and starts at 0100H so you can make a COM executable) small: one segment for code and one segment for data, DS = SS, data pointers are near, function pointers are near (all code must fit in 64 KB, all data+stack must fit in 64 KB) medium: multiple code segments and one data segment, DS = SS, data pointers are near, function pointers are far (all data+stack must fit in 64 KB) compact: one code segments and multiple data segment, DS != SS, data pointers are far, function pointers are near (all code must fit in 64 KB) large: multiple code segments and multiple data segment, DS != SS, data pointers are far, function pointers are far huge: same as large, data pointers are huge Each segment can be 64 KB max, so with medium and large models a single source file can generate up to 64 KB of code, and with compact and large models a single source file can contain up to 64 KB of data. The huge model permits data segments of more than 64 KB, huge pointers arithmetics is made in software so they can cross the 64 KB barrier. Some compiler has switches to force DS != SS with small and medium models, to permit to separate data and stack in two different segments, giving 64K data + 64K stack, but you must pay attention to pointers to data that resides on the stack, that have to be declared explicitly far. With tiny, small and medium model you can declare explicit far and huge data pointers and use farmalloc and farfree to allocate/deallocate DOS memory outside of the program image. Ciao --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS not updating freespace after disk change
Alain wrote: [...] The problem never happens in the first disk and when it happens in the followinf disks, the disks are *not* corrupted. Can you explain better? Are you sure you are not using two disks with the same serial number? Ciao --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCom daily builds
Hi, on http://www.mariottini.net/freedos/english.html you can find a new version of italian translations for FreeCOM, updated to the version 1.34 (1.35 has only minor modifications). I've posted them months ago, but nobody did commit them. Ciao --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual!' webinar happening July 14 at 8am PDT/11am EDT. We invite you to explore the latest in dual core and dual graphics technology at this free one hour event hosted by HP, AMD, and NVIDIA. To register visit http://www.hp.com/go/dualwebinar ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
[Freedos-devel] Help with block device driver
Hi, one italian user is trying to write a device driver. The problem is it doesn't properly install a new drive letter. I'm not a device driver expert, so I'm asking if someone on the list can look at it. The sorce code is dowloadable from: http://kayman.altervista.org/software/cfdrv.zip The final driver will be under some open source/free license. Ciao --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. Get your fingers limbered up and give it your best shot. 4 great events, 4 opportunities to win big! Highest score wins.NEC IT Guy Games. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display. Visit http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] keyboard layout
Thanks Aitor, I think this should be a TechNote, or it should go in the FAQ, because it is really a Frequently Asked Question. Ciao Aitor SantamarÃa Merino ha scritto: Dear Karsten, There are such tools. You write a keyboard layout in the form of an ASCII text file (in the KEY language). Then you compile this file with the latest KC (KEY compiler), to obtain a binary KL file that you can use with the latest KEYB. Links: Latest KEYB: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kb2pre2x.zip Latest KC: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kc110x.zip About the documentation on the KEY language to write the layouts, the package that includes KC has some documentation, although it is not very good, and I'd need to rewrite it. Please ask me (in private if you wish) for whatever isn't clear. If you want to use commands specific for FD-KEYB, then you can obtain a commandlist of FD-KEYB in the same package of KEYB. Finally, you could obtain the sources for the standard keyboard layouts shipped with FreeDOS and customise them for you. They are distributed in the KEY language under the GNU GPL license. Latest sources are: Layouts based on DOS codepages: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kblayout/KPDOS11S.zip Layouts based on Windows codepages: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kblayout/KPWIN10S.zip Regards, Aitor --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
[Freedos-devel] Compact Flash under DOS
Hi, here is a question from an user. He's using MS-DOS 6.22, and I don't know if FreeDOS can solve his problem. The fundamental question is: there is a way to make the BISO/kernel re-read disk information from an IDE disk? Ciao Hello to everybody. I'm using a Compact Flash reader with IDE interface under MS-DOS. My problem is that the compact flash card *must* be inserted into the reader *before* the boot otherwise the POST of the BIOS do not recognize the compact flash as a hard disk. My problem is that the card may be not present at the boot! There is a way to force the BIOS to update the disk table *after* the boot and allow disk functions to access the new device? This is usefuel also if I want to change the compact flash and I put into the reader a card with a different size ! Regards. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588alloc_id=12065op=click ___ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: YESCHAR question (was: New COUNTRY.SYS)
Eric Auer wrote: [...] - country unaware programs will just use hardcoded are you sure? and will just expect y for that. - country aware programs should use BOTH translated strings and ask the kernel what the yeschar is for the current language. Because you can conceivably set LANG= and COUNTRY= to different values, most current FreeDOS programs have the y in their kitten string database for each language and do not ask the kernel. Yes, that's true. I've translated a bunch of kitten databses and I've found many YyNn translations. The ask the kernel feature is something that should not be used by programs. It's a stupid thing just like happens in Windows, where you can find english-speaking message boxes with system-translated buttons, thus giving strange mixed-language messages like: Are you sure? - Sì - No. In DOS there are no message boxes so you would get: Are you sure (S/N)?. Imagine a language that has nestre for yes and yurbl for no, the qustion would be: Are you sure (N/Y)?. Very bad. And that's the problem signaled by Bart: LANG settings can be different from COUNTRY settings. So my vote goes to: translated programs shall use their translation engine to translate messages _and_ answers, while untranslated program shall use their original language messages _and_ answers. Ciao --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idU88alloc_id065op=click ___ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
[Freedos-devel] Format 0.91r and FreeCOM sound tests
Hi all, Yesterday I've tested FORMAT on a 40GB HD, with a one big partition. I was trying to format it as FAT32 under WinXP, but it refuses to format such a large partition as FAT, it wants to format it as NTFS. So I've inserted a floppy with FreeDOS in it (sorry, I had only the official beta9pr5 distro and format 0.91r handy) and booted. Fdisk correctly created a FAT32/ext partition and Format correctly formatted it (quick format). WinXP recognized it and its chkdsk shown no problems. The only problem is that format used 32KB cluster size for the partition. I think it's beause it wants to have little FATs (the number of clusters was 120 or so), but I thought I could format it with 16KB clusters. I didn't found an option to choose a particular cluster size. As for FreeCOM, the bug showed up on the PC (P3 650 MHz) trying to use filename completion. The beep started, then the computer freezed, while continuing to beep. I had to press Ctrl-Alt-Del to shut it up. Ciao --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com ___ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] Format 0.91r and FreeCOM sound tests
Steve Nickolas wrote: At Fri, 30 Jul 2004 8:55am +0200, Roberto Mariottini wrote: As for FreeCOM, the bug showed up on the PC (P3 650 MHz) trying to use filename completion. The beep started, then the computer freezed, while continuing to beep. I had to press Ctrl-Alt-Del to shut it up. Ciao It's odd that my Celeron/700 doesn't have that problem, so I don't think it's CPU speed... I'd consider CPU speed anyway. The delay loop calibration techniques used in the days are prone to overflow problems. At some stage an overflow may lead to random values. So the delay() call is multiplied by a random value, giving too short, good or too long delays. The fact you have a good delay duration, I have it too long and someone else has it too short can be the consequence of random calibration of delay loop. Back in time, when I was working with DOS everyday, I used the system clock tick for delays. This gives a 55 ms granularity, but it works on ALL computers, and is sufficient for most purposes. Ciao --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com ___ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: best free C++ compiler
Hi, Alain wrote: [...] BTW: do you have information about memcpy() problems in BC 3.1 ? Last week I had a very hard to trace bug (in a TSR) that was solved replacing it with memmove(). Andreas sayd that he had problems with it too. Are you sure the two buffers you are memcpy-ing don't overlap? The memcpy function assumes the two buffers don't overlap (neither by 1 byte), making this assumption makes it work faster, but it fails on overlapping buffers. The memmove function doesn't make this assumption, so it works for overlapping buffers, at price of a slight decrease in performance. So the replacing memcpy with memmove may be a feature, not a bug :-) Ciao --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721alloc_id=10040op=click ___ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
Re: [Freedos-devel] Announce: italian translations for CHOICE, DISKCOPY, HTMLHELP, MORE, SORT and TREE
Hi, I've noted that the NLS strings are used only when the environment variable NLSPATH is defined. There's nothing wrong with it, but the beta9rc5 install program created a variable NLSDIR instead, and that didn't work. Ciao --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721alloc_id=10040op=click ___ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
[Freedos-devel] Announce: italian translations for CHOICE, DISKCOPY, HTMLHELP, MORE, SORT and TREE
Hi, I have translated in italian the few programs that are currently NLS-able (all that I know of, let me know if I missed some). They are: CHOICE, DISKCOPY, HTMLHELP (the NLS strings, not the help pages!), MORE, SORT and TREE. At the URL: http://www.mariottini.net/freedos/italian2.zip you can find a little zip (7kB) with all the .IT files in it. Ciao --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721alloc_id=10040op=click ___ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
[Freedos-devel] Some news about FD/32 (FW:)
Hi, I've seen this message on the FreeDOS/32 developer list, and I think it can be of some interest. The project is slowly showing some progress, but it still needs volunteers. Ciao. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luca Abeni Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 9:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [FreeDOS-32-dev] Some news... Hi guys, after a very long time, here are some news about FD/32: - There are some improvements (bugfixes and new features) in the devel branch of the cvs. I created it to avoid experiments that can break stuff in the main branch - We have a basic win32 support!!! Thanks to Hanzac Chen, that developed a new PE parser and a minimalistic mscrt, FD/32 can execute a win32 hello world program! - The wrapper for loading unmodified DJGPP programs is kind of working. I have been able to run our command.exe, but it crashes after some time... I am still debugging the problem - Some memory leacks have been fixed - Hanzac is working on a graphic driver Summing up, FD/32 can currently: - run DPMI programs compiled with DJGPP, if they are linked at a proper address (proper means that such address must be free in your system, after loading kernel and drivers) - boot our command.exe - run simple win32 programs - run simple unmodified DJGPP programs (linked at their original address). This can sometime fail and there probably is some memory corruption somewhere. My todo list: 1) fix some bugs related to the vm86 calling mechanism 2) find and fix memory corruption problems 3) fix the wrapper Is anyone else interested in working on FD/32 (there are a lot of areas where your work is needed... ;)? If yes, just send a mail to the list. Luca --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
RE: [Freedos-devel] Make a program slimmer
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of maintainer freedospg Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 2:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Freedos-devel] Make a program slimmer Hi, I want to know if there is a way to release memory from the unused heap to the OS when I shell out? PG runtime takes up 80K, but it needs about 40K. I managed to move the stack down to a designated address, but memory was not released. Turbo C 2.01, small model. Can somebody help? With turbo C there's no need to move the stack. To resize the program's memory simply change the _stklen and _heaplen variables. For example, if you know it'll need only 4K of stack, set _stklen = 4 * 1024; Or, if you know it'll not use more than 20K of heap, set _heaplen = 20 * 1024; The Turbo C library, for small memory model programs, resizes automatically the memory image at startup according to the two variables _heaplen and _stklen. Ciao --- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356alloc_id=3438op=click ___ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
RE: [Freedos-devel] TC RTL
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Arkady V.Belousov Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 4:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Freedos-devel] TC RTL BTW, does anyone have TC RTL sources? Especially, I interested in C0.ASM, CLOCK.C, SETUPIO.*. Normally in the Turbo C/C++ installation directory there is a subdirectory (lib/startup IIRC) that contains the three files c0.asm, build-c0.bat and rules.asi. I've recently found them in the TC++ 1.0 package downloaded from Borland. In Borland C++ there is always an option to install RTL sources, maybe they can be found on the distribution CD/floppy only, in a zipfile called rtl.zip or rtlsrc.zip. In Turbo C/C++ I don't know. Still IIRC. Ciao --- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356alloc_id=3438op=click ___ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
RE: [Freedos-devel] Q: Watcom debugging
Hi, comments embedded. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 2:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Freedos-devel] Q: Watcom debugging Hello, I'm trying to setup a functional OpenWatcom environment on WinXP (using BINNT tools) building real-mode DOS programs. Till now it builds objects and executables fine. I have these problems: a) When I try to use a normal librarian (aka LIB.EXE), the Watvom linker does accept the library, but does not find no symbol. The wlib tool also accepts the library without warning or problem. When I extract the OBJ's from the library and re-archive them with the wlib tool, the linker finds the symbols, too. IIRC, there are two kind of libraries: one kind is a simple archive of objects, with little or no information added, the second type has a symbol database added, called index or extended index, that allows to the linker to find simbols without looking in every object. This functionality was meant only to speed up linking, but I don't know watcom: perhaps it needs the extended index to link correctly. The simptoms are clear: - if you build the lib with a tool that doesn't add the index - watcom linker find no symbol - if you build the very same lib with wlib (or any librarian that adds the index) - watcom linker links correctly. Try to use tlink, that has options to include/exclude the index, and see what happens. HTH, Ciao --- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356alloc_id=3438op=click ___ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
