Hallo Bart,
Honestly I believe you're right here -- the issue is that changing copyright messages without agreement of the original author is a bit shaky IMHO. If you just get Pat's go ahead for the change then I'm all for it.
OK. If Pat reads this list, perhaps he can write here if he approves the removal of this phrase?
FreeDOS kernel build 2035a-WHATEVER. Copyright...
"FreeDOS kernel build 2035a-DEADLY_DANGEROUS! Copyleft Pasquale J. Villani & the FreeDOS Project" ;-)
This kernel comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; press F1 for details.
I'd prefer "This kernel has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY and is licensed under the GNU Public License". No need to play copyleft license games at so solemn moments like FreeDOS startup! ;-)
Well those can be dealt with, a bit awkward though. IIRC Win98 stores these clusters in the various "SHARE" related fields.
You mean, fields at offsets 2B (BYTE FAR *sft_bshare), 2F (WORD sft_mach), and 37 (BYTE FAR *sft_ifsptr)?
Not sure how many DOS programs (if any) depend on these on FAT32 though. Maybe SMARTDRV and DOSLFN or LFNDOS?
I don't know.
IMHO easiest to copy those fields across that matter, and then then delete them from the persistent fnodes. i.e. the far fnodes would be able to become different from the near ones, and xlt_fd() and save_far_fnode() would no longer use "fmemcpy" but copy individual fields.
A possible solution, indeed. But it won't allow programs like HiNTOS which modify the SFT to work.
Another difference is the way that directory entries are addressed: SFT's use (sector number, entry in sector), where fnodes use (starting cluster number of dir, entry in directory). And if you don't keep the whole directory entry in memory then dir_write would have to become read/modify/write instead of simply "write".
We can leave the directory entry structure in the F-node. It helps a lot indeed.
Takes a fair bit of time of course, it just depends how motivated one is.
Exactly.
Regards, Lucho
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