Re: [Freedos-kernel] SYS issues
Hi, On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:03:44 +0300 (MSK), Arkady V.Belousov wrote: - /Odrive - use fixed drive number (in hex) in boot sector. If this switch is intended for compatibility with DR-DOS, drive number should be given in decimal. Support for hex with '0x' and/or '$' prefix can be a nice extension, though :-) Michal --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470alloc_id=3638op=click ___ Freedos-kernel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
Re: [Freedos-kernel] SYS issues
Hi! 12--2004 19:34 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michal H. Tyc) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: - /Odrive - use fixed drive number (in hex) in boot sector. MHT If this switch is intended for compatibility with DR-DOS, drive number MHT should be given in decimal. Support for hex with '0x' and/or '$' prefix MHT can be a nice extension, though :-) Inconsistent: address in /L option is hex-value. And I think, _here_ consistency inside one program interface is more important, than full compatability with (very rarely used/known) option of DR-DOS SYS. --- 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_id70alloc_id638op=click ___ Freedos-kernel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
Re: [Freedos-kernel] SYS issues
- /Odrive - use fixed drive number (in hex) in boot sector. MHT If this switch is intended for compatibility with DR-DOS, drive number MHT should be given in decimal. Support for hex with '0x' and/or '$' prefix MHT can be a nice extension, though :-) Inconsistent: address in /L option is hex-value. And I think, _here_ consistency inside one program interface is more important, than full compatability with (very rarely used/known) option of DR-DOS SYS. If the option is mimicking an existing option (in this case from DR-DOS sys), we should at least try to be compatible. So wouldn't the better change to require/support the 0x or $ or h notations for the /L option as well, and use base 10, at least for the /O option, if not used or complain/warn if a hex prefix/suffix is not used. So if in all the examples, options are used as /L 0xABCD and /O 0x123 we will be consistant within this one program and at the same time constistant for those familiar with the DR DOS sys /O option. Just my opinion, do as you feel best for our sys though. Has your work been committed to cvs or is there a patch/ source archive around that one can look at? Thanks, Jeremy --- 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-kernel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
Re: [Freedos-kernel] SYS issues
Hi! 12--2004 14:34 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth J. Davis) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: - /Odrive - use fixed drive number (in hex) in boot sector. MHT If this switch is intended for compatibility with DR-DOS, drive number This is rather functional compatablity, not syntaxtical. Inconsistent: address in /L option is hex-value. And I think, _here_ KJD If the option is mimicking an existing option (in this case Not so. /O, as described by Matthias, only gives me idea how, but I don't think that full mimick of DR-DOS SYS is important for us. KJD from DR-DOS sys), we should at least try to be compatible. KJD So wouldn't the better change to require/support the KJD 0x or $ or h notations for the /L option as well, and Matthias doesn't says that DR-DOS supports radix, other than 10. :) KJD use base 10, at least for the /O option, if not used KJD or complain/warn if a hex prefix/suffix is not used. Which reason to use decimal numbers for disk numbers? I don't think that 128 is somewhat more readable than 80. I think, radix 10 for /L and even for /O is useless. KJD Has your work been committed to cvs or is there a patch/ KJD source archive around that one can look at? No, all work is currently on my disk. Also, call to put_boot() is currently commented (because there are yet some unsolved issues - for example, locking behavior), only interface (options parsing) and copy() is working. --- 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_id70alloc_id638op=click ___ Freedos-kernel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
