[Freedos-user] SYS.COM
Hi, Having discussed some stuff with eric before, Eric suggested to start a new discussion on the mailing list. There is a problem concerning SYS.COM using dual boot systems Windows XP / FreeDOS Windows XP always looks for dos system files on its boot partition and changes the attributes of the found files to system, hidden and readonly. If you use SYS.COM to replace existing FreeDOS files by newer ones, SYS.COM always writes a new bootsecor and after that it tries to replace kernel.sys and command.com. But getting to the point where command.com is about to be replaced SYS.COM outputs an error code followed by an error message and doesn't proceed. To get things work you have to change command.com's attributes to only archive by using attrib. After that you can restart SYS.COM to have the FreeDOS system files replaced without error. I would suggest two things to change in SYS.COM. At first SYS.COM should replace the FreeDOS system files no matter what attributes are set for command.com. Second, when used on dual boot systems, it would be great to have an option to only replace the FreeDOS system files without renewing the bootsector 'cause writing a new bootsetor results in an unbootable Windows XP. To change this back to normal you always have to start the recovery console and run FIXBOOT to overwrite the newly written FreeDOS bootsector or you have to use third party tools to do the same job. Regards Norbert. - 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-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Lua for freedos?
Hi, Does anyone know of a version of Lua for freedos? Unfortunatly I've only found a binary for version 4, I am looking for a binary for the newer version 5.1.1. If there is no binary can lua be compiled in freedos? Thanks ljones - 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-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Lua for freedos?
Lee Jones wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of a version of Lua for freedos? Unfortunatly I've only found a binary for version 4, I am looking for a binary for the newer version 5.1.1. If there is no binary can lua be compiled in freedos? Thanks I don't know about a DOS binary for 5.1.1 (I don't use Lua) but I did find this news item from 2001 on our web site, which is probably what you are referring to: LUA for DOS Aug 15 2001 by jhall Ken Yap has patched the Lua script language to compile using BC31 on DOS. I have posted his patch at ibiblio. Here is Ken's announcement: This contains patch and bat files to compile LUA with Borland C 3.1 under DOS. To use: Get the LUA distribution from www.lua.org. Unpack it. You will find a directory called lua. Unpack [the patch] in this directory. It will create this file, a patch file and 4 bat files. Patch the source either with the Unix patch program or by hand, it's just a one line change. Go to each of the directories in turn and run the bat files. The executables are lua.exe (interpreter) and luac.exe (compiler). And what is Lua? From the web site: Lua is a powerful, light-weight programming language designed for extending applications. Lua is also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language. Lua is free software. Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, interpreted from bytecodes, and has automatic memory management with garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping. A fundamental concept in the design of Lua is to provide meta-mechanisms for implementing features, instead of providing a host of features directly in the language. For example, although Lua is not a pure object-oriented language, it does provide meta-mechanisms for implementing classes and inheritance. Lua's meta-mechanisms bring an economy of concepts and keep the language small, while allowing the semantics to be extended in unconventional ways. Extensible semantics is a distinguishing feature of Lua. Lua is a language engine that you can embed into your application. This means that, besides syntax and semantics, Lua has an API that allows the application to exchange data with Lua programs and also to extend Lua with C functions. In this sense, Lua can be regarded as a language framework for building domain-specific languages. And the download pointed to: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/lua/ This included a patch to the then-current version of Lua to compile on DOS. Not sure what chose changes entailed, but you might have a look at those patches and see if you can apply them to Lua 5.1.1. I don't know of another place to find a DOS binary of Lua. -jh - 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-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] SYS.COM
Original-Nachricht Betreff: Re: [Freedos-user] SYS.COM Datum: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 04:20:04 -0500 Von: Kenneth J. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Norbert Remmel wrote: Hi, Having discussed some stuff with eric before, Eric suggested to start a new discussion on the mailing list. There is a problem concerning SYS.COM using dual boot systems Windows XP / FreeDOS Windows XP always looks for dos system files on its boot partition and changes the attributes of the found files to system, hidden and readonly. If you use SYS.COM to replace existing FreeDOS files by newer ones, SYS.COM always writes a new bootsecor and after that it tries to replace kernel.sys and command.com. But getting to the point where command.com is about to be replaced SYS.COM outputs an error code followed by an error message and doesn't proceed. To get things work you have to change command.com's attributes to only archive by using attrib. After that you can restart SYS.COM to have the FreeDOS system files replaced without error. I would suggest two things to change in SYS.COM. At first SYS.COM should replace the FreeDOS system files no matter what attributes are set for command.com. sounds reasonable So when running sys, if kernel.sys is readonly (and/or system and/or hidden) should it sys: a) fail as it currently does b) ask the user 1st, then remove the attributes and overwrite the existing kernel c) without asking the user, remove the attributes and overwrite the existing kernel d) rename the existing kernel to something like kernel.001 (where the actual # could be incremented to next non-conflicting one) and then copy over the new kernel e) other suggestions? Second, when used on dual boot systems, it would be great to have an option to only replace the FreeDOS system files without renewing the bootsector 'cause writing a new bootsetor results in an unbootable Windows XP. To change this back to normal you always have to start the recovery console and run FIXBOOT to overwrite the newly written FreeDOS bootsector or you have to use third party tools to do the same job. this is easy, don't use sys, just copy the kernel.sys file yourself. If you don't need to replace the boot sector, there really is no reason to use sys. In general, once you have a booting FreeDOS system, there is almost no reason to replace the bootsector or rerun sys again. Regards Norbert. Jeremy (this still probably won't make it to the list, so feel free to forward for me :-) - 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-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Lua for freedos?
Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LUA for DOS Aug 15 2001 by jhall Ken Yap has patched the Lua script language to compile using BC31 on DOS. You can use DJGPP, too. I've succesfully compiled Lua 5.1.1 without any modification. Just unpack it somewhere, cd to the src dir, then type make generic. It will build the Lua lib, the Lua interpreter executable, and the Lua bytecode compiler. Best regards, Escorter _ Ne csak a lakást nézze, hanem a környéket is! Válogasson több ezer ingatlanból légifotós-kereső segítségével!http://ad.adverticum.net/b/cl,1,6022,120681,191337/click.prm - 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-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
