Re: [Freedos-user] LiveCD could not find Kernel
Hi Alain you stated: * I googled a lot on this subject: it seems that it is not possible to boot from a CD when you are in grub. I have successfully booted floppy, changed active partition from grub and even swap disks in such a way that WinXP boots from the second disk... I have already tested that using the tab key in grub ignores the CD, so if you only get hd0,0 it is because there is only on disk with only one partition. *** Your interpretation of what I was observing makes tons of sense. I have knocked my head against the wall on this and have to say you must be right on this one. The live CD's are not just using the grub with an initrd and a kernel. They have to have a big work around on this one. Thanks so much for your posting. I have been trying to do what can't be done the way I was doing it. I just have to find some other way of accomplishing my CD Boot. In SUSE Linux in their administrative documentation they talk about using grub and the CD boot. I think that their documentation has a serious problem because they say to label the cd as root. As you distinctly stated and my working with grub demonstrated the CD isn't recognized even thought that is where the grub is. Thanks so much for your interpretaton. Ed - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] LiveCD could not find Kernel
My Isolinux "buildcd" folder is 7/13/2006. My "Data" folder is 9/5/2006. I examined the "index of files" on the ftp site and the latest file was 9/5/2006. When I use grub from my various cd booting attempts I have been putting in "root (hd" followed by the tab key. It only completes with (hd0,0). I think that is my computer and not the cd. Since you don't seem to be getting this error again after you changed the isolinux could it be something peculiar about my computer? I downloaded again from the ftp site and even did a md5sum check. It still hung up at the same point Ed ** This message might be generated by ISOLINUX: We use this boot loader to load "memdisk" which is loaded as if it were a Linux kernel, and which gets a (in our case compressed) diskette image as "initrd". The memdisk is a bootable ramdisk from which we boot FreeDOS and load cdrom drivers to access the rest of the LiveCD... The menu item for DOS in our isolinux.cfg file is "fdos", the disk image is fdboot.img. When you boot the image, you would get messages about kernel sys (or maybe metakern) but not about a file called "fdos", which is why I guess that you have a problem with the isolinux step... Did you make sure to use the "remastered" 1.0 ISO of FreeDOS? Unfortunately, we had an ISO with bad ISOLINUX configuration online for months. It just failed to boot on many BIOSes... Eric - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] LiveCD could not find Kernel
I looked at FreeDos because I am trying to boot SUSE Linux 10.3 from a non bootable USB hard drive which I am presently accessing with INSTLUX. I don't want to do anything to my computer's hard drive. I put the LiveCD in, and booted the computer. On trying to boot I got the message "could not find kernel image: FDOS." Because of this I was unable to look at the FreeDos. Is this an incompatibilty with my BIOS? I have been able to boot other liveCD's. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Possibility of floppy installer for FreeDOS?
Hi all, I would like to suggest, if not already available, that the base package of FreeDOS be made available as a set of floppy disc images as well as just a CD. I for one have an old machine I'm messing about with which has no CD drive installed (though possibly could do if it has the right interface (IDE?)) I'd like` to knowq if I could possibly find one, or a suitable alternative to an actual installed version of FreeDOS (Baldur maybe?) I've posted a similar suggestion on the FAQ by the way. Thanks, Richard Prediger __ Tiscali Broadband only £7.99 a month for your first 3 months! http://www.tiscali.co.uk/products/broadband/ - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on an old machine
Hi Finally, I reinstalled FreeDOS, and now it works fine. First, I installed Smart Boot Manager on a floppy, and than I put a floppy drive to this old computer. And I put my dvd reader drive to this too. Than I was able to boot FreeDOS CD, that was burned to a cd-rw. I think the problem was that the hdd in the old computer has 504M place, but in my computer the hdd had 520M. So thanks for the help! BaT Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Bat, > >> The installation was on my another computer, >> and on it FreeDOS booted and worked well. > > So you installed while the harddisk was plugged to another > computer, and then moved the harddisk to this computer? > >> I installed just the base, but without base's packages. >> So i have 3 files in C:\, a command.com, a kernel.sys and >> a FDOS\install.log. Nothing else. > > Then you installed nothing ;-). That is not BASE. That is > just kernel and shell. You REALLY should install at least > himem and write a small config and autoexec. > >> When I'm booting FreeDOS, it writes "Starting FreeDOS", then >> nothing happens. > > This is probably because your 486 BIOS uses another geometry > than your "another computer" BIOS for the same disk. Maybe > the other computer uses LBA and the 486 does not. > > I really recommend to install DOS on the 486 by installing it > on the 486. Not by plugging the harddisk to another computer. > If you need a diskette distro, please use FreeDOS Balder. > > Eric > > > > - > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > ___ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/FreeDOS-on-an-old-machine-tf4161640.html#a11844621 Sent from the FreeDOS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] FreeDOS on an old machine
Hi! I have an old computer and I installed FreeDOS on it. The computer has a 486dx processor, 16M ram, and an 520M hdd. The installation was on my another computer, and on it FreeDOS booted and worked well. I installed just the base, but without base's packages. So i have 3 files in C:\, a command.com, a kernel.sys and a FDOS\install.log. Nothing else. And it can work, I tested it in qemu and on my "new" computer. When I'm booting FreeDOS, it writes "Starting FreeDOS", then nothing happens. Previously, the OS was DOS 6.22 on this old machine, and it worked well. So could you help me? Thanks for the answers. PS: Sorry for bad English. :) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/FreeDOS-on-an-old-machine-tf4161640.html#a11840956 Sent from the FreeDOS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Impossible to start WFG 3.11 or Windows 3.11 in enhaced mode
Replies to this message in public please (or at least CC: me) ;-) Aitor -- Original Message - Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Impossible to start WFG 3.11 or Windows 3.11 in enhaced mode Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 21:36:51 -0500 From: "Kenneth J. Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Chema wrote: .. > You can download it from MSDN on the subscriptors zone. Also you can .. > 16 bits SDK and DDK. .. do you know what minimal level subscription is required? Operating System, Professional, Enterprise or Universal levels? Next year I may opt for a msdn subscription for vc, but if I go other ways (maybe Intel's compiler instead) I may still get the OS one for development/testing uses and would like to know if the win3.x DDK is still available at that level. Thank you for any information and for at least letting me know that the win3.x SDK/DDK is still available (at least for now), Jeremy --- 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-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user --- 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-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] trouble with russian-named files
Hi, (1) You'll need to use COUNTRY= setting with an unstable kernel version (in the future stable one). (2) You also have to make sure that the codepage mkeyb works with is the same you have configured with DISPLAY (or alternatively use FD-KEYB and forget about aligning codepages, as this will work transparent to user). (3) In the future, when NLSFUNC gets finished, you would just load NLSFUNC, DISPLAY and FD-KEYB and automatically switch the codepage at once at your wish with: CHCP xxx (DISPLAY, FD-KEYB, MODE are under development almost finished, NLSFUNC will need a bit more work I assume). Aitor -- Original Message - Subject: [Freedos-user] trouble with russian-named files Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 17:38:53 +0400 From: Maxim Kuleshov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Hello! I got stuck with simple problem: freedos fails to access files with national chars in their names. No matter where they are (fat32 or network drive) - result's still the same. I configured display (mode.com) and keyboard (mkeyb) and it's ok, but even simple command like this, C:/>TYPE .txt says, File not found. - '.txt' Even 3rd party programs could not access such files. Also, I discovered one strange thing: when I create file with russian chars in name, some of letters are replaced by latin characters. For example, name "TECTTECT.TXT" (cyrillicaly spelled) becomes TACTTACT, where letter "A" is latin. What should I change to beat that one? :) -- WBR, Maxim Kuleshov --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup
An Aptiva, makes much more sense now why you have mwave. :-) Most likely you are experiencing one of two problems (or both), either the drivers are not quite compatible with your particular mwave card or they are not quite compatible with the FreeDOS kernel. >From http://freedos.sourceforge.net/laptops/ibm/760e.html we know that at least the mwave drivers present in some thinkpads are compatible with the FD kernel, it may simply be the wrong driver; however there is note of a particular setup portion for mwave not functioning (sadly no details) so perhaps you are seeing a related issue. [Hopefully not, but it may also indicate a compatibility regression.] You may want to compare your config/autoexec with the ones listed here, I suspect the needed statements for mwave support will be similar on an Aptiva. If you have access to a MS/PC boot disk, you may want to try running the mwave setup from there to see if that helps (once setup it may run fine with the FD kernel). Please let me know if everything works when booting this but not FD or if once installed (using MS/PC kernel) it works for FD kernel. If you provide me with which model Aptiva you have, it might help me to ensure you have the proper drivers. thanks, Jeremy -- Original Message - Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 10:52:33 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net ..(my PC is also an IBM Aptiva), but after reboot I've got the following error message: "MCB chain setup failed (or something like that), or MS-DOS incompatible system". What it mean and can it be fixed? .. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Help: Himem.exe crashes
what kernel version are you using? it may (or may not) help to use the latest stable kernel, http://www.fdos.org/kernel/KERNEL.SYS Please do keep us (well at least me) informed about any compatibility issues or other anomalies. Jeremy -- Original Message - Subject: [Freedos-user] Help: Himem.exe crashes Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 11:14:06 +0200 From: Andre Tertling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Freedos User Mailinglist Hi there, I am currently experimenting with FreeDOS to track down something very strange (I'll post about that as soon as I have more details verified), but for now I am already stuck at the beginning: .. Any suggestions what to try now? Kind regards, Andre --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] re: re: FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list
Hi, [Sorry again about the odd formatting of webmail] -- Original Message - Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] re: re: FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 01:49:10 -0500 From: Michael Devore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net We've discussed loading HIMEM at the DOS prompt after CONFIG.SYS processing before, too. It's a bad idea that could easily open the floodgates of bug reports for people wondering why their drivers aren't loading or working properly, and why XMS/EMS memory or HMA/UMBs are missing or misbehaving. I don't want any part of it, even though the actual code changes necessarily for basic setup would likely be small relative to what's already been done to it. === I have to disagree, as in this case it would be not mis-functioning, but people that use it lacking the understanding of what they are doing). === As far as EMM386, I am not sure one could ever reliably load EMM386 at the command prompt post CONFIG.SYS drivers and COMMAND shell, plus a scattering of AUTOEXEC TSRs. I am sure I don't want to try. === I am (even if just) curious to do it (although I lack the missing time at the moment). Aitor --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list
Many thanks, Blair. Just one word on the list: I know what some people may be thinking of some of the items there. I would like to suggest that the list be used to track the features that are not available in FreeDOS and are not to be implemented in FreeDOS in a short time or even never (e.g. DISKCOPY /1). Aitor -- Original Message - Subject: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 23:19:53 -0700 From: Blair Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: FreeDOS User Hi. Just wanted to let everyone know that I've copied the Post-1.0 todo list to the FreeDOS wiki so that everyone can view and edit the list of items. It is available at: http://wiki.fdos.org/Main/Post_1_0_Todo --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] ABNT2 in dosemu
Hi, Well, there IS CHCP for FreeDOS, but you would also need to have NLSFUNC loaded to catch the call. But in any case, nor DISPLAY is a device driver yet, neither can NLSFUNC change yet codepages of devices (only of kernel), so we would continue to use MODE CON CP SEL= for a while. Aitor -- Original Message - Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] ABNT2 in dosemu Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:41:59 -0400 From: "Henrique Peron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: (As far as I know, CHCP is not available for FreeDOS.) --- 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-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] re: My experiment with Windows 3.1 on FreeDOS in VMware
Hi Eric, -- Original Message - Subject: [Freedos-user] re: My experiment with Windows 3.1 on FreeDOS in VMware Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 23:37:47 +0200 (MEST) From: Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Heh, I love spreading FUD against MS ;-). FUD? The crash when attempting to run a DOS program or DOS box from within Windows is caused by wswap exe or dswap exe of Windows being unable to "swap the context" of the DOS session with the FreeDOS kernel. In other words, they cannot modify the running DOS to make it "free" to start a new DOS program while Windows is still around in the background. Do you exactly know what DSWAP does in order to try and swap the context? Aitor --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Re: [Freedos-devel] ANNOUNCE: FD-KEYB 2.0 pre-release 3
Two more things: (1) I attach the LSM (2) You can read more info on KEYB's website (thanks to Simon Waite): http://projects.freedos.net/keyb (the page and the KEYB comparison page http://projects.freedos.net/keyb/compare.htm have been updated) Aitor -- Original Message - Subject: [Freedos-devel] ANNOUNCE: FD-KEYB 2.0 pre-release 3 Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 12:05:26 -0700 (PDT) From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Hi, I'd like to announce the new pre-release of FreeDOS KEYB 2.0, implementing a lot of new features to ease operation. A brief changelog respect to the pre-release 2: Begin3 Title: Keyb Version:2.0 pre3 Entered-date: 2005-08-14 Description:Keyboard driver (BIOS level) for international support Keywords: keyb freedos dos msdos Author: Aitor SANTAMARIA MERINO (aitorsm_AT_inicia.es) Maintained-by: Aitor SANTAMARIA MERINO (aitorsm_AT_inicia.es) Primary-site: http://projects.freedos.net/keyb/ Original-site: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/ Platforms: dos Copying-policy: GPL End
[Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: FD-KEYB 2.0 pre-release 3
Hi, I'd like to announce the new pre-release of FreeDOS KEYB 2.0, implementing a lot of new features to ease operation. A brief changelog respect to the pre-release 2: + ADD: Support for libraries of data files (libraries of KL files), that contain information for more than one layout. These files are similar in function to Microsoft's KEYBOARD.SYS, but tend to be smaller because contain pure data. So you can have now 100% commandline compatiblity, as you do KEYB GR,,C:\FDOS\BIN\KEYBOARD.SYS to load a German keyboard layout (which has codepage support). Furthermore, you need the new library or KL files created with the tools released some days ago. + CHANGE: if you do not specify a data file, then KEYBOARD.SYS is sought, both in $PATH and in the same folder as KEYB.EXE. For example, by placing Henrique's KEYBOARD.SYS in the same folder as KEYB.EXE you can just do KEYB GR (remember that the codepage can also be omitted, and if you have DISPLAY loaded, the codepage will be asked to DISPLAY.SYS and you don't have to worry about that; thus you never get odd characters printed on screen) + ADD: The keyboard data is now automatically loaded into separate Memory Blocks. This allows KEYB to load and replace layouts without unloading KEYB. That is, if you now do KEYB FR then you change your layout to French, without problems and not leaving rubbish. The data is loaded on a new Memory Block, by default an UMB. + ADD: If you don't want the data to be loaded in UMBs, but in convenctional memory, then you use the switch /NOHI. For example: KEYB IT /NOHI + ADD: There is a new switch, /V (Verbose), used to display more verbose information on loading time, including the manufacturer and description of the library data files, if you use one. + ADD: There is now extra support for Japanese keyboards, which can be optionally loaded from the data file (that you should compile with an special flag). With this falg, FD-KEYB emulates Microsoft's KEYB for Japanese MS-DOS. Notice that, although Japanese KEYB (FD and MS) operate byte-wise, Japanese users will also need to make use of a FEP (Front-End Processor) software to fully operate in Japan. Thus, if anyone knows of an open-source FEP, we would be very grateful to add it to the FreeDOS distribution, that could then happily launch to Japan, too. Note that this cannot be applied to Korean or Chinese, that would need keyboard drivers to produce two characters. FD-KEYB could do this by using Strings, but this would be a hard work. However I imagine that Henrique would gladly accept such Chinese/Korean layouts. And regarding FD-KEYB, any hints on how to easily get Korean or Chinese support would be welcome. Japanese support is optionally loaded. If you don't make use of it, it won't stay in memory, and your memory footprint won't grow. + FIX: The information about currently loaded layout is displayed when no layout name is given, even if other switches are used. + FIX: KEYB /I crashed without a layout name. + FIX: /ID:nnn needs not be capital letters + FIX: Minor cosmetic changes to the /? help screen You can get the driver from here: Binary: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kb2pre3x.zip Source: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kb2pre3s.zip If there is someone here also subscribed to FreeDOS/V or mailing lists for FreeDOS in Japanese if he or she could please forward this mail to those lists, in case there are Japanese users interested in this news. There is only a known bug that may cause some miliseconds delay if you use STRINGS, as Interrupt 9h is hooked even on AT class keyboards. This has very low impact, not only because 99% of the users won't use STRINGS, but because it will still work. It will be fixed in the next release. However, there are two interactions with other bugs in other programs that are worth to note. (1) A bug in the external LOADHI program will not allow FD-KEYB to load high. To prevent this you are suggested to use FreeCOM's internal LH program (2) A possible bug in FreeCOM+XMSSwap makes FreeCOM crash when FD-KEYB loads its data into UMBs. I was unable to test this myself (because I am on holidays), but this is yet to be investigated a bit more, but this does not apparently happen under MS-DOS. If you suffer from this, please make use of the /NOHI option of FD-KEYB so that the keyb data is loaded to convenctional memory. Thanks in advance for feedback and bug reports, and happy keyboard operating! Aitor --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lis
[Freedos-user] Announce: New version of KC (KEYB compiler) and introducing KLIB (KEYB librarian)
Hi, I'd like to announce the new version of the tools you use to create customized keyboard layouts for FD-KEYB: KC 2.0: Compiles the layouts created in the "natural" KEY language into a KL file, useable by KEYB KLIB 1.0: Used to group KL files into libraries (e.g. KEYBOARD.SYS) of KL files. So there won't be the need to have several separate KL files any longer, but a single KEYBOARD.SYS file. Then KL files created by KC 2.0 are slightly different from those created by the KC 1.X series, but the changes in the KEY files are small: re-sort the data section ascending by codepage and re-compile. In order to use the so-created KL files, or to pack them with KLIB, or in order to use the libraries, you'll need the forthcomming KEYB 2.0 pre-release 3. It will be released tomorrow. Changelog for KC: - ADD: KL files can implement a flag to request KEYB to load the Japanese extensions (required to operate KEYB in Japan) - CHANGE: Scancodes in KEYS: sections have to be sorted ascending by scancode - FIX: A minor problem with the FLAGS= option - FIX: KC now returns error codes as exit code: same number for syntax error, and 100+same number for critical error. 0 is SUCCCESS - REMOVE: KL files are no longer allowed to request KEYB to chain interrupt 9h About KLIB: With KLIB you can CREATE a new library, where you specify the manufacturer name and a brief description (they can also be specified in the commandline). Then you can list, add or remove KL files to the library. Finaly you may want to "close" the library, making it read-only and no longer editable. You can check the error status in the exit code. I attach the LSM files, and have submitted the help files for HTML-Help to be upgraded as corresponds. You can download KC/KLIB from: Binary: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kc200x.zip Source: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kc200s.zip Happy keyboard customizing! AitorBegin3 Title: Keyb KC Version:2.00 Entered-date: 2005-08-13 Description:KEY keyboard descriptor to KeybCB/KL compiler Keywords: keyb layout KEY compiler freedos dos msdos Author: Aitor SANTAMARIA MERINO (aitorsm_AT_inicia.es) Maintained-by: Aitor SANTAMARIA MERINO (aitorsm_AT_inicia.es) Primary-site: http://projects.freedos.net/keyb/ Original-site: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/ Platforms: dos Copying-policy: GPL End Begin3 Title: Keyb KLIB Version:1.00 Entered-date: 2005-08-13 Description:Keyboard layout librarian Keywords: keyb layout KEY librarian freedos dos msdos Author: Aitor SANTAMARIA MERINO (aitorsm_AT_inicia.es) Maintained-by: Aitor SANTAMARIA MERINO (aitorsm_AT_inicia.es) Primary-site: http://projects.freedos.net/keyb/ Original-site: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/ Platforms: dos Copying-policy: GPL End
Re: [Freedos-user] text editor's and mem command
Just two things:
In the transient code: {$G+} (directive to compile for 286+)
In the resident code: the ussage of PUSHA/POPA and similars.
Planning to remove them in a short future, though.
Aitor
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Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] text editor's and mem command
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 18:24:37 -0700
From: "GNU_man" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Actually, i discovered (thanks to Eric Auer) that TED3 works perfectly on
the 8088. Being a bit speed-impaired, this is a more ideal editor FD Edit
7x for an XT. What is it about FD-KEYB that makes
it 286 compatible, but not 8088?
> Hi,
>
> It seems you solved your problem, but for the records, notice that
> FD-KEYB is still 286+ (planned to support 8088)
>
> Aitor
>
>
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