Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS utility to insert keystrokes in the keyboard buffer?
Hi, KEYB implements such a bigger secondary buffer whenever you use STRINGS, as 16 characters is too few to decently support placing strings. True that you need the overhead of the STRING subsystem if you want this secondary buffer. I'd study to allow you to use the secondary buffer independently of strings, but as far as I know, there haven't been many requests to do this, so it has low priority at the moment... (there are many other things to do first I guess). Aitor Carl Spitzer escribió: Why the limit of 16?? That's the size of the typeahead buffer maintained by the BIOS (I think that's what maintains it anyway). I guess you could work around that limitation with a TSR that continually polled to find out if there was any room in the buffer and added additional characters once room was available (due to the application reading the keystrokes). That is what I was thinking about I am surprised that FreeDOS has not done that yet. CWSIV --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] display size+resolution
Hi, A bit more of information is required. As you are talking about full screen, it seems that you are not running [Free]DOS standalone, but inside a virtualizer or emulator, which one? DOSEMU? Aitor seorge escribió: I've downloaded a bunch of old dos-games (some of them from '80s) for my dauhhter, but some of those games won't run in full-screen mode. Instead of full-screen I got some incorrect resolition and wierd screen-size. Can it be fixed globally, os should I try to setup display parameters for each application separately? BTW: where can I download (get) the superfrog game for x86, because i've find only amiga and win32 files? But I remember there was an x86 version of this game for DOS. Thanks in advance! --- 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] Impossible to start WFG 3.11 or Windows 3.11 in enhaced mode
Hi, Robert Riebisch escribió: could help me? Nobody has developed a better vesa driver for Windows 3.xx? That would require the Windows 3.1 DDK from Microsoft which was/is not free! Oh, my! I wish there was ANY way to get a copy of this anyhow... depending of price I could even pay. Aitor --- 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, Arkady V.Belousov escribió: Hi! 17-Окт-2005 10:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: ao (1) You'll need to use COUNTRY= setting with an unstable kernel version (in ao the future stable one). Correction: with any kernel version. Without correct country specification will be used US file name character conversions. Precisely in my understanding his problem is about DISPLAY supporting codepages, whereas kernel doesn't. I remember time ago Tom mentioning this risk, in the end we've found a user with this problem... Reason why I vote for including this COUNTRY= stuff into the stable before the next FreeDOS distribution release (I'm sure that such a hard working person as Blair will update his distribution soon too :)). 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] re: FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list
Hi, Eric Auer escribió: So my suggestion is: Review the needs, and think about a new DEVICE variant CPUDEVICE[HIGH]=[minlevel],[maxlevel],[driver and args] or similar, where you could do for example CPUDEVICE=1,2,FDXMS286 ... CPUDEVICE=3,,HIMEM ... CPUDEVICE=3,,EMM386 ... (the CPUDEVICE command would be combineable with n?command=... style FreeDOS menu system, e.g. to select whether to try to load EMM386) Well, for the sake of useability, I'd prefer something like Michael's idea. Something like: IF condition LINE condition can be expanded in the future, but there could be something basic like IF CPU386 ... IF EXITCODE ... (from last line) (this one is tricky) It should also be processed in the same stage as LINE. Anyway, just a suggestion. We just miss someone to put his hands on it (I wish I could). 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
Bernd Blaauw escribió: Arkady V.Belousov schreef: MD HIMEM and EMM386 set up on a clean memory map. It certainly isn't clean MD after loading device drivers of varying allocations, the DOS shell, and MD various AUTOEXEC TSRs. Yes. But I say about difference between config.sys and command line, not about difference between loading himem/emm386 before or after other programs. Let example config.sys and autoexe.bat: HIMEM and EMM386 blank (wipe out) the XMS contents? FDXMS also? in that case FreeCOM would probably crash quite soon, as it uses XMS to store quite a large part of its data. Well, I don't think it will allocate to XMS before there's a XMS driver installed ;-) 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] re: FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list
Hi, Eric Auer escribió: Hi, I would suggest an extra column for the tables in the post 1.0 TODO list: Level / State of the wish. Example values: [ http://wiki.fdos.org/Main/Post_1_0_Todo ] I seem to like the idea of the categories , although I'd personally review what anyone puts anywhere. If only this means that you are not branching again :) My only request is that no feature is removed, even if you put it on the forgotten vault. 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 Bugzilla?
Hi, Easy to find in the FreeDOS main page: http://www.freedos.org/freedos/bugs/ Aitor Nick Bright escribió: Is there a bugzilla for FreeDOS? It seems rather inefficent for me to post bugs to the mailing list. I can if that's how ya'll would prefer it, but I thought I'd check before firing one off :) - Nick --- 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] [XT] Bug found - zip utility
You need to get a 8086 ZIP version, check with the InfoZIP page. If the ODIN docs says it to support XT machines, then that's a bug :) Aitor Nick Bright escribió: Just testing things about, I tried to zip a file, and received an error about requiring an 80386. The ODIN readme.txt file indicates this is an 8086 compatible binary. Perhaps a documentation error, perhaps a compile error? Unzip successfully unzips a file from the ODIN disk; slowly, of course - it's an XT :) The exact error text is: C:\zip 80386 required. 80386 required. Load error: no DPMI - Get csdpmi*b.zip --- 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] OT: Web hosting needed for a binary distribution
Hi Shane, Quite OT, but I see serious quirks about Thunderbird that don't seem to exist in Mozilla Mail. In particular, with 1.0.6, for example, at times when browsing messages with the 'F' (next message) key, a new window won't open anymore, Thunderbird would remain in memory even if you close the window, therefore it won't open again, and if you kill it with the task manager and reopen it, it won't show nor the messages neither the titles of the File and Edit menus. Why I don't post to Thunderbird bugzilla, I'm a bit lazy about opening new accounts. I would go back to Mozilla Suite, but they won't allow me to migrate back (there's no Import from Thunderbird). Enough OT for the moment, I just thought you'd better prefer Mozilla Suite, stable and well tested, rather than Thunderbird, which IMHO is not yet a mature and stable project. Just my 0.02EUR... Aitor Shane M. Coughlan escribió: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all I am currently understaking a new project to make a highly mobile and secure version of the Thunderbird email client (includings like Enigmail and TrueCrypt containers). The problem is that my website is maxed out providing the OpenGEM GUI files to people (I've already had to increase my hosting plan once this year). Does anyone have spare server space to host the binary files of my new project, Mobility Email? I would need about 30mb server space. The issue is likely to be traffic, which might get quite high. Regards Shane - - -- Shane M. Coughlan BA(hons) MA EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB: www.shaneland.co.uk MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AOL: ShaneMCoughlan Yahoo: shane_c ICQ: 32280303 - - -- I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. - Douglas Adams - - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQFDNK9yTa6KuhPvdOoRAnT8AJ9HYmslsC7R+9WN5/HU1PXgbrw21QCgszBS 3ujVeMP68u5bc27vT/0QGHk= =OJFD -END PGP SIGNATURE- --- 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] Posts not showing up?
Same happened to me last night too... Glad to read this, I am becoming an anti-spam paranoid... Aitor Gerry Hickman escribió: Hi, Since this Saturday, my posts are not showing up on this list until I re-post them about three times? There's no bounce message, they just disappear... --- 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
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS kicks some serious Ass!
In my opinion it is good that you have the option to buy a PC with or without the operating system. What really sicks me is that absurd idea of the preinstalled OS. I got an Acer laptop, they (almost sure) charged me for the OS, but they didn't give me the official WinXP Pro disk: it was preinstalled, and there was a CD-ROM by which I could restore the whole HD as it was when I bought the PC (that is, with Windows preinstalled and erasing all other stuff added by you), but with NO OFFICIAL Microsoft Windows XP disk. Incidentally, I never cared actually if I had official Microsoft support with it. I ignore how efficient is MS support though (I do remember that the user support of Lotus Development used to be excellent!). This idea of the preinstalled OS, in my humble opinion, SUCKS! (no matter how cheap it can be for me or for Acer). Aitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Yeah, some people just don't like WindowsXP. It's hard to buy a new computer without it installed, though! --- 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-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] re: More FreeDOS FDISK tests - failure is repeatable
Hi, Johnson Lam escribió: On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 03:17:48 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: Hi, XFDISK? I mean, XFDISK is open source. It only does not LOOK like the old MS DOS user interface, but hey, that was crap anyway... The correct procedure should be: 1) Contact Brian and ask him if he still works on Free FDISK or not (or someone else if Brian can't) 2) Vote here, keep Free DISK or switch to XFDISK 3) Someone have to examine XFDISK's source to make sure it didn't conflict with FreeDOS Why not switching places (2) and (3)? :) Aitor --- 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-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] re: New FreeDOS install CD
Hi, Eric Auer escribió: Could be used with software with restrictive licenses. Okay, I get it. Read: Antivirus stuff and VIDE-CDD. What else? By the way, Bernd just never got a reply from Acer about the driver, but they never said that you cannot put it on CD either. What is the license of ACRODOS, for those that have used it? Aitor --- 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-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] How to report a kernel bug?
I have a machine where to reproduce this bug, or a similar one. It's a 286. Strangely enough, FreeDOS will boot from floppy and see C:, but will refuse to boot from there (locks at InitDisk I think, I haven't investigated into this). The bad point is that I wasn't able to investigate into this, my 286 is not handy at the moment. I'll have a window at the second week of August. I seem to recall that Arkady has a tool to inspect the MBR and find possible problems, right? Hopefully this may help to understand where and why kernel locks, and bypass this (I do not mean to mount the drive, but at least bypass the lock somehow, does it make sense to boot from a non-mounted partition). Aitor Mark Bailey escribió: Good morning: In all of my flailing around about MBR's, I do believe that I have found a kernel bug. The failure of the FreeDOS kernel to initialize with the incorrect MBR looks like a bug. It is impossible to use FDISK to correct the MBR when the kernel won't initialize. :-) (Yes, I can use a different operating system to fix it). How do I report the bug? I tried the bugzilla link from the freedos.org home page, but it won't let me create an account. The bug is that, with an apparently incorrect MBR, the development kernel refuses to boot. Thanks. Mark Bailey --- 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-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user --- 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
Re: [Freedos-user] announce: devload 3.14
Hi, Eric Auer escribió: Please test if your devices can still be loaded with the new DEVLOAD version (DEVLOAD allows you to load devices from the prompt which otherwise would be loaded with DEVICE= or DEVICEHIGH=, but note that UMB support is limited, memory drivers like HIMEM / EMM386 should not be loaded with DEVLOAD and that using DEVICE= is still the official way while DEVLOAD is just a convenient cheat to load drivers later). It is ok that it is convenient, even otherwise-pointless, to load HIMEM and EMM386 within CONFIG.SYS, so that other devices, DOS Initialization can make true use of UMBs and such, but is there a technical reason, appart from being hibrid drivers, not to be able to load them with DEVLOAD? Aitor --- 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-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] XDMA and SHSUCDX V3.00/V3.02
Hi, Jim Hall escribió: Jim Hall wrote: Not sure what to do about the LSMs for either SHSUCDX or XDMA... Johnson Lam wrote: Attached 2 LSM, not 100% sure about the format ... Format looks good. I've edited the shsucdx LSM a little bit .. just to make sure the distinction is clear when you look at the LSM summary. Let me know if that's not a good change for me to make. Both are now in the Software List: http://freedos.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/freedos-lsm.cgi?q=fa=base/shsucdx-jack.lsm http://freedos.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/freedos-lsm.cgi?q=fa=util/xdma.lsm I think XDMA belongs in Util since it doesn't try to duplicate functionality in MS-DOS. We made an exception with UDMA and UDMA2, though .. and I guess I'm open to discussion about moving XDMA into Base as well. I think the same argument applies, except that perhaps it is better to decide for one as MAIN (in Base) being the others variations (in UTIL). Aitor --- 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-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Writing to NTFS filesystems
Hi, Kenneth J. Davis escribió: For applications which are best run from pure DOS, but the user has only NTFS (and Windows), and the max data stored is known ahead of time, a possible solution involves creating the file ahead of time (in Windows) and then in DOS either using a special driver to treat the file as a virtual drive or in the application specially supporting it. The file itself could be an app specific format (where a Windows program/GUI reads it and displays the information to/interacts with the user) or simply a disk image so a program like VFD makes it a virtual drive to Windows as well. Although not currently supported, it should even be possible to boot FreeDOS (possibly from the same disk image data stored to) from the NTFS partition. I am aware of one company that used an approach similar to this (where the user interacted with a Windows program, and the computer rebooted into DOS to run the tests, and then back into Windows for processing/displaying the results). Doesn't PowerQuest do this in their PartitionMagic when you want to do something critical to the %systemdrive%? Aitor --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Writing to NTFS filesystems
Hi, Mark Bailey escribió: Or, you may be able to access a USB memory stick (aka thumb drive). There are two basic ways of doing that. One is if your BIOS provides the correct support, FreeDOS may detect the USB stick and be able to use it. (Note that this sort of works on my Dell D600 laptop but is unstable). The other way is to use usbaspi.sys and aspidisk.sys to attempt to detect the USB stick from DOS. This works successfully on the computers I've tried. Where do these two come from? (usbaspi and aspidisk). Are they limited to storage media? BTW, I have at work a laptop PC with a USB keyboard that behaves quite transparently, BIOS can acceed to it without problems (I know because I use a BIOS password), and I suppose the same would happen to DOS (I haven't been able to do tests yet). As it is my first experience with USB keyboards, should I expect all USB keyboards to behave transparently and go through BIOS? Any experiences? Aitor --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Re: text editor's and mem command
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Hi all, as the editors on old PCs topic still has some attention: My spin-off variant EDIT 0.7c works properly on 8086 / 8088 (PC-XT) computers, even with 84-key keyboard. Hint hint ;-). http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/edit07c.zip Aitor has asked (when 0.7b came out) whether there would be a place to download the D-FLAT library (the underlying windowing and Text-GUI (TUI) toolkit of EDIT). Patric has found good old DFLAT 20 still online. Public domain by Dr Dobbs: http://www.programmersheaven.com/search/download.asp?FileID=15308 Thanks, I'll look into that. I assume from your words that it is no longer under active development. Aitor --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Fox-cubs v0.1 appared!
Hi there, Kristaps Kaupe escribi: Tuesday 03 May 2005 21:43, Fox rakstja: Hi there, I want to announce that I wrote Fox-cubs v0.1. It's a Pascal library (TPU unit) which supports using CATS/Kitten formatted language files into Pascal programs. With Fox-cube the programmer get a new function, called LoadMessage, some technical stuff: If I remember correctly, there is already some Cats Pascal implementation by Aitor, written few years ago. Can't find the URL right now. Yes, that's right. Here it is the url for everybody: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/libs/cats/old/ that's catspas.zip. A quick hack based on a direct translation from the old CATS (no kitten), so I said nothing. I was planning to use it on KEYB, but so far I have mostly turned PAS-ASM, so it isn't under activ e development right now, nor I think it will. At the moment you can have KEYB translated by translating the hardcoded messages in KEYBMSG.NLS file and re-compile, but will change that in the future. Aitor PS: Kristaps, I assume that my message will disappear and never arrive freedos-devel, could you please forward it to freedos-user for me? Thanks! --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Re: Announce: EDIT 0.7b
Hi there, Eric Auer escribió: Hi Aitor, you are a little late... Probably yes ;-) Better late than never they say. Anyway, your history of DFLAT/EDIT is very nice and clarifying. Things started in 2003: I had sent some AltGr handling patch to Joe early in 2003, but the patch turned out to work only on a few older BIOSes. So I modified my own keyboard driver to include a workaround. Later, Patric found a D-Flat version which was useable to compile EDIT, I am very curious to know, is there a website for DFLAT? Where does one get latest versions? I think it would be about time for EDIT version 0.83, to catch up with my 0.7b - actually having TWO versions of EDIT around can be a source of inspiration for both branches :-). Konkurrenz belebt das Geschaeft, as we would say. Aitor --- 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-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Re: EMM386 2.0 Released
Michael Devore escribió: At 07:52 PM 4/29/2005 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: More problems ahead. I tested several programs with EMM386 2.0, setting X=TEST VDS. Many failed. Most of them did work, however, when I added EMM=20480 to the settings, to disable the EMS / XMS / VCPI memory pool sharing. Some programs still failed now, and only worked with the old EMM386 1.15 properly. Finally found the initialization problem that would affect many users running VCPI- or EMS-based applications. I'll post a 2.01 EMM386 fix version later today It should clear up your DOS extender problems, anyway. Except for DOS/32A having a hard limitation of 256M VCPI. That bit of stupidity on its part will take user intervention to circumvent. Hi Michael, I like very much the report that you do at every new posting of EMM. Just one thing that perhaps it is quite worthwile, it is to mention the switch for HIMEM to be used to circumvent the problem, so that it can be easily reported by Jim in the webpage, and gets documented somewhere in other place than the message where you posted the result. Many thanks for your work, Aitor --- 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-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Announce: EDIT 0.7b
Hi, Eric Auer escribió: The readme file now makes clear that EDIT 0.7a / 0.7b are a separate version and that the newest official / Joe Cosentino version is 0.82, which has some differences to 0.7b - Whenever one of the two is better than the other, I encourage the users to motivate the maintainer of the other version to improve it :-). Very bad news, why did you branch the first time? Aitor --- 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-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Do FreeDOS need a password program?
Hi, Eric Auer escribió: Hi Kristaps, Well. I would like to see a password program (running from autoexec.bat) with login/password database in crypted file which would set USER (logged in user) and HOME (user's profile directory) environment variables on exit. I gave a thought at this some time ago, but just mind that you press F8 and override all the protections. Even Win98 is badly protected about such kind of things. and then set HOME=d:\homes\%USER% a detail: please not homes or whatever. Use Documents and settings. Yes, perhaps one day we'll have decent LFN support ;-) (for non-LFN apps, use Docume~1 or whatever). 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://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] x-comment to Michael Devore's message of 18 March
Hi, Jose Antonio Senna escribió: MDGNU-ish type stuff suffers from the we despise everything related to MDMicrosoft and Not Invented Here syndromes, and its relationship with DOS MDis often uneasy. That said, DJGPP has never given me a problem when MDtesting recent EMM386 versions. I never compiled anything using DJGPP,but I found DJGPP compiled applications, as Lynx, much less stable with EMM386 than without, to the extent I no longer use EMM386 while running them. Why not commenting on them, so that we know what the problem is, and help us fix EMM386? 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://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: WordPerfect file format Was Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Question
Hi, A bit going too far offtopic, but *very* interesting (for me) at the same time. Any chance for the Lotus WordPro format? (LWP). After the plain and nice format of the Lotus AmiPro files (SAM), WordPro seems to have some sort of binary compressed format, that I have seen documented nowhere, and no open source drivers at all (for OO, etc) What about the rest of SmartSuite? (1-2-3, Freelance Graphics, Approach,...) Aitor Kenneth J. Davis escribió: Wesley Parish wrote: ... In relation to that, does anyone know where I can find the specifications of the native WordPerfect file format? And suchlike? I know O'Reilly's had something of the sort, and there might have been something similar published somewhere else - but I don't know where to get copies. Thanks Wesley Parish Corel publishes a WordPefect SDK, it might have the spec or at minimal will help in understanding the file format. You should look at libwpd, it is a library (unfortunately uses GSF which is GLIB based) for reading Word Perfect files. (It is used for AbiWord, and OpenOffice as well.) It mostly supports WordPerfect 6 through 11, though it does have some support for WP 4 5. See http:/libwpd.sourceforge.net for more/better information, their link page includes the url for the Corel SDK. Jeremy --- 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://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user --- 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://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: WordPerfect file format Was Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Question
Hi, A bit going too far offtopic, but *very* interesting (for me) at the same time. Any chance for the Lotus WordPro format? (LWP). After the plain and nice format of the Lotus AmiPro files (SAM), WordPro seems to have some sort of binary compressed format, that I have seen documented nowhere, and no open source drivers at all (for OO, etc) What about the rest of SmartSuite? (1-2-3, Freelance Graphics, Approach,...) Aitor Kenneth J. Davis escribió: Wesley Parish wrote: ... In relation to that, does anyone know where I can find the specifications of the native WordPerfect file format? And suchlike? I know O'Reilly's had something of the sort, and there might have been something similar published somewhere else - but I don't know where to get copies. Thanks Wesley Parish Corel publishes a WordPefect SDK, it might have the spec or at minimal will help in understanding the file format. You should look at libwpd, it is a library (unfortunately uses GSF which is GLIB based) for reading Word Perfect files. (It is used for AbiWord, and OpenOffice as well.) It mostly supports WordPerfect 6 through 11, though it does have some support for WP 4 5. See http:/libwpd.sourceforge.net for more/better information, their link page includes the url for the Corel SDK. Jeremy --- 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://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user --- 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://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] XMS Manager on '286
Hi there, root escribió: Oops - i forgot that Linux is going to label me as 'root' by default! Anyway... I'm surprised that it is so uncommon to run FD on an old PC. IMHO it seems ridiculous to install FreeDOS on your P4 side-by-side with Windows XP like so many other people do. I mean what DOS software is going to run properly on a 3Ghz CPU? Besides, what else are you going to do with your old PC's? They would bog down to a crawl even on early versions of Linux or FreeBSD, but FreeDOS is perfect. I disagree. FreeDOS is not suited for old machines, but suited for running DOS16/DOS32 code, as well as you can use WindowsXP to run your Win32 code and Linux to run your Linux code. Have you ever tried to run DOOM or HERETIC in a WinXP dosbox? In my testings it doesn't work (it gets too slow, it's not playable). So I can switch to FreeDOS to run this code. 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://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] XMS Manager on '286
Hi, Kenneth J. Davis escribió: ... Anyway... I'm surprised that it is so uncommon to run FD on an old PC. IMHO it seems ridiculous to install FreeDOS on your P4 side-by-side with Windows XP like so many other people do. I mean what DOS software is going to run properly on a 3Ghz CPU? Besides, what else are you going to do with your old PC's? They would bog down to a crawl even on early versions of Linux or FreeBSD, but FreeDOS is perfect. the problem is that older equipment is harder to come by if you don't already have it and it does eventually stop working (I still miss my ps/1 286 with its huge 2.5MB of RAM :-) so for me a 486 is about the oldest computer I test on that still has a fully working hard drive. Should there need be, I can try and make my 8088, 80386, PS/2(286) machines for testings. 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://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] XMS Manager on '286
Hi, Kristaps Kaupe escribi: I don't know if DOS6's HIMEM works on 286 machines. Someone told me DOS 7.10 (Win98) only runs on 386+ machines. MS-DOS 5 and 6 HIMEM.SYS works on 286 machines, I have used it on my first PC (286) long time ago. In MS-DOS 7.10 (Win98) even kernel runs only on 386+ machines. Well, FAT32 requires 32-bit registers to operate comfortably. For the FreeDOS case, can I run a FAT32 enabled kernel in a 286 machine? (which of course doesn't have FAT32 partitions in its HD). 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://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Re: freecom
Hi, Eric Auer escribió: Hi, strange subject line, but: Arkady, SYS C: is for transferring systemfiles from current drive ... to C: and writing bootsector. IIRC bootsector is not overwritten, unless you do /MBR (at least in MS's). SYS does write the boot sector all the time - you are mixing things up with FDISK, Oops, you're quite right. I must have been not thinking of it as I wrote. PS Aitor: Yes, MODE and the new DISPLAY interface... Good to hear that you will finally make it a device driver, then I only have to support the FINAL interface in the next update ;-). No, you are wrong. The next bunch of features will be 0.12, but not a device driver. Sorry. As I explaned over and over again (at least 3 times): the difference between the final interface and the penultimate is less than 8 bytes: the contents of AX and BX registers (and the INT call). But I am off till March, so you have one more week at least. 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://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on E:?
Hi there, Sorry about the slight offtopic, but... [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I'm using a boot loader called GAG to multiboot all of my computers. The laptop I'm using has FreeDOS, Windows XP, and Linux installed now with the GAG boot loader in the MBR. C: is the FreeDOS installation permanately on the laptop. It was MS-DOS last week... Now that you have experience with that, is GAG able to boot any OS from a partition on a USB device of any kind? I am thinking of a great deal of possibilities with my IDE/ATA=USB adapter provided that the target OS is capable of understanding that it is being booted from such device... (I don't know if any of the Windows would be able to do that). Congratulations on getting USB stick bootable. How did you make it visible as E: in DOS ? This is done automatically by the BIOS on at least two of my new computers. The USB stick gets a drive letter. One of the computers will only boot from it if it is a real floppy drive, the other offers the option to boot from USB Mass Storage. DOS doesn't know that it isn't a second hard drive. When it boots, DOS sees the USB stick as C:. No DOS USB drivers are required. Sounds like bad news. Few available BIOSes seem to provide such a support for USB, at least that I know of Aitor --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag--drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Other FreeCOM nonconformity
Hi, Jose Antonio Senna escribió: Logically,both are defensible. I prefer DRDOS behavior. Has somenone tested this under MS-DOS ? Probably syntax errors, ALL MS-DOS books instruct you to use the quotes: IF %1=XYZ GOTO... Aitor --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag--drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on E:?
Hi Bernd, Bernd Blaauw escribió: Aitor Santamaría Merino schreef: I am thinking of a great deal of possibilities with my IDE/ATA=USB adapter provided that the target OS is capable of understanding that it is being booted from such device... (I don't know if any of the Windows would be able to do that). No, USB-driver stack isn't low-level enough for loading WindowsNT/2000/XP. Win9x may actually boot OK. I've even booted WinXP successfully in RAM, using a special method: http://www.911cd.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=10482st=0 Sounds great! A pitty, however, that I cannot save the changes to X:\DOcuments and settings\MyUserName Still seeking to have a take-away NT/XP user or installation in an external USB hard drive, sigh Aito --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag--drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Re: UMB in mono/VGA RAM (was: GRUB for DOS How-To)
Hi there, Eric Auer escribió: Hi all, Michael is right, if you I=..., then EMM386 should just do what you tell it to do. He is also right that autodetection should be careful, not overenthousiastic. Anyway, I like the suggestion from Arkady: Ok. Let make another question: how to make _conditional_ inclusion of B000 or B800 (depending of color/mono adapter(s) presence)? If I right understand, there is currently only not included and forced inclusion? QEMM (?) had some option or driver called MONOUMB, which is pretty close to that idea. So how about the following options: For the records, MONOUMB does also exist for WIN386.EXE (I don't know about the other two) in SYSTEM.INI. I don't know if it was Microsoft or Qaterdeck the first in having the idea. Aitor --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almosthttp://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] SPANISH
There isn't any that I know, but I can try to help. Write to me in private please. Aitor - Spain (Hola Óscar Rodolfo: escríbeme en privado si quieres que intente ayudarte. Estaré un par de días fuera, en 2005 te contesto) Oscar Rodolfo Garcia escribió: I need support in spanish where??? No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.6 - Release Date: 28/12/04 --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almosthttp://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Re: corrputed disk
Hi, Arkady V.Belousov escribi: Hi! 13--2004 17:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arne Eckmann) wrote to Arkady V.Belousov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: AE I'm sorry to trouble you with this. FreeDOS really need to have an official AE address to which unsuspecting people like I can address our anger, AE disappointments, frustrations and legal-claims. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I disagree. There is no channel to communicate anger, and even less for legal claims. Arkady cleared very well the legal issues. Respect to the anger and such, you can obviously post, but most probably you are not likely to get any help, because it will upset people that mostly contribute their spare time to build the operating system. And that is why we choose a license by which noone can be legally liable of any damage produced. If you use FreeDOS or Linux or any other GPL-ed software, *you* are the only responsible. Disappointments and frustrations? well, try. Having said that, if a gentle (that is, anger free) communication channel is opened (that is what the list is for), we are most likely open to try and patch the bugs, for which report we are welcome (and a tool, bugzilla, available, appart from the user list). Furthermore response and patch times are usually shorter than for commercial software. Finally, I am not into the thread (in fact, Arkady's messages are the only ones I have seen about this topic), so I don't know very well what's going on, but if Arkady is right, you seemed not to choose the correct disk to be download. I agree that perhaps there are parts of the FreeDOS project that are not well documented, but the install process and instructions is NOT one of those (I know well because I invest much of my time translating those docs into Spanish), please are you sure that you have read all the accompaining documentation, readme files, etc? (appart from the license file). Writing those takes a substantial amount of time, and that's what they are actually for: so that you get sure that you won't have problems of misuse with what you are doing. My apologies if that all sounded rude, it wasn't my intention. I just posted this message because I thought that the story about legal issues is worth to be posted and reposted to leave things clear. Best wishes, Aitor --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl ___ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Microsoft Windows runs on FreeDOS (and now for sure)
(new attempt) (NOTE: this is a copy of my infamous post, but this time WITHOUT the attachment; I hope we all don't get it three times later) (The attachment was a zip-ed BMP image (around 10KB) of Paintbrush over Windows 3.1 over FreeDOS) == Hi, From time to time I like testing how far we've gone with FreeDOS, and a good way to know is to test MS-Windows compatibility. First of all, Windows in the enhanced mode (WIN /3) does not work, (first it says that 32BDA can't be enabled, because DOS 3.20 version is required, I wonder why it complains, if reported version is 7.10), and the final obtained message is This version of DOS cannot be accepted, irrespective of the VERSION= setting of CONFIG.SYS, thus it's quite likely that the true DOS version is checked. The testings were made with a 386DX machine, running FreeDOS kenel 2035 FAT32. 2035 stable and 2035a unstable (posted by Lucho) were tested, with no apparent change of situation. Mouse was NOT present in my testings. Microsoft's HIMEM was used. The version of Windows tested is Windows 3.1 in Spanish. Some of the GRP files that the Program Manager needs were missing (and this was interesting for the test). I know that other people (e.g. Eric) posted about Windows working, I just wanted to give a hint. At a first glance, it seemed not to work: the complaining dialog by Program Manager of the missing GRP files seemed to lock the file: keyboard was irresponsive. However, if you make the change shell=winfile.exe in the adequate section of SYSTEM.INI (that is, replace the Windows shell from Program Manager to File Manager), then WinFile boots normally, and seems to work well. Further, if you open ProgMan.exe, the dialog complaining about the missing GRP files is responsive to keyboard. Some other programs (NOTEPAD, WINHELP, WINVER) seem to work well as well. Happy windowing over FreeDOS... Aitor PS: Attached picture is quite lame, it is as much as I could do without a mouse and with a poor screen resolution. Yet it is true ;-) --- 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=5047alloc_id=10808op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] 32BD.BAT
Hi, Luchezar Georgiev escribi: So this in fact is a mini-Windows... without windows ;-) Well, a question of point of view. For me, this all is DOS, the DOS extender of Microsoft, and Windows is what comes behind KRNL386.EXE. After all, the same Windows application (KERNEL, USER, GDI) could be written over DOS (32-bit DOS, true), or over the WinNT kernel. If the Windows file system drivers have taken over, it's not a DOS anymore :-( What is a Windows driver? For me it's either vga.drv, mouse.drv, or WDM-style drivers. A VxD is a (32-bit) DOS driver... Aitor --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 ___ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] 4DOS free now!
Hi, Luchezar Georgiev escribi: The next logical step will be releasing the source code :) Needless to say 4DOS is compatible with the FreeDOS kernel. I've used it for a long time under it and it's very stable. I attach the license under which 4DOS is now distributed. Does it allow its inclusion in the FreeDOS distributions? I think - yes. But you know I'm a copyright illiterate :) From what you say, it comes as freeware without source. Therefore, even if it might eventually come (I don't think so either) as a Third Party utility, having no sources it cannot replace FreeCOM (which by the way is also a quite good tool) (although I might be wrong, Jeremy, Jim or Bernd can tell me wrong). Regards, Aitor --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 ___ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] 4DOS free now!
Hi, Luchezar Georgiev escribi: Best use is from a clean win98 installation. You might need to copy additional VXD files to the 32BD directory (or a subdirectory) to satisfy the registry requirements (netware drivers, for example). So this in fact is a mini-Windows... without windows ;-) Well, a question of point of view. For me, this all is DOS, the DOS extender of Microsoft, and Windows is what comes behind KRNL386.EXE. After all, the same Windows application (KERNEL, USER, GDI) could be written over DOS (32-bit DOS, true), or over the WinNT kernel. Aitor --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 ___ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: DISPLAY 0.11
Hi all, I announce version 0.11 of FD-DISPLAY, with several new features: - It implements a new MODULE for the CGA hardware type (CGA adapters), thus making unnecessary the existence of a GRAFTABL tool for the FreeDOS project. This is yet untested (I have no CGA cards handy). Furthermore, any other GRAFTABL is prevented from loading - It allocates buffers to XMS if available, thus saving 9-10KB of convenctional memory for each buffer (in the most frequent case of a single buffer, resident TPA memory size reduces to about 11KB. The SELECT buffer has now the approrpiate size (and may save even more KBs on CGA and EGA) - DISPLAY is now DISPLAY.EXE (instead of DISPLAY.COM), with the same resident size, in the hope that it will bypass the kernel UMB allocation bug for COM files (as reported by Bernd). Notice that in few more versions it'll be turned into a SYS - Better commandline parsing (tab, #10 are now blanks also) - The maximum number of allocated buffers now depends on buffer size and available memory (and is no longer of 5), with a maximum of 8 (or the available memory) - FIX: the limit mentioned in the previous item was not observed when you specify the fonts explicitely in the commandline. Unfortunately, the new version (that has already been tested and seems to work) requires that FD-MODE be modified to admit this new version (it's simply that FD-MODE allows version 0.10, and has to check wether version=0.10 OR version=0.11). Download links: executable: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/display/disp011x.zip source: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/display/disp011s.zip Happy testing... Aitor --- 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-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Eric's new and shiny inofficial FreeDOS 1.0/2.0 TODO list ready
Eric Auer escribió: Hi, I am proud to have finished the first version of my inofficial FreeDOS 1.0 TODO list on: Eric, so why you ask in private? Can you please assume that the rest of us can be busy and maybe cannot reply on the fly? THANKS Regarding the list itself it looks very well (too verbose IMHO), but I would have to make a large number of corrections. So it seems that as some of your changes were not accepted (because of being on a minority), then you simply recreated a todo list with those changes (exemply gratia, UNDELETE, the tool to undelete FILES). Nice. Aitor PS: I couldn't read your messages yet, but it'll be then a lot of work of you to sync the countless changes to the list you are not aware of. What's worse, it will give me an extra amount of work to go through your list. --- 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-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Eric's new and shiny inofficial FreeDOS 1.0/2.0 TODO list ready
Hi, This mail explains my position on the recent 1.0 list issue. If the FreeDOS version 1.0 concerns you, please read this. When I declared my intention to create the TODO list, I explained my two major concerns about it. First of all is that I wanted it as a checklist, and second, that I just wanted consensus or at least majority in order to perform changes on it. The rules for applying the changes have always been, and are, (1) Majority wins against minority (2) If tie, then things remain as they are, and the reason to do so is that when I announced my intention to create the list and its features, few people replied. It's far easier to wait till the work is done and then complain when you don't like such or such thing. In particular, there several things that Eric likes (one vote for), and that I don't (one vote against), so applying rule (2), this means they remain as they are, unless majority speaks in favour of them, of course (they are roughly speaking verbosity, that is, I want A, B, C,... and not A, this uses interrupt XXX, please see here, and comment there; B: ..., including the POST items mentioned in the todo items, IMHO they are just noise, that don't let you see clearly what is to be done yet). Now if you dislike something on the list, there are two ways: - Comment in the mailing list, and see what majority thinks. Everytime majority has decided to change something, even if I voted against (e.g. the parameters of EMM386/HIMEM, although I must admit that Michael Devore convinced me in his latest messages, please read them), I have committed the changes - Fork the list, make the changes you like (regardless if you weren't in majority) and post it somewhere (that is, Eric's way) Needless to say, I don't think this helps the FreeDOS project. Branching is ok whenever a person wants to take sources for a particular purpose. Generally speaking, I don't think that branching between two freeDOS developers is good, and I say this knowing that - you are FREE to do it - there are dramatically opposite positions against this or that everytime a branch happened (e.g. MEM, Kernel) So I just have to live with that, and thank Bernd and Jeremy, that have been acting as mediators many times very well. But I think it can be specially harmful that, being a single project, there is something like two sets of goals for FreeDOS 1.0, almost as critical as if there was a branch on the spec or manifesto. Eric, you say your list is not to replace the official, then why you do it? why, being over 70 bugs, do you waste your time (and mine) in creating such a list? Respect to the list consulting and posting: the list is updated weekly (what a remedy! read below) in my hard drive, and latest edit is always available via mail. Modifications, typos, etc (some come from Eric) are always welcome, but specially welcome when ALL of them (say 20) are listed AFTER one official release, and not when they come by twos every week: this forces me to be updating the files and going over them once and once again. The normal behaviour has been: I upgrade the files, send them to Eric and Bernd, Eric reports 2 typos and 1 feature (for which there's no majority, so I explain for the n-th time and ignore), I change the list, I send it again to Eric and Bernd, etc etc). In a past time, Jim was with myself concerned with the TODO list, and he understandably gave up. Now it is Bernd who very kindly uploads the list to a web server from where it can be checked online. But I ensured that the list will NO LONGER be sent to be uploaded every time Eric has a change, that is, every... four days?, and I claimed that updates would come at a reasonable rate, say once each two month (or at most month), or every time big changes occur, in order not to be bugging Bernd everytime. rantmode Thus, in the message from Eric (that I haven't read yet) he seems to mention other reasons why changes are not reflected in the webserver. Eric there are no conspiracies or similar. You know very well that I have been very clear with you in what concerns the todo list. It's simply that, despite I, stupid of me, allow you to be bugging me every week with a slight change (and not, say, every two weeks with SEVERAL changes, and with changes that have been discussed and agreed in the mailing lists), and do the appropriate modifications to the files in my hard drive, I don't bug Bernd in turn to upload the file till he things it's ok to do it. So I hope it is now clear forever why changes are not reflected in the list fast. Bernd, you do NEVER have to justify yourself why you couldn't have uploaded the files (you didn't have to) because you had other personal non-FreeDOS stuff in your real life to do it. Likewise, I don't have to justify that I was on a trip, thus I couldn't just reply to Eric's messages in the space of four hours. So Eric, if you get bored, I think you help much more the FreeDOS project if you
Re: RES: [Freedos-user] catgets/gettext
Hi, Carlos AB escribió: Hi I have a few questions and I hope someone can answer. 1) All programs have catalogs of messages to be translated to other languages? (I have interest to translate all catalogs to Brazilian-Portuguese) No, this depends on the developer. Also notice that there are some programs that are translated some other ways (e.g. statically, i.e., with the need to recompile). 2)How can I know which programs have catalogs and what kind of catalogs are being used? Well, I had planned to do such a table of available catalogs myself, but as it is a post-1.0 todo, I have postponed it to a later time So developers may tell you in turn about this (I seem to recall that there are catalogs for FreeCOM, TREE, DISKCOPY, many others) Aitor --- 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-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Re: catgets/gettext
Eric Auer escribió: Programs which are translated in another way are: - FreeCOM (you can download a translation toolkit version of it), the shell - CuteMouse (you can compile various localized/translated versions of it (KEYB and DISPLAY in a similar manner too, check sources). Aitor --- 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-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: KEYB2.0 pre2
Hi all, A minor update to KEYB, namely, KEYB2.0 pre2, is ready. - Fixes a bug that prevented KEYB from correctly executing the Advanced Power Management commands (suspend, turn off, etc) - Fixes several other miscellaneous bugs that I was reported - When you select a non-existing codepage, the existing ones are reported - Ancient misdesigned versions of DR-KEYB are now checked, and if found, refuses to load You can find it, as usual, at ibiblio: executable: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kb2pre2x.zip source: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kb2pre2s.zip Aitor --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND ___ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: New version of KC
Hi, I have uploaded version 1.10 of KC, the keyboard layout creator for KEYB 2.X. In this version, a couple of minor bugs are fixed: - Corrects illformed KL files when strings are used - In case of program abort, any already opened file is closed You can get it at ibiblio, executable: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kc110x.zip source: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kc110s.zip Aitor --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND ___ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: FD APPEND 1.0
Hi all, I'd like to announce FreeDOS APPEND 1.0, a very basic APPEND that I have created. With this, I could run WordStar Express in a mixed directory installation, as I intended. APPEND 1.0 is very basic. In particular, it is NOT implemented: - APPEND /E - FCB functions - The function 11 of the API You can get it from here: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/append/aappend.zip (not to be confused with the other file present there). Regards and enjoy, Aitor --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149alloc_id=8166op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Using the internet with FreeDOS made easy
Hi, (By the way, Eric, a problem with my ISP destroyed your original message, could you send it to me in private?) PS: I did not test IRCABI because the LSM tells that you would need SLIP, while I have plain Ethernet / LAN. Do you think it would work anyway? I don't know about SLIP, but PLIP does work for FreeDOS for a long time (unless something was broken in between). The following article (a recipe for the La Espiral project, (Debian in Spanish)), in Spanish, describes how to connect a DOS machine to the internet via PLIP using FreeDOS and a machine with Linux. http://laespiral.org/recetas/1-100/receta45.html (using the crynwr PLIP driver, and even NCSA Telnet). There are still many things that have changed in FreeDOS since then (23rd march 2001), in particular, the article mentions the missing EMM386 (that we now have), mentions xkeyb as keyboard driver. Otherwise ok. I hope babelfish works well, it's a pretty lengthy article to be translated ;-) (but can do it if popular request). Aitor --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson Lucent use to deliver higher performing products faster, at low TCO. http://www.sleepycat.com/telcomwpreg.php?From=osdnemail3 ___ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS beta9 release candidate 5.
Arkady V.Belousov escribi: Hi! 3--2004 02:36 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mika Salakka) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: MS As I understand it, FreeDOS' support for FAT32 is limited, though, but I MS could be dead wrong on that one, too. FD suppors FAT32 completely. FreeDOS *KERNEL* supports FAT32 completely, but the support of FAT32 amongst the utilities is uneven... Aitor --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149alloc_id=8166op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Re: [Freedos-devel] Rainone offering Italian translation for FD
My apologies, file was ok. I couldn't open it until finally EXPLORER.EXE crashed and reopened (but didn't show something was going wrong anyway, I tend to consider it as a trustworthy unzipping utility). Aitor Aitor Santamaría Merino escribió: Hi, Bernd Blaauw escribió: Hi, Anyone willing to translate strings can have a look at http://fdos.org/ripcord/beta9rc5/addon/strings.zip I have been repeatedly trying to download this file (last time with GetRight so that I ensure that file size is correct), and once downloaded, I can't open. Can anyone report if the file is correct? Aitor --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149alloc_id=8166op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149alloc_id=8166op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Re: [Freedos-devel] Rainone offering Italian translation for FD
Hi, Bernd Blaauw escribió: Hi, Anyone willing to translate strings can have a look at http://fdos.org/ripcord/beta9rc5/addon/strings.zip I have been repeatedly trying to download this file (last time with GetRight so that I ensure that file size is correct), and once downloaded, I can't open. Can anyone report if the file is correct? Aitor --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149alloc_id=8166op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Writing Utilities for FreeDOS
Hi, Jay Maus escribió: Wow, I'm impressed by all the discussion this has sparked. It's good to see an active dev community. So I think I'm nearly ready to start futzing around with FreeDOS code, but it's still a little foreign to me: I'm used to 32-bit Windows C++. In Visual Studio, no less. Are there any good books or online guides out there for learning intermediate [Free]DOS 16-bit C programming? The good old books of C programming showed how to program for a DOS environment, years ago. Anyway check help about DOS.H You may need some more information about DOS itself if you are going to get into complex projects. Search (google, amazon) The FreeDOS KERNEL, Undocumented DOS, Undocumented PCs, DOS Internals, and other unvaluable jewels about that. Also, do I need a native FreeDOS environment to compile in, No, you can compile in NT DOS boxes (at times I do that), or I guess in DOSEMU boxes, or under any OS that can run the compilers. or can I cross-compile with gcc? No, you shouldn't use GCC at all, because GCC (I guess you mean DJGPP) produces 32-bit DOS code (DPMI), and in DOS code should be mostly 16-bit Also also, is there a good IDE that'll run in Windows XP, or do I need to use RHIDE in something like DOSBox? Search for SETEdit. It's good enough for me when programming in NASM or Pascal (for C I use Borland's environments) I remember using RHIDE on my old old old 486 Laptop the first time I started playing around with DOS code, but it was unbearably slow. It won't be slow if you use it in a fast machine... Aitor --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Robotic Monkeys at ThinkGeek For a limited time only, get FREE Ground shipping on all orders of $35 or more. Hurry up and shop folks, this offer expires April 30th! http://www.thinkgeek.com/freeshipping/?cpg=12297 ___ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] FD-KEYB 2.0 (pre1)
Hi, I'd like to announce my new FD-KEYB 2.0 (pre1), a complete rewrite of a keyboard driver for FreeDOS (I have been little by little incorporating some code into existing stubs, but now I have managed to produce a version being all the code new and coherent with each other (after 200b of optimisations), and that seems to work stably and reliably). Available as: (a) Executable form: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kb2pre1x.zip (b) Source form (assembler, with a small stub in Pascal): http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kb2pre1s.zip The key features are: (1) Programmable. You define the behaviour of your keyboard. You need binary data files, so you either download some precompiled ones (from http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kblayout/ Henrique Peron has produced a full series of behaviours for lots of countries, such as GR, SP, IT, FR, UK, RU, JP, etc, thanks!), or you produce your own using the compiler tool KC (you create a descriptor file and then compile it to binary data, more details in the pack). KC is available as executable http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kc100x.zip or source (C): http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kc100s.zip with lots of documentation in each pack. (2) Small size: typical resident size of around 2KB (3) Compatibility: full compatibility with MS-KEYB in commandline, API and exitcodes. However, do not expect to use MS's KEYBOARD.SYS data file, or both drivers to coexist pacifically. (4) Codepage support. FD-KEYB is the first open source DOS driver to fully support codepages, up to 255, that can be configured at boottime or dynamically change (KEYB responds to DISPLAY when it requests codepage change). (5) Open source. This particular version is contributed under the GNU-GPL 2.0. (6) Extensive number of macro/string assignment: KEYB commands range from string and diacritic support, interrupt calling, system power, etc. (7) Detects automatically keyboard type, configuring most suitable code to handle it and disposing unneeded code (overriden with /E and /9 directives) (8) Many more features (enable/disable with Ctrl+Alt+F1/F2, remap of lock keys, etc etc). You can find much more information in the FD-KEYB page below and in the extensive documentation in the packs: http://projects.freedos.net/keyb/ Many thanks to all of those that contributed, Matthias Paul and Axel Frinke for their help and suggestions (also for the code to flush the disk caches), Henrique Peron for his extensive testing and support, for making an extensive set of data files, T. Kabe for his testings and very valuable information regarding Japanese keyboards, and Dietmar Höhmann for his xkeyb, that introduced me into the world of keyboard drivers (the syntax of the keyboard descriptor files that you compile with KC is somewhat similar to that of xkeyb data files). As maintainer of FD-KEYB, where I've put much of my effort, I thereby no longer support/patch the xkeyb driver (for some time now xkeyb hasn't been used in the most modern FD distributions anyway). All xkeyb users are now strongly encouraged to switch to FD-KEYB instead, where they'll benefit of many more features, such as 4KB more of free RAM and codepage support. Bug reports and comments are always welcome. Please direct bugs in keyboard descriptors to Henrique Peron, not me (unless you are not sure). What comes now is one more version where I plan to tune a couple of other missing features, and patch possible bugs: - Ability to use libraries of data files (a la KEYBOARD.SYS) instead of single data files - Full Japanese keyboard driver compatibility - A note on safety to prevent against KEYB bombs from non-trusted data files - Several other minor changes Best wishes, Aitor --- 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-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] DISPLAY 0.10b ready
Hi, This is to announce a revision of DISPLAY 0.10, namely DISPLAY 0.10b. It just fixes a couple of bugs: - a bug that assumed a space to lead the parameter - a bug affecting the DISPLAY Installation check function (AD00h in int2Fh) MODECON.EXE also disappears from the distribution: please always use latest version of FreeDOS MODE. Source: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/display/dis010bs.zip Executable: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/display/dis010bx.zip Regards, Aitor --- 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-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: KC 1.0 ready
Hi all, I want to announce the availability of the KC (Key Compiler) tool, which is a tool for compiling text source keyboard descriptors into binary-type KeybCBs that will be used by KEYB2. In the binary pack, you have - the compiler, - documentation about the KEY language, that is used to describe the behaviour of a keyboard - documentation about the KL compiler and its particularities - a small test program to explore the behaviour of your current keyboard (KEYCODE); this will retrieve the (scancode/ascii) pair generated by a keystroke or key combination Output compied files can be bare KeybCBs, or they can be wrapped by a small header (forming a KL file) that is required for the forthcomming KEYB 2.0. The source package contains more information about the anatomy of a KeybCB, and of a KL file. On the KEYB page: http://projects.freedos.net/keyb you will find other useful documentation, such as the list of KEYB2 commands, that is, a reference of the actions you can program KEYB to do upon a keystroke. These include diacritic starters, string display, interrupt trigger, APM functions, codepage/layout management, user-defined modifier keys or switches manipulation. [NOTE1: the page is to be updated now, perhaps you'll read this before I have updated the page] [NOTE2: it seems that doosh.net is tyding up at the moment of writing this] If you want to test the output files, KEYB2 is available on personal request. For the moment I am optimising it a bit and writing documentation, and when this all is finished, KEYB2 will be released. The command list for KEYB2 is also available to be sent via mail. KC can be obtained from here: EXECUTABLE: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kc100x.zip SOURCE: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kc100s.zip Both KC and KEYCODE have been packed using the UCL version of the UPX packer kindly provided by Lucho, thanks indeed!!! They are just a little bit bigger than with NRV, but the difference is really small and I am fully satisfied. It is warned that the packer version used is beta and may contain errors. Should errors occur due to the packing, I would immediately produce a patched or UPX/NRV version of it. Aitor --- 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-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS for Gamers
Jim Hall escribió: Practically speaking, of course, I doubt the owners of these old DOS games will complain much. These days, no one sells DOS games. Maybe, maybe not. I have just seen the revival of some of these old games (such as Prince of Persia), for mobile phones. I don't know how much these games relate to the original DOS ones... Aitor --- 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-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Re: problem with dosgir
Hi Matthias, Matthias Paul escribió: [Resend] On 2004-03-05, Henrique (BuSab) wrote: On DISPLAY's side there's another thing that could be done: the fonts can be set in a format called DR-FONTs, where they are compressed. However, I don't know much about this format, and I don't know if Henrique is able to create CPIs that have DR-FONTs instead of fonts. Sorry, I'm not. Well, I documented the DRFONT format in my CPI.LST file. You should already have it, but please ask, if you need a fresh copy. I have the document, many thanks! The problem is that I am not quite likely to add support for it if Henrique does not have tools to deal with these fonts... For DISPLAY.SYS, there is no difference between the two formats, as MODE expands the compressed DRFONT representation into the normal FONT representation before it sends the data to CON:. So, the in-memory representation is the same. aa I didn't know this this would be certainly interesting, although for the moment, after DISPLAY 1.0 comes, I think I'd just go to other FD milestones first... Michal H. Tyc's excellent font editor seems to be a perfect tool to edit and maintain 16-bit wide font blocks. Henrique would be interested in this, if one day MODE is able to cope with that... And I planned to develop the macro framework to automatically create any kind of .CPI files from assembler sources by just flipping a few conditional defines in the MAKE file - most of this is already done, I just don't have the time to convert/create the codepage tables into the required .ASM format... Hopefully soon... Ok Anyway, no need to wait, if someone wants a fresh copy of CPI.LST (also documenting many subtle differences of other .CPI file sub-formats) I will happily provide it. I have your files (CPI, CODEPAGE, KBD, etc) named MP020531, is that outdated? Many thanks for your docs! Aitor --- 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-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Help Update
Hi, Bernd Blaauw escribió: OK, had a brief look ZIP support is REALLY great! saves lots of space. maybe Keyb or Display projects can borrow your code for this since they have many files, bunt only a single one is used. zip them up :) DISPLAY: Actually the file is opened by MODE, copied ino a memory image, and a pointer passed to DISPLAY. So it would be a question of MODE doing that. Eric, could you put this as wish for MODE? On DISPLAY's side there's another thing that could be done: the fonts can be set in a format called DR-FONTs, where they are compressed. However, I don't know much about this format, and I don't know if Henrique is able to create CPIs that have DR-FONTs instead of fonts. So previous approach seems more sensible. KEYB: I may consider this afterwards, note however that the main program is still TP, although I have thought of porting it to TC (the resident code is TASM, so that wouldn't be affected I guess). I don't like the idea of linking C code with the TP code, because I don't know if I can control where the C object code will be placed. And KEYB depends much on the fact that the resident code comes first. But will have a look later. *Xkeyb mentioned while working quite some time with Keyb2.0 prototypes (4b currently) I can help here if need be. Actually the first official pre-release is to come soon. I am just optimising a bit, and writing the documentation for the pack, but it is ready. Aitor --- 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-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS.org is getting a facelift
Looks great! Just one thing in cas the font face can also be improved: some days ago I seem to recall browsing a page on mozilla.org (not current cover) that had a VERY NEAT and SMOOTH typeface, would be great that it could be adopted too. Regrettably I CAN'T remember which page was that, anybody? Aitor Jim Hall escribió: The current design of this site was created several years ago. It looked good at that time, and it still looks very nice, but both the web and FreeDOS have evolved since then. Several of you (hi!) have helped me work on a new design and re-worked the appearance in order to make it easier on the eyes. We will soon replace the current FreeDOS.org site with a new version, which is currently in beta testing. The new design is here: http://www.freedos.org/freedos_new.php http://www.freedos.org/freedos/about/index_new.html Compared to: http://www.freedos.org/ http://www.freedos.org/freedos/about/ As most of you probably know, I work in a technology group at a university, and many of the people I work with are web designers and usability consultants. We snuck in a usability evaluation on the new site. Even though the layout hasn't changed, the evaluation scored very well. :-) The new site will likely go up in the next few weeks. -jh --- 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_id56alloc_id438op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] re: LFN support?
Eric Auer escribió: Hi, as far as I know, only Windows-aware programs generally notice it at all if you have LFN support active. Well, not always. I've seen several fancy editors, and ALL the programs made in FreePascal can also notice this, because LFN is supported when found automatically... Programs compiled with DJGPP generally support LFN, I think. Probably. What is true for DJGPP is usually true for FPC/GO32 and conversely. Aitor --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn ___ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
