Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: UDMA as base?

2004-02-23 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 16:37:47 -0600, Jim Hall wrote: Okay, we can stop the discussion now. I've gotten *lots* of email asking to keep UDMA in 'base', and none yet to say it should be in 'util'. Consider UDMA a new resident of 'base'. :-) Thanks, Aitor, Bernd, Erwin, Jim, Johnson, Steve, and all

Re: [Freedos-devel] GRAPHICS / MODE moved, help with help wanted!

2004-02-23 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Jim Hall escribió: Begin3 Title: mode-modecon Wouldn't it be easier just to call it MODE? Aitor --- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps Web services for Linux with a free DVD

[Freedos-devel] MODE LPTn COLS=... strings / testers wanted

2004-02-23 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I noticed that I have not yet enabled the MODE LPTn COLS=... feature. Reason: Nobody tested / suggested ESC sequences for 10cpi (80 column) / 15cpi (132 column) printing yet. So please test the sequences below, which are Google-educated guesses: ESC P 10 cpi printing. Could also be reached

Re: [Freedos-devel] GRAPHICS / MODE moved, help with help wanted!

2004-02-23 Thread Jim Hall
Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: Hi, Jim Hall escribió: Begin3 Title: mode-modecon Wouldn't it be easier just to call it MODE? Aitor Yes. I had just used Eric's package name as the name in the LSM, but Eric asked me to change it. It's already updated at:

Re: [Freedos-devel] MODE LPTn COLS=... strings / testers wanted

2004-02-23 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Hi, I noticed that I have not yet enabled the MODE LPTn COLS=... feature. Reason: Nobody tested / suggested ESC sequences for 10cpi (80 column) / 15cpi (132 column) printing yet. So please test the sequences below, which are Google-educated guesses: ESC P 10 cpi printing. Could also be reached

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: COPY and XCOPY

2004-02-23 Thread Jim Hall
Sounds like rxcopy is the preferred one, at least a few people have reported so. If no objections by morning, I'll deprecate Joe's xcopy, and promote rxcopy to be the FreeDOS xcopy. -jh Eric Auer wrote: Hi, for some odd reason, RXCOPY was not the default for a while. When we changed to the

[Freedos-devel] What about Scandisk?

2004-02-23 Thread Jim Hall
What does the list think about Eric's suggestion? Scandisk seems non-functional at this point - at least for me, it doesn't really do anything. The entry in the 1.0 To-do list for Scandisk is use the interface with CHKDSK code which seems to be the right thing to do. Sounds like taking

Re: [Freedos-devel] What about Scandisk?

2004-02-23 Thread Jim Hall
Heh. Ignore that one. We answered this one about a month ago. Consider Scandisk dropped from the Software List. -jh Jim Hall wrote: What does the list think about Eric's suggestion? Scandisk seems non-functional at this point - at least for me, it doesn't really do anything. The entry in

Re: [Freedos-devel] Don't you think its better to use Msdos file names?

2004-02-23 Thread Jim Hall
Alain wrote: Steve Nickolas escreveu: At Fri, 20 Feb 2004 3:19pm -0500, togermano.com wrote: Don't you think its better to use Msdos file names? So like a program can edit it. And its easyer for people that know msdos file names instead of like fddos for a directory etc.. Opinions vary but I

[Freedos-devel] re: Don't you think its better to use Msdos file names?

2004-02-23 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! DOS- all exe/com/sys files DOS\APPINFO- lsm files DOS\DOC\project- documentation for 'project' DOS\HELP - all help files DOS\NLS- national language support files DOS\SOURCE\project - source code for 'project' Sounds okay BUT

Re: [Freedos-devel] Don't you think its better to use Msdos file names?

2004-02-23 Thread maintainer freedospg
Hi, --- Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alain wrote: My thought would be to put them inside C:\DOS as subdirs. For example: DOS- all exe/com/sys files DOS\APPINFO- lsm files DOS\DOC\project- documentation for 'project' DOS\HELP - all help

Re: [Freedos-devel] re:Don't you think its better to use Msdos file names?

2004-02-23 Thread maintainer freedospg
Hi Eric, Thanks for your explanation! And I should have known better. [This is a reply to the question by BAHCL: What if DOS\HELP ends up to contain several files which are all called readme? Answer: This does not happen. PG would only be allowed to have files DOS\HELP\PG and