Re: [Freedos-devel] BOOTFIX

2004-03-10 Thread Johnson Lam
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 03:03:30 +0300 (MSK), you wrote: Hi Arkady, Come with best timing! Gentlemans, I prepare first edition of BOOTFIX - utility to check boot sector validness. Please, test it, and report me if something is wrong. I've some problem with FORMAT a FAT32 L partition, working

Re: [Freedos-devel] Version 1.0

2004-03-10 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 14:54:58 -0300, Alain Mouette wrote: Only one program is missing and that is a Scan-Disk (written as 2 words) Afraid of the M1CR0$0FT police? ;-) Let's swap the words then and call it DISKSCAN! utility for Fat32. For what I kow, DOSFSCK is working and need only a small

[Freedos-devel] Minor HIMEM64 update

2004-03-10 Thread Michael Devore
A minor update to HIMEM64, next release slated to be the HIMEM, is available in the directory at ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads via ftp or direct link with most browsers. The files are HIMEM64.ZIP, containing uncompressed HIMEM64.EXE and HIMEM64S.ZIP, contain the modified source file

Re: [Freedos-devel] Version 1.0

2004-03-10 Thread Alain
Only one program is missing and that is a Scan-Disk (written as 2 words) Afraid of the M1CR0$0FT police? ;-) Let's swap the words then and call it DISKSCAN! No, I am afraid of starting another message war. There are some people here working in a scandisk utility for Fat32. For what I kow,

Re: [spam score 3/10 -pobox] Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 with VCPI for testing

2004-03-10 Thread Alain
Hi Michael, EMM386 will only allocate VCPI memory from the EMS memory pool. Making it automatically use the XMS memory pool would require backdoor interaction with HIMEM[64] and generally make things quite a bit more complex. Of course, a DOS extender/extended program can still use XMS in

[Freedos-devel] re: EMM386 with VCPI for testing

2004-03-10 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I removed the C000:8 and | strings and did this: xxd -r dump.txt | ndisasm - | less At first glance the analyzed payload of this HighPoint IDE 386 thing looks like something which hooks int 13h (BIOS disk services) and hides the first 2 sectors on the disk from the user, both in CHS and LBA

Re: [spam score 3/10 -pobox] Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 with VCPI for testing

2004-03-10 Thread Michael Devore
At 07:34 PM 3/10/2004 -0300, Alain wrote: EMM386 will only allocate VCPI memory from the EMS memory pool. Making it automatically use the XMS memory pool would require backdoor interaction with HIMEM[64] and generally make things quite a bit more complex. Of course, a DOS extender/extended

[Freedos-devel] re: Version 1.0

2004-03-10 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Alain, Only one program is missing and that is a Scan-Disk (written as 2 words) utility for Fat32. For what I kow, DOSFSCK is working and need only a small fixes in the read sector. I strongly disagree. Our SCANDISK for FAT1x is completely defunct, so we have no SCANDISK in the meaning

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 with VCPI for testing

2004-03-10 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 10--2004 15:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: MD What would you think about an EMM386 that decided to steal some of your XMS MD memory at startup, just in case a VCPI-using program wanted it later on? I As I understand, EMM386 may inserts itself into

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 with VCPI for testing

2004-03-10 Thread Michael Devore
At 03:38 AM 3/11/2004 +0300, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 10-íÁÒ-2004 15:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: MD What would you think about an EMM386 that decided to steal some of your XMS MD memory at startup, just in case a VCPI-using program wanted it later on? I

Re: [spam score 3/10 -pobox] Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 with VCPI for testing

2004-03-10 Thread Alain
Michael Devore escreveu: At 07:34 PM 3/10/2004 -0300, Alain wrote: EMM386 will only allocate VCPI memory from the EMS memory pool. Making it automatically use the XMS memory pool would require backdoor interaction with HIMEM[64] and generally make things quite a bit more complex. Of course,

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 with VCPI for testing

2004-03-10 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 10--2004 20:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As I understand, EMM386 may inserts itself into XMM chain and behave as XMM over HIMEM. Thus, you will one memory available both through EMS and XMS, as in QEMM386. MD No, the memory allocation is quite