Re: [Freedos-devel] New tools: CONCAT, OSCHECK (for installer)

2004-07-21 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 21--2004 06:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: EA Hi, I wrote 2 tools which might be useful for the installer: EA http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/ EA tiny-file-append-concat.zip EA Usage: concat somefile.xyz will append the contents of

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Re: EMM386 VCPI/DPMI Help / Question

2004-07-21 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
! 8--2004 19:52 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BB MSDOS uses errlvl 1 for unformatted, and errlvl 12 is OK then. BB However, I don't know code to implement it: BB If errorlevel 16 goto skipwipe // don't format BB If %errorlevel%'==1 format c: // unformatted, msdos

Re: [Freedos-devel] New tools: CONCAT, OSCHECK (for installer)

2004-07-21 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Eric Auer schreef: In addition, OSCHECK searches the boot sector for typical kernel file names. When such a string is found, OSCHECK looks for the corresponding file on disk. Both on-screen messages and returned errorlevels give you detailled information about which FORMAT/SYS tool was probably

[Freedos-devel] Some incompatibilities with MS-DOS (bugs?)

2004-07-21 Thread Koder
Hi, The recent distribution of FreeDOS is very well done and very stable in my first try-outs. I can still remember the days where I would curse the entire thing to hell, just a some years ago. It's a very OS now! But in just some minutes of installing and configuring it, I have come around some

Re: [Freedos-devel] best free C++ compiler

2004-07-21 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Koder wrote: Hi, After a few years of being idle in the DOS-scene, I am looking to writing some new apps. I am using Borland's TC 2.01 because that has been released for free. Here are some questions for you dev's: 1) If I were to write a FreeDOS-targetted application on FreeDOS, which C++

[Freedos-devel] Re: best free C++ compiler

2004-07-21 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! 1) If I were to write a FreeDOS-targetted application on FreeDOS, which C++ compiler would be the most interesting? I have a copy of TC++ 3.0 lying around somewhere. Is that one freely available yet? Only TC 2.01 and TC++ 1.02 are free. And OpenWatcom! Quite big but seems to be quite

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: best free C++ compiler

2004-07-21 Thread Jim Hall
Eric Auer wrote: Hi! 1) If I were to write a FreeDOS-targetted application on FreeDOS, which C++ compiler would be the most interesting? I have a copy of TC++ 3.0 lying around somewhere. Is that one freely available yet? Only TC 2.01 and TC++ 1.02 are free. And OpenWatcom! Quite big but seems to

Re: [Freedos-devel] New tools: CONCAT, OSCHECK (for installer)

2004-07-21 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Bernd Blaauw escribió: still SYS should have some additional possibilities, like WARNING the user. I remember my SYS C:..while C: contained Win2000 bootloader..bye bye Win2000 installation :( A bit offtopic, well, I don't know much about the NT loader, but it always surprised to me how fragile

Re: [Freedos-devel] New tools: CONCAT, OSCHECK (for installer)

2004-07-21 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Aitor Santamaría Merino schreef: A bit offtopic, well, I don't know much about the NT loader, but it always surprised to me how fragile is the whole installation of a robust operating system like WinNT can be easily trashed in a few seconds, by just SYS:-ing whenever it loads from an existing

Re: [Freedos-devel] best free C++ compiler

2004-07-21 Thread Gregory Pietsch
Koder wrote: Hi, After a few years of being idle in the DOS-scene, I am looking to writing some new apps. I am using Borland's TC 2.01 because that has been released for free. Here are some questions for you dev's: 1) If I were to write a FreeDOS-targetted application on FreeDOS, which C++