[Freedos-devel] Walking the MCB chain...

2005-07-28 Thread David O'Shea
Hi Alex, I just figured out how to walk the MCB chain. Here's an NASM assembly program (not quite finished but does walk it from 'M' to 'Z', the end of the MCB chain). Thanks must go to the fabulous book 'Undocumented DOS' by Andrew Schulman, Tim Patterson, Ralf Brown et. al) which I bought

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCom pre-release, please test and report any release bloc

2005-07-28 Thread David O'Shea
Hi Jeremy, add: DIR: bug#1889, added limited 4DOS DESCRIPT.ION file support {KJD} [...] no biggy, it was a bug, it works with my made up files, but I can't say for sure no issues with ones people really use. Still needs improvements to avoid re-reading the file. Is there a new bug filed

Re: [Freedos-devel] Walking the MCB chain...

2005-07-28 Thread Robert Riebisch
Alex Buell wrote: I have the disk but it's in 5.25 and not readable, it's too old at 15 years and I don't have a 5.25 disk drive. Someone out there somewhere, must have a copy and put it on the internet somewhere. I hope! I have one from the 2nd edition of the book at home. So please wait

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: What's new with latest kernel/freecom?

2005-07-28 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Alex, On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Aitor Santamar?Merino wrote: There's a very small program that sets up the UK keymap; KEYBUK.COM, No, KEYBUK.COM is not Microsoft's. It's freely available for download. All it does is to set up the keymap for UK keyboards but I think it could be adapted

Re: [Freedos-devel] Packet drivers/Automatic setup

2005-07-28 Thread Blair Campbell
I have been using drivers for: Realtek RT8139, Surecom EP-320-S (Chip BC001), Via VT6103/VT6105 (VT6103 driver), Davicom DM9102, AMDteck AN983 and PcChips SiS900. These are all the boards that I found here in Brazil, Only Surecomm BC001 is disapearing. Please send me the PCIsleep output for

Re: [Freedos-devel] Packet drivers/Automatic setup

2005-07-28 Thread Alain
Hi Blair, What is it that you realy want? I tested one machine (I can the others but it will take some work) and I got: 00.04 [1039:0900] 0200SiS LAN / Ethernet [D1,D3] This is an onbard SiS900 LAN, What part of the info you want? How can this help to know if the drivers are

Re: [Freedos-devel] Packet drivers/Automatic setup

2005-07-28 Thread Blair Campbell
00.04 [1039:0900] 0200SiS LAN / Ethernet [D1,D3] This is an onbard SiS900 LAN, What part of the info you want? This is what I need. How can this help to know if the drivers are redistributable? If you want the drivers, I can send tehm, that is easy, I just have to make a Zip... A

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS and path limit 64?

2005-07-28 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Johnson Lam escribió: I found that FreeDOS unable to handle DBCS, those Chinese and Japanese Windows always have this kind of characters as folder and filename, that need to FORMAT, lots of trouble Portuguese version. Not too many strange characters... Single byte European characters