Re: [Freedos-devel] [WW Spam: medium] EXEPACK failure with kernel

2006-07-26 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 26-Июл-2006 14:41 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to : >> > Well, heck, if I already to have to change some A20 behavior to get a few >> > ancient programs to work with that idiotic EXEPACK 0h address-wrapping >> > (assuming EXEPACK makes A20 calls), >>*VERY* early PKLITE (~1992)

[Freedos-devel] emm386 for exepack

2006-07-26 Thread Michael Devore
At 03:23 AM 7/27/2006 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: >Eric indicated I need to allow local A20 control, but >as it turns out, that won't help. EXEPACK code simply doesn't call >A20 >routines, so EMM386 cannot fix this problem. It never "sees" the >wrap >occurring. The situation has to be corrected

Re: [Freedos-devel] 2nd FreeDOS 1.0 Testing release

2006-07-26 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 25-Июл-2006 11:58 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to FreeDOS Devel : EA> You said that the "if no MBR 55aa found, replace ALL code and EA> partition data in the MBR with an empty MBR" function in FDISK, EA> which has caused a lot of data loss in the past, would be EA> necessary to handle

Re: [Freedos-devel] [Freedos-user] 2nd FreeDOS 1.0 Testing release

2006-07-26 Thread Alain M.
Of course it shour have a NULL code... Aitor Santamaría escreveu: > Yup? What Scancode would the ANY key have? ;- - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get

Re: [Freedos-devel] 2nd FreeDOS 1.0 Testing release

2006-07-26 Thread Michael Devore
At 02:24 PM 7/26/2006 +0200, tom ehlert wrote: >INT xx enters the interrupt handler with IF cleared, so this should be >done also when being rerouted through the v86_monitor; looks like a >plain bug to me > > Changing a long-standing fundamental behavior to fix a single problem in a > > virtual

[Freedos-devel] EXEPACK failure with kernel

2006-07-26 Thread Michael Devore
At 09:02 PM 7/26/2006 +0200, tom ehlert wrote: > > Well, heck, if I already to have to change some A20 behavior to get a few > > ancient programs to work with that idiotic EXEPACK 0h address-wrapping > > (assuming EXEPACK makes A20 calls), >*VERY* early PKLITE (~1992) versions had the same bug

Re: [Freedos-devel] [Freedos-user] 2nd FreeDOS 1.0 Testing release

2006-07-26 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Yup? What Scancode would the ANY key have? ;- 2006/7/26, Alain M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > tom ehlert escreveu: > > Oops. the keyboard driver is buggy and doesn't recognize the > > Any key as any key. > > Please send this to Aitor, for fixing > > Alain > > > -

[Freedos-devel] XMS fragmentation follow-up

2006-07-26 Thread Michael Devore
At 06:20 PM 7/18/2006 +0200, Japheth wrote: >There is a bug left in the FD-Himem.exe memory manager. > >When a program that had allocated several XMS blocks doesn't release these >blocks in the order FD-Himem likes it, it will report a too small "largest >free block". Luckily the memory is not "p

Re: [Freedos-devel] [Freedos-user] 2nd FreeDOS 1.0 Testing release

2006-07-26 Thread Alain M.
tom ehlert escreveu: > Oops. the keyboard driver is buggy and doesn't recognize the > Any key as any key. Please send this to Aitor, for fixing Alain - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.

Re: [Freedos-devel] 2nd FreeDOS 1.0 Testing release

2006-07-26 Thread tom ehlert
Hi Michael, Japeth, >> > QEMU has never liked CTMOUSE under FreeDOS, and possibly MS-DOS. I don't >> > know why. >> >>when I modify emm386.asm, proc v86_monitor, so that the IF in real-mode is >>cleared for all interrupts routed to v86-mode, not just the IRQs, it works >>with CTMOUSE in qemu. >>

Re: [Freedos-devel] 2nd FreeDOS 1.0 Testing release

2006-07-26 Thread Japheth
> environment. Even better would be a good explanation for why the problem > only manifests itself with that specific environment and application. I've looked into the Qemu BIOS code for int 15h, ah=C2. Usually the code found in "real" BIOSes is programmed very "defensively", that is, if a piec

Re: [Freedos-devel] 2nd FreeDOS 1.0 Testing release

2006-07-26 Thread Michael Devore
At 07:01 AM 7/26/2006 +, Imre wrote: >Isn't it more logical to change ctmouse then? Depends on what is actually at fault, i.e. violating spec'ed behavior. I don't have a good answer for that, yet. - Take Surveys. Earn

Re: [Freedos-devel] 2nd FreeDOS 1.0 Testing release

2006-07-26 Thread Imre Leber
Isn't it more logical to change ctmouse then? Imre >-Original Message- >From: Michael Devore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 05:35 AM >To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: [Freedos-devel] 2nd FreeDOS 1.0 Testing release > >At 09:48 PM 7/25/2006 +020