Re: [Freedos-devel] Mailer problems

2006-07-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 28-Июл-2006 19:35 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alain M.) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: AM> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060516) Do you know, that 1.5.0.5 is released? AM> I had a similar problem with Thunderbird in the past, new versions fixed AM> it along the way. And A

[Freedos-devel] Notes on rules: was EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Michael Devore
At 11:13 PM 7/28/2006 -0500, I wrote: >You or anyone else can rewrite and submit whatever code you want with my >blessing. The rules are simple: Considering the circumstances, I have a couple of notes to add to the five rules for code submission -- not new rules, just notes to help avoid mis

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Michael Devore
At 07:48 AM 7/29/2006 +0400, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: > ...but if you not object, I rewrote for you DefragXMS. You or anyone else can rewrite and submit whatever code you want with my blessing. The rules are simple: 1) As maintainer, I am the final decision maker if the change goes in. I

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Michael Devore
At 04:41 AM 7/29/2006 +0200, Japheth wrote: > > Since low-level changes were made to this version of EMM386, please > keep an > > eye out for any problems and report them as soon as you can. While I > don't > >The IF bug fix may have disclosed some previously hidden bugs which are >due to >a ca

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Japheth
> Since low-level changes were made to this version of EMM386, please keep an > eye out for any problems and report them as soon as you can. While I don't The IF bug fix may have disclosed some previously hidden bugs which are due to a careless handling of flags. The following is an excerpt fr

[Freedos-devel] Mailer problems

2006-07-28 Thread Alain M.
Hi Michael, I had a similar problem with Thunderbird in the past, new versions fixed it along the way. And Arkady's messages had problems, but quite a few others too. I tried to find the problem, but if I sent the messages back to myself they worked ok. FWIK one paragraph "should" have no line

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Michael Devore
At 05:03 PM 7/28/2006 +0400, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: >_ >O/~\ /~\O 6. Superfluous code (not need to >check, if block at [edi] precedes block at[esi], because they will be >found at next iter

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 28-Июл-2006 13:28 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: >>MD> There! Right there! Whatever you're doing there, keep it up. You >>have MD> CR's in your e-mail message. >> Yes, because I right mailer. :) "Because I _use_ right mailer".

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

2006-07-28 Thread Alain M.
So the problem was a "false read error". Just the thing that programes believe that never happen! BTW my problem was a long time ago, so it could have that problem that has already been fixed. Alain Mark Bailey escreveu: > > Alain M. wrote: >> Arkady V.Belousov escreveu: >>> EA> Several users

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

2006-07-28 Thread Mark Bailey
Alain M. wrote: > Arkady V.Belousov escreveu: >> EA> Several users have lost their boot loader, >> You wish to say, that some boot-loaders don't have MBR signature? > > Being one that lost it, I can say with 99.999% certainty that my MBR was > ok. I believe that some obscure read error cau

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS basic disc

2006-07-28 Thread Japheth
> BUT: is it working? There was a lot of talk about LFN lately, but I did > not find a final diagnostic, just that 1.0 will have it disabled... Yes it works. That means, FreeCOM is aware that such a thing may exist. - load doslfn.com - set LFN=Y to make FreeCOM LFN aware - now use LFN in FreeCOM

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

2006-07-28 Thread Alain M.
Arkady V.Belousov escreveu: > > EA> Several users have lost their boot loader, > You wish to say, that some boot-loaders don't have MBR signature? Being one that lost it, I can say with 99.999% certainty that my MBR was ok. I believe that some obscure read error caused it to belive that my

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS basic disc

2006-07-28 Thread Alain M.
Japheth escreveu: >> could be DOSLFN included? I think that most people needs the driver! > > That would be good, but generally I had to realize that all the LFN things > are > "a bit" underdocumented in the distribution, someone not familiar with LFN > support in DOS will not know what to do

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS basic disc

2006-07-28 Thread Alain M.
I would *very much* appreciateit. I did some tests with it and could not make it work, nor did I find a suggested configuration anywhere. BUT: is it working? There was a lot of talk about LFN lately, but I did not find a final diagnostic, just that 1.0 will have it disabled... Alain Florian Xa

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Michael Devore
At 10:02 PM 7/28/2006 +0400, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: >MD> There! Right there! Whatever you're doing there, keep it up. You >have MD> CR's in your e-mail message. > Yes, because I right mailer. :) But, I suggest, most mailers may be > customized Yargh! Back to the old format. Your's a

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 28-Июл-2006 11:21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: MD> MD> I can't tell yet because there's either a missing e-mail on list from you, But you answer to my email? MD> or it's just because all your e-mails to the list are mashed together M

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 28-Июл-2006 12:39 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: MD> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 >>7. Code below is buggy (counted not expected bits - should be used SHL >>instead SHR) or redundant (result is always zero additions): MD>

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Michael Devore
At 05:03 PM 7/28/2006 +0400, Arkady wrote: I can't tell yet because there's either a missing e-mail on list from you, or it's just because all your e-mails to the list are mashed together without any CR's and it's hard for me to parse them out, but it looks like you're sending me code optimiz

[Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.20 breaks FDAPM under QEMU

2006-07-28 Thread Andreas Bollhalder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello I have testet the version 2.20 of EMM386 under QEMU. The good news is, that the PS/2 driver of GEOS now works. Unfortunatly, it seems that this version breaks FDAPM. I use FDAPM to keep the CPU load off QEMU low and to shut down the QEMU instanc

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Michael Devore
At 06:36 PM 7/28/2006 +0400, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: >Hi! > >MD> emmx220.zip, EMM386 version 2.20 memory manager, mostly executable files; > > One more place: > >7. Code below is buggy (counted not expected bits - should be used SHL >instead SHR) or redundant (result is always zero additi

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

2006-07-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 27-Июл-2006 04:48 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: >> 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, wou

Re: [Freedos-devel] fdisk

2006-07-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 27-Июл-2006 17:42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Imre Leber) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: IL> Seems that fdisk doesn't allow you to change between FAT16 and FAT32. IL> When you choose FAT32 support on an 800MB image, it will create a FAT32 IL> partition automatically. IL> Maybe there sho

Re: [Freedos-devel] XMS fragmentation follow-up

2006-07-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 26-Июл-2006 16:19 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: MD> Okay, I can get minor XMS free block fragmentation during direct calls to MD> the VCPI/EMS allocator for large blocks. Since the VCPI/EMS allocator MD> directly manipulates the XMS handles,

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS basic disc

2006-07-28 Thread Japheth
> could be DOSLFN included? I think that most people needs the driver! That would be good, but generally I had to realize that all the LFN things are "a bit" underdocumented in the distribution, someone not familiar with LFN support in DOS will not know what to do to make it active. ---

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS basic disc

2006-07-28 Thread Florian Xaver
Hi, could be DOSLFN included? I think that most people needs the driver! Bye -- Florian Xaver *Webdesign *oZone-a GUI operating system for DOS,Linux,Win *SWORD-a nice GUI library for DOS/DJGPP Dr-DOS Wiki ---

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! MD> emmx220.zip, EMM386 version 2.20 memory manager, mostly executable files; One more place: 7. Code below is buggy (counted not expected bits - should be used SHL instead SHR) or redundant (result is always zero additions): __O\_/_\_/O__

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 28-Июл-2006 15:36 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japheth) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: > 1. Bug: wrong handling for clc/stc in some places (they ignored, because >popf follows, thus caller receives "always success"): > @@loc2: > clc ; flag

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Japheth
> 1. Bug: wrong handling for clc/stc in some places (they ignored, because >popf follows, thus caller receives "always success"): > > __O\_/_\_/O__ > @@loc2: > [...] > clc ; flag success > @@l

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 28-Июл-2006 00:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: MD> Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386/ are the files MD> emmx220.zip, EMM386 version 2.20 memory manager, mostly executable files; MD> and emms220.zip, source code files.