[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 slight delay; New testing release

2006-08-01 Thread Blair Campbell
Due to the serious nature of the recent bug reports for the latest testing release, I would like to release one more testing release (at least) that would hopefully fix the users' problems. (Probably coming out tomorrow). I've implemented free disk space checking in the installer and I may

Re: [Freedos-devel] ANNOUNCE: DISPLAY 0.13

2006-08-01 Thread John Elliott
: : Thanks for the feedback, John, I'll see into this the soonest. This one: : - Something horrible happens to the first codepage loaded the second time : it is selected. looks like it's caused by MoveBufferToSelect copying twice as many bytes as it should. The real-memory move copies

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 slight delay; New testing release

2006-08-01 Thread Alain M.
I believe that you are doing the right thing. A stable 1.0 is *very* important, just in my opinion, of course ;-) Alain Blair Campbell escreveu: Due to the serious nature of the recent bug reports for the latest testing release, I would like to release one more testing release (at least)

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 slight delay; New testing release

2006-08-01 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Alain M. schreef: I believe that you are doing the right thing. A stable 1.0 is *very* important, just in my opinion, of course ;-) A stable 1.0 is appreciated, for how the public judges on FreeDOS. For other people it however counts as hey now we got a stable base platform we can extend

[Freedos-devel] defrag changes

2006-08-01 Thread Imre Leber
By now, you are all just wandering what happened to defrag version 1. Well, I am working on defrag. There will be two versions out shortly. One will be the version 1, stable. Same speed, no FAT support. A rather flat in your face screen problem with large disks will be fixed in this release

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 slight delay; New testing release

2006-08-01 Thread Michael Devore
At 12:08 AM 8/1/2006 -0700, Blair Campbell wrote: Due to the serious nature of the recent bug reports for the latest testing release, I would like to release one more testing release (at least) that would hopefully fix the users' problems. (Probably coming out tomorrow). Tangentially related,

Re: [Freedos-devel] DeSmet C compiler available under GPL

2006-08-01 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 31-Июл-2006 17:32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Imre Leber) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: IL But still it would have been nice to have this kind of compiler when I was IL searching for one before I started writing on FreeDOS. I think this compiler IL might even be better than the one I

Re: [Freedos-devel] DeSmet C compiler available under GPL

2006-08-01 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 31-Июл-2006 15:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alain M.) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: The problem may then be that openwatcom is not GPL licensed. And it is still controlled by a big company that would most likely not want to listen to issues from the FreeDOS project. AM In my

Re: [Freedos-devel] DeSmet C compiler available under GPL

2006-08-01 Thread Blair Campbell
GPL also free for _any_ use (binaries). And, for example, you may compile commercial apps by GCC. BUT IIRC if you compile commercial apps with GCC and don't want to make source available, you have to dynamically link (not possible under DOS except with DJGPP)

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

2006-08-01 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 30-Июл-2006 22:32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: 0. In emm386.c you forget remove one space (in / *). MD And? It's a comment. Is there another one of those #ifdef 0 type MD things? Because I'm not ready to debate the style of embedded

Re: [Freedos-devel] DeSmet C compiler available under GPL

2006-08-01 Thread Mark Bailey
Alain M. wrote: Arkady V.Belousov escreveu: GPL also free for _any_ use (binaries). And, for example, you may compile commercial apps by GCC. That is what the comercial says. the hard reality is that you have problems with the lib which cannot be used, with GCC you have worse

Re: [Freedos-devel] DeSmet C compiler available under GPL

2006-08-01 Thread Blair Campbell
Isn't glibc licensed under the Lesser GPL (LGPL) for this very reason? But a commercial app still cannot _statically_ link to it in that case; only dynamically. Mark - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT

Re: [Freedos-devel] DeSmet C compiler available under GPL

2006-08-01 Thread Alain M.
Mark Bailey escreveu: Isn't glibc licensed under the Lesser GPL (LGPL) for this very reason? There is nowhere to be seen any licence for glibc, not even in it's site. But even in LGPL it is a problem: you have to use the systems's version and it brings many compatibility problems Alain

Re: [Freedos-devel] DeSmet C compiler available under GPL

2006-08-01 Thread Jim Hall
Blair Campbell wrote: Isn't glibc licensed under the Lesser GPL (LGPL) for this very reason? But a commercial app still cannot _statically_ link to it in that case; only dynamically. Specifically, the GNU LGPL says this in its preamble: For example, [..] If you link other code

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

2006-08-01 Thread Michael Devore
At 01:02 AM 8/2/2006 +0400, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Though, I don't understand, why to AVB duplicate all pops on each exit branch, whereas you may just move push move _pushf_ AVB after other pushes? Because it was not prone to any introduced error that way. Many pushes in many

Re: [Freedos-devel] DeSmet C compiler available under GPL

2006-08-01 Thread Jim Hall
Alain M. wrote: Mark Bailey escreveu: Isn't glibc licensed under the Lesser GPL (LGPL) for this very reason? There is nowhere to be seen any licence for glibc, not even in it's site. But even in LGPL it is a problem: you have to use the systems's version and it brings many