Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel, Sys and Freecom TODO items

2007-08-27 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Tom, > > - FreeCOM stops to run external commands sometimes > > (internal commands keep working) > is that a (newly introduced ? ) kernel or Freecom bug ? This is a FreeCOM 0.84 bug, one of the reasons why I still prefer 0.82pl3 as more stable FreeCOM where no LFN are used. > > old bug but

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel, Sys and Freecom TODO items

2007-08-27 Thread Tom Ehlert
> - FreeCOM stops to run external commands sometimes > (internal commands keep working) is that a (newly introduced ? ) kernel or Freecom bug ? > - FreeCOM leaves a batch file or (if you are not inside one) > even shuts down completely when you use pipes or redirects > and the input "runs dr

Re: [Freedos-devel] Distro, Kernel, Sys and Freecom flavours

2007-08-27 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bernd, > > I notice you forgot the --8086 when running UPX! > > You could also use --ultra-brute instead of --best but that > > is slower and it is UPX 2.0 incompatible so it should be the > > non-default option if you ask me. > Be carefull with UPX 3.01, their forums mention the switches ha

[Freedos-devel] Kernel, Sys and Freecom TODO items

2007-08-27 Thread Eric Auer
Hi all, For the next file release of FreeCOM 0.84xyz and kernel 2038 / sys, I would be happy if somebody could figure out and fix the following problems: - SUBST somehow breaks getcwd / chdir in the kernel?? - when you write a char dev, the kernel tries to read it to detect ctrl-break, which

Re: [Freedos-devel] Distro, Kernel, Sys and Freecom flavours

2007-08-27 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Eric Auer schreef: > Well actually why are 30 hidden and 120 not hidden now...? > > I notice you forgot the --8086 when running UPX! > > You could also use --ultra-brute instead of --best but that > is slower and it is UPX 2.0 incompatible so it should be the > non-default option if you ask me. >

Re: [Freedos-devel] Distro, Kernel, Sys and Freecom flavours

2007-08-27 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bart! > > - SYS OpenWatcom farmalloc > I see you worked around that now in SVN. But I wonder, since you use > allocmem() already for Turbo C, why not also use _dos_allocmem() Feel free to add this, as long as it does actually work :-) While you are at it, you may want to remove the "shrink to

Re: [Freedos-devel] Distro, Kernel, Sys and Freecom flavours

2007-08-27 Thread Bart Oldeman
On 8/27/07, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - SYS OpenWatcom farmalloc I see you worked around that now in SVN. But I wonder, since you use allocmem() already for Turbo C, why not also use _dos_allocmem() for OW, and just get rid of any farmalloc and inline assembly for this? It works the s

Re: [Freedos-devel] Porting the FAT filesystem (18)

2007-08-27 Thread enrico.migli...@libero.it
Hi > Hi, > > have you considered EFLS ? I have > a friend that already used it and said that it worked out of > the box. > One suposed advantage is that it was designed for embedded > and has a > small footprint. The licence is LGPL! I know the project,