Re: [Freedos-devel] A Poll of sorts

2007-10-21 Thread Pat Villani
Thanks all for taking FreeDOS to where it is. Since the time when personal commitments no longer allowed me the luxury to contribute, this team has taken FreeDOS forward and met the project's goal. We now have a stable MS-DOS replacement that is open source and supported. I thank you for your

Re: [Freedos-devel] A Poll of sorts

2007-10-21 Thread Robert Riebisch
Eric Auer wrote: PPS: Maybe drivers for certain VM properties would be nice, too? Many people use VMWare, Virtual PC, Bochs, Qemu, ... for DOS now. For most VMs we already have drivers, because VMs emulate very common hardware. I really miss an open-source SMB/CIFS client to connect to Windows

Re: [Freedos-devel] A Poll of sorts

2007-10-21 Thread Tom Ehlert
Hi Pat, If you folks were to extend the DOS API, in which direction would you take it? none at all Would you go with POSIX/UNIX/Linux, win32 or simply provide the same API with extensions for modern functionality and platforms? the same good old API. The reason is quite simple: virtually

[Freedos-devel] Brasilian keyboard driver for Blocek

2007-10-21 Thread Ladislav Lacina
Could someone test the new brasilian layout for Blocek? (Henrique?) Instalation is simple, take this archive: http://www.laaca-mirror.ic.cz/brasil.rar and unzip it into \KEY_TBL subdirectory of your Blocek instalation. How does it work in unicode mode? As redirector I use the cp858uni.tbl file.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Brasilian keyboard driver for Blocek

2007-10-21 Thread Henrique Peron
Hi Ladislav, yes, I could test Blocek with the brazilian layout. I must tell you though that brazilian keyboards are not meant to work with cp860. According to MS-DOS standards, our keyboard is meant to work with cp850 (i.e. cp858 here on FreeDOS) and cp437 (God knows why, because it's

[Freedos-devel] p7zip?

2007-10-21 Thread Jim Hall
I see that our most recent version of p7zip in the FreeDOS Software List is 4.42, but 4.55 is available since September. Would someone here like to try to compile 4.55 for FreeDOS, and let me know so I can mirror it to ibiblio? -jh

Re: [Freedos-devel] Brasilian keyboard driver for Blocek

2007-10-21 Thread Ladislav Lacina
Thanks Henrique! I'll be happy if you help me. Relatively comfortable way how to edit TBL files could be a hexadecimal editor. Or you can try a utility MK_TABLE.C from DOSLFN package. In this package is also a TBL.TXT file which describes the TBL file format. Note that only subtype 1 is used in

[Freedos-devel] ARP,PING,IPCONFIG

2007-10-21 Thread Jose Antonio Senna
Does anybody know whether there are free utilities equivalent to MSDOS ARP, PING and IPCONFIG ? Regards JAS - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop.