Hi Laaca,
> OK, so some API exists.
> But do you know ANY fullscreen DOS application which properly implements it?
I can tell you that EDIT and DEFRAG do not, but then it would
be your own fault if you ask those to access drive B: when you
only have a single floppy drive. I agree that you can
On 5/31/2021 12:24 PM, Ladislav Lacina wrote:
OK, so some API exists. But do you know ANY fullscreen DOS application
which properly implements it?
You say, OK, you can hook a INT 2Fh in your application. But why the
application programmer should hook some interrupts? Imagine that you
are
OK, so some API exists. But do you know ANY fullscreen DOS application which
properly implements it?
You say, OK, you can hook a INT 2Fh in your application. But why the
application programmer should hook some interrupts? Imagine that you are
creating some spreedshet application or some level
On 5/31/2021 3:36 AM, Steve Nickolas wrote:
On Mon, 31 May 2021, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel wrote:
+1
Personally, I always thought it would be best to have this "phantom
drive" feature disabled by default and allow the user to enable it if
they need. But that's just me. :)
(Although the message was e-mailed to me personally, I was asked to reply
to the list, so I did.)
On Mon, 31 May 2021, Eric Auer wrote:
Hi Steve,
That's what DRIVPARM is for. I used to use it on my old Tandy 1000HX
because the firmware, being XT-class, reported the A drive as 360K when
it
On Mon, 31 May 2021, Eric Auer wrote:
PS: FreeDOS does not include a DRIVER.SYS driver, or feature.
That was a very ancient MS DOS feature which let you override
BIOS based detection of floppy drives and their geometry, see
http://info.wsisiz.edu.pl/~bse26236/batutil/help/DRIVER_S.HTM
Maybe
Hello Carsten,
>> INT 2F CU - DOS 5+ - FLOPPY-DISK LOGICAL DRIVE CHANGE NOTIFICATION
>> AX = 4A00h
...
>> Return: CX = h to skip "Insert diskette for drive X:" message
> this helps for new applications or applications where we have the
> source, but it does not help with all the
Hello Eric,
On 31 May 2021, at 14:39, Eric Auer wrote:
Hi Mercury, Steve, Carsten and Ladislav:
You are all ignoring the fact that you can simply use the already
existing API to provide your own, graphical floppy change (or DJ
mechanism) dialogue. There is no need to re-invent the wheel!
INT
Hi Mercury, Steve, Carsten and Ladislav:
You are all ignoring the fact that you can simply use the already
existing API to provide your own, graphical floppy change (or DJ
mechanism) dialogue. There is no need to re-invent the wheel!
INT 2F CU - DOS 5+ - FLOPPY-DISK LOGICAL DRIVE CHANGE
On Monday, May 31, 2021 6:36 AM, Steve Nickolas usots...@buric.co wrote:
> On Mon, 31 May 2021, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel wrote:
>
>> +1
>> Personally, I always thought it would be best to have this "phantom
>> drive" feature disabled by default and allow the user to enable it if
>> they
On Mon, 31 May 2021, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel wrote:
+1
Personally, I always thought it would be best to have this "phantom
drive" feature disabled by default and allow the user to enable it if
they need. But that's just me. :)
Personally, I'd go with the opposite: behavior
+1
Personally, I always thought it would be best to have this "phantom drive"
feature disabled by default and allow the user to enable it if they need. But
that's just me. :)
Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐
On Monday, May 31, 2021 3:46 AM, Carsten
Hi Ladislav,
On 30 May 2021, at 23:44, Ladislav Lacina wrote:
Maybe is a time to consider whether to break the MS-DOS compatibility
about
handling the one physical diskette drive as two logical drives - A:
and B:
It maybe had some reason in 1982 but now?
the same reason that was valid in
13 matches
Mail list logo
