Re: [Freedos-devel] Open Watcom v2 DOS installer is abysmally slow in FreeDOS

2023-03-10 Thread Ladislav Lacina
Very interresting - extremely slow installation through a instalator but quite a normal speed when copying cca 4000 files manualy. ...And this difference is not in MSDOS. In theory - could it be explained by frequent calling the function "GetFreeDiskSpace"? (Int21h/36h) I have not seen

Re: [Freedos-devel] Free FDISK interim builds

2023-03-10 Thread Bernd Boeckmann via Freedos-devel
> Am 10.03.2023 um 19:53 schrieb Bernd Böckmann : > > /SMBR command to write the MBR to disk to file of course… ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel

Re: [Freedos-devel] Free FDISK interim builds

2023-03-10 Thread Bernd Boeckmann via Freedos-devel
Hi, I hope I have eliminated the most critical bugs and I am now in a cleanup phase. I noticed that the /SMBR command to write the MBR to disk does not do what its name suggests. It only writes the 440 code bytes to the file and fills the rest of the 512 bytes with zero, leaving FDISK with no

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS Swappable Data (SDA) Area

2023-03-10 Thread tom ehlert
Dear Bret , am Donnerstag, 9. März 2023 um 23:27 schrieben Sie: >>> My terminology is compliant with that definition. >> >> *Sigh* >> >> I am aware of that. The general term "re-entrancy" is not synonymous >> with the specific term "reentrant kernel". > So re-entrancy is not synonymous with

Re: [Freedos-devel] Open Watcom v2 DOS installer is abysmally slow in FreeDOS

2023-03-10 Thread wilhelm . spiegl
Hi Eric, first I tried to install the exe within a 700 MB ramdrive created with rdisk. Extracting it needed in about 47 minutes instead of 58 minutes. Then I zipped the folder with all 4.018 files with FD zip within a few minutes (ca.4min). Then I run the FD unzip command over the original