Re: [Freedos-devel] A FreeCOM+DOSBox bug

2024-05-04 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
A little more follow-up. First, I should be a little clearer. This is FreeDOS installed in hybrid mode inside of DOSBox. This is where the all of the utilities provided with FreeDOS are available and the FreeCOM shell is being used on top of the DOSBox kernel. This allows for all the

Re: [Freedos-devel] [Semi-OT] Thoughts: Actually doing stuff with MS-DOS 4.01

2024-05-04 Thread Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel
On Sat, 4 May 2024, Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel wrote: Hello Steve, Some of the code's pretty braindead, too.  Especially what looks to have come from IBM.  I mean...house styles vary, but Algolization is still just hideous-looking.  But it goes beyond that - think some of the

Re: [Freedos-devel] [Semi-OT] Thoughts: Actually doing stuff with MS-DOS 4.01

2024-05-04 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-devel
Hi! Well, what is wrong with http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/unstable/pkg-html/fdisk.html or alternatively http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/unstable/pkg-html/xfdisk.html or even

Re: [Freedos-devel] [Semi-OT] Thoughts: Actually doing stuff with MS-DOS 4.01

2024-05-04 Thread Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
Hello Steve, Some of the code's pretty braindead, too.  Especially what looks to have come from IBM.  I mean...house styles vary, but Algolization is still just hideous-looking.  But it goes beyond that - think some of the utilities are going to need major rewrites.  I'm thinking of writing

Re: [Freedos-devel] MBR boot failure + diagnosis on a PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.0 machine

2024-05-04 Thread Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
Hi Eric, > > In that case, I think loadmbr should never be used except > when there was a previous corresponding savembr. Because > using loadmbr in another way results in deleting the whole > partition table and/or installing a new partition scheme > which will probably not fit to the size of

Re: [Freedos-devel] [Semi-OT] Thoughts: Actually doing stuff with MS-DOS 4.01

2024-05-04 Thread E. C. Masloch via Freedos-devel
On at 2024-05-03 23:54 -0400, Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel wrote: So I've had some thoughts regarding the MS-DOS 4 source drop, regarding things I'd like to do with the code.  I'm not really that good of a coder and probably would only be able to do some of them myself.  (I'd kill for a

[Freedos-devel] A FreeCOM+DOSBox bug

2024-05-04 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
Hi all, I do a lot of my programming under DOSBox running the FreeCOM shell. This provides me with the most convenient development process. However on occasion, FreeCOM would terminate and the simplest thing to do to get things back to normal would be restart DOSBox. This is not a new