Re: [Freedos-devel] Packet drivers/Automatic setup

2005-07-26 Thread Alain
cut down any further? only first 5 entries needed? FWIK wattcp.cfg can be cut down to a bere minimum. Only What is used needs to be there. my_ip = 192.168.1.123 netmask = 255.255.255.0 gateway = 192.168.1.1 I remember using with only these 2 or 3 lines :) Alain -

Re: [Freedos-devel] Packet drivers/Automatic setup

2005-07-26 Thread Alain
rds :( I got the updates from there, thanks, but it is only for 8255x chips, I understand that some boards have different chips. Anyway, I don't have any Intel MB here, I will test the new version ASAP Alain --- SF.Net email is sponsor

Re: [Freedos-devel] Packet drivers/Automatic setup

2005-07-26 Thread Alain
y one with different command line parameters. I hope this helps, Alain Blair Campbell escreveu: Hi. I am requesting that everyone with a little spare time and a PCI network card that works with a clearly redistributable packet driver (in the licence, like a crynwr packet driver), to email me their PCIsl

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: 386-kernel crash: Eric is guessing

2005-07-25 Thread Alain
e (even at places where the kernel does not use those registers around a call to the generic device driver function call interface). Do you know how to do it? Can you do it? This will be very nice anyway :) thanks, Alain --- SF.Net email is sp

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: Master environment?

2005-07-25 Thread Alain
Hi Bernd, I use that dummy aproach too, but I use the *previous8 environment for small utility programs that return stuff in environment variables. And yes, they free the dummy variables to get space. Alain Bernd Blaauw escreveu: So, what's the best way to find the master enviro

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: Master environment?

2005-07-25 Thread Alain
Is there eny FreeDOS specific way of finding the previous environment and the master environment? I used this a lot and I had to convert a lot of batch files :( Alain Eric Auer escreveu: Hi, yes FreeCOM does not support int 2e (for non-programmers: int 2e is "send a command to the m

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: FreeCom pre-release, please test and report any release blockers

2005-07-25 Thread Alain
Bernd Blaauw escreveu: I would like LH to be Accepted(!) by FreeCOM, even if functionality behind this command has been disabled. ??? It is working here! Is this new? Alain --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: 386-kernel crash: Eric is guessing

2005-07-25 Thread Alain
I believe that it is the kernel resposibility to preserve it's registers. But it is nice to have EMM386 to preserve them too :) Alain --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: 386-kernel crash: Eric is guessing

2005-07-25 Thread Alain
problem for other OpenWatcom optimized programs as well or not? Then, shouln'd this be fixed in a later version? Alain PS: Please we have to remember that most of us are writing in a foreign language, so it would be nice to avoid "miss-understandable

Re: [Freedos-devel] x-comment to Johnson Lam

2005-07-25 Thread Alain
I vote with Aitor on this issue Alain I agree with this, and if simplicity in the number of versions available is an issue, have 386+ and 8088 versions (being 286+ optimized is ok whenever possible, and whenever the differences between the 286-optimized and 386-optimized versions are small

[Freedos-devel] FreeCom and LFN

2005-07-25 Thread Alain
much if all names could be listed on the right column, jusr as M$ does. Aitor SantamarĂ­a Merino escreveu: Many thanks, Jeremy, for your great work in Kernel and now in FreeCOM. You are becoming the most important member for the FreeDOS continuity, so stay safe :) Yes, thanks again. Alain

Re: [Freedos-devel] LFNs and path length limits

2005-07-25 Thread Alain
Johnson Lam escreveu: Hi Arkady, PS: Next time, don't use "Program Files" directory, when install dumb programs like from Adobe. I love your comment. I love that too ;-) In my case it is a user supplied machine with an old, heaven knows how, instalation...

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS and path limit 64?

2005-07-21 Thread Alain
Hi Bart, After a few hours, I have FreeDOS with LFN in DOSEMU :)) DosEmu 1.3.2 with $_lfn_support=(1) FreeCOM 0.84 pre NDN v2.14.8168/ENG (not good with v2.11) *NO* doslfn diver loaded DIR /LFN works just fine Thanks ALL, Alain PS: my Linux setup Mandrake 10.0 with glibc updated to 2.3.4

Re: [Freedos-devel] Trash LFNDOS from our collection?

2005-07-21 Thread Alain
blank drives). Here is a FreeDOS patch and kernel (build 2034, NASM 0.98.38, Borland C++ 3.1, TLINK 7.01, 386) to fix them. Thanks, Alain --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS and path limit 64?

2005-07-20 Thread Alain
an you compile an English version? I have the english version all nicely wrapt up in GPL package. But... last version is not compiling in english. I will send you one soon. Alain --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration

[Freedos-devel] Re: LFNs and path length limits

2005-07-20 Thread Alain
ep in kernel data structures, and bypassing it would void compatibility. Compatibility with what? MS-DOS can access it. But I think the limitations are weaker for network drives and in context of LFN usage. The problem I reported was in SFN, which had more than 64 chars. Alain PS, answering t

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCom pre-release, please test and report any release blockers

2005-07-20 Thread Alain
Hi: Kenneth J. Davis {KJD} {Erwin Veermans} {Bernd Blaauw} {Eric Auer} {Tom Ehlert} [Eduardo Casino] {Roberto Mariottini} {Arkady V.Belousov} and all anonimous... Thanks for your contributions to the new FreeCOM Alain --- SF.Net email is

Re: [Freedos-devel] Trash LFNDOS from our collection?

2005-07-20 Thread Alain
Hi all, I am very interested in LFN for FreeDOS, specialy for use in DOSEMU. I made a few tries without success. Dos it work? Which one? How? If anyone is using it, please help Alain --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS and path limit 64?

2005-07-20 Thread Alain
version of Window$ from the machine, but the *flash* files (and some others) are nested many directories deep. Is there some workaround for that? I could include it in my version of XDEL (v2.4 clone of DRDOS). thanks, Alain --- SF.Net email is

Re: [Freedos-devel] LBACache error message: Is there retry?

2005-07-13 Thread Alain
Eric Auer escreveu: Hi Alain, I have detected an unusual problem: While using FreeDOS in a real user machine, once or twice a day, LBACACHE writes a message like this: LBACache flush: write error.0880/LBA#0101 E> means: DMA overrun (error 8) on drive 80 (first harddisk)... And the sys

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: LBACache error message: Is there retry?

2005-07-13 Thread Alain
ing written by LBACACHE? In my understanding, errors should be reported only if they cannot ne recovered! Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual!' webinar happening July 14 at 8am PDT/11am EDT. We invite you t

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: re: EMM386, Kernel, and Help

2005-07-13 Thread Alain
Hi, So Robert has the fixed sources? Go get him. Or did he move to Mars? Please, this sounds very agressive in english. I is bad for everyone. It saddens me a lot and many people have moved out of FreeDOS because of mistunderstandings caused by phrasings like that :) Alain

[Freedos-devel] LBACache error message: Is there retry?

2005-07-13 Thread Alain
The problem is that the user is considering it a very bad error, because it appears as text message over the graphic screen and stays there for the rest of the day... thanks, Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With

[Freedos-devel] LBACache error message: Is there retry?

2005-07-11 Thread Alain
it a very bad error, because it appears as text message over the graphic screen and stays there for the rest of the day... thanks, Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual!' webinar happening July 14 at 8

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCom features desired?

2005-07-11 Thread Alain
really useable, we will have a lot of new users, and that will be a much better incentive to do new things. As of FreeDOS being nearly stable, I can atest that it is, and I am starting to use it in users machines. But I still do have some "little" problems.

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: EMM386/DOSLFN

2005-07-11 Thread Alain
ee all RAM). So try if VDS and/or MEMTEST solve the problem. Adding only MEMCHECK made it work. Thanks. What can produce this? Isn't Memcheck only a test or does it affect which memory will be used? Alain --- This SF.Net email is s

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCom daily builds

2005-07-11 Thread Alain
old machines, could be made lighter as no memory manager exists 2) => be the "best of all" 3) => for embeded. These are usualy 386, need a light version but have a memory manager, but need a reduced memory usage. Alain --- T

Re: [Freedos-devel] Speed tests and UMB... new facts

2005-07-05 Thread Alain
me ago), please can you indicate one? Michael, could you explain how a protect mode "should" manage things for disk access and what could go wrong with cwsdpmi? You are our resisdent consultant for that matter ;-) thanks, Alain --

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: Speed tests and UMB... new facts

2005-07-05 Thread Alain
RAWREAD test (int21): 54Mb/s, drops to 51Mb/s unaligned, 89Mb/s cached. That is fast :-). Drops progressively to 5.4Mb/s for 512 bytes buffer (except cached). What do you mean? "If you transfer in chunks of 0.5k instead of the default [probably a lot bigger] chunk size"? Int 21 as in "DOS file

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: What's new with latest kernel/freecom?

2005-07-05 Thread Alain
ation, but latin and english people don't do it ;-) Alain --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get ever

[Freedos-devel] Speed tests and UMB... new facts

2005-07-04 Thread Alain
uses cwsdpmi 2) author is Martin Rehak, the same as ROMOS (in FreeDOS page) I asked him for the sources ==>> It looks like the problem is with CWSDPI ! How can I insolate that? any ideas? Michael, how can I stub it with Causeway? (cwstub doesn'

Re: [Freedos-devel] UMB slowdown

2005-07-04 Thread Alain
confusing ;-) Maybe misunderstanding, I remember Alain said after he use UMB, FreeDOS slowdown a lot and need to use UDMA2 and cache to reclaim the speed. I'm sure UDMA or the latest XDMA is NOT a factor of slowdown, nothing related (in my test or Alain's test), please stop bring t

Re: [Freedos-devel] (fwd) Another "P***ing Contest"! Appologies

2005-07-01 Thread Alain
Hi Tom, I made just some preliminary tests with RAWREAD, *things*are*better*. I am not sure exactly what/how. I will read the source and make some por test starting from that, but only (sunday maybe?) or monday. Alain --- SF.Net email

Re: [Freedos-devel] (fwd) Another "P***ing Contest"! Appologies

2005-07-01 Thread Alain
tom ehlert escreveu: Hello Alain, just a general hint in benchmarking (for beginners): a) try to measure something with something that you understand what it does; else your measurements might not be interpretable scince you don't know what rawspeed does (*exactly*), or what your indexin

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: More speed test

2005-07-01 Thread Alain
ect data transfer between disk and HMA. That is what I expect from the explanations in last postings. Who knows if this is what is really happening? Alain --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies fr

Re: [Freedos-devel] (fwd) Another "P***ing Contest"! Appologies

2005-07-01 Thread Alain
installs nothing virtual, so maybe this is not. I really believe that the problem is nor *IN* UltraDMA, bout it is probably in how it *INTERACTS* this the rest of the system, and I hpoe you can help us understand that ;-) Alain Johnson Lam escreveu: Hi, From Jack Ellis, comments about

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: More speed test

2005-07-01 Thread Alain
another problem. Bart and Lucho no more working on this, we don't have any "experienced" programmers like Jack ... Well, can anyone help? I could sponsor someone with a few hundered bucks... Alain --- SF.Net email is sponsored by:

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: Re: re: More speed test

2005-07-01 Thread Alain
success in mixing drivers from other DOSes. Alain --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: More speed test

2005-06-30 Thread Alain
vely small here, and remember that the main problem is some much bigger slowdown with UMBs in use. I still have no information from Alain whether this is about the mere presence of EMM386 (and whether it depends on WHICH EMM386 you use, e.g. DR, MS or FD one) or whether it depends on WHICH driver

[Freedos-devel] MS DOS versus slowdown

2005-06-30 Thread Alain
the UMB slowdown, and Alain tells that things get VERY slow with DOS=UMB. So if MS DOS avoids that, it would be interesting to know. Or maybe using MS EMM386 or MS HIMEM or MS whatever is the point here? I do not think that the kernel causes UMB slowdown - looking at our kernel design, I think that

Re: [Freedos-devel] Slowness and calccach

2005-06-29 Thread Alain
t. I can help with tests, but I am not sure about what/how to test so as to be sure to have it down to *the* problem. Mostly because without DOS=UMB udma is allways fast, if I don't have DOS=UMB I cannot load anything high... Alain ---

[Freedos-devel] Re: Slowness and calccach

2005-06-29 Thread Alain
that detects how much XMS is available and ensures that a certain amout is kept free. Alain PS: I will post a commented maessage of the my config.sys and autoexec.bat files that I tuned after many days of testing. It may interest so

[Freedos-devel] [Fwd: Slowness and calccach]

2005-06-29 Thread Alain
This was private, bu I forwarding to the list. I believe it can be of general interest. The list is "devel" after all... Hi... In fact DOS=HIGH also makes it slow too, but only around 10 to 20%. Expected. It puts BUFFERS into HMA but avoids to access them directly there, so you get one extr

[Freedos-devel] Re: your config / cache tricks

2005-06-29 Thread Alain
oexec, and in that case, nothing would help anyway. And: If it does not run, it does not have an errorlevel either. "Users can do the unexpected" Alain --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDXMS 0.94 - Tests

2005-06-22 Thread Alain
Hi Jonhson, I re-downloaded it. Now it is the right one. The problem did not change. Alain Johnson Lam escreveu: On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:07:52 -0300, you wrote: Hi Alain, - The file is 05 may 2005, but it identifies itself as 0.93. Did you re-download it? [quote] - Note that fdxms094

[Freedos-devel] UMB slow problem

2005-06-22 Thread Alain
low memory? Alain --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast

[Freedos-devel] More FreeDOS tests

2005-06-22 Thread Alain
I just tested in another machine: PcChips Mb, 500MHz Celeron, 384MbRam. I had a few problems, but gess what? reading the docs, i found that tickle should not be loaded high. Question: - Can I use "DEVICE=EMM386.EXE NOEMS X=TEST X=E000-EFFF /VERBOSE" will the X=TEST have an effec

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS speed tests

2005-06-21 Thread Alain
same but NWCACHE (with eric's tuning or not), takes 59s MSDOS 7.10 + smartdrv /X, takes 23s MSDOS 7.10 + UDMA2 + LBACACHE (same cfg) takes 7s. Test machine is a PcChips MB, Semprom 2.2GHz, 256Mb. I will make some more tests on older machine

[Freedos-devel] FDXMS 0.94 - Tests

2005-06-21 Thread Alain
I just tested FDXMS 0.94 - Loading om my PcChips machine: * it doesn't work after a power up, with a long time off, or if last boot was with himem.exe (VDISK detected message) * it loads after a full boot, if dosfsck runs. I believe that as it uses cwsdpmi which can use it's own memory manager

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS victory: FDISK

2005-06-13 Thread Alain
. The hard disk I work on usually Quantum 2GB fireball or Seagate 1.2GB. Please explain better. Was this FreeFDISK, has it stopped happening? Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How

[Freedos-devel] Re: Two-file-access slow?

2005-06-10 Thread Alain
after midnight. Next week I will test better and find out wht is happenning BTW: what is TUNA and TUNW? (I used both) Alain [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: Hi, that probably depends on factors like: - do you use fat32? - is your cache big enough to cache the fat tables? (you can try lbacache

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS victory: FDISK

2005-06-10 Thread Alain
Very good news! For a few months I had a problem because some Asus MotherBoards don't recognize more than 10Gb of the HardDisks during install. I just sent to a friend my first FreeDOS distro and the problem was solved, he now can access all 80Gb with FreeFDISK :)) Thanks to all,

Re: [Freedos-devel] UDMA2 testing

2005-06-10 Thread Alain
ecifically affecting freedos. I believe it has something to do with accessind *two* files intermixed and in small chunks. I would appreciate very much any ideas... Alain I also tested with a real-world .DBF file creating a complex index and differences are much smaller then with a big single

[Freedos-devel] FDXMS 0.93

2005-06-08 Thread Alain
. Please direct me to any test that could be done... Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the

Re: [Freedos-devel] UDMA2 testing

2005-06-08 Thread Alain
testings? Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.03 (minor, for WDOSX)

2005-06-08 Thread Alain
I just tested, it is working fine. thanks, Alain Michael Devore escreveu: Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386 are the files emmx203.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly executable package, and emms203.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly source package. EMM386 Version 2.03 is a minor update

[Freedos-devel] UDMA2 testing

2005-06-07 Thread Alain
SiS741GX, Disk is 2Gb partition at the beginning of 40Gb Thanks a lot, Alain PS. sorry for the post to devel+kernel but some people don't read both. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a proj

Re: [Freedos-devel] SYS new problem :(

2005-06-06 Thread Alain
a "del *.*" Alain Kenneth J. Davis escreveu: Thanks for checking, I will see about updating sys to handle write protection better in the next release. Jeremy --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How f

[Freedos-devel] SYS new problem :(

2005-05-30 Thread Alain
unt (R/O is standard in newer versions of MS-DOS and some DR-DOS) and remove that attribute before erasing the destination file. I also believe that the message is a little miss-leading because it points the problem to the source command.com when it is not. I propos

[Freedos-devel] SYS and DOSFSCK

2005-05-25 Thread Alain
oen't not complain anymore :)) I checked and the next sector: I modified a random byte in sector 7 and fosfsck does not detect it, so all is neede is 1 sector ! Now HOW IS WORKING ON SYS ??? This should be reatively easy to fix, or Im I mistaken?

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel 2035a HD format problem (Arkady's unstable version)

2005-05-25 Thread Alain
t about it :)) Alain --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: GoToMeeting - the easiest way to collaborate online with coworkers and clients while avoiding the high cost of travel and communications. There is no equipment to buy and you can meet as often a

[Freedos-devel] Re: DOSFSCK and backup boot sectors

2005-05-25 Thread Alain
know the boot sector is the first sector of the partition, how do I find the second one (with NU's diskedit)? FYI, I tested with win98se's scandisk and the error is not reported (nor fixed)! thanks, Alain [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: Hi, FAT32 has 2 copies of the boot sector. One

[Freedos-devel] EMM386 - Trouble in paradise

2005-05-24 Thread Alain
that there are few modifications this time. I can do any test that you like, just orient me :) thanks, Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find

[Freedos-devel] COUNTRY in FreeDOS is OK

2005-05-24 Thread Alain
Thanks to Eric, I tested COUNTRY: is working ok I just tested the command DATE, and NDN now shows the correct date :) I just reproduce his message below as it can be of use to someone Alain [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: Hi, there should be a country sys on http://fdos.org/kernel/ - and

[Freedos-devel] How to use DOSFSCK ?

2005-05-24 Thread Alain
/49, 7:53/4e, 90:fc/fa, 91:fa/33,00 [... a veru big list of differences] Not automatically fixing this. [...] What is the boot sector backup? I never heard of it... I just prepared the drive with "SYS C:" using latest SYS ver. 3.5b 18may2005 (11251 bytes) Please help

[Freedos-devel] Kernel 2035a HD format problem (Arkady's unstable version)

2005-05-24 Thread Alain
Hi Johnson, I have been checking some old messages and I found a message about the bug below. I asked both Eric and Lucho and Lucho found that you reported the problem. Can you explain it? Can we reproduce it? anyone knows about it? thanks, Alain Assunto: Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel 2035a

[Freedos-devel] How do I use COUNTRY in FreeDOS?

2005-05-24 Thread Alain
of it? I tried country=055 country=055,850 but in both cases it needs the country.sys file. Where can I find it? (appart from M$ disks) thanks, Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Cre

[Freedos-devel] EMM386 possible bug: ZRDX

2005-05-24 Thread Alain
w what ZRDX is, bu I just thought that it might interest you... Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 OK :))

2005-05-23 Thread Alain
ust the same as VDS, a NOTEST option for really advanced users. Thanks anyway, Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstak

[Freedos-devel] EMM386 OK :))

2005-05-19 Thread Alain
like default if no other X= is present, so that advanced users, who know what they are doing, can have their way. Thanks for everything, Alain :)) --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: perhaps it is a kernel bug

2005-05-19 Thread Alain
I will restart my testing in a day or two. Where can I find a good, last version, Kernel that is not OW+386 optimized? thanks, Alain tom ehlert escreveu: Hello eric, Did anybody else notice that no version of EMM386 works with the 386-optimized branch of the FreeDOS kernel? Yes, me... After

[Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.01 Problem

2005-05-10 Thread Alain
PcChips M863G Chipset SiS741 Cpu Semprom 2200 I remember reading that this version could dump screen to a file, please orient me to further testing Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOS/4GW Pro extender vs. gobs of memory

2005-05-04 Thread Alain
in a special situation. Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. Get your fingers limbered up and give it your best shot. 4 great events, 4 opportunities to win big! Highest score wins.NEC IT Guy Games. Play to win an NEC 61

Re: [Freedos-devel] forward: UDMA2 v2.4 and UDMA v7.9 have bug, use v2.3 instead

2005-04-20 Thread Alain
Arkady V.Belousov escreveu: PS: .txt file in given directory prsent with LF, not CRLF delimiters. That is from Linux. I switced to SETEDIT, a very fine editor, Borland style and it is imune to LF problem. There is also DOS/WIN/Linux versions. Alain

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: [Freedos-user] HTML address for new Help file.

2005-03-23 Thread Alain
Hi Bernt, Couldn you just put it all together in a nice little file including the explanation bellow and send it as a "temporary" version to JH to be placed at ibiblio? I am sure many people would apreciate and you have done most of the work anyway... thanks either way, Alain Be

Re: [Freedos-devel] [Freedos-user] XMS Manager on '286

2005-03-16 Thread Alain
e, 2) what programs are expected to be used that neeh EMS 2.0, 3) how many times after testing? Alain --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: XMS Manager on '286

2005-03-15 Thread Alain
nother one for 386+. There are too many different options to put them toghether and it will most probably result in a very poor 386+ version. Alain --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Re: Re: EMM386 diff donation...

2005-02-17 Thread Alain
es as they become needed is a good way to go (specialy for EMM386 that has lots os unused functions). But reviewing source code indepentantly is highly valuable, and can often catch something important and unexpected. I hope some middle point could be reached ;-)

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: EMM386 diff donation...

2005-02-16 Thread Alain
n)? Is there a final and stable DOSFSCK? I remember that you did some work on it... Thanks, Alain --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which produ

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos aceesses c:\ ?

2005-02-15 Thread Alain
Bernd Blaauw escreveu: (Now, what was this thread doing in freedos-devel?) He is seeking help to solve a problem USING FreeDOS! I am glad to see that 1) it can be done, 2) he did get help ;-) Alain --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FDAPM testing

2005-01-27 Thread Alain
s included, as are embeded systems) and that too complex and generic problems should be taken to mode complete OSes. Embeded systems have a different aproach to the performance problem: the peak performance is the main concern and they are engeneered to withstand that continuosly. APMDOS mode can hel

Re: [Freedos-devel] Disk spindown test tool, SCSI testers please...

2005-01-26 Thread Alain
only on a limited number of machines... Alain Eric Auer escreveu: Hi, at http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/parkdisk.zip you can find a small tool which tries various int 13 calls to spin down your first two harddisks. No problem if you have only one disk... Please report if this could spin down your

[Freedos-devel] FDAPM testing

2005-01-25 Thread Alain
polled to generate events, no int is captured, Is USB mouse in DOS handled via bios OK? (I will test with a true PS2 later) Thanks for the nice program, Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for o

Re: [Freedos-devel] Questions on EMM386 (part2 and last)

2005-01-18 Thread Alain
strange expressions in the list anf your writing is good. I eny case here is the axplanation about may and can: He can do that. => He is phisicaly able to do that. He may do that. => 1) He is allowed to do that. or 2) Pehaps he will chose to do that.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Questions on EMM386 (part2 and last)

2005-01-04 Thread Alain
if the real-time is INSIDE your program: yes if you want a real-time-OS to run many programs: no Alain [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: Can freedos be use in a real-time environment successfully? Chris --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the

[Freedos-devel] DOSLFN and bugs with bugfixes

2005-01-04 Thread Alain
, is it safe or has it been incorporated in some new kernel? Alain --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost...

Re: [Freedos-devel] Questions on EMM386 (part2 and last)

2005-01-03 Thread Alain
? Maybe we could vote about this? Alain --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almosthttp://www.thinkg

Re: [Freedos-devel] Recommended C Compiler

2004-12-26 Thread Alain
Arkady V.Belousov escreveu: Earlier, there was recommended Borland C++ 3.1. But it is very outdated (in sense of language), closed source, commercial, non-free and contains bugs, which will never fixed. I remember that you had a list of BC 3.1 bugs, could you send it to us, please? Alain

Re: [Freedos-devel] Recommended C Compiler

2004-12-26 Thread Alain
it. So I recomend both BC31 and OW1.3 Alain Goh, Yong Kwang escreveu: Hi. I'm planning to do some DOS programming and I'm hoping that my DOS program will run on MS-DOS, Win9x and FreeDOS as well. So I'm looking for recommendation for a C compiler that works best in generating a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: EMM386 bugs update

2004-12-08 Thread Alain
that *someone* is happy :)) Alain Michael Devore escreveu: At 11:27 AM 12/8/2004 +0100, Eric Auer wrote: > Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads are the files > emmx13b.zip, EMM386 mostly executable package, and emms13b.zip, EMM386 > mostly source package. > These version

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 bugs update

2004-12-08 Thread Alain
Hi Michael, you keep impressimg me :)) Thanks, very much Alain Michael Devore escreveu: Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads are the files emmx13b.zip, EMM386 mostly executable package, and emms13b.zip, EMM386 mostly source package

[Freedos-devel] 32bit debuggger

2004-12-07 Thread Alain
for any help, Alain Jim Hall escreveu: Thanks Eduardo! I've mirrored this release on ibiblio, and posted a news item on FreeDOS.org. Also, I've added your LSM to the Software List. -jh Eduardo Casino wrote: Hi all, at long last, this is the first version of FreeDOS NLSFUNC. Althou

Re: [Freedos-devel] [OT] A Sync program

2004-11-11 Thread Alain
misses one thing: a side by side view of averything that will be done. This is very important in the Notebook/desktop scenario. Alain Aitor SantamarĂ­a Merino escreveu: Hi there, Sorry for the OT, does anyone know of a good and free (to download, not necc. open source) Win32 program that can be

[Freedos-devel] NDIS + ODI + PKT

2004-10-21 Thread Alain
Does anyone have a copy of PDETHER version 1.05? (pde105.zip) all links I could find in Google are broken... tom ehlert escreveu: Hello Alain, [...] * Port DosEmu from Linux to SUN SOLARIS * boot dos, giving it a lot of memory (for the RAMDISK) * start XMSDSK * start MS LANMANAGER as server

Re: [Freedos-devel] Extracting filesystem from freeDOS

2004-10-21 Thread Alain
instal MS-CLIENT over a packet driver and was unable to find a driver (shim?) for that. If you can do it, please point me at the right direction thanks, Alain --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Re: I quit.

2004-09-23 Thread Alain
tom ehlert escreveu: seriously - would you use AnyDOS for your everyday work ? I do. For devellopent. But my clints do it 24/7... (machices are up to P4, graphics mode and database) do you think anyone else does ? Not very much ;-) Alain

Re: [Freedos-devel] CHKDSK / DEFRAG / XCOPY to the rescue...

2004-09-22 Thread Alain
th on screen/file log) would be a big help and configurable SURFACE SCAN 'confidence' (be more pessimistic, but try hard to rescue data; Spinrite did that in in old days (Seagate STR238 could not live without it) Alain --- This SF.Net

Re: [Freedos-devel] Zurenava DOS extender - and others

2004-09-17 Thread Alain
here only in January, so we can wait... Alain PS. Cont bet on rats. Serious... --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your proj

Re: [Freedos-devel] Zurenava DOS extender - and others

2004-09-16 Thread Alain
e and distribute. the "w" stands for "Watcom version" My licence explicitely ways that it is royalty-free for owners of WatcomC and it is limited to 32Mb. The full version is called WDOS/X and was US$150.00 last time I checked. Alain --

Re: [Freedos-devel] Zurenava DOS extender

2004-09-10 Thread Alain
piler :) Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 13. Go here:

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