Re: [Freedos-devel] usbdos.zip missing from usbdosx.zip

2010-04-08 Thread Blair Campbell
If I could port curl over to freedos, I would. I think curl was ported a long time ago. In fact it's listed on the cURL website. I would normally assume Blair has this: http://sites.google.com/site/blairdude/ ...but instead he only has updated clamav :-) You can also check delorie.com

Re: [Freedos-devel] usbdos.zip missing from usbdosx.zip

2010-03-25 Thread Blair Campbell
I looked at the files in the usbdosx.zip and it tried to unzip a usbdos.zip which doesn't exist in the packages. where is it? nobody can do any USB without it. I unzipped usbdosx.zip and all there is is some nonworking install.bat files and a .txt file. useless. Since the USB drivers

Re: [Freedos-devel] Current Version Files

2009-04-07 Thread Blair Campbell
http://www.freedos.org/cgi-bin/lsm.cgi?mode=lsmlsm=util/fdav.lsm And I cannot find the file. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/ The directory is http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/clamav/ . per the freedos lsm webpage I am

Re: [Freedos-devel] Current Version Files

2009-04-07 Thread Blair Campbell
- all 1.0 packages in fdpkg format thrown on one big pile  and taken from the 1.0 distro Those are here: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/pkgs/ - various packages in more-or-less fdpkg format sorted  nicely by category which is probably what Usul saw

Re: [Freedos-devel] Current Version Files

2009-04-05 Thread Blair Campbell
When I am reviewing current files to check to see if there has been a change and I find a current file (1.0) that is not in the correct format should I redo it in the correct format? Which packages are you talking about? Oh btw, when I released 1.0 I used a shell script to auto-package the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

2009-04-05 Thread Blair Campbell
There are many programs with no development ongoing. - DOSLFN - Arachne - FreeDOS installer IMHO the FreeDOS installer should really be re-written. It was never really designed to be able to manage packages properly and such. - 4dos 4DOS is maintained. - freecom FreeCOM I have worked

Re: [Freedos-devel] Eric

2009-04-01 Thread Blair Campbell
Is there any single package that you know of that is 100% the way you want it? If so can you link it so I can get started. :) That's probably more my area of expertise, since I designed the package management system. I might re-write the system which stores files related to each package, but

Re: [Freedos-devel] Volunteering - gui, libraries, drivers

2009-03-29 Thread Blair Campbell
Blair has been working on alternative C libraries, for example for almost-drop-in-LFN (long file name) support or for making compiled apps smaller by compiling with a smaller C library. I have the impression that this could use some careful proofreading to improve stability... Yeah I spent a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Volunteering - Arachne

2009-03-29 Thread Blair Campbell
- 32 bit DPMI would be better. Not necessarily. Some applications even run dual-mode (RM or 16-bit PM) so even 16-bit has it's advantages. The 64 KiB code segment limit is the only real disadvantage. (Or are code segments with 16-bit default operation size not actually limited to 64 KiB?) I

Re: [Freedos-devel] Volunteering

2009-03-29 Thread Blair Campbell
What could you do? You would need to stop using FreeDOS as it *probable* contains illegal stuff. On the other hand you have *no way* to confirm whenever it's the truth or not. Was MS-DOS even written in C? if not, at least the parts written in C (most) could never have been copied and pasted.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Volunteering

2009-03-28 Thread Blair Campbell
I used to organize all the system files in a system directory. and the apps in an app directory under C: instead of under the system directory. C:\FDOS all the command programs here C:\Apps all the applications under here grouped in directories like games, develop, utility etc. If you move

Re: [Freedos-devel] building freedos

2009-03-24 Thread Blair Campbell
That does indeed sound a bit exotic. Note that userland of FreeDOS contains quite a few DJGPP (GNU C for DOS) based apps. DJGPP can also be compiled as a cross-compiler, so DJGPP apps could even be compiled in native linux. Another option is to pass commands to a dos-based compiler through

Re: [Freedos-devel] Clamav 0.95 Port

2009-03-24 Thread Blair Campbell
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Blair Campbell blaird...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I'm announcing a port of Clamav 0.95 to DOS.  The patch I used to compile it is in the main clamav source distribution in contrib/DJGPP.  For this release I have separated clamavx.zip into clamavx.zip

[Freedos-devel] FDAV 0.2

2009-03-24 Thread Blair Campbell
Hi. Finally the follow-up to FDAV 0.1 :-). The TUI was re-written from scratch (it's now based on newt) and now includes a file/directory selection dialog and a mostly-complete help-viewer (press F1). I need to complete the help file though :-). Progress dialogs during scanning now work

[Freedos-devel] Clamav 0.95 Port

2009-03-23 Thread Blair Campbell
Hi I'm announcing a port of Clamav 0.95 to DOS. The patch I used to compile it is in the main clamav source distribution in contrib/DJGPP. For this release I have separated clamavx.zip into clamavx.zip and clamdbx.zip. Packages are available at

Re: [Freedos-devel] building freedos

2009-03-23 Thread Blair Campbell
The problem for the Fedora Project is that the license used by OpenWatcom is not Free according to FSF. That means Fedora cannot use OpenWatcom, so the OP is asking for alternatives that might meet the FSF's standard. Some distributions have a non-free category. Does Fedora not have one?

Re: [Freedos-devel] Free-DOS help

2009-03-04 Thread Blair Campbell
2) After you boot you will never know which letter will be assigned to you CDROM, but you can find it in C:, D:, E:, etc.. in your AUTOEXEC by checking if some file exists No, you CAN know which letter will be assigned; just use SHSUCDX /D:Driver name,Drive Letter to use

[Freedos-devel] GPM for DOS 0.3

2009-03-01 Thread Blair Campbell
I'm happy to announce GPM for DJGPP version 0.3; A bugfix release to support libnewt's gpm usage; fixed a bug where libnewt's test program would hang because of multiple Gpm_Open/Gpm_Close calls. It's available at:

[Freedos-devel] Whiptail 0.52.10

2009-03-01 Thread Blair Campbell
Announcing a port of Whiptail 0.52.10 to DOS. Whiptail is a dialog-like utility to draw TUI dialogs and collect user input (most of the options supported are dialog-compatible). Mouse support is included via dos_gpm 0.3, and the binary is much smaller than dialog, although not as many options

Re: [Freedos-devel] GPM for DOS 0.3

2009-03-01 Thread Blair Campbell
Update: I just fixed a few more bugs after testing in pure DOS and uploaded dos_gpm-0.3.1.zip to the same folder On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Blair Campbell blaird...@gmail.com wrote: I'm happy to announce GPM for DJGPP version 0.3; A bugfix release to support libnewt's gpm usage; fixed

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: [Freedos-kernel] Error compiling ...

2009-02-26 Thread Blair Campbell
You can cast a short to an int, an the conversion in ok, but to cast a short* to an int* will bring in 2 extra bytes and an INVALID POINTER... no short * and int * are the exact same size in 16-bit compilers (try compiling a test program which prints sizeof(int), sizeof(short). For some

[Freedos-devel] GPM for DJGPP 0.2

2009-02-15 Thread Blair Campbell
I'm happy to announce GPM for DJGPP version 0.2; mostly a bugfix release to 0.1, which fixes the problem where the mouse support would be incorrect in modes other than 80x25 and also sets environment variables to tell ncurses to use the library for supported terminals. It's available at:

[Freedos-devel] Dialog 1.1 for DOS

2009-02-15 Thread Blair Campbell
Just announcing that I've uploaded my port of Dialog 1.1 for DOS to ibiblio. It is compiled with ncurses and gpm, so it supports mouse. For those of you unfamiliar with it, Dialog is a popular program in unix for adding a TUI interface to shell scripts. The sources and binaries are uploaded to:

[Freedos-devel] Ncurses 5.7 port for DJGPP

2009-02-15 Thread Blair Campbell
Hi.. Just announcing that I've uploaded ncurses 5.7 compiled with DJGPP. I modified the terminfo for DJGPP and added a monochrome scheme, and compiled in mouse support with my libgpm-emulation library. Sources and binaries are available at:

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDAV 0.1

2009-02-14 Thread Blair Campbell
Cool! Looks nice, why have you choosen ncurses? :-) Because in the future it may be portable to more systems. It doesn't find the signature files (*.cvd). How can I tell FDAV where it is (path and copying doesn't work)? The signature files should be in %DOSDIR%\lib

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDAV 0.1

2009-02-14 Thread Blair Campbell
Ah...thanks. I have never used %DOSDIR% ... could you write it into help screen for other people like me? :-) Yeah. It's required for use with fdpkg so usually it's set up. I could also have it look for the database in other places if not found in %DOSDIR%\lib

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDAV 0.1

2009-02-14 Thread Blair Campbell
Where to get pre-compiled dialog or ncurses libraries for DJGPP? I'll upload them soon -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open

[Freedos-devel] FDAV 0.1

2009-02-13 Thread Blair Campbell
Hi. Just announcing an MSAV-like TUI I wrote for libclamav. This is mostly a preview version. Some features are missing, but I've tested it in a few environments and I've found that it works. So if anyone wants to give me feedback, feel free. Eventually it should have a help-file viewer, and a

[Freedos-devel] GPM for DJGPP

2008-12-28 Thread Blair Campbell
I'm just announcing that I've written a small gpm-semi-compatible library that implements enough functionality for GNU ncurses and libraries like dialog that depend on that. It's available at: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/libs/gpm/dos_gpm.zip I can send a demo

[Freedos-devel] OpenWatcom 1.8RC1

2008-12-23 Thread Blair Campbell
Just in case nobody's noticed yet, it looks like OpenWatcom 1.0RC1 is available as of this month. Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya

Re: [Freedos-devel] OpenWatcom 1.8RC1

2008-12-23 Thread Blair Campbell
No DOS version, anyone know if someone plans to make one available on their own? Usually they include the DOS host binaries wth the windows and OS/2 installers, which can be opened with any unzipper. They haven't made a DOS-installer ever as far as I know because the code is broken. That

Re: [Freedos-devel] compiling freedos

2008-11-22 Thread Blair Campbell
Why not just use dosemu to compile in linux? Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Warren Turkal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't use a batch file in my Linux

Re: [Freedos-devel] compressed FAT filesystems

2008-03-31 Thread Blair Campbell
Has Anybody looked up dmsdosfs? It is a linux filesystem driver that can access quite a few different compressed dos filesystems like drivespace and doublespace. Perhaps an implementation could be derived from its source code. On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [Freedos-devel] How to create alternative shell

2008-03-13 Thread Blair Campbell
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Marco Achury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a newby question. I would like to write an alternative interpreter command to replace command.com/Freecom. I don't think that this is as easy as it seems. If you don't want your shell to waste tons of low memory,

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Directory structure proposition

2008-01-29 Thread Blair Campbell
I think that we should have a directory for configuration files and/or data files used by different applications (for example, doslfn has several table files that really shouldn't IMHO be in BIN. That way the BIN directory can be as uncluttered as possible. Also, in FreeDOS 1.1 I would like to

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Directory structure proposition

2008-01-29 Thread Blair Campbell
Nod. But then you'd need to prolly rewrite a lot of base to support LFNs... and unzip too... Not rewrite; recompile. But at the same time I didn't mean it would be a requirement for base apps to support lfns. -- Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS bugzilla

2008-01-29 Thread Blair Campbell
I would rather use bugzilla than the sf.net tracker On Jan 29, 2008 4:40 PM, Aitor Santamaría [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/1/30, Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Since Eric and tassilo have identified the free web hosting for FreeDOS bugzilla, and since Eric has volunteered to install the new

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS directory standard (1.1?)

2008-01-26 Thread Blair Campbell
On Jan 8, 2008 5:59 AM, Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/8/08, Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Antony, In FreeDOS 1.1 (or whatever) once the directories are finalized, a system variable can be declared in the OS (at the master environment level) like in Windows

[Freedos-devel] ctorrent-ng Port Now Available

2008-01-26 Thread Blair Campbell
Now available are: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/torrents.zip (source) http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/torrentx.zip (binary) which are untested DJGPP ports of ctorrent-ng. IOW, users MAY be able to use this to utilize

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS directory standard (1.1?)

2008-01-12 Thread Blair Campbell
LIB for libraries. We never really defined a lib before because FreeDOS doesn't support the shared-library model, and developers used different compilers which may not be able to share each others' *.lib files. But if we need it, then a LIB directory is a good place for it. I like the idea of

Re: [Freedos-devel] simple freedos 1.1 installer please / 1.0 overview

2007-12-26 Thread Blair Campbell
I will dedicate my time now to developing a new FreeDOS installer, one which will be easy, fully functional, and not necessarily make everybody happy - that is just impossible here, but it will be good to go. I will keep you all updated as progress commences. The actual installer (TEXTINST)

Re: [Freedos-devel] looking for freedos webspace and more

2007-12-24 Thread Blair Campbell
I think googlepages gives you 100 MB On 10/12/07, Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, my current homepage is about to expire, so I am looking for a new place to store my stuff. The page is less than 100 MB, of which maybe 1/4 DOS and 1/4 pics. Hosting the DOS stuff has

Re: [Freedos-devel] lfn in freecom?

2007-09-22 Thread Blair Campbell
AFAIK, this was added long before I touched the FreeCOM source, but yes it should be in the help. Unfortunately, I have no way to access CVS right now On 9/20/07, Imre Leber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: Blair Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden

Re: [Freedos-devel] lfn in freecom?

2007-09-18 Thread Blair Campbell
Use dir /lfn to get long filename directory listings. Also, dir.c should use lfn findfirst so that dir 123456789 will work. On 9/18/07, Imre Leber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: Eric Auer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: maandag, september 17, 2007 09:03

Re: [Freedos-devel] lfn in freecom?

2007-09-18 Thread Blair Campbell
On 9/18/07, Imre Leber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: Eric Auer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: maandag, september 17, 2007 09:03 PM Aan: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Onderwerp: Re: [Freedos-devel] lfn in freecom? Hi Imre, Does anybody

Re: [Freedos-devel] Come visit EDR-DOS sites!

2007-04-13 Thread Blair Campbell
On 3/29/07, Mark Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Alain: I am very interested and in fact I have done just this a couple of times. The FreeDOS installer installs a LOT more than I need to run my DOS programs. It also doesn't allow control of the destination partition. I would use a

[Freedos-devel] CLIB Progress

2007-01-17 Thread Blair Campbell
Soon I should release a new version of my CLIB. It is now mostly complete with tests and I can successfully compile xcopy, move and attrib with little source code changes. Those three programs, after being compiled with my clib, are then capable of working with DJGPP-syle symlinks and long

[Freedos-devel] FD-CLIB updated (I guess I could call this 0.2 - beta)

2006-12-23 Thread Blair Campbell
This update (available at www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/libs/clib/fdclib.zip) contains many updates making the public domain clib much more stable and useable. Almost everything is working now but the crucial things I am still missing include *scanf and startup code.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Text adventures

2006-12-21 Thread Blair Campbell
Seal is not in the distro because there are very few useful programs written for it, and it in my experience is highly unstable compared to GEM or even FloX's OzoneGUI (which both have much better file managers than SEAL imho as well). On 12/21/06, Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Blair,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Text adventures

2006-12-20 Thread Blair Campbell
Nethack is already in FreeDOS 1.0. Also, I prefer not to include shareware/free-closed-source games, but to promote open-source DOS games in the distro instead. Nethack is open-source. On 12/19/06, Markku Yli-Pentila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I wonder nobody has suggested text

[Freedos-devel] Read and write symlinks with new routines and utility

2006-12-01 Thread Blair Campbell
I just made some functions and a utility to read and write DJGPP-style hard and symbolic links. They are an extension on the already released clib and attempt to provide 100% POSIX compatibility. The functions related are link(), symlink(), and readlink(). The utility included is a 100%

Re: [Freedos-devel] dos64

2006-11-23 Thread Blair Campbell
Yes but speedwise I am saying that it isn't very practical if you expect to run 16-bit apps on a 64-bit OS, if not impossible without complete CPU emulation. On 11/23/06, Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tom ehlert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Tom E: as far as I know

Re: [Freedos-devel] dos64

2006-11-21 Thread Blair Campbell
Just curious; would this run real-mode DOS applications? If so, as far as I understand this would be extremely slow because you have to switch 64bit-32bit-16bit-32bit-64bit. On 11/21/06, Владимир [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, freedos-devel. I have created project DOS64. If somebody will

Re: [Freedos-devel] I would like to contribute (a bit)

2006-11-14 Thread Blair Campbell
Did you use the 8086 version of FreeCOM? And the 8086 version of the kernel? On 11/14/06, Edouard Forler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, First of all, let me congratulate all of you for all the work done on FreeDOS. It's great. I've just subscribed to the devel mailing list

Re: [Freedos-devel] 4DOS released as open source software

2006-11-13 Thread Blair Campbell
Hi. Not to be a party pooper, but why not use OW + _WASM_ as WASM is closer to MASM than NASM... On 11/13/06, Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are like me, you have used (or are using) the 4DOS command shell. 4DOS was my favorite DOS app. Back in the day, my DOS development system

[Freedos-devel] Int 21/AX=71A6h

2006-11-05 Thread Blair Campbell
How hard would it be for FreeDOS to support Int 21/AX=71A6h? (Get file information from handle) This would be very beneficial because it allows an easy way to implement a complete fstat function for C programs. In most clibs, the fstat function is usually incomplete, filling in only as many

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 bugreport place?

2006-11-03 Thread Blair Campbell
On 11/2/06, Bernd Blaauw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blair Campbell schreef: He meant the OpenWatcom package that is supplied with FreeDOS 1.0, but I don't know what that has to do with config.bat What I mean is that the kernel sources (if installed by FreeDOS 1.0.0) use a file named

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 bugreport place?

2006-11-02 Thread Blair Campbell
On 11/2/06, Arkady V.Belousov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! 2-Ноя-2006 19:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: BB Also I'm curious if installing OpenWatcom from FreeDOS 1.0 configures BB the config.bat, OW doesn't presents DOS installer. If

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel 2036 bugs?

2006-10-30 Thread Blair Campbell
I have a bug for 2036 and 2037: SUBST never works properly (and the problems associated seem to be different wherever I test them). On 10/30/06, Alain M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had this conversation with Eric: Alain Do you know a list of bugs/limitations of 2036? Eric if you find some,

Re: [Freedos-devel] packages for dosemu-freedos.

2006-10-25 Thread Blair Campbell
The stable kernel is in sysx.zip -- Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Boot CD (Round 2)

2006-10-09 Thread Blair Campbell
ISOLinux works fine on my P133 PC here, which is about as old as CD-booting goes, so ISOLinux does *not* have issues with old hardware, only *certain* hardware. On 10/9/06, TG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the absent-minded among us that forget to eject said CD when the install is finished.

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Boot CD (Round 2)

2006-10-07 Thread Blair Campbell
I don't see a purpose in circumventing ISOLinux, and I don't see any future distribution not using ISOLinux. On 10/7/06, TG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I played a little more with the boot CD, I have a rescue image that it boots from, using SHSU ramdisk to load a FDBOOT.IMG and set that

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Boot CD Question

2006-10-04 Thread Blair Campbell
Message - From: Blair Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 11:37 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Boot CD Question ISOLinux is just a CD-ROM bootloader that actually allows booting from CD-ROM. All of the actual

Re: [Freedos-devel] LFN and IO95

2006-10-04 Thread Blair Campbell
The clib-extension will eventually be part of OpenWatcom; it is already in Perforce as we speak. On 10/4/06, Alain M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blair Campbell escreveu: Note that IO95 has an issue with Win2k bugs. IOW, creating a file with IO95 on Win2k will result in unpredictable

Re: [Freedos-devel] djgpp

2006-10-03 Thread Blair Campbell
Note that IO95 has an issue with Win2k bugs. IOW, creating a file with IO95 on Win2k will result in unpredictable results (Win2k _always_ returns file handle 2 even if the next available handle is 5). On 10/3/06, Imre Leber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Alain M.

Re: [Freedos-devel] djgpp

2006-10-03 Thread Blair Campbell
FreeDOS should never become an entirely 32-bit OS IMHO. FreeDOS-32 is working on a 32-bit DOS. If the utilities CAN compile as 32-bit, that is great, but 16-bit apps tend to be much smaller for most uses, and for utilities like TSRs, it is virtually impossible for them to be 32-bit. With

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Boot CD Question

2006-10-03 Thread Blair Campbell
ISOLinux is just a CD-ROM bootloader that actually allows booting from CD-ROM. All of the actual loadup stuff is done in FreeDOS. The NERO booting feature (IIRC) makes the boot image read-only and does not copy it into memory like ISOLinux does. For the boot process to work, however, the boot

Re: [Freedos-devel] djgpp

2006-10-03 Thread Blair Campbell
With the clib extension I am working on, long filenames will be supported, and with entirely 8086 code. So it is not necessary to switch to DJGPP to get long filename support. On 10/1/06, Johnson Lam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 12:36:21 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: Hi, Fully

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Boot CD Question

2006-10-03 Thread Blair Campbell
360kb On 10/3/06, Lyrical Nanoha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Tony wrote: Hi all, Now I know most of us have a Windows machine with a legitimate copy of Nero or maybe even a freeware ISO making utility so I was wondering... Why hasn't anyone made a boot CD that boots

Re: [Freedos-devel] overdoing 32bitness of freedos 1.0 - was: djgpp

2006-10-03 Thread Blair Campbell
Actually LFNs are availalbe wherever an LFN driver is loaded. And a 386 is not required. On 10/1/06, Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would think that only the utilities that need to use protected mode, a DOS extender, or VCPI would be written using DJGPP or in 32-bit code...at the moment, I

Re: [Freedos-devel] Operation

2006-09-21 Thread Blair Campbell
Get well soon On 9/21/06, Imre Leber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In two weeks from now I need to do an operation. Because of this i am in a lot of pain. Therefore I might have said some things to certain people that I should not have said. I think it is best for me to stay away from the list

[Freedos-devel] INT 21h, AX=43FFh

2006-09-18 Thread Blair Campbell
I see that the RBIL says that MS-DOS 7.20 supports this interrupt. I am all for FreeDOS supporting this interrupt. What do other people think? PS: I've tested in MS-DOS 7.1 (without any drivers loaded), and this interrupt functions as expected; the 7.20 thing in the RBIL is probably a typo.

Re: [Freedos-devel] defrag 1.2

2006-09-16 Thread Blair Campbell
dosfsck is 32-bit. Defrag could be too (especially a version which supports FAT32). On 9/16/06, Imre Leber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What doesn't stop to amaze me is that this project is so completely oposed to anything 32bit. But when it comes down to it you all complain that things don't

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiler group?

2006-09-15 Thread Blair Campbell
I would expect Turbo PASCAL, but he never said for certain. On 9/15/06, Arkady V.Belousov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! 14-Сен-2006 19:13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Blair Campbell) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: BC I know for a fact that the OpenWatcom project BC would welcome

Re: [Freedos-devel] 32 bit

2006-09-15 Thread Blair Campbell
I personally much prefer Debian, which is free in every form, easy to install, and easy to use. On 9/15/06, Arkady V.Belousov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! 15-Сен-2006 15:35 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alain M.) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: Well i strongly prefer reactos in that

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiler group?

2006-09-15 Thread Blair Campbell
16bit code...not sure if it is 286 real or protected mode code, altough it seems to be real mode (i've seen people writing bootloaders with nasm) doesn't this fits the needs of a real mode modern compiler?!!?!?!? On 9/16/06, Blair Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would expect Turbo

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiler group?

2006-09-14 Thread Blair Campbell
I think what we REALLY need is a free PASCAL compiler that can generate 16-bit code. I know for a fact that the OpenWatcom project would welcome a PASCAL frontend to their toolset. Any takers? On 9/14/06, Ladislav Lacina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, there are another two quite good BASIC

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiler group?

2006-09-14 Thread Blair Campbell
On 9/14/06, Arkady V.Belousov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! 14-Сен-2006 05:14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Blair Campbell) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: BC I think what we REALLY need is a free PASCAL compiler that can BC generate 16-bit code. I think, Modula (which is superset

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiler group?

2006-09-13 Thread Blair Campbell
If it helps, I've been writing a minimal CLIB mainly for OpenWatcom. It should't be t hard to port it to other compilers either. On 9/13/06, Arkady V.Belousov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! 13-Сен-2006 19:57 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory Pietsch) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net:

Re: [Freedos-devel] The show must go on

2006-09-05 Thread Blair Campbell
Of course, that could be changed in OW (if someone is willing to do the work). On 9/5/06, Japheth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will move it to openwatcom. This way it can be compiled for 386. This will probably double the speed, since everything is internally computed as 32bit. Not if you

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS

2006-09-05 Thread Blair Campbell
Well, in the case of Windows, all of the work is part of the system dlls, so yes, in ReactOS, all a chkdsk needs to do is call those dlls, which doesn't take much code. On 9/5/06, Aitor Santamaría [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Easy: just for going to the extreme, write a DOS API extension function

[Freedos-devel] Surprise!

2006-09-03 Thread Blair Campbell
Hey folks. If you check out the website, you may be in for a surprise. -- Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya - Using

Re: [Freedos-devel] Surprise!

2006-09-03 Thread Blair Campbell
How did you run the installer? On 9/3/06, Daniel Verkamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blair Campbell wrote: Hey folks. If you check out the website, you may be in for a surprise. Excellent work! However, in testing the base CD in Virtual PC 2004, I came across this problem during

Re: [Freedos-devel] Surprise!

2006-09-03 Thread Blair Campbell
Strange that I cannot reproduce this (even on an i586, with real hardware). On 9/3/06, Daniel Verkamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blair Campbell wrote: How did you run the installer? I booted from the CD, created a single 2GB primary partition using xfdisk, rebooted, formatted C

Re: [Freedos-devel] Surprise!

2006-09-03 Thread Blair Campbell
Does the ISO I just re-uploaded work now? (I know, it's kinda cheating). On 9/3/06, Blair Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Strange that I cannot reproduce this (even on an i586, with real hardware). On 9/3/06, Daniel Verkamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blair Campbell wrote: How did you run

Re: [Freedos-devel] Surprise!

2006-09-03 Thread Blair Campbell
Here I am, I've spent about 5 hours slowly downloading the full version, getting just a few K per second, and right before it gets done, you go and replace it. I'm sorry, but I made it quite clear in the announcemet that the full ISOs were NOT ready yet. I would have annouced it if they

Re: [Freedos-devel] Surprise!

2006-09-03 Thread Blair Campbell
Hey jackass, ... (you all know the rest) For future reference, I would greatly prefer that any obscenity or otherwise rude 'behavior' be directed solely at my private e-mail address, in order to prevent third parties from experiencing discomfort resulting from subscription to these mailing

Re: [Freedos-devel] virtual environment

2006-08-30 Thread Blair Campbell
It works in Windows 98. On 8/30/06, Alain M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Arkady, These are the most important links about Qemu: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/ and this is the binary for windows (5Mb)

[Freedos-devel] MOVE 3.3A

2006-08-30 Thread Blair Campbell
Can someone please send this to me or tell me where this is uploaded (if it is uploaded) within the next hour or I won't have time to include it in 1.0. -- Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos package spec problem: sources, binary, docs

2006-08-27 Thread Blair Campbell
I agree with Aitor. On 8/27/06, Aitor Santamaría [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two small notes: (1) The HELP file (for FASTHELP) is probably NOT required in the source package either (2) There are docs that are very specific to sources (e.g. how to build and such), that I myself usually don't

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos package spec problem: sources, binary, docs

2006-08-27 Thread Blair Campbell
I very much like the current spec and would wish to stick to it. I'm not going to go about changing the packaging scheme (especially for the distros). On 8/27/06, Lyrical Nanoha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Documentation is need for program using

Re: [Freedos-devel] TRUENAME doesn't remove trailing '\'

2006-08-24 Thread Blair Campbell
Maybe in other DOSes, the TRUENAME command in COMMAND.COM itself removes the trailing '\'. On 8/24/06, Arkady V.Belousov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! 24-Авг-2006 20:13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Diego Rodriguez) wrote to freedos-devel freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: DR The truename dos

Re: [Freedos-devel] mem.exe crashes on 8086

2006-08-23 Thread Blair Campbell
1.9a3 is in FreeDOS 1.0, and it was contributed a long time ago by David O'Shea (don't know what happened to him though; he said he would be unavailable while moving IIRC, but that was a while ago). On 8/23/06, Imre Leber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Base list still shows: MEM 1.7 Bart Oldeman

Re: [Freedos-devel] mem on xt

2006-08-23 Thread Blair Campbell
Hehe, I had a card for our 8088 that accelerated it to faster-than-286 speed according to the manual. I think it helped to accept the 286 instruction set as well. You could turn it on and off via a switch. On 8/23/06, Michael Devore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:25 PM 8/23/2006 -0500, I

Re: [Freedos-devel] command SET /A

2006-08-22 Thread Blair Campbell
SET /P is already implemented. On 8/22/06, Ladislav Lacina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that it would be great to add two new features from windowx 2000/XP dos console to FreeDOS Their command set has two new switches: set /a and set /p For more info look for example at this site:

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel 2037 actually available

2006-08-20 Thread Blair Campbell
You should probably ask Eric for the changes :-) On 8/20/06, Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blair Campbell wrote: Ok, I took the time to upload proper kernel pacakges to www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/kernel/ as kernel2037-binary.zip and kernel2037-source.zip

Re: [Freedos-devel] Installing with singlestepping doesn't seem to work.

2006-08-19 Thread Blair Campbell
Singlestepping is not something that most people will be doing when installing 1.0. -- Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya

Re: [Freedos-devel] Translation status for FreeDOS components

2006-08-19 Thread Blair Campbell
Thanks Aitor. I will update it with the information I have. On 8/19/06, Aitor Santamaría [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have slightly modified the Translation status page as follows: http://wiki.fdos.org/Main/Translations Now you have for each tool wether it is translatable, and the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Hopefully last testing distribution

2006-08-19 Thread Blair Campbell
The three 'hidden' options are the options that are available on the full distributions; for the livecd. I just didn't feel like making a whole new fdconfig.sys. On 8/19/06, Markus Laire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did a quick install in qemu and noticed only one problem: The first menu you

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compatibility EMM386/HIMEM 2.25 New Release

2006-08-19 Thread Blair Campbell
It's sad to see you leaving Michael, but thanks for all the wonderful work, and the humour along the way. The next maintainer has big shoes to fill :-). On 8/19/06, Michael Devore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386/ are the files emmx225.zip,

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