Re: [Freedos-devel] zoo

2024-05-23 Thread E. C. Masloch via Freedos-devel
On at 2024-05-23 11:42 +0100, Liam Proven via Freedos-devel wrote: On Tue, 21 May 2024 at 19:22, E. C. Masloch via Freedos-devel wrote: 64 Ki * 16 KiB = 1024 MiB. (The actual maximum amount of clusters is of course slightly less than 64 Ki, to be exacting.) So you're off-by-one, a "2 GB&

Re: [Freedos-devel] zoo

2024-05-21 Thread E. C. Masloch via Freedos-devel
On at 2024-05-19 00:37 +0100, Liam Proven via Freedos-devel wrote: On Fri, 17 May 2024 at 17:14, tom ehlert via Freedos-devel wrote: Below 1GB FAT16 uses 8kB clusters. From 1GB-2GB it uses 16kB ones. (Below ½GB it uses 4kB.) That would require FAT17. (?) Not at all. 64 Ki * 16 KiB =

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

Re: [Freedos-devel] MS-DOS 4.0 source released as open source under MIT license

2024-04-26 Thread E. C. Masloch via Freedos-devel
On at 2024-04-26 14:28 -0500, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel wrote: On Fri, 26 Apr 2024, Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel wrote: Microsoft and IBM released the source code of MS-DOS 4.0 under MIT license [1]. To me, it looks fairly complete. On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 2:25 AM Steve Nickolas via

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDISK does not respect DLASortByDriveNo config of the kernel

2024-01-07 Thread C. Masloch via Freedos-devel
On at 2024-01-04 17:46 +0100, Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel wrote: Hi Eric, I would assume the kernel parameter is neither meant to be queried at runtime nor is it used by a significant number of people at all. There is no external API, but you may pull it from RAM, possibly. No, the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Interim Build Delayed

2023-09-01 Thread C. Masloch via Freedos-devel
On at 2023-09-01 19:03 +0200, Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel wrote: Well, I think it's me to blame ;-) I will try to build some compression mechanism into AMB, so that the help files get smaller. The main FreeDOS help file would also benefit from that, I think. Bernd I recently added

[Freedos-devel] Booting FreeDOS kernel without a 386

2023-08-05 Thread C. Masloch via Freedos-devel
On at 2023-08-02 15:27 +0800, Paul Edwards via Freedos-devel wrote: > FreeDOS should run on 8086, both kernel and shell. If it doesn't, > that's a bug or omission. Are you sure? I thought I was told that the standard distribution relied on an 80386. > ke20xx_32.zip : binaries for 8086,

Re: [Freedos-devel] ANSI for DOS

2023-07-31 Thread C. Masloch via Freedos-devel
On at 2023-07-31 08:44 -0500, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel wrote: FYI: Your post was 104 lines and 618 words. How-to articles on websites are between 500 and 800 words, so this email was a bit long. :-/ The point is you have released a new microemacs? There is some more context to all of this