Re: [Freedos-devel] undocumented behaviour in INT21h/AX=6501h

2012-11-30 Thread Daniel Verkamp
- will be modified by LEA; the segment override will be ignored completely. ( Ralf's explanation is correct; LES loads both ES and the destination register (DI) with the full far pointer/16:16 address. -- Daniel Verkamp --

Re: [Freedos-devel] Black text on white

2008-08-12 Thread Daniel Verkamp
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Daniel Verkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Matt inson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, I just wanted to ask a simple question. Would command line interfaces >> look better on laptops and other LCD scre

Re: [Freedos-devel] Black text on white

2008-08-12 Thread Daniel Verkamp
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Matt inson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I just wanted to ask a simple question. Would command line interfaces > look better on laptops and other LCD screens if they are using black text on > white backgrounds, rather than the usual reverse (white text on black,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: Virus in the FreeDOS distributive on the ibiblio.

2007-03-04 Thread Daniel Verkamp
tec AntiVirus 10.1.0.396, scan engine 71.1.0.11, virus definitions 3/2/2007 rev. 20, and no viruses were found. According to http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/threatexplorer/azlisting.jsp?azid=B this virus (Barrotes.1194) is detected by their d

Re: [Freedos-devel] Jemm386 issues

2006-12-21 Thread Daniel Verkamp
Blair Campbell wrote: > Just to butt in :-) I understand jnc/jc/jz/jnz myself but I don't even > know what jae is. I would also prefer jnc/jz over jae or je. > > ja/jae and jb/jbe are "jump if above/below", which work the same way as jg/jge and jl/jle, except treating the operands as unsigned

Re: [Freedos-devel] My 1st 24 hours with FreeDOS 1.0 (long)

2006-10-03 Thread Daniel Verkamp
Tony wrote: > After that I decided that I needed to run CHKDSK on my hard drive. Big > mistake. CHKDSK did fine on my floppy, but several files in the file > system on C: were reported as being around 4,294,901,760 bytes (4096K > give or take) some even more. So acting as a typical user, (even N

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiler group?

2006-09-14 Thread Daniel Verkamp
Eric Auer wrote: > I would appreciate some FreeBASIC command line options to > set default types (QB: single for variables, 16bit for INTEGER, > FB: integer for variables, 32bit for INTEGER). That would > make FreeBASIC ("command line optionally"!) behave even more > like QuickBASIC, where appropri

Re: [Freedos-devel] Surprise!

2006-09-03 Thread Daniel Verkamp
Blair Campbell wrote: > Does the ISO I just re-uploaded work now? (I know, it's kinda cheating). > > No, it behaves the same way as the original. BTW, Virtual PC is available for free now if you would like to test it yourself - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/downloads/sp1.mspx ---

Re: [Freedos-devel] Surprise!

2006-09-03 Thread Daniel Verkamp
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:, and followed the defaults on the package selection screen. At this point, postinst.bat executed and produced this error. I tried the in

Re: [Freedos-devel] Surprise!

2006-09-03 Thread Daniel Verkamp
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 postinst.bat: Batchfile 'C:\FDOS\POSTINST.BAT' does not contain label 's4_801586'. I ha

[Freedos-devel] Updated 1.0 Testing CD

2006-08-03 Thread Daniel Verkamp
your hard disk." This doesn't make sense with the CD, but it's not a major issue. -- Daniel Verkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's T

Re: [Freedos-devel] Updated 1.0 Testing CD

2006-08-03 Thread Daniel Verkamp
Blair Campbell wrote: > Uploaded to > www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0-Testing/fdbasecd.iso > is an updated BASE CD-ROM ISO. Hopefully, the bugs that plagued users > of the last distribution should be gone, and I would greatly > appreciate testing from ones where

Re: [Freedos-devel] freecom/include command.h, 1.14, 1.15

2006-06-23 Thread Daniel Verkamp
Blair Campbell wrote: >> About command line limitation: NDOS/4DOS and newer command.com place >> complete, untruncated command line into CMDLINE environemnt variable. >> > > What does everybody think about FreeCOM supporting this? Of course, > it is possibly useless without C runtimes s