[Freedos-devel] Reminder: FreeDOS virtual get-together on Sunday

Hi everyone! I've been away working on other projects, so thanks to Bryan for reminding me about Sunday's FreeDOS virtual get-together! The get-together is THIS SUNDAY at 11am US/Central. Use your favorite time zone converter to find your local time. We alternate the topics every month. Last

Re: [Freedos-devel] Broken links for Turbo C++ 1.01 and Turbo C 2.01 on Link page

On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 8:13 AM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel wrote: > > The page: https://freedos.org/links/ > (Programming section) > seems to have broken links for for Turbo C++ 1.01 and Turbo C 2.01. > > The following link have those, with more info about license "personal use > only": >

[Freedos-devel] DOjS - Javascript for DOS

I shared this as a news item on the website, a few weeks ago, but I don't think the developer announced it on freedos-devel. (I saw it on Twitter and on the DOS-Aint-Dead forum.) DOjS is a Javascript programming canvas for DOS, and SuperIlu released a new version of DOjS. New features in this

[Freedos-devel] SmallerC compiler

I posted this news item on the website, but I think the developer hasn't joined freedos-devel to announce it here. So I wanted to share the announcement about this other C compiler: Smaller C is a simple and small single-pass C compiler, currently supporting most of the C language common between

Re: [Freedos-devel] The "choice.asm" I was talking about on the FD chat

Very cool, thanks for sharing. In case others want to find it, I've mirrored this file on ibiblio, under the "Choice" directory, but listed as "unofficial": http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/choice/unofficial/ On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 4:06 PM Steve Nickolas wrote: > > I

Re: [Freedos-devel] desmet-c link

> On 9/19/2021 1:17 PM, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel wrote: > > On the chat today, desmet-c (that seems to be some kind of fork to > > https://github.com/IanHarvey/pcc [A small C compiler]). > > Before closing my tab, mailing the link to all for not loosing it: > > http://www.desmet-c.com/ On

Re: [Freedos-devel] Reminder: FreeDOS virtual get-together on Sunday

Jim Hall wrote: > > Hi everyone! > > I wanted to share a reminder that our next FreeDOS virtual > get-together is coming up on Sunday, 19 September, at 11am > US/Central. (Use your favorite time zone converter to find your > local time. This is the same time as last

[Freedos-devel] Reminder: FreeDOS virtual get-together on Sunday

Hi everyone! I wanted to share a reminder that our next FreeDOS virtual get-together is coming up on Sunday, 19 September, at 11am US/Central. (Use your favorite time zone converter to find your local time. This is the same time as last time.) Interested in joining? You can join using Bluejeans.

Re: [Freedos-devel] List of blocking issues for FreeDOS 1.3

Thanks for the edits. I've updated the wiki page to move "XMGR and FDXMS" from "Need to have" to "Nice to have." I also added the MODE item you mentioned. I also collected the program updates listed under "Nice to have" into a single item list titled "2. Program updates and bug fixes" so it's

Re: [Freedos-devel] List of blocking issues for FreeDOS 1.3

On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 6:35 PM wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 15, 2021, 5:53 PM Jim Hall wrote: >> >> Hi everyone >> >> ... >> 3. Fixed Codepage and time separator data errors in COUNTRY.SYS >> > > > I will publish with updated kernel release, unl

Re: [Freedos-devel] List of blocking issues for FreeDOS 1.3

Hi Eric On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 4:58 PM Eric Auer wrote: > > > * Nice to have: (not blocking) > > > > 1. Improved language and translation support > > > 2. FDAPM ("parse larger ACPI blocks") > > 3. CTMOUSE ("become 8086 compatible") > > 4. NGE NIBBLES ("improve documentation") > > 5. CDROM2

[Freedos-devel] List of blocking issues for FreeDOS 1.3

Hi everyone Based on our email list discussion from a few weeks ago, I've captured the "blocking issues" for FreeDOS 1.3 in a new wiki page: http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Releases/1.3/Issues **Please review this page and let me know if anything is wrong. I'm trying to capture

Re: [Freedos-devel] This weekend: FreeDOS virtual get-together

Hi everyone! The virtual get-together is on. You can join at https://bluejeans.com/506720713/0416 Jim On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 5:26 PM Jim Hall wrote: > > Hi everyone! > > I wanted to remind you about this weekend's virtual get-together. > (I've also posted this as a note

[Freedos-devel] This weekend: FreeDOS virtual get-together

Hi everyone! I wanted to remind you about this weekend's virtual get-together. (I've also posted this as a note on the website.) Join us for the FreeDOS Virtual Get-together on Sunday, August 15 at 11am US/Central. (Use your favorite time zone converter to find your local time.) We alternate

Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for Fr eeDOS 1.3]

On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 1:14 PM Bret Johnson wrote: > > > really? Like in 'Could you provide the German resources?' > > if true, I have done that wrong for the last 50 years. > > Insights from native english/american (English/American) people? > > In English, proper names (including things like

Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3]

Jim Hall wrote: > >> One comment from reviewing the code - you use this comment at the top > >> of both kittenc.c and kitten.c: > >> > >>> /* > >>> This software is free software; free to use, > >>> modify,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3]

> On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 1:39 PM tom ehlert wrote: > >[..] > > KITTENC - catgets/kittengets compatible resource compiler > > > > KITTENC 'compiles' language resources to strings and attaches > > these strings to the executable program such that the program can > > retrieve these strings

Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3]

Hi Tom On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 1:39 PM tom ehlert wrote: >[..] > KITTENC - catgets/kittengets compatible resource compiler > > KITTENC 'compiles' language resources to strings and attaches > these strings to the executable program such that the program can > retrieve these strings at

Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3]

> On 8/1/2021 10:03 AM, Robert Riebisch wrote: > > > > If we would streamline the build process for most of the FreeDOS tools, > > creating per-language binaries will be a breeze. On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 12:55 PM Ralf Quint wrote: > > It would be as simple as putting all files that do have

Re: [Freedos-devel] CHAR: echo ascii characters

Well, I originally said the use case was "how to get a list of extended ASCII characters into a file on FreeDOS" .. so really, I mean *extended* ASCII here. And yes, any code less than 0 or greater than 255 is not valid extended ASCII, so that's why I print those invalid code requests as '?' to

Re: [Freedos-devel] CHAR: echo ascii characters

Thanks! I'll copy these into a wiki page, so we can have them for reference in one spot. I'll do that this weekend. Jim On Fri, Jul 30, 2021, 8:26 PM wrote: > For a fairly comprehensive* list I ran across this site, it lists code > pages and the first version of DOS seen > >

Re: [Freedos-devel] CHAR: echo ascii characters

On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 5:20 PM Bret Johnson wrote: [..] > First of all, you say that this is intended to put ASCII codes into > a file, but it just writes them to the screen. You indicate the > user was asking how to inject them into a file. The most obvious > way I can see to do that (though

[Freedos-devel] CHAR: echo ascii characters

Someone had emailed me to ask how to get a list of extended ASCII characters into a file on FreeDOS (the Alt key trick doesn't seem to work under a virtual machine). So I wrote a program to help them to do that. Because this is a simple program, I've released it into the public domain. I've also

Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 7:15 AM Eric Auer wrote: > > COUNTRY=... and COUNTRY.SYS are not undocumented, but your > choice of words hints at another idea: Do you suggest to > introduce a TSR to handle string and key translations, to > be used by FreeDOS apps? I think this would not save enough >

Re: [Freedos-devel] What are the blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3?

Jerome Shidel wrote: > >> At present, only I update the "shipping packages”. > > > > On Jul 29, 2021, at 10:16 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > Would it help you to have volunteers for the version checks? > On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 1:01 PM Jerome Shidel wrote: > > Version checking might help a little,

[Freedos-devel] What are the blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3?

With the recent changes and updates (biggest recent updates include the kernel, FreeCOM, JEMM, SHSUCDX) I wanted to ask: What are the blocking issues or bugs in FreeDOS 1.3 RC4? (What remains to be updated or fixed from RC4?) And: With the updates we have, are we ready to release this as

Re: [Freedos-devel] Survey results: How do you use FreeDOS

There wasn't any further discussion on the survey results, but I wanted to share my interpretations of the results anyway. On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 6:30 PM Jim Hall wrote: > [..] > 1. What do you use FreeDOS for? [..] > > Sifting through the "Other" results, some people use

Re: [Freedos-devel] The other MORE issue

Thanks for letting me know. I've created a new bug to track this: https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/bugs/319/ On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 10:25 AM Jerome Shidel wrote: > > Hi, > > The other day during the online get-together, Jim said he was going > to look into fixing an issue with more regarding

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS get-together

Join us for the FreeDOS virtual get-together! The get-together runs from 11am to noon (US/Central) right now, on Sunday, July 18. You can join us online from your browser or with the Bluejeans desktop client: https://bluejeans.com/506720713/0416 ___

[Freedos-devel] Reminder: FreeDOS virtual get-together on Sunday

Hi everyone! Sending a quick reminder that the FreeDOS virtual get-together is coming up on Sunday, July 18, at 11am US/Central. That's a few days from now. Remember from last time that we are alternating the get-together topics. July is "social time," August is technical, September is "social,"

Re: [Freedos-devel] Survey results: How do you use FreeDOS

On Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 6:46 PM Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi! > > > Also note that "modern" PC hardware was defined as a system from 2020 > > or 2021. This was a "control" option, because an Intel system released > > in 2020 or 2021 does not support BIOS, and does not have the "Legacy" > > option in

[Freedos-devel] Survey results: How do you use FreeDOS

Hi everyone I wanted to share the results of the recent survey about "How do you use FreeDOS." I shared the survey here a few times, and on the website, and on Facebook, and on Twitter. OVERVIEW We had 353 total responses, which is not bad. Of these, ten responses were invalid (test data,

[Freedos-devel] Updated A72 assembler

FYI that R. Swan emailed me about a bug in the A72 assembler. I've mirrored the new release on Ibiblio as version 1.03a. See email, below. We agreed the updated version should have the "a" label in case someone reports a problem. Then there's a way to see if that person is running the outdated

Re: [Freedos-devel] How do you use FreeDOS?

to answer. I'll share the survey results here next week. Jim On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 4:21 PM Jim Hall wrote: > > Hi everyone! > > I've made a few tweaks to the survey that I think clarify a few > questions. I'm asking for YOUR HELP to encourage others to ANSWER THE > SURVEY

Re: [Freedos-devel] Blocek

On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 12:52 PM Wilhelm Spiegl wrote: > > Hi to everyone, > I just wanted to inform you that Blocek (text editor) from the actual DOS > repository is out of date. > The actual version is 1.62, available athttp://laaca.sweb.cz/ . > I just work on the german translation. > [..]

Re: [Freedos-devel] Pacific C Shareware version at ibiblio

g 2000 they release the same version as freeware with no > > >> shareware nags. They can be got from > > >> https://web.archive.org/web/20040215154614/http://www1.htsoft.com:80/files/pacific/pacific.exe > > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 3:42 PM Jim Hall wrot

Re: [Freedos-devel] Pacific C Shareware version at ibiblio

On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 3:31 PM Steve Nickolas wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Jul 2021, tom ehlert wrote: > > > > >> Not sure if anyone will be concerned but just found that ibiblio > >> (https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/c/pacific/) > >> is mirroring the shareware version of

Re: [Freedos-devel] A new UHDD release! :D

Thanks! And thanks also to Jack for the new version I've mirrored this also on the FreeDOS Files Archive on Ibiblio, and posted a news item about it on the website. On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 12:36 AM Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel wrote: > > Hey all! > > I've packaged up the most recent

Re: [Freedos-devel] reporting FreeDOS bugs

On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 2:56 PM Robert Riebisch wrote: > > Hi Jim, > > > Ah, I see what you meant. Yes, if I'm not logged in, I can see the > > same message if I hover over the "Create ticket" link. > > > > I always thought SF only allowed logged-in users to create tickets. > > But digging into

Re: [Freedos-devel] reporting FreeDOS bugs

Ah, I see what you meant. Yes, if I'm not logged in, I can see the same message if I hover over the "Create ticket" link. I always thought SF only allowed logged-in users to create tickets. But digging into this further, I found the setting that controls this. Either I didn't know about this

Re: [Freedos-devel] reporting FreeDOS bugs

an email me and I'll enter the bug on your behalf (and I have done for folks). Jim On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 7:49 AM Jim Hall wrote: > > That's a new one for me, too. I didn't change anything on the project admin > side. > > I wonder if SourceForge broke something. I know they did

Re: [Freedos-devel] reporting FreeDOS bugs

That's a new one for me, too. I didn't change anything on the project admin side. I wonder if SourceForge broke something. I know they did "site maintenance" a week or so ago. I'll look at it. Might have to enter a support request to SF. On Tue, Jun 29, 2021, 4:18 AM tom ehlert wrote: > Dear

Re: [Freedos-devel] How do you use FreeDOS?

other than how you use FreeDOS. It's a Google Form, but it doesn't collect any username info or even your IP address. On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 9:26 AM Jim Hall wrote: > > Hi everyone! > > Looking for feedback on this form. > > Background: In this weekend's FreeDOS get-together,

Re: [Freedos-devel] The GPL version issue with the NET thing

(long email) On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 10:05 AM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel wrote: > > I don't understand clearly what it is about. >[..] The FDNET issue is described on the wiki, here: http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Releases/1.3/Packages#Networking FDNET uses a mix of licenses, also

Re: [Freedos-devel] Got a working gnuchess 5.05

On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 6:54 PM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel wrote: > > So: > 1) Show the board before asking the first move > 2) Add coordinates (A-H, 1-8) when showing board. > 3) Allows entering move by moving cursor... this would probably need > pdcurses.h. > ... will look at first two

Re: [Freedos-devel] Got a working gnuchess 5.05

On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 6:39 PM Jim Hall wrote: > > It worked. But that's definitely not very user friendly. Could you > make a patch that displays the starting board position? [..] edit: "..displays the starting board position *before* the user ma

Re: [Freedos-devel] Got a working gnuchess 5.05

It worked. But that's definitely not very user friendly. Could you make a patch that displays the starting board position? You might also display a "header" at the top and along the left side to show the column and row notation. Probably something similar to what I showed on the latest C

Re: [Freedos-devel] Got a working gnuchess 5.05

On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 5:24 PM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel wrote: > > made a package for GNU CHESS 5.05 called GCHES, at: > https://gitlab.com/dufresnep/gches/-/tree/main/GCHES1_0 > > Feel free to test for virus ( I did not ), and try. > > I downloaded it, but I think I'm not sure how to

Re: [Freedos-devel] How do you use FreeDOS?

On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 9:26 AM Jim Hall wrote: > > Hi everyone! > > Looking for feedback on this form. >[..] > I've set up this anonymous survey to ask how people use FreeDOS. > https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfbD3ge4SgFQZeTTRUneMKCb5Y4LjUi3dwWIpJFVfIk1nzCJg/v

[Freedos-devel] How do you use FreeDOS?

Hi everyone! Looking for feedback on this form. Background: In this weekend's FreeDOS get-together, some folks wanted to know "how do people run FreeDOS?" and "who is running FreeDOS?" I ran a survey around 2010 or 2012, and that's how we learned that many people use FreeDOS for three key

[Freedos-devel] Thanks for the FreeDOS virtual get-together

Thanks to everyone who joined today's FreeDOS virtual get-together. As usual, we opened with social time and greeting new members, then did a "deep dive" on some FreeDOS distribution questions and other FreeDOS topics. Overall, I think the discussion went well. We talked about several things,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Don't forget tomorrow's virtual get-together

Hi everyone! The virtual get-together is on now. Join us for the next hour or so: https://bluejeans.com/557178641 On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 9:40 PM Jim Hall wrote: > > Don't forget the FreeDOS virtual get-together, coming up tomorrow: Sunday, > June 20 at 11am US/Central. (Use your

[Freedos-devel] Don't forget tomorrow's virtual get-together

Don't forget the FreeDOS virtual get-together, coming up tomorrow: Sunday, June 20 at 11am US/Central. (Use your favorite online time zone converter to find your local time. This is the same time we've done the last few get-togethers.) I'll share the connection details when the meeting starts.

[Freedos-devel] Removing XDEL from FreeDOS 1.3?

Hi everyone I have been going through some bugs in the tracker since the release of FreeDOS 1.3 RC4 .. mostly checking if bugs were fixed in RC4 but not updated in the tracker. I found this bug about XDEL: https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/bugs/246/ Steve reported a problem in how XDEL deleted

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: List FreeDOS 1.3rc4 and 1.2 driver errata?

On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 12:38 PM Eric Auer wrote: > > > As Jim is moving the discussion to freedos-devel, I > am also forwarding my newest reply to him & Jerome, > slightly shortened. Note that Jeremy is fixing the > ERRORLEVEL regression in the source code already :-) > FYI that this ERRORLEVEL

Re: [Freedos-devel] List FreeDOS 1.3rc4 and 1.2 driver errata?

(Eric sent this off-list to me and Jerome, but it seems like it should be discussed more generally so I'm replying to the list) We used to include Errata (lists of bugs/breaking issues) in some of the previous FreeDOS distributions. Doing a quick check on Ibiblio, we provided Errata

Re: [Freedos-devel] Why games have bad color in VirtualBox

On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 1:09 PM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel wrote: > > vgapal works in VirtualBox ... and DOSEMU2, not tested under QEMU. > > I think problematic games run under DPMI (protected mode). > Might be linked to the problem for VirtualBox not handling color palettes > correctly...

Re: [Freedos-devel] Why games have bad color in VirtualBox

On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 11:21 AM Jerome Shidel wrote: > > Hi, > > A while back Jim did a nice article on DOS text mode colors. > > I asked him why he didn’t cover VGA text mode pallets for customizing them. > > This led to the creation of a simple tool to demonstrate altering the text > mode

Re: [Freedos-devel] Additional notes on Games

> > On Thu, 17 Jun 2021, Eric Auer wrote: > > > If you really worry about people getting confused by GNUCHESS, but > > really refuse to load NANSI by default, you could simply provide a batch > > file to first load NANSI, then GNUCHESS and bundle that batch file with > > GNUCHESS. You can even

Re: [Freedos-devel] Additional notes on Games

(This was sent to me off-list, but it belongs with the rest of the discussion, so I am replying to the list) On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 6:39 PM Eric Auer wrote: > > > Jim, > > >>> I know a lot of FreeDOS users > >>> are using VirtualBox. > > >> Why, actually? > > > Probably because it's free and

Re: [Freedos-devel] Additional notes on Games

On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 6:03 PM Eric Auer wrote: > > > Not saying we don't include it, just that the palette > > is off in VirtualBox. > > You do not solve bugs in VirtualBox by telling users > that they may only play the three games where you do > not notice that VirtualBox is broken. Just make

Re: [Freedos-devel] Problems on 1.3rc4 on VirtualBox

On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 4:06 PM Eric Auer wrote: > >>> nge_nibb, fading indeed slow, speed of game seems ok, but fastly got: > >>> Page fault at eip=5d53, error=4 > >>> cs: sel=00a7 ds:af, es:af fs:8f > >>> Call frame: > >>> 0x5d53 > >>> 0x2133 > >>> 0x219a > >>> a few

Re: [Freedos-devel] Additional notes on Games

On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 5:10 PM Steve Nickolas wrote: > > Here's the problem, as I see it. > > A lot of people misuse the terms "open source" and "public domain". They > say "open source" when they mean source-available (it may not be open, if > it is not as I describe "freedom-compliant"), and

Re: [Freedos-devel] Additional notes on Games

On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 3:59 PM Eric Auer wrote: > > * has issues: > > gnu chess > > Kraptor > > Liquiwar > > magnetic > > mirror magic To be clear, the "has issues" are not "license issues." These are games that I had "issues" with while trying them on VirtualBox. See below that some work fine

Re: [Freedos-devel] Additional notes on Games

On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 3:27 PM Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi! > > I think given that Paku Paku sources are public domain, > there is no problem with the author asking to send a > postcard if you like it. You are free to not send a > postcard, after all. Making a new release without the >

Re: [Freedos-devel] Additional notes on Games

On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 2:16 PM Carsten Strotmann wrote: > > Hi Jim, > > On 16 Jun 2021, at 21:01, Jim Hall wrote: > > > * Magnetic says in the startup that it is an interpreter for Magnetic > > Scrolls games. but there aren't any Magnetic Scrolls games installed &

Re: [Freedos-devel] The confusing fdisk releases

On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 11:58 AM Wilhelm Spiegl wrote: > > > I am not sure if bug 304 is already fixed, it was still in 1.3.4. So I report > it again. >hi tom, fdisk supports 2 tb in size, it is no problem to create >a partition smaller than one TB, but it is not possible to >create a partition

Re: [Freedos-devel] The confusing fdisk releases

On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 8:18 PM wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2021, 9:06 PM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel > wrote: >> >> I ... >> >> I am a bit confused... > > > 1.3.4 is the latest release I am aware of, it was released in February. > > The ones on GitHub are a mirror, I only recently updated

[Freedos-devel] Additional notes on Games

I tried some of the other games on FreeDOS 1.3 RC4, using VirtualBox on Linux. Starting point was VBoxVGA unless otherwise noted. Short version: * runs fine: empong ewsnake fmines ivan (?) mistral nethack noudar qtetris sudoku86 vertigo (?) vitetris zmiy * has issues: gnu chess Kraptor

Re: [Freedos-devel] Problems on 1.3rc4 on VirtualBox

Tested these games with FreeDOS 1.3 RC4 on VirtualBox, on Fedora Linux. Tested with boot option 1 "JEMMEX, no EMS (most UMBs), max RAM free" but I don't think it matters. Sharing my results: On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 11:11 PM Jim Hall wrote: > > I hadn't tried the games yet, so ve

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS kernel and FreeCOM command.com updates

> On Sun, Jun 13, 2021, 4:44 PM tom ehlert wrote: >> > While I have not seen it discussed here yet, >> >> > https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/2021/06/freedos-kernel-2043-and-freecom-085/ >> >> IMHO this is not acceptable. >> >> freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net used to be the place to

[Freedos-devel] Tracking bugs (was Re: ... two useful FreeDOS kernel requests)

(Eric emailed me off-list, but this is generally interesting/useful so I am replying to the list) On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 6:40 PM Eric Auer wrote: >[..] > I think it would be a lot better to use the github/gitlab trackers > for all projects which already have their code hosted there. At > least

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS kernel and FreeCOM command.com updates

Sorry about that. I thought Jeremy was going to share his update to the freedos-devel email list, so I didn't repost for him. Yes, there's a new version of FreeCOM and the kernel out. I started testing them this morning. I found one issue in FreeCOM 0.85 thanks to Burkhard M. When running a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Problems on 1.3rc4 on VirtualBox

I hadn't tried the games yet, so verifying your bug report was my first time. Verifying your errors: On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 9:47 PM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel wrote: >[..] > hangman, illegal function call in module HANGMAN at address 164F:0745 after > choosing category > I get a similar

Re: [Freedos-devel] Problems on 1.3rc4 on VirtualBox

On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 8:33 PM Paul Dufresne wrote: > > Yesterday, the first Linux I installed, to test outside of NixOS was Debian > 11 (same computer, I make different partitions under GPT, UEFI). > I was surprised that Debian got rid of VirtualBox in Debian 10 (because they > don't like how

Re: [Freedos-devel] Problems on 1.3rc4 on VirtualBox

Yes, that could be part of the problem. I haven't used NixOS (I use Fedora) but I see on the NixOS home page they write: "Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration." The "unique approach" usually means "incompatible" depending on what they've

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3 packages

I didn't realize that there were Zip 3.0 binaries for DOS. I've just mirrored them to the FreeDOS Files Archive at Ibiblio. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/file/info-zip/zip/3.0/ Jim On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 10:48 AM Robert Riebisch wrote: > Hi all, > > > And I'm

Re: [Freedos-devel] 2 diffrent index of ibiblio?

On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 3:05 PM Jim Hall wrote: > > (long answer below) > > Short answer is: One is a link into the FreeDOS Files Archive, which > is hosted at Ibiblio. The other is Jerome's package repository that he > uses to create the FreeDOS distributions, which is a path in

Re: [Freedos-devel] 2 diffrent index of ibiblio?

(long answer below) Short answer is: One is a link into the FreeDOS Files Archive, which is hosted at Ibiblio. The other is Jerome's package repository that he uses to create the FreeDOS distributions, which is a path inside the FreeDOS Files Archive. On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 2:21 PM Paul

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3 packages

Replying to freedos-devel because this conversation seems better suited for the email list, not a private email. I've reformatted to be easier to read: On Sat, Jun 5, 2021 at 7:00 PM Eric Auer wrote: > > [..] > In related news, I think we should also have: > * both XFDISK and FDISK > * all of

Re: [Freedos-devel] Test email (June 6, 1pm US/Central)

Jim Hall wrote: > > Sending a test message to see if this works. On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 10:36 AM Johnpaul Humphrey wrote: > Works for me! > Thanks. All email lists hosted on SourceForge were "stuck" over the weekend. When I entered my problem ticket, I saw other proj

[Freedos-devel] Test email (June 6, 1pm US/Central)

The SourceForge email list server seems to be down. Sending a test message to see if this works. ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel

Re: [Freedos-devel] (no subject)

On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 6:19 PM Matias Paz wrote: > > I want to Unsubscribe > ___ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel Hi Matias. At the bottom of every email

Re: [Freedos-devel] RC4 - list of licenses

On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 3:09 AM Harald Arnesen wrote: > > Eric Auer [03.05.2021 22:29]: > > > TAIL - Aitchison license bad, Arnesen GNU tail *buggy* ? > > Is this the tail from BSD 4.3 that I posted 2020-03-28? If so, no-one > has informed me of any bugs. I don't think "buggy" is the right

Re: [Freedos-devel] It's Arrived!

There's a Readme file in the FreeDOS 1.3 RC4 release, but I wanted to share it here, as well: ### FreeDOS 1.3 Release Candidate 4 ("FreeDOS 1.3 RC4")

Re: [Freedos-devel] Cleanup on FreeDOS Ibiblio

On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 5:13 PM Eric Auer wrote: > > Dos compatible filenames are irrelevant for URL, just give > the file ANY name you like after downloading the file, it > is better to have search-friendly URL which contain both > name and version. Something like krn386x.zip is ridiculous > for

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS kernel distro and package repository update moments?

Interesting! I didn't realize that kernel development was still active. We should share this update with the freedos-devel email list (I'm cc'ing the email list). Good news for developers, so we shouldn't try to keep this conversation "off list." :-) I grabbed the source zipball from the link you

Re: [Freedos-devel] Cleanup on FreeDOS Ibiblio

On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 3:57 PM Robert Riebisch wrote: > > Hi Jim, > > > That would provide clarity to what version you're looking at in a > > single directory listing, but consider I'll have to rename EVERYTHING > > on Ibiblio. That's a LOT of maintenance work. Sorting things into > > directories

Re: [Freedos-devel] Cleanup on FreeDOS Ibiblio

On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 3:36 PM Wilhelm Spiegl wrote: > > solution, 2.01, 2.02, 2.11, 2.20. if necessary 2.02.01 for minor updates or: > 2-01, 2-02, 2-11, 2-20, 2-02-01. but of course this will run out of 8.3. > compared with checking and changing thousands of htm help files renaming is a > five

Re: [Freedos-devel] Cleanup on FreeDOS Ibiblio

On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 3:10 PM Jerome Shidel wrote: > > Jim, > > You realize with a little effort you could just do a shell script to fix 90%+ > of that stuff… > > Just make sure it’s got a —test mode. > That's going to be a pretty craft Bash script to detect all the version numbers (mmmdd

Re: [Freedos-devel] Cleanup on FreeDOS Ibiblio

On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 2:13 PM Wilhelm Spiegl wrote: > >hi jim, > >i think you should feel free to rename filenames to a unique >system e.g. program_-mm--dd -at least within a single >command. creating subdirectories is nice but not absolutely >necessary if the user knows that the latest

Re: [Freedos-devel] Cleanup on FreeDOS Ibiblio

On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 2:22 PM Robert Riebisch wrote: > > Hi Jim, > > >> I would have hoped to find "files" named latests.zip and latestx.zip (or > >> something like that), which always link to the latest version. > > > > If Ibiblio were still an ftp site, I would agree. But I believe this > > is

Re: [Freedos-devel] Cleanup on FreeDOS Ibiblio

On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 11:50 AM Robert Riebisch wrote: > > Hi Eric, > > > Hi Jim, making the package versions number a part of the > > directory structure seems like a marginal improvement to > > me in most cases. For packages which have a stable style > > of version numbering, it can even make

Re: [Freedos-devel] Cleanup on FreeDOS Ibiblio

On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 11:11 AM Robert Riebisch wrote: > > Hi Jim, > > > Just wanted to let you know that I did a little cleanup on the FreeDOS > > files archive at Ibiblio. > > Okay. > > > Over the history of using the files archive on Ibiblio, I haven't really > > done a great job at keeping

Re: [Freedos-devel] Cleanup on FreeDOS Ibiblio

On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 6:22 PM Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Jim, making the package versions number a part of the > directory structure seems like a marginal improvement to > me in most cases. For packages which have a stable style > of version numbering, it can even make the structure worse, > as

Re: [Freedos-devel] Cleanup on FreeDOS Ibiblio

4.html > > > -- > Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail > gesendet. > Am 08.04.21, 23:53 schrieb Jim Hall : >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> Just wanted to let you know that I did a little cleanup on the FreeDOS files

[Freedos-devel] Cleanup on FreeDOS Ibiblio

Hi everyone, Just wanted to let you know that I did a little cleanup on the FreeDOS files archive at Ibiblio. In the /files/dos directory, I've gone through several of the directories to clean up the organization. Over the history

Re: [Freedos-devel] Announcement: lDebug release 1

On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 11:02 AM C. Masloch wrote: > > On at 2021-03-03 17:20 -0600, Jim Hall wrote: > > Thanks. I also noticed that you have a "draft 3" file there as of > > today, so I mirrored all of the "drafts" to the ibiblio site as a > > b

Re: [Freedos-devel] Announcement: lDebug release 1

> On at 2021-02-22 09:32 -0600, Jim Hall wrote: > > That's the version that is still available on your website, and I > > thought it was the official version. Here's how I found it: On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 2:56 PM C. Masloch wrote: > Apologies. This file was just intended as

Re: [Freedos-devel] Live CD

On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 7:37 AM Liam Proven wrote: > > I managed to catch Jim Hall's FreeDOS talk at the FOSDEM online > conference last month -- mainly because it was directly before my own! > > He talked about how there was no LiveCD for 1.1 or 1.2 and hinted that > it was something that the

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