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

2021-06-07 Thread Johnpaul Humphrey
> Sending a test message to see if this works. Works for me! ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel

Re: [Freedos-devel] New packages for future releases

2020-12-28 Thread Johnpaul Humphrey
I second the OpenGEM sentiment. One of the things that makes DOS special to me, is the simplicity, both of the API, and the usage. Lack of multitasking is a plus for me, not a minus. (IIRC GEM supports some multitasking though.) GEM does seem to have that simple, RAW, feel, and that's a good thing

Re: [Freedos-devel] beep implementation

2020-05-15 Thread Johnpaul Humphrey
Sorry for the late reply! The regular bell character starts to beep, stops beeping after a short time, and then lets me continue. The freecom beep starts to beep, beeps forever (I presume, I haven't tested it that long) and doesn't let me do anything else. I was able to fix my copy via the hex

Re: [Freedos-devel] beep implementation

2020-05-13 Thread Johnpaul Humphrey
Thanks, I will try the patch out when I get a little time. The regular bell character doesn't hang, so I wonder why freecom implements its own version. On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 3:20 AM Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi Rugxulo, > > Thank you for your binary patch but... > > > 1). 2016-May-6:

Re: [Freedos-devel] beep implementation

2020-05-08 Thread Johnpaul Humphrey
FreeDOS does only hangs for a little bit on the message. My version is "0.84-pre2" the version that ships with the standard USB install. So the problem does not appear to be delay(). Maybe the problem is nosound()? Maybe the keyboard has an error? or the computer itself? I can write a test program

[Freedos-devel] beep implementation

2020-05-08 Thread Johnpaul Humphrey
Hi Developers, I noticed that when I tab complete in the default shell, (freecom, I think) that it beeps, and is stuck beeping for a long time. I have not been able to see how long till it stops, but if it stops at all, it is much longer than it should be. The only way I have found to stop it is