[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS on Google Trends

2006-10-20 Thread Roberto Mariottini
I think this is an interesting outcome: http://www.google.com/trends?q=freedos Ciao begin:vcard fn:Roberto Mariottini n:Mariottini;Roberto org:Prima Electronics S.p.A.;R&D Departement adr:;;Strada Carignano, 48/2;MONCALIERI;(TO);10024;ITALY email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Dott. tel;work:+

Re: [Freedos-devel] 32 bit

2006-09-14 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Imre Leber wrote: > Well I for one think that FreeDOS should move into the 32bit realm after > version 1. > > All the 32bit stuff was written by the DJGPP project. But it didn't make any > sense philosophicaly as long as it did not run on a free DOS operating system. > > Now that we did the t

Re: [Freedos-devel] Surprise!

2006-09-04 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Daniel Verkamp 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 postinst.bat: > Batchfile 'C:\FDOS\POSTINST.BAT' does n

[Freedos-devel] Announce: updated italian translations

2006-07-25 Thread Roberto Mariottini
On my site at http://www.mariottini.net/freedos/english.html you can find updated translations for most of the internationalized FreeDOS utilities, and for the FreeDOS install system. _New in release 3_ - Fixed some typos in the old translations - At the beginning of every translation file

Re: [Freedos-devel] Testing FreeDOS 1.0 (PART 2) - Problems!

2006-07-25 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Florian Xaver wrote: Hi, it isn't a problem because of bootsector/loader etc.!! It is the problem if I want to change localisation to German (10)!! When I choose 10, it hangs... I have the same problem with Italian (choice 12 or 72), the PC it's not actually hung. The problem is that transl

Re: [Freedos-devel] Contributions towards FreeDOS 1.0

2006-07-10 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Imre Leber wrote: Thanks, I'll look more into the diskcopy translation tonight. Question: From diskcopy.it reserved to condition for example yes, no, quit 0.0:S 0.1:S It seems you are using S for both yes and no. Should this not be: 0.0:S 0.1:N Of course. I'll re-check

Re: [Freedos-devel] Contributions towards FreeDOS 1.0

2006-07-10 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Blair Campbell wrote: For those who would like to contribute towards FreeDOS 1.0 but don't know how to program, you might still be able to help. If you know two languages sufficiently to help translating, you can check which programs don't support your language on http://wiki.fdos.org/Main/Tra

Re: [Freedos-devel] Format and errorlevel

2005-11-29 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Johnson Lam wrote: On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:01:34 -0200, you wrote: Hi, MS-format errorlevels are 0 = ok, ok with bad-sectors, sintax errors or help msg. 3 = aborted by user 4 = fatal error, disk broken or wrong name 5 = harddisk format confirmation not given (user selected "n

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiling FreeCOM...

2005-11-11 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Bernd Blaauw wrote: Guess I should read up about what the difference is between these large/normal/small models. In short: tiny: one segment for everything, CS = DS = SS, data pointers are near, function pointers are near (everything must fit in in 64 KB, no segment reserved for stack an

Re: [Freedos-devel] A dilemma affecting next DISPLAY

2005-08-23 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: Hi there, FD-DISPLAY is about 11KB size (the data for the 3 subfonts, 8x8, 8x14 and 8x16 is 10.5Kb). MS-DISPLAY is about 5KB resident size (the size of 8x16 is 4KB). Following Eric's step, I can use a single data pool to load the data into memory (I no need t

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS not updating freespace after disk change

2005-08-02 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Alain wrote: [...] The problem never happens in the first disk and when it happens in the followinf disks, the disks are *not* corrupted. Can you explain better? Are you sure you are not using two disks with the same serial number? Ciao -

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCom daily builds

2005-07-12 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Hi, on http://www.mariottini.net/freedos/english.html you can find a new version of italian translations for FreeCOM, updated to the version 1.34 (1.35 has only minor modifications). I've posted them months ago, but nobody did commit them. Ciao --

[Freedos-devel] Help with block device driver

2005-05-09 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Hi, one italian user is trying to write a device driver. The problem is it doesn't properly install a new drive letter. I'm not a device driver expert, so I'm asking if someone on the list can look at it. The sorce code is dowloadable from: http://kayman.altervista.org/software/cfdrv.zip The

[Freedos-devel] ATA/ATAPI Low Level Driver

2005-03-24 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Hi, I've found here: http://www.ata-atapi.com/drvr.htm An ATA/ATAPI low level driver, public domain, with C source code (Borland C/C++ 4.52 is mentioned, but I don't know if it supports others). Direct links are: http://www.ata-atapi.com/atadrvr.zip http://www.ata-atapi.com/ataioasm.zip Hope it's

Re: [Freedos-devel] Dropping the 'gui' category?

2005-02-21 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Jim Hall wrote: [...] From discussion on the thread, it pretty much sounds like SEAL has stopped development. So I am thinking about dropping it from the FreeDOS Software List. But if I do that, the only other GUI listed will be OpenGEM. While OpenGEM is nice work, and Shane has done a terr

Re: [Freedos-devel] Recommended C Compiler

2004-12-27 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Arkady V.Belousov ha scritto: [... speaking about OpenWatcom ...] Unfortunately, there are no other valued alternatives for this compiler, which (1) supports not very outdated language edition, (2) completely supports 16-bit target and (3) works under MS-DOS. Requirements (1) and (2) are met by D

Re: [Freedos-devel] keyboard layout

2004-12-23 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Thanks Aitor, I think this should be a TechNote, or it should go in the FAQ, because it is really a Frequently Asked Question. Ciao Aitor Santamaría Merino ha scritto: Dear Karsten, There are such tools. You write a keyboard layout in the form of an ASCII text file (in the KEY language). Then yo

[Freedos-devel] Compact Flash under DOS

2004-11-12 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Hi, here is a question from an user. He's using MS-DOS 6.22, and I don't know if FreeDOS can solve his problem. The fundamental question is: there is a way to make the BISO/kernel re-read disk information from an IDE disk? Ciao Hello to everybody. I'm using

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: YESCHAR question (was: New COUNTRY.SYS)

2004-11-04 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Eric Auer wrote: [...] - country unaware programs will just use hardcoded "are you sure?" and will just expect "y" for that. - country aware programs should use BOTH translated strings and ask the kernel what the "yeschar" is for the current language. Because you can conceivably set LANG=

Re: [Freedos-devel] New COUNTRY.SYS

2004-11-04 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Hi, tom ehlert wrote: BTW: I'm not sure, if translated yes/no's make much sense at all, unless the program (int24 handler, command,...) is translated as well, and then the yes/no should be translated at that stage. because country=49,858,c:\country.sys would lead to a yes/no respecting format pro

Re: [Freedos-devel] new distribution soon - outdated packages

2004-09-19 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Jim Hall wrote: I think there are some translations that were submitted for a few of my programs. No functionality changes or bug fixes, though. I'll see about putting the translations together and updating the zip files. While we are at this, I planned to make italian translations for the ins

Re: [Freedos-devel] MEM 1.7 beta: asking for translation help.

2004-09-08 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Hi, at the usual place (http://www.mariottini.net/freedos/) you can find an italian NLS file for this beta version of MEM. Ciao. Bart Oldeman wrote: Hi, I've put up a mem 1.7 beta at http://freedos.sourceforge.net/mem/mem17bet.zip Haven't bothered to update the .lsm etc. yet since this is only me

Re: [Freedos-devel] Format 0.91r and FreeCOM sound tests

2004-07-30 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Steve Nickolas wrote: At Fri, 30 Jul 2004 8:55am +0200, Roberto Mariottini wrote: As for FreeCOM, the bug showed up on the PC (P3 650 MHz) trying to use filename completion. The beep started, then the computer freezed, while continuing to beep. I had to press Ctrl-Alt-Del to shut it up. Ciao

[Freedos-devel] Format 0.91r and FreeCOM sound tests

2004-07-29 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Hi all, Yesterday I've tested FORMAT on a 40GB HD, with a one big partition. I was trying to format it as FAT32 under WinXP, but it refuses to format such a large partition as FAT, it wants to format it as NTFS. So I've inserted a floppy with FreeDOS in it (sorry, I had only the official beta9pr

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: best free C++ compiler

2004-07-25 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Hi, Alain wrote: [...] BTW: do you have information about memcpy() problems in BC 3.1 ? Last week I had a very hard to trace bug (in a TSR) that was solved replacing it with memmove(). Andreas sayd that he had problems with it too. Are you sure the two buffers you are memcpy-ing don't overlap? T

Re: [Freedos-devel] Announce: italian translations for CHOICE, DISKCOPY, HTMLHELP, MORE, SORT and TREE

2004-07-22 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Hi, I've noted that the NLS strings are used only when the environment variable NLSPATH is defined. There's nothing wrong with it, but the beta9rc5 install program created a variable NLSDIR instead, and that didn't work. Ciao --- This SF.Net

Re: [Freedos-devel] best free C++ compiler

2004-07-22 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 21-Июл-2004 22:11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Koder) wrote to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: K> 1) If I were to write a FreeDOS-targetted application on FreeDOS, which C++ K> compiler would be the most interesting? Probably, OpenWatcom is not only the best, but, probably, only one mo

[Freedos-devel] Announce: italian translations for CHOICE, DISKCOPY, HTMLHELP, MORE, SORT and TREE

2004-07-20 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Hi, I have translated in italian the few programs that are currently NLS-able (all that I know of, let me know if I missed some). They are: CHOICE, DISKCOPY, HTMLHELP (the NLS strings, not the help pages!), MORE, SORT and TREE. At the URL: http://www.mariottini.net/freedos/italian2.zip you can f

[Freedos-devel] Announce: italian translations for FreeCOM

2004-06-29 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Hi, I have successfully translated the FreeCOM strings to italian, following the instructions provided by Bernd Blaauw two months ago. You can temporarily find the translated italian.lng (codepage 850) and the pre-built italian command.com (version 0.82 pl 3) at the following address: http://w

RE: [Freedos-devel] Rainone offering Italian translation for FD

2004-04-29 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Hi, has anyone successfully contacted Francesco Rainone? I would like to contirbute translations, but he doesn't reply to my mails, and I don't want to duplicate efforts. Ciao --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on

[Freedos-devel] Some news about FD/32 (FW:)

2004-04-09 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Hi, I've seen this message on the FreeDOS/32 developer list, and I think it can be of some interest. The project is slowly showing some progress, but it still needs volunteers. Ciao. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luca Abeni Sent: Friday,

RE: [Freedos-devel] DOSFSCK >2G FAT32 bugs fixed!

2004-04-01 Thread Roberto Mariottini
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Luchezar Georgiev > Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 10:48 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] DOSFSCK >2G FAT32 bugs fixed! > > Just began working so I put it at > http://linux.

RE: [Freedos-devel] Another EMM386 release, bugfixes and enhancements

2004-03-18 Thread Roberto Mariottini
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael > Devore > Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 10:49 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Another EMM386 release, bugfixes and > enhancements > [...] > I downloaded Duke Nukem 3D,

RE: [Freedos-devel] TC RTL

2004-02-27 Thread Roberto Mariottini
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Arkady > V.Belousov > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 4:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Freedos-devel] TC RTL > > BTW, does anyone have TC RTL sources? Especially, I interested in > C0.ASM,

RE: [Freedos-devel] Make a program slimmer

2004-02-27 Thread Roberto Mariottini
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > maintainer freedospg > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 2:43 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Freedos-devel] Make a program slimmer > > > Hi, > > I want to know if there is a way to release memory

RE: [Freedos-devel] Q: Watcom & debugging

2004-02-24 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Hi, comments embedded. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 2:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Freedos-devel] Q: Watcom & debugging > > > Hello, > > I'm trying to setup a functio

RE: [Freedos-devel] Re: GPL and other licenses

2004-02-12 Thread Roberto Mariottini
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael > Devore > Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 9:34 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Freedos-devel] Re: GPL and other licenses > [...] > Baldly put, your this argument sounds like the worst of

RE: [Freedos-devel] Executable compression

2004-02-12 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Hi, comments embedded. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Luchezar Georgiev > Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 5:50 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Executable compression > > > On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:43:55 +000

RE: [Freedos-devel] Executable compression

2004-02-11 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Hi, comments embedded. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Luchezar Georgiev > Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 1:31 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Executable compression > [...] > > People, please express your

RE: [Freedos-devel] Q: watcom

2004-02-04 Thread Roberto Mariottini
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Arkady V.Belousov > Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 10:33 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Freedos-devel] Q: watcom > [...] > RM> If you pass option /mt (or something like that) to the > comp

RE: [Freedos-devel] Q: watcom

2004-02-03 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Hi, comments embedded. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Arkady V.Belousov > Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 6:39 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Q: watcom > > 3-Фев-2004 07:46 Arkady V.Belousov wrote to > [EMA

RE: [Freedos-devel] CPULEVEL URL...

2004-02-03 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Hi, on Win200 I get: --- C:\>C:\Down\FreeDOS\Cpulevel\cpulevel.com CPULEVEL - public domain by Eric Auer 2004 CPU brand is GenuineIntel / CPU is family 6 model 8 revision 6 CPUID level 1 EAX_ EBX_ ECX_