Re: [Freedos-devel] HIMEM/EMM386 compressed EXEs and roadmap

2004-09-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 27--2004 00:56 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ha, I'm stupid. It was compressed with Diet, but UNP undid it. UNP looks like a pretty slick tool, particularly for something that's almost ten years old. SNW I swear by unp. XD ?

Re: [Freedos-devel] HIMEM/EMM386 compressed EXEs and roadmap

2004-09-28 Thread Michael Devore
At 09:09 PM 9/28/2004 +0400, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 26-óÅÎ-2004 12:34 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is bad. :( Please, add as much, as possible, more checks before executing emulated instruction inside RING0, else we may/will receive reports about

Re: [Freedos-devel] HIMEM/EMM386 compressed EXEs and roadmap

2004-09-26 Thread Jim Hall
Micheal (and Tom): I'll post this announcement on FreeDOS.org as soon as one of you sends me the new LSMs for HIMEM/EMM386 - Tom mentioned on the list the other day that he had new LSMs, but I must have missed them. Please re-send. Thanks. -jh Michael Devore wrote: Uploaded to

Re: [Freedos-devel] HIMEM/EMM386 compressed EXEs and roadmap

2004-09-26 Thread Michael Devore
At 03:43 AM 9/26/2004 +0400, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: This is right way, I suggest. Though, I should ask: will EMM386 check instuction validness (for example, what about F0 0F C7 C8?) and how will behave system in case, when instruction will work incorrectly? As I understand, you mean

Re: [Freedos-devel] HIMEM/EMM386 compressed EXEs and roadmap

2004-09-26 Thread Jim Hall
Bernd Blaauw wrote: Jim Hall schreef: Micheal (and Tom): I'll post this announcement on FreeDOS.org as soon as one of you sends me the new LSMs for HIMEM/EMM386 - Tom mentioned on the list the other day that he had new LSMs, but I must have missed them. Please re-send. I will prepare packages,

Re: [Freedos-devel] HIMEM/EMM386

2004-09-24 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Michael Devore escribió: To avoid inflaming the issue, I'm not going to ask why all new documentation is desperately needed to be written for something which has behaved effectively the same way for end-users for the past six months. And roughly 20 years for MS-DOS, as far as general

Re: [Freedos-devel] HIMEM/EMM386

2004-09-24 Thread Michael Devore
At 09:47 AM 9/24/2004 +0200, Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: Before Rob took over HTML-Help, the help files there were (as Tom correctly complained repeatedly) info taken from MS-Help, thus useless for FreeDOS users. And I don't think it's too much of a quarrel to write a couple of HTML-files

Re: [Freedos-devel] HIMEM/EMM386

2004-09-23 Thread Robert Platt
Try writing the lsm files yourself. You're the maintainer -- or certainly the last person to make changes. NOW you tell people the LSM files are wrong. Why not provide the LSM files yourself in the first place? Who can guess the origin of YOUR code? Rather than flame the list and make FreeDOS

Re: [Freedos-devel] HIMEM/EMM386

2004-09-23 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Robert, Try writing the lsm files yourself. You're the maintainer -- or certainly the last person to make changes. I wrote one myself - and published it. and the current one on freedos.org/software is not the one I wrote. and however changed copying liocense to 'open source(public)'

[Freedos-devel] HIMEM/EMM386

2004-09-23 Thread Bart Oldeman
Tom has of course every reason to be pissed -- and in the latest emm386 he released there *is* an lsm file. The problem really stems from this I think: on www.freedos.org you can read: Michael Devore wrote: Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads are the files emm386.zip and

Re: [Freedos-devel] HIMEM/EMM386

2004-09-23 Thread Michael Devore
At 12:41 PM 9/24/2004 +1200, Bart wrote: Tom has of course every reason to be pissed -- and in the latest emm386 he released there *is* an lsm file. The problem really stems from this I think: snip Moral of the story: 1. please do not make updates to appear like full versions 2. do not change the

[Freedos-devel] HIMEM/EMM386

2004-09-22 Thread tom ehlert
well, a while ago we had a serious, heated debate about licensing, in particular about the all so important GPL, and if it's allowed to distribute the APACK'ed kernel. now I wonder: WHO THE HELL made up himem.lsm and emm386.lsm ? the original author is certainly NOT [EMAIL PROTECTED], and