Re: [Freedos-devel] I wish I had a boot.log file

2023-04-12 Thread jerome
Hi All, Fixed a minor issue in Logger, that would cause the interface program to not find the device driver when it was loaded low. At present, the interface program just does a brute force memory scan to find the driver. There are safeguards in place to prevent false positives and some optim

Re: [Freedos-devel] I wish I had a boot.log file

2023-04-11 Thread jerome
Hi All, Logger is done for now and is available for testing. I’ve only done testing under FreeDOS and a little under MS-DOS. If it works under others, thats fine. If not, oh well. While it is not difficult to use, be sure to check out the DOC and DEMOS. There are some sort-of neat little thin

Re: [Freedos-devel] I wish I had a boot.log file

2023-03-26 Thread jerome
Hi Tom, > On Mar 26, 2023, at 5:57 AM, tom ehlert wrote: > >> For >> instance, vecho (which displays many user messages, like “Welcome to >> FreeDOS”) don’t output text the same way as other programs and do not get >> captured at present. > > I don't know how and why vecho displays text differ

Re: [Freedos-devel] I wish I had a boot.log file

2023-03-26 Thread tom ehlert
> For > instance, vecho (which displays many user messages, like “Welcome to > FreeDOS”) don’t output text the same way as other programs and do not get > captured at present. I don't know how and why vecho displays text different. However it could "display" the text twice: once in the complicate

Re: [Freedos-devel] I wish I had a boot.log file

2023-03-25 Thread jerome
Hi All, Logger is coming along very well and is already semi-functional. At present, the driver loads, allocates XMS storage and takes control of what it needs. Also, the rudimentary logging works and it can log most text during boot process. The interface program can print the log and turn o

Re: [Freedos-devel] I wish I had a boot.log file

2023-03-24 Thread jerome
Hi Louis, > On Mar 23, 2023, at 11:41 PM, Louis Santillan wrote: > > Oh oh. I was mistaken. It was Dave Dunfield's MC323EXA.ZIP with the files > ./DOSUTIL/REDIRECT.TXT > ./DOSUTIL/RERROR.C > ./DOSUTIL/ROUTPUT.C > > RERROR handles stderr capture via DOS. > ROUTPUT handles ALL text capture via

Re: [Freedos-devel] I wish I had a boot.log file

2023-03-23 Thread Louis Santillan
Oh oh. I was mistaken. It was Dave Dunfield's MC323EXA.ZIP with the files ./DOSUTIL/REDIRECT.TXT ./DOSUTIL/RERROR.C ./DOSUTIL/ROUTPUT.C RERROR handles stderr capture via DOS. ROUTPUT handles ALL text capture via BIOS. http://dunfield.classiccmp.org/dos/mc323exa.zip On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 5:04 

Re: [Freedos-devel] I wish I had a boot.log file

2023-03-23 Thread Louis Santillan
I forget which one and which version, but it had the ability to redirect the blacked out screen to a file. Been a long while since I looked at them. On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 4:14 PM wrote: > > Hi Louis, > > > On Mar 23, 2023, at 5:32 PM, Louis Santillan wrote: > > > > Don’t blackout and bootspla

Re: [Freedos-devel] I wish I had a boot.log file

2023-03-23 Thread jerome
Hi Louis, > On Mar 23, 2023, at 5:32 PM, Louis Santillan wrote: > > Don’t blackout and bootsplash do something like this? > > > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/boot/blackout/ > > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/boot/bootsplash/ >

Re: [Freedos-devel] I wish I had a boot.log file

2023-03-23 Thread Louis Santillan
Don’t blackout and bootsplash do something like this? https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/boot/blackout/ https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/boot/bootsplash/ On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 5:52 AM wrote: > Hi All, > > I decided I needed to take a

Re: [Freedos-devel] I wish I had a boot.log file

2023-03-23 Thread jerome
Hi All, I decided I needed to take a break from my current project and do something relatively easy and fun. So, I’ve begun working on a Boot Message Logger. Hopefully, it will be ready for T2304. That just depends on if I can find the time to finish it up by that Build. If not, it will de

Re: [Freedos-devel] I wish I had a boot.log file

2023-03-20 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel
Right, same basic idea. I guess the main difference is using the spare video memory as a starting buffer, but regular ol' RAM would be fine too. :) Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/) secure email. --- Original Message --- On Monday, March 20th, 2023 at 7:23 PM, jer...@shidel.net

Re: [Freedos-devel] I wish I had a boot.log file

2023-03-20 Thread jerome
Hi, > On Mar 20, 2023, at 6:35 PM, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel > wrote: > > I realize this may be more trouble than it's worth, but it's technically > possible to write up a small "shim" program which simply hooks the character > printing interrupts and copies any characters passed to

Re: [Freedos-devel] I wish I had a boot.log file

2023-03-20 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel
I realize this may be more trouble than it's worth, but it's technically possible to write up a small "shim" program which simply hooks the character printing interrupts and copies any characters passed to a small memory buffer* before forwarding them to the regular printing interrupt. This shim

Re: [Freedos-devel] I wish I had a boot.log file

2023-03-20 Thread jerome
Hi Paul, > On Mar 19, 2023, at 11:29 AM, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel > wrote: > > So many messages on boot I cannot scroll back. > If only the boot process would also copy everything in a boot.log file! > At present, that is not really practical. Actually for a lot of the boot processes

Re: [Freedos-devel] I wish I had a boot.log file

2023-03-19 Thread Rugxulo
So you want a TEE utility? Or just to single step through it all (F8)? Try pressing the Pause key. (Yes, I know that's timing sensitive, sorry.) On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 10:30 AM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel wrote: > > So many messages on boot I cannot scroll back. > If only the boot process w

Re: [Freedos-devel] I wish I had a boot.log file

2023-03-19 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel
It would be nice if FreeDOS had something like *nix's DMESG. Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/) secure email. --- Original Message --- On Sunday, March 19th, 2023 at 11:29 AM, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel wrote: > So many messages on boot I cannot scroll back. > If only the

[Freedos-devel] I wish I had a boot.log file

2023-03-19 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
So many messages on boot I cannot scroll back. If only the boot process would also copy everything in a boot.log file!___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel