[Freedos-devel] MKEYB

Hi All, While are on the topic of FreeDOS packages, there is one more thing I would like to propose. I have been asked several times to "update” MKEYB to the forked version. I suggest creating a DEVEL branch for the fork version in the MKEYB project in GitLab FreeDOS Archive. With the fork i

Re: [Freedos-devel] MKEYB layout suggestion

On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 11:12 AM tom ehlert wrote: > > > > > I do not know if you have either the time or interest in this. > definitively neither. > just because some random guy on the internet proposes a new keyboard > layout doesn't mean it should be implemented anywhere. remeber the > Dvorak k

Re: [Freedos-devel] MKEYB layout suggestion

> I do not know if you have either the time or interest in this. definitively neither. just because some random guy on the internet proposes a new keyboard layout doesn't mean it should be implemented anywhere. remeber the Dvorak keyboard layout and it's phenomenal success? > I just wanted to p

[Freedos-devel] MKEYB layout suggestion

Hi Tom, I do not know if you have either the time or interest in this. I just wanted to point it out in case you were not aware. A request for an additional MKEYB layout on the GitLab archive. https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base/mkeyb/-/issues/1

Re: [Freedos-devel] mkeyb us: don't need a driver for US... BUT I AM NOT IN US!

Hello, And there we go with the example I was referring to in my previous email: the same language requiring two keyboard layouts (possibly two codepages too). Well, I seem to understand that your problem is with the installer: it should have given you the option to choose Canada/French to use a n

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.50

On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 7:24 AM tom ehlert wrote: >[..] > > Tom: Are you planning to remain the maintainer of mKEYB, or is Davide > > the new maintainer now? Wanted to check what is your preference. > > I'm planning to remain the maintainer, even this means just copying > Davide's changes over to

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.50

Hallo Herr Jim Hall, am Mittwoch, 11. Mai 2022 um 22:54 schrieben Sie: > On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 3:51 PM Jim Hall wrote: >> >> FYI that Davide has released mKEYB version 0.50. You can find it here: >> https://github.com/davidebreso/mkeyb/releases/tag/v0.50 >> >> The change log is: >> >> >Turkish

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.50

On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 3:51 PM Jim Hall wrote: > > FYI that Davide has released mKEYB version 0.50. You can find it here: > https://github.com/davidebreso/mkeyb/releases/tag/v0.50 > > The change log is: > > >Turkish Q and Turkish F layout > >better support for AltGr+Shift modifier > >less obscure

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.50

FYI that Davide has released mKEYB version 0.50. You can find it here: https://github.com/davidebreso/mkeyb/releases/tag/v0.50 The change log is: >Turkish Q and Turkish F layout >better support for AltGr+Shift modifier >less obscure uninstall warning messages >executable compressed with UPX I'm

[Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.50

I noticed that Davide released mKEYB 0.50 on his GitHub about a week or so ago. Tom mentioned this mKEYB back in early April ("Davide Bresolin taught mKEYB to run on PC's and XT's") so I've been keeping an eye on it. Here's the GitHub release: https://github.com/davidebreso/mkeyb/releases/tag/v0.

[Freedos-devel] mkeyb us: don't need a driver for US... BUT I AM NOT IN US!

Trying FC4 in QEMU on Linux with: $ qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm -m 64M -cdrom FD13LIVE.iso  -hda hd.img -soundhw sb16 -boot c I have install to hard disk. Tried to choose Alternate-French for keyboard layout... I was expecting to choose Québec from a menu, but it continued to install. Af

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

Hi, Jim Hall escribió: There is exactly one copyright holder - and I don't need written agreement from him. I assume you mean yourself? Or do you mean Anton Zinoviev, since he wrote several files from scratch? Or perhaps Henrique Peron, the original author? What about Pat Villani, who wrot

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 16:12:41 +0100, tom ehlert wrote: Or do you mean Anton Zinoviev, since he wrote several files from scratch? several ? and I will immediately remove the BG keyboard from MKEYB, should he ask me. As an active Linux developer he probably doesn't care, and even if it does this,

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

Hello Jim, JH> Yes, looks like BG. Looking at the mkeyb 0.40 zip file: right - he provided 2 bulgarian layouts. >> >> JH> Or perhaps Henrique Peron, the original author? >> there never was, is, or will ever be a single line from henrique >> peron. stop dreaming. JH> Comments in the code imply o

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

Bart, BO> Who can sue Tom for changing the license? The copyright holders. There aren't any. contributing to a project doesn't mean you get a copyright. BO> Will they BO> sue Tom? They'll have a tough time in court (because the contributions BO> are minor and close to fair use) only 'close' to fa

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

tom ehlert wrote: Hello Jim, JH> I assume you mean yourself? Or do you mean Anton Zinoviev, since he JH> wrote several files from scratch? several ? and I will immediately remove the BG keyboard from MKEYB, should he ask me. Yes, looks like BG. Looking at the mkeyb 0.40 zip file: /* keydefbg.h

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, tom ehlert wrote: > JH> What about Pat Villani, who wrote prf.c and portab.h? > this prf.c was written by the author of mkeyb, NOT pat villani. yes, prf.c was completely recoded in the early days I started maintaining the kernel. It's had some more updates from me in the kern

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

Hello Jim, JH> I assume you mean yourself? Or do you mean Anton Zinoviev, since he JH> wrote several files from scratch? several ? and I will immediately remove the BG keyboard from MKEYB, should he ask me. JH> Or perhaps Henrique Peron, the original author? there never was, is, or will ever be

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

Hi! 18-Мар-2004 08:14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >>Don't know if Bart has a TC/BC license; else all old kernels (compiled >>with TC), are illegal, too. MD> Shhh! The Borland Compliance Engineer may hear you. I wonder how one goes MD> about getting a complianc

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

Steve, >> AFAIR, the Borland museum compilers have a license similar to >> 'free for personal use. if you want to distribute compiled programs, >>you have to buy a license' SNUW> Someone asked what they meant and they said it simply meant you can't SNUW> redistribute the compiler. (This wa

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

tom ehlert wrote: MKEYB 0.40 released changes: now uses APACK for 200 byte smaller executable licensing changed to allow distribution of APACK'ed executables JH> What you have indicated in your release is that you modified the license JH> to allow distribution of the aPack'ed binary. However, yo

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, tom ehlert wrote: > >> Neither are most compilers in use for FreeDOS (with the exception of > >> watcom). > > LG> ...and the Borland Museum compilers. > > AFAIR, the Borland museum compilers have a license similar to > 'free for personal use. if you want to distribute compil

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 17-Мар-2004 08:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Hall) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: MKEYB 0.40 released As sayed Lucho there is 0.39. JH> I think there's a problem here. If you recall the discussion with Dave JH> Turner (FSF), he said: I heard that you were considerin

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

tom ehlert wrote: AFAIR, the Borland museum compilers have a license similar to 'free for personal use. if you want to distribute compiled programs, you have to buy a license' Someone asked what they meant and they said it simply meant you can't redistribute the compiler. (This was on their

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

At 02:56 PM 3/18/2004 +0100, tom ehlert wrote: >>> Neither are most compilers in use for FreeDOS (with the exception of >>> watcom). > >LG> ...and the Borland Museum compilers. > >AFAIR, the Borland museum compilers have a license similar to > 'free for personal use. if you want to distribute comp

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

>> Neither are most compilers in use for FreeDOS (with the exception of >> watcom). LG> ...and the Borland Museum compilers. AFAIR, the Borland museum compilers have a license similar to 'free for personal use. if you want to distribute compiled programs, you have to buy a license' Unfor

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:28:16 +0100, tom ehlert wrote: Even flash disks allocate space on a sector base, so Bart's point is valid. Yes, but (1) sector size may be only 128 bytes in a ROM-disk, and (2) it may be compressed through LHA (used for Award BIOS modules) so unused spaces vanish and only

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

Hello Johnson, >>I wonder why you'd want to save 200 bytes anyway, when the disk space used >>is exactly the same (8002 -> 7802, both 16 sectors)? JL> Lucho may want to squeeze the program into a flash disk or ROM, that's JL> why every byte is precious. Even flash disks allocate space on a sector

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 14:33:15 + (GMT), you wrote: Hi Bart, >> Great! But when I downloaded it, it turned out to be... the old version >> (0.39)! :-( > >I wonder why you'd want to save 200 bytes anyway, when the disk space used >is exactly the same (8002 -> 7802, both 16 sectors)? Lucho may wa

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

>> MKEYB 0.40 released >> ... LG> Great! But when I downloaded it, it turned out to be... the old version LG> (0.39)! :-( Don't know why it wasn't uploaded, but now it is. You may have to refresh your browsers cache, otherwise you might still get the old version. BO> I wonder why you'd want to s

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

>> MKEYB 0.40 released >> changes: >> now uses APACK for 200 byte smaller executable >> licensing changed to allow distribution of APACK'ed executables JH> What you have indicated in your release is that you modified the license JH> to allow distribution of the aPack'ed binary. However, you need

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

Hi! 17-Мар-2004 08:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Hall) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> MKEYB 0.40 released As sayed Lucho there is 0.39. JH> I think there's a problem here. If you recall the discussion with Dave JH> Turner (FSF), he said: >> I heard that you were considering a proprietary exec

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Luchezar Georgiev wrote: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:54:16 +0100, tom ehlert wrote: > > > MKEYB 0.40 released > > website http://www.drivesnapshot.de/freedos/mkeyb.htm > > download http://www.drivesnapshot.de/freedos/mkeyb.zip > > > > changes: > > now uses APACK for 200 byte sma

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:54:16 +0100, tom ehlert wrote: MKEYB 0.40 released website http://www.drivesnapshot.de/freedos/mkeyb.htm download http://www.drivesnapshot.de/freedos/mkeyb.zip changes: now uses APACK for 200 byte smaller executable licensing changed to allow distribution of APACK'ed execut

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

tom ehlert wrote: Hi all, MKEYB 0.40 released website http://www.drivesnapshot.de/freedos/mkeyb.htm download http://www.drivesnapshot.de/freedos/mkeyb.zip changes: now uses APACK for 200 byte smaller executable licensing changed to allow distribution of APACK'ed executables Tom, I think there'

[Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

Hi all, MKEYB 0.40 released website http://www.drivesnapshot.de/freedos/mkeyb.htm download http://www.drivesnapshot.de/freedos/mkeyb.zip changes: now uses APACK for 200 byte smaller executable licensing changed to allow distribution of APACK'ed executables tom -