Re: [Freedos-devel] OpenWatcom 1.4 issues

2006-03-15 Thread Michael Devore
At 07:37 AM 3/15/2006 -0300, Andreas Berger wrote: Michael, you say that there is a programmatic way to disable this feature; can you tell me how. Ideally it would be disabled by default and enabled either programmatically or during complile/link time. But if I can disable it programmatically

Re: [Freedos-devel] OpenWatcom 1.4 issues

2006-03-15 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 15-Мар-2006 02:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: >>MD> You can read OW newsgroups via e-mail, as there are services to do so. >> May you hint me these services (email) addresses? MD> I indicated www.news2mail.com has that service. __

Re: [Freedos-devel] OpenWatcom 1.4 issues

2006-03-15 Thread Andreas Berger
I wouldn't have commented except you said that. First, you can turn it off any number of ways, like SET CAUSEWAY=NOVM, or reassemble without the option enabled, or there is programmatic support to do it. Second, CauseWay doesn't use the hard disk until you run out of physical memory, which

Re: [Freedos-devel] OpenWatcom 1.4 issues

2006-03-15 Thread Michael Devore
At 03:06 PM 3/14/2006 +0300, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: MD> You can read OW newsgroups via e-mail, as there are services to do so. May you hint me these services (email) addresses? I indicated www.news2mail.com has that service. You want me to stick your e-mail address in for one of the

Re: [Freedos-devel] OpenWatcom 1.4 issues

2006-03-14 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 14-Мар-2006 15:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Berger) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: AB> Before someone comments, I don't like causeway since it uses the hard AB> disk as heap and I don't know how to turn this off. Probably this helps: http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforg

Re: [Freedos-devel] OpenWatcom 1.4 issues

2006-03-14 Thread Michael Devore
At 03:12 PM 3/14/2006 -0300, Andreas Berger wrote: I would like to add one issue: With open watcom I can no longer use the WDOSX stub. The villain is wlink. If I use the Watcom 11 (or 10) wlink everything is OK. Before someone comments, I don't like causeway since it uses the hard disk as he

Re: [Freedos-devel] OpenWatcom 1.4 issues

2006-03-14 Thread Andreas Berger
I would like to add one issue: With open watcom I can no longer use the WDOSX stub. The villain is wlink. If I use the Watcom 11 (or 10) wlink everything is OK. Before someone comments, I don't like causeway since it uses the hard disk as heap and I don't know how to turn this off. This is re

Re: [Freedos-devel] OpenWatcom 1.4 issues

2006-03-14 Thread Robert Riebisch
"Arkady V.Belousov" wrote: > You sometime express yourself too vivid :) (and hard to understand by > non-native English speakers). :( How uncorn relates to installer platforms > completness? Unicorns (as the DOS installer) are a legend or at least very rare. ;-) Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Sof

Re: [Freedos-devel] OpenWatcom 1.4 issues

2006-03-14 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Салям! 14-Мар-2006 03:10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: >> "DOS installer"? There is no such bestie in OpenWatcom. There is only MD> There have been discussions of such a beastie, recent ones in fact. So the MD> DOS installer is real insofar

Re: [Freedos-devel] OpenWatcom 1.4 issues

2006-03-14 Thread Michael Devore
At 11:10 AM 3/14/2006 +0300, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: 14-íÁÒ-2006 00:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: MD> Most of the DOS installer concerns "DOS installer"? There is no such bestie in OpenWatcom. There is only one giant open-watcom-c-win3

Re: [Freedos-devel] OpenWatcom 1.4 issues

2006-03-14 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 14-Мар-2006 09:41 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Riebisch) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: >> one giant open-watcom-c-win32-1.4.exe installer with unknown format (no >> possibility to manually unpack required files) and requirement of WINNT >> (Win32) to run. RR> Just do a "pkunzip -

Re: [Freedos-devel] OpenWatcom 1.4 issues

2006-03-14 Thread Robert Riebisch
"Arkady V.Belousov" wrote: > "DOS installer"? There is no such bestie in OpenWatcom. There is only > one giant open-watcom-c-win32-1.4.exe installer with unknown format (no > possibility to manually unpack required files) and requirement of WINNT > (Win32) to run. Just do a "pkunzip -d open-

Re: [Freedos-devel] OpenWatcom 1.4 issues

2006-03-14 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 14-Мар-2006 00:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: >> Ok. But note: many issues are minor (installer shows "2,047MB" when >>more space available) and/or not very interested for other peoples (spaces >>in help files). Also, in next separate

Re: [Freedos-devel] OpenWatcom 1.4 issues

2006-03-14 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 14-Мар-2006 00:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: MD> As far as differences between WCC and WPP, Michal previously made pretty MD> clear that the two compilers are separate entities, and them operating MD> differently is not a major concern for

Re: [Freedos-devel] OpenWatcom 1.4 issues

2006-03-13 Thread Michael Devore
At 01:44 AM 3/14/2006 +0300, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! [Note, list below is far from completion: this is first review of OW14 and many issues of OW12 are awaiting to retest (for example, bugs in WMAKE and MS2WLINK).] OpenWatcom 1.4 wishes, issues, troubles and bugs --

Re: [Freedos-devel] OpenWatcom 1.4 issues

2006-03-13 Thread Michael Devore
At 01:39 AM 3/14/2006 +0300, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: 13-íÁÒ-2006 14:37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: >>improved. May someone with online access inject my reports into OW bug >>tracking system (in hope, that this gives better reaction for report

Re: [Freedos-devel] OpenWatcom 1.4 issues

2006-03-13 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! [WCC/WPP 1.4] - WPP: empty _DATA section described as byte-aligned, else as word-aligned. - alignment differences; explicit zero initialization of static variables: ; int a, b = 0, c = 1; WCC (word aligned, no optimization for explicit zero initialization): CONST SEGMEN

Re: [Freedos-devel] OpenWatcom 1.4 issues

2006-03-13 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 13-Мар-2006 14:37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: >>improved. May someone with online access inject my reports into OW bug >>tracking system (in hope, that this gives better reaction for reports, than MD> To the best of my knowledge, Michal, no

Re: [Freedos-devel] OpenWatcom 1.4 issues

2006-03-13 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! [Note, list below is far from completion: this is first review of OW14 and many issues of OW12 are awaiting to retest (for example, bugs in WMAKE and MS2WLINK).] OpenWatcom 1.4 wishes, issues, troubles and bugs -! bug or critical flow -+ wish

Re: [Freedos-devel] OpenWatcom 1.4 issues

2006-03-13 Thread Michael Devore
At 06:19 PM 3/13/2006 +0300, you wrote: Two years ago I was try to report some issues with OW12 to Michael Necasek. Right now I review OW14 and found that almost nothing fixed nor improved. May someone with online access inject my reports into OW bug tracking system (in hope, that this giv

[Freedos-devel] OpenWatcom 1.4 issues

2006-03-13 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Two years ago I was try to report some issues with OW12 to Michael Necasek. Right now I review OW14 and found that almost nothing fixed nor improved. May someone with online access inject my reports into OW bug tracking system (in hope, that this gives better reaction for reports, than pr