Re: [Freedos-devel] re: What's new with latest kernel/freecom?

2005-08-02 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Personally I prefer the single-executable solution, rather than the creation of several executables that may take many room in your disk. Precisely I have recently finished debugging the new KEYB, that will support single KEYBOARD.SYS-like data files, instead of multiple KL files. So it's

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: What's new with latest kernel/freecom?

2005-07-28 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Alex, On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Aitor Santamar?Merino wrote: There's a very small program that sets up the UK keymap; KEYBUK.COM, No, KEYBUK.COM is not Microsoft's. It's freely available for download. All it does is to set up the keymap for UK keyboards but I think it could be adapted

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: What's new with latest kernel/freecom?

2005-07-27 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Alex Buell escribió: On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: Working on penultimate versions of DISPLAY and KEYB already :) There's a very small program that sets up the UK keymap; KEYBUK.COM, which is only 432 bytes long. I use this instead of KEYB to squeeze as much as

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: What's new with latest kernel/freecom?

2005-07-27 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Eric Auer escribió: Hi Alex, Working on penultimate versions of DISPLAY and KEYB already :) There's a very small program that sets up the UK keymap; KEYBUK.COM, which is only 432 bytes long. I use this instead of KEYB to squeeze as much as memory as possible out of the UMBs. KEYB

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: What's new with latest kernel/freecom?

2005-07-18 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Eric Auer escribió: *integrate user-provided drivers in the freedos distribution, for example cdrom drivers or USB drivers (not yet possible to implement). Definitely not worth the effort, I think. Complex, not failsafe, and users who cannot EDIT their CONFIG SYS should better not

[Freedos-devel] re: What's new with latest kernel/freecom?

2005-07-18 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, my point is not about whether it is feasible to extract the driver name from some user input. The point is that the user is confined in some artificial you must tell me the driver name dialog system. He cannot use PG, DIR, tab- completion, and so on, and he cannot decide to just boot another

[Freedos-devel] re: What's new with latest kernel/freecom?

2005-07-18 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Alex, Working on penultimate versions of DISPLAY and KEYB already :) There's a very small program that sets up the UK keymap; KEYBUK.COM, which is only 432 bytes long. I use this instead of KEYB to squeeze as much as memory as possible out of the UMBs. KEYB is meant to be universal,

[Freedos-devel] re: What's new with latest kernel/freecom?

2005-07-05 Thread Eric Auer
Jeremy, how about this summary? - DIR now supports DESCRIPT.ION (4DOS style) and LFN (/lfn option) - SET, when used to prompt the user, can now do upcase/downcase tricks? - IF now can either ignore or not ignore the case (upcase/downcase) - there were several bugfixes for FreeCOM - there were

[Freedos-devel] re: What's new with latest kernel/freecom?

2005-07-05 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bernd, nice to get some info about your progress... Not much news here, busy with university... *provide translated interface for batchfile messages/menus (done) I hope you use the in-line default message syntax, makes the batch files much easier to read and maintain. Only OTHER

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: What's new with latest kernel/freecom?

2005-07-05 Thread Alain
Eric Auer escreveu: Hi Bernd, nice to get some info about your progress... *provide translated interface for batchfile messages/menus (done) I hope you use the in-line default message syntax, makes the batch files much easier to read and maintain. Only OTHER languages than English