Re: [Freedos-devel] LPTtest v1.3

2007-07-17 Thread Robert Riebisch
Eric Auer wrote: [snip] I didn't have a look at the source code, but maybe you or Ladislav find something useful in Kris Hidenstrom's `Parallel port mini-FAQ' or `PC Timing FAQ' available from http://www.heidenstrom.gen.nz/kris.html#mystuff In the past I had good results with functions ctc() and

Re: [Freedos-devel] LPTtest v1.3

2007-07-16 Thread Aitor SantamarĂ­a
> Anyway, next two weeks I'll not work on MASM version eighter because I'll on > the holiday in Ukraine. > > - Original Message - > From: "Jim Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 12:25 AM > Subject: Re: [Freed

Re: [Freedos-devel] LPTtest v1.3

2007-07-15 Thread Ladislav Lacina
l" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 12:25 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] LPTtest v1.3 > On 7/14/07, chris evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >But it has no sense. LPTtest is supposed to be a part of FreeDOS and FreeDOS > > >itself has

Re: [Freedos-devel] LPTtest v1.3

2007-07-14 Thread Jim Hall
On 7/14/07, chris evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >But it has no sense. LPTtest is supposed to be a part of FreeDOS and FreeDOS > >itself has own copy of COPYING. Why should every small binary to have own > >copy of this license? > > >Maybe rather to spread it as public domain? > > I thought tha

Re: [Freedos-devel] LPTtest v1.3

2007-07-14 Thread chris evans
>But it has no sense. LPTtest is supposed to be a part of FreeDOS and FreeDOS >itself has own copy of COPYING. Why should every small binary to have own >copy of this license? >Maybe rather to spread it as public domain? I thought that all was necessary in a program like this is a small comment t

Re: [Freedos-devel] LPTtest v1.3

2007-07-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi all, I did some experiments with ieee1284 plug and play handshaking, based on the docs on fapo.com ... Yes I know that Public Domain means "everybody can do everything with it, including removing any mention of me as the author". Anyway. Here is what I found: Default data, control, status in

Re: [Freedos-devel] LPTtest v1.3

2007-07-14 Thread CK Raju
Jim Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Including a copy of the license with the work is vital so that everyone who gets a copy of the program can know what his rights are. Here's what Eben Moglen has got to say : "The copyright status accorded to each author of a computer program, the exclusive right

Re: [Freedos-devel] LPTtest v1.3

2007-07-14 Thread Jim Hall
I responded to Ladislav in private on this matter, but since Eric raises a few points, I'll respond to those here. License discussion is getting off-topic from the original subject; if we need to continue this discussion, let's switch to a new subject line. On 7/13/07, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Freedos-devel] LPTtest v1.3

2007-07-13 Thread lyricalnanoha
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Eric Auer wrote: > Unfortunately, you cannot - your code is still only a TRANSLATION > of Linux kernel code written in C with GPL license FIRST to Pascal > and THEN to Assembly language, but it still has some smell of GPL > sticking to it. As you have written several functi

Re: [Freedos-devel] LPTtest v1.3

2007-07-13 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Ladislav, > Wow! It is a touch of master! Thanks, but a real master would have fixed the "out base,4 only if" problem before uploading ;-). > Despite I prefer TASM conventions your code is much cleaner... Yeah I made sure that all commands are indented by 1 tab and all comments are indented

Re: [Freedos-devel] LPTtest v1.3

2007-07-13 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Ladislav, > > You _need_ to include a copy of the GNU GPL with a copy of your > > program. I don't see one here. This file is usually named COPYING. > But it has no sense. LPTtest is supposed to be a part of FreeDOS and > FreeDOS itself has own copy of COPYING. Why should every small binary >

Re: [Freedos-devel] LPTtest v1.3

2007-07-13 Thread Ladislav Lacina
> You _need_ to include a copy of the GNU GPL with a copy of your > program. I don't see one here. This file is usually named COPYING. But it has no sense. LPTtest is supposed to be a part of FreeDOS and FreeDOS itself has own copy of COPYING. Why should every small binary to have own copy of th

Re: [Freedos-devel] LPTtest v1.3

2007-07-13 Thread Ladislav Lacina
witch "/C" (compatibility) - Original Message - From: "Eric Auer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 5:22 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] LPTtest v1.3 > > Hi all, > > > I added help screen, possibility to scan other LPT por

Re: [Freedos-devel] LPTtest v1.3

2007-07-13 Thread Jim Hall
On 7/12/07, Ladislav Lacina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I added help screen, possibility to scan other LPT ports and a little > modyfied delay routine. > For help screen write lpttest /? > link: http://www.laaca-mirror.ic.cz/lpttest.zip > Hi Ladislav, You _need_ to include a copy of the GNU

Re: [Freedos-devel] LPTtest v1.3

2007-07-13 Thread Eric Auer
Hi all, > I added help screen, possibility to scan other LPT ports and a little > modyfied delay routine. For help screen write lpttest /? link: > http://www.laaca-mirror.ic.cz/lpttest.zip (compiles with TASM and TLINK) I have thrown Michael Devore's NoMySo Perl script at the source and made a N