[Freedos-devel] Wishlist: new XCOPY features: RECOVER, FAT32

2004-02-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi all, while looking at New-DOS, I got some ideas for new XCOPY features: 1. If FAT32, use the FAT32 file open mode for files which are 2-4 GB big 2. Offer an RESCUE COPY mode: When read errors happen, replace the unreadable sectors by sectors filled with ? and continue 3. Offer a TEST READ

Re: [Freedos-devel] MODE update: CGA shifting / CP status

2004-02-22 Thread Jim Hall
Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: Hi, Eric Auer escribió: Hi, I have fixed CODEPAGE status display in the new FreeDOS MODE and, surprise surprise, added the ability to shift the display image to the left or to the right (one step or interactively) on older-than-EGA hardware (in particular, CGA).

[Freedos-devel] Re: UDMA as base?

2004-02-22 Thread Jim Hall
Eric Auer wrote: Hi, I doubt that. UDMA is nice but it has limited compatibility. You need a PCI system with supported chipset, and some protected mode programs are incompatible to it. It is like UMBPCI: If it works for you, it is nice, but if not, simply do not use it. Eric. I believe (and I

[Freedos-devel] GRAPHICS / MODE moved, help with help wanted!

2004-02-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, after receiving the hono(u)r of becoming maintainer and author of the new official FreeDOS MODE, I have moved MODE and GRAPHICS (which I had forgotten to move before) from http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/ to http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/ ... and I have

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: UDMA as base?

2004-02-22 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:17:39 +0200, you wrote: Hi, But if freedos-devel disagrees that UDMA belongs in 'base', I'll move it back to 'util'. What's the rest of the list say? Where does it belong? Well, that's where a voting system would help ;-) If Jack and Lucho feel ok (maybe hard to

[Freedos-devel] re: COPY and XCOPY

2004-02-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Johnson, simple answer: COPY is so simple that it is part of FreeCOM shell. For XCOPY, you need to have the XCOPY file installed. So COPY is for use on a boot floppy where you probably do not have XCOPY. By the way Jim: Somebody asked why we have TWO XCOPY in the LSM list. I think we can