Re: [Freedos-devel] HIMEM64 testing info/requests

2004-04-14 Thread Michael Devore
At 09:31 AM 4/14/2004 +0200, tom ehlert wrote: >*** my conclusion *** >I hate A20 anyway - use always on if found to be on on startup Good enough for me, I'll move an initial A20 always-on test to front of the method line on next release. -

Re: [Freedos-devel] LBAcache ideas / remove eecho/bootrand?

2004-04-14 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 14-Апр-2004 14:57 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: EA> The more I split the cache, the shorter is the chunk which I have EA> to search for the right sector but the more I limit the ability EA> of the cache to store many sectors with the same hash value at the EA> same

Re: [Freedos-devel] monitoring screen output

2004-04-14 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 14-Апр-2004 23:24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Diego Iastrubni) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: DI> I need to write a program which periodically saves the screen contents into DI> a file. What I have done is trapping int $1C, and every 30 secs, run a 2nd DI> procedure which opens a file and saves $B800:000

[Freedos-devel] monitoring screen output

2004-04-14 Thread Diego Iastrubni
Hi all! I need to write a program which periodically saves the screen contents into a file. What I have done is trapping int $1C, and every 30 secs, run a 2nd procedure which opens a file and saves $B800: to it. The problem is (that I am stupid and forgot to pushf before calling the origina

[Freedos-devel] LBAcache: floppy (and general) testers needed

2004-04-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi all, can anybody tell me if LBAcache now handles over-formatted floppy disks properly? As you know, you can use FreeDOS FORMAT (or Linux tools or whatever else you prefer) to format e.g. to 1680k in an 1440k drive. In the past, LBAcache bailed out when you had LBAcache FLOP loaded and tried to

[Freedos-devel] LBAcache ideas / remove eecho/bootrand?

2004-04-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I wondered whether I should remove eecho.com / syseecho.sys from the LBAcache package. Does eecho work well enough in current kernel and FreeCOM e.g. for a color setting eecho $[0;1;33;44m everything below this is yellow on blue (including the problems of case sensitivity and being able to do

Re: [Freedos-devel] HIMEM64 testing info/requests

2004-04-14 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, tom ehlert wrote: > Hello Michael, > > MD> Additionally, if any port 92h related > MD> lockups happen, I'll move "always-on" to top the A20 test list, > MD> see if they go away. > > *** PRO 'always-on' *** I think "always on" here refers to machines that *boot* with A20 enabl

[Freedos-devel] Re: HIMEM64 testing info/requests

2004-04-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Tom, reading your "a20 always on pro/contra list", I modify the suggestion which I sent (not on the list) to you and Michael a few minutes ago... Suggested new ordering: - if already on, use always on - else try all methods to turn a20 on and remember which worked - if a20 is on now and user ga

Re: [Freedos-devel] HIMEM64 testing info/requests

2004-04-14 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Bernd, BB> HIMEM is still under GPL, correct? HIMEM is under Artistic License. BB> derived from FDXMS, which is GPL. derived from FDXMS 0.2, which is free. tom --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tuto

Re: [Freedos-devel] HIMEM64 testing info/requests

2004-04-14 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Michael, MD> Additionally, if any port 92h related MD> lockups happen, I'll move "always-on" to top the A20 test list, MD> see if they go away. *** PRO 'always-on' *** not sure, but I seem to remember, that MS MIMEM, when it detects A20 on on startup, simply leaves it on and disables disab