[Freedos-devel] ANNOUNCE: Edit 0.81

2004-04-27 Thread Joe Cosentino
Hi all,     Here's the next release of Edit, version 0.81.  I've gotten a lot of bugs/enhancements/etc...so here's the list and my reaction to some of them:   1) Default of check case in Search differs.     -- Oh well, if you want it to match case, check the box yourself...but i'm not going t

Re: [Freedos-devel] Bug/enhancement development questions

2004-04-27 Thread Michael Devore
At 02:04 PM 4/28/2004 +0800, Johnson Lam wrote: >I feel the idea of Bugzilla is good but it's terrible difficult for >me. I fail to report bug, there're too many empty fields to fill. I've >to admit I'm stupid and I don't like complex forms and tables. > >If a simplified version available I'm sure

Re: [Freedos-devel] Bug/enhancement development questions

2004-04-27 Thread Steffen Kaiser
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Michael Devore wrote: > Well, I can't really agree that a standard tab in a public SourceForge > project is well hidden. Or that 24 requests in an obviously one-way The tracker had been disabled multiple times, in fact, I had disabled it myself at one time. I do not know, wh

Re: [Freedos-devel] Bug/enhancement development questions

2004-04-27 Thread Johnson Lam
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 21:28:19 -0500, you wrote: Hi, >That's why I'd like to see the feedback conduit of Bugzilla -- and Tracker if it is >judged worthy of support -- made more attractive to the casual FreeDOS users. I feel the idea of Bugzilla is good but it's terrible difficult for me. I fail

Re: [Freedos-devel] Bug/enhancement development questions

2004-04-27 Thread Michael Devore
At 09:28 PM 4/27/2004 -0500, I wrote: >That's why I'd like to see the feedback conduit of Bugzilla -- and Tracker if it is >judged worthy of support -- made more attractive to the casual FreeDOS users. Alright, after talking the talk, I walked the walk by responding to three open Bugzilla repo

Re: [Freedos-devel] Rainone offering Italian translation for FD

2004-04-27 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Hi, Anyone willing to translate strings can have a look at http://fdos.org/ripcord/beta9rc5/addon/strings.zip for Italian I recommend to start all over, since the "italian.lng" file is very small, and thus incomplete. copy default.lng italian.lng edit italian.lng (now translate things) fixstrs i

[Freedos-devel] Rainone offering Italian translation for FD

2004-04-27 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, on http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=900300&group_id=5109&atid=355109 the SourceForge user rainone (Francesco Rainone) offers to translate strings to Italian for us. I think he should first have a look at FreeCOM...? Please mail him about that... Of the components which

Re: [Freedos-devel] Bug/enhancement development questions

2004-04-27 Thread Michael Devore
At 01:27 AM 4/28/2004 +0100, Bart Oldeman wrote: >On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Michael Devore wrote: > >the tracker is well hidden indeed but I just see 24 requests there. I >never looked at it so far. It can be disabled indeed. Well, I can't really agree that a standard tab in a public SourceForge projec

[Freedos-devel] new freedos package zip.

2004-04-27 Thread Bernd Blaauw
For those of you who want to update your FreeDOS installation without having to burn the ISO to cdrom and then install, I have created a zip package of the contents of the freedos directory. No sources however. http://fdos.org/ripcord/beta9rc5/addon/FDOS.zip [2.3MB] that means we now have a generi

Re: [Freedos-devel] Bug/enhancement development questions

2004-04-27 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Michael Devore wrote: > While idly browsing FreeDOS sites, I see that Tracker in SourceForge has > development requests going back to 2001. Several requests have since > come to fruition without any notice or follow-ups there. Can (or > should) the Tracker tab be turned off s

[Freedos-devel] Bug/enhancement development questions

2004-04-27 Thread Michael Devore
What is the story on Tracker in SourceForge and FreeDOS Bugzilla as far as keeping status and feedback up-to-date? I'm not asking this to point at a person, annoy anyone, dump more work on a hapless soul, or even to get auto-volunteered for the task by bringing up the topic, but I think it is a

[Freedos-devel] Moving from Win to FreeDOS (was: updates)

2004-04-27 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, what kind of hardware (amount of RAM / harddisk space, CPU speed) do you have? You should read the FreeDOS.org software -> networking list to see what you can do network- wise with FreeDOS. And of course you can and probably should use Linux instead of FreeDOS. I think as native networking OS,

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS MODE: UPXing CPIs?

2004-04-27 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > Eric Auer schreef: > > Hi, I found that a very "small" way to decompress CPI files would > > be using UPX to compress them and then patch the decompression process. > > Here is a sketch. I think this should work with both open source and NRV > > versions

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: EBDA

2004-04-27 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Eric Auer wrote: > if you use SWITCHES=/E:value, what will happen if you select > a value which is smaller than the EBDA? Here's an experiment: put switches=/e:800 in config.sys boot FreeDOS, then run MEM (1.6) with /f. and see for yourself. > PS: I experienced EBDA sizes of

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS MODE: UPXing CPIs?

2004-04-27 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Eric Auer schreef: Hi, I found that a very "small" way to decompress CPI files would be using UPX to compress them and then patch the decompression process. Here is a sketch. I think this should work with both open source and NRV versions of UPX. Same thing as making an EXE non-decompressable by pa

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS MODE: UPXing CPIs?

2004-04-27 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I found that a very "small" way to decompress CPI files would be using UPX to compress them and then patch the decompression process. Here is a sketch. I think this should work with both open source and NRV versions of UPX. Copy file to 60k sized buffer at X:0x100 If no UPX signature found, C

[Freedos-devel] Re: EBDA

2004-04-27 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, if you use SWITCHES=/E:value, what will happen if you select a value which is smaller than the EBDA? NOMOVEXBDA suppresses moving EBDA to UMB by EMM386, seems to be needed for many network cards and disk controllers. I guess even moving EBDA to low DOS RAM causes problems with the same set of

Re: [Freedos-devel] EBDA

2004-04-27 Thread tom ehlert
BO> On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Bart wrote: BO> "Some (especially embedded) applications don't use the DOS memory manager BO> but assume all the memory past that given to them by DOS is free for BO> use. " BO> .. BO> Obvious reply: BO> Most users don't use "Some (especially embedded) applications". And