Re: [Freedos-devel] Idea about Virtual PC compatibility / A20 handling

2004-08-21 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Bernd, > LOL! > original author meant: 'if (programmer) concerned about size of program, > then why add an instruction which you don't use result of afterwards? That's how I understood the original author as well. But then I didn't understand why our deasr Eric broadcasts this very original

[Freedos-devel] I can only write while I'm watching baseball.

2004-08-21 Thread John Stovas
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Re: [Freedos-devel] Idea about Virtual PC compatibility / A20 handling

2004-08-21 Thread Bernd Blaauw
tom ehlert schreef: tom, please, be slightly more polite. this WAS the polite version. tom LOL! original author meant: 'if (programmer) concerned about size of program, then why add an instruction which you don't use result of afterwards? Bernd

Re: [Freedos-devel] Idea about Virtual PC compatibility / A20 handling

2004-08-21 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Arkady, >>> LOADFIX (should be part of every FreeDOS distro! Do we have one? te>> In what part of the universe did you spend the last few years ? > tom, please, be slightly more polite. this WAS the polite version. tom --- SF.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Idea about Virtual PC compatibility / A20 handling

2004-08-21 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 21-Авг-2004 18:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (tom ehlert) wrote to Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Hi, Pavel Novy, author of some tiny tool which Tyler found useful, >> writes me some explanation for "if you want to keep it tiny, then >> why does it start with mov ah,30h / int 21h (but does not do a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Idea about Virtual PC compatibility / A20 handling

2004-08-21 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Eric, > Hi, Pavel Novy, author of some tiny tool which Tyler found useful, > writes me some explanation for "if you want to keep it tiny, then > why does it start with mov ah,30h / int 21h (but does not do any- > thing with the returned DOS version information)?". the intended meaning of th

[Freedos-devel] Announce: COUNTRY.SYS

2004-08-21 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
Hello, At http://linux.tu-varna.acad.bg/~lig/freedos/kernel/ are a kernel patch collection (CVSPATCH.TXT) and binaries (KERNEL.SYS and COUNTRY.SYS) that add COUNTRY.SYS file support to the kernel and move the hard-coded country data from the kernel where it belongs - to a separate COUNTRY.SYS fi

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel 2035a HD format problem (Arkady's unstable version)

2004-08-21 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
What is the partition type - FAT32 LBA (a.k.a. FAT32X), or FAT32 CHS (a.k.a. FAT32)? My successful tests were with FAT32 LBA partitions. I didn't try FAT32 CHS. BIOS setting is CHS (translation), FDISK shows FAT32 (not FAT32 L). So, FAT32 LBA works but we have a problem with FAT32 CHS. Unfrtunate