Re: [Freedos-devel] re: 8086 xmsswap

2005-07-16 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, tom ehlert wrote: > >>The XMS swap feature means: Copy most of FreeCOM to XMS while a program > >>is running, and mark the memory as free. So FreeCOM LOOKS as if it would > >>be only 3 kilobytes small in RAM. > > ... > >>Having a version which is 8086 compatible but uses XMS S

Re: [Freedos-devel] 8086 xmsswap

2005-07-16 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 12-Июл-2005 00:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jose Antonio Senna) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: JAS> In other words, it is what I thought it is. However, most versions of JAS> COMMAND.COM (indeed,all of MS,DR,PC and PTS I ever used) also keep only JAS> a small part of them permanently

[Freedos-devel] re: devload 3.15

2005-07-16 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, the compile process for DEVLOAD involves no script at the moment. The sources are originally for MASM or TASM, but I compile using the free (but limited) ArrowASM, as follows: asm devload.asm [hit enter when it suggests output files devload.obj nul.crf nul.lst] tlink /t devload.obj [Turbo C 2

Re: [Freedos-devel] devload 3.15

2005-07-16 Thread Bernd Blaauw
tom ehlert schreef: BUILD.BAT or similar, so I don't have to figure out how to compile (Masm,Nasm,Tasm,...) and how it was compressed Tom maybe should be in the asm code a line with how to compile? nasm -o devload.com devload.asm upx --best --8086 devload.com Does anyone know any dos-version

Re: [Freedos-devel] How to detect graphics mode?

2005-07-16 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 14-Июл-2005 18:06 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: EA> Hi, Alain suggests to suppress disk write error messages in EA> LBAcache while graphics mode is on. I would make the floppy EA> Part two of the problem is: How do you define graphics mode?

[Freedos-devel] devload 3.15

2005-07-16 Thread tom ehlert
Hi Eric, 1'st thanks for this patch (at least you *DO* something) but it would be nice if the archive would also contain BUILD.BAT or similar, so I don't have to figure out how to compile (Masm,Nasm,Tasm,...) and how it was compressed Tom --

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: Hope for HTMLHELP, peace on the list, and a new ISO

2005-07-16 Thread Robert Riebisch
Eric Auer wrote: > I sometimes have a nagging impatience which can piss people off, sorry. Sound familiar to me. ;-) > I hope you noticed that this mail was a necessary excuse. So it Sure, but I missed the rest of the discussion. *g* I also missed the UDMA discussion which led Jack Ellis to le

[Freedos-devel] re: Hope for HTMLHELP, peace on the list, and a new ISO

2005-07-16 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Joe, Robert, > Eric, > You are an asshole. I sometimes have a nagging impatience which can piss people off, sorry. > Best Wishes, > Joe At least the FINAL words of your first mail after long silence are nice ;-). Robert: > Did you notice Eric's "Hope for ... peace on the list"? I think, t

[Freedos-devel] re: Support for Hard Drives bigger than the BIOS allows

2005-07-16 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Arkady, > BC> I would like to see if possible support in the kernel to see > BC> partitions that are bigger than the BIOS allows. > Wrong way. DOS is portable accross many different disks types only > because it uses BIOS to access them. > BC> In my case, I have a > BC> 386 and its kern

Re: [Freedos-devel] Support for Hard Drives bigger than the BIOS allows

2005-07-16 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Салям! 10-Июл-2005 14:30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Blair Campbell) wrote to FreeDOS Devel : BC> I would like to see if possible support in the kernel to see BC> partitions that are bigger than the BIOS allows. Wrong way. DOS is portable accross many different disks types only because it uses BIOS

Re: [Freedos-devel] Support for Hard Drives bigger than the BIOS allows

2005-07-16 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 10-Июл-2005 14:30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Blair Campbell) wrote to FreeDOS Devel : BC> I would like to see if possible support in the kernel to see BC> partitions that are bigger than the BIOS allows. Wrong way. DOS is portable accross many different disks types only because it uses BIOS to

Re: [Freedos-devel] Hope for HTMLHELP, peace on the list, and a new ISO (was: EMM386, Kernel and Help)

2005-07-16 Thread Robert Riebisch
Joe Cosentino wrote: > You are an asshole. Did you notice Eric's "Hope for ... peace on the list"? I think, that Eric is *not* an asshole. He already did a lot for FreeDOS (you too). He probably was a little overmotivated... Please calm down both and return to normal work on FreeDOS! Robert Rie