Re: [Freedos-devel] Towards FreeCOM (or FreeDOS) 1.0

2005-11-03 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 2-Ноя-2005 23:22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Blair Campbell) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: BC present...), and 2) FreeCOM is already VERY Turbo C specific; BC portability is definately not an issue. Portability _is_ issue. At least, to OpenWatcom (which is MSVC, not BC

Re: [Freedos-devel] MEM and CVS

2005-11-03 Thread David O'Shea
Hi Bernd, Diego and Johnson, From: Bernd Blaauw [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] Diego Rodriguez schreef: Will it work with 80286 processors ?? Why doesn't work with 8086 ones ?? MEM still has some 386-specific machine instructions which are not present in earlier processor generations (386 is

[Freedos-devel] [anounce] Move 3.3 packages uploaded

2005-11-03 Thread Diego Rodriguez
MOVE 3.3 packages were uploaded to ibiblio: www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/move/MOVE33X.zip (binaries) and www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/move/MOVE33S.zip (sources) New in this version: - Cats (kitten) support - OpenWatcom suport (Thanks to Blair

Re: [Freedos-devel] Towards FreeCOM (or FreeDOS) 1.0

2005-11-03 Thread Alain
Aitor Santamaría Merino escreveu: Given the interest back of the FreeDOS 1.0 issue, I really don't understand why so much effort is put in new and 1.0 stuff and when I report a BUG in the KERNEL so serious that I had to remove FreeDOS from a real user machine I didn't even get ONE answer

Re: [Freedos-devel] MEM and CVS

2005-11-03 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 15:30:53 -0200, you wrote: Hi Alain, I don't like this. Even if it is better, it should be only with an optional parameter (or environment variable). Main goal is to make it just like DOS To make things clear, my original idea is add a switch and display like PC-TOOLS v9's

Re: [Freedos-devel] Towards FreeCOM (or FreeDOS) 1.0

2005-11-03 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Alain, I really don't understand why so much effort is put in new and 1.0 stuff and when I report a BUG in the KERNEL so serious that I had to remove FreeDOS from a real user machine I didn't even get ONE answer from the list what do you expect ? 'some program of mine doesn't

Re: [Freedos-devel] Towards FreeCOM (or FreeDOS) 1.0

2005-11-03 Thread Alain
Blair Campbell escreveu: BC present...), and 2) FreeCOM is already VERY Turbo C specific; BC portability is definately not an issue. Portability _is_ issue. At least, to OpenWatcom (which is MSVC, not BC compatible). Portability is definately not an issue to non-DOS compilers. As I

Re: [Freedos-devel] MEM and CVS

2005-11-03 Thread Alain
Johnson Lam escreveu: I don't like this. Even if it is better, it should be only with an optional parameter (or environment variable). Main goal is to make it just like DOS To make things clear, my original idea is add a switch and display like PC-TOOLS v9's MI I agree. Yes, I agree

Re: [Freedos-devel] Towards FreeCOM (or FreeDOS) 1.0

2005-11-03 Thread Alain
Blair Campbell escreveu: [...] It will make FreeCOM a smaller binary (desperately needed; Why do you need so much space? Can you tell me what target application? 2) FreeCOM is already VERY Turbo C specific; portability is definately not an issue. I understood from previous discussions

Re: [Freedos-devel] Towards FreeCOM (or FreeDOS) 1.0

2005-11-03 Thread Blair Campbell
Why do you need so much space? Can you tell me what target application? FreeCOM can't currently be compiled with all of its features due to size; the limit of the small memory model is 64kb and FreeCOM is exceeds this limit with all features compiled in.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Towards FreeCOM (or FreeDOS) 1.0

2005-11-03 Thread Alain
Hi Tom, what do you expect ? 'some program of mine doesn't work; it was to do X' unless to give precise instructions how to reproduce the bug, and the program as well, noone will even have a chance to work on this - even IF they would be interested I am sorry to disapoint you, but I

Re: [Freedos-devel] Towards FreeCOM (or FreeDOS) 1.0

2005-11-03 Thread Alain
Blair Campbell escreveu: Why do you need so much space? Can you tell me what target application? FreeCOM can't currently be compiled with all of its features due to size; the limit of the small memory model is 64kb and FreeCOM is exceeds this limit with all features compiled in. Ok,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Towards FreeCOM (or FreeDOS) 1.0

2005-11-03 Thread Alain
ok Jeremy, I believe that you arfe entitled a lot more than two cents on this topic ;-) I also believe that FreeDOS is ready to 1.0. I installed it in a real user application which is heavy database + graphics in 32 bits and it behaved *better* than MS-DOS 7.10!!! The only problem is that

[Freedos-devel] Re: MEM and CVS

2005-11-03 Thread David O'Shea
Hi Alain, Alain said to me: PS as to Translation, if some day it kets Kittenized, surely I will help :) It is already kittenized in version 1.7 beta (maybe even before that, I don't know). Currently I'm in the process of kittenizing all the new code I added and I'm almost done. Once I'm