Re: [Freedos-devel] Testing evaluating the 1.1 release

2011-07-15 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Mike, - Are all of the binaries always put into the one bin dir? I expected Yes, like with Linux. Also remember that DOS often has small environment variable space, so we keep PATH short and have no opt or usr local ;-) However, FreeDOS 1.0 did have a few packages using further

[Freedos-devel] Anybody working on a CIFS/SMB redirector?

2011-07-15 Thread Eduardo Casino
Hi, Anybody working on that already? I'm about to start making one myself. Of course, any tips or ideas will be more than welcome :) Eduardo. -- AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric

Re: [Freedos-devel] Anybody working on a CIFS/SMB redirector?

2011-07-15 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Anybody working on that already? I'm about to start making one myself. Of course, any tips or ideas will be more than welcome :) As far as I remember, the ftp-client style SMBCLIENT from Samba is the only Samba thing ported to DOS yet, but that of course differs from running in the

Re: [Freedos-devel] confused by NLS-settings

2011-07-15 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On 7/14/11, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: Op 15-7-2011 0:42, Eduardo Casino schreef: Nope. INT2F/122b and INT2f/122d are not implemented in kernel 2040 (they were in 2039) Don't use NLSFUNC with kernel 2040. Ouch. Good to know, I'll take this into account. NLSFUNC seemed to work

Re: [Freedos-devel] confused by NLS-settings

2011-07-15 Thread Eduardo Casino
2011/7/15 Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com: Eek. Um, anybody want to tell us why 2039 has it but 2040 doesn't?? Certainly lacking NLSFUNC support can't be good, can it?  :-/ 2039 was part of the UNSTABLE series, along with 2035 and 2037 and had a lot of experimental features, but also had the

Re: [Freedos-devel] confused by NLS-settings

2011-07-15 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Eek. Um, anybody want to tell us why 2039 has it but 2040 doesn't?? Certainly lacking NLSFUNC support can't be good, can it? :-/ 2039 was part of the UNSTABLE series, along with 2035 and 2037 and had a lot of experimental features, but also had the unstable tag for a reason ;-)

Re: [Freedos-devel] confused by NLS-settings

2011-07-15 Thread Eduardo Casino
So in short, I do not know what broke int 2f.122b and 122d or whether it was removed deliberately. The changelog says: Definitely, they are not implemented. - the unstable branch supports country.sys in kernel 2037 - the stable branch supports country.sys in kernel 2039 and 2040

Re: [Freedos-devel] confused by NLS-settings

2011-07-15 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Eduardo, inthndlr.c int2F_12_handler should implement this... So in short, I do not know what broke int 2f.122b and 122d or whether it was removed deliberately. The changelog says: Definitely, they are not implemented. Supporting country.sys and nlsfunc are completely different

Re: [Freedos-devel] Testing evaluating the 1.1 release

2011-07-15 Thread James
Some general questions and comments from a newbie: - How do I use the new installer that Jim has been working on? The new Install isn't in the first 1.1 test release. Look for it in the next test distro, if Bernd decides it is okay for testing.

[Freedos-devel] getting programs into the freedos site/archive (was confused by NLS-settings)

2011-07-15 Thread Travis Siegel
On Jul 10, 2011, at 9:20 AM, Rugxulo wrote: You know what can edit arbitrary-sized files? sed !!! (My favorite!) Maybe that should be included in FreeDOS 1.1 by default! ;-)) Hmm, speaking of including things in freedos. How does one get a program added to the freedos distribution/archive?

Re: [Freedos-devel] Testing evaluating the 1.1 release

2011-07-15 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 15-7-2011 5:08, Michael B. Brutman schreef: - How do I use the new installer that Jim has been working on? It's in the new ISO that I plan to upload by Sunday evening. Still need to work out some things to make it a smoother experience. The initial menu showing which CD drives were found

Re: [Freedos-devel] confused by NLS-settings

2011-07-15 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Jul 15, 2011 7:41 AM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: Hi Eduardo, inthndlr.c int2F_12_handler should implement this... So in short, I do not know what broke int 2f.122b and 122d or whether it was removed deliberately. The changelog says: Definitely, they are not implemented.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Testing evaluating the 1.1 release

2011-07-15 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Fri, 15 Jul 2011, Bernd Blaauw wrote: See above, minimising things. WATTCP programs are usually compiled as DJGPP programs, having kind of huge disk footprint compared to your drivers for example. The Watt32 libs are pretty big. The regular WatTCP is a lot smaller and 16-bit Internet

Re: [Freedos-devel] getting programs into the freedos site/archive (was confused by NLS-settings)

2011-07-15 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Jul 15, 2011 12:31 PM, Travis Siegel tsie...@softcon.com wrote: On Jul 10, 2011, at 9:20 AM, Rugxulo wrote: You know what can edit arbitrary-sized files? sed !!! (My favorite!) Maybe that should be included in FreeDOS 1.1 by default! ;-)) Hmm, speaking of including things in

Re: [Freedos-devel] getting programs into the freedos site/archive (was confused by NLS-settings)

2011-07-15 Thread Jim Hall
Hmm, speaking of including things in freedos. How does one get a program added to the freedos distribution/archive? Please send suggestions to the list.  Include a brief synopsis of what program is useful for, where to get it, its license, state you would like included.  A discussion may