[Freedos-devel] eSpeak (was: Re: provox dos screen reader)

2011-08-07 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, I recently stumbled upon the old 2007 FreeDOS technote (Dietmar Segbert) talking about eSpeak (GPLv3): http://www.freedos.org/freedos/news/technote/231.html http://espeak.sourceforge.net/ http://www.braillnet.cz/~rehak/soft/sox12dos.zip

Re: [Freedos-devel] New FreeDOS 1.1 test ISO (#3) released

2011-08-07 Thread cm
Just the abort/retry/fail dialogue. Yeah, that's the critical error handler. Doesn't seem to be a way out if you offer a PAUSE (and control-C to get to console) but only load ramdrive after USB drivers. What do you mean by doesn't seem to be a way out ? Regards, Christian

Re: [Freedos-devel] TDSK related issues.

2011-08-07 Thread cm
This version still has a known error with regard to CDS (drive assignment) - all drive letters are assigned successively (ie E: F: G:), if LASTDRIVE is reached it will gracefully handle that, but if there is a hole between used drive letters but it is not big enough for all units then it will

Re: [Freedos-devel] TDSK related issues.

2011-08-07 Thread cm
I think your only two choices are to abort, or to try skipping over the first hole you find and try to find another one with enough consecutive units. Ah, true, finding enough consecutive free CDS entries elsewhere would work too. However, as I stated in the other mail, I think that assigning

Re: [Freedos-devel] New FreeDOS 1.1 test ISO (#3) released

2011-08-07 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 7-8-2011 17:24, c...@bttr-software.de schreef: Just the abort/retry/fail dialogue. Yeah, that's the critical error handler. Doesn't seem to be a way out if you offer a PAUSE (and control-C to get to console) but only load ramdrive after USB drivers. What do you mean by doesn't seem to

Re: [Freedos-devel] TDSK related issues.

2011-08-07 Thread Bret Johnson
Ah, true, finding enough consecutive free CDS entries elsewhere would work too. However, as I stated in the other mail, I think that assigning non-consecutive entries is possible too - and would probably do for most drivers. DOS only tells the driver what the first drive number is, and DOS

Re: [Freedos-devel] TDSK related issues.

2011-08-07 Thread cm
If the driver status information gets displayed somehow, or there is some sort of interaction between the drives in the software, though, it would always assume things were consecutive. Yes. I think I've seen drivers which display messages like Installed num units, first drive letter:, which