Hi, I have updated the new MODE with builtin codepage things:
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/ mode-modecon-02feb2004.zip
You can now use it to change NUMLOCK / CAPSLOCK / SCROLLLOCK / SWITCHAR,
which is a feature inspired by classic FreeDOS MODE. I hope it actually
works
Argh... forgot the URL!
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/ cpulevel.zip
download: 7k
source: 500 lines NASM (most of them comments :-))
binary: 2.2k com
C:\HOME\RAMDISKcpulevel
CPULEVEL - public domain by Eric Auer 2004
CPU brand is AuthenticAMD / CPU is family 5 model 8
Hi, not that I would not have other things that I would be more keen on,
but did yet again some more FORMAT updates tonight. Check
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/ format-0.91o.zip
(136136 bytes)... Changes:
- progress indicator for scanning of existing FAT
Hi, the thing with your network address is blacklisted happens because
some providers - including mine! - tend to block IP ranges where many
computers have trojans and are misused to forward spam. So if you are
trying to mail me and your mail bounces with some error message from some
Hi all, I think it would feel more open to use the open source
(weaker compression) UPX variants. However, I do not think that it
is imperative that GPL software must be compiled with compilers
which are open source themselves. It does help a lot to use at least
free compilers (i.e. not TASM /
Hi, even if PKZIP causes problems, Info-ZIP (our default zip and unzip
should be fine. Only RAR is strange. And indeed, I think only unrar is free,
but rar is not. Whatever. I only use tar + zip (if tar, then compressed by
either gzip or bzip2), which are all open. When the exepacker discussion
Hi all, if you have been wondering why and why curses us:
It is Sandul Yura who has offered us 6 FreePascal and 25 Q-Basic
programs on first of November. We had the problem that there is
no Q-Basic for FreeDOS but I do not remember what was wrong with
the Pascal programs.
Programs were: ANSI
Hi, I re-packaged PG 1.08 in FreeDOS package style (standard directory
tree) and added a binary. Please check my changes to PG.MAK and PG.H to
make this possible. In particular, I removed the pathspec for the plugin
and manpage directories. Bad thing, because functions will just fail
SILENTLY if
Hi, please read my reply to a request for comments, uhm, for floppies,
and comment:
http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/faq/cgi-bin/viewfaq.cgi?faq=incoming/202
I think a 720k+X binaries+help/config/nls ODIN would be a good thing to
have. Extra comments on beta9rc4 floppyability are welcome, too. Who
Hi all,
while looking at New-DOS, I got some ideas for new XCOPY features:
1. If FAT32, use the FAT32 file open mode for files which are 2-4 GB big
2. Offer an RESCUE COPY mode: When read errors happen, replace the unreadable
sectors by sectors filled with ? and continue
3. Offer a TEST READ
:Allow Prtscr to print graphics screens. (CGA/EGA/VGA/MCGA, on
PostScript, ESC/P Epson 8/24pin and HP PCL printers)
Keywords: Prtscr graphics
Author: Eric Auer eric(#)coli.uni-sb.de
Maintained-by: Eric Auer eric(#)coli.uni-sb.de
Primary-site: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff
Hi Johnson, simple answer:
COPY is so simple that it is part of FreeCOM shell. For XCOPY,
you need to have the XCOPY file installed. So COPY is for use
on a boot floppy where you probably do not have XCOPY.
By the way Jim: Somebody asked why we have TWO XCOPY in the
LSM list. I think we can
Hi, I noticed that I have not yet enabled the MODE LPTn COLS=...
feature. Reason: Nobody tested / suggested ESC sequences for
10cpi (80 column) / 15cpi (132 column) printing yet. So please test
the sequences below, which are Google-educated guesses:
ESC P
10 cpi printing. Could also be reached
Hi!
DOS- all exe/com/sys files
DOS\APPINFO- lsm files
DOS\DOC\project- documentation for 'project'
DOS\HELP - all help files
DOS\NLS- national language support files
DOS\SOURCE\project - source code for 'project'
Sounds okay BUT
Hi, thanks for changing to a shorter subject!
LG I'd divide *only* SRC into project subdirectories. BIN, INF, HLP, MAN and
LG NLS better be common for *all* projects, as they usually contain only a
LG single file per project (with some exceptions).
Not really true, and not really a problem!
Hi!
BTW, keyboard.sys may be placed into NLS.
No, is only 1 file. Keep it on traditional place: Same directory where
keyboard binary is.
Data usually not separated as binary or not binary (ie. textual),
whereas BIN is not worsest name. :) How else? EXE?
Calling it bat-com-exe
Hi, I contacted the people of http://www.clamav.net/ open source
antivirus project (successor of OpenAntiVir). ClamAV compiles for
Windows with Cygwin. Main platform is Linux.
A realistic goal for FreeDOS would be a DJGPP compile of
- libclamav
- http://www.gnu.org/directory/gnump.html (xxl
Hi Aitor, you are a bit too pessimistic :-).
AFAIK DJGPP libs lacks (obviously) all multiprocessing ...
ClamAV does not need multiprocessing.
Could somebody with CYGWIN (which is DJGPP plus BASH plus some
...
CYGWIN is POSIX (or even LinuxAPI) for Win32...
And the API is implemented in at
Hi, I downloaded the Windows binary (self-installing exe).
Then I installed it in Wine. Results: The GUI thing needs
MFC30D.DLL which is luckily offered on the ClamAV.net site.
It also uses CTL3d2.DLL of which I seem to have only the NT
version, so I must use wine --winver nt40 ... The bineries
Hi Arkady! To write a diskimage to disk, simply use FreeDOS DISKCOPY.
For Windows, use:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/tools/imgtool.zip
RAWRITE is deprecated.
Get diskcopy from dkcp092x.zip at:
Hi, I got some strange problems today. Maybe some bug in BUFFER
handling or LBAcache. I am using FreeCOM 0.82pl3 and kernel 2033
and lbacache,sys buf 30 flop (device, while FreeCOM is shellhigh,
using umbpci with non-cached but dma-enabled UMBs). XMS driver is
HIMEM64 of 1 Feb 2004, compressed
Hi BAHCL,
Memory area 40:F0..FF is documented in RBIL
Arkady already told me
Besides, can C compiler take NULLs \x0 as part of a
parameter string?
No but it would be VERY simple to convert the 32bit value to an ASCII
string like 42 instead of using 0x2aL. That way, you can use a command
line
Hi Jim, well, Bagle, maybe!
But our mail gateway has held back DOZENS of Netsky copies to me this week
already. Because all those viruses use fake sender addresses it is virtually
impossible to guess (from the IP) who is the actually infected person.
If one - maybe even past - list member is
Hi, Joergen Ibsen (of IbsenSoftware.com / aPack...) was kind and
smart enough to write a patch to make ClamAV compile in DJGPP
and to do the compiling on his LFN (long file name) aware system.
Thanks a lot!
Here some snippets from the HOWTO.
* I think you do not need much more than BASH, SED
Just in case you have wondered: This mail was an auto-reply because a
virus tried to subscribe freedos-devel to a list. Here the start of the
(truncated) attachment:
000: 504b 0304 0a00 5247 6530 5d6e PKRGe0]n
010: b022 0056 0056 1200 6174
Hi, the idea with the release candidates:
- they only contain the BASE package
- they do not include an all floppy version
- ...
- the real beta9 is supposed to be the last beta before 1.0
- ...
Eric
---
This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM
Hi, I removed the C000:8 and | strings and did this:
xxd -r dump.txt | ndisasm - | less
At first glance the analyzed payload of this HighPoint IDE 386 thing
looks like something which hooks int 13h (BIOS disk services) and hides
the first 2 sectors on the disk from the user, both in CHS and LBA
Hi Alain,
Only one program is missing and that is a Scan-Disk (written as 2 words)
utility for Fat32. For what I kow, DOSFSCK is working and need only a
small fixes in the read sector.
I strongly disagree. Our SCANDISK for FAT1x is completely defunct, so we
have no SCANDISK in the meaning
Hi Lucho,
luckily both the non-NRV versions of UPX (i.e. the compile yourself
ones, which I have to use in Linux anyway because there are no precompiled
UPX binaries for my ooold libc) and Info-ZIP are find in combination with
GPL license-wise. So if it really bothers you, replace UPX-nrv and RAR
Hi, criminal news...
I share the point of view that I can compile things with museum Turbo C
and even spread them. But I cannot spread Turbo C itself easily: I am
supposed to send people to the Borland museum to fetch their own copy
if they want one. If you disagree about that, I can publish
Hi, if you ask me then you can just remove - if possible - the
announcement newsitems from freedos.sf.net! The thing is that
freedos.sf.net is the start page for people who want to download
new kernel or shell versions without having to go through the links
on freedos.org, so this start page
Hi, ever wanted to know what the name of that ISA/PCI/whatever board
which you just found on the cupboard is? Or what the meaning of all those
jumpers on it would be? For that problem, Tyler has a very interesting URL
which I hereby forward to you :-).
http://docs.van-diepen.com/th99/index.html
Hi, on
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/ you can now find
1. poweroff-boot.zip which is a quick and dirty hack of a boot sector which
gives you 10 seconds to press ESC to reboot and if you fail to do so it
tells the primary master harddisk to shut down and 5 seconds
Hi, Bernd pointed me to the original DEVLOAD sources...
I have kicked the code a bit to compile into a .com file again
(not exe) and to compile with Arrowsoft ASM (involved changes: mark
a few ... byte ptr ..., immediate value as such, to avoid phase errors
caused by the ambiguity of immediate
Hi, some comments on your comments...
HIMEM /INT15H=... should not be extremely hard to do, so I vote for it.
HIMEM /HMAMIN=m is indeed not very useful. Being able to allocate PARTS
of the HMA would be nice but was not introduced before MS DOS 7 or so,
and before that time, HMAMIN protected
echo 00: 0F 09 90 9D 66 58 C3 | xxd -r | ndisasm -
0F09 wbinvd
0002 90nop
0003 9Dpopf
0004 6658 pop eax
0006 C3ret
So your SLOWDOWN crash happens because SLOWDOWN tries to disable the
CPU
Hi, excuse the OT, but maybe you find some interesting pattern in my
collected virus logs (mails trapped by the campus virus filter - an
informational mail is sent to me instead of the virus - I used some
Linux textutils and the joe editor to improve the layout...):
Hi Lucho and all,
the big difference is between having the address in the mail HEADERs and
having it in the mail TEXT where it could probably end up in the WWW
archives of FreeDOS-devel (depends on whether they automatically protect
email addresses there: Many web mailing list archives do!). For
Hi, Geraldo sends test results for LBAcache and element sizes:
- mscdex
- format
- load LBAcache with 6 MB (buf 24) (default element size: 4k)
- OR load smartdrv 12288 /x /u /e:4096
(this is 6 MB as well! A bug in smartdrv makes it assume 8k element
size for the element count calc - lower
Hi, in
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/ (if the server stays up... had
a failure yesterday) you can find 2 minor updates now:
cdrcache-07apr2004.zip and mode-08apr2004.zip ... Changes:
- flushed because of possible disk change message in CDRcache moved to
show only in verbose mode
Hi Tom,
reading your a20 always on pro/contra list, I modify the suggestion
which I sent (not on the list) to you and Michael a few minutes ago...
Suggested new ordering:
- if already on, use always on
- else try all methods to turn a20 on and remember which worked
- if a20 is on now and user
Hi, I wondered whether I should remove eecho.com / syseecho.sys
from the LBAcache package. Does eecho work well enough in current
kernel and FreeCOM e.g. for a color setting
eecho $[0;1;33;44m everything below this is yellow on blue
(including the problems of case sensitivity and being able to do
Hi, while MS Win98 MEM could be called a standard, I do not agree with:
b7ff81920 DOS system code
9fff65536 DOS system code
Those are video buffers - even if the MCBs mark them as excluded / system code
or similar, a note would definitely not hurt. For
Hi, I got a report that old Norton Disk Doctor versions make
LBAcache panic. The offending function is int 13.ee (which
means add 1024 to cylinder number for next int 13 call only,
similar to int 13.ef which adds CX to cylinder number for
next int 13 call only - both take DL as drive number
Hi, as FreeDOS 2034 is out, does it make attempts to fix
http://www.freedos.org/bugs/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1745 ?
renaming dir with trailing backslash makes it vanish which could be
blamed on shell, kernel or both?
How about Netware related bug 1753, as reported by Erwin, does 2034 fix it?
Hi, is FDPM still alive or did it get replaced by the
GUI and text mode installers which were used in beta 9.4 and 9.5?
http://www.freedos.org/bugs/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12
asks for package management in the installer, and I think at
least the GUI installer can be described as having such a
Hi, if HIMEM64 crashes but FDXXMS PS does not, try the new
/VERBOSE and /METHOD:... command line options of HIMEM/HIMEM64
to find out which of the A20 methods cause the troubles.
When exactly does the crash happen, did you try F8 single step
mode and combinations of DOS={HIGH,LOW},{UMB,NOUMB}
Hi, three nice URLs:
http://my.execpc.com/~geezer/osd/ has boot/a20.asm file with Vectra A20 code
and many more useful snippets, e.g. PCI / PnP programming.
http://www.pcidatabase.com/ guess what...
http://www.ibiblio.org/ais/nl-dos.htm has DOS networking tools and similar,
e.g. SSH, mail,
Jeff Hanson has a problem with MODE:
http://www.jhanson.com/aquajack.shtml (FreeDOS arkade machine :-))
It seems that setting to 19200 N 8 1 either fails (could it be that
int 14.4/5 are not supported by modern BIOSes?) or at least MODE
should raise DTR/RTS. He reports that Win9x MODE does this:
Sigh... have to followup myself...
[ http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/ mode-23apr2004.zip ]
The cannot read config in MODE COMn BAUDHARD=1 mode bug was caused
by BAUDHARD being treated as a config SET to default trigger, so the
function would always read 2400,N,8,1 right after setting
Hi all... great, I like TODO list changes :-).
http://fdos.org/ripcord/fdos_1_0/official/todos.htm
EMM386 RAM= is well enough implemented if you make it an alias to X= if
you ask me. ROM= on the other hand would be not too hard to do (Michael
already shadows ROM to trap :0 reboots). But
Hi, I got a robust formatting program from a programmer
who calls himself Ave Fenix (as nickname). The program is
written in FASM (180k in 1 source file) and is meant for
formatting floppy disks with partially broken track 0. Ave
writes:
/---
The program seeks some undamaged track to put the
Hi, I have added the user-friendly command line and statistics display
features which I have added to LBAcache a few days ago to CDRcache now.
*** Note that if you are an NDD user you should re-download lbacache-09may2004
*** because the initial version had a typo in the code which spoiled the
Hi, I uploaded a new LBAcache version to
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/ lbacache-09may2004.zip
From the history.txt file:
09.05.2004 Included some TICKLE harddisk read-ahead improvements in
the LBACACHE package in the TICKLEHD.COM file. Normal
Hi, I found that a very small way to decompress CPI files would
be using UPX to compress them and then patch the decompression process.
Here is a sketch. I think this should work with both open source and NRV
versions of UPX.
Copy file to 60k sized buffer at X:0x100
If no UPX signature found,
Hi, what kind of hardware (amount of RAM / harddisk space,
CPU speed) do you have? You should read the FreeDOS.org
software - networking list to see what you can do network-
wise with FreeDOS. And of course you can and probably should
use Linux instead of FreeDOS. I think as native networking OS,
Hi Joe, thanks for all the changes! Still some comments...
2) Title bar mentions 0.7a, but not 0.8.
-- If you want to know what version you're using, go to Help|About.
Maybe, but version in title bar is easy to implement and reminds people
which version they use, good for bug reports.
Hi folks,
I finally found the time to add support for the infamous CPX file format
to my MODE utility. The ZIP file includes a sample ega.cpx in the directory
source/mode - you can see by doing upx -l ega.cpx that I have created it by
ren ega.cpi ega.com
upx --8086 ega.com
ren ega.com ega.cpx
...
Hi, I tried to create a German FreeCOM 0.82pl3 XMS-Swap and had
to find that somebody had saved german.lng in iso-8859-1 instead
of actually using codepage 858. I could have used SETEDIT.sf.net
to fix that, but even easier was:
unix2dos german.lng
(which I ran in Linux and which is an alias to
Hi, the localization of the precompiled FreeCOM is basically simple:
get default.lng and turkish.lng
run fixstr turkish
copy /b xmsswap.cln + strings.dat command.com
upx --8086 command.com
And you have a turkish FreeCOM, XMS-Swap version.
Still people can easily miss the fact that translated
Hi!
[That = pasting large amounts of text into EDIT 0.81 in DOSEMU from Linux]
Hi, that was in DOSEMU 1.1.5.6, I am still stuck to that
version, sorry. ...
why do you insist in replying privately all the time? Pasting seems to
work for me, why else would I ask for details?
Thanks for the
Hi, the maintainer of
http://www.mwpms.uklinux.net/page1.htm
wants to know when we introduced FAT32 (2029??), LBA (2025 by Tom 2001?),
Flash booting (I think it will work if FAT formatted?), ROM booting (does
ROMOS work reliably?) ...
I suggested that he updates his page but my suggestion mail
Hi, as said, I know that GPL cannot limit use of free software.
You may remember that I took part in this discussion a while ago.
I had the example Is OpenOffice.org on the PC of a spy using
software for non-human-friendly purposes? Answer: You cannot decide.
So I am not pissed about US politics
Hi!
I recommend to move this discussion to freedos-devel, with a
nice subject line.
So here some information about UPX:
UPXed SYS can crash when loaded into a too small memory area (only UMBs
are typical cases of small memory areas, so the problem arises only
with UMBs in most cases). This
Hi, please check
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/ freedos-share-04may2004.zip
I replaced the fprintf by write and turned SHARE.EXE into a 3k smaller SHARE.COM
... especially the memory footprint is 3k smaller now, too.
Even smaller would it be if the init part could be
Hi, I have some extra questions...
Another option - and I
prefer that one - is to use a compressed COM and check if there is enough
memory dynamically.
If by dynamically you mean that DISPLAY should check that, I am open to
admit patches, of course.
If you mean in the COM version: The
Hi Marshall, Bernd, here my opinion:
Can it run on the internet?
DOS was never meant for that but you can use it for that if you
are an experienced user and know how to install the drivers. The
Arachne web browser itself is easy to use, though.
Is it fast?
It boots very fast because DOS
Hi, I think you will be able to capture the screen in Borland IDEs
by simply making your program check which screen PAGE is in use.
You can find that information in the 0x40:xx BIOS data area.
Public domain is okay - easier for people to use your code in other
programs. But GPL does not limit
Hi, I got an urgent request to make my homepage 8.3 name
compatible. So I would have to upload lbacache-01may2004.zip
as lb040501.zip (which is YYMMDD order, nice for sorting but
completely unreadable to normal Germans).
The claim is that (paraphrasing) having to use a web browser
to download
Hi, I would vote against meetup.com ... just use good old IRC chat :-).
irc.i7c.org #freedos and #fd-user are held alive by as little as +/- 5
FreeDOS fans now, but anybody can just drop by and leave comments.
Markus has some experience with bots for IRC, so he could probably add
some answering
should we add a GUI to the final Beta9?
and the other disksets we had (LANG/UTIL/GUI/NET)?
I think it should include all categories of the online LSM database
*but* please provide a version without sources, otherwise the download
will be huge. Sources can be provided separately in some huge
Hi, who is maintaining TDSK right now? I found that the LSM database
still listed a very old contact address (Jim removed that now). But I
think others have continued to work on TDSK after Ciri, does anybody
know if and who is maintaining TDSK today?
Eric
PS: VMiX? -
Hi Imre,
Johnson told me on ICQ that he tried to DEFRAG a FAT32 drive.
Very simple explanation of his problem ;-).
DEFRAG refuse to work on my hard disk, but under TUI it didn't show
the reason, just pop up a red alert and quit. I've to find the real
problem using command line, is the error
Hi Johnson!
When I try to check my hard disk with DOSFSCK 2.8 (Eric's version), it
show the 2 FAT table not the same, I try to make them same but failed.
My 2.8-fat32 version can actually only READ from disk!
Writes are only simulated for the second pass (good feature of all
DOSFSCK versions
Hi, I have uploaded a new LBAcache devel version:
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/ lbacache-09jun2004.zip
This version limits the search range for every cache hit / miss event
to 16 elements. This means if it is not in one of 16 possible elements
then it must be a miss and if it was
Hi, kind of a bad joke:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/print/48071
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Fnewsticker%2Fmeldung%2Fprint%2F48071lp=de_en
Maybe we should file a prior art complaint mentioning
Hi, I did
xdos -C -D+D -O 2dosEmu.log
cat dosEmu.log | grep INT | sed -e 's/at.*://g' -e 's/BX.*//g' | sort | uniq -c | sort
-n | less
to get a quick impression of what are popular int 21/2f functions?.
Result: FreeCOM often splits CON output into many int 21.40 calls.
DEFRAG queries date /
Hi, I wondered what CLS should do while CTTY points to not CON.
Any ideas? I could not find it by Googling, so I assume that people
will simply not try using CLS over a serial terminal... Or if they
do
- the CLEAR / HOME ANSI escape sequence or
- a bunch for linefeeds or
- a formfeed
should do
Hi, I replaced LBAcache 09jun2004 by a new 17jun2004 version.
This should hopefully fix the (XMS) errors in the new 16-way
(instead of fully) associative 6/2004 LBAcache family. Please
test.
Change: better xmscopy.asm error messages / checks, fixed a
stupid binsel2.asm bug which allowed the
Hi, MS HIMEM takes less DOS RAM than FreeDOS HIMEM
because MS puts parts of HIMEM itself into the HMA
(of course, A20 handling and speed-critical parts and
data tables have to stay in low DOS RAM). This is why
MS HIMEM seems to be smaller - it actually is not...
I think FreeDOS HIMEM has a nice
Hi all, Geraldo sent some FAT32 formatting logs (thanks!!),
but I do not really get the magic here:
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/format-fat32-logs-geraldo.tar.gz
(6k)
The test system has a single FAT32 partition on the test disk. For
formatting, either FreeDOS 2035-32 or
Hi Bernd! Nice that the new distro is delayed, maybe
some things can get fixed in the next 2 weeks...
*DOSFSCK with working FAT32
Definitely a good thing to have. Please compare 2.8-fat32
and 2.10 Imre/Lucho version compatibility for FAT16 and FAT32
for MS and FreeDOS kernels with and without
Hi, James and I have updated the FAQ entry about FreeDOS and USB storage:
http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/faq/cgi-bin/viewfaq.cgi?faq=./incoming/219
- http://www.bootdisk.com/usb.htm
- http://newdos.yginfo.net/usbdos.htm
Maybe somebody can tell more about the licensing? Available drivers:
USB_CD
Hi, I updated FDSHIELD:
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/ fdshield-04jul2004.zip
FreeDOS FDSHIELD virus shield (c) by Eric Auer Jun-Jul/2004.
Email: eric*coli.uni-sb.de. This is free open source
software under GNU Public License (v2, see www.gnu.org).
Syntax:
FDSHIELD
Hi, translation time!
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/ sort-04jul2004.zip
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/ find-01nov2003.zip
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/ aitor-nls-spanish.zip
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/
Hi, I am pleased to announce two new uploads:
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/ aitor-nls-spanish.zip
Spanish localization for choice, tree, diskcopy, fc, find, help, more, sort,
by Aitor (if you do not want to download all new choice, tree, ... zips!).
Hi Brian! Interesting program that SBINIT.COM - needs protected mode
but can only get there with help of VCPI or DPMI. You can try to load
CWSDPMI in resident mode (read the help, should be available at the
DJGPP homepage at DJ Delorie), maybe DPMI works better than VCPI here.
Hi, Tom pointed out that SORT was limited to sorting at most 15k of data.
I fixed the problem by
- compiling as EXE (do not forget to delete sort.com when installing the exe!!)
- thereby making malloc and qsort use far pointers (there is no explicit far
veraion of qsort, so I had to use a
Hi, I would like to add that:
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Quicksort
Quicksort takes average O(n*log(n)) but worst O(n*n) comparisons,
and average O(log n) but worst O(n) stack (and no head)...
So I increased stack size of SORT to 16k, which means that it can
sort up to 700 (roughly)
Hi, I read the thread at:
http://news.grc.com/news.exe?cmd=xovergroup=grc.spinrite.devutag=
... some summary points: SpinRite wants to reduce support costs by
switching to a more compatible OS, but MS-DOS is not an option. So
they could get PTS-DOS 32 (est. 6000 bucks/year in SpinRite case)
or
Hi Bernd, you are right:
Subject: [Freedos-kernel] USB: USBASPI aqnd DI1000DD
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 20:18:59 +0200
Tom first suggested a statically allocated 512 byte low DOS RAM temp_buff
to make DI1000DD work. Then Bart and Tom got another idea:
No. however AFAICS deblock_buf is only
Hi Michael,
Basic question of confusion here: Since FreeDOS is GPL'ed, and since
action was taken in the past against a vendor who distributed FreeDOS with
their commercial product without that commercial product being GPL, and
since SpinRite is not GPL or Open Source, how the heck would
Hi, I collected some potentially interesting but kind-of-unreadable
notes (200+ lines) about Windows and FreeDOS. Might be interesting
to read for those who want to use Win3.x in FreeDOS or who want to
improve compatibility in this area. I made the notes for myself, but
hey, they are English
Hi, I got a report that I broke partition magic compatibility when
introducing extra checks for norton disk doctor compatibility at
1st of May. The fix seems to be trivial, maybe you want to test it.
I am waiting for a reply from the original bug reporter - he had
another suggested fix, so I
Hi, I have updated LBAcache, please test
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/ lbacache-15jul2004.zip
(122k, including updated DOCUMENTATION...)
Changes:
15.07.2004 Fixed a bug in block NDD int 13.ee/13.ef access (added
01.05.) accidentally blocked other functions
Hi, if you have a motherboard with VIA VT82c686 southbridge and
AC97 and (!) SoundBlaster sound abilities, you might have noticed
that it is NOT enough to enable both AC97 and SB16 in the BIOS
CMOS setup. Programs act as if SB16 exists (unless you forget to
put a SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 or similar
Hi, I found INTER... on the Powerload DOS page, so I gave it a try
in DOSEmu... Result:
- DEVLOAD crashes because something at some point makes the SS:SP be
at 9fdf:0b08 (- linear: a, inside VGA RAM!), strange.
- DEVICE seems to work:
device?=c:\home\ramdisk\interlnk.exe /noscan /low
Hi, now that the new EMM386 / HIMEM combo seems to work fine,
it would be nice to have a SY2PAC compressed version of it,
so that boot disk people can get back some space again (the
uncompressed EMM386 is twice as big as the compressed one)...
Tom, please do your magic (or does anybody else have
Hi, I have updated (5+ hours) FORMAT to version 0.91r:
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/ format-0.91r.zip
Version 0.91r (18 Jul 2004)
Changes by Eric Auer:
- unless you use the /D option, we now use boring MS compat
errorlevels
Hi, I wrote 2 tools which might be useful for the installer:
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/ tiny-file-append-concat.zip
Usage: concat somefile.xyz will append the contents of somefile.xyz to
the end of target.bin (name target.bin is hardcoded). Sometimes better
than copy
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