Hi!
JWasm is available, a Masm v6 compatible Assembler, Open Source:
http://www.japheth.de/JWasm.html
Nice, how masm compatible is it?
And how wasm compatible is it?
What are the requirements, is a 386 without FPU enough...?
Are a few megabytes of RAM enough? Other relevant details?
It's
Hi :-)
This may be help in developping free dos usb drivers..
http://libusb.wiki.sourceforge.net/
Talking about that, using DLL/DPMI-ish JLM drivers for
JEMM386 seems to support easy use of either ASM or C,
which might give interesting possibilities for example
for porting the Linux Synaptics
Hi!
stop top-replying, but use inline-replying from now on.
I participate in some lists where the rule is top replying...
Some people think it is better because it is faster to read bigger
quantity of messages :)
I personally suggest inline replying combined with
shortening quotes. Of
Hi, does anybody remember in which situations the MBR
or whatever else calls the FreeDOS boot sector fails
to pass the drive number in DL? Because at the moment,
FreeDOS defaults to ignoring DL and using the value
in the boot sector, unless that value is 255. I hear
that only some CDROM boot BIOS
Hi again,
news about boot sector properties:
- our FAT32 boot sectors always trust DL, so the code in SYS
which says if A:/B: set 0, else set 0xff should be changed
to if A:/B: set 0, else set 0x80 to make the boot sector
look nicer to disk tools, right? And makebootfat and my tool
Hi Alain,
- the FAT12 / FAT16 boot sectors are too stuffed to
check int13.8 for real geometry, but we could say
that LBA is often supported - then we get to my
suggestion allow LBA even for A: if FAT16... :-).
When you use LBA, wrong CHS geometry is irrelevant.
There are
Hi Jim, hi everybody,
I'd like to see us continue that with a FreeDOS 1.1.
I agree :-)
1. FDUPDATE (FreeDOS Updater.)
Mateusz's excellent update utility can help to keep your system
current with the latest releases of FreeDOS packages...
Even more useful is the fact that the collection of
Changing the highlighting to make clear what iw2evk
said and what Jim said... ;-) Some own comments: We
can/did use spfdisk and xfdisk, and I agree that a
separate personal use ISO could be made which has
some packages already included which would otherwise
have to be downloaded during install:
Hi Jim,
btw: I have a USB-Stick with installed kernel of FreeDOS...
Is it possible (I think) to write an 128MB image onto a 1GB...
Yes, this is possible. You just wouldn't use the remaining space on
the USB fob. Or as you mention, you'd have to expand the partition
later using a disk
Hi David,
3. An optional floppy-only Base install.
This could be a 1.44MB emergency boot floppy image (like BALDER...
[or] multi-floppy (3 disks?) install of everything from Base...
I vote for this one. I appreciate the official FreeDOS install CD,
and have used it lots. However, I've
Hi Marco!
- Emergency / Base floppy distribution is OK, I agree with max
3 diskettes base system... really crazy to manage +100 floppies
distribution but if you insist...
Indeed ;-)
- Version number. What version number return s Int21h Functions 30h and
3306h? Some programs refuse to
I think this accidentally went to the owners instead of the list...
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:02:04 -0430
From: Marco Achury [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] A call to action - FreeDOS 1.1
My comments about:
For next release:
- Emergency / Base floppy distribution is OK, I
Hi Tom, HPA,
problem is, that the freedos stuff (both MBR and boot sector) does
not know about 'DS:SI information in memory', and ignore it
It was easy to add to the FAT32 LBA boot sector, but I have
not uploaded the patch as I was waiting for comments:
http://pastebin.com/m1d0f7dc5
It
Hi Matt,
using black text on white backgrounds, rather than the usual reverse
To do that, you can load NANSI and set your prompt to
prompt $E[0;7;5m$P$G
this means send black on white ANSI escape sequence then show
the current drive and path and then a sign. It will probably
not work for
Hi Gregory,
the problem is not that KITTEN is worse than CATGETS,
the problem is that your kitten seems to be too old.
You say I want to switch to catgets because catgets
uses LANG and NLSPATH. That reasoning is odd if you
ask me - KITTEN uses LANG and NLSPATH as well! :-)
I was playing
Hi!
I doubt Jim would mind very much. :-) He says on his page
http://www.freedos.org/jhall/ that Kitten is not currently
maintained, so he would probably be happy for someone to take this on
and provide some updates. But that's just a guess - you might try
emailing him. ;-)
Well the core
Hi!
Given your description it definitely makes sense to
keep all those features in catgets - it is good that
kitten is smaller than that :-) Of course for being
portable to Unix, catgets can be useful. Yet I never
saw any % escape in and i18n setting on a Linux yet,
so most people would not even
Hi Gregory,
be easier if I started from scratch because I had a lot of low-hanging
fruit to throw in. Seeing that MS-DOS was vaguely Unix... Otherwise,
we would have a half-assed implementation, and nobody wants that.
Well in that case you probably want a DJGPP style port of the original
Hi!
Indeed, it is always a very good idea to have a look at the FAQ
first when you ask a FreeDOS question which is popular to ask :-)
http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/faq/cgi-bin/viewfaq.cgi?faq=Installing_FreeDOS/122
Nice FAQ but got a bit off topic ;-) Size limits are 2 gb for compatible
fat16
Hi, Fritz found a bug in chkdsk 0.9.1 and it seems that
the absence of subdirectories triggers the bug. Details:
- at some point, CreateFastTreeMap creates a map / bitfield
- CompressFastTreeMap calls ConvertTreeMaps and that collects
no entries (either the initial list is empty or all
Hi!
Upon boot FreeDOS 1.0 AUTOEXEC.BAT prints type HELP to get support...
and Welcome to FreeDOS. Please also echo two lines for aliases
reboot and halt...
That is not needed. You can switch off a FreeDOS PC at any time
without causing problems. Of course you should wait until your
app has
Hi!
That is not needed. You can switch off a FreeDOS PC at any time
OK, but how should a newbie know this?
That is how DOS works. Always has.
He's probably constantly looking
for some kind of Start button to shutdown. ;-)
Next you will ask me to add a Start menu and explorer
the newbie
Hi Robert,
OK, but how should a newbie know this?
[that you can switch off a DOS PC without doing a shutdown first]
That is how DOS works. Always has.
*I* know, but I'm talking about a newbie trying FreeDOS
in QEMU or another VM.
Why does the newbie use DOS when he has no idea what DOS
Hi!
I can't use a batch file in my Linux environment. Therefore, I have to
write some script to compile it. I will look closer at the batch file
and see about the XCPU setting.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/projects/dos_stuff/freedos_src/blah/kernel$ nasm
asmsupt.asm
segs.inc:34: error: symbol
Hi!
- SVN snapshot of FreeDOS 2038 stable kernel or similar
- NASM
- OpenWatcom C
Are there any c compilers available for linux that will
compile to intel realmode code?
- UPX (for example 2.x)
All of them, including OpenWatcom, should be available
for Linux, but the OpenWatcom website
Hi, as you wrote to both user and devel list,
I reply to both lists, too :-).
Hi everybodu of users! I think write the one professional
text editor for the FreeDOS project for this stands standart
text editor for FreeDOS, but existed EDIT.EXE is bugged
(crashed while copying/pasting the
Hi!
If anyone else migrates bugs from Bugzilla into the SF Tracker, please
use the syntax/format that dos386 used. At the start of the subject
line for the bug, please put the Bugzilla bug. For example:
#1953 21h/29h returns 0 (valid) for all drive root names
Sounds good, thanks :-)
This
Hi Aitor,
I've always wondered wether [S-ATA disks] are accessible through
int13h. I guess it should be so, in order to boot from them. So is
it generally true (ie. in all BIOSes, except maybe quite old ones)?
Indeed... All mainboards and controller cards that I know
which have S-ATA
Hi everybody :-)
First a correction about help.fdos.org - it does render
okay in firefox, it is only outdated. Reason for the
failure to display was a firefox update running exactly
at the same moment... ;-).
wish to you all a great merry christmas/new year time! :)
Thanks, same to you :-)
Hi!
I am considering adquiring a new processor, but what can be found in
the shops is mostly x86-64.
If what I read is correct, there is no V86-mode, so there isn't NTVDM
under WIndows, and I guess that DOSEMU will not run under Linux.
There is V86 mode, but it cannot be used together with
Hi, I noticed that int 21 with ah=1c might return wrong
values for invalid drive, can somebody check this? For
example: Is this a bug? When did we introduce it? What
do other DOSes do here...?
For invalid drives, I get: ds:bx=0:0 al=0 cx=400 dx=unchanged
I expect: al=ff, other values are not
Hi Laaca, thanks for checking!
... FreeDOS, MSDOS 7.1, Windows98 and WindowsXP ...
existing 3,5 floppy disks all give the same (correct) results only
MSDOS gives wrong Total number of Sectors and Sectors per Cluster
As this is MS Win9x DOS 7, the wrong number is expected...
2) For existing
Hi!
I want to ask whether is planned to fix the country infos through
functions INT21h/AX=65xxh in 1.1 release.
Now it doesn't properly work ant it is quite painful. The biggest
problem are the unsupported lower-upper case converting tables.
(f.e. INT21h/AX=6521h works badly)
What else is
Hi!
I will do some more tests later whether also other country dependend
functions (like thousands separator, currency format...) are affected
but I suppose these functions don't properly work too.
They do - date and number format are country-controlled in
apps such as our command.com and
Hi again,
BTW: Did you add the recent Rayer's fixes into kernel
to be it able to boot on cheap notebooks?
You probably refer to this: mieh tuh! by RayeR 12 Jan
2009 in a thread about 7-Zip 4.62 near the bottom ;-).
www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=5533#p5789
Rugxulo told me
Hi, after comparing the wikipedia codepage 850
and 852 information, I have the impression that
the sort / upcase tables for 852 would differ
from the 850 case at the following points:
85, 86, 88, 8a, 8b, 8d, 8f
91, 92, 95 to 98, 9b, 9c, 9d, 9f
a4 to a9, ab, ac, ad
b7, b8, bd, be
d0, d2, d4, d5,
Hi Aitor,
Seems interesting enough, in case noone saw this...
Well there was a whole thread about the topic, and
as far as I can tell, Word 5.5 works well enough in
FreeDOS although I only tested in dosemu recently.
If somebody can reproduce any problem or the absence
of a problem, it would
Hi,
I have a proposal for the 2038 kernel:
What about to add possibility to disable creating the fantom
drive B: on systems with only one disk drive (A:) installed?
This feature already exists and is much older than 2035 ;-)
It is called the DJ mechanism: When you try to access drive
B: DOS
Hi Jim,
Just wanted to let everyone know that I've decided to pursue a
Master's degree (M.S. - MOT). This will require a considerable time
Okay, enjoy :-)
commitment from me, for the next two years. In order to concentrate on
the course, I'll need to take a leave of absence from the
Ah...thanks. I have never used %DOSDIR% ... could you write it into help
screen for other people like me? :-)
Yeah. It's required for use with fdpkg so usually it's set up. I
could also have it look for the database in other places if not found
in %DOSDIR%\lib
How about searching c:\fdos
Hi Arpit,
I want to boot from CD that has FreeDOS, but dont want other options like,
install FreeDOS using CD and other options that are displayed when we boot
from CD. I don't want LIVE CD. Also, I want to add some of my files to it
If you need less than 3 MB for your own files, try this...
Hi!
Could FreeDOS include eltorito.sys into it's
CD distribution or is this not possible?
Forget this question as I see it's already included...
Yes, but the state changed: The project is no
longer updated, so maybe if you ask nicely,
Bart of nu2.nu might publish the source, too!
Eric :-)
Hi Jim,
Could FreeDOS include eltorito.sys ...
... maybe if you ask nicely, Bart of nu2.nu
might publish the source, too!
Bart has officially abandoned eltorito.sys.
I've mailed him once with the please to release sources as Free Software
but he refused to reply, I think that means
Hi Bruce.Axtens,
I've recently been given the sources for the Peter Campbell's FAST and
SOFA compilers (most recently found here:
http://vetusware.com/download/FAST programming language 2.67/?id=4454
Can you tell something about FAST and SOFA? Do they already work in DOS?
Peter, who died
Hi! I hope you can forward the details :-)
Hi, I'm currently trying to create a dosemu RPM package for Fedora.
Thanks!
problem seems to be with including a binary freedos image,
does anyone know if compilation from linux is even possible,
or with a free compiler? Here is the issue:
Hi Christian,
Assembling anything on NASM is a nice goal (for me, anyway) but isn't yet
achieved and probably won't ever be. For example, DOSLFN requires TASM
DOSLFN is probably not free enough for Fedora as LFN are patented??
IDEAL mode and the assembly source files of much advertised
Hi Christian,
Is the 4DOS license okay for Fedora?
I doubt this. Lucho added some ridiculous
crap and limitations to it.
Strong words, do you have examples of changes
in 4DOS that are unpleasant for you / others?
Yeah, but ask Japheth whether he wants to keep NoMySo compatibility
at all
Hi Christian,
strange that Lucho would make 4DOS unavailable to non-Chinese??
I do not think the 4DOS license would let him do that...
I agree that JWASM is not bad. On the other hand, even the
OpenWatcom compiler does not seem to be open enough for the
taste of Fedora, and JWASM is based on
Hi everybody,
there were no answers to Japheth's mail from 21 Dec yet...
In my own experience, 2036 and 2038 behave the SAME, so
it would be interesting to know whether there really is
something that BROKE in 2038 or whether the Ctrl-C stuff
of HX and FreeDOS have some general
Hi Eduardo,
Archive: country.zip
126689 10-06-07 07:20 country.asm
30250 10-06-07 07:20 country.sys
Yes, they are over a year old now, but I did not announce them back then
because changes were small and almost nobody seemed to be using
country.sys anyway. I recently saw a
Hi Eduardo,
Rugxulo wondered whether you have plans to add support for
Esperanto... You can contact him at rugxulo at gmail :-).
You're kidding, aren't you?
No, Rugxulo uses Esperanto as example to show which
DOS apps support multilingual messages :-). He seems
to be a fan :-). And of
Hi Japheth,
... And I think that the more free-advantage of Nasm, which you and
Eric did point out is nonsense. That's virtually all my post was about.
As JWASM is in the same boat as OpenWatcom, I think it would make
sense to try to convince eg Debian / Fedora people that those are
free
fdpkg requires c:\FDOS?
No, just a %DOSDIR% variable pointing to it.
Simply use SET DOSDIR=... to set it.
perhaps fdpkg could be modified to use a database
to store where the packages are came from etc.
The LSM files and FDUPDATE work well enough imho ;-)
It also has a structure of one
Hi Usul,
I agree, the FreeDOS installer is currently a bit annoying, you must
click and wait a dozens of time. Would be better first to choose all
packets or to click just go ahead and install everything...
I would prefer everything which can install in a fast and safe way
as one of the
Hi Michael,
I thought nothing usable besides the io.sys,
sort.exe and sys.com sources from DOS 3.3 had turned up...
No, even MS-DOS 6.0.
Also source for xcopy and so on.
I said *usable*, as in compilable.
I haven't tested to compile as I am to lazy to setup a build
environment, the
Hi Michael,
Why on earth would you want to compile 17 year old stolen
source code if you can just steal the pre-compiled Windows
of your flatmate today? ;-) Or for example download MS DOS
from a warez page etc etc. Not my taste, of course... ;-).
Well, compiling makes indeed no point until
Hi Michael,
By the way I also think Arachne is one of the DOS flagship projects.
I agree.
1) no SSL support
- latest DOSLynx implemented it
I believe there are also eLinks based projects with SSL for DOS?
2) Linux port
- From Arachne v1.93 there is also a Linux port.
- Unfortunately
Hi Usul,
to collect packages for freedos 1.1, you would work with
Mateusz of FDUPDATE and Rugxulo of rugxulo.googlepages.com
because they know which packages we already have and which
apps have updates for which we still need a package. The
work is mostly fetching the updated programs from the
Hi Michael,
FreeDOS developer stolen ms-dos source code and now in prison?
That not, but for example China DOS seems to be a
rip of Win98 DOS so they often have to change their
homepage and I never saw them in a commercial product.
While FreeDOS is used for things like mainboard CDs,
Hi,
- As I think xswap will not work in native Linux
You will not need any of that if you simply compile Arachne
with a 32bit compiler in the first place.
Why it can't be also simple compiled on DOS with 32 bit compiler?
That is what I meant - port Arachne to GNU C / DJGPP and
then you
Hi Usul / Adam,
I am very interested in helping. If you have any tasks that
you need done, even if it is unglamorous. I'll take it. :)
We have a page about this:
www.freedos.org/jhall/2009/01/29/you-can-help.html
- package updated packages for FDUPDATE and FDPKG and installer
Work in
Hi Michael,
Again, theft = original is lost and in hands of thief only.
Yeah I agree that stealing copies is something different
from stealing the original but if stealing copies was
legal then nobody could sell anything that can be copied
which would be a very strange situation if you ask me.
Hi, at the risk of making this thread long...
If your priority is not to break the law, buy MS-DOS (and/or Win4.x)
install disks plus license and use (or DEBUG) these legally ;-)
You know that open source has advantages, for example FreeDOS
runs on more modern hardware and is actively
Hi Christian,
Well, decent MS-DOS kernels plus command interpreters
also have LBA, FAT32 and DOSLFN support.
That is Windows 98 DOS... Better kernel but fewer apps...
And if you buy it, you get a Windows that you do not
need if you only wanted DOS as unwanted extra... ;-).
Is it? I'm still
Hi Usul,
Is there any single package that you know of that is 100% the
way you want it? If so can you link it so I can get started. :)
Please explain :-)
Eric
--
___
Hi,
Usul:
When I am reviewing current files to check to see if there has been a change
and I find a current file (1.0) that is not in the correct format should I
redo
it in the correct format?
Blair:
Which packages are you talking about?
Oh btw, when I released 1.0 I used a shell script
Hi!
Jim Hall wrote:
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 3:11 PM, solarflow99 solarflo...@gmail.com wrote:
hi, I was wondering if it would be ok to distribute a freedos binary for the
dosemu package in rpmfusion? There is lots of credit mentioned in the
package, so its clear that freedos is seperate,
Hi,
I spoke too soon. I thought Gnuish MSDOS contained a bourne shell. the
closest thing was ms-sh*.* Korn shell.
I have a licensed Borland C++ 3.1 installed on my XP if anyone is interested
in compiling something for 80x86. It has a very useful code generator.
Haven't used it in
Hi,
when I wrote my installer .BAT files, I ended up with 3 of them.
all of them set the PATH first.
the 1st does fdisk, which ends with a reboot.
the 2nd does the format and sys
the 3rd xcopies the files
When I install DOS and/or OpenGEM, I would typically first
use a big Windows or Linux
Hi,
There are many programs with no development ongoing.
- DOSLFN
Dunno... Does it need updates?
- Arachne
Indeed that one could use some updates...
- FreeDOS installer
I hope Blair and Mateusz etc can do some minor updates
here - if you ask me, the installer is more or less okay
as it
Hi Christian,
the current DEVLOAD version contains a special check for EDR-DOS, to set
the DPB size to a 4 byte larger value if it's found. (It appends new DPBs
when loading block devices, and therefore needs to know the size of the
DPB.)
...
And there are difficulties knowing whether
Hi, at the risk of talking too much about EDR DOS...
No, you misunderstood that. He's going to expand the current EDR-DOS EDPB
(call it the [FAT32] DDSC, that's the DR-DOS term Drive Descriptor) by
another 2 bytes, it will be 6 bytes larger than the known EDPB then.
...
Interestingly,
Hi Jim,
Jack sent some additional information about his new driver...
We should mirror it from http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/driver.html
to ibiblio where we have a 2007 version at the moment ;-).
Most information is in this post on the EDR DOS forum:
Hi everybody,
an update about UIDE (IDE/SATA/UDMA driver/cache for harddisk/CD/DVD)
http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/driver.html
...
www.drdosprojects.de/forum/drp_forum/posts/8707.html
...
The new UIDE uses 5 kB of DOS RAM, which can be split into 1+4k
with 4 kB in HMA with MS DOS (6.x has 20k,
Hi Bernd,
1) Is there any existing artwork for FreeDOS? I mean a CD jewelcase
front+back covers, a DVD case front+back covers, and a CD label/cover
and/or Lightscribe cover. So far unable to find anything like this.
We have one for 1.0 and you even saw it on a real CD years ago :-)
Hi!
I wanted to get to know a few things about making FreeDOS packages.
Sure :-)
1. Is it required to have an LSM file in \APPINFO for each package? If
so, for a combined source/binary package, should there be one or two?
Yes. One is the number.
2. Is it required to have (possibly empty)
Hi Pat,
Looks like a good list. Are these all there are? If not, would you
like to go through our open list and see what else needs attention?
I'll follow through with the mundane maintenance tasks of
updating/closing bugs.
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=689068
Hi dos386!
I possibly know what the problem is (re-confirmed with FD 2038 and EDR
2009-03-28) :
... thanks for debugging IUP :-)
UI21DEB 2009-05-02 CFG: sel= hcb=$0400 ver=$3205 dcm=$02FB fif=$
... sorry I do not understand the long trace ...
1. For AH=$5A, EDR-DOS appends slash,
Hi Aitor, translating the web page for a start... :-)
Maybe Willem Ouwerkerk can add the translation online?
Eric
HCC!Forth
News Forth Products Applications Links Forum
- How to order and to pay? [the boards and books, that is]
www.forth.hccnet.nl/pr-bestel.html
- 8052 ANS Forth and the
Hi Christian,
I remember that eltorito.sys tries to autodetect whether the BIOS
lets you access the CD/DVD as 2048 byte per sector drive or rather
as 512 bytes per sector, so the idea of different sized sectors is
not new... Floppy supported 128 to 1024 bytes, for example... Yes,
FreeDOS only
Hi Bray,
I ran C:\FDAPM SPEED1 which then returned the following.
[code]
Cannot parse ACPI processor block, please report!
ACPI mode codes from DSDT: S1 (sleep) is 1/0, S5 (soft-off) is 7/0.
ACPI for 'ACPIAM' found: OEMRSDT , port base 0x800, DSDT size 0x5F2B.
f...@1f780200
Hi Pat, Joe, Mateusz, Rugxulo, others,
I would suggest to keep this on-list for a bit longer,
but to switch to either the user or the devel list :-)
[Joe]
So, anyway, I'm excited about FreeDOS 1.1, and
I want to help get it out the door.
Thanks a lot! I think most needed at the moment is
Hi Liam,
Hello folks. One of the folks from the OpenGEM readme.txt file here. :-)
Just wanted to ask if this was the right place to report or discuss
comments, suggestions, bug reports c in FreeDOS 1.0? I've just
started using it (for more than just a DOS bootdisk) and have quite a
few
Hi Mark,
I am very keen on installers that allow human interaction to be all over and
done with
early on, and then you can leave the computer to get on with the copying and
so on.
I produced a system years ago that did a lot of this, including a system
replication
facility to format
Hi Jim,
If I could port curl over to freedos, I would.
I would normally assume Blair has this:
http://sites.google.com/site/blairdude/
...but instead he only has updated clamav :-)
You can also check delorie.com for DJGPP ports.
Eric
Hi Alain,
What I need is a SATA cdrom driver...
Sure... UIDE, gcdrom, gxcdrom (or was it xgcdrom?),
should be no problem. If you boot from it, you can
also use bios as driver (plus eltorito,sys). Same
for SATA DVD and BD drives, but remember that our
SHSUCDX and MSCDEX both support only
Hi Alain,
I know thar Qemu used to work great, and it is actively developed. It
will give you a nice emulated machine with a NIC emulation. VirtualBox
should work too, and should be much more easy. Both have nice vesa graphics.
Neither will give you shared folders, you will have to use
Hi Jim,
I have a problem. the only OS microsoft offers now is windows 7.
machines from HP only have drivers for windows 7. I want XP. so I
am up a creek without a paddle trying to do dos development and
needing a newer intel machine with more cores (4 or 6).
Does Windows 7 have the
Hi Jim,
I did more research I and I heard some rumblings about windows 7's
Windows XP Mode. it turns out it's a Windows Virtual PC that
Nice :-)
emulates XP yet provides access to your devices. I don't know what
kind of filesystem access it provides.
Very interesting question.
Hi Johnson,
pity that Jack has so much stress with his neighbours...
I think we have a misunderstanding about the drivers:
UDF would be something for SHSUCDX, while AHCI would
be for UIDE (SATA). I do not know whether AHCI would
be useful for DOS, as SATA already is supported by
UIDE anyway and
Hi Sergei Antonov,
thanks for your mail, sounds like JWASM changed in interesting
ways... Would be interesting to also know why it did that ;-)
Hi!
There are problems compiling CuteMouse 2.1 beta 4 with JWasm 2.02.
And I'd like to suggest a patch to fix them.
The problem in the makefile
Hi Ladislav,
I think we should discuss how to implement unicode.
There already is some interface for double byte chars
in DOS, which we could implement. However, it was made
for Chinese as far as I remember and needed support by
more drivers even if you had a DBCS-enabled DOS version.
In the
Hi Christian,
Just noticing that this grows quite large. If someone finds this
unbearable for this list, please speak up to let me know I should cut down
the off-topic stuff on my public mails!
No problem :-) I would hope that people talk more about the
big font approaches - Having either a
Hi Christian,
Should the translation be accurate or should it be useful?
That depends a lot on which languages we are talking about.
For the DISPLAYING of already existing strings such as file
names on some USB stick made by somebody using Linux, MacOS
or Windows, if your language is
Hi Gregory,
Yes, a new version of Freedos Edlin is on SourceForge! The version is
to fix bugs in the previous version.
Nice!
FreeDOS Edlin is the standard line editor in the FreeDOS operating
system. Without it, the kernel developers would not have anything to use.
Thanks, but real
Hi Jim Michaels,
sorry - the context of using dpmi was in relation to the problem of having
only
512K for a font. or is that a video card limitation, and you would otherwise
That is a misunderstanding. You can have a hardware font
with either 256 or 512 characters, not kilobytes, in VGA.
Hi Alex,
* in some cases best readability is the target [best user experience]
* in some cases exact string representation is the target [copy+paste, debug]
* in some other cases you simply want to be fast [viewing text/binary files]
...
for exact representations any sort of escaped
Hi Jim,
I am possibly going to rewrite my df utility to work with freeDOS' FAT32
filesystem (DJGPP uses int21h function 36h which is 16-bit FAT16 and 16-bit
regs).
I cannot find any documentation on the functions that freedos uses for its
filesystem functions, like getting filesystem
Hi again,
I was hoping a hint might spark some documentation on the
FreeDOS filesystem API so others (like me) can do development. :-)
you might see an increase in freedos programs if your API was documented.
who knows, maybe even commercial systems might be made or something.
That is not
Hi Jim,
Eric, Leland Holliday (sp?) told me that he reworked your freetest.asm in
that
zip file and got it outputting correct numbers (the numbers were bogus) and
displaying usable output.
I find it strange when somebody says my software produces bogus
results and that person even
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