Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS ODIN 0.6

2004-02-07 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Subject: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS ODIN 0.6 http://fd-odin.dosius.com disk image and source zips. This is basically just the beta slimmed down. Haven't had a lot of time to work on it beyond that. (Busy waiting for the next ep of live-action Sailor Moon to go up on torrent) ^^; -uso.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Executable compression

2004-02-11 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
An executable compressor is no different than a compiler/linker. The exe compressor is a major component of the OS (at least for the purposes of FreeDOS) just like a compiler/linker. The major comonents do not have to provide source (it is the only source exemption in the GPL). Thus the source to

Re: [Freedos-devel] Executable compression

2004-02-12 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
From: tom ehlert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Executable compression SK special exception, the source code distributed need not include SK anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary SK form) with the major components (compiler,

Re: [Freedos-devel] MODE LPTn COLS=... strings / testers wanted

2004-02-23 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
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

Re: [Freedos-devel] re:Don't you think its better to use Msdos file names?

2004-02-24 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Hi, to answer your question: DOS\HELP - all help files This contains only files which are called project.*, like project or project.cn or project.es or project.htm ... Actually the CURRENT way is even simpler: DOS\HELP\ contains files which are called project. So for example the

Re: [Freedos-devel] re:Don't you think its better to use Msdos file names?

2004-02-24 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
.. I keep my binary files inside BIN of PGnnn.ZIP now, it looks like I ought to drop the BIN directory to align with your idea, give me a 'yes' please. Eric. BAHCL Not if you are only doing it for distribution package reasons, otherwise go ahead. While I encourage all maintainers to

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: Don't you think its better to use Msdos file names?

2004-02-24 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
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

Re: [Freedos-devel] Don't you think its better to use Msdos filenames?

2004-02-24 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
.. 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' Note that the install

Re: [Freedos-devel] Directory hierarchy (was MS-DOS names)

2004-02-24 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
.. Otherwise, I agree with Arkady. No need to have 50 files called COPYING with equal contents ;-) .. We don't (well not really). Within the distribution there is a package called GPLv2, which contains nothing but the GPL license which is installed to the base dirctory (e.g. C:\DOS\COPYING ).

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: file to diskette

2004-02-26 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Hi, This brings a very important question: If I create an image with FreeDOS's disckcopy, can I write it back with rawrite? Are they compatible? Alain As long as you don't use compressed images, images that add a header (such as an executable stub to write the image to floppy), then all

[Freedos-devel] Smart Boot Manager for use with SYSLINUX/ISOLINUX

2004-02-26 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
I have slightly modified smart boot manager 3.7-1 to work as a comboot file with syslinux. Once added to syslinux menu, one can boot to syslinux and chain boot sbm, which can then boot a CD-ROM :-) and use Bart's el-torrito CD-ROM driver. I use SBM on my 486 (which lacks el-torrito support in

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS people list

2004-03-01 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
.. Please take a look and comment, try my best to improve. http://johnson.tmfc.net/freedos P.S. The most headache is the geographic location. Rgds, Johnson. Minor correction, I'm from North Carolina not Florida. Jeremy :-) --- SF.Net is

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 with VCPI for testing

2004-03-09 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
This is very cool! Is it stable enough for me to update my weekly built boot disks with or should I wait a while longer? Thanks, Jeremy --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: EMM386-Fix time-effort

2004-07-10 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Michael Devore wrote: ... I'll make a bugfixed EMM386 available soon. cool! Thank you for your all your work debugging these problems! Jeremy (While I appreciate all the hard work of all the FreeDOS devs, I generally try to avoid bugging the list with constant thanks; this just makes me really

[Freedos-devel] Re: the HTMLHELP problem.

2004-09-23 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Bernd Blaauw wrote: Eric, other people, the HTMLHELP problem I'm experiencing is the following: HTMLHELP crashes if called twice and HIMEM is loaded. At least it loads for you, on my test computer, choosing option one (with himem) locks my computer (have to press the reset button or power off/on)

Re: [Freedos-devel] Using FreeCOM in Wine

2004-10-14 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Diego Iastrubni wrote: , 14 2004, 21:30,gsan92: Using FreeCOM in Wine ... If you must use FreeDOS under linux, please check doesemu or dosbox.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Bugzilla #1826

2004-10-06 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Bernd Blaauw wrote: Michael Devore schreef: Since bug #1826 re: Solitarie Suite was flagged in subject as fixed in pre-release development version, can someone, such as Eric Auer, verify that it still works in latest official FreeDOS and mark the bug as FIXED or if not, why not? I would, but

Re: [Freedos-devel] LH /L: someprog sets errorlevel 95 (on success)

2004-11-08 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
tom ehlert wrote: ... so I want to propose a new project (and any serious project should ... this is a collection of almost trivial batches with a known/expected outcome. ... but the people working on the kernel/command.com would have some means to verify, that a new version doesn't break old

Re: [Freedos-devel] Questions on EMM386

2004-12-03 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: I can't answer anything emm386 specific, but maybe this'll help a little until Michael/Tom/? answers. Hi there, I have started reading EMM386.ASM (not the latest hot version, but the ... (2) What is the meaning of this structure? How much memory does it weight

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Questions on EMM386

2004-12-03 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
... It was more interesting to have ATAPICDD in NASM, but I am not sure if the port has the same maturity as the original MASM/TASM version. At least it helps to test patches for ATAPICDD that it can be compiled with free compilers / assemblers. But you still need spare time for that :-(. ...

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Questions on EMM386

2004-12-03 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: ... actually current ATAPICDD, which is now split into cdrom.sys ataspi.sys to separate the CD code from the IDE/ATAPI code uses FASM. Could you extend a little bit on this? ATASPI for the ATAPI/ASPI layer and CDROM over it (which means I need to load two drivers,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeCom and 4DOS descript.ion files

2005-05-25 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
David O'Shea wrote: ... What I'd suggest is you use a binary search tree (with the key being the filename of course); the trick being that you just use up all the RAM available to build the tree, and if you run out before you finish reading the descript.ion file, you remember the file

Re: [Freedos-devel] SYS and DOSFSCK

2005-05-26 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Alain wrote: ... space and two copies of: boot sector, second stage boot sector (used if the boot loader is bigger than 512 bytes) and filesystem info (statistics...) sector. So 6 sectors of the first 32 sectors of the partition contain all that stuff. Usually sectors 0, 1, 2, 6, 7, 8.

Re: [Freedos-devel] SYS and DOSFSCK

2005-05-28 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Alain wrote: Eric wrote: FAT32 has usually 32 reserved sectors where FAT16 has only one, the boot sector. In those 32 reserved sectors, you have a lot of free space and two copies of: boot sector, second stage boot sector (used ... I copied Sector 0 to sector 6 and now fosfsck doen't not

Re: [Freedos-devel] boot sector debugging...

2005-06-09 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
What I usually do is old fashioned printfs [or in this case calling BIOS print a character or a print # routine based on this, if I need to see values], disabling a chunk of later code if necessary for the code space. However, if you can live with GPL'd code, you may want to use our FreeDOS

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDXMS 0.93

2005-06-09 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Alain wrote: during my tests, I tried FDXMS and FDXXMS 0.93 strawberries I get this message: VDISK has been detected. Driver won be installed. Nothing is installed, it must be some BIOS thing. The machine is a PcChips with SiS742 chip, Semprom 2.2GHz. In the docs I found no option to

Re: [Freedos-devel] ATAPICDD.SYS

2005-06-17 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Alex Buell wrote: On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Jim Hall wrote: :-) ... Yes, but that's out of date. The source on darklogic.org is reasonably close to any released version, as only 0.2.x alpha versions have ever been released (due to too many projects and not enough time on my part). Yes I

Re: [Freedos-devel] ATAPICDD.SYS

2005-06-30 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Have you had a chance to put it into cvs yet? not yet, my cable [hence internet connection] went out (and back, and out, ...) last weekend, so I was planning to do it this weekend. check fdos project on sourceforge. I'm also putting the 0.2.14 source up on darklogic, it is the latest in the

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: More speed test

2005-07-01 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
... either it's a bug - or it's not if it's a bug, I (speaking generally) might even find it worth fixing ... tom This whole discussion is both interesting and amusing (as are many discussions here...:- ) If you guys do find the cause of the slowdown, and it is fixable, and it is a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Porting FreeCOM to WATCOM

2005-07-05 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Alex Buell wrote: On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Bernd Blaauw wrote: Owen Rudge schreef: I'm having a go at porting FreeCOM to WATCOM. But before I do that Have fun! I'm trying to get it to build with TC 1.01, without much joy. There seems to be something wrong with SUPPL.TGZ, as UNTAR.EXE

[Freedos-devel] FreeCom future

2005-07-09 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
As our FreeCom maintainer is MIA, I have committed my small patchset to FreeCom cvs (HEAD). This means a fresh cvs checkout should now compile (after seting up compiler and config.h options). Given the changes, I may also make a new release once I figure out what the proper version should

[Freedos-devel] FreeCom and CDD

2005-07-10 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
... FYI, the only changes I have planned is the enhancement for CDD to support path ignoring any filename portion (as requested). Any patches ... This is now implemented in cvs. I have added support for CDD path/filename, where the filename portion is stripped (ignored) if and only if this

[Freedos-devel] FreeCom daily builds

2005-07-10 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
I have updated my daily FreeCom builds so there are now two sets. The cmdxms* files are same as before, 186+ xms-swap nearly all features. Added cmd8086* files, 8086+ kernel-swap some features disabled. Note: I switched it so the cmdxms builds have loadfix loadhi, and these are disabled in the

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: FreeCom daily builds

2005-07-10 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Eric Auer wrote: Hi Bernd, I'll respond to Bernd's mail in a minute. Jeremy, can you reduce the number of files which are downloadable? I guess the non-XMS build is most universal, despite the high memory consumption then. The non-XMS build is really only useful if you cannot provide

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCom daily builds

2005-07-10 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Bernd Blaauw wrote: Kenneth J. Davis schreef: I have updated my daily FreeCom builds so there are now two sets. The cmdxms* files are same as before, 186+ xms-swap nearly all features. Added cmd8086* files, 8086+ kernel-swap some features disabled. Jeremy, can you reduce the number

[Freedos-devel] FreeCom features desired?

2005-07-10 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
As bugzilla is still down (not that this is really there or should be) I would like to open a discussion. I make no assertion that I will implement any of these, but I'm curious and just may. What features in command.com would people like to see implemented? Please provide reference to full

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCom daily builds

2005-07-10 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
1) 8086 command.com, works with CALL /S and KSSF, no loadhi/loadfix 2) 186+ xmsswap.com, including loadfix 3) 8086 xmsswap, with some disabled features as it would otherwise be too big. I would prefer option 3 as most optimal, but depends on what you explicitly disabled :) Bernd Eric

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCom daily builds

2005-07-10 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Kenneth J. Davis wrote: ... I disable only ALIAS support, command /Z support, dir with 4DOS descript.ion support, loadhi, and loadfix. I'm checking now to see if the xms-swap version builds for 8086 with these same options disabled. ... ok, 8086 xms-swap seems to work/build with just

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: EMM386, Kernel, and Help

2005-07-16 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
When using EMM386 there is a problem with help where help either reboots or gives an error and locks-up the machine... ... this is an old problem, and fixed, but no binary released. ... Jeremy posted a fixed binary once, and sources, but I can't find it on the mailinglists, and also not on

[Freedos-devel] FreeCom pre-release, please test and report any release blockers

2005-07-20 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Please test, assuming no major issues pop up in the next few days, this weekend I will be making a new official FreeCom release. For those with a 186 or better please use http://www.fdos.org/kernel/cmdxms.HEAD.zip (English only) http://www.fdos.org/kernel/cmdxms.HEAD.NLS.zip (other

Re: [Freedos-devel] Trash LFNDOS from our collection?

2005-07-21 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Alain wrote: ... Ok, but and this remark that in in that page? Has it been fixed? It does look strange because it is about build 2034 but tha page is dated 1 March, 2005. FreeDOS has a problem with extended DPBs, which causes problems with ... current kernels should be fine

Re: [Freedos-devel] 386-kernel crash: Eric is guessing

2005-07-24 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Michael Devore wrote: At 06:53 AM 7/24/2005 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: So for a quick check, you can remove the -zff and -zgf from our kernel makefile to see if that makes the kernel EMM386 2.04 immune. Tests done with FreeDOS devel kernel, 386-optimized, from http://fdos.org/kernel/ (which is

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: 386-kernel crash: Eric is guessing

2005-07-24 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Eric Auer wrote: ... I agree that device drivers should not modify any register when you call them, but I admit that I do not remember WHERE I have read that device drivers MUST not modify any registers. In particular, fixing EMM386 would ... Well PC-DOS tech reference states regarding the

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCom pre-release, please test and report any release blockers

2005-07-25 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Bernd Blaauw wrote: Kenneth J. Davis schreef: fix: DIR/VOL: bug#1809, volume label missing spaces {KJD} did you verify? VOL still seems to compress spaces in label LABEL C: TEST TEST it works for my test cases. please provide (use quotes or something so i can tell where spaces

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCom pre-release, please test and report any release blockers

2005-08-04 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
I have a request regarding this thread. Please be clarify when to strip spaces, during command line argument processing, which I believe it does or during the prompt if not specified on command line, which I believe it doesn't. (Mind you I didn't verify, but you get the idea.) Thanks,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: EMM386 bug

2005-09-03 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Blair Campbell wrote: I'm REALLY sorry for all of the trouble I've caused. I just found out that the user must have installed the 386-optimized kernel (which needs to get removed from my distro), and that's what's been causing the crashes. Once more I'm REALLY sorry and I'll try to remember

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Freedos Developer again..

2005-09-11 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
K. Alekhine wrote: Hi and thanks for the replies! I forgot to ask in my last email if you think any of these titles would be useful for me; Depends, do you want to work on the kernel or the other programs. The first one is definitely a good read to get an introduction to the kernel.

[Freedos-devel] OT: old DOS books, MSDN / win 3.x question

2005-10-16 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
I'm reading through some of my older books (partly in my quest for information about MS DOS internals and partly curiosity), and there are some references to look at the win 3.x ddk. As this is no longer available directly (as best I can tell it cost money at the time, so I'm pretty sure I

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiling FreeCOM...

2005-11-09 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Alain wrote: Hi, I am just starting to prepare for compiling FreeCOM. should I stick to docs\compile.txt or is there any other explanation? Alain It should be fine. If you build on Windows be sure to use the win version of nasm, and every so often the build may fail in the middle (I

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiling FreeCOM...

2005-11-09 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
maybe I was not clear, a mini suppl library is now included so you do not have to do anything regarding it. Do not create the skip file, do not try to download it, just ignore any mention of it existing. (The docs still explain it because you can still use the full suppl library and everything

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiling FreeCOM...

2005-11-10 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
regarding the descript.ion thing not working, are you sure it was compiled in or was that why you were building? (not sure why you were trying to build in large model though, see Tom's remarks, basically not going to work, even if you manage to get an executable) ... I think Jeremy's

Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in pascal

2005-11-13 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Ladislav Lacina wrote: OK, I will look at it. Few months ago I wrote a small utility for SB Live! cards to enable CD playing without Soundblaster emulation drivers. Might be useful for someone... http://www.laaca.borec.cz/soubory/livecd.zip nice! could you provide license/redistribution

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS web site mirrors

2005-11-26 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Jim Hall wrote: Webmasters will want to do a refresh of their FreeDOS.org web site mirror. I just made a change to the css that will make your front page look weird _unless_ you refresh. I've also removed the FreeDOS News Bits section with a FreeDOS Pressroom section. All the News Bits

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-11-26 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Andreas Bollhalder wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello I use FreeDOS in the QEMU emulator for running my DOS applications under Windows XP. Today, I testet the developer kernels. 1. The kernels compiled with OpenWatcom won't boot. They stop with the following message:

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-11-27 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 27-Ноя-2005 12:58 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Bollhalder) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: AB Something stranges happens here. AB BUFFERSHIGH=29 - 615kB conventional and 150kB upper memory free AB BUFFERSHIGH=30 - 599kB conventional and 150kB upper

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-11-27 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
tom ehlert wrote: Hello Kenneth, With several of my changes/additions the size of the kernel has grown just a few cents: a) are human beings like me supposed to locate kernel sources ? how about a link where one can download it without knowing where it is ? they are in the same

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-11-28 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
tom ehlert wrote: ... I wrote that after spending a couple of successless minutes to locate the kernel (or freecom) source, starting from www.freedos.org just try software-base-kernel-kernel.lsm and you are either on a dead link or on the same page again :( www.fdos.org/kernel/ I know

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-11-28 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Kenneth J. Davis wrote: ... I may make patch sets or test binaries available at http://www.fdos.org/kernel/test/ (or for short descriptions use http://www.fdos.org/AuoIndex/index?dir=kernel/test/ ) :-) Jeremy sorry the above url should have a 't' in it, the correct one is: http

Re: [Freedos-devel] Reentrancy in FreeDOS

2005-11-28 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Ladislav Lacina wrote: Hi! I would like to know whether is there any diference between MSDOS and FreeDOS behavior in TSR programs. Can I in TSRs call the same subset of DOS funkcions like in MSDOS? Or more or less? Can I read and write files from my TSRs? The behaviour _should_ match MS-DOS

Re: [Freedos-devel] Analyzing bugzilla bugs (part 2/3)

2005-12-01 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: Hi there, Continuing the bugzilla report, the following are reported as wishes, that is, to enhance the present functionality. They are mostly not included in the TODO list, but I will include them in the post-list (that I am going to renew). I simply list

Re: [Freedos-devel] Analyzing bugzilla bugs (part 1/3)

2005-12-01 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: Hi there, I have been listing and analyzing the bugzilla bug list, or at least, until bug 1916, and I'd like to share this information with you. I have grouped the bugs, and will expose them in three mails. In this first mail I'd like to write about two

Re: [Freedos-devel] Analyzing bugzilla bugs (part 1/3)

2005-12-02 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
tom ehlert wrote: ... and the kernel aspect is a work in progress such as FDBACKUP is work in progress ? if a bug is known scince 2 years, and noone worked on this don't call it 'work in progress', call it 'noone cares' or DIY instead Tom no, I mean I have a cvs tree on my laptop that

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.08/Nomyso 2.0 Available

2005-12-05 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Michael Devore wrote: ... Okay, that was painful. The ATAPICD assembly code is already a we1ird amalgam of NASM and MASM/TASM code. Plus it appears to improperly use I agree it is painful EQUates globally that can be IFDEF'ed out of sight, and has a few other quirks. :-) how do you

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-12-09 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
David O'Shea wrote: ... No. FreeDOS doesn't splits HMA to blocks with headers, similar to MCB in conventional memory. Could we maybe store a char or word in HMA which is at a standardized location which we can read if we know we're running FreeDOS? I'm not sure what MS-DOS does in this

[Freedos-devel] wiki.fdos.org

2005-12-24 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Due to spamming I have password protected several pages on wiki.fdos.org, if you need to edit any of these pages just send me an email and I'll send you back the password. I hate to do this, but someone keeps overwriting pages with junk. If it continues I may have to update pmwiki and

Re: [Freedos-devel] Wiki spam

2006-01-06 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Michael Devore wrote: Not sure if it's already been noticed, but the wiki at http://wiki.fdos.org has been pretty heavily spammed with Cialis crap, several pages completely replaced. Unfortunately they keep doing it which means I am going to have to setup the wiki so people have to

Re: [Freedos-devel] XCDROM and 1.0 Todo List

2006-01-09 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Sun, January 8, 2006 10:02 pm, Blair Campbell wrote: Since XCDROM has been released and has proven to be relatively stable and featureful, I think it is a good idea to replace atapicdd with it in the 1.0 todo list. Also, does everyone agree that ASPI and El ... Sounds good to me. Jeremy

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: More Wiki Spam

2006-01-11 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Tue, January 10, 2006 7:57 pm, Johnson Lam wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 01:18:25 -0200, you wrote: Hi, It not a good thing to ban IPs. Most people now use dynamic IPs, that means that I can get of of a pool of 1 million IPs. If you ban some of these IPs, one day I could be luky to get that

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: another wiki idea...

2006-01-11 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
This feature (as it is implemented in pmwiki) is enabled on wiki.fdos.org. Jeremy On Tue, January 10, 2006 1:30 pm, Alain wrote: Eric sent this, I think it is a good idea too, so I am copying to the list :) Not sure, we might already have that, but: Some Wiki systems have the function URLs

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS corrupting FAT32 USB Stick partition

2006-02-12 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
What brand is the USB stick? and the BIOS you're booting from? The usb stick is being treated as a hard drive, including a fake mbr (with partitions), correct? I see FAT16 versus FAT32 makes a minor difference, but not much. If possible, would you send to me (depending on size and how much

Re: [Freedos-devel] Minor Bug in FreeCOM DIR command?

2006-02-22 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Mark Bailey wrote: Good day, all: If doing a DIR A: on a floppy disk with no visible files, or a hard disk partition with no files, the DIR command does not print the line showing the number of bytes free. This appears to be intended in the routine dir_print_body from the file dir.c. Note

Re: [Freedos-devel] Multiple Disk/Partitions Problem with USB Stick

2006-02-23 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Michael Devore wrote: At 08:49 PM 2/22/2006 -0500, Mark Bailey wrote: ... I'm going to try to muster sufficient time and brainpower to look the offending partition-related source code over Thursday or Friday. Subject to actual work and real-life interruptions, of course. Anybody else

Re: [Freedos-devel] Who is whacking int 76h 77h

2006-03-10 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Miguel wrote: My testing reveals that interrupt vectors 76h and 77h are also being overwritten/hooked by FreeDOS ... or at least someone. Running under VMware ... At PXE boot time they are pointing relatively high in memory (EBEB:2D72) By the time FreeDOS is running they are pointing at

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCOM 0.84pre

2006-06-07 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Blair Campbell wrote: But the question is: Will anyone help me test it :-) (Preferrably both versions) Also note that chdir, rmdir, and mkdir support LFNs properly, and DIR /LFN will print long filenames for all files with lfn entries, just as MS-DOS 7's command.com does. ... So what LFN

Re: [Freedos-devel] New installer

2006-07-05 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
FYI the sources for the GUI installer (as provided to me originally) can be found here: http://www.fdos.org/install/GUI_INST.RAR not 100% sure if its the latest one as I have a few variants on my hard drive as well, but should be close enough if you are just going to be reading and not

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Release: EMM386 2.10, HIMEM 3.13

2006-07-09 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Aitor Santamari'a wrote: Hi Jim, It wasn't me (I couldn't determine the cause why I couldn't connect to Michael's site), but I'm glad that they're there! So merit goes to someone else... Thanks for those that sent the files! Aitor :-)

[Freedos-devel] kernel SVN build availability

2009-06-22 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Hello all, I am slowly working on updating my fdos.org site; to that end I have finally re-enabled my kernel builds. However, unlike past builds, the kernels found are now (or at least should, I'm still testing) only be updated if the SVN source is updated. I have it checking several times a day

Re: [Freedos-devel] kernel SVN build availability

2009-06-23 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Bart Oldemanbartolde...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: 2009/6/23 Tom Ehlert t...@drivesnapshot.de one thing, though: there MUST be the possibility to keep the dates of the source files to the last change, not the last checkout. with all files having a date of

Re: [Freedos-devel] Standardized development tools

2010-08-21 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Pat Villani p...@freedos.org wrote: Folks, I'm thinking it would be a good idea to standardize on one C/C++ compiler for the project.  I'm looking at the Open Watcom compiler and would like your opinion.  Reason for this suggestion is that it is the only real

Re: [Freedos-devel] kernel menu choice from Syslinux

2011-05-28 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On May 28, 2011 4:44 AM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: Op 28-5-2011 4:57, perditi...@gmail.com schreef: A work in progress for testing is available at http://www.fdos.info/kernel/latest/ The KERNEL.SYS file. I'll try it out over the weekend, thank you :) append initrd=FDBOOT.IMG

Re: [Freedos-devel] kernel menu choice from Syslinux

2011-05-30 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
That kernel is not upx'd as I haven't yet installed it. (I will post a new compressed kernel this weekend, I'm going to see about compiling on Linux, if so my fdos site will be setup to check build daily - part of my work for easy custom downloads) Jeremy

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] 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] New FreeDOS 1.1 test ISO (#3) released

2011-08-03 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Aug 3, 2011 5:27 PM, c...@bttr-software.de wrote: ... Now, when I load DOSUSB and then devload usbdisk.sys the block device driver usbdisk.sys will get the drive letter F: from FreeDOS. Apparently it does not supply the next drive letter which would be G:. I can then access the flash

Re: [Freedos-devel] TDSK related issues.

2011-08-03 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: Op 31-7-2011 16:48, Bernd Blaauw schreef: Op 31-7-2011 16:36, Tom Ehlert schreef: Bernd, assign a fix (W:) drive letter to the CD drive; Tom Experimented a little bit more: TDSK takes first driveletter after what

Re: [Freedos-devel] TDSK related issues.

2011-08-04 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Please test lastest version of devload - version 3.24 available for the time being at http://www.fdos.org/kernel/testing/devload-3.24.zip For changes since 3.23 see http://fdos.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fdos/trunk/source/BASE/devload/devload.asm?r1=133r2=138 Basically this adds the /Dx option

Re: [Freedos-devel] TDSK related issues.

2011-08-04 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Aug 4, 2011 9:08 PM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: Op 5-8-2011 2:53, Kenneth J. Davis schreef: letter used (0 based, so A=0 and Z=25, note that I only tested C: or higher) and 255 on error. What if the driver being loaded doesn't assign a driveletter? DEVLOAD UIDE.SYS /D:FDCD0001

Re: [Freedos-devel] TDSK related issues.

2011-08-04 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Aug 4, 2011 9:13 PM, c...@bttr-software.de wrote: Additionally, I had thought the later check would be sufficient for the LASTDRIVE check, but upon review I see it was not, so implemented explicit check if we reached last drive [currently only tested with default lastdrive = Z]. Your

Re: [Freedos-devel] TDSK related issues.

2011-08-05 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Work in progress see http://fdos.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fdos/trunk/source/BASE/devload/devload.asm?r1=138r2=139 or download http://www.fdos.org/kernel/testing/devload.com I will work on releasing 3.25 tonight or tomorrow after I get feedback on the error levels to use and hopefully some

Re: [Freedos-devel] TDSK related issues.

2011-08-05 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Aug 5, 2011 3:34 PM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: Op 5-8-2011 13:45, Kenneth J. Davis schreef: Work in progress see http://fdos.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fdos/trunk/source/BASE/devload/devload.asm?r1=138r2=139 or download http://www.fdos.org/kernel/testing/devload.com

Re: [Freedos-devel] TDSK related issues.

2011-08-05 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Hopefully last update for a while. :-) changes http://fdos.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fdos/trunk/source/BASE/devload/devload.asm?r1=137r2=141 download http://www.fdos.org/kernel/testing/devload-3.25.zip This fixes a few issues from previous 3.24 release: - if initial CDS entry is invalid

Re: [Freedos-devel] ancient new freecom external app running bug fixed yet?

2011-08-08 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Aug 8, 2011 5:13 PM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: Op 8-8-2011 22:31, Rugxulo schreef: No, I don't think it's been fixed since even SourceForge's Files area still only has 0.82pl3 Besides, who's the maintainer these days? (Bart? Doubt it, he's always busy.) I haven't heard

Re: [Freedos-devel] TDSK related issues.

2011-08-08 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Kenneth J. Davis jere...@fdos.org wrote: Work in progress ... As a side note, on my netbook using similar VirtualBox setup I have found that I can only use devload without any memory managers - something related to no UMBs so I need to see if it is a devload

Re: [Freedos-devel] [Freedos-kernel] [PATCH] kernel - only print suspect partition warnings if FORCELBA is not in use

2011-12-18 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
... 3. All the machines I have tried so far report the CHS vs LBA computed mismatch warnings. Considering that first time FreeDOS users might be put off because of these benign warnings, I would very much like to avoid them. There's a list of warnings indeed. A big one at that,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel EBDA+UMB bug - micellanea

2013-07-17 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Bertho Grandpied y31415926...@yahoo.frwrote: Said Tom Ehlert te@dr.. - 2013-07-13 17:31 : I can reproduce the bug; reason so far not found Do you mean, not identified in the source, or what ? it would be helpful for the uninitiated if you could share

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel EBDA+UMB bug - micellanea

2013-07-19 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Jul 19, 2013 12:31 PM, Bertho Grandpied y31415926...@yahoo.fr wrote: Hi Jeremy ! I'm glad someone (you) is / are fixing this issue. I have made a driver which fixes it successfully in conjunction with the flawed kernels, and I was wondering whether I should have to bundle that