RE: Re: [Freedos-devel] bug in UMB support

2004-06-22 Thread aitor . sm
(before someone, e.g. Eric complains, mind that I was forced to use webmail in this message, so I have no control over the format of the message) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: "Arkady V.Belousov" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Destinatario: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Martes, Junio 22, 2004 11:41a

RE: Re: [Freedos-devel] bug in UMB support

2004-06-22 Thread aitor . sm
>Hi! >22-éÀÎ-2004 13:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote to >[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >>>ASM> using EMM386 to provide UMBs, you may get troubles with DMA >because of >>>ASM> the mismatch of linear and physical addresses. >>>FD currently compares buffer address (in dsk.c and blockio.c) >w

[Freedos-devel] Problems with current DOSEmu+FreeDOS+compilers?

2004-10-15 Thread aitor . sm
Hi, I post here because I am unable to test standalone FreeDOS, and I seem to remember someone complained about this, can someone test whether the problem affects standalone FreeDOS (so that I refer to DOSEMU) (I'm not at my best testing conditions now, but would be grateful to be able to run

RE: RE: [Freedos-devel] Extracting filesystem from freeDOS

2004-10-21 Thread aitor . sm
Hi, > >Hello. >I have three questions: >1. Does freeDOS have a ramdisk and if so how do I use it? Try TDISK: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/ramdisk/ (up to mirrors) >2. What does execrh do? Execute a device driver request packet. That is, catch a devic

RE: Re: [Freedos-devel] New COUNTRY.SYS

2004-11-04 Thread aitor . sm
Hi Bernd, >Any idea for a compressed COUNTRY.SYS file? Kernel decompression >code >overhead should be minimal. >28KB uncompressed versus 5KB compressed is quite a difference, for >bootdisks. >I have no idea how all the NLS/country/codepage stuff works, except >COUNTRY=031,858,C:\FDOS\BI

RE: Re: [Freedos-devel] New COUNTRY.SYS

2004-11-04 Thread aitor . sm
Hi, >> What does the German version of MS-DOS expect for yes/no? >it expects J(a) or N(ein), but the question is also > Sind Sie sicher ? >> The Spanish one expects "S" and "N", so it is >> actually translated. >but the question is probably > Es usted seguro ? >and not > Are you sure ? > >tom

RE: Re: [Freedos-devel] New COUNTRY.SYS

2004-11-05 Thread aitor . sm
Hi, >Hi! >4-îÏÑ-2004 17:52 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote to >[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >ase> Divide tools in three types: >ase> (a) Those that implement the national settings (that is the >character you >ase> use for thousand separators, etc) and codepages for the kernel >(filena

RE: [Freedos-devel] TC RTL

2004-02-27 Thread aitor . sm
Hi, Finally I am trying to implement the APPEND command in BC, with the resident code written in NASM. However, I get the following strange behaviour: (1) I am able to GET the int21h handler, to hook it, and to JMP to the old int21h handler. However, if I try to CALL it (of course I PUSHF b

RE: [Freedos-devel] re: Version 1.0

2004-03-11 Thread aitor . sm
>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 SCAND

RE: Re: [Freedos-devel] SCANDISK vs DOSFSCK

2004-03-30 Thread aitor . sm
>Of course! Neither do we call LBACACHE a SMARTDRV, don't we? >If we can live without a true SMARTDRV, we can live without a true >SCANDISK too. The case is not comparable either. I seem to recall (Alain was it you?) that it was mentioned copyright issues over the label "SMARTDRV", but I don

RE: Re: [Freedos-devel] MEM? How about 'Central Point's MI'

2004-04-01 Thread aitor . sm
Hi, >Hi! >1-áÐÒ-2004 00:22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aitor Santamari'a Merino) >wrote to >[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >>>JL> Just a suggestion, because the program high and low area is very >>>JL> clear, just a glance can see how many memory it take. >>> For this should be used option /C (which is ye