[Freedos-devel] Fw: turbovision etc

2006-01-28 Thread David O'Shea
Forwarding back to the list in case anyone else is interested: - Original Message - From: David O'Shea [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 11:08 AM Subject: Re: turbovision etc Hi Eric, http://www.freedos.org/freedos/news/technote/104

Re: [Freedos-devel] Turbo Vision or other Textual UI tool?

2006-01-28 Thread David O'Shea
Hi Arkady, From: Arkady V.Belousov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 11:04:25 +0300 (MSK) 28-ñÎ×-2006 13:11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David O'Shea) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: DO different TUIs, and Turbo Vision has been suggested to me too. Turbo Vision DO however

[Freedos-devel] Re: HTML Help MEM

2006-01-27 Thread David O'Shea
Hi Geraldo, Thanks for your reply. I see you made some updates to the MEM help page. There are lots of new commands now so I have a lot more updates to make to it. Mind if I make those and then send you the new page? Also do we need to try and be brief in the text so as not to consume too much

[Freedos-devel] Turbo Vision or other Textual UI tool?

2006-01-27 Thread David O'Shea
Hi all, If I wanted to make some kind of interactive MEM tool, what would the preferred TUI to use be? It seems like FreeDOS' EDIT and HELP programs use different TUIs, and Turbo Vision has been suggested to me too. Turbo Vision however doesn't seem like it would compile in real mode with Open

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS website

2006-01-25 Thread David O'Shea
Hi all, How come all the URLs on the FreeDOS website are of the form http://www.freedos.org/freedos/something? I assume it was not always this way because fdos\doc\mem\bugs.txt refers to http://www.freedos.org/bugs; which doesn't seem to exist anymore. It would be nice if the old URLs still

[Freedos-devel] HTML Help MEM

2006-01-25 Thread David O'Shea
Hi all, I recall some discussions about HTML Help not being maintained anymore so I was wondering how I would go about contributing an updated help page for MEM such that it's integrated into the latest HTML Help download. Thanks in advance, David

[Freedos-devel] Turbo Vision

2006-01-05 Thread David O'Shea
Hi all, For anyone who is working with Turbo Vision, if you want a WYSIWYG dialog designer tool, I think there are other non-free ones out there, but FYI dlgdsn is officially shareware but it's as good as open source - I contacted the author and it's just up to me to get the source to compile and

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-12-09 Thread David O'Shea
Hi Arkady, From: Arkady V.Belousov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 15:38:43 +0300 (MSK) This is not strange, because 29 buffers fit to remains of HMA, DO Anyone know if there's a way that MEM can check what the kernel is storing DO in HMA, specifically with regards to buffers

[Freedos-devel] MEM - any changes made in my absence?

2005-12-09 Thread David O'Shea
Hi Bernd, Eric, all, Were any of the bugs I created/propagated resolved while I was away or were any other changes made? I want to get back to fixing bugs but want to make sure I'm working with the latest sources. Thanks! David --- This

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel Problems

2005-12-08 Thread David O'Shea
Hi all, From: Arkady V.Belousov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 16:52:50 +0300 (MSK) 27-îÏÑ-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

[Freedos-devel] MEM will miss my deadline

2005-11-16 Thread David O'Shea
Hi all, Sorry, some bad news. I will not be able to get all the changes to MEM done before I lose Internet access. I will be offline for about 3 weeks starting at the end of this week. I will make a partly messy snapshot of the sources available before I go, but the key issue of

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

2005-11-11 Thread David O'Shea
From: tom ehlert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] if you want more features, make it compliable with watcom I think I would find this an interesting project but I should wait until MEM is done :) From: Bernd Blaauw [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] I think Jeremy's descript.ion support has to be inserted

Re: [Freedos-devel] MEM and CVS

2005-11-03 Thread David O'Shea
Hi Bernd, Diego and Johnson, From: Bernd Blaauw [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] Diego Rodriguez schreef: Will it work with 80286 processors ?? Why doesn't work with 8086 ones ?? MEM still has some 386-specific machine instructions which are not present in earlier processor generations (386 is

[Freedos-devel] Re: MEM and CVS

2005-11-03 Thread David O'Shea
Hi Alain, Alain said to me: PS as to Translation, if some day it kets Kittenized, surely I will help :) It is already kittenized in version 1.7 beta (maybe even before that, I don't know). Currently I'm in the process of kittenizing all the new code I added and I'm almost done. Once I'm

[Freedos-devel] MEM and CVS

2005-11-01 Thread David O'Shea
Hi all, I would like to get my work on MEM finished in the next few weeks as after that I'm moving and things could be a mess for me after that :) I'm currently working on a few minor issues. As for the bigger issues of MEM not working on 8086 machines without /N[OSUMMARY] being used,

[Freedos-devel] Re: Freedos-devel digest, Vol 1 #664 - 9 msgs

2005-10-19 Thread David O'Shea
Hi Aitor, Eric, From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 00:20:26 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] re: FreeDOS 1.0 Reply-To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net webmail Hi David, MEM: who was working on that? progress?

Re: [Freedos-devel] TCC2WAT available

2005-10-16 Thread David O'Shea
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 13:50:02 -0500 To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net From: Michael Devore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] TCC2WAT available Reply-To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net [...] You can't be serious. Do you cringe when [...] I don't cringe, just snicker

[Freedos-devel] re: FreeDOS 1.0

2005-10-16 Thread David O'Shea
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 03:39:04 +0200 (MEST) From: Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Freedos-devel] re: FreeDOS 1.0 Reply-To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net [...] MEM: who was working on that? progress? This is described in the 1.0 TODO wiki,

Re: [Freedos-devel] TCC2WAT available

2005-10-15 Thread David O'Shea
Hi Blair, Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 18:20:39 -0700 From: Blair Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeDOS Devel Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Freedos-devel] TCC2WAT available Reply-To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Hi all. Today I am releasing TCC2WAT 0.1 beta, available at

[Freedos-devel] Re: Freedos-devel digest, Vol 1 #640 - 10 msgs

2005-09-22 Thread David O'Shea
Hi Blair and Bernd, Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 22:23:46 -0700 From: Blair Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Compile-time language selection with kitten, etc. Reply-To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net I thought it would probably

[Freedos-devel] Compile-time language selection with kitten, etc.

2005-09-21 Thread David O'Shea
Hi all, Bernd asked if it would be possible to compile MEM with different languages to make things simpler for non-English distributions. Are there any tools that can already do this for us? I thought it would probably be very simple to write a tool which, given an NLS strings file (e.g.

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: Chasing MS-DOS compatibility

2005-08-29 Thread David O'Shea
Hi Bernd, Having all of my notes on a web page that everyone can see, and using a tool which is very quick to edit those nodes so that I am more likely to keep them up-to-date, will be of great benefit to everyone when I suddenly disappear from the community :) But the page doesn't

[OT] Mail filtering (Was: [Freedos-devel] re: Chasing MS-DOS compatibility)

2005-08-28 Thread David O'Shea
Hi Aitor, Hi, David O'Shea escribi=F3: I got Eric to forward on an email to him from me but I didn't get a=20 response, possibly due to Hotmail being extremely agressive with spam=20 filtering (if that is the case, my apologies go out to GNU_man!). SourceForge is also quite agressive

Re: [Freedos-devel] Wikis (was re: Chasing MS-DOS compatibility)

2005-08-28 Thread David O'Shea
Hi Aitor, all, Very nice, forgive me for my ignorance with wikis. I've seen that MEM is a Topic under Main, is there a way to see the tree of all the topics under Main? The obvious stuff didn't work. As Robert pointed out, there is the Index page. I just wanted to mention for those who are

Re: [Freedos-devel] DJGPP on FreeDOS LiveCDs

2005-08-28 Thread David O'Shea
Hi Blair, Why not supply OpenWatcom instead? It's freely distributable. OpenWatcom is already supplied, but DJGPP is much more useful for porting GNU utilities or linux programs to DOS (like DOSFSCK in the Base FreeDOS diskset, and many games using the allegro library). Please excuse my

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: Chasing MS-DOS compatibility

2005-08-28 Thread David O'Shea
Hi Bernd, Bernd Blaauw wrote: David O'Shea schreef: I put a bunch of notes at http://wiki.fdos.org/Main/Mem I have done just about everything except /FREE (should be simple like /MODULE since it just means filtering the list) and your suggestion of /NOSUMMARY (should be easy too

Re: [Freedos-devel] Walking the MCB chain...

2005-08-02 Thread David O'Shea
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Alain said: Welcome aboard :)) Thanks! I have made an MCB parser using the code from MEM. It shows the name of program tha hooked some INT vector. If you want, I can send you the fonts, it's GPL and it is much simpler then The MEM version because I have extracted

[Freedos-devel] Walking the MCB chain...

2005-07-28 Thread David O'Shea
Hi Alex, I just figured out how to walk the MCB chain. Here's an NASM assembly program (not quite finished but does walk it from 'M' to 'Z', the end of the MCB chain). Thanks must go to the fabulous book 'Undocumented DOS' by Andrew Schulman, Tim Patterson, Ralf Brown et. al) which I bought

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

2005-07-28 Thread David O'Shea
Hi Jeremy, add: DIR: bug#1889, added limited 4DOS DESCRIPT.ION file support {KJD} [...] no biggy, it was a bug, it works with my made up files, but I can't say for sure no issues with ones people really use. Still needs improvements to avoid re-reading the file. Is there a new bug filed

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

2005-05-24 Thread David O'Shea
Hi Jeremy, There should not be a noticable delay if you do not use them (one attempt to open per directory displayed), but may be for big directories as the file is sequentially searched for each filename displayed (as the file is unsorted and may or may not contain a description Im not sure