[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS on Google Trends

2006-10-20 Thread Roberto Mariottini
I think this is an interesting outcome: http://www.google.com/trends?q=freedos Ciao begin:vcard fn:Roberto Mariottini n:Mariottini;Roberto org:Prima Electronics S.p.A.;RD Departement adr:;;Strada Carignano, 48/2;MONCALIERI;(TO);10024;ITALY email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Dott.

Re: [Freedos-devel] 32 bit

2006-09-14 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Imre Leber wrote: Well I for one think that FreeDOS should move into the 32bit realm after version 1. All the 32bit stuff was written by the DJGPP project. But it didn't make any sense philosophicaly as long as it did not run on a free DOS operating system. Now that we did the time

Re: [Freedos-devel] Surprise!

2006-09-04 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Daniel Verkamp wrote: Blair Campbell wrote: Hey folks. If you check out the website, you may be in for a surprise. Excellent work! However, in testing the base CD in Virtual PC 2004, I came across this problem during postinst.bat: Batchfile 'C:\FDOS\POSTINST.BAT' does not

[Freedos-devel] Announce: updated italian translations

2006-07-25 Thread Roberto Mariottini
On my site at http://www.mariottini.net/freedos/english.html you can find updated translations for most of the internationalized FreeDOS utilities, and for the FreeDOS install system. _New in release 3_ - Fixed some typos in the old translations - At the beginning of every translation

Re: [Freedos-devel] Contributions towards FreeDOS 1.0

2006-07-10 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Imre Leber wrote: Thanks, I'll look more into the diskcopy translation tonight. Question: From diskcopy.it reserved to condition for example yes, no, quit 0.0:S 0.1:S It seems you are using S for both yes and no. Should this not be: 0.0:S 0.1:N Of course. I'll re-check

Re: [Freedos-devel] Format and errorlevel

2005-11-29 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Johnson Lam wrote: On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:01:34 -0200, you wrote: Hi, MS-format errorlevels are 0 = ok, ok with bad-sectors, sintax errors or help msg. 3 = aborted by user 4 = fatal error, disk broken or wrong name 5 = harddisk format confirmation not given (user selected

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

2005-11-11 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Bernd Blaauw wrote: Guess I should read up about what the difference is between these large/normal/small models. In short: tiny: one segment for everything, CS = DS = SS, data pointers are near, function pointers are near (everything must fit in in 64 KB, no segment reserved for stack

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS not updating freespace after disk change

2005-08-03 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Alain wrote: [...] The problem never happens in the first disk and when it happens in the followinf disks, the disks are *not* corrupted. Can you explain better? Are you sure you are not using two disks with the same serial number? Ciao

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCom daily builds

2005-07-12 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Hi, on http://www.mariottini.net/freedos/english.html you can find a new version of italian translations for FreeCOM, updated to the version 1.34 (1.35 has only minor modifications). I've posted them months ago, but nobody did commit them. Ciao

[Freedos-devel] Help with block device driver

2005-05-09 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Hi, one italian user is trying to write a device driver. The problem is it doesn't properly install a new drive letter. I'm not a device driver expert, so I'm asking if someone on the list can look at it. The sorce code is dowloadable from: http://kayman.altervista.org/software/cfdrv.zip The

Re: [Freedos-devel] keyboard layout

2004-12-23 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Thanks Aitor, I think this should be a TechNote, or it should go in the FAQ, because it is really a Frequently Asked Question. Ciao Aitor SantamarĂ­a Merino ha scritto: Dear Karsten, There are such tools. You write a keyboard layout in the form of an ASCII text file (in the KEY language). Then

[Freedos-devel] Compact Flash under DOS

2004-11-12 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Hi, here is a question from an user. He's using MS-DOS 6.22, and I don't know if FreeDOS can solve his problem. The fundamental question is: there is a way to make the BISO/kernel re-read disk information from an IDE disk? Ciao Hello to everybody. I'm using

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: YESCHAR question (was: New COUNTRY.SYS)

2004-11-04 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Eric Auer wrote: [...] - country unaware programs will just use hardcoded are you sure? and will just expect y for that. - country aware programs should use BOTH translated strings and ask the kernel what the yeschar is for the current language. Because you can conceivably set LANG= and

[Freedos-devel] Format 0.91r and FreeCOM sound tests

2004-07-30 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Hi all, Yesterday I've tested FORMAT on a 40GB HD, with a one big partition. I was trying to format it as FAT32 under WinXP, but it refuses to format such a large partition as FAT, it wants to format it as NTFS. So I've inserted a floppy with FreeDOS in it (sorry, I had only the official

Re: [Freedos-devel] Format 0.91r and FreeCOM sound tests

2004-07-30 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Steve Nickolas wrote: At Fri, 30 Jul 2004 8:55am +0200, Roberto Mariottini wrote: As for FreeCOM, the bug showed up on the PC (P3 650 MHz) trying to use filename completion. The beep started, then the computer freezed, while continuing to beep. I had to press Ctrl-Alt-Del to shut it up. Ciao

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: best free C++ compiler

2004-07-26 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Hi, Alain wrote: [...] BTW: do you have information about memcpy() problems in BC 3.1 ? Last week I had a very hard to trace bug (in a TSR) that was solved replacing it with memmove(). Andreas sayd that he had problems with it too. Are you sure the two buffers you are memcpy-ing don't overlap?

Re: [Freedos-devel] Announce: italian translations for CHOICE, DISKCOPY, HTMLHELP, MORE, SORT and TREE

2004-07-22 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Hi, I've noted that the NLS strings are used only when the environment variable NLSPATH is defined. There's nothing wrong with it, but the beta9rc5 install program created a variable NLSDIR instead, and that didn't work. Ciao --- This SF.Net

[Freedos-devel] Announce: italian translations for CHOICE, DISKCOPY, HTMLHELP, MORE, SORT and TREE

2004-07-20 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Hi, I have translated in italian the few programs that are currently NLS-able (all that I know of, let me know if I missed some). They are: CHOICE, DISKCOPY, HTMLHELP (the NLS strings, not the help pages!), MORE, SORT and TREE. At the URL: http://www.mariottini.net/freedos/italian2.zip you can

[Freedos-devel] Some news about FD/32 (FW:)

2004-04-09 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Hi, I've seen this message on the FreeDOS/32 developer list, and I think it can be of some interest. The project is slowly showing some progress, but it still needs volunteers. Ciao. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luca Abeni Sent:

RE: [Freedos-devel] Make a program slimmer

2004-02-27 Thread Roberto Mariottini
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of maintainer freedospg Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 2:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Freedos-devel] Make a program slimmer Hi, I want to know if there is a way to release memory from the

RE: [Freedos-devel] TC RTL

2004-02-27 Thread Roberto Mariottini
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Arkady V.Belousov Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 4:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Freedos-devel] TC RTL BTW, does anyone have TC RTL sources? Especially, I interested in C0.ASM, CLOCK.C,

RE: [Freedos-devel] Q: Watcom debugging

2004-02-24 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Hi, comments embedded. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 2:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Freedos-devel] Q: Watcom debugging Hello, I'm trying to setup a functional