Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS Beta9 RC5 has been released

2004-04-26 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Alain escribió: Just one question: How much does MODE grow with Zlib? And one more: What about an install program that extracts needed information from a standard .zip file specific for that user's needs? I'd support that, but requires work: (1) either to create the packs (2) or to make the prog

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS Beta9 RC5 has been released

2004-04-26 Thread Alain
Just one question: How much does MODE grow with Zlib? And one more: What about an install program that extracts needed information from a standard .zip file specific for that user's needs? Alain right now on updated ODIN bootdisk the CPI files take almost 600KB (10 * 60KB), which is nearly half

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS Beta9 RC5 has been released

2004-04-25 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Bart Oldeman escribió: On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: Bernd Blaauw escribió: right now on updated ODIN bootdisk the CPI files take almost 600KB (10 * 60KB), which is nearly half the disk! (and makes creating 720KB more difficult). Perhaps it's a question to ch

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS Beta9 RC5 has been released

2004-04-25 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Ooops... Aitor Santamaría Merino escribió: Bernd Blaauw escribió: right now on updated ODIN bootdisk the CPI files take almost 600KB (10 * 60KB), which is nearly half the disk! (and makes creating 720KB more difficult). Perhaps it's a question to check the CPI files, perhaps for MOST of the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS Beta9 RC5 has been released

2004-04-25 Thread Bernd Blaauw
help-files are already collected in a zipfile, Rob worked on that. I suggested compressing the CPI-files to Eric using Gzip, but that would add Zlib to MODE. Eric likes another less efficient but smaller to implement compression algorythm/program. he said it reduces CPI from 58 (60) to 19KB (Gzip

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS Beta9 RC5 has been released

2004-04-25 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: > Bernd Blaauw escribió: > > > right now on updated ODIN bootdisk the CPI files take almost 600KB (10 > > * 60KB), > > which is nearly half the disk! (and makes creating 720KB more difficult). > > Perhaps it's a question to check the CPI files, p

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS Beta9 RC5 has been released

2004-04-25 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Bernd Blaauw escribió: right now on updated ODIN bootdisk the CPI files take almost 600KB (10 * 60KB), which is nearly half the disk! (and makes creating 720KB more difficult). Perhaps it's a question to check the CPI files, perhaps for MOST of the countries, just 2 or 3 of those CPI files are n

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS Beta9 RC5 has been released

2004-04-20 Thread Alain
Bart Oldeman escreveu: How about speed gain? Perhaps, sometimes 1, 2 or 3 more BUFFERS available can make a difference. Otherwise I can't see any visible speed difference. I did som testing some time ago (M$DOS) and my conclusion is that if other buffers are present (in my case smatrdrv and int

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS Beta9 RC5 has been released

2004-04-20 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Aitor Santamaría Merino schreef: Check old posts by Matthias Paul about DR-FONTS. The good news (for me ;-)) is that no matter if you use DR-FONTS or any other "compression" format (DR-FONTS does not compress IIRC), MODE needs to create a memory image of the CPI file to be sent to DISPLAY. So it

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS Beta9 RC5 has been released

2004-04-20 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Eric Auer escribió: * HTMLhelp 1.03, including ZIP support for saving disk space Nifty feature, indeed. Bernd also suggested compressed CPI for DISPLAY / MODE, with GZIP: Question, is there already an established compressed-CPI file format or should we indeed use GZIP (or e.g. RLE / Huffm

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS Beta9 RC5 has been released

2004-04-20 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Eric Auer wrote: > This reminds me of the 386 question: How much bigger than the FAT16 > kernel is the FAT32 kernel in RAM (low, umb, hma) and how much of > this would be saved by optimizing for 386, experiences? Low: the drive data tables take 32 bytes more per drive (depen

[Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS Beta9 RC5 has been released

2004-04-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bernd! Nice to hear about FreeDOS beta 9.5 :-). > * Completely rewritten readme files (so DO READ them!) Fine, where can I download them separately from the ISO? > * Improved installation menu navigation Hopefully less complex BAT files now... > * Configurable NLS settings (code