[Freedos-devel] UTF-8 input and output

2019-05-27 Thread David Griffith
/DavidGriffith/frotz/ -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos

[Freedos-devel] Inexplicable ambiguous name flags error from TurboC

2019-10-02 Thread David Griffith
les just fine for Linux, BSD, and MacOS. Changing their line endings doesn't help. What's going on here? I have in issue filed on this at https://gitlab.com/DavidGriffith/frotz/issues/159. The dos-fixup branch is where I'm working on the DOS interface. -- David Griffith d...@661.or

Re: [Freedos-devel] Inexplicable ambiguous name flags error from TurboC

2019-10-03 Thread David Griffith
); and I got this: Error src\common\fastmem.c 160: Invalid combination of opcode and operands in function restart_head -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-pos

Re: [Freedos-devel] Inexplicable ambiguous name flags error from TurboC

2019-10-04 Thread David Griffith
. It uses the magic _AX variable which is specific to Turbo C (it works on Turbo C 2.01, and should work on 3.00 too). This approach worked splendidly. Thanks! -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing

[Freedos-devel] LSM4 versus LSM3

2019-12-22 Thread David Griffith
Why does the FreeDOS project use version 3 LSM rather than version 4? -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail

Re: [Freedos-devel] LSM4 versus LSM3

2019-12-22 Thread David Griffith
On December 22, 2019 8:21:59 PM PST, Jim Hall wrote: >On Sun, Dec 22, 2019, 10:11 PM Ralf Quint wrote: > >> On 12/22/2019 7:36 PM, David Griffith wrote: >> > >> > Why does the FreeDOS project use version 3 LSM rather than version >4? >> > >> Be

[Freedos-devel] Frotz upstream updated to 2.50

2019-12-17 Thread David Griffith
How do I get the Freedos repository updated to include the current version of Frotz? I released version 2.50 last month, which fixes several serious memory allocation bugs that rendered many games unplayable. -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people

Re: [Freedos-devel] Frotz upstream updated to 2.50

2019-12-23 Thread David Griffith
My reply is at the bottom. Please put your reply there too. On Wed, 18 Dec 2019, Rugxulo wrote: Hi, On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 4:20 AM Jerome Shidel wrote: On Dec 18, 2019, at 2:44 AM, David Griffith wrote: How do I get the Freedos repository updated to include the current version of Frotz

Re: [Freedos-devel] freecom bugs and bugfixes in forks?

2021-01-02 Thread David Griffith
, but I think this approach can help ease the bumps a bit for the repository maintainers, so I would recommend trying it. :-) As a leader of several projects, though not of anything FreeDOS, I prefer this approach. -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people