[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS offline updater

2013-06-15 Thread Matej Horvat
to the Internet, with the help of a Windows machine. Download and documentation: http://matejhorvat.si/en/freedos/fdoffupd/ Matej Horvat http://matejhorvat.si/ -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS offline updater

2013-06-18 Thread Matej Horvat
> This sounds way too complicated (for me), but anyways, your efforts > are nevertheless appreciated. It's actually really easy to set up and use. :) But I wrote this because I needed to solve this problem for myself, so I understand if it doesn't sound too attractive to others. Still, it beat

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS offline updater

2013-06-19 Thread Matej Horvat
On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:07:46 +0200, Rugxulo wrote: > You could always use cURL instead. It does seem to have links to > various Win32 builds: Or I could just write my own HTTP code. It's very simple after all. :) >> Putting the path into the configuration file just seemed a better >> solution

[Freedos-devel] FreeCOM criticism and suggestions

2013-07-04 Thread Matej Horvat
one have any ideas? Also, for some reason, the English COMMAND.COM is 66K, while my translated version is 83K, and I believe they have the same functionality compiled in. I apologize if any of this sounded too harsh, but my intention was only to give some sugg

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCOM criticism and suggestions

2013-07-05 Thread Matej Horvat
On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 15:29:18 +0200, Rugxulo wrote: > Though honestly, the most recent work has been > done by good ol' Bart Oldemann (another guru), so perhaps he's your > best bet (and he has SVN write access, unlike me). I'm not really in > frequent contact with him (me = useless), but he's app

[Freedos-devel] COPY /B FILE+,,

2013-07-19 Thread Matej Horvat
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[Freedos-devel] File creation times

2014-07-02 Thread Matej Horvat
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Re: [Freedos-devel] File creation times

2014-07-03 Thread Matej Horvat
On Thu, 03 Jul 2014 05:16:19 +0200, Rugxulo wrote: > Bug compared to what? Do you have experience with other DOSes where it > worked correctly (without the Windows GUI)? Compared to my expectations (:D) and Windows' behavior. I don't know how other DOSs behave. > But ... this would probably a

Re: [Freedos-devel] File creation times

2014-07-03 Thread Matej Horvat
On Thu, 03 Jul 2014 23:09:08 +0200, Rugxulo wrote: > But how do you view this data? Certainly there must be some easy way > (without manually viewing raw disk info). I don't know. You mentioned 4DOS, so I'm going to give that a try, or one of the many DIR replacements (or write my own...). But

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Roadmap: (Was Getting started

2014-07-13 Thread Matej Horvat
On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 19:41:54 +0200, Michael B. Brutman wrote: > The road map from the Wiki dated August 2010 seems to be wildly > optimistic. It is talking about tightly integrated protected mode > support, protected mode networking and USB, borrowing device driver code > from other OSes, etc.

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Roadmap: (Was Getting started

2014-07-13 Thread Matej Horvat
On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 21:24:40 +0200, Michael B. Brutman wrote: > Re: FreeDOS vs. DOS-like operating systems > > There are plenty of DOS-like hobby projects out there. But without > applications, they are pretty limited. I think a lot of the value in > DOS and FreeDOS is the ability to run exis

Re: [Freedos-devel] File creation times

2014-09-25 Thread Matej Horvat
To whom it may concern: I have since discovered a bug in my "fix" for creation times. If INT 21h AH=3Ch is called and the file is truncated (not created), its creation time will be replaced with the modification time. This is because dos_open calls init_direntry when creating or truncating a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Wget + Ndis ?

2014-11-16 Thread Matej Horvat
On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 17:20:46 +0100, Sébastien FAVIER wrote: > Have you a solution ? a driver for translate ndis/packetdriver ? a > equivalent of wget but for ndis ? This page may help: http://www.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Networking_FreeDOS_-_NDIS_driver_installation ---

Re: [Freedos-devel] drives.exe

2014-12-24 Thread Matej Horvat
On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 00:56:39 +0100, Mercury Thirteen wrote: > Feedback is welcome! First of all, the functions TrimLeft$ and TrimRight$ are not called at all, so you can remove them to save a few bytes (QB will not automatically remove them). And +1 for prefixing constants with "k". :D J

Re: [Freedos-devel] Working on FreeDOS 1.2

2014-12-31 Thread Matej Horvat
I agree that a better installer is needed (the one in 1.1 seemed to be slow and generated broken AUTOEXEC.BAT files for non-US(?) keyboard layouts). I think we should adapt FDNPKG so it can be compiled with Open Watcom and use mTCP so it can be 8086-compatible. After installation, it could

Re: [Freedos-devel] LOCK.EXE

2015-01-11 Thread Matej Horvat
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Re: [Freedos-devel] Japheth. Was: Re: FreeDOS 1.2 and 2.0 roadmap discussion

2015-04-05 Thread Matej Horvat
On Sat, 04 Apr 2015 22:08:14 +0200, Rugxulo wrote: > Jim Hall will probably say, "That's what you get for not being > free/libre in the first place". And he's probably right. Not really. In case of the HX DOS extender, the problem is that the documentation does not say much about distribution

Re: [Freedos-devel] mTCP/IP stack by M Brutman is now closed source

2015-09-08 Thread Matej Horvat
On Tue, 08 Sep 2015 17:09:53 +0200, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro wrote: > I regret that you've released it as non-free software. I wonder what > do you want to achieve, besides power over the users of your package. > You are denying them a freedom they deserve to have No one "deserves" anythin

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS

2015-10-17 Thread Matej Horvat
On Sat, 17 Oct 2015 01:50:22 +0200, Jerome Shidel wrote: > Hopefully, over the next couple days, I expect to have some free time to > finish the FDI 1.2 batch installer. This does not include a couple > advanced options. Such as altering the installation target or detailed > package selection.

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI Language Translations

2015-12-21 Thread Matej Horvat
On 2015-12-21 15:06, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > I don’t know if it is would be possible to have FDI keep changing the > Codepage and Character set. But, I don’t think Jim would want the > added complexity. So, I will not be adding it even if it is possible. Good luck getting Russian, Chinese,

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCOM pipes

2016-02-16 Thread Matej Horvat
On 2016-02-16 3:06 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > When used at the tail of a pipe, if the set /p does not receive any > input, FreeCOM will basically crash. So, it would appear that > it receives the pipe and just fails to set the environment variable. I can't reproduce this, at least not inter

Re: [Freedos-devel] Road to Perdition

2016-10-01 Thread Matej Horvat
On Thu, 29 Sep 2016 14:54:49 +0200, Tom Ehlert wrote: > (google translate) --> The 0.84-pre2 Build July 17 2011 21:46:46 and > date July 19 2014 14:14:47 not support LOADHIGH, when > load test TSRs they break with "MCB chain corrupt [...]. > Only the historic August 28 2006 00: 29: 00 release can

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 -- Keymap

2016-10-16 Thread Matej Horvat
On Sun, 16 Oct 2016 16:59:05 +0200, Jerome Shidel wrote: > If the user is in advanced mode OR selects a non-English language, the > installer will prompt for a couple of keyboard settings. US, UK, GR, > GR2, SG, NL, FR and SP. The FreeDOS 1.0 installer offered 85 keyboard layouts. Why stop the

Re: [Freedos-devel] odd FreeDOS batch %1 %2 %3 behavior (differs from MS-DOS, too)

2016-12-03 Thread Matej Horvat
I don't have any solution to the problem but while on the topic of FreeCOM and batch file parameters, I have discovered an issue which I believe is a genuine bug. Create a batch file, for example: ECHO %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 Then run it with a parameter like "http://www.example.com/";. I

[Freedos-devel] VME Broken on AMD Ryzen

2017-05-12 Thread Matej Horvat
"To be clear, the problem is not at all specific to virtualization. It has been confirmed on a Ryzen 5 1500X running FreeDOS—which comes with the JemmEx memory manager, which enables VME by default. Until VME was disabled, any attempt to boot with JemmEx failed with invalid opcode exception

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCOM 0.84-pre3 prerelease

2018-02-04 Thread Matej Horvat
I found these bugs in the OW version so far: 1. When loading SRDXMS.SYS (with only SHELLHIGH=COMMANDW.COM and DEVICE=JEMMEX.EXE processed at that point), the driver loads, the kernel prints "Kernel: allocated 48 Diskbuffers = 25536 Bytes in HMA", then right after that I see "Not enough memo

Re: [Freedos-devel] fltkal a DOS fork of FLTK using Allegro and DJGPP

2018-02-07 Thread Matej Horvat
On Wed, 07 Feb 2018 17:12:56 +0100, Rugxulo wrote: BTW, what Allegro are you using? Stock 4.2.2? Raine dude's patched version? Other? How does this patched version differ from the original, and why not use 4.2.3.1, which is the last (official, anyway) release for DOS? I had no difficulty

Re: [Freedos-devel] fltkal a DOS fork of FLTK using Allegro and DJGPP

2018-02-07 Thread Matej Horvat
On Wed, 07 Feb 2018 08:36:00 +0100, Mateusz Viste wrote: On Tue, 06 Feb 2018 23:54:32 -0700, Mark Olesen wrote: I am working on a project forking FLTK to run on FreeDOS. The github page is: https://github.com/markjolesen/fltkal Georg did it a couple of years ago. https://sourceforge.net/

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCOM 0.84-pre3 prerelease

2018-02-21 Thread Matej Horvat
On Sun, 04 Feb 2018 22:40:25 +0100, Eric Auer wrote: Hi Matej, 1. When loading SRDXMS.SYS (with only SHELLHIGH=COMMANDW.COM and DEVICE=JEMMEX.EXE processed at that point), the driver loads, the kernel prints "Kernel: allocated 48 Diskbuffers = 25536 Bytes in HMA", then right after that I see

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCOM 0.84-pre3 prerelease

2018-02-21 Thread Matej Horvat
On Fri, 09 Feb 2018 14:47:58 +0100, Bart Oldeman wrote: Hi Matej, can you post your exact config.sys and which kernel.sys you are using? It's a modified version of the default one from FreeDOS 1.1: !DOS=HIGH,UMB !DOSDATA=UMB !LASTDRIVEHIGH=Z !FILESHIGH=40 !MENUCOLOR=7,0 !IDLEHALT=-1 ; (M

Re: [Freedos-devel] Python on freedos.

2019-01-29 Thread Matej Horvat
On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 23:20:21 +0100, Rugxulo wrote: There also was a guy, a few years ago, who was building ("Lightning") Python for Win32 via OpenWatcom. I never tried it, but that would probably build for DOS/32-bit. Even the Win32 .EXE almost certainly runs under HX in DOS. So maybe you