[Freedos-kernel] Announce: COUNTRY.SYS

2004-08-21 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
Hello, At http://linux.tu-varna.acad.bg/~lig/freedos/kernel/ are a kernel patch collection (CVSPATCH.TXT) and binaries (KERNEL.SYS and COUNTRY.SYS) that add COUNTRY.SYS file support to the kernel and move the hard-coded country data from the kernel where it belongs - to a separate COUNTRY.SYS

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Compilers (the eternal topic :)

2004-08-21 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
Hallo Bart, Well if I claim I can get it under 64K I'm not lying. Did I say you're lying? OW compiles *plain 2035* as 66318 bytes uncompressed for me for FAT32/386. Why your kernel is bigger after all these optimizations is a puzzle. I've read that on low memory machines its optimizer may be

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Information wants to be free

2004-08-21 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
Hallo Bart and Tom, In this case, instead of pursuing a technical solution (Open Watcom is open source so can be changed) to reach a certain goal, you suggest I go for an illegal black-box solution, the cowards' way out. All right, I was a fly, now I'm a coward. Very well. Perhaps I'm something

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Information wants to be free

2004-08-21 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 21--2004 17:43 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luchezar Georgiev) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: LG I agree, but by buying a second-hand BC copy Bart wouldn't pay the Borland LG programmers in any way. Companies like RIAA and MPAA strive against reselling services (like one on Amazon).

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Announce: COUNTRY.SYS

2004-08-21 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Lucho, impressive progress. Though I don't use any COUNTRY/codepage/keyboard_layout things myself, this can be quite usefull. I can imagine Aitor being happy, for example. He does a lot with these things. Now only NLSFUNC is missing (in progress by Eduardo Casino)? btw, no source for your

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Announce: COUNTRY.SYS

2004-08-21 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Eduardo, Lucho, Steffen, everybody, we should have some discussion to determine which COUNTRY.SYS format we should use in FreeDOS. 1'st let me state that I never used NLSFUNC, so I may be the wrong person. 2'nd, all I needed for FreeDOS was 24 hour time/european date, and I implemented

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Information wants to be free

2004-08-21 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Luchezar, Not only Bulgarians. 3/4 of the world thinks so. And many Americans and Germans too, by the way. there is a german saying 'hey guys - eat shit! Billions of flies can't be wrong' So we're just billions of flies to you. Very well :) Otherwise it's a great anti-fashion

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Announce: COUNTRY.SYS

2004-08-21 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, tom ehlert escribió: Hello Eduardo, Lucho, Steffen, everybody, we should have some discussion to determine which COUNTRY.SYS format we should use in FreeDOS. 1'st let me state that I never used NLSFUNC, so I may be the wrong person. Well, neither do I because as I never change

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Announce: COUNTRY.SYS

2004-08-21 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Aitor, Yes, but as I mentioned, the problem is that, how do we get collating tables, etc for other countries than US and Germany? We could rely on user's efforts to create those tables, but this can be quite laborious (provided that, for copyright issues, the COUNTRY.SYS of the

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Announce: COUNTRY.SYS

2004-08-21 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: Yes, but as I mentioned, the problem is that, how do we get collating tables, etc for other countries than US and Germany? We could rely on user's efforts to create those tables, but this can be quite laborious Probably best to have a look

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Announce: COUNTRY.SYS

2004-08-21 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi Bart, Thanks for pointing out! Actually I ignore if Linux works with some notion similar to codepges at all (I once tried to port a single ASCII chart drawing program from DOS to Linux and found out lots of blanks #219 in the table. If Unicode is the only collating table present, as you say