Re: [Freedos-kernel] Creation times

2004-09-14 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
I wonder about those creation time set removals. It looks like your I will consider reverting it, but a config.sys option is overkill. Yes, it is. It'll be difficult to revert it as it leaded to numerous other optimisations. Besides, I already explained why I removed it. Why add back an useless

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Patch: COUNTRY.ASM

2004-09-14 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
BTW, Lucho, if you wish, I may prepare for you macroses in TASM to ease writing more readable and safer country.asm. Probably, someone then may translate these macro to NASM? Such translation will be very difficult if not impossible because NASM is too incompatible :-( So, don't bother with it.

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Creation times

2004-09-14 Thread Aitor Santamara Merino
Hi, Luchezar Georgiev escribi: I wonder about those creation time set removals. It looks like your I will consider reverting it, but a config.sys option is overkill. Yes, it is. It'll be difficult to revert it as it leaded to numerous other optimisations. Besides, I already explained why I

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Reading new COUNTRY.SYS records

2004-09-14 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
Hola Eduardo, Not really. In the worst case, only the 4 bytes for the empty DBCS table will be unused. The idea is to overwrite the hardcoded tables for CTYINFO, UCASE, FCHAR, and COLLATE and allocate new memory (if needed) for FUCASE, LCASE and DBCS _only_. What about a combination of your (1)

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Creation times

2004-09-14 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Luchezar Georgiev wrote: Bart wrote: I wonder about those creation time set removals. It looks like your removing a useful feature here. Sure a reason given is MSDOS 7.10 doesn't do this. Well, I say, who cares about this specific DOS, Isn't *this* specific OS what

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Creation times

2004-09-14 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
The question is: does anyone know what does MS-DOS do? What now unstable FreeDOS does - ZERO creation time/date and access date on each directory entry write. Verified. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Creation times

2004-09-14 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
#include fcntl.h #include io.h #include dos.h int main(void) { int fd = open(fool.dat, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC); write(fd, hello, 5); close(fd); sleep(2); fd = open(fool.dat, O_WRONLY); write(fd, hello bye, 9); close(fd); return 0; } Thanks, Bart. Seems that as I already have

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Creation times

2004-09-14 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Luchezar Georgiev wrote: #include fcntl.h #include io.h #include dos.h int main(void) { int fd = open(fool.dat, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC); write(fd, hello, 5); close(fd); sleep(2); fd = open(fool.dat, O_WRONLY); write(fd, hello bye, 9);

[Freedos-kernel] Version setting / Goodbye from Lucho

2004-09-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, CALLVER is http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/callver.zip ... and it does not support int 2f.122f nor int 21.33fc YET. If the kernel has it, CALLVER will offer some set version to ... until the next change functionality in a later version. FREEVER source code got lost in

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Lucho gives up arguing with Arkady

2004-09-14 Thread Alain
Lucho, you introduce change in interface. _Such_ actions necessarily _must_ be discussed and approved. By whom? By the Boss? Who is the Boss? Arkady? Hi Lucho, don't feel hurt, he is just sayint what we yelled at him so many times :) The boss is ... gess who? the comunity, represented in this

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Lucho gives up arguing with Arkady

2004-09-14 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Alain escribió: Lucho, you introduce change in interface. _Such_ actions necessarily _must_ be discussed and approved. By whom? By the Boss? Who is the Boss? Arkady? Hi Lucho, don't feel hurt, he is just sayint what we yelled at him so many times :) The boss is ... gess who? the comunity,

[Freedos-kernel] Re: test bootdisk

2004-09-14 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Bernd Blaauw wrote: Hello all, I've put online a new bootdisk with which I, and you, can easily experiment. Download it from: http://fdos.org/ripcord/beta9-final/test/testing.zip [274KB, 1.44MB unzipped] OK, just uploaded a new version, now includes fixed autoexec.bat and mounting. program for