Re: [Freedos-kernel] kernel 2038 discussion stuck? history.txt changes

2009-06-05 Thread Eric Auer
Hi dos386! Can you forward details about that dmidecode / bttr forum thing? PS: I would like to quote IBID_AG 4. I would rather see more of the features from 2037 in stable Ask IBID... country sys support is very useful for SOME languages, but which other features of 2037 are really hot? :-)

Re: [Freedos-kernel] kernel 2038 discussion stuck? history.txt changes

2009-06-05 Thread Bernd Blaauw
dos386 schreef: PS: I would like to quote IBID_AG 2. Congratulations on a great kernel/OS 4. I would rather see more of the features from 2037 in stable List ??? * external Country.sys support (including MODE, DISPLAY, NLSFUNC etc) * That FNODES stuff (Bart seems to be working

Re: [Freedos-kernel] kernel 2038 discussion stuck? history.txt changes

2009-06-05 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Eric Auer schreef: Hi dos386! Can you forward details about that dmidecode / bttr forum thing? http://www.bttr-software.de/ http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum.php software: http://www.bttr-software.de/misc/dmide29b.zip (I guess) Nowadays a hardware diagnostics tool at boottime seems

Re: [Freedos-kernel] kernel 2038 discussion stuck? history.txt changes

2009-06-05 Thread Tom Ehlert
* Windows 3.1x support seriously: is ANYBODY using Windows 3.x ? IMHO Windows 3.x is 100% obsolete, so why would anybody want windows 3.x support ? WfW support in stable, these might be handy. Windows for Workgroups , which is a flavor of Microsoft Windows 3.11 WfW support will probably

Re: [Freedos-kernel] kernel 2038 discussion stuck? history.txt changes

2009-06-05 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bernd, Tom, Bart, others, * external Country.sys support (including MODE, DISPLAY, NLSFUNC etc) Definitely useful. I hope it can be combined with compiled-in 2038 style basic support: Things like date/time/number format. While only external country.sys adds sort/uppercase/lowercase override

Re: [Freedos-kernel] kernel 2038 discussion stuck? history.txt changes

2009-06-05 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Eric Auere.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: Hi Bernd, Tom, Bart, others, ... WfW support will probably never come; WfW was tighly coupled to the kernel (at least according to Schulman et. al., WfW is MUCH more then just a flavour of Windows 3.11) What is Schulman et