Re: [Freedos-kernel] EXT3 support

2015-08-17 Thread Alain Mouette
de Linux command line ;-) WHAT I DON'T KNOW is the minimum system to run graphics programs in FreeDOS+Dosemu+Linux, I have allways used with X _Would you give it a try_? Just start with a plain Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 32bits (use VirtualBox), it has a dosemu package that works prety well Alain Em

Re: [Freedos-kernel] CRITICAL BUG - crosslinked files - 2039 unusable

2011-05-03 Thread Alain Mouette
Does this mean that it has been fixed? Alain Em 03-05-2011 04:03, dos386 escreveu: Good catch and thanks for the fix! I committed your patch to svn Heh ... excellent ... so my excessive HD trashing http://www.mail-archive.com/freedos-kernel%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg02431.html 1+1/2 years

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Distribution for REAL USE (was Re: CRITICAL BUG - crosslinked files - 2039 unusable)

2010-01-08 Thread Alain Mouette
:) Alain Pat Villani escreveu: Hello Alain, I probably missed it. What is different about your distribution? f it is a major imrpvement to what we have, why not distribute it as a FreeDOS distribution? Pat On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Alain Mouette ala...@pobox.com

Re: [Freedos-kernel] 2039-svn build

2009-07-01 Thread Alain Mouette
: 1) install using the windows installer 2) remove all the files not needed for DOS, which is quite a lot 3) repack in .zip format just to be easy for using in DOS. the hard part is only (2) and the files should be the same as with the old verion. Alain

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Hello again

2009-05-18 Thread Alain M.
Hi Christian, I think that you are not being polite. You are new here and you start by wanting to change everything. Why don't you start by fixing a few bugs? Alain Christian Masloch escreveu: Which app crashes from running on a FAT+ kernel? (Presuming you don't even have that large

[Freedos-kernel] ASUS problem

2009-05-18 Thread Alain M.
get corrupted, etc :( :( Does anyone have any information or Idea about this problem? Would any of Jack's driver help? Thanks for any info, Alain -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new

[Freedos-kernel] New devellopment

2009-05-15 Thread Alain M.
problems in FreeDOS, with that FreeDOS will be just the best DOS. And FreeDOS has the advantage of working very well on almost all new machines. The only exception is ASUS which a constant source of problems. Thanks, Alain

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Fwd: Re: state of kernel 2038

2009-05-04 Thread Alain M.
waiting anxously for the new version 1.1. I was working with Geraldo Neto, but he is very busy at the moment, and I will be back soon :) Alain -- Register Now Save for Velocity, the Web Performance Operations

Re: [Freedos-kernel] pkunzip and unzip acting differently with -d command

2008-12-16 Thread Alain M.
fewer bugs. Alain PS: btw, we do neither use nor support ilegal programs in this list ;) Travis Siegel escreveu: I'm not sure if this is the right place for it, but I've noticed recently, that pkunzip and unzip treat files with directory information differently on freedos. I'm using the 1.0

Re: [Freedos-kernel] pkunzip and unzip acting differently with -d command

2008-12-16 Thread Alain M.
it :) In fact, I have an annoying bug very siminar to that, where unzip does not create a directory... Alain -- SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen

[Freedos-kernel] Big disk - 500Gb

2008-09-08 Thread Alain M.
grub) 5) format c: /s /u I get this message: FATAL: Cliuster size is not 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8, 8, 16, 32, or 64k but 0.0k. [Error 58] can someone figure this out? I im doing this for the sole purpose of testing FreeDOS, and I have a few more days before I do some better use of that disk Alain

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Two problems and patches related to Floppy Disk

2008-09-04 Thread Alain M.
You are a genius... This floppy change problem has been around for some time because it is hard to reproduce. The steps 1 to 5 in problem 2 are all done from a single running program? If so it may be related to a problem I encontered a few times. Thanks, very much Alain Koike Toshio

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Two problems and patches related to Floppy Disk

2008-09-04 Thread Alain M.
, and we need to fix this floppy problem because it causes Data Corruption :( Alain Problem 1: Maxell new FD has No 55-aa magic number in boot sector. When we used Maxell FD, we encountered strange phenomena. We wrote files to FD. Write process was looking good. But there is no file in checking

Re: [Freedos-kernel] roadmap for freedos kernel 2038

2007-10-30 Thread Alain M.
want to reduce buffers? Alain - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE

Re: [Freedos-kernel] roadmap for freedos kernel 2038

2007-10-29 Thread Alain M.
. By default minimum is 20 buffers, I believe that this would be nescessary for compatibility Alain - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events

Re: [Freedos-kernel] freedos boot menu line change suggestion

2007-09-17 Thread Alain M.
is the default, otherwise the other option is better. Alain Eric Auer escreveu: Hi, what do you think about the following patch: --- config.c(Revision 1354) +++ config.c(SUGGESTED) @@ -1918,16 +1918,16 @@ printf( (Selection=%d) , MenuSelected); if (MenuTimeout = 0

[Freedos-kernel] SUBST is working?

2007-06-12 Thread Alain M.
does not work with 2035 works with 2036 M: M:\t.bat works allways BUT, programs don't find files. Explaining: if a program tries to open a file, it fails... There was some changes in the truename function, this looks like it is related... I would appreciate *any* hint, Alain

Re: [Freedos-kernel] please change the default freecom and increase the kernel version

2006-01-23 Thread Alain
. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE call the head kernel of [some date in the NEAR future] 2036 and the unstable/devel kernel of [same date] 2037. Yes, yes,yes. I vote for a different version number for each release. Alain --- This SF.net email is sponsored

[Freedos-kernel] UDMA2 testing

2005-06-07 Thread Alain
with SiS741GX, Disk is 2Gb partition at the beginning of 40Gb Thanks a lot, Alain PS. sorry for the post to devel+kernel but some people don't read both. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector

Re: [Freedos-kernel] announce: kernel 2035a released

2005-02-25 Thread Alain
, does anyone know about it? LFN are important to work under dosemu (I had to do a little gimm just to unzip this new kernel without reverting to Window$) Thanks, Alain Interim FreeDOS Kernel Maintainer escreveu: Kernel 2035a has been tagged and uploaded to sourceforge. This is primarily a bugfix only

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Optimize and OpenWatcom

2005-01-19 Thread Alain
Hi Bart (are you around?) Thanks this worked fine (it took some time to test) Alain PS: you are getting good at reading minds ;-) Bart Oldeman escreveu: On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Alain wrote: Peter Fedorow escreveu: OmmitIfOptimizeSize break (); Has anyone managed to make this construct qork

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Re: [Freedos-cvs] kernel/kernel entry.asm,1.27.2.1,1.27.2.2

2005-01-11 Thread Alain
name, there should be something like Interrupt: division error. AlainI agree :) Tom I disagree :( I don't understand why, for curiosity sake only: interrupt divide error in english is ambigouous and can be interpreted in two ways. Anyway, I vote for the exact MS-DOS message for compatibility. Alain

[Freedos-kernel] Optiize and OpenWatcom

2005-01-06 Thread Alain
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Re: [Freedos-kernel] Lucho gives up arguing with Arkady

2004-09-14 Thread Alain
in this list... Cheer-up ;-) Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: thawte's Crypto Challenge Vl Crack the code and win a Sony DCRHC40 MiniDV Digital Handycam Camcorder. More prizes in the weekly Lunch Hour Challenge. Sign up NOW http

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Re: [Freedos-cvs] kernel/boot oemboot.asm,NONE,1.1.2.1

2004-09-09 Thread Alain
latest (unstable) kernel sources? And, as I understand, there is now 4 alternate trees: 2035, 2035-tom, 2035-Lucho and 2035-Jeremy? To me this is good news. I was thinking that _I_ was the only one confused about this ;-) Alain PS I am particularly interested in 2035-tom which I understand is rock

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

2004-08-22 Thread Alain
that this would happen even if their product was not so bad) Alain --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink Toner - Free Shipping

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Patch: Allow seeing ZIP disk serial number

2004-08-16 Thread Alain
Luchezar Georgiev escreveu: Hello, First, I'd like to express my gratitude to Alain Mouette for his generous donation of an external 100 MB parallel ZIP drive + disks to me which allowed me to catch the bug below. Thank you, Alain! I am very glad that it was usefull. Alain

Re: [Freedos-kernel] exeflat (2035a) start segment must be variable

2004-08-13 Thread Alain
Hi Arkady, good to have you back :) Please send me your email address for direct contact. I sent you a message that was probably lost :( Alain --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x

Re: [Freedos-kernel] More kernel bugs and incompatibilities

2004-08-07 Thread Alain
-PkmJ0J:newdos.yginfo.net/dosfat32.htm+dosfat32hl=pt Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Re: FreeCOM

2004-07-22 Thread Alain
I vote for it, please... Alain In other words: Only for non-multiconfig we would waste 4 bytes per environment for the sake of being compatible to all programs! I think we *must* pay this price, even though mathematical logics tell use the programs *should* accept \0c:\freecom.com\0 after all

Re: [Freedos-kernel] FAT, Reiser, EXT2/3 and TCP/IP

2004-07-16 Thread Alain
, inclusive in XMS, and a minor part of IP and ICMP. A library to build 16 and 32 bit executables has the rest. ARP,ICMP ok but basic, UDP is working fine, TCP has yet to be done. This is to be open source if there is interest. Alain

Re: [Freedos-kernel] FAT, Reiser, EXT2/3 and TCP/IP

2004-07-16 Thread Alain
the functionality. That is why Andreas and I decided to make a IPDRV TSR. But remember DOS is single threaded/single task... Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Floppy disk read error

2004-07-16 Thread Alain
-debug.sys? Just rename it to kernel.sys. I didn't receive any kernel shipped to me. I got kernel 2035a from Lucho's site, a link was posted here. Please send me a link if sending a file is difficult. BTW I believe that this is not affected by new patches, sot it could be 2035 too. thanks, Alain

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Floppy disk read error

2004-07-16 Thread Alain
Arkady V.Belousov escreveu: Hi! 16--2004 22:15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alain) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A - if after the error, if I use the a option for abort, there is an A out of memory error before returning to command prompt. Before returning to command prompt from which program? Note

[Freedos-kernel] Floppy disk read error

2004-07-14 Thread Alain
was not detected, but this is not 100% coherent... please help (anyone), Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Floppy disk read error

2004-07-14 Thread Alain
experience, but I am lost here :( Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721alloc_id=10040op=click

Re: [Freedos-kernel] kernel progress

2004-06-28 Thread Alain
) because the critical instruction was executed ok and I didn't want to singlestep all the rest. BUT, IMHO the key for that should not be Esc but something completely different, like some other function key. Alain --- This SF.Net email sponsored

Re: [Freedos-kernel] kernel progress

2004-06-28 Thread Alain
as Stop executing any or Config.sys os autoexec this causes only the commands explicitly using the sequence '?' followed by '=' to be asked: echo?=test (and ?echo=test , but not !echo?=test) Ok, Alain --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Re: Re: Kernel bug parade / moving on

2004-06-09 Thread Alain
Eric Auer escreveu: Hi Aitor, Alain, please ask Lawrence first if the MS DOS kernel clears the 32 bit registers. I bet that it does NOT. I hope he answers this ;-) This is not related to is the program which breaks unimportant. if it non-existant, then... Alain

Re: [Freedos-kernel] kernel administration

2004-06-04 Thread Alain
Could we ask Lucho to come back? He has helped a lot in the past. those that have hes address could write him... Alain Arkady V.Belousov escreveu: Hi! Well, looks like Bart is gone. Who now will manage the kernel (reconcile patches, update CVS, release intermediate snapshots)? For example, my

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Re: [Freedos-cvs] kernel/kernel fattab.c,1.21,1.22

2004-04-25 Thread Alain
wcc (wpp neither) can't compile multiple files at the sametime. You can only try to decrease the load time of wcc.exe Maybe compressing it or binding with a dos extender helps. Maybe not. I use it in RAM-DISK (with xmsdsk), allong with all .H files and some more ;-) Alain

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: [Freedos-cvs] kernel/kernel blockio.c,1.30,1.31 dosfns.c,1.61,1.62 int2f.asm,1.27,1.28 proto.h,1.61,1.62 task.c,1.41,1.42

2004-04-21 Thread Alain
Bernd Blaauw escreveu: Bart distributes 8086 kernels, not 80386 optimized kernels. Lucho does that. Not any more :( Lucho unsubscribed form both FreeDOS list. He was very annoyied about some things here. I would be nice if he received some encouragement messages from some of us ;-) Alain

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Patch: Code wipe bug really fixed at last!

2004-02-17 Thread Alain
Luchezar Georgiev escreveu: Thanks - I just found and fixed it, see below! It's allways amazing how small are the fixes for complex bugs like that ;-) Good night now (here it's 10:10PM anyway), and have good (unbugged) dreams, Alain --- SF.Net

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Packing kernel with aPack saves 1.3 KB

2004-02-06 Thread Alain
with more than 2Gb of disk space has to be better than 386, for one that old bios will not support such drivers anyway... Alain --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration