[Freedos-kernel] SUBST is working?

2007-06-12 Thread Alain M.
Hi All, is there a trick to use SUBST? is anyone using it? I tryed both subst from 1.0 and sw-swsubst32 from ibiblio. using kernel 2036 from http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/kernel2036-binary.zip it works better... explaining: with the old kernel, M: t.bat

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

2007-09-17 Thread Alain M.
My opinion: F8 *should* remain, people are just used to it. gotoxy *shoul*not* exist, that is trouble in some (too many) cases Instead of ENTER for default, one could write ENTER for [1] where 1 is the default in this example. I vote ENTER for default *but* it shlould be obvious which is

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

2007-10-29 Thread Alain M.
Johnson Lam escreveu: Did you mean set the FILES=2 really have 2 buffers? This *should not* happen, DOS opens 5 files by default: stdin, stdout, stderr, auxin and aux out. An extra one is needed with dos extenders. I would say that 7 or 8 would be a minimum to keep things running. By

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

2007-10-30 Thread Alain M.
Johnson Lam escreveu: I always have 20, but my point is 20 is for user application, system should not count in the list, since they are a must. Buffers are alocated dinamicaly which is a better aproach than reserving some for this and some for that... What I don't understand is why you

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.
Eric Auer escreveu: Problem 1: Maxell new FD has No 55-aa magic number in boot sector. You might have fixed that the wrong way round... FreeDOS tries too much to behave well for unformatted disks, which should be fixed in www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/travis.zip ... the idea is to make

[Freedos-kernel] Big disk - 500Gb

2008-09-08 Thread Alain M.
Hi, I just tested fdisk and format on a 500Gb disk 1) new disk was used with Linux, but a first primary partition was made but never formated 2) booted FreeDOS 1.0, and with fdisk deleted everything and creared only one primary partition for the whole disk 3) rebooted 4) fdisk /mbr (to remove

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

2008-12-16 Thread Alain M.
From your description, it looks like there is a bug in pkzip. That is a comercial product, so the answer is simple: BUY one and ask for support... As to unzip, it is freeware, well supported, and in fact it is a port of the Linux program. That is why it behaves more in a unix way, and has

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

2008-12-16 Thread Alain M.
Travis Siegel escreveu: Not exactly. This error does not occur in msdos or drdos, only freedos, Ergo, freedos is at fault. That's why I wanted to know if there was any way to track down the error, so it could be fixed. Then you are correct... I hope that you can help in fixing it :)

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

2009-05-04 Thread Alain M.
Kenneth J. Davis escreveu: I am still reviewing and testing the pending patches... but progressing. :-) I am very very glad of rearing this. I use FreeDOS for clients, and it is performing better then MS-DOS 7.10... I ma not sure why, but I have fewer database problems with FreeDOS :) I am

[Freedos-kernel] New devellopment

2009-05-15 Thread Alain M.
Hi Jeremy and Pat, I am very glad to have you both back actively in the FreeDOS comunity. I just wanted to express my peronal opinion. FreeDOS is very important to me, I activelely use it in users instalation. (www.cosmodata.com.br) Appart from FreeDOS being free is has a big advantage: it

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.
Hi all, I use regularly FreeDOS in users instalations with brand new, superfast motherboards. The aplication is heavy Database usage and FreeDOS is prerforming better then MS-DOS... There is a systematic problem only with ASUS motherboards (in the last 3 years aprox.) System crashes, files