[Freedos-kernel] KERNEL 2042 and its attachments (AKA SYS)

2016-07-13 Thread dos386
I downloaded and installed the new kernel, and looked a bit and tested a bit. There is a version history file included and it lists a few detail improvements. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/kernel/history.txt <- outdated Are there some major applications that

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Kernel 2042 release

2016-07-08 Thread dos386
> Freedos-kernel] Kernel 2042 release Thanks :-) (I'll test) -- Attend Shape: An AT Tech Expo July 15-16. Meet us at AT Park in San Francisco, CA to explore cutting-edge tech and listen to tech luminaries present their

Re: [Freedos-kernel] A question about the behavior of the NUL device in FreeDOSS 1.1

2014-01-01 Thread dos386
Thanks for reporting and fixing FreeDOS kernel BUG's :-) -- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Commit 1705

2012-02-19 Thread dos386
Kernel 2041 seems to be out: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freedos/files/Kernel/2041/ (untested, just history.txt __IS__ updated this time) but nobody annouced it :-D -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Kernel 2040 released

2011-07-30 Thread dos386
License evilness. Better to have the EDR DOS style hack for files above 4 GB file size than that. Than what that ??? Isn't it the same thing ??? How about 64 kB? Heh ??? DOS can read or write full 64 KiB (DX=0 ??? or is it only 64'000 Byte's ???). I think some hacks even support 128 kB I

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Kernel 2040 released

2011-07-09 Thread dos386
PS: You could also compare EDRDOS+UIDE with FreeDOS+UIDE. IIRC I tested some caches in the past. Result: NO SPEEDUP at all for a single big file. the data are useless :( NOT that bad ... unless dos386 describes what program(s) he used My silly FATPLUS.EXE maybe ??? on what hardware

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Kernel 2040 released

2011-07-09 Thread dos386
I am working on updating my site as I move files to my new host. www.fdos.org/kernel is updated. Anyone can please upload the __correct__ HISTORY.TXT file for the 2040 kernel release on some place where it is easily discoverable ? Both SF and fdos.org ?

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Kernel 2040 released

2011-07-09 Thread dos386
It's history.txt inside the doc directory, inside the zip archive. No, it's outdated: 2011-04-09 ... http://freedos.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/freedos/kernel/trunk/docs/history.txt?revision=1640view=markupsortby=datepathrev=1640 -- ~~~ wow ~~~

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Kernel 2040 released

2011-07-03 Thread dos386
More tests: http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/perftest.txt -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Kernel 2040 released

2011-07-03 Thread dos386
Also available for download at fdos.org http://www.fdos.org/ Content has not yet been moved to this host - please visit http://www.fdos.info (mirror) in the meantime http://www.fdos.info/ This page last updated - July 17, 2006 http://www.fdos.info/obten.html.en FreeDOS Beta8 (Nikita)

Re: [Freedos-kernel] [Freedos-user] New kernel

2011-07-02 Thread dos386
In my tests 2039 turned out to be unusable so please use 2040 ;-) -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Kernel 2040 released

2011-07-02 Thread dos386
Kernel 2040 has been tagged and should be made available on Sourceforge file releases within next few days It is now: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freedos/ + it does boot (no further tests yet) - history.txt is lowercase and not updated: 2011 Apr xx - Build 2040 Jeremy Davis,

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

2011-05-05 Thread dos386
Did you try out this kernel? Not yet (my ToTest pipeline is crowded ...) -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network

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

2010-01-07 Thread dos386
Hi 1. No new details to the Crosslink-BUG ... cluster size is 4 KiB :-| Why do you refer to an obsolete mail ? Half of it is not a bug, the other half is... What ??? This is because DIR tells you how much space is used / free. the which you mention, you force a recalculation... I

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

2009-12-19 Thread dos386
Well, the tracker entry is 28 days old, this discussion is 12 days old, and ... this is not the first time I have to whine about the user base of FreeDOS, if such a thing exists at all. At least, this time the BUG got opened by http://sourceforge.net/users/tnavratil/ Tnavratil, not me. So new

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

2009-12-17 Thread dos386
Well, got __STRANGE__ news: 1. No new details to the Crosslink-BUG ... cluster size is 4 KiB :-| 2. Discovered a NEW BUG: - present in both 2038 and 2039 - not critical - possibly related to the Crosslink-BUG (probability not very high ...) - reproductability as ALWAYS :-) Steps to repropduce:

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

2009-12-14 Thread dos386
I'm having a look Thanks :-) how large is your FAT partition exactly? Cca 6 GiB , have to check the other PC ... There is always the GB/GiB confusion... 1 GiB = 2^30 Bytes 1 GB = ??? (don't know don't use) what is the cluster size (I'm looking for potential overflows) 4 or 8 KiB , have

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Freedos boot floppy and claimed bugs

2009-10-20 Thread dos386
The kernel may need to work around the Linux VFAT patent avoidance HACK in Linux kernel 2.6.30+, which writes 100% illegal names to the SFN entry when LFNs are used. Christian was going to include a workaround in Rx-DOS (NASM GPL code); it may help to see that. COOL. Now really nobody can

Re: [Freedos-kernel] kernel 2038

2009-05-21 Thread dos386
Tested and didn't find anything eclatantly evil so far :-) - It works mostly, see shot: http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/4611/ker2038.png - my GetDiskFreeSpaceEx bug seems fixed - history.txt neglects any development, oops Eric already pointed it, also, the filename should be HISTORY.TXT

Re: [Freedos-kernel] ASUS problem

2009-05-21 Thread dos386
Does anyone have any information or Idea about this problem? Would any of Jack's driver help? Maybe __removing__ drivers and avoidable memory managers would be the more promising approach ... YES, a ramdisk (I use SRDISK) is a way to avoid the HD and possibly bugged INT $13 support. Also, a

[Freedos-kernel] test

2009-05-17 Thread dos386
as Eric suggested :-D -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing

[Freedos-kernel] kernel 2038

2009-05-17 Thread dos386
Kernel 2038 tagged and available at http://www.fdos.org/kernel/latest/ Thanks :-) Even my GetDiskFreeSpaceEx-BUG is fixed ? I'll test :-) Someone with access, please upload to ibiblio and release on SF. Indeed ... now it says latest kernel is from 2006 !!! Depending on any reported issues,

Re: [Freedos-kernel] kernel 2038

2009-05-17 Thread dos386
answer didn't work -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server