Re: [Freedos-kernel] [Freedos-user] init_device crash/hang

2008-10-30 Thread Hans
Hi Eric, - Original Message - From: Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Hans [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 7:19 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-kernel] [Freedos-user] init_device crash/hang Quite exotic. How about using a maintained open

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Bad or missing Command Interpreter

2008-10-30 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Hans, infamous Bad or missing Command Interpreter error This means FreeDOS looked for the boot files on the wrong drive or failed to access any drive at all. If it cannot open fdconfig.sys, it will try config.sys next, and if it cannot open that, it will use a built- in default

Re: [Freedos-kernel] [Freedos-user] init_device crash/hang

2008-10-26 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Hans, 1Mbyte of RAM with the top 8Kbyte taken by the BIOS. All ram is available Exotic :-) the BIOS test the first 704Kbyte... Ah okay... well 640k are enough and more expected. You could also check at b800:xx to check if DOS apps try to do screen output there... I used 704 as that

Re: [Freedos-kernel] [Freedos-user] init_device crash/hang

2008-10-25 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Hans, replying via freedos-kernel... My system seems to boot until it starts init_device() in kernel/main.c. InitIO calls init_device 12 times before my system crashes (see below)... KERNEL: Entering init_kernel()... HMA moving 0268: up to 9fde: for 9cdf bytes This message is a

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Big disk - 500Gb

2008-09-09 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello Alain, One question, did you happen to manage how does WinNT perform with such an enlarged FAT system? I'm tired of the fact that I have to either partition or use NTFS (rather problematic if you protect your Documents and settings with password and then windows gets trashed), and it could

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Big disk - 500Gb

2008-09-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! 1) new disk was used with Linux, but a first primary partition was made but never formated Make sure it is flagged as fat32 and as lba. Check possible messages from initdisk early during freedos boot as well. I recently tried making a DOS bootable partition on a new disk, too, and found:

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 Eric Auer
Hi! On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Koike Toshio wrote: The patches are uploaded here. http://us.f13.yahoofs.com/bc/48b6f314_185bc/bc/freedos/patch080818.zip?bfh__vIBxIiwN9fQ Redirects to a non existing hostname: http://bcvrf.yahoo.com/bc/48b6f314_185bc/bc/freedos/patch080818.zip Problem 1: Maxell new

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

Re: [Freedos-kernel] share install check called too often?

2008-08-30 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! I'd have to check the sources I have here for several dos versions Please avoid getting in touch with source code for dos versions that are supposed to be closed source. Mixing any information from such sources into our development would be inappropriate. Note that share has a call that

Re: [Freedos-kernel] BUFFERSHIGH not recognised in config.sys

2008-04-21 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Christian, seems to be an older issue, but BUFFERSHIGH is not recognised by BUFFERS are always in the HMA as soon as FreeDOS uses the HMA (DOS=HIGH) unless the BUFFERS are too many to fit in the HMA. Of course one could make BUFFERHIGH a synonym for BUFFERS? ;-) FreeDOS. Buffers are

Re: [Freedos-kernel] initdisk floppy error bpb set up dpb empty

2008-04-12 Thread Eric Auer
Hi again... I finally found a way to make a not overly intrusive patch which hopefully fixes Travis' problem: http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/travis.zip has a diff and a binary. The patch changes several things: - init_getdriveparm would overflow for int 13.8 returning bl=7 but this is

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Suggestion: Int 0x21, AX=0x7305, CX=0xFFFF handler

2008-04-05 Thread Christian Wallbaum
Hi Eric and Tom, if (r-SI == 0) -- do not leave this test as ... == 0 ... Otherwise all typed reads would turn into writes! I didn't look at the source any further ;-)... But of course, you are right. I suggest the following patch. If there are no objections, it can go into stable

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Suggestion: Int 0x21, AX=0x7305, CX=0xFFFF handler

2008-04-04 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Christian, the Int 0x21, AX=0x7305, CX=0x handler (FAT32 - EXTENDED ABSOLUTE DISK READ/WRITE) found in inthndlr.c, 355 ff., is implemented in a very strict way ... it corresponds to www.ctyme.com/intr/rb-3229.htm This is RBIL, Ralph Brown's Interrupt List - usually pretty useful.

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Suggestion: Int 0x21, AX=0x7305, CX=0xFFFF handler

2008-04-04 Thread Tom Ehlert
Hi Eric, how about compiling this for Christian ? not everybody likes to download watcom, find out how to get kernel sources compiled ... and after he verified this private version, may be even put it on ibiblio to be used by others ? Tom

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Suggestion: Int 0x21, AX=0x7305, CX=0xFFFF handler

2008-04-04 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Tom, Alain, whatever 'ready' means when nobody (except you self) tested it so far. While there were no official sourceforge file releases, there are updated versions on the rugxulo distro page http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/ and I did mention those on our lists from time to time. His

Re: [Freedos-kernel] FileSystem Suggestion

2008-03-13 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, suggesting a new filesystem witch in my opinion I think is easy... Your suggestions are mostly userspace, so let us discuss your suggestion on freedos-devel, not on freedos-kernel. You do suggest device files, but remember that the kernel already has that: Device files like LPT1 are in no

Re: [Freedos-kernel] MS Network Client slow performance under FreeDOS

2007-12-27 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2007/12/26, Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Marton, CCing the kernel list about this issue... Merry Xmas everybody :-). If I do ANY operation to the disk, say, read a directory for example, I get a PANIC: more than two near fnodes requested at the same time! Hmmm I did not know

Re: [Freedos-kernel] MS Network Client slow performance under FreeDOS

2007-12-27 Thread Marton
Eric Auer wrote: the FreeDOS PC it is painfully SLOW! (100kb/sec) How fast is it with other DOS? Definitely not 100kb/s... (hint: maybe ~750kb/s? :-)... Maybe you tried this on a large fat32 disk? I think our FAT writes can be pretty slow in such a context. You can also try using a

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] roadmap for freedos kernel 2038

2007-10-29 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:41:20 +0100, you wrote: to fix any bug, it must be reproduced first. As noone has ghost 5, 'the bug' can't be reproduced, and so can't be fixed. Downloaded the kwc38632.dev.zip, dated 2006-07-14, nothing changed. Eric just ask me to test in private email (again), I have no

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

2007-10-29 Thread Diego Rodriguez
--- Johnson Lam [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:41:20 +0100, you wrote: to fix any bug, it must be reproduced first. As noone has ghost 5, 'the bug' can't be reproduced, and so can't be fixed. Downloaded the kwc38632.dev.zip, dated 2006-07-14, nothing changed. Eric

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

2007-10-28 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2007/10/27, Johnson Lam [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:19:07 +0200, you wrote: Hi Aitor, You're wasting precious time on outdated programs. It might discover one more serious bug. Most people will run Ghost 8 and 2003 on FreeDOS (including me), I don't have a Ghost 5

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

2007-10-28 Thread Tom Ehlert
Hopefully someone can found the bug and fix it, my pathetic knowledge forbid me to help. to fix any bug, it must be reproduced first. As noone has ghost 5, 'the bug' can't be reproduced, and so can't be fixed. end of story. Tom

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

2007-10-27 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Johnson, 1658 Ghost 5.1 fails: Needs somebody with Ghost 5.1 to fix Just try Ghost 8.0 and Ghost 2003, if they work don't stick to Ghost 5.1, there MAYBE problem due to 5.1. You're wasting precious time on outdated programs. Maybe true, but I do not have ANY version of Ghost to test :-(

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

2007-10-27 Thread Tom Ehlert
1658 Ghost 5.1 fails: Needs somebody with Ghost 5.1 to fix Maybe true, but I do not have ANY version of Ghost to test :-( If a newer version of Ghost works, then we could indeed set the bug status to wontfix and mention that newer versions do work fine. Or we could lower bug priority to

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

2007-10-27 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:19:07 +0200, you wrote: Hi Aitor, You're wasting precious time on outdated programs. It might discover one more serious bug. Most people will run Ghost 8 and 2003 on FreeDOS (including me), I don't have a Ghost 5 to run, if Ghost 2003 works fine, I see no reason to

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

2007-10-26 Thread Johnson Lam
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:53:03 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: Dear Developers, 1658 Ghost 5.1 fails: Needs somebody with Ghost 5.1 to fix Please!! Just try Ghost 8.0 and Ghost 2003, if they work don't stick to Ghost 5.1, there MAYBE problem due to 5.1. You're wasting precious time on outdated

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

2007-10-26 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello Johnson, 2007/10/27, Johnson Lam [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:53:03 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: Dear Developers, 1658 Ghost 5.1 fails: Needs somebody with Ghost 5.1 to fix Please!! Just try Ghost 8.0 and Ghost 2003, if they work don't stick to Ghost 5.1, there MAYBE

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Research Paper

2007-10-23 Thread Daniel Franzini
i don't think that there is a full documentation on the internals of FreeDOS however you can find the info you are looking for on: 1.) you can try finding some info on the wiki of freedos... http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php and http://wiki.fdos.org/pmwiki.php 2.) you can dig into

Re: [Freedos-kernel] [Freedos-devel] flaws in user HMA memory allocation?

2007-09-29 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Japheth, (changing subj from Some FreeDOS kernel bugs reported by Jack R. Ellis and moving the issue to freedos-kernel...) ... just reported a bug/issue found in the FreeDOS kernel: http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/... I guess a few people will have bad mood after reading this, so it

Re: [Freedos-kernel] [Freedos-devel] flaws in user HMA memory allocation?

2007-09-29 Thread Tom Ehlert
2. It is way slower in file copy/compare than other DOSes. (maybe we should make FAT and DIR data access smarter?) depends on a couple of factors; the huge threat on http://www.drdosprojects.de/forum about FreeDOS is slow was less then scientific a) COPY FreeDOS allocates always the

Re: [Freedos-kernel] flaws in user HMA memory allocation?

2007-09-29 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Tom, thanks for your feedback :-) 2. It is way slower in file copy/compare than other DOSes. (maybe we should make FAT and DIR data access smarter?) ... FreeDOS allocates always the lowest unused cluster, even if the file should be enlarged by a large ( 1 cluster) amount.

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] Questions on FreeDOS interrupt services

2007-09-11 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Lucas, your mail did indeed arrive as html... FreeDOS does in general support the same interrupt services as other DOS versions. A good list of such services is in Ralf Brown's Interrupt List (RBIL) which is mirrored on many pages. Main location is: www.cs.cmu.edu/~ralf/files.html I would

Re: [Freedos-kernel] fix truename and report version 6.22?

2007-07-28 Thread Eric Auer
Hi all, please check the current kernel updates with Bart's FASTBOOT versus STACKS fix and some DOS 6 compatibility updates from me: Binaries: www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/svn-binaries-freedos.zip Something else: Rugxulo tested the executable-unpacker IUP

Re: [Freedos-kernel] fresh freedos svn kernel updates

2007-07-26 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hi, 2007/7/23, Bart Oldeman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Although the ioctl.c restructuring is good, most of the chario.c savings also help. A lot more could be saved in initdisk.c by using the fact that the sector size equals 512 (the DOS code cannot assume that with ram disks etc, but the BIOS code

Re: [Freedos-kernel] fresh freedos svn kernel updates

2007-07-23 Thread Bart Oldeman
On 7/22/07, Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: again, I think that only IRQTEXT is what broke Bochs compatibility. So I applied a patch (revision 1341) which leaves the other 1325 changes intact. Jemm FASTBOOT should work with version 1341. With the 1325 IRQTEXT, all versions (1325 to 1340)

Re: [Freedos-kernel] fresh freedos svn kernel updates

2007-07-23 Thread Bart Oldeman
On 7/21/07, Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any volunteers to maintain the UNSTABLE branch of the kernel? I was looking into merging parts of UNSTABLE a few months ago but it's a lot of work since I don't like about half of the changes. And after that I ran out of time, and still

Re: [Freedos-kernel] fresh freedos svn kernel updates

2007-07-23 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bart, I was looking into merging parts of UNSTABLE a few months ago but it's a lot of work since I don't like about half of the changes. Actually I think it might take man-months or more to review all the MANY changes between unstable and stable, plus merge all the fixes of stable into

Re: [Freedos-kernel] fresh freedos svn kernel updates

2007-07-22 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Eric Auer schreef: Hi Bernd, *your KERNEL.SYS in renewed archive works fine, nice job. [ http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/ke2007jul21.zip ] *JEMMEX v5.64 can be compressed and works, can't see it listed in MEM /C ( MEM /C /N ) listing though, maybe it\s hiding under SYSTEM :) (UMBs

Re: [Freedos-kernel] fresh freedos svn kernel updates

2007-07-21 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Eric Auer schreef: Hi Rugxulo, Robert, kernel people, Hello Eric, branch of the kernel? Rugxulo, KEYBUF should obsolete having a keyboard extender around. Kernel people, IDLEHALT does not obsolete FDAPM APMDOS but it gives you some energy-saving even without FDAPM. I hope both can be used

Re: [Freedos-kernel] fresh freedos svn kernel updates

2007-07-21 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bernd, Only KERNEL2.SYS works for me, better than the Fastboot supporting kernel I downloaded (I think) a while ago. KERNEL.SYS in your zip hangs my machine at the HMA/BUFFERS message. Yes, I have the same problem :-(. What I did to create kernel2 is to undo the changes of SVN revision

Re: [Freedos-kernel] fresh freedos svn kernel updates

2007-07-21 Thread Eric Auer
Hi again, after checking http://freedos.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/freedos?view=revrevision=1325 again, I think that only IRQTEXT is what broke Bochs compatibility. So I applied a patch (revision 1341) which leaves the other 1325 changes intact. Jemm FASTBOOT should work with version 1341.

Re: [Freedos-kernel] fresh freedos svn kernel updates

2007-07-21 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Eric Auer schreef: Please test :-) You relying on me to test or does this new binary work for you in Bochs? Sample kernel binary: www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/ke2007jul21.zip same filename yet updated release? Bernd

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Use of DJGPP under FreeDOS

2007-06-03 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Andris, I think Bart Oldeman recently fixed the GNU SED problem... Some time ago I submitted am error report for DOSEMU about problems running DJGPP port of GNU SED from configure scripts http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1429741group_id=49784atid=457447 and also

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Use of DJGPP under FreeDOS

2007-06-03 Thread Andris Pavenis
Eric Auer wrote: Hi Andris, I think Bart Oldeman recently fixed the GNU SED problem... Some time ago I submitted am error report for DOSEMU about problems running DJGPP port of GNU SED from configure scripts

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Use of DJGPP under FreeDOS

2007-06-03 Thread Andris Pavenis
Andris Pavenis wrote: Eric Auer wrote: Hi Andris, I think Bart Oldeman recently fixed the GNU SED problem... Some time ago I submitted am error report for DOSEMU about problems running DJGPP port of GNU SED from configure scripts

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Use of DJGPP under FreeDOS

2007-06-03 Thread Bart Oldeman
On 6/3/07, Andris Pavenis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kernel/int2f.asm generates reference to _nlsInfo which remains unresolved. I had to rename it to NLSINFO there for linker to succeed. 2007/05/01 CVS version did not compiled out of box. So this problem has appeared after that. This problem was

Re: [Freedos-kernel] New FreeDOSers Monthly Reminder

2007-06-02 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Nick and everybody else who wants to unsubscribe: [furious scream of frustration] How do I get off of this mailing list?! I've been trying to get off of it for months. Help me! That is ridiculously easy :-). Each mail explains it in the headers: List-Unsubscribe:

Re: [Freedos-kernel] regarding COFF parser

2007-05-23 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Reddy, http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/coff/ provides lots of COFF info, but I think there are several file formats which are all called COFF. As DJGPP is open source, you can also read COFF file format aware source code in the sources of the compiler, linker / binutils, C library... For the

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Comparison of FreeDOS 2036 to the Tom kernel

2007-05-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bart, here my reply to your reply to my list :-) Few part 2 reactions first: - what was the reason for 21.3301 modifying DL again? - why is 2f.1228 seek disabled? - do you want to explain the something else in nls.c? Reactions to this first part: Any volunteers for SYS.TXT / CONFIG.TXT /

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Comparison of FreeDOS 2036 to the Tom kernel

2007-05-16 Thread tom ehlert
NOTE that both versions have a typo: ... the any key ... It's not a typo! Damnit! Still haven't found the any key? see http://www.computergear.com/pressanykey4.html and http://www.gadgetizer.com/2006/04/03/any-key-mistery-solved/ or just google for the any key ;) Tom

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Tom's kernel changes vs. CVS

2007-05-15 Thread tom ehlert
Hi Bart, nice to see you're still alive :) Tom, can you explain? 1. config.c. Why use instead of =? Is there a corner case with equality? IMO = is correct (timeout 0 should exit immediately) 2. initoem.c: + if (ramsize == peek(0, RAMSIZE)) if (ramsize * 64 == ebdaseg ramsize 640

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Tom's kernel changes vs. CVS

2007-05-15 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bart, Tom, some extra comment for 2. initoem.c: + if (ramsize == peek(0, RAMSIZE)) if (ramsize * 64 == ebdaseg ramsize 640 peek(0, RAMSIZE) == ramsize) the extra double check looks strange to me, why check twice? Something strange with short-circuit boolean evaluation? ... I got

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Comparison of FreeDOS 2036 to the Tom kernel

2007-05-15 Thread Bart Oldeman
Part 2... On 1/1/07, Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: inthndlr.c: Toms version modifies DL on return from int 21.3301 (set ctrl c flag), while the CVS does not - CVS is better. TA -- discussed earlier The CVS version uses the new dpb16to32 function for shorter code. CN TOMS

Re: [Freedos-kernel] FAT32 Completeness

2007-01-12 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 12-Янв-2007 15:27 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leonardo Hirokazu de Souza Hamada) wrote to freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net: LHH I read somewere that FAT32 support in FreeDos is not yet complete so It _is_ complete - FreeDOS fully supports reading/writing to FAT32 partitions.

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Comparison of FreeDOS 2036 to the Tom kernel

2007-01-01 Thread Eric Auer
Welcome in 2007 :-) Here part 2 of my mail from last year ;-), comparing Toms extra stable 2035c kernel to the CVS stable HEAD 2036 kernel. inthndlr.c: Toms version modifies DL on return from int 21.3301 (set ctrl c flag), while the CVS does not - CVS is better. The CVS version uses the

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Questions on news:alt.os.free-dos

2006-12-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, have some answers :-). Maybe you can push them into alt.os.free-dos somehow, in a spam-safe way... Google Groups is a nice webUSENET interface. Have a look at http://groups.google.com/group/alt.os.free-dos Look for Kernel Bug (the first message right now) and FreeDOS Install Language

Re: [Freedos-kernel] DMA boundary error re bugs 698, 1952

2006-12-04 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jackie, basically other DOSes include a workaround to protect programs from themselves when they try to do disk access with buffers which cross multiples of 64k address-wise, while FreeDOS does not, yet, have such a workaround in the kernel. As far as I know, that part would be written in

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Access to CD drive with no disc causes invalid opcode

2006-10-08 Thread Jason Hood
Pavel Roskin wrote: I downloaded the floppy image for FreeDOS 1.0, fdboot.img. I tried to boot it on a desktop system with AMD XP 2000+ CPU and a CD-ROM drive. Selecting item 5 (FreeDOS Live CD only) resulted in an Invalid Opcode. This is an error in the 8086 version (corrupted stack). I

Re: [Freedos-kernel] kernel / command questions

2006-09-22 Thread Blair Campbell
There are no updates since 1.0. On 9/22/06, hiratak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good afternoon, What happened to the lovely directory of the latest compiled kernel and command that used to be available at http://fdos.org/kernel/ ? When I click directory, I go to

Re: [Freedos-kernel] FreeDOS MS DOS 3 last missing APIs, was: INT 21h, AX=43FFh

2006-09-19 Thread tom ehlert
- int 2f.4a00.cx=0 the kernel has to call this before it displays the Insert diskette for drive B: (or A:...) message, to let Win3 and the like show a GUI dialog instead of the message, DOS 5.0 seems to have been lost; should be STATIC WORD play_dj(ddt * pddt) { /* play the DJ ... */

Re: [Freedos-kernel] SDA and SHSUFDRV

2006-09-05 Thread Jason Hood
--- Arkady V.Belousov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then I completely not understand you. DTA is a name for area, which used for findfirst/findnext. What _you_ name as DTA? My mistake - I was confusing SHSUCDX (the redirector has what is called a DTA to point to the read address) and the

Re: [Freedos-kernel] SDA and SHSUFDRV

2006-08-30 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 30-Авг-2006 15:55 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Hood) wrote to freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net: Not sure, if I understand your problem, but what prevents you from setting your own address of DTA (INT 21/1A)? JH Perhaps I should have been a bit more clear. The DTA I was referring JH

Re: [Freedos-kernel] SDA and SHSUFDRV

2006-08-29 Thread Jason Hood
--- Arkady V.Belousov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure, if I understand your problem, but what prevents you from setting your own address of DTA (INT 21/1A)? Perhaps I should have been a bit more clear. The DTA I was referring to passes the pointer to the buffer for the read request.

Re: [Freedos-kernel] SDA and SHSUFDRV

2006-08-25 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 23-Авг-2006 16:11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Hood) wrote to freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net: JH I received a bug report about SHSUFDRV not working in FreeDOS, but JH it worked fine in MS-DOS; RDRV also worked fine. After failing to JH replicate the problem with the versions of FreeDOS I

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Freedos-kernel Digest, Vol 1, Issue 421

2006-07-23 Thread Abrahan Sanjuas
is loaded. Eric PS: This is the 2nd attempt to post this message, maybe there is something wrong with the mailinglist for me...? -- Message: 3 Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 19:05:26 -0400 From: Kenneth J. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Freedos-kernel] bug

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Freedos-kernel Digest, Vol 1, Issue 421

2006-07-23 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Abrahan Sanjuas wrote: ... I suppose that this kernel is not compiled with WIN31SUPPORT option because the debugging messages in the end of execution of a program does not shown on screen. And how i can view if kernel is compiled with WIN31SUPPORT or NOT??? The simplest way I can

Re: [Freedos-kernel] bug in kernel build 2037

2006-07-22 Thread Blair Campbell
Speaking of Windows compat, by the way: WIN /S works fine with 2036, but WIN /3 does not work with 2036 nor with 2037 for me. It just returns to the prompt. Bug 2037 is supposed to add Win386 support... You're supposed to make a system.ini change as well and load MS's EMM386/HIMEM. See the

Re: [Freedos-kernel] FreeDOS kernel 2036 released

2006-05-23 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Sun, 21 May 2006, Eric Auer wrote: As a next step, I would like to update the UNSTABLE kernel branch. If anybody can tell me how this is accessible via cvs, that is. you have to give cvs the command line option -r UNSTABLE. PS: If you want Turbo C compiled kernels published, please help

Re: [Freedos-kernel] FreeDOS kernel 2036 released

2006-05-23 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bart, you have to give cvs the command line option -r UNSTABLE. interesting! Turbo C insists that the source files have CRLF line endings. You ran into the old problem that UNIX CVS clients check out source files using LF line endings and Windows (not sure if anyone uses a DOS CVS

Re: [Freedos-kernel] FreeDOS kernel 2036 released

2006-05-22 Thread dima
On Sun, 21 May 2006, Eric Auer wrote: kernel for over a year now has a new name and a new home: ... Directory BIN is absent in a tree of kernel2036-source.zip/ -- Take care. Your friend, dima 7509107*mail,ru 2:550/112 --- Using Tomcat but

Re: [Freedos-kernel] DOS interrupts

2006-05-11 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
najmus saqib wrote: HELLO I want to ask something about DOS interrupts. Does freeDOS uses MSDOS interrrupts. How can i do the same. can any1 tell me about the Yes, it uses the same interrupts and parameter interface as MSDOS. More specifically, it attempts to implement nearly 100%

Re: [Freedos-kernel] solution for problem with diskette-less systems

2006-02-28 Thread Mark Bailey
Kenneth J. Davis wrote: Eric Auer wrote: Hi, I looked at the issue kernel acts weird if there is no diskette drive... In short: ... Eric for testing, a very similar patch, please try http://www.fdos.org/kernel/test/kernel.boot.sys Jeremy Hi Jeremy: Well, that kernel works on the

Re: [Freedos-kernel] solution for problem with diskette-less systems

2006-02-28 Thread Mark Bailey
Kenneth J. Davis wrote: for testing, a very similar patch, please try http://www.fdos.org/kernel/test/kernel.boot.sys Jeremy Hi Jeremy: This modified kernel also works fine in the cursed compaq, booting in HDD mode (with an MBR). The HP utility also works fine on this machine.

Re: [Freedos-kernel] solution for problem with diskette-less systems

2006-02-27 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Eric Auer wrote: Hi, I looked at the issue kernel acts weird if there is no diskette drive... In short: ... Eric for testing, a very similar patch, please try http://www.fdos.org/kernel/test/kernel.boot.sys PS: As a bonus possible problem, I noticed that the cvs unstable SYS FAT1x

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Re: Freedos-kernel digest, Vol 1 #409 - 1 msg

2006-02-25 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Charles Doty wrote: Is there a specific reason to compile out the check and not simply use the config option to disable the 2 second f5/f8 check? I missed that config option. Is it in config.b? No, perhaps I should have been more clear. It is a settable configuration option via sys

[Freedos-kernel] Re: Freedos-kernel digest, Vol 1 #409 - 1 msg

2006-02-23 Thread Charles Doty
Is there a specific reason to compile out the check and not simply use the config option to disable the 2 second f5/f8 check? I missed that config option. Is it in config.b? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Kernel source modifications.

2006-02-22 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Charles Doty wrote: I modified the following files to allow the kernel to boot from a floppy without all of the delays: config.c (around line 693): ... Is there a specific reason to compile out the check and not simply use the config option to disable the 2 second f5/f8 check? I will

[Freedos-kernel] Re: Freedos-kernel digest, Vol 1 #404 - 2 msgs

2006-01-31 Thread Abrahan Sanjuas
and increasethe kernel version (Robert Riebisch) --__--__-- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:32:12 +0100 From: Robert Riebisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: BTTR Software To: freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-kernel] please change the default freecom

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

2006-01-27 Thread Robert Riebisch
Alain wrote: Would averyone agree to include it? I agree. ;-) Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the

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

2006-01-26 Thread Bernd Blaauw
David O'Shea schreef: It says The UNSTABLE (aka development) branch is what I refer to as the development kernel (kernels with w suffix). It looks like those kernels actually have .dev or .dbgdev in them, right? There doesn't seem to be a discussion of the naming convention for FreeCOM.

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

2006-01-26 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Bernd Blaauw wrote: David O'Shea schreef: It says The UNSTABLE (aka development) branch is what I refer to as the development kernel (kernels with w suffix). It looks like those kernels actually have .dev or .dbgdev in them, right? There doesn't seem to be a discussion

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

2006-01-26 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 26-Янв-2006 22:48 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bart Oldeman) wrote to freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net: well, we have: kernel 2034, 2035 released by Bart kernel 2035A released by Jeremy kernel 2035B by Jeremy (2035A + stable features backported from 2035W) kernel 2035W by Jeremy,

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

2006-01-26 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Bart, well, we have: kernel 2034, 2035 released by Bart kernel 2035A released by Jeremy kernel 2035B by Jeremy (2035A + stable features backported from 2035W) kernel 2035W by Jeremy, experimental/development line isn't there also still a kernel 2035-Tom somewhere (drivesnapshot.de)?

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

2006-01-25 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Bart Oldeman schreef: To be fair I found Eric's email rather demanding. In general if you want things to happen in the NEAR future you either have to do it yourself or pay big bucks, not just pizza money. Certainly when the kernel doesn't have a real maintainer (just an interim one who does

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

2006-01-23 Thread Alain
Eric Auer escreveu: Hi, http://fdos.org/kernel/ makes people use 8086 FreeCOM if I understand the text right. This means they will likely have no XMS swap and no LOADHIGH. In short, they will think FreeCOM is really a BAD command.com I agree. My other wish is using a new version number.

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Can FreeDOS be installed on embedded system based on 80186/80188?

2005-12-16 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
飘似沙鸥 飘 wrote: Hi, I'm a newer to FreeDOS and I want to know if FreeDOS can be installed on embedded system based on 80186/80188? If yes, is it The FreeDOS kernel and most programs are fully compatible with 8086* and higher computers, so if the embedded system is similar enough standard IBM

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Can FreeDOS be installed on embedded system based on 80186/80188?

2005-12-16 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 16-Дек-2005 19:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (╞о╦╞╔│┼╕ ╞о) wrote to freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net: оо Hi, I'm a newer to FreeDOS and I want to know if FreeDOS can be installed оо on embedded system based on 80186/80188? Yes. оо If yes, is it possible that оо freeDOS work on an embedded

Re: [Freedos-kernel] re: Can FreeDOS be installed on embedded system based on 80186/80188?

2005-12-16 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 16-Дек-2005 13:50 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net: EA EDIT 0.7d and MKEYB, which should work even on 8086. Or use no MKEYB uses INT15 service, which not present on XT. --- This SF.net

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Can FreeDOS be installed on embedded system based on 80186/80188?

2005-12-16 Thread 9000 VAX
On 12/16/05, 飘似沙鸥 飘 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm a newer to FreeDOS and I want to know if FreeDOS can be installed on embedded system based on 80186/80188? If yes, is it possible that freeDOS work on an embedded system without BIOS? I explored this issue two years ago trying to use

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Re: [Freedos-cvs] freecom/lib cd_dir.c,1.4,1.5 critrchk.c,1.1,1.2 err61.c,1.4,1.5 mk_rddir.c,1.2,1.3 optsb.c,1.3,1.4 where.c,1.5,1.6

2005-12-11 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Arkady V.Belousov wrote: ... BTW, bug! Function number should come in AH, not AL! So: ... I will try to fix in the morning, thanks. Jeremy --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Patch: UNSTABLE: Add int 2F 122B and 122D support

2005-12-09 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Eduardo Casino wrote: Hello All, This patch adds support for int 2F122B (Internal IOCTL) and int 2F122D (Internal Get Extended Error) to kernel. Those are necessary for the upcoming new version of NLSFUNC to work with DISPLAY 1.0. Regards, Eduardo. Thank you, committed. Jeremy

[Freedos-kernel] Re: Freedos-kernel digest, Vol 1 #391 - 1 msg

2005-12-08 Thread Abrahan Sanjuas
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Re: [Freedos-kernel] Re: [Freedos-cvs] kernel/sys sys.c,1.41.2.20,1.41.2.21 fdkrncfg.c,1.11.2.2,1.11.2.3

2005-12-01 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 30-Ноя-2005 21:59 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Davis) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: +++ sys.c 30 Nov 2005 21:59:18 - 1.41.2.21 -extern int VA_CDECL printf(const char * fmt, ...); -extern int VA_CDECL sprintf(char * buff, const char * fmt, ...); +extern

Re: [Freedos-kernel] notes about my recent commits (dev kernel only)

2005-11-21 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Kenneth J. Davis wrote: The reason for these -zu compatible fixes is that in cases where SS is not the same as DS (DGROUP) certain calls behave oddly, such as printf, since the compiler is passing an offset on the stack where it assumes DS==SS so the function receiving

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

2005-11-20 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 20-Ноя-2005 16:57 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Davis) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- NEW FILE: intwrap.asm --- reloc_call_int13_handler: cli ; disable other interrupts for now INT instruction already disables IFlag. stc ;

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

2005-11-20 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 20-Ноя-2005 13:50 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth J. Davis) wrote to freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net: int13iret: inc sp ; clean up stack inc sp sti ; ensure int's are renabled retf 2 ; return to caller leaving flags asis I don't think that

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