Re: [Freedos-kernel] Kernel 2040 released

2011-08-01 Thread e . auer
>> 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 ??? I thought there was some discussion about exfat or whatever the MS thing for big files on embedded devices is, as that is not FAT in the DO

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

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Kernel 2040 released

2011-07-29 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! >>> My silly FATPLUS.EXE maybe ??? >> Was that the hack to go above 4 GB file size? > NO: http://www.fdos.org/kernel/#fatplus License evilness. Better to have the EDR DOS style hack for files above 4 GB file size than "that". Or of course turn LTOOLS into a drive letter driver to support EX

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Kernel 2040 released

2011-07-29 Thread dos386
SORRY for the repost: 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 ? http://sourceforge.net/projects/freedos/files/Kernel/2040/ http://www.fdos.org/kernel/ http://sourceforge.net/apps

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Kernel 2040 released

2011-07-29 Thread dos386
> > My silly FATPLUS.EXE maybe ??? > Was that the hack to go above 4 GB file size? NO: http://www.fdos.org/kernel/#fatplus > Evil... Anything is good in this word ? > > Almost documented: ATA-33 and XDMA > UDMA, probably. NO, XDMA 3.1. > Better use a multiple of cluster size and a power of 2.

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Kernel 2040 released

2011-07-20 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
And Bart is too quick, he already adjusted the watcom.mak so it just works. :-) Thank you, Jeremy -- 5 Ways to Improve & Secure Unified Communications Unified Communications promises greater efficiencies for business. UC

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Kernel 2040 released

2011-07-20 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Jul 20, 2011 1:37 PM, "Bernd Blaauw" wrote: > > Op 20-7-2011 3:50, Bart Oldeman schreef: > > It's probably best to make things explicit (unless the goal is a true > > Win32->DOS cross-compile), using DOS16 utilities, by changing the last > > part of mkfiles\watcom.mak to: > > > > CFLAGS1 = -os-

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Kernel 2040 released

2011-07-20 Thread Bart Oldeman
On 20 July 2011 13:36, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > And now the fun part: compiling on Windows x64. No support for running > 16bit programs at all. Sure, for that you *need* a true cross-compilation. Just like on Linux. The FreeDOS-kernel build's utility programs (patchobj.exe) are also 16-bit DOS if y

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Kernel 2040 released

2011-07-20 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 20-7-2011 3:50, Bart Oldeman schreef: > It's probably best to make things explicit (unless the goal is a true > Win32->DOS cross-compile), using DOS16 utilities, by changing the last > part of mkfiles\watcom.mak to: > > CFLAGS1 = -os-s-wx-bt=dos > > # *Implicit Rules* > .obj.exe: >

[Freedos-kernel] Kernel 2040 released

2011-07-19 Thread Bart Oldeman
On 19 July 2011 13:27, Kenneth J. Davis wrote: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: >> Op 25-6-2011 16:06, Kenneth J. Davis schreef: >>> Hello all. >>> > ... >> Are there any verified/stable working compiled versions available of the >> following? >> * COMMAND (there's an openwa

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Kernel 2040 released

2011-07-19 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > Op 25-6-2011 16:06, Kenneth J. Davis schreef: >> Hello all. >> ... > Are there any verified/stable working compiled versions available of the > following? > * COMMAND (there's an openwatcom CVS/SVN version somewhere?) I finally managed to buil

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Kernel 2040 released

2011-07-10 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 10-7-2011 13:11, Eric Auer schreef: > > Hi dos386, > Ninja-ing thread here slightly: Can kernel 2040 please be mirrored to Ibilio? Can't be found yet at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/kernel/ ---

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Kernel 2040 released

2011-07-10 Thread Eric Auer
Hi 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. Maybe only helps with the sparse hack ;-) >> unless dos386 describes what program(s) he used > > My silly FATPLUS.EXE maybe ???

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=1640&view=markup&sortby=date&pathrev=1640 -- ~~~ wow ~~~

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Kernel 2040 released

2011-07-09 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 10-7-2011 3:10, dos386 schreef: > 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 ? > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/freedos/files/Kernel/2040/ It's history.txt inside the doc dir

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 ? http://sourceforge.net/projects/freed

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 to

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Kernel 2040 released

2011-07-05 Thread Tom Ehlert
More tests: http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/perftest.txt >> unless dos386 describes what program(s) he used on what hardware >> to produce these results, the data are useless :( >> >>> ...you can try first writing some dummy data at where the file >>> will end, then close it and re-open (wit

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Kernel 2040 released

2011-07-04 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Christian, >> - write 1 byte of data at this place > > Shouldn't it be sufficient to seek to the desired size (as offset), then > do a write with length zero there? (Writing with length zero extends or > truncates the file to the current seek offset.) Possibly, but I wanted to keep things si

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Kernel 2040 released

2011-07-04 Thread cm
> - write 1 byte of data at this place Shouldn't it be sufficient to seek to the desired size (as offset), then do a write with length zero there? (Writing with length zero extends or truncates the file to the current seek offset.) > - close the file > - open file for writing (no truncate) I wou

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Kernel 2040 released

2011-07-04 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Tom, >>> More tests: http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/perftest.txt > unless dos386 describes what program(s) he used on what hardware > to produce these results, the data are useless :( > >> ...you can try first writing some dummy data at where the file >> will end, then close it and re-open (

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Kernel 2040 released

2011-07-04 Thread Tom Ehlert
>> More tests: http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/perftest.txt unless dos386 describes what program(s) he used on what hardware to produce these results, the data are useless :( > ...you can try first writing some dummy data at where the file > will end, then close it and re-open (without truncate

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Kernel 2040 released

2011-07-03 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! You tested copying a 2.2 GB file... > More tests: http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/perftest.txt ...you can try first writing some dummy data at where the file will end, then close it and re-open (without truncate of course) and do the actual copy. That should bundle the FAT updates and incr

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Kernel 2040 released

2011-07-03 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
I am working on updating my site as I move files to my new host. www.fdos.org/kernel is updated. But I only have a little bit of time that I split among development & website updates. -- All of the data generated in your I

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] 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, sec

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 Dav

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Kernel 2040 released

2011-06-25 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 25-6-2011 16:06, Kenneth J. Davis schreef: > Hello all. > > Kernel 2040 has been tagged and should be made available on > Sourceforge file releases within next few days. Nice to have an official updated kernel. > Also available for download at fdos.org: > installer compatible form - http://www.f

[Freedos-kernel] Kernel 2040 released

2011-06-25 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Hello all. Kernel 2040 has been tagged and should be made available on Sourceforge file releases within next few days. Also available for download at fdos.org: installer compatible form - http://www.fdos.org/kernel/package/ same as sf releases - http://www.fdos.org/kernel/release/LATEST/ Note: t