Re: [Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: FD-KEYB 2.0 final ready!

2006-08-31 Thread Blair Campbell
it only uses code that the compiler used to produce it creates. DJGPP just happens to use protected mode because it allows the executable itself to reach astronomical sizes :-). On 8/30/06, Johnson Lam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:45:28 -0700, you wrote: Hi Blair, Hi.

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem with FD-KEYB 2.0 final

2006-08-31 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hi, Memory in separate MCBs is not written to after being loaded. I'll try to do some testings myself (it seems to work ok under NTVDM and MS-DOS). The following variants occur to me: - With/without EMM386 - Different versions of FreeCOM - Use /B to avoid beeping at all Testings are wellcome and

Re: [Freedos-user] Using PCI parallel ports

2006-08-31 Thread Robert Riebisch
Andrew Greenberg wrote: As far as I can tell, PCI parallel port cards do not work under FreeDOS. Is that true? Does anyone have any guidance on getting PCI parallel No. Some work in DOS, some not. ports to work under FreeDOS? Use, e.g.,

Re: [Freedos-user] announce: fdshield update, fixes potential freeze

2006-08-31 Thread Jim Hall
Eric Auer wrote: Hi, as fdshield could conceivably freeze DOS, I replaced all retf +2 commands in fdshield by less invasive code. This means that the updated fdshield no longer messes for example with the interrupt enabled / disabled state of the caller. The update should make fdshield

[Freedos-user] For Eric - NWCACHE write caching test results; and a new problem

2006-08-31 Thread saywhat
There's good news and there's bad news. The good news is that, as you expected, there's only a small difference between a big write cache with a long delay and a small write cache with a short delay. The bad news is that I found some big performance problems (in reading and

Re: [Freedos-user] TC 2.01 IDE Slooow

2006-08-31 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 30-Авг-2006 17:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Collin Donnell) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: CD Seems to be much faster when I run without drivers. CD Anyone know why or what causes this? What mean slow (how you measure? how much slow?)? What you mean by drivers?

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem with FD-KEYB 2.0 final

2006-08-31 Thread Diego Rodriguez
Hi, Memory in separate MCBs is not written to after being loaded. I'll try to do some testings myself (it seems to work ok under NTVDM and MS-DOS). The following variants occur to me: - With/without EMM386 - Different versions of FreeCOM - Use /B to avoid beeping at all Testings are

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem with FD-KEYB 2.0 final

2006-08-31 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Many thanks, Diego. It is, then, a known problem (ocurred in last version too, but doesn't seem to arise under MS-DOS or NTVDM, so as you say the problem may be in FreeCOM). I would like to investigate into that too, although I just wanted to clean up some missing bugs in KEYB itself before