Re: [Freedos-user] jam

2009-04-28 Thread Christian Masloch
directly. This will definitively not work if the host drive is FAT32, but might even cause problems only because the DOS version supports FAT32 at all. A FAT16-only FreeDOS kernel binary might fix the problem. Regards, Christian

Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 3.1 - Pending kernel patches

2009-04-19 Thread Christian Masloch
included in FreeDOS 1.0 as well. The current build is 38 Stable, which is currently based on 36 only. The final 38 release isn't done yet so you can't use this version unless you can compile it yourself or download a snapshot binary from somewhere else (like Rugxulo's pages). Regards, Christian

Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 3.1 - Pending kernel patches

2009-04-18 Thread Christian Masloch
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Re: [Freedos-user] Detect ramdrives Fwd: [basic-es] Hola, una pregunta

2009-04-17 Thread Christian Masloch
method of detecting a RAM disk because there's nothing else different RAM disks have in common. Expect that some non-RAM disks might also be detected this way. Obtaining the drive letter from the RAM disk's driver or asking the user is the only certain way. Regards, Christian

Re: [Freedos-user] was: Windows 3.1 - Pending kernel patches 2037/2038

2009-04-13 Thread Christian Masloch
). 2037 seems not to be affected by this, at least the case 0x42 in inthndlr.c should work with larger seek positions. I've CCed the Freedos-kernel list, too. Regards, Christian -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: High

Re: [Freedos-user] was: Windows 3.1 - Pending kernel patches 2037/2038

2009-04-13 Thread Christian Masloch
MS-DOS is considered legal by UDOS and RBIL authors (and these sources are considered legal by all members of the FreeDOS project) I think there's no problem using some DLL examination tool. Regards, Christian

Re: [Freedos-user] WAS Re: [Freedosuser] FreeDOS localisation project = 2038 issue?

2009-04-09 Thread Christian Masloch
to two-digit years which creates the year 2079 problem: 80..99 is interpreted as 1980..1999, and 00..79 is interpreted as 2000..2079, however I can't find evidence that DOS itself is affected by this. Regards, Christian

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing programs on FreeDOS v1.1

2009-04-05 Thread Christian Masloch
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Re: [Freedos-user] chkdsk broken?

2009-04-03 Thread Christian Groessler
--- Blair Campbell blaird...@gmail.com schrieb am Fr, 3.4.2009: IIRC chkdsk does not support FAT32 filesystems. This might be your issue. No, it's a FAT16 filesystem. When I boot MS-DOS 6.22 from CD it can read it fine and its chkdsk doesn't report any problems. chris

Re: [Freedos-user] network drive

2009-04-02 Thread Christian Masloch
source contains all of this (although it doesn't provide write access to its CD-ROMs). It's written in Assembly, but unless you want to use some weird C stuff (that essentially emulates Assembly) you have to use Assembly code to service the DOS calls anyway. Regards, Christian

Re: [Freedos-user] network drive

2009-04-02 Thread Christian Masloch
we all know that it's possible to service INT 21 calls in straight C, with very little assembly hint: look into the FreeDOS kernel sources Yes, by servicing the DOS calls (talking about the redirector, Int2F too) I meant the initial assembler entry and setup, which is in files like

[Freedos-user] chkdsk broken?

2009-04-02 Thread Christian Groessler
Hi, I'm using FreeDOS 1.0. When I run dosfsck c: it reports everything ok: dosfsck 2.11.DOS, 15 Apr 2006, FAT32, LFN c:: 4191 files, 6623/62597 clusters When I run chkdsk it reports many problems: ChkDsk beta 0.9 Copyright 2002, 2003 Imre Leber under the GNU GPL \KERNEL.SYS has an invalid

Re: [Freedos-user] network drive

2009-04-02 Thread Christian Groessler
--- Christian Masloch c...@bttr-software.de schrieb am Do, 2.4.2009: Umm, yes it does after you modified a drive's CDS to show that it's a redirected drive. So get familiar with some of the data described at Int21.52 (MS-DOS 4+ CDS and SFT, MS-DOS 5+ List of Lists) and some

[Freedos-user] MSCLIENT problems

2009-04-02 Thread Christian Groessler
Hi, again using FreeDOS 1.0... I cannot copy files to network drives. Making a directory on a network drive works, as well as removing it (md and rd). But when I try to copy a file onto the network drive I get an error. This is with both Samba and WinXP servers. (The error messages are

Re: [Freedos-user] aimed compatibility?

2009-03-30 Thread Christian Masloch
DOS-C is the same. Or that the same new, complicated FAT32 Int21 functions are supported. Or that DOSLFN services exactly the LFN functions used by MS-DOS 7 COMMAND.COM versions. Regards, Christian

Re: [Freedos-user] LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-30 Thread Christian Masloch
supposed to do and there's no documentation.] Regards, Christian -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo

[Freedos-user] network drive

2009-03-30 Thread Christian Groessler
Hi all, after having my FreeDOS installation basically up and running, I'd like to ask what the preferred method to connect to a file server share is these days. I'm currently using MSCLIENT to connect to a samba share, but MSCLIENT is a memory hog and I'd prefer a better solution. Back in the

Re: [Freedos-user] aimed compatibility?

2009-03-30 Thread Christian Masloch
to be compatible to Win DOS 7. Regards, Christian -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] network drive

2009-03-30 Thread Christian Groessler
Hi, If you want you can setup a FTP server on DOS running as TSR in background. http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.Servers ?? This is a completely different topic. msclient is nice to mount a remote server into a DOS device letter, unfortunately it's

Re: [Freedos-user] aimed compatibility?

2009-03-29 Thread Christian Masloch
on FreeDOS. Regards, Christian -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS silently writes to partition table?

2009-03-28 Thread Christian Groessler
Hi, actually I would recommend to tell GRUB to not manipulate the partition table at all. Why should it hide FAT from Linux or XP? Why should it hide XP and Linux from DOS? All three operating systems are smart enough to know the drive letter from which they are booting, although I am not

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS silently writes to partition table?

2009-03-27 Thread Christian Groessler
Hi Eric, Note how the first partition changed from HIDDEN FAT16 to NORMAL FAT16 and the active partition changed from NTFS to FAT16. The change from 5 to 15 is from CHS extended to LBA extended, you just used a very old software to display your partition table. I also think that this hiding

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS silently writes to partition table?

2009-03-27 Thread Christian Masloch
to the partition table, and if it was written by accident, it would have changed more than just this one byte (actually, this one bit). Possibly a bug in GRUB? Because, well, GRUB does write to the partition table anyway. Regards, Christian (M

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS silently writes to partition table?

2009-03-27 Thread Christian Groessler
Hello Christian, Although it sounds strange if GRUB itself can't use the hidden extended partition, I would also suspect this is done by GRUB, not FreeDOS. I think there's actually no code in FreeDOS (kernel) to write to the partition table, and if it was written by accident, it would have

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS

2009-03-26 Thread Christian Masloch
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Re: [Freedos-user] [BUG] FreeDOS not compatible with escape [NEW]

2009-03-24 Thread Christian Masloch
in my previous mail), it should only abort the application. Are you sure you pressed F12 only one time? Regards, Christian -- Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0

Re: [Freedos-user] [BUG] FreeDOS not compatible with escape [NEW]

2009-03-24 Thread Christian Masloch
to ask a question that doesn't belong to an existing discussion. Starting a discussion is done by sending a new e-mail to the freedos-user address instead of replying to an existing message. Regards, Christian -- Apps

Re: [Freedos-user] unload previsiously loaded exe and sys on fdconfig.sys

2009-03-19 Thread Christian Masloch
programs so you have to be careful with it. I think the TSR Utilities don't work with programs loaded in FDCONFIG.SYS but you could try whether that program can be loaded by DEVLOAD (on Eric's site, or on the FreeDOS software page) instead. Regards, Christian

Re: [Freedos-user] generic bootsector as file? - versatility of grub4dos explained

2009-02-10 Thread Christian Masloch
complicated. (Read: I don't know how to do this in MS-DOS.) Regards, Christian -- Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills

Re: [Freedos-user] generic bootsector as file? - versatility of grub4dos explained

2009-02-09 Thread Christian Masloch
includes boot with MEMDISK which is how FreeDOS 1.0 always boots. I meant, rather like if I ever want to create a no-emulation mode bootable CD-ROM from scratch. Regards, Christian -- Create and Deploy Rich Internet

Re: [Freedos-user] generic bootsector as file? - versatility of grub4dos explained

2009-02-08 Thread Christian Masloch
it available would be worth it, given the apparently few people who have asked him yet :-) Aww. What a polite guy. Regards, Christian -- Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM

Re: [Freedos-user] variable for boot device?

2009-02-08 Thread Christian Masloch
On read-only media the 'set /e bootdevice=bootdev' will create an error due to write protection. How this can be solved? Did you set the TEMP or TMP environment variable to a directory on a writable drive? No, there is no writable device. Well, I could introduce a ramdisk but I don't

Re: [Freedos-user] generic bootsector as file? - versatility of grub4dos explained

2009-02-07 Thread Christian Masloch
and incompatible. One of my goals is to improve this. Regards, Christian -- Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Sound

2009-02-05 Thread Christian Masloch
Also, I've not tried looking at the source, but I see no reason why the ac97 drivers from linux couldn't be ported back to dos as a general sound driver, just add sb-compatible calls to it, and you should be all set. The problem is that there aren't just some SB calls used by DOS games. A

Re: [Freedos-user] MBR source code

2009-01-26 Thread Christian Masloch
Hi, The MBR isn't installed by SYS, it's installed by FDISK. The source of the standard MBR is contained in the BOOTNORM directory. (The MBR in the BOOTEASY directory lets the user select a partition from a small menu.) Christian

Re: [Freedos-user] Licensing (comp, printq)

2009-01-24 Thread Christian Masloch
Hi, LGPL 2: share Where does it say that it's LGPL ? Christian -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword

Re: [Freedos-user] Loading old DOS programs under FreeDOS

2009-01-22 Thread Christian Masloch
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Re: [Freedos-user] Purpose of dos...

2009-01-19 Thread Christian Masloch
Int13 access. Anyway, such discussions should probably be on Freedos-kernel. Christian -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword

Re: [Freedos-user] Purpose of dos...

2009-01-19 Thread Christian Masloch
kind of local non-FAT filesystem driver. Christian -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword

Re: [Freedos-user] Purpose of dos...

2009-01-19 Thread Christian Masloch
, but I assume a DPMI TSR for DOS drive redirection could do better. Christian -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword

Re: [Freedos-user] Information on WinDos/FreeWin ?

2007-12-07 Thread Christian Simonyi
Hi all, 2007/12/7, Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 12/7/07, David Zabriskie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there some where else to download from? I think this is what you are looking for: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/gui/windos/ David was searching for a

Re: [Freedos-user] Gui for FreeDOS

2007-11-28 Thread Christian Simonyi
2007/11/28, OSCAR GONZALEZ [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi... Please run regedit.exe and try changing GRAPHICS/WIDTH, GRAPHICS/HEIGHT and GRAPHICS/DEPTH and try again. Hi, at first: nice job! :) (I installed WinDOS 01 on a dedicated partition '/dev/hda1' and it worked out of the box)

[Freedos-user] McShell desktop

2007-10-15 Thread Christian Simonyi
! Best regards, Christian Simonyi email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] url: http://www.aurora.homelinux.net

[Freedos-user] OpenGEM, batch files and application icons

2007-09-13 Thread Christian Simonyi
was made by the installer but not working) - xfdisk offers FAT32 but DEFRAG says its not supported (not even the new version of defrag) Thank you for your reply in advance! Best regards, Christian Simonyi email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] url

[Freedos-user] Fwd: OpenGEM, batch files and application icons

2007-09-13 Thread Christian Simonyi
the OpenGEM desktop? (they are opened by default.) Further: does someone know whether it is possibe to make icons of native DOS applications on the GEM Desktop. I ask because I was unable to find an appropriate documentation, sorry. Cheers, Christian Simonyi email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

[Freedos-user] Eric, it was not nice....

2007-09-13 Thread Christian Simonyi
Eric, it was not nice to tread down our conversation Sophism, does not help; either me or anyone. I better leave from here Christian Simonyi email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] url: http://www.aurora.homelinux.net

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos OpenGEM, batch files and application icons

2007-09-13 Thread Christian Simonyi
be nice to have one in the \DOC directory after installation. Would it be possible (is there anyone who have time to do this) to take a User Guide of a previous version of GEM as 'base' and rewrite it to be up-to date (I did not even find an earlier doc). Best regards, Christian Simonyi email

Re: [Freedos-user] FAT and other file systems

2006-01-14 Thread Christian Voß
2006/1/14, Tom Lee Mullins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Christian Voß wrote: Hi, I can't understand that you talk only about linux filesystems as an alternative. There are more options like i.e. HFS, HFS+ and FFS. And HFS /HFS+ are under GPL so we can use it without repressions. And I think it is not more

[Freedos-user] FAT and other file systems

2006-01-13 Thread Christian Voß
Hi, I can't understand that you talk only about linux filesystems as an alternative. There are more options like i.e. HFS, HFS+ and FFS. And HFS /HFS+ are under GPL so we can use it without repressions. And I think it is not more difficult to write HFS or FFS in the kernel of FreeDOS than

[Freedos-user] Localized FreeDOS

2006-01-12 Thread Christian Voß
Hi, I want to know If localized FreeDOS versions are available? I, for my person, search a german FreeDOS. Thanks for an answer.

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