Re: [Freedos-user] New release of DOSUTILS package

2011-06-17 Thread Christian Masloch
Indeed. Another interesting thing, though, is that in combination with my SCANCODE utility, it is actually possible to automate PRTSCR. Points for creativity, but you have to admit that actual support for command-line (or environment variable, script) driven operation of PRTSCR would be

Re: [Freedos-user] New release of DOSUTILS package

2011-06-17 Thread Christian Masloch
I meant that support for controlling PRTSCR in this way could be a part of the PRTSCR program, without requiring the detour via SCANCODE. Regards, Christian -- EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically

Re: [Freedos-user] mTCP 2011-05-20 Version

2011-06-01 Thread Christian Masloch
Now that mTCP is Free Software, I think the next version of FreeDOS should focus on getting basic networking abilities. Well, relatively free. A certain group of people are aghast that I used GPL v3 - apparently that is not free enough for them. I'm getting a good laugh out of that

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem with UIDE

2011-05-17 Thread Christian Masloch
You can also run JEMM386 LOAD at any time but that doesn't give you UMBs. A program modifying DOS's internal data which could effectively link in new UMBs is easy enough to write, provided that the kernel's handling of the UMA is compatible enough to that of the MS-DOS kernel. Regards,

Re: [Freedos-user] if not exist MD XXX

2011-05-14 Thread Christian Masloch
Hey, if not exist mydir/nul md mydir Doesn't work on XP (I think?), but that's the typical DOS way. This kept bothering me for some reason, so I checked now. It appears to work just fine on MSW NT command lines, executing the command after if not exist dir\nul if and only if that directory

Re: [Freedos-user] if not exist MD XXX

2011-05-14 Thread Christian Masloch
Hi Eric, As far as I remember, the DOS findfirst API is supposed to find character devices (such as NUL) in any (existing) directory, so this would depend more on DOS than on COMMAND, but I am not sure. Without any further investigation, I'd say that's part of it. However, aside from the

Re: [Freedos-user] No kernel sys

2010-12-05 Thread Christian Masloch
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 14:13:15 +0100, Fabrizio Gennari wrote: Il 05/12/2010 13:25, Fabrizio Gennari ha scritto: Where do I download the new kernel and the new SYS? I guess that, after the download, it's a matter of unzipping in the right folder... Found the answer to that:

Re: [Freedos-user] location of autoexec.bat?

2010-12-04 Thread Christian Masloch
Oh, I thought that the liveCD would do something like look somewhere on the C: drive for a specific autoexec file and then execute that if it's present. I just assumed that it would have that capability. I can't say that I understand why it doesn't do this, but obviously there must be

Re: [Freedos-user] No kernel sys

2010-12-04 Thread Christian Masloch
http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/faq/cgi-bin/viewfaq.cgi?faq=General_Information/225 says obscurely a little tweaking (of the boot sector linear partition position / hidden sectors value) should make LBA booting on any drive letter possible, but it does not specify what to tweak and how. This is

Re: [Freedos-user] Watch out for Windows 7

2010-11-05 Thread Christian Masloch
Seems like it's related to some new hardware stuff that broke floppy DMA. On some boards Linux is said to have similar problems. -- The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson,

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem w/ CONFIG.SYS INSTALL

2010-10-28 Thread Christian Masloch
Maybe JEMMEX has problems with fragmented memory, did you try JEMM386? Maybe not..? The issue does not appear to be related to JEMM (as usual). The error itself does not tell much - GPF at a 64k segment boundary... Could mean that code jumped into an empty segment and fell of its end. It

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem w/ CONFIG.SYS INSTALL

2010-10-28 Thread Christian Masloch
The TSR I'm working on can't be published just yet, so that's not an option right now. I thought so. It's also _really_ complicated, so I'm not sure anyone would want to mess with it anyway. You know me. I'm using an older version of the kernel -- I'm not sure exactly which one

Re: [Freedos-user] internationalization ... KEYB bug? ... i18n-DOS ... Greek, Esperanto ... kernel 2039

2010-10-23 Thread Christian Masloch
That would suggest that you got some of the syntax or maybe order of loading things wrong - Can you try if it works with another kernel or other keyb versions? If it crashes, it's a bug, even if the wrong loading order or syntax was used. Maybe problems are limited to some versions. Yes,

Re: [Freedos-user] internationalization ... KEYB bug? ... i18n-DOS ... Greek, Esperanto ... kernel 2039

2010-10-22 Thread Christian Masloch
(Freedos-devel much?) Hi, It uses kernel 2039 and COUNTRY.SYS, and it more or less works ... except for KEYB. For some reason, every computer I try, every memory manager, even disabling certain things (CTmouse), it *always* dumps an exception when trying to load KEYB. In fact, KEYB never

Re: [Freedos-user] svn failure

2010-10-08 Thread Christian Masloch
(Shouldn't this rather go to Freedos-devel?) Path 'C:\salami\src\fdos\mem\branches\mem14\...' is not in the working copyPath Anyone getting a similar error? No, I did not previously read about such an error. It might be helpful if you would rely more information to the list. Like, what

Re: [Freedos-user] LBA and clusters

2010-10-04 Thread Christian Masloch
I keep LBA disabled, for I partitioned the HD with 4-sector clusters. Clusters and LBA have nothing directly in common. Partitions are made up only of sectors. It's only subsequent formatting that gives birth to logical clusters, after the act of partitioning is over. LBA is about

Re: [Freedos-user] Fwd: File corruption

2010-09-24 Thread Christian Masloch
Sorry to sound dense but how do you change the kernel from 16 to 32 bits? Isn't there just one kernel and it works with a filesystem that is FAT16 or FAT32? Or are these kernels compiled with different memory models? There's one kernel that supports the FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 file

Re: [Freedos-user] file corruption

2010-09-23 Thread Christian Masloch
Some older machines (e.g. this) require an specific cluster size in order to use LBA. The BIOS doesn't know anything about cluster sizes. Maybe you mean sector sizes? Almost all floppy and hard disks have a sector size of 512 byte. Expect problems with hardware, firmware and/or software if

Re: [Freedos-user] Processor overheating under DOS

2010-09-11 Thread Christian Masloch
This is just the opposite of what I expected. I always thought that it is easier for a processor to run DOS than Windows. In case you care about the technical background: DOS is dumb. When waiting for user input, it (all DOS versions I know) by default just loops forever until a key was

Re: [Freedos-user] Processor overheating under DOS

2010-09-11 Thread Christian Masloch
What happened was, I had stopped using FDAPM with the portables after finding that it was interfering with Bret Johnson's USB keyboard driver. Hence the overheating. Did you report that to Bret already? Regards, Christian

Re: [Freedos-user] Processor overheating under DOS

2010-09-11 Thread Christian Masloch
All versions of DOS I know require the use of a TSR (like FDAPM, or MS-DOS's POWER) to idle correctly, or of a program that does the idling itself (I don't know any COMMAND.COM version that does so). However, as the flawed call usually will simply be called by idle-unaware software, an

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos-user, SoundBlaster ?

2010-09-11 Thread Christian Masloch
Apparently, in the Windows partition there is an emulator. This direction does not get you anywhere, because the emulator's output is simply the Windows driver for your sound card. MPXPLAY is working great for music on FreeDOS, so the sound capabilities are there. This is better. Now learn

Re: [Freedos-user] Processor overheating under DOS

2010-09-11 Thread Christian Masloch
Seems you're not old enough to ever have worked with one of the 5V Pentium CPUs (60/66MHz) for example... LOL I didn't really care at the time. I can assure you the AMD K-4 (~ 300 MHz) and Pentium II (~ 250 MHz) boards that I still regularly use do profit from idling too. But really,

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS USB Device Problem

2010-09-11 Thread Christian Masloch
I use a DOS USB Drivers from bretjohnson.us, someone here ever suggest this driver before on this list. However, I'm not familiar with this, I took steps and installed the driver but system will hang or tell me wrong IRQ. So could anyone show me an example to setup this driver? Please specify

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos-user, SoundBlaster ?

2010-09-11 Thread Christian Masloch
Dosbox [...] goes one step beyond in that they added to the emulator a DOS-like interface that maps the native file system into the DOS system calls, as well as the remaining DOS and BIOS system calls. I might add that I would not generally recommend using the DOSBox built-in DOS for

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos-user, SoundBlaster ?

2010-09-11 Thread Christian Masloch
- Remove the word DOS from the name (the thing is unable to boot into a PC, so it's not a OS and thus not a DOS) I don't think they use the term for it, sorry for confusing you. - Remove the DOS-like interface that maps the native file system (so turn it into a clean 80386 / 80486 / early

Re: [Freedos-user] Incompatible file system checking results

2010-08-30 Thread Christian Masloch
2. Why do FreeDOS CHKDSK and DEFRAG (as well as MS-SCANDISK) report so many errors while DOSFSCK does not, and in practice the disks seem to work well? CHKDSK and DEFRAG ain't that reliable really. Regarding SCANDISK, maybe you used an old version (MS-DOS 6.x) on a hard disk that's addressed

Re: [Freedos-user] Help: FreeDOS hangs when select memory management method

2010-08-25 Thread Christian Masloch
Could you tell me how do I modify this file? You have to save the JEMM386.EXE file somewhere on the image, then replace C:\FDOS\BIN\EMMM386.EXE in both lines it appears in with the path to and file name of JEMM386.EXE. The options (behind the EMM386.EXE path) should work with JEMM just as

Re: [Freedos-user] Help: USB drivers for USB mass storage devices

2010-08-23 Thread Christian Masloch
Is there any good USB drivers for USB mass storage like USB flash disk? I hope the driver can support USB 2.0. There's currently two drivers under development: Georg Potthast's DOSUSB supports UHCI, OHCI (USB 1.x) and EHCI (USB 2.0) controllers and comes with some drivers (e.g. a disk

Re: [Freedos-user] doing graphics

2010-08-19 Thread Christian Masloch
Has anyone used any of them in DOS? Yes. That is, I heard of people using them successfully. But I believe Yes is an adequate answer to your question. Regards, Christian -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an

Re: [Freedos-user] Dualboot with Knoppix?

2010-08-11 Thread Christian Masloch
Has any FreeDOS user ever dualbooted with Knoppix (DSL)? No. Regards, Christian Masloch PS.: If using GRUB, instruct it to boot the FAT partition on which you installed FreeDOS. Or create a boot sector file of the DOS FAT partition with FreeDOS SYS then boot

Re: [Freedos-user] very small FAT12 partition?

2010-01-25 Thread Christian Masloch
- a boot block (MBR) containing a valid description of the FS (number and size of FAT[s], CHS geometry, etc. - not all of which can be tuned using standard tools probably) - BIOS Parameter Block is what you want to look for (and compare against actual values in a

Re: [Freedos-user] very small FAT12 partition?

2010-01-24 Thread Christian Masloch
Hi Stefan, My question is not exactly FreeDos related but I hope that you could help me anyway: For an embedded project I need to create a very small FAT12 partition. In a proprietary project I found a partition of 4KB size (which I can not reuse because of license issues) but could not

Re: [Freedos-user] Determining partition types (NTFS, etc)

2010-01-13 Thread Christian Masloch
PS: for what I know vfat in Linux is just the name of FAT32 ;) Then Linux is not correct, because VFAT is just an extension to FAT12 / FAT16 / FAT32 to allow long filenames: Ok, but most people should be aware that in the Linux literature (most google tutorials) the tem vfat is used

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos - Modern sata dvd dual layer not found

2009-12-29 Thread Christian Masloch
First of all, what is AHCI? isn't that related to USB??? No. USB is related to the UHCI (USB 1.0), OHCI (USB 1.1), EHCI (USB 2.0), WHCI (Wireless USB) and XHCI (USB 3.0). AHCI is an interface for SATA controllers. Regards, Christian

Re: [Freedos-user] Odd behaviour involving mouse

2009-12-28 Thread Christian Masloch
Can anyone explain what IDLEHALT=1 does? It could be interesting to know this in more details for fure problems or even for general kowledge... IDLEHALT=1 halts the CPU (with a HLT instruction) before calling Int28, when the kernel is waiting for a key to be pressed. FreeDOS's default Int28

[Freedos-user] Fwd: DOSLFN discussion on FreeDOS user list

2009-11-21 Thread Christian Masloch
Hi Laaca, please consider registering yourself to the user list as well if you want to further discuss this or other issues there. The first issue probably arises from an incorrect check for LFN functions, or one DOSLFN doesn't support. (Does it work correctly in a Windows 4 DOS box?) The

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSLFN and File Wizard

2009-11-15 Thread Christian Masloch
BTWW, King Udo (EDR-DOS maintainer) reportedly uses it and is happy (the only one user ???), possibly the problems occur with FreeDOS only, not with EDR-DOS. No idea why and no ambition to debug this type of problem :-| I'm using it too on MS-DOS (for both read and write access) and it didn't

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about ripcord

2009-11-07 Thread Christian Masloch
There is a simple int21h AH=33h AL=FFh call you can make (no program I know of off hand that does it but from debug you should be able to get it easy) to get a pointer to the version string displayed at boot. Something like (completely untested, possibly simpler ways) this in debug: a

Re: [Freedos-user] Reporting two tiny problems

2009-10-26 Thread Christian Masloch
1) When the CONFIG.SYS menu comes up, no matter how many options the menu has, I can only access the first three. I can move up and down with the arrow keys, but I can go no further down that to the third option. This happened from the moment I first installed it, with the default

Re: [Freedos-user] Error loading OS: FAT32-LBA problem or something else?

2009-10-25 Thread Christian Masloch
Hi Jerry, After installing FreeDOS on a FAT-32 partition, I attempted to boot it in a couple of ways, each of which resulted in the message: Error loading OS immediately after all the BIOS blather. This message possibly isn't displayed by FreeDOS boot code. I think neither FreeDOS's

Re: [Freedos-user] Booting without hard disk

2009-10-19 Thread Christian Masloch
Floppies are definitely NOT the most reliable DOS boot media. After a year or so of daily use, they will likely become unusable. So unless they keep a ready supply of spares, you're going to have some upset clients. I would go the cd-rom or HD route, because USB drives stick out and are easy

Re: [Freedos-user] Malware5.

2009-09-17 Thread Christian Masloch
I just tried sending two versions to Pat, one the suspect tarball, the other an 'rar' type file; the gmail accepted the rar but rejected the tarball, saying; this file contains an executable and is not allowed; both the rar and the tarball contain executables? they both have them

Re: [Freedos-user] Disk checking and defragmentation

2009-08-28 Thread Christian Masloch
Hi, Thanks for your interest. Thanks for reporting to the list! One exception is DOSLFN, which I occasionally used in combination with the file managers NDN or File Wizard to decompress files with InfoZip. Whenever DOSLFN was used, CHKDSK would find dozens or even hundreds of damaged

Re: [Freedos-user] Over 4-GB for FreeDOS, Etc.

2009-08-20 Thread Christian Masloch
I have never seen a RAMdisk that was not file-based Maybe we have a misunderstanding here.. The driver itself is of course a file, but the disk is a DOS block device, so for DOS it is just a bunch of sectors. The DOS kernel will then use those sectors as a FAT filesystem which can contain

[Freedos-user] RAM disks jokes (Was: 4 GB for FD etc.)

2009-08-20 Thread Christian Masloch
neither as any sort of insulting joke, nor otherwise! You found that joke insulting? If that's the case, I'm sorry. It wasn't meant as attack, neither against you nor your software nor anyone at all. If you meant DOS read as reading a single or some sectors from a block device, this is

Re: [Freedos-user] Over 4-GB for FreeDOS, Etc.

2009-08-18 Thread Christian Masloch
JEMMEX could use big pages or PAE or both to access more RAM for various things, but this always leads to the question: How compatible will it be? At the moment, JEMMEX already is too fancy for many ancient DOS games which use pre-VCPI DOS extenders, I think any protected-mode memory manager

Re: [Freedos-user] Over 4-GB for FreeDOS, Etc.

2009-08-18 Thread Christian Masloch
so it is good that HIMEMX and JEMM386 are still separately available. Separately from what? Separately from MS-DOS, FreeDOS, or other DOS variants, since few if-any of their EMM drivers are still under maintenance, and as some have never corrected BUGS! I support your intention (i.e. JEMM

Re: [Freedos-user] Whatever happened to freedos-32?

2009-08-13 Thread Christian Masloch
As far as I can tell, the last commit in the SVN for the project was in 2007, so it's either abandoned, in hiatus, or going so slowly that no commits have been pushed through in the last two years. I contacted Salvo a year or so ago and he said there's still work on a new version which will

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS-C and GPL (was Re: Whatever happened to freedos-32?)

2009-08-13 Thread Christian Masloch
With respects to DOS-C, if loading non GPL drivers really did violate GPL, then it would have never been released under GPL. The GPL's text is huge and complicated, if you weren't aware of a violation you might have released program X under GPL though it actually violated the license

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS-C and GPL (was Re: Whatever happened to freedos-32?)

2009-08-13 Thread Christian Masloch
I have simply stated our position. I thought you wanted to discuss it since you even opened up a new thread for it. Regards, Christian -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day

Re: [Freedos-user] printing to USB

2009-07-23 Thread Christian Masloch
Well, 17 lines of Assembly and 5000 of C, It would interest me where he stated these numbers. He did not. I just did unzip -p the-sources.zip *.a* | wc :-) So you don't know how many of that 17 lines are commentary only or blank. This is something I'm interested in, so I wrote me a

Re: [Freedos-user] printing to USB

2009-07-22 Thread Christian Masloch
Finally someone did the job: Code USB programs with assembly language. Well, 17 lines of Assembly and 5000 of C, It would interest me where he stated these numbers. who will ever be able to understand and update that code? Who will ever be able to understand and update Georg's host

Re: [Freedos-user] update: dos extenders=HX.

2009-07-07 Thread Christian Masloch
Decided to try the minimum functionality of HX; the 'stubit.exe' failed, complaining that the djgpp executable being processed was not PE; I believe that a dj exe always has an 'MZ' stub, and I will verify that. Does this mean that stubit only *checks* the validity of a PE stub and does

Re: [Freedos-user] Two non-bug reports.

2009-07-05 Thread Christian Masloch
Users apparently don't want technical details on the Freedos-user list however. I don't think so: some want, some do not. The question is that currently there's no way to know about it. So I am almost decided to create that freedos-basic list, so that technical details can run here as

Re: [Freedos-user] Two non-bug reports.

2009-07-04 Thread Christian Masloch
First non-bug: LFN-EN utilities don't work with my FAT32 partition under FreeDOS. After examining the source code, it turns out that the logic was coded in 1999 when the only DOS that could handle FAT32 was MS-DOS. When run under FreeDOS, the utilities assume no FAT32 support, so

Re: [Freedos-user] Minor nit: Norton Utilities slow with FDAPM APMDOS; FDAPM APMOFF fixes.

2009-07-04 Thread Christian Masloch
Norton Text Search (ts.exe) prints about four characters a second when FDAPM APMDOS is running. Setting FDAPM APMOFF fixes this. This may also affect other Norton Utilities. I suspect it's because FDAPM hooks an interrupt for power saving use that Norton was already using for

Re: [Freedos-user] Fwd: Announcement: New DOS USB Drivers

2009-07-02 Thread Christian Masloch
Anyone these days using UHCI? Yes. PCs are randomly distributed as UHCI and OHCI, acording to chip-set manufacturer. Plus, EHCI (for USB 2.0) coexists with UHCI/OHCI. Older USB drivers usually work with USB 2.0 hardware as well, just not as fast. Regards, Christian

Re: [Freedos-user] Incompatibility with EMSDSK #3

2009-06-24 Thread Christian Masloch
DEVICE=C:\DEVS\RDOSUMB.COM #19 * DEVICEHIGH=C:\DEVS\JEMMEX.EXE A20METHOD:FAST FRAME=E000 VERBOSE NOE801 NOE820 NORAM D=0 VCPI DOS=UMB,HIGH DEVICEHIGH=C:\DEVS\EMSDSK.EXE 4364 /c02 ... 6 file(s)101,406 bytes 0 dir(s) 325,632 bytes free Note the reported

Re: [Freedos-user] USB Question

2009-06-18 Thread Christian Masloch
I haven't tested, but actually *used* these. Several 100's PC's in 20 years ? Hope at least one was from 1990 and also worked :-) Of course PCs from 1990 don't support USB. How do you know? From your probably buggy 6 PCs? So I should throw them all away and buy 1 or 6 new ones ? With EFI

Re: [Freedos-user] A windows 9x replacement...

2009-06-17 Thread Christian Masloch
and - BTW - FreeDOS does NOT want to be a Windows 9x replacement. Of course not. It wants to be a MS-DOS replacement. The initial question wasn't to transform FreeDOS into a GUI magically but to create a new project for a GUI running on FreeDOS.

Re: [Freedos-user] A windows 9x replacement...

2009-06-16 Thread Christian Masloch
development has been to at least support the versions of Windows that ran on top of dos. This violates the GPL. That sounds interesting. Completely implausible, but interesting. In what way does it violate the GPL?

Re: [Freedos-user] A windows 9x replacement...

2009-06-15 Thread Christian Masloch
What are you talking about? ReactOS is not about Windows Me The request of M.R. (NO, I don't understand it well ... or at all) Yes, it seems you don't understand it, or at least not the same way I do. I don't see where he mentioned Windows Me at all. And Windows 3.x/9x is no DOS GUI from

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE.SYS

2009-06-15 Thread Christian Masloch
Adding block-device support would take a LOT more code A ramdisk is often a tiny driver. To give block device access to UIDE disks, Okay.. you only need a partition table parser Yes, which would reside in the temporary (discarded) part of the driver. Of course that won't decrease it's

Re: [Freedos-user] A windows 9x replacement...

2009-06-13 Thread Christian Masloch
There is no reason for an MSDOS Windows replacement to be MSDOS compatible. Except to run on MS-DOS as well. As said, it's Microsoft's method to write programs such that they only run with other Microsoft programs although there's no good reason why they shouldn't run with other vendor's

Re: [Freedos-user] A windows 9x replacement...

2009-06-13 Thread Christian Masloch
HX DOS Extender does support VERY basic Win32 applications, but it is somewhat of a hodgepodge. It's basically using the Windows NT form of Win32 as its base. If that could be refitted to work with Wine DLLs then it would make a lot of the work needed go by a lot faster. Then we would

Re: [Freedos-user] A windows 9x replacement...

2009-06-13 Thread Christian Masloch
I try to ask what is going to get done in the next release or when XYZ is going to get fixed and I get attacked. YES, but is cloning of Windaube ME on-topic here at all ? :-D What are you talking about? ReactOS is not about Windows Me at all, because Windows Me is effectively part of the

Re: [Freedos-user] A windows 9x replacement...

2009-06-13 Thread Christian Masloch
probably (correct me if I'm wrong) even more challenging than writing a dos kernel. I think you're right on that. For example, Japheth writes on his site that HX's source code is about 100,000 lines of code, whereas the current RxDOS kernel Assembly source code is only around 35,000 lines

Re: [Freedos-user] A windows 9x replacement...

2009-06-11 Thread Christian Masloch
Theoretically, freedos could support an open source replacement. And in my opinion, the only involvement FreeDOS should have is to ensure that any such open source project would have access to whatever they need to run, just like any other DOS application. That is, it should be a separate

Re: [Freedos-user] Basic sound access in DOS.

2009-05-18 Thread Christian Masloch
Linux has supported ac97 soundcards for years, why can't dos have a .sys driver that can be loaded at boot time to do the same thing? there's a *lot* of motherboards that have ac97 support these days, well over 50%, and having a .sys driver to handle these kinds of boards would add a great

Re: [Freedos-user] Basic sound access in DOS.

2009-05-18 Thread Christian Masloch
[...] would add a great deal of usability to dos apps, especially ones that already work directly with sb compatible cards. You talk about old apps that make hardware calls. Also would be interesting a standar sound library for new DOS apps. Yes, I talked about old apps, replying to the

Re: [Freedos-user] jam

2009-04-30 Thread Christian Masloch
Now JAM loads but takes ca 32kB of RAM, wow. According to the documentation that's Minimum! ;-) (Your drive apparently uses 8 KiB clusters. With 4 KiB clusters or smaller, JAM uses just 24 KiB.) The FAT32 problem is that JMOUNT needs the raw location of the diskimage file represented in

Re: [Freedos-user] jam

2009-04-28 Thread Christian Masloch
The JAM.SYS driver now passes the OEM number check, but it always hung my VMware session. Maybe you have better luck. There's probably more to it. JAM doesn't know about FAT32, and if I recall the documentation correctly, it apparently accesses low-level DOS structures (DPBs) and devices

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

2009-04-19 Thread Christian Masloch
OK, sorry. I thought 2038 was the unstable branch. It is mentioned in the wiki about the unstable branch but is denoted stable. Apparently it's a bit confusing. 2036 was the original build, later renamed Stable. From this, the 37 build was created, called Unstable. Both of these were

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

2009-04-18 Thread Christian Masloch
If you're waiting for further improvements to 2038 before you release 2038, then you're doing this wrong. [...] I'd strongly recommend making 2038 available, and putting the few pending improvements in 2039. The problem is that Eric holds back at least three necessary patches, of which two

Re: [Freedos-user] Detect ramdrives Fwd: [basic-es] Hola, una pregunta

2009-04-17 Thread Christian Masloch
This is a question originally sent on a spanish list about BASIC, but is more a DOS question, so I translate here... Writing a DOS app on qbasic or quickbasic to check the disk units on the PC (floppy, HD, CD...)  Can check to first CD unit, later if exist a ramdisk how to check if the

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

2009-04-13 Thread Christian Masloch
Simple: If you only use WIN /S then you can use the stable 2036 or stable 2038 kernel. The latter is on http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/ as binary snapshot. There are a few pending improvements before 2038 can be put on sourceforge file releases... The sources already are on sourceforge in

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

2009-04-13 Thread Christian Masloch
I was reading the Undocumented Dos book and according to it Win 3.x goes to extraordinary lengths to insure that the operating system it is running on os MSDos and not one of the alternatives. Yes, but note that the described AARD code is not really used in any retail release (UDOS 2nd

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

2009-04-09 Thread Christian Masloch
PS: RBIL says that year must be 2100, I guess this means that MS-DOS did not implement leap years fully. The Int21.2A (Get system time) description says the year is below 2100 as you said. The DOS file date format can store years from 1980 up to 2107. Some DOS applications are limited to

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

2009-04-05 Thread Christian Masloch
- Any DOS replacement stuff (move, tree, format...) goes to \BIN\ - Any system enhacement (grep, ls, pcisleep, cwsdpmi, fdupdate...) goes to \SBIN\ Why should I want two directories with binaries? Plus, some of the binaries might be appropriate for both \BIN and \SBIN (even FORMAT!).

Re: [Freedos-user] network drive

2009-04-02 Thread Christian Masloch
Like I suggested an SFTP client using XMS or JLM. There are already SSH, SCP and SFTP 1 and 2 clients, called SSHDOS: http://sshdos.sourceforge.net/ SFTP is free, secure and wildly supported across all operating systems already. Is there some information about how to write network

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

Re: [Freedos-user] aimed compatibility?

2009-03-30 Thread Christian Masloch
Originally it was 3.3 because that was a version which worked with most apps and still relatively simple. Later we got UMB and HMA which are very useful so we aimed for 5.0 kernel compatibility. Remember that 5.0 and 6.22 basically have the same kernel. Now we also have LBA and FAT32,

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

2009-03-30 Thread Christian Masloch
It is strongly recommended that you use MS-DOS version 7.0 (the version of MS-DOS that ships with Windows 95/98), since it is the only version that will allow you to use long filenames with your NTFS drives. Using earlier versions of MS-DOS restrict you to using file names in 8.3 format.

Re: [Freedos-user] aimed compatibility?

2009-03-30 Thread Christian Masloch
the goal followed by the kernel programmers was both ' make as many programs happy as possible. if we have to decide which DOS version to follow, take the younger one. ' some (very few) internal ('undocumented') data structures changed between 3.x and 5.x; we took 5.x format Yes. I

Re: [Freedos-user] aimed compatibility?

2009-03-29 Thread Christian Masloch
Which kind of compatibility does FreeDOS aim for? I mean compatible with which MS-DOS version? 6.22, 7.10, 8.00? As far as I can tell, 8.00 is the same as 7.10 plus some restrictions (I used to have a PC with Windows Me). 6.22 doesn't include LBA, FAT32 and LFN-aware command line, so

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

2009-03-27 Thread Christian Masloch
After booting FreeDOS (which resides on the first partition) the extended partition is marked as Unknown. Partition table before: Device Boot Start End #cyls#blocks Id System gut.bin1 0+249 250- 2008093+ 16 Hidden FAT16 gut.bin2250 499

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS

2009-03-26 Thread Christian Masloch
I was remembering this thread about compatibility and thought as I did originally read this Uhm, and what's the point? Fixing the bugs or incompatibilities (if possible) of course. Now I've just done that recently in my thread [Freedos-user] [BUG] FreeDOS not compatible with escape [NEW].

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

2009-03-24 Thread Christian Masloch
Indeed, sorry. No reason to feel sorry for this. That is, do you have a command prompt? Yes. Otherwise I couldn't load escape. You're right, I should have thought about this before. Without some special hack and if there's no CONFIG.SYS that could INSTALL= the program, this isn't

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

2009-03-24 Thread Christian Masloch
FreeDos Command.Com vs 4DOS Can someone explain the differences please? Which is the prefered one? FreeCOM (the name of FreeDOS's COMMAND.COM) mostly aims to be compatible to MS-DOS COMMAND.COM. 4DOS doesn't, but it provides many new functions and features. 4DOS may not work with

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

2009-03-19 Thread Christian Masloch
Hi, I want free some freedos memory after using a packet driver and others sys (under fdconfig.sys) and exe (like doskey). There are any way to unload programs without reboot? The best method is to use programs that provide unloading as option so that they can properly unload themself.

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

2009-02-10 Thread Christian Masloch
1. Add very basic readonly root directory file read ability for ISO9660 CD/DVD to the kernel, However this requires major code re-writing for this new driver, instead of relying on working drivers. (Which only requires the kernel to have this drivers's files embedded or on a boot disk

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

2009-02-09 Thread Christian Masloch
Why? After all, it would be a special kernel binary used to boot CD-ROMs only, so you would usually want to load both. Oh okay. Well in THAT case I think I would prefer one of two other methods: 1. Add very basic readonly root directory file read ability for ISO9660 CD/DVD to the kernel,

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

2009-02-08 Thread Christian Masloch
I assumed you were talking about the functionality, not about the files! For adding FILES into the kernel, you would need something like that very special boot image of a ramdisk, inside the kernel binary which needs extra support both in the kernel (to make it visible with some drive

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
Hope you don't mind me to ask, why didn't you rather contribute to FreeDOS? First, I do sometimes contribute to FreeDOS (i.e. DEVLOAD) and sometimes even to the thing called FreeDOS kernel (or DOS-C), which is to be distinguished from FreeDOS as a project. However I choosed not to become

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
Illegal Instruction occurred CS=0530 IP=3006 SS=394A SP=FFDD DS= ES=0317 EAXX=0100 EBX=0530 ECX=0F00 EDX=0020 ESI=05A8 EDI=0002 EBP=FFDD Aborting Program Perhaps an EMM386 problem? The EMM displays the message, but doesn't necessarily cause the error.

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