[Freedos-user] Re: New EMM386 release (long description)

2004-04-27 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I would call X=TEST either HIGHSCAN or SAFESCAN if you were to ask me what syntax should be used to exclude all high areas which contain other than all-0 / all-ff. By the way, while googling for NoMovExBDA I found that in EMM386 of DOS 6.22 / newer ROM= got improved. If that means that older

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: New EMM386 release (long description)

2004-04-27 Thread Michael Devore
At 03:16 PM 4/27/2004 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: Hi, I would call X=TEST either HIGHSCAN or SAFESCAN if you were to ask me what syntax should be used to exclude all high areas which contain other than all-0 / all-ff. By the way, while googling for NoMovExBDA I found that in EMM386 of DOS 6.22 /

Re: [Freedos-user] how to shutdown/poweroff

2004-04-27 Thread Jim Hall
Peter Lerche wrote: Hi, Is there a shutdown/poweroff command in FreeDOS ? You want the FDAPM command, and the POWEROFF instruction. POWEROFF - call shutDownHandler with AX=5: Try to tell the computer to turn itself off. Only works if you have an APM BIOS and an ATX

Re: [Freedos-user] how to shutdown/poweroff

2004-04-27 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Is there a shutdown/poweroff command in FreeDOS ? To reboot,you can do Crtl+Alt+Suppr or use reboot.exe To halt,use the power off button of your computer FDISK has a /REBOOT option (FDISK /REBOOT), FDAPM (FreeDOS clone of MS Power utility) has several reboot options, and maybe also

[Freedos-user] Fdisk problems on Dell Latitude XPi

2004-04-27 Thread some one
Hello list, I am trying to install FreeDos B9RC5 on my Dell Latitude XPi Laptop. My problem is with FDISK v1.3.0. When I run “FDISK”, I receive this message: “No fixed disks present.” Then I modified A:\FREEDOS\FDISK.INI by adding the line “DRIVE 1-4200-016-63” to override the hard disk