Re: [Freedos-user] XMS Manager on '286 (FreeDOS not ONLY for old PC)
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:53:37 +0100, you wrote: Hi Everyone, Sorry, I understood that you meant that there's no point in installing FreeDOS in a new machine, and I mentioned a possible situation. I think maybe misunderstanding between idea and languages. FreeDOS can be use on old or new machine, just depends on what you expected in return, maybe someone use a server grade PC to run DOS? Who knows! FreeDOS is aim at 'preserving' the good old DOS compatibility and ALSO improving the compatibility with new hardware architecture. It depends on how much resources we need to invest, new or old? FreeDOS have a good compatibility with old hardware (partial for 8086 and 286, almost full support for 386). That should be enough for most people, of course someone may want to use 286 laptop, then he/she may need to do extra work by choosing the '286 compatible' programs or drivers. FreeDOS is an OpenSource Project, we didn't have a bunch of programmers like Micro$oft working daily, so we have to put the rare resource in the right place. Rgds, Johnson. --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Compilation with DJGPP using RHIDE
Hello everyone, I have a question regarding compilation of C programs under FreeDOS, I doubt this is exclusive to FreeDOS, but anyway, I want to know if there is any solution. The compile time of GCC using Rhide is intolerable, about 20 seconds - even for a very small program. (using a PII 400 Mhz 128MB RAM) whereas on Windows the same would take about 1 second. I'm guessing that it has something to do with caching. The reason I don't just use windows is that Rhide crashes under Windows 98 constantly - just try changing directories or accessing help menu items, or even quitting Rhide the program exits with a 'General Protection Fault' Under DOS though it almost never crashes. --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: WordPerfect file format Was Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Question
Hi, A bit going too far offtopic, but *very* interesting (for me) at the same time. Any chance for the Lotus WordPro format? (LWP). After the plain and nice format of the Lotus AmiPro files (SAM), WordPro seems to have some sort of binary compressed format, that I have seen documented nowhere, and no open source drivers at all (for OO, etc) What about the rest of SmartSuite? (1-2-3, Freelance Graphics, Approach,...) Aitor Kenneth J. Davis escribió: Wesley Parish wrote: ... In relation to that, does anyone know where I can find the specifications of the native WordPerfect file format? And suchlike? I know O'Reilly's had something of the sort, and there might have been something similar published somewhere else - but I don't know where to get copies. Thanks Wesley Parish Corel publishes a WordPefect SDK, it might have the spec or at minimal will help in understanding the file format. You should look at libwpd, it is a library (unfortunately uses GSF which is GLIB based) for reading Word Perfect files. (It is used for AbiWord, and OpenOffice as well.) It mostly supports WordPerfect 6 through 11, though it does have some support for WP 4 5. See http:/libwpd.sourceforge.net for more/better information, their link page includes the url for the Corel SDK. Jeremy --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Compilation with DJGPP using RHIDE
GNU_man wrote: Hello everyone, I have a question regarding compilation of C programs under FreeDOS, I doubt this is exclusive to FreeDOS, but anyway, I want to know if there is any solution. The compile time of GCC using Rhide is intolerable, about 20 seconds - even for a very small program. (using a PII 400 Mhz 128MB RAM) whereas on Windows the same would take about 1 second. I'm guessing that it has something to do with caching. I dont' understand your question. Are you using FreeDOS without a cache or are you unsatisfied with the current LBACACHE? Ciao --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
