Re: [Freedos-user] Re: comment to Aitor Santamaria message of 19 March

2005-03-20 Thread Michael Devore
At 12:42 AM 3/21/2005 +0100, Eric Auer wrote: You might want to ask Michael for the latest testing binary of emm386, which might improve stability, and you might want to run memtest86 on your system to see if your RAM modules are really okay. You should also try if it helps to explicitly use other

[Freedos-user] Re: comment to Aitor Santamaria message of 19 March

2005-03-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, the error message translates to, roughly, "program jumped to address 257.7 MBytes which does not exist". While FD EMM386 has the MEMCHECK option to make access to non-existing memory allowed, it would not help for YOUR case, because the program tried to RUN in non-existing memory. You might w

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Do FreeDOS need a password program?

2005-03-20 Thread Christopher Evans
Any additions done to environment are lost when that psp terminate. personally just use errorlevel to report current user as a numerical id and have say another program do conversion? still got to make it find command.com psp and then I'd be able to add to master environment. it one thing dont l

[Freedos-user] comment to Aitor Santamaria message of 19 March

2005-03-20 Thread Jose Antonio Senna
ASM>Why not commenting on them, so that we know what the problem is, and ASM>help us fix EMM386? I did so several times in this list and,before I could post to it, directly to Michael Devore. As an update, I tried today to use EMM386 (version 15)while online. Lynx 2.8.5,which I recently inst

Re: [Freedos-user] Questions to users about FDAPM roadmap

2005-03-20 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 20-Мар-2005 19:35 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: EA> - POWER has an "check for key"-flood detector. If a program looks for EA> keyboard events more than N times per second, then some throttle EA> mechanism kicks in which sleeps M of each 8 timer

[Freedos-user] Questions to users about FDAPM roadmap

2005-03-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I updated my local FDAPM copy 2 weeks ago, fixing the "idle time" statistics and making the ACPI support more insisting (ignores im- plausible values from BIOS, for example). However, I cannot get my plans settled for other possible updates, most of them inspired by PC-DOS documentation, so i

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Do FreeDOS need a password program?

2005-03-20 Thread Fox
On Sunday 20 March 2005 14:01, Kristaps Kaupe wrote: > As I already said - you can't have serious security in DOS. Asking password > would protect only from dumb users who don't know about F5/F8. Asking password CAN give protection, but following rules must be applied: 1. SWITCHES command in CONFI

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Do FreeDOS need a password program?

2005-03-20 Thread Kristaps Kaupe
> I gave a thought at this some time ago, but just mind that you press F8 > and override all the protections. Even Win98 is badly protected about > such kind of things. As I already said - you can't have serious security in DOS. Asking password would protect only from dumb users who don't know ab

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Do FreeDOS need a password program?

2005-03-20 Thread Kristaps Kaupe
> I guess you mean a file with hashes of passwords and plaintext user names. Yes. > One could write a program which lets you enter user name and password, > checks if it matches any of the file entries, and if so, return the line > number in the errorlevel. After that, you can do > set HOME=user%