[Freedos-user] Announce: Halibut revision 7622
Hi! _About Simon Tatham's Halibut is a documentation production system, with elements similar to TeX, debiandoc-sgml, TeXinfo, and others. It is primarily targeted at people producing software manuals. _Changes from version 1.0 to revision 7622 Halibut 1.0 source code was already released on 2007-01-31, but it doesn't build correctly when using DJGPP 2.03p2 or 2.04 beta, because of a bug in function mbstowcs() in DJGPP's libc. Quoting Simon Tatham: As it happens, that particular call to mbstowcs() was non-optimal for other reasons, so I've checked in a change to Halibut which has the side effect of making the problem go away. _Website http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/halibut/ _Download http://www.bttr-software.de/misc/halibut-r7622-dos.zip Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Announce: UnRAR for DOS version 3.70 (2)
Hi! _About UnRAR is a freeware subset of (Win)RAR for unpacking RAR archives. _Changes Despite it's still based on official `unrarsrc-3.7.6.tar.gz' I decided to rebuild UnRAR using `ancient' GCC 2.95.3, because resulting binary is ~14 Kbytes smaller after processing with UPX. This might be important for floppy disk users. _Website http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm _Download http://www.bttr-software.de/misc/urar376d.zip Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user Digest, Vol 13, Issue 15
In portuguese: Eu preciso do driver para gravar som usando placa de som com o free-dos. Existe programa gravador de som para o free-dos? Obrigado. 2007/6/23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Send Freedos-user mailing list submissions to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Freedos-user digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: unsubscribe me (Jack Kelly) 2. freedos boot crash (John Heim) 3. Re: freedos boot crash (Eric Auer) 4. unsubscribe me plz (arup karmakar) 5. Re: unsubscribe me plz (Eric Auer) 6. new dos network driver collection,sioux free dos web server (Eric Auer) 7. Re: unsubscribe me plz (Christopher Howard) 8. Re: new dos network driver collection,sioux free dos web server (chris evans) -- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:43:09 +0100 From: Jack Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] unsubscribe me To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Guys, look at this link that sits at the bottom of every email that comes from the list: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user On that page, there is the following: **To unsubscribe from Freedos-user**, get a password reminder, or change your subscription options enter your subscription email address: (emphasis mine) -- Jack Robson Souza wrote: Yes, please, unsubscribe me of freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net mailto:freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net. Thank you. Robson Souza. - Original Message - Please, unsubscribe me -- Message: 2 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:02:07 -0500 From: John Heim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Freedos-user] freedos boot crash To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; reply-type=original Hello, I am trying to install freedos to my hard drive. I have a P4/800 Mhz machine with 512 Mb of RAM. I ran through the install but I'm not sure I did everything right. I'm installing via a serial console. The console is a PC Weasel card. The PC Weasel acts like a video card except that it puts out characters to a serial card on the card (not the syste serial port). I am doing this because I'm blind. Anyway, I installed freedos to my HD but it crashes when I try to boot from the HD. It looks like it crashes trying to load the CDROM driver. I was able to capture the content of the screen via the serial console: FreeDOS HIMEM64 3.26 [Aug 25 2006] (c) 1995, Till Gerken 2001-2006 tom ehlert HIMEM - KBC A20 method used EMM386 2.26 [Aug 25 2006] (c) tom ehlert 2001-2006 c't/H. Albrecht 1990 selected page frame e000 not available, searching automatically using PAGEFRAME d000: XCDROM V2.2, 2-08-2006. Driver name is FDCD0001. UltraDMA controller at I-O address 1820h, Chip I.D. 80867111h. Unit 0: Secondary-master, LTN526S, ATA-33. CD-ROM XMS/386 read cache, E. Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2001-2004 License: GPL 2. For standard CD-ROM device drivers. XMS allocated: 14.75 MB, driver size with tables and stack: 13051 bytes. CDRcache loaded as device CDRCACH0 - caching the device(s) of FDCD0001. MORE$ driver by Eric Auer 2003 loaded. Use: ... MORE$ Illegal Instruction occurred CS=CBE6 IP=5059 SS=9D62 SP=2134 DS= ES=CBE6 EAX=0FFF5059 EBX=214C ECX=1079 EDX=CBE6 ESI= EDI=0008 EBP=2140 Opcodes @CS:IP FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF EMM386 - unable to continue - Please reboot=BEBE -- Message: 3 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:54:07 +0200 (MEST) From: Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] freedos boot crash To: John Heim [EMAIL PROTECTED], freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi John, interesting that you install via a fake VGA to COM card. But I think your crash is not from XCDROM. The last line: MORE$ driver by Eric Auer 2003 loaded. Use: ... MORE$ ... is the last thing that NORMALLY happens before the kernel starts to use the HMA. That requires HIMEM to do control of the A20 properly. As you have EMM386 loaded, you can also trigger virtual A20 and UMB problems at that moment in FreeDOS 1.0. Your error message tells: CS=ES=CBE6 IP=5059 SS=9D62 SP=2134 DS=ESI=EDI=0 EAX=0FFF5059 EBX=214C ECX=1079 EDX=CBE6 EBP=2140
[Freedos-user] djgpp snprintf?
Hello, i try to compile the espeak synthesizer. If i start make, it produces an error snprintf not declared. In which lib is this function in djgpp (#include xxx? Regards. Dietmar - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] djgpp snprintf?
Hi Dietmar, i try to compile the espeak synthesizer. If i start make, it produces an error snprintf not declared. In which lib is this function in djgpp (#include xxx? It is possible that the C library of DJGPP does not support snprintf, but espeak only uses snprintf in one context in only 3 places. Replace the 3 lines as explained below and you can compile without snprintf. ./src/speak_lib.cpp line 304 old: snprintf(path_home,sizeof(path_home),%s/espeak-data,path); replace by new: sprintf(path_home,%s/espeak-data,path); ./src/speak_lib.cpp line 308 and also ./src/speak.cpp line 241 (both) have old: snprintf(path_home,sizeof(path_home),%s/espeak-data,getenv(HOME)); replace by new: sprintf(path_home,%s/espeak-data,getenv(HOME)); The version with sprintf instead of snprintf will crash if it tries to calculate a directory name longer than 120 chars (length of path_home). The original version with snprintf will not crash, but will instead use a truncated name. You can also simulate snprintf with careful choice of the % args of sprintf, but I think this is not worth the effort here. Eric - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] djgpp snprintf?
Eric Auer wrote: It is possible that the C library of DJGPP does not support DJGPP 2.04 beta supports snprintf(). snprintf, but espeak only uses snprintf in one context in only 3 places. Replace the 3 lines as explained below and you can compile without snprintf. Another solution is linking against GNU GLib, which has g_snprintf(). I could tell you more tomorrow. Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] FreeDOS and Foxpro problem
hi, we are migrating a sistem from DOS FoxPro 2.6a to PHP, but we need for a little time run this system in FreeDOS. My problem is when i want to run Foxprox.exe i see the Foxpro2.6a wellcome and immediately it is close with the error: cannot create program workspace: File is in use by another the foxpro dir is in a samba server, we mount the samba shared with NET USE everything work ok! except Foxpro, if i run from DOS machine Foxpro work ok!, so my problem is my configuration or FreeDOS, what can i do?. Grettings insulae -- Juan Matias Granda http://www.insulae.com.ar GPG FINGERPRINT:459C 4A2D 330C CB8C 0C44 0C3A 572C CBCA 5457 508B - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] COUNTRY.SYS settings
Hi, Is there any way to set up manually all configurations for the COUTRY.SYS settings? I mean, how could I decide exactly which character I want to use for decimals, which for hundreds separator, how to display the date etc...? I know that I can choose between various countries standards, but none of them fills all my needs. What I would like to have is: Date format: dd.mm. Time format: hh:mm Decimal separator: . Hundreds separator: ' Currency: € (I don't know if FreeDOS is storing the currency anywhere) Any ideas? ;-) Best regards, Mateusz Viste - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and Foxpro problem
The problem was me :) , the problem was a wrong autoexec.bat configuration, sorry my DOS knowledge is bad :). Grettings insulae 2007/6/26, Juan Matias Granda [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hi, we are migrating a sistem from DOS FoxPro 2.6a to PHP, but we need for a little time run this system in FreeDOS. My problem is when i want to run Foxprox.exe i see the Foxpro2.6a wellcome and immediately it is close with the error: cannot create program workspace: File is in use by another the foxpro dir is in a samba server, we mount the samba shared with NET USE everything work ok! except Foxpro, if i run from DOS machine Foxpro work ok!, so my problem is my configuration or FreeDOS, what can i do?. Grettings insulae -- Juan Matias Granda http://www.insulae.com.ar GPG FINGERPRINT:459C 4A2D 330C CB8C 0C44 0C3A 572C CBCA 5457 508B -- Juan Matias Granda http://www.insulae.com.ar GPG FINGERPRINT:459C 4A2D 330C CB8C 0C44 0C3A 572C CBCA 5457 508B - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] COUNTRY.SYS settings
Hello, As there's no NLSFUNC, you just create a new entry and re-compile. As for the EURO, make sure that you choose a codepage that contains the symbol (e.g. 858). Aitor 2007/6/26, Mateusz Viste [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Is there any way to set up manually all configurations for the COUTRY.SYS settings? I mean, how could I decide exactly which character I want to use for decimals, which for hundreds separator, how to display the date etc...? I know that I can choose between various countries standards, but none of them fills all my needs. What I would like to have is: Date format: dd.mm. Time format: hh:mm Decimal separator: . Hundreds separator: ' Currency: € (I don't know if FreeDOS is storing the currency anywhere) Any ideas? ;-) Best regards, Mateusz Viste - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS icon
Hi everyone! Thanks to Eric (or whoever) for fixing the favicon while I was out. I guess I shouldn't make changes to the web site right before a vacation! :-) -jh PS - I'm kind of swamped with email right now, so if you were waiting on an email reply from me, it may take a week. Expect some news posts on the web site over the next few days as I get caught up. PPS - Canada was great! We were in PEI and Nova Scotia. On 6/15/07, Robert Riebisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Auer wrote: when we can use a really nice FreeDOS fish icon instead! Does anybody have a copy of the old icon? Otherwise we would have This one? http://web.archive.org/web/20060824115950/http://www.freedos.org/favicon.ico Robert Riebisch - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] announce: sys-freedos-linux update
Hi everybody, on http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/ you can find a new version of sys-freedos-linux.zip with a few new command line options. Check the explanations below. The new options are --heads=n --sectors=n and --offset=n, useful if you formatted your filesystem with mkdosfs which may have left those fields empty. Also useful for geometry changes or if you moved a partition with a DOS-unaware tool. The offset option might also help to make non-primary partitions bootable. Happy SYSing :-). Eric perl ./sys-freedos.pl FreeDOS boot sector SYS for Linux v1.0, public domain by Eric Auer 2004-2007. Puts a FreeDOS boot sector on a FAT (12/16/32) filesystem. Note: FreeDOS boot sectors, kernel.sys and command.com license is GPL. You still have to copy the kernel.sys and command.com files yourself! Usage: sys-freedos.pl --disk=file [--lba] [--heads=n] [--sectors=n] [--offset=n] Options: --disk=file_or_device target filesystem --lba selects boot sectors with LBA BIOS support --heads=head_count overrides CHS setting 'heads' (cyls need no setting) --sectors=sector_count overrides CHS setting 'sectors per...' --offset=sector_count overrides partition location on disk setting Hints: If you formatted the drive with DOS or Windows, you need no overrides. If CHS *x?x? shows 0 for one of the ?, override it. Use offset 0 for diskettes, non-0 for partitions. Use overrides after using mkdosfs. Check the output of fdisk -l -u /dev/??? to select overrides. Example: fdisk -l -u /dev/hdb shows '... 255 HEADS, 63 SECTORS/track ...' Use OFFSET 63 for hdb1: '/dev/hdb1 * 63 1028159 514048+ 6 FAT16' - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] announce: fdapm update: bochs fix, acpi dump
Hi everybody, on www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/ you can now find a new file fdapm-2007jun27.zip with an new version of FDAPM. In short, in one line: www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/fdapm-2007jun27.zip Changes are: - VGAON / VGAOFF (DPMS screen control) now use VESA VBE/PM if possible, and EGA / VGA hardware and BIOS access as available if no VBE/PM support is found. This is -not- a screen saver. The screen stays off until you re-enable it. The function is meant for use in long-running batch files. Use pc-tools.net/dos/blackout/ if you want a screen saver! (it is tiny, freeware, no Win3 / int9-hook detection yet) - there is a new option ACPIDUMP which prints your ACPI tables RSDT, FACP and DSDT. Maybe others if they are encountered before the DSDT is found. This can be a lot of data. Nice for debugging and nice for testing the speed of NANSI ;-). Use ZIP if you want to send such a dump by mail, it can easily be 100 kB or more. - the APMDOS function (the only function where FDAPM stays in RAM as a resident tool) now avoids using the APM BIOS CPU idle function if the VESA VBE BIOS OEM name string starts with Boch. Background: Bochs BIOS implements the function but the Bochs 2.3 engine crashes if you use it. Thanks to Rugxulo for the VBE suggestion - a simple check and reasonably safe as Bochs detector. As FDAPM will use non-BIOS CPU idle instead, APMDOS now works in Bochs. - whitespace after a command line option is now ignored, so both FDAPM ACPIDUMP and FDAPM ACPIDUMP log.txt are now treated the same (note the space before the ). Enjoy saving energy in DOS :-). Eric PS: It is possible that Bochs gets bored in CPU idle HLT state and makes the virtual time run faster to compensate. If this really happens and causes problems, I could modify FDAPM to block the whole APMDOS in Bochs. Note that APMDOS is a nice way to reduce host CPU load in DOSEMU. No funny clock things, DOSEMU simply leaves more CPU time for Linux. PPS: Is it FreeCOM specific to treat tool option file as tool option with a trailing space? The whole thing is a bit un-intuitive: echo hello file says hello . On the other hand, people might WANT to say hello ? PPS: Other updated tools are my shift lock change beeper www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/locktone-2007jun23.zip and my very tiny (1 kB) implementation of RUNTIME www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/runtime.zip which even shows the time in your COUNTRY specific format :-). On the other hand, it only shows English text. Still nice? - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] COUNTRY.SYS settings
Hello Mateusz! (Unfortunately I still didn't find a way to type non-western-european languages on Mozilla Thunderbird! :-( ) All I have to say about the Euro sign is for you not to worry since you'll probably use cp852, which already contains the Euro since I've prepared that for FreeDOS following IBM-DOS standards instead of MS-DOS standards. The only difference is precisely on codepoint 170, which is blank on a regular MS-DOS cp852 while in contains the Euro on IBM-DOS cp852. If you have a polish (or polish for programmers) keyboard and it does not have the Euro labeled on, you'll find the Euro on AltGr + U (in case you haven't tried that already... ;-)). If you need the Euro sign AND support for kashubian instead of polish, please let me know. Na razie, Henrique Aitor Santamaría escreveu: Hello, As there's no NLSFUNC, you just create a new entry and re-compile. As for the EURO, make sure that you choose a codepage that contains the symbol (e.g. 858). Aitor 2007/6/26, Mateusz Viste [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Is there any way to set up manually all configurations for the COUTRY.SYS settings? I mean, how could I decide exactly which character I want to use for decimals, which for hundreds separator, how to display the date etc...? I know that I can choose between various countries standards, but none of them fills all my needs. What I would like to have is: Date format: dd.mm. Time format: hh:mm Decimal separator: . Hundreds separator: ' Currency: € (I don't know if FreeDOS is storing the currency anywhere) Any ideas? ;-) Best regards, Mateusz Viste - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
