On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Shane Baggsshan...@hotmail.com wrote:
I've posted before about the four machines I'm running FreeDOS on -- One is
exceptionally well behaved with FreeDOS 1.0 and another is exceptionally
quirky. In particular, I've been experiencing the FreeCOM bug where the
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
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
Maybe someone can figure this one:
installed freedos base on an old dell(ten years);installed djgpp with rhide;
acted very buggy and refused to compile
even a hello world;
rebooted with 'himem' option, and now it compiles and executes. However, I
then tried a larger program with eight
functions,
