Re: [Freedos-user] State of native FD 1.1 programs support for FAT32?

[John Hupp]

Thanks, Eric, I think that little roundup covers the question.

On 2/25/2016 7:48 AM, Eric Auer wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> most DOS programs do not care at all what type of drive you use.
>
> Only disk manipulation matters: For example CHKDSK does not, but
> the alternative DOSFSCK does support fat32. Support in FORMAT &
> FDISK is complete. Support in DEFRAG is very limited. What else
> would you like to know about fat32? :-)
>
> Eric
>
>> I have been using 2GB FAT16 partitions because of my recollection that
>> some of the FreeDOS programs didn't support FAT32 properly. I'm sorry I
>> don't have notes on the particulars, just a recollection of my
>> conclusion from a dive into the question a long time ago.
>


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Re: [Freedos-user] Poor mouse pointer visibility in Edit

[John Hupp]

Thanks for the recommendation.  I'll have a look.

On 2/24/2016 9:40 PM, Don Flowers wrote:
I had forgotten how bad that cursor is in EDIT, I use SETEDIT for most 
everything these days. I just tried a no-blink utility and that helps 
a bit more, but not enough to waste the memory.


On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 8:06 PM, John Hupp > wrote:


I tried this today.  It improves the pointer situation in Edit,
but the arrow gets chopped up a lot as I move it around.

Something about Edit seems to be hostile to pointers. Nothing else
looks nearly so bad.

But for the degree of improvement in Edit, it sits in memory all
the time occupying 7K, so I may remove it and let Edit function
like keyboard-only.


On 2/20/2016 6:37 PM, Don Flowers wrote:

I use this neat little mouse pointer it's pretty cool.
http://www.pcorner.com/list/GRAPHUTI/PP111.ZIP/INFO/

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 5:27 PM, John Hupp
> wrote:

With the default installation of FreeDOS 1.1 on real hardware
(Pentium
II @ 300 MHz, 48 MB, ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP video with 4 MB), I
find that
the mouse pointer in Edit with a file open is almost
invisible.   There
are partial-image flashes of the expected brown rectangle. 
But if I

open a menu, then there is a nice solid brown rectangle while
the menu
is open.

In the FreeDOS Help system, the pointer is a nice solid gray.

I got the same results with 2 LCD monitors and also a CRT.

I don't have anything additional installed on this system yet
so I don't
know what the behavior will be in other programs.

The mouse pointer has never been pretty in Edit -- it's
usually flashing
but fully visible -- but I have never seen it virtually
invisible like
this.  Initially I thought there was no pointer until I
stepped through
the Autoexec.bat startup and confirmed that MOUSE does indeed run
successfully, after which I looked harder and saw the visual
traces of
the pointer in Edit.

Does anyone have an explanation or solution?



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Re: [Freedos-user] State of native FD 1.1 programs support for FAT32?

[Eric Auer]

Hi John,

most DOS programs do not care at all what type of drive you use.

Only disk manipulation matters: For example CHKDSK does not, but
the alternative DOSFSCK does support fat32. Support in FORMAT &
FDISK is complete. Support in DEFRAG is very limited. What else
would you like to know about fat32? :-)

Eric

> I have been using 2GB FAT16 partitions because of my recollection that 
> some of the FreeDOS programs didn't support FAT32 properly. I'm sorry I 
> don't have notes on the particulars, just a recollection of my 
> conclusion from a dive into the question a long time ago.



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