Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

Hi, On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 7:06 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > That's nice of you to provide the explanation. I didn't read it > completely (too lazy), nor understand it fully (too stupid), but the > other clueless guy might find it interesting that he was only half wrong. Just to clarify, I'll q

Re: [Freedos-user] reminder

"Reminder" program is kind of vague -- I think you'll need to provide a little more detail. There are programs (like my CLOCK program) that can just beep at you at certain times of the day, and there are actually full-fledged calendar/task management programs, and all kinds of things in-between.

Re: [Freedos-user] reminder

today.exe by Patrick Kincaid. We use it every day. John On 04/10/2017 11:33 PM, Rinaldo Guelpa wrote: > Hi Friends, > I am looking for a simple reminder program in dos, can you please help. > Cheers > Rinaldo > guelpa...@telkomsa.net > > >

Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

Less than 256 bytes of code. Over 2 Megabytes of controversy. Shame on you Mateusz! :-) All joking aside, from what I gather, your bsum is only meant to verify local files were copied correctly from one machine to another. Most forms of checksums should be sufficient for that task. Sure a c

Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

Hi Tom, That's nice of you to provide the explanation. I didn't read it completely (too lazy), nor understand it fully (too stupid), but the other clueless guy might find it interesting that he was only half wrong. At the end of the day, I will keep using "JZ SHORT" anyway, 'cause that just wo

Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

>>> Unless I'm mistaken, conditional jumps on 8086 don't go beyond -128 .. >>> 127 (signed) byte range. Hence the billions of workarounds (TASM >>> "jumps", MASM "option ljmp", etc). right. >> I won't argue about what opcode is or is not available on 8086, since I >> did not bother decoding their

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS ideas with fast simple algorithms - was: BSUM BSD checksum

On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 23:21:26 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: > For checking if downloads worked without noise, I would already want > something "stronger" than BSUM, such as > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher%27s_checksum As already stated in this thread a few times, the BSD checksum is far from

Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 02:03:54 -0500, Rugxulo wrote: > AFAIK, the longer one is 386+ only, hence not available with "cpu 8086". The above code assembles with "cpu 8086" (NASM 2.12.02). > Thus, if it still quietly assembles, that is a bug (but I thought that > was long-ago fixed/avoided). Perhaps a

[Freedos-user] Brand NEW IBM PC AT + Model M! Unboxing & Setup [LGR] - YouTube

Before I totally forget ... there was this awesome video on YouTube by LazyGameReviews (about two weeks ago): "Brand NEW IBM PC AT + Model M! Unboxing & Setup [LGR]" https://youtu.be/nLy_jEbuY-U IBM PC AT 5170 (circa 1988), 286 (8 Mhz) w/ 512 kb RAM, EGA, 30 MB HDD, 1.2 MB floppy drive, PC-DOS 3

Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

Hi, On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 1:26 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 23:30:35 -0500, Rugxulo wrote: >> >> Unless I'm mistaken, conditional jumps on 8086 don't go beyond -128 .. >> 127 (signed) byte range. Hence the billions of workarounds (TASM >> "jumps", MASM "option ljmp", etc). > >

Re: [Freedos-user] reminder

Hi, On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 1:33 AM, Rinaldo Guelpa wrote: > > I am looking for a simple reminder program in dos, can you please help. You mean like this? " TaskTimer: A programmer's/hacker's/hobbyist's time management "egg timer" TaskTimer is a program that helps over-applied computer freaks