Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.0 in the news...

2006-07-08 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hi, DRDOS has DPMI. I assume FD could if it doesn't. What is the exact technical reason you can't start WfW 3.11 from FreeDOS? Is it the DPMI thing or something else? I haven't looked much into this topic, but it cannot be the DPMI, as when you run WIN then Microsoft's nice extender

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS, Borland's current status and Borland's DOS software

2006-07-09 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hi, 2006/7/9, Arkady V.Belousov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi! 9-Июл-2006 23:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wesley Parish) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: WP What I want to ask is, has anyone approached Borland about the possibility WP of WP releasing their DOS compiler and database products

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS, Borland's current status and Borland's DOS software

2006-07-09 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hi Arkady, TurboPascal is by far the most used Pascal dialect, even if not standarized (and FreePascal followed the good work, much ahead of the more standard GPC). In fact, both FreePascal and Delphi has been ported to Linux (and other platforms) so that you can create platform-independent apps

Re: [Freedos-user] Russian by UTF-8 in FreeDOS?

2006-07-09 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hi Arkady, Here I am sending to you the links to the binary utilities, (both exec and source) with the latest versions. Both have accompaining information files. Some KEYB documentation may deem a bit incomplete, the ability for hot switching layouts and/or codepages (for example in Russian to

Re: [Freedos-user] web site (was: Freedos Future)

2006-07-24 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Looks good! Just a question of taste, I liked the older font better, but the rest is great! Have you tried by chance removing the underscore of links in the new version, to see how it looks like? Aitor 2006/7/24, Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've been doing a little tinkering with the web site

[Freedos-user] DISPLAY 0.13b (small patch) ready

2006-08-10 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hi all, I thereby announce DISPLAY 0.13b, a small patch over DISPLAY 0.13. Changes: - The DR-FONT bug notified by John Elliot - There was a bug with the CGA specific code - The double-SELECT bug found by John Elliot is fixed too (it was a variable announcing to hold words were they were bytes,

Re: [Freedos-user] corrupted directory sector from using SMARTDRV 6.22 with FreeDOS?

2006-08-21 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hi Eddie, 2006/8/21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This problem occurs when using SMARTDRV.EXE (with write caching enabled) from MSDOS 6.22 with FreeDOS. Replacing either avoids the problem. Well, thanks indeed for the reports, perhaps you could tell us too if you're using

Re: [Freedos-user] Got FreeDOS installed! Now no loading?

2006-08-26 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Is the computer locked? If it isn't (i.e., you can type things, see the cursor move and see the effects of the commands you type) then it may be a problem with DISPLAY. 2006/8/26, Collin Donnell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks for the help, I was finally able to get FreeDOS installed on this

[Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: FD-KEYB 2.0 final ready!

2006-08-29 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hi all, I'd like to announce the final version of FD-KEYB 2.0, thereby ending TAURUS project started long ago. Changes: - ADD: Beep support: after a wrong COMBI, or secondary buffer full - ADD: Commands 162 (beep) and 164 (toggle beep on/off) - BUG: Secondary buffer was habing problems with

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem with FD-KEYB 2.0 final

2006-08-30 Thread Aitor Santamaría
/NOHI. However note that it prevents if from using UMBs (XMS is never used). Aitor 2006/8/30, Bernd Blaauw [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Diego Rodriguez schreef: Hi! When I try to LoadHigh FD-KEYB 2.0 final from my AUTOEXEC.BAT I get the following error: FreeCOM: XMSSwap-In: Memory allocation

Re: [Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: FD-KEYB 2.0 final ready!

2006-08-30 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello Johnson, Thanks for your wishes! In this case it wouldn't make too much sense to clone 100%, first because MS-KEYBOARD.SYS is complex and contains code, and even if it was just data for KEYB, I would have to update it with every new country: this way each user can make their own keyboard.

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem with FD-KEYB 2.0 final

2006-08-31 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hi, Memory in separate MCBs is not written to after being loaded. I'll try to do some testings myself (it seems to work ok under NTVDM and MS-DOS). The following variants occur to me: - With/without EMM386 - Different versions of FreeCOM - Use /B to avoid beeping at all Testings are wellcome and

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem with FD-KEYB 2.0 final

2006-08-31 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Many thanks, Diego. It is, then, a known problem (ocurred in last version too, but doesn't seem to arise under MS-DOS or NTVDM, so as you say the problem may be in FreeCOM). I would like to investigate into that too, although I just wanted to clean up some missing bugs in KEYB itself before

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos 1.0 experiments

2006-09-09 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hi, 2006/9/9, Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: LH is used for one of the MODE lines, not good. DISPLAY still cannot load high if I have EMS 3.2 support on: This is because its header reserves space for 5 buffers outside XMS. If you ask me, it would be much better to Well, I won't ask, but I have

Re: [Freedos-user] UPXed DISPLAY memory requirements (was: freedos 1.0 experiments)

2006-09-09 Thread Aitor Santamaría
My shame, but I am still not working in a new DISPLAY at the moment. Will keep it, though, for when I start with DISPLAY 0.14. Aitor 2006/9/9, Arkady V.Belousov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi! 9-Сен-2006 18:22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: EA DISPLAY EA

Re: [Freedos-user] LBACACHE, QCACHE STACKS=9,512

2006-11-26 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hi, How about licensing? Is qxumbpci GPL/open source? If it is closed source it may give you better performance, but you risk that the program may be abandoned and no-one to be able to take it back. Aitor 2006/11/23, Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Eric: Hi, sorry to bother you, but could you send

Re: [Freedos-user] Down-arrow key doesn't work

2007-01-23 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, could you post your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS? Thanks, Aitor 2007/1/24, Joel Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, First, thanks to all Freedos developers and contributors. Here is my question I previously used Freedos under Debian to run Instacalc, my much beloved DOS spreadsheet

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation

2007-02-01 Thread Aitor Santamaría
There used to be a floppy distribution, but I guess it hasn't been updated for a while, so would be useless. As for wireless stuff, seems to me a bit too sofisticated for DOS, but I don't know. Aitor 2007/1/24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is it still possible to install it without a

Re: [Freedos-user] Questions to memory management, DEVICEHIGH, LOADHIGH

2007-02-18 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2007/2/9, Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Only load DISPLAY when you really need a font with characters which are not in your VGA BIOS font. For me myself, being able to show the Euro currency sign on the DOS screen is not worth 10 or more kilobytes of RAM ;-). I am impressed, does your

Re: [Freedos-user] PG version 1.15 is out

2007-03-04 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, You can always select on-line an active codepage without commandline (if the codepage has been previously prepared) with INT 2Fh/ AX=AD01h: http://www.ctyme.com/intr/rb-5168.htm Cheers, Aitor 2007/3/4, HCL BA [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, CPIFNT is a small utility to override the BIOS

Re: [Freedos-user] keyboard mappin problem.

2007-03-14 Thread Aitor Santamaría
As a last option, you could use the KEYCODE program to guess the scancodes that your keyboard is emitting, and create a custom KL (or KEYBOARD.SYS) file for KEYB (Henrique may help you with that). But there should be an easier way... Aitor 2007/3/14, Bonnie Dalzell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: thanks to

Re: [Freedos-user] Is there any way I can stop getting these messages?

2007-03-16 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Me too... 2007/3/14, BrentMartin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Please! I'm getting one of these messages every time I post something here. SobyLand does not accept mail from your address. The headers of the message sent from your address are show below: I do not want any more of these messages

Re: [Freedos-user] keyboard mappin problem.

2007-03-16 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2007/3/15, Bonnie Dalzell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i personally am not fond of m$ products which is why we have the macs, a linux box and my attachment to the amiga os. however i needed to try and get my legacy program running not take two weeks to try and learn about vmware. I'm not

Re: [Freedos-user] xdosemu under Ubuntu Linux can you paste text into window?

2007-03-18 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello Bonnie, I'm afraid this lays clearly on the side of xdosemu, so perhaps you should post in xdosemu lists (just think that if you run freedos standalone, paste in the window does not make sense). Perhaps you come across a user with similar experiences, but you are more likely to find an

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS on-line

2007-03-25 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello all: Mybe I'm late in reporting this (I think Bernd mentioned that the project is on-going), but it seems that the JPC (PC emulator in Java) guys in Oxford have managed to put it publically in a plug-in where you can run FreeDOS on-line! You can try here: http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/jpc/

Re: [Freedos-user] intall window98 on freedos

2007-04-05 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, I think you've got enough answers, just one more to clarify things. Windows98 as a pack will install MS-DOS 7.10, on top of which will Windows 4.10 run. If for the contrary your question is wether Windows 4.X will run on top of FreeDOS, the answer is that I don't think so, or at least

Re: [Freedos-user] announce: nansi version 4.0c

2007-05-23 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2007/5/23, Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: PPS: You can UPX the SYS from 4.6 kB to 3.7 kB but then you MIGHT get silent failure to load when you try to use it in a UMB which has between 3.7 and 4.5 kB size. Converting NANSI to be internally EXE would be a solution if you need it safely

Re: [Freedos-user] Strongly recommended reading...

2007-06-03 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2007/5/30, Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi! Why isn't good documentation the norm? Programmers aren't rewarded for it. I agree on the latter - I usually TAKE time to have reasonable comments in my code because it is open source (so others can reuse it or help improving it) or

Re: [Freedos-user] Strongly recommended reading...

2007-06-16 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2007/6/4, Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Aitor, I am afraid I disagree, Eric. We are just having badly or poorly commented code BECAUSE we are creating Open Source. I believe it is not as much the case for SMALL firms, but as for software written for big firms, they usually not

Re: [Freedos-user] Updated FreeDOS web design

2007-06-16 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, I don't know if it's just me, but the current font (at 17th of june) looks a bit strange and harder to read... Aitor 2007/6/8, Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks to all of the Arachne users (especially Udo!) and other web testers who helped with the new FreeDOS web design. The new

Re: [Freedos-user] Updated FreeDOS web design

2007-06-16 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Oh, it's MSIE6 over WinXP over LCD screen (NO ClearType). Aitor 2007/6/17, Aitor Santamaría [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I don't know if it's just me, but the current font (at 17th of june) looks a bit strange and harder to read... Aitor 2007/6/8, Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks to all

Re: [Freedos-user] Brief notes on using KEYB

2007-06-16 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello Grant, You're right. At current stage, the modifier keys operate some extra magic on BIOS variables, and there are YET no commands in KEYB to perform those changes. There will be in the future, but not a near future. Aitor 2007/6/9, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED]: you won't find the KL

Re: [Freedos-user] keyboard function and cursor key remapping problem

2007-06-16 Thread Aitor Santamaría
With KEYB you can actually do this, there's a basic behaviour which lets you remap, for cerain scancode, the character it produces. You can in addition remap the scancode, too (e.g. for german). Then you have strings, which provide further flexibility. Do let me/us (Henrique) know if you need some

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS icon

2007-06-16 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Am I too late to see the old one? I still see the fish (mozilla based, the favicons never seemed to work very well with MSIE, with mozilla based they allways work well, I ignore why). Aitor 2007/6/15, Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Mateusz, I saw that the FreeDOS website's icon has

Re: [Freedos-user] COUNTRY.SYS settings

2007-06-26 Thread Aitor Santamaría
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

Re: [Freedos-user] COUNTRY.SYS settings

2007-06-27 Thread Aitor Santamaría
already. Aitor 2007/6/26, Aitor Santamaría [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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

Re: [Freedos-user] COUNTRY.SYS settings

2007-06-27 Thread Aitor Santamaría
]: On Wednesday 27 June 2007 12:55, Aitor Santamaría wrote: There IS NLSFUNC, but only for the UNSTABLE kernel, so I guess perhaps hasn't been distributed in the official distributions. Okay, I have installed the unstable kernel (which, by the way, isn't unstable at all - at least for me). I

Re: [Freedos-user] COUNTRY.SYS settings

2007-06-27 Thread Aitor Santamaría
I ignore it, perhaps Eduardo (developer of NLSFUNC) has some tools for creating/editing such files, or Eric or Henrique have some ideas? Aitor 2007/6/27, Mateusz Viste [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 27 June 2007 19:54, Aitor Santamaría wrote: Once with the unstable kernel, you should create

Re: [Freedos-user] COUNTRY.SYS settings

2007-06-27 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Looks ok to me, in what sense is it buggy? Aitor 2007/6/27, Tom Ehlert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BTW: country=33 (spain) would be perfekt, it it wasn't buggy (1000's/decimal point swapped) /* Spain */ ,{ 33, /* = W1 W437 # Country ID Codepage */ 850,

Re: [Freedos-user] COUNTRY.SYS settings

2007-06-27 Thread Aitor Santamaría
I've seen one bug right now, shouldn't Spain be 34? (Can't remember if the DOS country codes are the ones used in telephony, but in such case, it's definitely 34). Aitor 2007/6/27, Tom Ehlert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BTW: country=33 (spain) would be perfekt, it it wasn't buggy (1000's/decimal point

Re: [Freedos-user] COUNTRY.SYS settings

2007-06-27 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello Tom, Actually they aren't. The decimal separator is arguably ' (see below), but the thousand separator is universally accepted (and known) as . in Spain (and NEVER the ,). As for the decimal separator, there's a typical controversy between official and widespread. The official symbol is '

Re: [Freedos-user] runtime tool needs new translations

2007-06-28 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello Eric, A quick one: 2007/6/28, Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1 seconds segundos 2 elapsed transcurrido (or transcurridos if it's plural) 3 RUNTIME is free public domain software by Eric Auer 2007 Usage: RUNTIME your_program [your_options] Shows how long your_program ran, max

Re: [Freedos-user] I've created a glossy version of Blinky

2007-08-31 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Looks good! It's nice to see a 3D version of the logo. Just one thing: I've seen the main logo in the site and noticed that its border, as much as it's mouth, is black. In your picture, the background is also black, so it mixes with the border. Could you please create another one over, say, white

Re: [Freedos-user] I've created a glossy version of Blinky

2007-08-31 Thread Aitor Santamaría
2007/8/31, Mateusz Viste [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Friday 31 August 2007 17:31, Aitor Santamaría wrote: Could you please create another one over, say, white background, where the black border can be easily differenciated? Hi Aitor! It seems you're using some some oldish image-reader software

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Updater

2007-11-30 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, Congrats on the package system!! I think it is a great idea. Just some comments: (1) About the files to be put, I guess that the package system would not, for the moment, try to download from a site outside ibiblio itself, so the binary and source files could be simply unix links to the

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Updater

2007-12-02 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, I am going to give a bunch of ideas, I hope any of those is of some use. 2007/12/2, Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: One more thing: I think the pkgs and spkgs for the update server should be assumed to be different than the zip files that we upload to ibiblio. A pkg and spkg have a

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Updater

2007-12-02 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2007/12/2, Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: put zip files on ibiblio that cannot be included on the FreeDOS distribution because they are not free for all... You are right. The updater can make use of extra nonfree repositories outside ibiblio, while our ISOs gotta be free. Following

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Updater

2007-12-03 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2007/12/3, Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 12/2/07, Aitor Santamaría [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But programs that are in the distributions can be assumed to be re-zipped pkgs, especially so if we choose to rename them with FDP or PKG. That is good. Then you could go along

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Updater

2007-12-04 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Great! 2007/12/4, Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think we've covered the important points so far in our discussion. I've started to capture the thread in a new changes to the software list document, using as much copy/paste from this discussion as possible. That document can be the start of a

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos x Virtual PC x Jemm

2007-12-24 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2007/12/20, Lelio [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Maybe you could say I=e000-efff but at your own risk. I do not understand... You tell JEMM to use the e000-efff memory space, and you may run into troubles if there is some hardware mapped at those addresses. Just try and see. display: I know it

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos update and 4dos

2008-01-20 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Me too. Aitor 2008/1/18, Blair Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am with Tom On 1/16/08, Tom Ehlert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) 4DOS in FreeDOS 1.1: Will it - the package - have the structure of directory as the other programs? Or not? (freecom is in the root-directory...) You are

Re: [Freedos-user] looking for epson or escp printer users

2008-02-24 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2008/2/15, Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This will also be useful for some related projects: Writing some extension for the Blocek DOS Unicode editor to print unicode text as graphics, and writing a driver which lets you print text as graphics using the font you are using on the screen

Re: [Freedos-user] 64b Dos Extender Outline

2008-06-24 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, I'll give you my opinion. Perhaps more than facing on features, I see two foreseeable problems. (1) If computers are ever to boot on a 64-bit world with EFI instead of BIOS, I guess that there would be a kind of 16/32-bit API for maping BIOS into EFI, otherwise that is key to FreeDOS (or

Re: [Freedos-user] put drivers in XMS

2008-07-02 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2008/6/3 Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Robert, I remember some old driver in protected mode and cloaking related stuff from the old days but only few drivers did support it afair? So I would suggest that we just take our new open source drivers and turn those which really need a

Re: [Freedos-user] put drivers in XMS

2008-07-02 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2008/6/3 Michael Reichenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED]: iw2evk schrieb: It's possible under freedos 1.0 put the drivers in XMS insted UMB? Can be used cloaking.exe , and in wich modality? many thanks in advance. Roberto iw2evk Hey! I had some time ago a similar suggestion. Loading into

Re: [Freedos-user] Finding incompatible drivers?

2008-07-09 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2008/6/6 Michael Reichenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there a list with known incomparability's? Or some way to 'guess' what will be very likely to be incompatible? Or a tool for automatically testing all configurations until I can not reproduce the bug? Automatically not. You

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos Speed

2008-07-13 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, It is a well-known Turbo Pascal Library bug, you can either fix the resulting program, or the TPL itself. More details here: http://www.brain.uni-freiburg.de/~klaus/pascal/runerr200/download.html Regards, Aitor 2008/6/18 Richard D. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm new to Freedos, and tried it

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 status

2008-09-02 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2008/8/29, Travis Siegel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Speaking of freedos 1.1. I know freedos isn't intended to be dos *exactly* but it is intended to be a free dos replacement. This is fine for those using emulators under other operating systems, and those who can see their screens. However,

[Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: FreeDOS EDIT 0.9a (FD-Dflat+ based)

2008-09-06 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hi all, I hereby announce FreeDOS EDIT 0.9a (the sucessor of EDIT 0.7d). The big change about the 0.9 series is that it is now based on FreeDOS DFlat+, which is a user interface development toolkit, that has actually been excerpted (and continued) from EDIT. Thus, if you ever happen to see

Re: [Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: FreeDOS EDIT 0.9a (FD-Dflat+ based)

2008-09-06 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello Michael, More information about DFlat+ is at the freedos-devel list (not here), I'll forward to you the mail privately. I do not keep track of how it was prior to FreeDOS EDIT, but I am afraid that the development and patching of D-FLAT inside EDIT turned it too BorlandC dependent.

Re: [Freedos-user] invalid opcode when loading mode

2008-09-28 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2008/9/21 Geraldo Netto [EMAIL PROTECTED]: lh DISPLAY CON=(VGA,,1) Maybe vga,437,1 instead? LH makes no sense without emm386... actually i would use it with 850 cp which pt-br, it seems to 'run better' with no value ie: if i try to use display con=(vga,850,1) the screen get a

[Freedos-user] Fwd: invalid opcode when loading mode

2008-09-28 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, As usual, Eric ported the conversation to private (is it just me who does NOT like it?), and after a long thread, for those interested, the results are: (1) Several programs ceased to work properly whenever LH without a XMS driver NOT being present and you try to load high (using UNSTABLE

Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS services

2008-09-28 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2008/9/25 Hans [EMAIL PROTECTED]: a 286 or newer processor). If EDIT or KEYB fail on your 80186, try EDIT 0.7d and MKEYB, which should work even on 8086. Or use no keyboard driver at all (if you use US keyboard layout). Let us know if you find other programs which do not work on 80186

Re: [Freedos-user] invalid opcode when loading mode

2008-09-28 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2008/9/28 Der kleine Beitrag eines Computeranwenders (Users) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm a DOS user since the early 90's, I used DR DOS 5.0, later MS-DOS 7.00 and DR-DOS/OpenDOS 7 a lot, always together with 4DOS. I always removed DISPLAY.SYS, MODE CON ... and just left COUNTRY=49,850,

Re: [Freedos-user] Cyrillic charset.

2008-10-01 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2008/10/1 Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi! 1) I have discover strange behaviour in the 'FreeDOS Edit 0.7d'. When I type cyrillic 'п' (hex AF), then 'п' will disapper and 1-5 following symbols will stay invisible. I have a suggested patch for that but you can use it for EDIT 0.9

Re: [Freedos-user] Cyrillic charset.

2008-10-02 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, #define CHANGECOLOR (unsigned char) 19 /* prefix to change colors (old: 174) */ #define RESETCOLOR (unsigned char) 23 /* reset colors to default (old: 175) */ no need to make PR, but just have in mind that for users it is far easier to use binaries rather than compiling themselves.

Re: [Freedos-user] invalid opcode when loading mode

2008-10-04 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2008/9/21 Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: prompt $p$g set path=a:\dos set NLSPATH=A:\DOS\NLS set LANG=PT lh DISPLAY CON=(VGA,,1) Maybe vga,437,1 instead? LH makes no sense without emm386... I don't see in what sense will notifying that his machine is codepage 437 help out. From his

Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS services

2008-10-05 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2008/9/28 Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Aitor, Hans, a 286 or newer processor). If EDIT or KEYB fail on your 80186, try EDIT 0.7d and MKEYB, which should work even on 8086. Or use no keyboard driver at all (if you use US keyboard layout). Let us know if you find other programs

Re: [Freedos-user] Cyrillic charset.

2008-10-05 Thread Aitor Santamaría
, How difficult is it to change menu and controlkeys in Edir 0.9 to mimic M$ Edit in Portuguese? Alain Aitor Santamaría escreveu: Hello, 2008/10/1 Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi! 1) I have discover strange behaviour in the 'FreeDOS Edit 0.7d'. When I type cyrillic 'п' (hex AF), then 'п

Re: [Freedos-user] invalid opcode when loading mode

2008-10-05 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2008/10/4 Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From his AUTOEXEC he does not seem to be using codepage 437 at all, but 850 As far as I understood, the number mentioned when you load DISPLAY is about the hardware codepage, not about the codepage loaded by DISPLAY...? Yes I wouldn't use LH,

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS viruses? Please send info

2008-10-26 Thread Aitor Santamaría
In that aspect, FreeDOS should not behave different from MS-DOS, so any info about MS-DOS will do. Aitor 2008/10/17 Alexandru Fira [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Please tell me, is Freedos vulnerable to DOS viruses ? Please point me to a site where I could find DOS viruses ! I would like to play with

Re: [Freedos-user] Cyrillic charset.

2008-10-26 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2008/10/17 Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: the BIOS will never return E0 as the char code AL is the ASCII value, AH is the scan code. And in my tests, the cursor keys returned ASCII E0, scancode depending on key so E0 can be returned. Special key combos such as right alt q (altgr-q in

Re: [Freedos-user] Problems after adding more RAM

2009-02-08 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2009/2/4 Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de: FreeDOS KEYB 2.0 (pre4) Critical error: cannot allocate memory. DOS reported error: 8 For DISPLAY, you would expect XMS to be used, but for KEYB? That is MCB allocate, function 48h. Used to allocate data in an independent MCB block, so that KEYB

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-04-04 Thread Aitor Santamaría
But then it wouldn't be compatible with the LFN that came with Windows9X and is used in the millions of USB devices or the like, nor with the applications that are LFN-aware (unless you'd like to rewrite the DOS LFN API descript.ion-based... Aitor 2009/4/2 Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de: Hi!

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing programs on FreeDOS v1.1

2009-04-11 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, I think that it's a good idea overall that one can decide the folder where one can install the big programs, as could be to have a OpenWatcom or FreePascal distribution, whereas the single-binary ones (or equally smaller) should be merged into the freedos\bin directory. 2009/4/6 Eric

Re: [Freedos-user] What about changing our packaging style for v1.1?

2009-04-15 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, I strongly suggest to look for a way to exclude with unzip the extracting of the sources on a binary-only install mode. Just another small pro: we have one more letter in the file names (for those of us who care about the 8.3 format in the package names). And just another idea (maybe for

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS localisation project

2009-04-15 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Mateusz, it gives me a 404, did you manage to add it to the wiki, do you have editor permissions already? Aitor 2009/4/4 Mateusz Viste mate...@viste-family.net: Hi all! It has been a long time that the poor translation management was bothering me. There is no easy way to know what needs to

Re: [Freedos-user] FDUPDATE crash

2009-04-15 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2009/4/9 Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de: MS DOS 6.22 has a tool that graphically shows a representation of memory, I think it was called msd.  Is there an equivalent for freedos? There are various tools for that, a nice one is Quarterdeck MFT Manifest which is now freeware.

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-04-18 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Eric, what I meant is: see how many people writes to us telling that the MS-DOS-style MENUing in CONFIG.SYS does not work in FreeDOS, so I guess we would be flooded with messages like: I wrote with LFNs to a disk, and Windows no longer recognises the filenames, and has the FILE4~1.TXT form

Re: [Freedos-user] Compressed folders?

2009-04-18 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Besides the idea is completely other (and not bad at all, if you ask me). Appart from realtime compression, I think you save a lot from the variable-sectors-per-cluster approach... (Just the reason why a file of 1 byte of size may get compressed on a 1:32 ratio ;) ). Aitor 2009/4/12 Eric Auer

Re: [Freedos-user] New problems with Windows 3.1...

2009-04-18 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Eric, was the windows (partial) support ever ported to the stable kernel? (maybe that's why). Aitor 2009/4/12 Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de: Hi, Not workgroup. If I don't load emm386.exe, freedos version, I get an error that I have an unsupported dos version. If I try loading windows 3.1

Re: [Freedos-user] Abandonware site...

2009-04-18 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2009/4/13 Michael Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com: know of.  Technically, if the author of a proprietary program doesn't care about it anymore, sharing it isn't a legal problem. That is plain wrong. Many old games are back-to-life thanks to mobile phones, and it just evidences that

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS localisation project

2009-04-19 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Ok, I've seen it now, looks good! I can give you editor permissions, I think it's just enough to tell me your sourceforge username... Aitor 2009/4/16 Mateusz Viste mate...@viste-family.net: On Thursday 16 April 2009 04:58 (CEST), Aitor Santamaría wrote: Mateusz, it gives me a 404, did you

Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

2009-06-30 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2009/6/6 LM lme...@yahoo.com: I had to run the install CD twice to get FreeDOS installed on the hard drive.  The first time, I tried to pick an image on bootup and the system locked up.  Second time, I left it as default.  I guess I'm not very familiar with the programs that

Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

2009-06-30 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2009/6/13 dos386 dos...@gmail.com: Notable things: edit buggy (some PC's) Can you post any more information about those bugs? If you refer to the cursor blinking bug that was supposed to appear on 0.9a, so far I only know of a single PC of a single user where this bug appears

Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

2009-06-30 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2009/6/14 dos386 dos...@gmail.com: Hi! buggy (some PC's) Who what where? RTFB ... mouse cursor invisible on some PC's some? Do you have evidences of it to happen in more than ONE PC where it was discovered? Aitor

Re: [Freedos-user] De-Geekifying This List (Was: Some Simple List Rules)

2009-07-01 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello Mike, Thanks for writing and expressing your opinion. In fact, I think you brought an interesting topic that is also of my concern. When the freedos-user list was created, it was indeed created as a list for those users that need not have knowledge about the internals of FreeDOS itself in

Re: [Freedos-user] Lindin - a FreeDOS installer script for Linux

2009-07-01 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello!! Apparently, the downloads link is broken, right? I thought you would want to know about it.. Aitor 2009/4/28 maybeway36 maybewa...@gmail.com: My newest project is Lindin, the LINux Dos INstaller (typical Linux-style ridiculous acronym.) It is a shell script using dialog (or zenity, a

Re: [Freedos-user] Thank you to kernel developers for new kernel 2038

2009-07-01 Thread Aitor Santamaría
The kernel files are now mirrored to ibiblio: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/kernel/2038/kernel2038-fat16-binary.zip http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/kernel/2038/kernel2038-fat32-binary.zip

Re: [Freedos-user] Announcement: New DOS USB Drivers (fwd)

2009-07-02 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Bonnie, I see in his page that the source code is provided, but would you know what the license may be? Also can someone give some feedback on how they are working for you? Thanks! Aitor 2009/7/1 Bonnie Dalzell bdalz...@qis.net: When I was doing some help type work tracking down documentation

Re: [Freedos-user] Two non-bug reports.

2009-07-05 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hi, 2009/7/4 Christian Masloch c...@bttr-software.de: 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

Re: [Freedos-user] Two non-bug reports.

2009-07-05 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Christian, don't get me wrong, I very much appreciate yours (and those of many people) when it gets technical. I just don't know if plain FreeDOS users end up getting a simple question when they are looking for it. Anyway, not many people answered, so perhaps my appreciation is wrong and

Re: [Freedos-user] Whatever happened to freedos-32?

2009-09-02 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hi, Well, at least while those fancy 64-bit processors start at 16-bit, and have a 32-bit mode that can run tasks in the V86 mode, we are safe. I wonder, however, what will happen once Microsoft start releasing Windows only in the x64 flavour (and drop the x86), and something happens about our

[Freedos-user] Fwd: XST Basic

2009-09-03 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello guys, It seems we have available a new open source BASIC tool (interpreter?). I would like to know if any of you could give some feedback on it, try it (maybe compare with other BASIC tools), as I am not very familiar with BASIC tools nowadays. I'll be looking for your comments. UltraBas,

Re: [Freedos-user] XST Basic

2009-09-03 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Oops, that is what I was looking for, Eric. Did anyone in the list had the chance to give a try too? Sounds like a good candidate for another BASIC tool... Aitor 2009/8/27 Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de: Hi everybody, Angelo Rosina writes about a BASIC for DOS, forwarding some info from him

Re: [Freedos-user] Driver Problems

2009-09-03 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hi, About the screen problem: I don't know that model, but in earlier laptops, text mode wouldn't fill the whole screen (pixels weren't expanded), and that may be the reason of your problem. Under Linux, many text modes are actually graphic modes (framebuffers and such), and not pure BIOS text

Re: [Freedos-user] keyb and freedos

2009-09-11 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Sorry, I was wrong. The problem is with the syntax: drop the 'CP' letters: keyb UK,858,keyboard.sys Regards, Aitor El día 11 de septiembre de 2009 15:48, Aitor Santamaría aitor...@gmail.com escribió: Roberto, I gor your mail but am quite busy this week. The person that may easily help would

Re: [Freedos-user] keyb and freedos

2009-09-11 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Roberto, I gor your mail but am quite busy this week. The person that may easily help would be Henrique Peron (for knowledge). Regards, Aitor 2009/9/11 Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de: Hi Roberto, I am no expert for KEYB,  but even if Aitor is too busy to answer, I am sure somebody on

Re: [Freedos-user] Malware5.

2009-09-29 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Kurt, I usually send such zip files renamed to .aaa and bypasses that annoyance. Just make sure to tell the picker to do the rename Back ;) Aitor 2009/9/17, kurt godel wb2...@gmail.com: I just tried sending two versions to Pat, one the suspect tarball, the other an 'rar' type file; the gmail

Re: [Freedos-user] Malware 5.5.

2009-10-08 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Ok, just a suggestion, as apparently works for me as .aaa, or at least did the last time I tried :) Aitor 2009/10/1, kurt godel wb2...@gmail.com: Aitor, thanks, but I already tried that with Pat; the gmail catches it even with the rename!. kurtwb2...@gmail.com.

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