Re: [Freedos-user] Long pathnames in freedos

2007-04-15 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 14-Апр-2007 17:52 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: EA> actually your PATH -can- be very long, but the length EA> of each line in your autoexec is limited. You could do sth like EA> set path=C:\fdos\root\base EA> set path=%path%;C:\fdos\root\drv\usb EA> set path=%path%

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

2007-06-14 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 11-Июн-2007 16:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >> How can I remap function and cursor keys to those char codes: >> F1 to F6 to char codes 0xb1 to 0xb6 >> left right up down to char codes 8, 6, 0x0b, 5 EA> I think both KEYB and NANSI could do that,

Re: [Freedos-user] FD DEBUG v1.09 (and cpulevel2007)

2008-01-02 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 31-Дек-2007 16:30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >> is there, it's the "Year's End Edition": >> http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=2808 >>http://www.japheth.de/dwnload4.html EA> PS: There is also a new edition of my CPULEVEL to

[Freedos-user] announce: OpenWatcom 1.7a (1.7.1) distributive in .zip archives

2008-03-20 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! http://www.openwatcom.org/index.php/Alternative_Open_Watcom_distribution Although there is no more official distribution of OpenWatcom as a collection of .zip archives after OpenWatcom 1.3, you can download OW 1.7a (1.7.1), and previous releases, as multiple zip files from ibiblio. These

Re: [Freedos-user] Help linking to Borland Turbo C project to external object file ?

2008-03-20 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 21-Фев-2008 23:30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon Townsend) wrote to Freedos users : ST> We've managed to get Borland Turbo C 2.0 to compile a large model test file ST> without error, but we need to link to an OBJ file provided by the ST> manufacturer of the card. ST> How do we tell the Borland deve

Re: [Freedos-user] Help linking to Borland Turbo C project to external object file ?

2008-03-21 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 21-Мар-2008 22:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon Townsend) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: ST> Thankyou!, we eventually created a .lib file from the object file we had ST> using TCLIB, then the rest became easy! ST> TCC BGIDEMO.C GRAPHICS.LIB Not need to make library from o

Re: [Freedos-user] [OT?] Connect file manager

2008-04-25 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 25-Апр-2008 20:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Florian Xaver) wrote to freedos-user : FX> just played around with this file manager. Beside Necromancer DOS FX> Navigator this is also a feature-rich program. It has a very good FX> editor and a html-viewer (with support of hyperlinks). So also FX> intere

Re: [Freedos-user] [OT?] Connect file manager

2008-04-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 26-Апр-2008 09:39 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Florian Xaver) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: FX> I have some questions: Do you know why NDN is closed source? I thought FX> that it must be under GPL, because DN is under GPL... ?? Is the FX> Russian scene of NDN very active now? Sorr

Re: [Freedos-user] [Freedos-devel] Floppy with Freedos + Euphoria Language

2008-04-29 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Marco Achury 05.04.08 9:02 wrote: > I like the Euphoria language. The WIN32 pack includes a DOS32 > interpreter. I have added a interpreter of Euphoria language to a > Freedos emergency floppy and some aditional utilities. You can download at: > http://www.rapideuphoria.com/eudos.zip

Re: [Freedos-user] loading other config.sys?

2008-05-12 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 12-Май-2008 14:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >> Is it possible to include from one config.sys a file config2.sys and >> execute the content of config2.sys right after config.sys? No. But why you need this? [...] EA> You can have a menu sy

Re: [Freedos-user] Running Descent on fast CPU? / UMBPCI speed problem

2004-02-03 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 3-Фев-2004 20:36 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: EA> How can I run Descent (for DOS) on a fast CPU? Can you recommend EA> any slowdown program (preferrably using the RTC IRQ which happens EA> more often than the default 18 Hz timer tick...)? There is a such uti

Re: [Freedos-user] Still problems with too fast Turbo Pascal

2004-02-04 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 4-Фев-2004 13:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: EA> Maybe I did not look well enough, but I could only find patches EA> which are either for Borland/Turbo Pascal version SEVEN only EA> or require recompiling the programs or only stop programs from EA> crashing on RE

[Freedos-user] DE->English

2004-02-08 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! What mean "MIT" and "ohne" in Deutch (for example, "MIT Symbios support"/"ohne Symbios support"). --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of E

Re: [Freedos-user] DE->English

2004-02-08 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 8-Фев-2004 16:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: BB> mit = with , ohne = without Thank you to all who answered. BB> Symbios support? onboard SCSI bios? Yes. Some Asus motherboards have built-in Symbios/NCR SCSI and support for this in BIOS. Curr

Re: [Freedos-user] DE->English

2004-02-08 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 8-Фев-2004 17:59 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>BTW, what needed in BIOS (which INT 13 functions?) for support big >>drives in MS-DOS7 and FreeDOS? BB> define "Big Disks" please 7.8+ Gb. BB> only thing I understand as big disk is 48bit Logical

Re: [Freedos-user] re: DE->English

2004-02-08 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 8-Фев-2004 17:58 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: EA> FreeDOS and "WinDOwS" both use the BIOS for support for > 8 GB disks EA> (LBA disk access), at least during boot. _DOS_ always uses BIOS. EA> builtin. Same for Linux, of course. So what you need for LBA disk

[Freedos-user] Q from user

2004-02-08 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Below question from user. Please, answer directly to him (note: @ in address replaced by space). __O\_/_\_/O__ From: Bryce Subject: Re: Freedos boot disks -720k- > B> Where can I find, or how do i make, a 720k freedos bootdisk ima

[Freedos-user] move

2004-02-09 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! I take a look at move31s and move31x archives and have questions: - what is (empty) move/archiv, move/java, move/source/backup, move/source/nextver and move/source/ver30 directories? - why such strange hierarchy: move/bin, move/doc/move and move/source/ver31? As I understand, should

[Freedos-user] Q from user

2004-02-15 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Below question from user: __O\_/_\_/O__ From: "Deepak Lewis" We r building a CD player capable of playing DivX movies for our college project. The output is to be shown on a TV. Is there some way u can supress the screen dis

[Freedos-user] answer from user about ODIN

2004-02-18 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! __O\_/_\_/O__ I've downloades ODIN - and it works! SB> Today I got a laptop with a BIOS-pwd. For running a CMOS-Reset-Tool I do SB> need an DOS-environment. So I downloaded the Diskimage from FreeDos. But SB> now, if I am booting, I can

Re: [Freedos-user] Arachne, PNG, GIF, Unisys Lempel-Ziv-Welch patent expired

2004-02-19 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 19-Фев-2004 10:27 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Hall) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> I don't know. Perhaps they have a separate plug-in for PNG? But why >> don't you use GIFs? The Unisys Lempel-Ziv-Welch patent expired 8 months >> ago (see http://www.unisys.com/about__unisys/lzw) JH> LZW (used in GI

Re: [Freedos-user] Arachne, PNG, GIF, Unisys Lempel-Ziv-Welch patent expired

2004-02-20 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 20-Фев-2004 08:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luchezar Georgiev) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> Also, PNG format is better in all aspects and (in most cases) images there should >> be more compact. LG> Of course, but what can one do if Arachne doesn't support it? AFAIK, some time ago Arachne wa

Re: [Freedos-user] Looking for HIEW 6.11 freeware hex editor (have 4.41!)

2004-02-21 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 21-Фев-2004 07:41 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: EA> Hi, I just tried to mail SEN but the mail bounced. Maybe you know more? EA> Bounced mail follows: sen at kemtel.ru http://webhost.kemtel.ru/~sen Latest (commercial) version is 6.86, latest freeware (free as beer

Re: [Freedos-user] re: Who wants to hear something funny?

2004-02-24 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 25-Фев-2004 03:30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: EA> PS: Our FAT32 LBA boot sector does not REALLY use the "FAT1x root directory EA> entries" EA> value BUT it assumes it to be zero But for FAT32 this field _should_ be zero. EA> (it interprets the "number

Re: [Freedos-user] Using FreeDOS on a disk image for a bootcd and a few other tricks

2004-03-05 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 5-Мар-2004 09:21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nicholas Basso) wrote to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: NB> I need to find out if there's a way I can use FreeDOS's sys command to write NB> a floppy bootsector to say a file? SYS a: bootsec.fil --- This S

Re: [Freedos-user] CD not accessible

2004-03-08 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 8-Мар-2004 23:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BB> search for VIDE-CDD.SYS. it's most stable vendor-supplied ATAPI BB> cdrom-driver. This name is usually used for driver from OTI (Oak Technologies), which makes chipset, used in many (most) CD-ROMs. ---

[Freedos-user] Q from user

2004-03-11 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Below question from user. Please, answer directly to him (note: @ in address replaced by space): __O\_/_\_/O__ From: "Jeff Worne" I've just installed FreeDOS using Virtual PC. I'm trying to install an old DOS game (Crusader) but

[Freedos-user] BOOTFIX 1.2

2004-03-14 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Next version of BOOTFIX (1.2) placed on site of Michael Devore (ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/bootf12.zip). You may use this utility at least to view drives properties, but it also diagnoses the properties if they are valid. In next versions will be addeded support to readi

[Freedos-user] bootfix 1.3

2004-03-15 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! New version of bootfix prepared. Now it checks both default and current BPBs and compares boot record with current, not default BPB. Also, under NT-family, where direct disk access not implemented, bootfix will say error about boot sector reading error. With help of Michael this edition p

Re: [Freedos-user] MEMA / MEM /EMM386 error

2004-03-17 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 17-Мар-2004 13:41 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BB> device=emm386.exe noems BB> mema /e -> MEM: error: EMM call 41h This is because EMM returns no page frame. Well... May be, this shouldn't be an error (I remember someone says that we may work with EMS wit

Re: [Freedos-user] MEMA / MEM /EMM386 error

2004-03-17 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 17-Мар-2004 13:41 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BB> device=emm386.exe noems BB> mema /e -> MEM: error: EMM call 41h Well, now MEMA supports EMS configuration without page frame. Well, I try with QEMM and MS-EMM: with QEMM for "frame=none" and "noems"

Re: [Freedos-user] some questions about freedos with a xt

2004-03-19 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 19-Мар-2004 09:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Maussner) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: MM> - mema just dont output annything.. no error, too.. just a free line and MM> then MM> back to the prompt. (what can i use to show the free memory) If this is mine MEM, may I send you testing edition, w

[Freedos-user] Disk Editor

2004-03-20 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Thanks to Bernd (he gives me URL), I try the Disk Editor by W0rm. First try: looks like there used 8x8 fonts (and selected 640x200 mode) - not nice. Secondly, WDE tries to show boot record as FAT32, even on FAT16. --- This SF.Net ema

[Freedos-user] bootfix 1.4

2004-03-22 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! With help of Michael Devore, on his site placed version 1.4 of BOOTFIX. This version is now compilable both by Borland C and OpenWatcom. It shows slightly more information (to ease using logs even without dumps), before reading BPB added reseting disk (look like this is sometime required

Re: [Freedos-user] xms16, xms32

2004-04-07 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 6-Апр-2004 00:59 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dmitri) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: D> How do I enable to load anything to XMS16 and XMS32? See INT 2F/4300 and INT 2F/4310 in RBIL. Read for description XMS . To "enable" XMS you shou

Re: [Freedos-user] wde disk editor / Arkady

2004-04-11 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 10-Апр-2004 23:17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (WЬrm) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> try: looks like there used 8x8 fonts >> (and selected 640x200 mode) - not nice. W> It doesn't use a graphics mode - it uses text mode 80x43, since 80x25 is W> not big enough to fit all the information...what's wrong wit

Re: [Freedos-user] ArcadeOS / there seems to be a porblem (installation)

2004-04-14 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 13-Апр-2004 23:34 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jay Maus) wrote to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: JM> Okay, so I've started the install, and everything's going sorta okay, JM> except.. well, it's bizarre. Do you download latest kernel from freedos.sf.net? Do you download latest HIMEM and EMM386 (announces f

Re: [Freedos-user] Writing Utilities for FreeDOS

2004-04-25 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 24-Апр-2004 18:55 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jay Maus) wrote to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: JM> Also, do I need a native FreeDOS environment to compile in, or can I JM> cross-compile with gcc? No, you can't. Also as with VC and BCB - all them don't support 16-bit target platform. JM> Also also, is th

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Defrag is very slowww

2004-05-10 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 10-Май-2004 13:24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: EA> things: /r needs a progress info like "printf("Scanning sector %lu of EA> %lu\r"...)" Bug report for OW: __O\_/_\_/O__ - when stdout directed to a con

Re: [Freedos-user] "PNG" files in DOS

2004-05-09 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 9-Май-2004 00:38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lucas Pedrosa) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: LP> Does anybody know of any program for DOS that can LP> convert PNG graphics to other more common formats, such as BMP, GIF or PCX? http://www.pictview.com/pictview.zip http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/src/ ftp:/

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: "PNG" files in DOS

2004-05-09 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 9-Май-2004 05:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: EA> PNG is a pretty complex format, It smart, not "very complex". Most its complex part is compression (Deflate, which based on LZ and Huffman encoding). --

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: lbacache

2004-04-30 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 30-Апр-2004 17:30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roberto Quiroga) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >>> CPU Type Tillanook-MMX RQ> Sorry is Tillamook-MMX >> Strange CPU unless you meant Intel Pentium III Tilla-something... Is it Tillamook is a mobile version (TCP/MMC package) of P55 (first Pentium with M

RE: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS beta9 release candidate 5.

2004-05-03 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 3-Май-2004 02:36 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mika Salakka) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: MS> As I understand it, FreeDOS' support for FAT32 is limited, though, but I MS> could be dead wrong on that one, too. FD suppors FAT32 completely. --- T

Re: [Freedos-user] cdrom disc removed but still accessible

2004-05-15 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 15-Май-2004 01:48 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BA HCL) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BH> I get a list of valid drives by probing the drives in my system with: BH> mov ah,4Eh BH> mov al,XX ; XX=drive {1..26} BH> mov dx,filespec ; A:\*.* BH> int 21h Bad way: try to clean the diskette and you find n

Re: [Freedos-user] Too many files ...

2004-05-16 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 16-Май-2004 20:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Massimiliano Chini) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: MC> I have a problem with a dos progam. It start but after some work I recive MC> the error: "Too many files at address 1234:5678" MC> I have already modified config.sys: MC> FILES = 200 Which program?

Re: [Freedos-user] Too many files ...

2004-05-17 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 17-Май-2004 07:32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Massimiliano Chini) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> Which program? MC> It is an old program for scentific calulations. It was written in 1985. -^^^---^^^ >> How you work with it? MC> I ma

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386.exe

2004-05-17 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 17-Май-2004 21:21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> I could go back to HTML style to get nice formatting, but then you'd have to fight >> off Eric Auer for me, so if you want to do the battle, let me know who wins and >> I'll change or not, accordingly. What I

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386.exe

2004-05-17 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 17-Май-2004 14:03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >>as always, your message appears as 1 long line. Very wide. Manually quoting now.. MD> wins and I'll change or not, accordingly. What I won't do is change away MD> from using the world-standard multi-platform E

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386.exe

2004-05-18 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 17-Май-2004 16:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: as always, your message appears as 1 long line. Very wide. Manually quoting now.. >>MD> wins and I'll change or not, accordingly. What I won't do is change away >>MD> from using the world-standard multi-plat

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386.exe

2004-05-18 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 18-Май-2004 12:23 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >>no big problem. MD> Alright, I changed to hard CR's, I look at source of your letter (which I answer) - no, there are no hard CRs inside paragraphs. :) :( -

Re: [Freedos-user] Configuration files help

2004-06-11 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 11-Июн-2004 17:31 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johnson Lam) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >>CTMOUSE JL> LH CTMOUSE can squeeze some base memory Wrong. When CTMOUSE loads itself up, it does this better. At least, because enivronment will never make hole before CTMOUSE in upper memory. --

Re: [Freedos-user] [Crusader No Remorse] FreeDOS Virtual PC on OSX - cant save

2004-06-12 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 12-Июн-2004 19:03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dominik Pich) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: DP> I can run it with sound just fine but everytime I try to save the game, DP> it quits to dos with the following Error: DP> FILE.C Line 631 DP> Unable to create file. This message is application internal an

Re: [Freedos-user] Configuration files help

2004-06-14 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 12-Июн-2004 21:29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray Davison) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: RD> Does FreeDOS not have emm386.exe or dpms.exe? DPMS.EXE is is proprietary Novell program with implementation of DPMS, which was never be common. EMM386.EXE for FD exists, see the links on the www.freedos.or

Re: [Freedos-user] Good C compiler for FreeDOS?

2004-06-21 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 21-Июн-2004 22:56 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karim) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: K> stuff or extraordinary Libs needed. So I hope I can compile it with K> DJGPP or Turbo C. What do you think? Which compiler should I try to work K> with these unix based sources? OpenWatcom (www.openwatcom.org)?

Re: [Freedos-user] Introductory questions about ancient dBase II and FreeDOS

2004-07-04 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 3-Июл-2004 16:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jacobs Shannon) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: JS> The first question regards compatibility of FreeDOS with ancient dBase II. JS> Is there anyone who can speak to this issue? Why to speak? Just run dBase and see if it works or not. (I doubt that someone

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Freedos-user digest, Vol 1 #180 - 3 msgs

2004-07-06 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 6-Июл-2004 08:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >>From: "Arkady V.Belousov" >>Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 16:41:51 +0400 (MSD) >>Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Introductory questions about ancient dBase II >>JS> The second question is the most con

Re: [Freedos-user] lredir issue (again I think!)

2004-07-07 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 7-Июл-2004 09:20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luigi D. C.) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: LDC> Sorry of annoying with an old question but can someone explain me how LDC> the situation is, before I do all works to upgrade FreeDos. You should definitely upgrade FreeDOS kernel, especially this is very

Re: [Freedos-user] Version reporting question

2004-07-18 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 18-Июл-2004 14:51 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (16 BIT) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1B> Sometimes I have to use CALLVER to run a program. My question is: 1B> What version number does FreeDOS report? Unless you use VERSION= in config.sys (bigfixed in 2035a), with FAT32 support FreeDOS reports 7.1,

Re: [Freedos-user] features of FreeDOS vs. MS/PC-DOS: roadmap ideas

2004-07-19 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 19-Июл-2004 03:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: EA> is at best simplistic (okay, ClamAV ClamScan is not ;-)), EA> our HIMEM does not load parts of itself to HMA, FD-HIMEM under FreeDOS uses 2.03k of low memory, MS-HIMEM - 47.8k. Ant this is not much more, tha

Re: [Freedos-user] features of FreeDOS vs. MS/PC-DOS: roadmap ideas

2004-07-19 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 19-Июл-2004 14:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> FD-HIMEM under FreeDOS uses 2.03k of low memory, MS-HIMEM - 47.8k. Ant >>this is not much more, than 1.14k of MS-HIMEM under MS-DOS. BB> as told, the 47.8KB usage is a bug in MS's kernel (IO.SYS , dos 7.10,

[Freedos-user] Re: [Freedos-devel] Small EMM386 update & call for bugs

2004-07-22 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 22-Июл-2004 13:24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: MD> were enabled by the last EMM386 change. The SoundBlaster drivers hook MD> EMM386's interrupt descriptor table, as well as its GDT (per previous MD> release remarks) and redirect all INT 3's (debug interrupt)

Re: [Freedos-user] [anounce] move 3.2

2004-07-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 27-Июл-2004 23:52 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BB> I have no idea if Arkady's development-kernel fixes the kernel-side of BB> the bug Imre talks about. Not yet. I suggest, I know _how_ to fix this, but this touches fatfs.c, which I not proceed yet. May be

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: ODIN 0.70

2004-08-09 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 6-Авг-2004 04:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory Lumpkin) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: GL> autoexec.bat GL> GL> @echo off GL> set PATH=A: GL> set temp=A: GL> set tmp=A: set temp=a:\ set tmp=a:\ path a:\ Note absolute (not relative) path ("A:" mean current directory on the A: dri

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Serial port card

2004-08-09 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 3-Авг-2004 19:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Price) wrote to Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I assume that given the right BIOS CMOS setup the PCI card will >> simply work with all DOS programs. JP> True, but how does a DOS program know what IRQ and port to JP> use? Can it use one of the prede

Re: [Freedos-user] serial and parallel port thro' dosemu

2004-08-09 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 1-Авг-2004 15:30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasad Mehendale) wrote to freedos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: PM> Can anyone guide me to access serial and parallel ports using freedos in PM> dosemu? copy file prn copy file aux Here "pren" and "aux" are drive names of first printer port (LPT1) and first seria

Re: [Freedos-user] Will FreeDOS work from a primary slave partition?

2004-08-09 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 30-Июл-2004 21:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rakhesh Sasidharan) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: RS> My primary master drive is completely filled -- with win 98, win xp, RS> freebsd, and linux -- but I have a primary slave drive that is kinda RS> empty and I was wondering if I can install FreeDOS there.

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Will FreeDOS work from a primary slave partition?

2004-08-10 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 10-Авг-2004 02:33 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: EA> you can do even more: with a boot loader (lilo, grub, WinXP one...) EA> you can boot FreeDOS from any partition on any sane int 13h device EA> which is in FAT12/16/32 format. HOWEVER, the kernel will always search

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Will FreeDOS work from a primary slave partition?

2004-08-10 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 10-Авг-2004 16:48 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BB> I remember instances with the PowerQuest BootMagic program (a bootloader) BB> where problems occurred. You could set multiple primary partitions active. BB> Disk1, multiple primary partitions, FAT filesystem. -

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos can't start-up

2004-08-13 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 13-Авг-2004 09:15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]: rcs> I'm the first time FreeDos user, my company asked me to evaluate the rcs> FreeDos, but encountered some difficulties during start-up. rcs> FreeDOS HIMEM64 3.11 [Apr 09 2004] (c) 1

[Freedos-user] Q from user

2004-08-20 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! I get question from user. Please, answer directly to him (note: @ in address replaced by space): __O\_/_\_/O__ From: "Burrell Jim (ext)" Subject: Installing FreeDOS I recently bought a tablet PC. It has no disk drives of any kind

Re: [Freedos-user] two questions

2004-08-26 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 25-Авг-2004 18:46 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasad Mehendale) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: PM> 1. I tried to play a game "gorilla.bas" on freedos with qbasic. It runs PM> veryslow. Is it exepcted due to some shortcomings of freedos PM> or I have to modify certain

[Freedos-user] Q from user (about UDMA)

2004-09-09 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Below question from user. Please, answer directly for him (note: @ in address replaced by space): __O\_/_\_/O__ From: "Nagy Gсbor" Subject: UDMA I'd like to use UDMA driver for DOS, but it doesn't work with my 5ALI61 type mainboar

[Freedos-user] fwd: Free BASIC for FreeDOS.

2004-09-18 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Below forwarded letter from Ilya V. Vasilyev (softkey rambler.ru): Let it be known, there IS both free (GPL) and good replacement for QBasic. Look at SmallBASIC project http://smallbasic.sourceforge.net/ It has even PLAY and DRAW routines, QBasic-compatible! Though someone need to make

Re: [Freedos-user] Netx refuses to run even with "Version=6.2"

2004-09-21 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 14-Сен-2004 10:06 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (anon permutation) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ap> I am running freedos(0.83 pl 3) inside dosemu on Linux. I have already put ap> "version=6.20" inside my config.sys, however, Netx still complains that it ap> requires Dos v3.x through v6.x. What am I doing

[Freedos-user] Q from user

2004-09-21 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Below question from user. Please, answer directly to him (note: @ in address replaced by space): __O\_/_\_/O__ From: "Keith Weisshar" Subject: Dell and N-Series PC I read on Dell's website and it ships an N-Series PC with a FreeDO

[Freedos-user] Re:

2004-09-21 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 21-Сен-2004 00:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jose Antonio Senna) wrote to "Arkady V.Belousov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: JAS> I have been using your version of FreeDOS kernel,which I downloaded JAS> from Luchezar Georgiev site. JAS> So far,it behaved as well as the mainstream ve

Re: [Freedos-user] Unable to format harddisk partition after reboot

2004-10-13 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 13-Окт-2004 11:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christof Meerwald) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: CM> I am unable to format a harddisk partition after a reboot (the problem CM> occurrs in a Linux dosemu box and on real hardware), here is the version CM> information of the FreeDOS kernel: CM> FreeDOS kernel

[Freedos-user] corrputed disk (was: )

2004-10-13 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 12-Окт-2004 20:04 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arne Eckmann) wrote: AE> Who is legally responsible for damage created by FreeDOS ? No one. If you read any software license (including GPL), you find there something like: __O\_/_\_/O__

[Freedos-user] Re: corrputed disk (was: )

2004-10-13 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 13-Окт-2004 17:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arne Eckmann) wrote to "Arkady V.Belousov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: AE> I'm sorry to trouble you with this. FreeDOS really need to have an official AE> address to which unsuspecting people like I can address our anger, AE> dis

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Help.. Freedos not.. FREE

2004-10-14 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 13-Окт-2004 14:19 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Williams) wrote to "Arkady V.Belousov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: DW> I'm trying to use Nero and make a Bootable Image of FREEDOS so I can use DW> that to recovery DW> Windows Cripled Machines.. Upgrade Bios.. and such.. I

Re: [Freedos-user] new member with a simple question?

2004-10-18 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 17-Окт-2004 13:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Zubey) wrote to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: WZ> My reason for being here is the purchase of a new Gateway Computer. WZ> I am not new to computers but this model is different from all others I have WZ> had in the past. It comes with a 200 gigabyte hard dr

Re: _ Re: [Freedos-user] new member with a simple question?

2004-10-18 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 18-Окт-2004 02:20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Giulio Sorrentino) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >>had in the past. It comes with a 200 gigabyte hard drive! >>Can FreeDOS work and help me partition this large drive? GS> freedos work on fat16 or fat32: fat16 can see at max 4 gb, fat32 40. GS> With a such

Re: _ Re: [Freedos-user] new member with a simple question?

2004-10-18 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 18-Окт-2004 12:43 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Giulio Sorrentino) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >>GS> freedos work on fat16 or fat32: fat16 can see at max 4 gb, fat32 40. >> Wrong answer(s). First at all, FAT32 limited to 2Tb (two terrabytes), GS> NTFS Is limited to 2 or 4 TB (i don't remember), FAT

Re: [Freedos-user] What is OS ?

2004-10-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 26-Окт-2004 19:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasad Mehendale) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: PM> My question is- PM> Is it possible to describe an OS in short ? If yes, can any one do this for PM> me? OS is a set of services and utilities, which controls hardware resources and manage programs its

Re: [Freedos-user] What is OS ?

2004-10-29 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 26-Окт-2004 19:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasad Mehendale) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: PM> My question is- PM> Is it possible to describe an OS in short ? If yes, can any one do this for PM> me? OS is a set of services and utilities, which controls hardware resources and manage programs its

Re: [Freedos-user] Some automagic SETVER for FreeDOS

2004-11-06 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 6-Ноя-2004 12:57 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nicholas Basso) wrote to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: NB> to "switch formats". Why, if I had it my way, I'd reprogram the servers at NB> sf.net's listserv to allow a moderator option to strip all HTML and force NB> all messages to only be in plain text, through th

Re: [Freedos-user] RE: Freedos-user digest, Vol 1 #287 - 1 msg

2004-11-06 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 6-Ноя-2004 22:32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jondavey) wrote to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: J> I was thinking today, something that confuses me is; when I want to edit a J> text file I would invoke/call a text editor but when I want to use DOS I J> envoke a DOS prompt. What program is the DOS prompt? S

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS in the news

2004-11-13 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 12-Ноя-2004 07:27 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Hall) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: JH> OpenWatcom became available, that OW was largely compatible with BC code, Unfortunately, OW doesn't "largely compatible" (and never was/is planned to be) with BC. As pointed by Michael Necasek, main compatabi

[Freedos-user] Re: help

2004-11-17 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 17-Ноя-2004 09:14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray) wrote to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: R> I have a small problem. I installed freedos and had all kinds of problems R> trying to boot up.. Which ones? R> I then went back to the freedos site and read (in bold R> red letters) not to install if I had win

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Re: help (WinXP and FreeDOS on one computer)

2004-11-17 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 17-Ноя-2004 20:43 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: EA> the big warning on freedos.org is indeed important to know about. EA> IF you have WinXP (or WinNT or Win2k) on your PC on a NTFS drive EA> AND IF you have a FAT based operating system as well, for example EA> Win9

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Re: help (WinXP and FreeDOS on one computer)

2004-11-17 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 17-Ноя-2004 23:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BB> Eric's OSCHECK utility is more reliable, as it uses different ranges of BB> errorlevels for: BB> -no known bootsector found BB> -known bootsector found BB> -known bootsector + kernel file found BB> each range i

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Re: help (WinXP and FreeDOS on one computer)

2004-11-17 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 18-Ноя-2004 00:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> What about grub/lilo? What about other bootloaders, which not yet known >>at time of writing/compiling OSCHECK? (I mean, adding some lines with FIND >>is easier with (noncompilable) batch file). BB> I lack t

[Freedos-user] Q from user

2004-11-19 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Below question from user. Please, answer directly to he (note: @ in adress replaced by space): __O\_/_\_/O__ From: Liam Subject: View problems in FreeDos I am trying to use FreeDos BETA 9, booting from the cdrom iso. Most of the

Re: [Freedos-user] my first post and first freedos night -> installation fails

2004-11-27 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 11-Окт-2004 03:08 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sergiy) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: S> I have a 386-er laptop with 20Mhz CPU, 10MB RAM and 40,7MB HDD S> I tried to install freedos from base floppies, cause i dont have cd-rom S> drive and pcmcia on it =( S> But it doesn't work korrektly. What goes

[Freedos-user] Re: which Freedos with XP?

2004-11-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Салям! 28-Ноя-2004 22:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trent Slade) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: TS> The Beta 9 Freedos says it can't be run with nt/2000/xp. So which TS> build of freedos can I use? What mean "can't be run with"? Which troubles you have? ---

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2004-11-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
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Re: [Freedos-user] Looking for a program that switch all file names to capital letters

2004-11-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 28-Ноя-2004 22:37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karim) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: K> I`m looking for a program that rewrite all file names with capital letters. DOS (any DOS) always stores (short) names in capital letters. Long names (which available for DOS programs under Windows GUI or with hel

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: which Freedos with XP?

2004-11-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 28-Ноя-2004 16:35 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> TS> The Beta 9 Freedos says it can't be run with nt/2000/xp. So which >> TS> build of freedos can I use? >> What mean "can't be run with"? Which troubles you have? BB> Arkady, the Beta9 had a bad batchfile

Re: [Freedos-user] Looking for a program that switch all file names to capital letters

2004-11-29 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 29-Ноя-2004 17:52 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karim) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: K> I don`t know what`s wrong here. The compiler doesn`t seems to find the K> unit and put an error message on the screen. What error message says? Does this happen under FreeDOS or under other OSes (MS-DOS, W9x, etc

Re: [Freedos-user] Looking for a program that switch all file names to capital letters

2004-11-29 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 29-Ноя-2004 20:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karim) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> K> I don`t know what`s wrong here. The compiler doesn`t seems to find the >> K> unit and put an error message on the screen. >> What error message says? Does this happen under FreeDOS or under >> other >> OSe

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