Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS program/beginner's problems

2015-02-13 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Rugxulo wrote: Hi again, On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 7:47 PM, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/10/2015 5:34 PM, Rugxulo wrote: But again, DOSEMU isn't widely deployed, so lots of people don't use it. It still works fairly well, just not popular. I'm not sure if that will ever

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS program/beginner's problems

2015-02-10 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Ralf Quint wrote: On 2/9/2015 7:57 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: Hi Eric, thanks for help, Eric Auer wrote: Hi Franta, struct dosemu_detect { char magic[8]; unsigned char ver[4]; }; static struct dosemu_detect far *p = (void far

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS program/beginner's problems

2015-02-10 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Eric Auer wrote: Hi Franta, I got the impression that string declared as char mystring[]=$DOSEMU$; is in memory stored as null-terminated string. This does not help you: The OTHER string STARTS with $DOSEMU$, but is NOT null terminated, so both strings still differ. Unless you

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS program/beginner's problems

2015-02-09 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Hi Eric, thanks for help, Eric Auer wrote: Hi Franta, struct dosemu_detect { char magic[8]; unsigned char ver[4]; }; static struct dosemu_detect far *p = (void far*) 0xF000FFE0; Note that the way how you create far pointers can differ

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS program/beginner's problems

2015-02-08 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Hi all, I'm trying to write a small program that will distinguish whether running under dosemu/FreeDOS or not, and accordingly do other things. I ran into problems which I can not solve, so please, if someone here will be able to help. I'm using Open Watcom C 1.9 compiler on FreeDOS 1.1. And it

Re: [Freedos-user] Command Line Parsing

2014-05-16 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Jack Jackson wrote: I've noticed a difference in command line parsing between FreeDOS and PC-DOS. Both FreeDOS and PC-DOS put the command line, starting with the character after the executable, in a buffer at offset 0x80 in the PSP. The behavior difference I see with FreeDOS is if the

[Freedos-user] UPX or not UPX FreeDOS programs/TSRs?

2014-05-04 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Hi all more experienced, I'm trying to revise and update dosemu-freedos package (subset of FreeDOS stuff used in DOSEMU usual installation) and I'm not sure, what is better - whether packaged programs by UPX or not. Actual dosemu-freedos-1.0-bin.tgz contains 40+ binaries, roughly half of them is

Re: [Freedos-user] display command

2014-05-04 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Dale E Sterner wrote: My machines are all old and use only IDE. As for SATA I don't see how that could be better. The S stands for serial or one bit at a time. A SATA drive interface has only 4 lines going into it vs IDE which has 44 lines. On SATA 2 lines are for power, the other 2 lines

Re: [Freedos-user] display-0.13b not know VGA ?

2014-04-21 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Eric Auer wrote: Hi! Not sure if this helps, but DISPLAY CON=(EGA,,1) should be sufficient for all your needs. For the font support, EGA is pretty much the same as VGA and display only is for loading custom fonts. If you do not plan to load a non-BIOS font, you do not even need display

Re: [Freedos-user] laser printers for DOS

2014-01-22 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
George Frothingham wrote: Can anyone suggest a source for monochrome laser printers with parallel interface that will work on FreeDOS. Regards George Frothingham IMO these two should work well: 1) Epson WorkForce AL-M300D: A4/Letter laser printer, USB+paralel, duplex printing,

Re: [Freedos-user] dosemu freedos and dvd-writer

2013-07-10 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Dietmar Segbert wrote: Hello, i have installed dosemu with freedos on my netbook with debian wheezy. I have some old dos programms to burn cds and read cd-images, called dao and snapshot ... I have also a portable dvd-writer samsung se-208db, which is in linux /dev/sr0. How can i