Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos hard drive detection...
Hi, I'll ask Jack is it possible to force the RAMdisk look like a hard disk. Sent from Johnson's iPhone On 21 Jun 2010, at 2:35 PM, Michael C. Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: Battletech 2 knows that a ramdisk isn't a hard disk and refuses to work from one. On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 13:25 +0800, Johnson Lam wrote: Hi, I suggest you code a simple batch to copy the game to a RAMdisk, after quit copy the save game back to ZIP. Play it on the ZIP is slow and wear out the disk. Sent from Johnson's iPhone On 21 Jun 2010, at 12:54 PM, Michael C. Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: I have a zip 250 atapi drive where I am wondering why Battletech 2 the Crescent Hawk's Revenge knows that this isn't a harddrive? Does anyone know a simple way around this issue? --- --- --- - ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos hard drive detection...
Hi, I suggest you code a simple batch to copy the game to a RAMdisk, after quit copy the save game back to ZIP. Play it on the ZIP is slow and wear out the disk. Sent from Johnson's iPhone On 21 Jun 2010, at 12:54 PM, Michael C. Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: I have a zip 250 atapi drive where I am wondering why Battletech 2 the Crescent Hawk's Revenge knows that this isn't a harddrive? Does anyone know a simple way around this issue? --- --- --- - ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Problems with SHUSCDX/XCDROM
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:05:38 -0200, you wrote: Hi JAS, Does anyone have an idea of what is causing this? XCDROM was outdated. Please try UIDE. http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos Click Jack R. Ellis Drivers to download and see if the problem still exist or not, please read the documentation. Rgds, Johnson Lam. -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] printing to USB
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:43:05 +0200, you wrote: Eric, Well, 17 lines of Assembly and 5000 of C, who will ever be able to understand and update that code? I hope at least Bret still understands it :-). By the way, what is the license? There're always SOMEONE can do it, if HE wish. I am really curious about performance and compatibility comparisons between the Bret Johnson USB drivers and the Georg Potthast drivers. Did anybody try them both yet? Not yet, but I'm sure Phtthast's version have almost no room for improvement, except he do it himself, the sample code is in strange BASIC that few people can understand, and code drivers in high-level language usually is not recommended. If they both give access to the packet layer (the Georg Potthast one does, afair) through their APIs in some way, it should be possible to write a wrapper: Then you could use device drivers made for one of the 2 USB stacks with the respectively other USB stack :-). But the driver need to be small and solid, otherwise neither take a lot of memory or conflict with others. As said, the FreeDOS OEM edition of the G.P. drivers is free for any use with FreeDOS and has public domain device drivers but a closed source freeware USB stack, while the B.J. drivers are completely source available but I could not find the license details for that one. Bret Johnson seems have no details, should be public domain or GPL, you can ask him if you wish to improve his driver. Rgds, Johnson. -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] printing to USB
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:02:59 +0200, you wrote: Hi, PS: Have you tested the drivers from http://bretjohnson.us/ yet? That one is more open source but only does UHCI USB 1.1. :-). Finally someone did the job: Code USB programs with assembly language. Rgds, Johnson. -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] printing to USB
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:19:33 -0300, you wrote: Hi, Unfortunately it is only free for personal use... Too bad, it's coded in BASIC, also it's not free. Jack did thinking of a small and beautiful USB driver for DOS (with BIOS call), but he have no sample code (I don't think Intel will have sample code in assembly). And information (how to code for EHCI or UHCI ... just drop the OHCI, it's slow and outdated). If anyone can help to gather these information, please update me. Rgds, Johnson. -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] 2009-06-23 [ RDISK.COM ]
Hi, Jack R. Ellis did a lot of hard work to change the RDISK.SYS to a .COM file, and now RDISK.COM can specify a drive-letter for it (load with AUTOEXEC.BAT), please download and report if any problems found. Please read the README.TXT for detailed information. [ http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/file/drivers.zip ] Thanks. Rgds, Johnson. -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE.SYS
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:59:27 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: Hi, Dumb question: Is UIDE.SYS _only_ for native [[motherboard]] controllers? I tried it with two PCI adapter card controllers -- one IDE controller and one SATA controller and UIDE.SYS did not find drives connected to either of the cards. More precisely: UIDE.SYS is only for standard INT13 access. Good news for you, Jack found another potential bug and working on it, it may or may not affect this, but it's good since it means UIDE.SYS become more bullet-proof to the bad BIOS. Rgds, Johnson. -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] New XMGR (2009-05-01)
Hi Everyone, 1-May-09 -- Fixed XMGR Port 92h logic error. Added XMGR /PA and /PN switches to control use of Port 92h logic. Rgds, Johnson. -- Register Now Save for Velocity, the Web Performance Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] MS compatible CLIENT
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:20:29 -0500, you wrote: Hi, Is MSCLIENT the only choice? Has anyone tried to create something open sourced for FreeDos? Seems only MSClient available, didn't see anyone do this, maybe too complex. Like FDCLIENT? :) Big project :) 1) New NICs stop providing NDIS drivers anymore 2) MS compatible client need to fully support LFN read and write, but I'm not sure the DOSLFN write action is safe or not 3) You can leave out UNC support otherwise printer will not work, but this will consume lot of memory 4) Need to support not only NDIS but packet driver, or even code your own NIC drivers Rgds, Johnson. -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] usb boot
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:05:15 -0300, you wrote: Hi, But, It works only at some machines. I've tested many PC with my bootable USB stick. USB boot heavily depends on BIOS itself, if the BIOS of that PC sucks, you have no chance whatever how hard you try. Rgds, Johnson. -- Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] superFDISK
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:23:01 -0300, you wrote: Hi, Why is it that you don't need sources to get drunk for free? Why dou need sources to get on your soap box and make a speech? For me this is one of the greatest misteries in the internet... Be respect the author, even no source available. Even sources available, many programs still lay around without any significant improvement. Thanks for those releasing free programs, send them an email of appreciation, that's enough. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay v1.56 alfa3 with ftp-client released (2)
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:11:12 +0100, you wrote: Hi Flo, Please test the new ftp-client in DOS, because the author has only tested the windows-part... Thanks for the news. Too bad my test machine was broken, now busy playing DOS within Vmware Fusion and VirtualBox. Rgds, Johnson. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Congrats to Grech!
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:07:11 +0100, you wrote:
Eric, you are a wag. :))
Sorry my English sucks, I didn't even have a chance to go to University.
I check up the WIKI and found the following ...
Wag can also be:
* A verb expressing a rocking movement, as in the wagging of a dog's tail,
also used to describe the motion of chemical bonds
* A person who is fond of making jokes
* A verb referring to truancy in Australian or New Zealand slang
* Wag's, an American restaurant chain
WAG can refer to:
* WAG, {Wild Ass Guess} In electronic forums
* WAGs, a British tabloid press term for the Wives and Girlfriends of
sportsmen, particularly footballers
* Walgreens, a U.S. convenience/drug store (NYSE symbol: WAG)
* Wanganui Airport, New Zealand (IATA code: WAG)
* Welsh Assembly Government, an executive body in Wales
* West Asian Games, a sporting event
* Wireless Advisory Group, a group which provides advice and information on
wireless technologies to the JANET community
* Wireless Audio Gesture, a wireless device worn by guitarists to change
effects
* World Air Games, an international competition of air sports
* The Winnipeg Art Gallery in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Can you write in plain English?
Thank you!
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Re: [Freedos-user] Congrats to Grech!
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:57:20 +0100, you wrote: The guys you mentioned to be your witnesses, Kuhnt and Lucho, they are slightly biased, aren't they? Great! BIASED or not, let the world judge it, I think it's the best answer! History have no mercy on bad guys, and it reminds us what's the name of the good people. Ask yourself: Want to be good or bad? - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] PG v1.16 updated
Dear All, Sorry, I've made a mistake and let the old pages stay for a while, actually the binary was there. Rgds, Johnson. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] [2007-08-16] UDMA update
2007-08-16 - [ DOS ] UDMA now uses /S5 to /S1023 for 5-MB to 1-Gigabyte caches! All drivers again check for an 80386+ CPU. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] LAME 3.97 final
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:10:26 +0200, you wrote: Hi Florian, Nice. LAME's source code is one of the ugliest things I've ever seen. Any plan to clean it up? Rgds, Johnson. - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Installed on top of WinMe: system unusable.
On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 01:38:30 +, you wrote: I like the open source program GAG for this. It doesn't require a partition and I find it MUCH easier to set up and configure than GRUB. It isn't quite as pretty, but you only see it for a few seconds. Thanks Mark. Still using your multi-OS boot CD, works great! GRUB too complex for me. - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Display Mode Change
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:32:58 +0800, you wrote: Hi, For the NDN display mode problem, finally I found that after press SHIFT-F10 (NextVid) the 6th times, screen will have garbage characters on the right pane, continue to the 9th time will hang up whole PC, need to press ALT-CTRL-DEL. IBM NetVista Desktop CPU: Intel Pentium 4 -1.7GHz Chipset: Intel 845G Video: Intel 845G(L) Integrated / 320KB Appreciate Eric or anyone to improve Necromancer DOS Navigator. Thanks. Rgds, Johnson. - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Display Mode Change
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:28:17 -0300, you wrote: Hi, Yes, there is active development in NDN... That's good, it's a fine software. As for impouving it's display functions I can help, but only if somone can make a detailed howto of how to set up it's compile environment. Usualy this can take days which I don't have to spare, but I have some experience with PC's video. Specially on the compatibility issue. I need to try it on other PC, but I need some time, and I think mode detection should be carry out by an external utilities and write the result in a vmode.ini to let the main program use it without crashing anything. Have you contact the developer of Necromancer DOS Navigator? I want to test on other similar model PC, to make sure this is really a problem, rushing to report may not help. Rgds, Johnson. - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Display Mode Change
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:05:40 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: Eric, Hi, as said, please test which of the modes reachable with MODE do work. As you did not tell which modes NDN is trying to use, and as I would not know how to find out easily, doing some tests with MODE first seems good. Thanks! Please wait for my test, I'm currently no access to that PC. A bit busy right now. I'm not sure what mode, because I keep using next function, after 2 or 3 clicks it reboot. Rgds, Johnson. - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Display Mode Change
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:28:00 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: Hi, In what way? There are TSRs to provide the 8x14 font which is misssing in some modern VGA BIOSes (to save space). You can do a lot with VESA VBE 2 already (VBE 1: no framebuffer, slow), so even in DOS, not many people will notice problems if no VBE 3 support is there. My NVIDIA 7800GT fail to change mode under NDN (other than 80x25), I have no idea and don't know how to make it work. I don't think that kind of high-end card can't do this kind of simple task, just don't know how to enable it. Rgds, Johnson. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Display Mode Change
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:56:12 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: Hi, My nVidia 7600 works okay in DOS, both with text mode and graphics mode, but maybe NDN wants some mode which is not supported. Please give more details, where do I download NDN and what do I do to reproduce the problem? Which modes did you try, and which of the modes reachable by our MODE command cause problems? Notice that MODE is not very smart and creative, so sometimes it cannot figure out how to go from one mode to another while you can still reach the mode if you select the right sequence of steps manually. Things like 80x60 80x30 and 132x25 VESA text modes should work without further ado, only the EGA/VGA/CGA decision is hard. The source code may have problem. Running NDN in a IBM NetVista (old P4), the mode change will cause the screen have garbage and reboot. They should code a mode detect program and use it's result for NDN. Rgds, Johnson. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] test
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:16:13 +0300, you wrote: Hi Arkady, This is test letter to test 8-bit texts handling on sourceforge. Это тестовое письмо для теста работы с 8-битным текстом на sf. PS: There 2 paragraphs above (with empty line after each), each with 2 lines in it. Very good, though not everyone can see Cyrillc, and I don't understand. Rgds, Johnson. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] LBACACHE, QCACHE STACKS=9,512
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 18:43:14 +0100, you wrote: Hi, How about licensing? Is qxumbpci GPL/open source? Free and closed-source (sorry). 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. Correct. Rgds, Johnson. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Install FreeDOS on most WindowsXP Computers - updated ISO and Procedure
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:48:00 -0500, you wrote: Hi, I have updated my procedure and bootable CD for installing FreeDOS on almost any WindowsXP computer. You can install FreeDOS beside WindowsXP without damaging the WindowsXP installation. Great! The download links will be valid for three weeks. The ISO image is available at http://www.mytempdir.com/1086884 and contains a PDF file of the procedure. If you would like the PDF procedure file, you can get it from http://www.mytempdir.com/1086915 Do you mind I mirror them? I would appreciate feedback from anyone who uses the procedure so that I can improve it. All of my computers boot both WindowsXP and DOS! I can do this in under ten minutes - it will take you a bit longer the first time. Thanks for your effort. I'll try to report if there's any problem, so far it didn't have any problem for me. Rgds, Johnson. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Clear-up
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:41:21 +0300, you wrote: Hi, Q-drivers are positioned by their author as opposition for FreeDOS project and its contributors, because authors thinks we all are NAZI. This is not true, a single word different means millions of mis-understanding. 1) The author don't want the binary host in FreeDOS server 2) He addressed SOME of the developers, not ALL Please don't involved in not-friends then enemies thinking logic. A large grey areas lies between. Rgds, Johnson. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] QXHIMEM and QXUMBPCI
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 19:53:57 + (UTC), you wrote: Hi, Maybe someone more familiar with qxumbpci could comment here. Seems it's better to quote a part of README in QHIMEM32 package: QXHIMEM is an all in one driver having all needed functions for users who prefer the UMBPCI upper-memory manager written by Uwe Sieber.It combines the existing QHIMEM and QDBOOT drivers' logic. QXHIMEM loads after the QXUMBPCI driver, which is a modified V3.67 UMBPCI that shares its upper-memory information. After QXUMBPCI enables it, QXHIMEM will load directly in upper-memory with no boot driver. It provides both upper and XMS memory for the DOS system. It also has an I-O catcher similar to QDBOOT and can catch diskette or hard disk I-O above 640K. QXHIMEM will do such I-O through the low memory DOS workspace buffer. This avoids DMA problems with UMBPCI Shadow RAM. QXHIMEM takes 2304 bytes of upper-memory with its normal 32 XMS Handles up to 2976 bytes for all 128 Handles. NO low memory is used, saving 304 bytes versus the previous drivers! QXHIMEM and QXUMBPCI eliminate needing QHMBOOT, QDBOOT, UMBPCI, QDREL and QHIMEM. This minimizes the size of user DOS diskettes and simplifies the boot process. Rgds, Johnson. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Boot Halted After RAM Upgrade
On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:25:32 + (UTC), you wrote: Hi, After upgrading RAM from 512 MB to 1.5 GB FreeDOS won't load. I'm using 2GB RAM, works fine. Next, lbacache won't load: INSTALLHIGH=D:\FDOS\BIN\LBACACHE.COM 8192 QCACHE did the same job as LBACACHE, choose neither but not both. DEVICE=D:\FDOS\BIN\QHMBOOT.SYS /T7 DEVICE=D:\FDOS\BIN\QDBOOT.SYS /R /W Try remove /W, see if it crash or not DEVICE=D:\FDOS\BIN\UMBPCI.SYS Download latest QHIMEM v3.2, inside have a modified QXUMBPCI.SYS for QHIMEM, use them to save lots of conventional memory. DEVICEHIGH=D:\FDOS\BIN\QDREL.SYS DEVICEHIGH=D:\FDOS\BIN\QHIMEM.SYS /N128 /T7 DEVICEHIGH=D:\FDOS\BIN\QCDROM.SYS /D:CDROM1 /UF /L /X DEVICEHIGH=D:\FDOS\BIN\CDRCACHE.SYS CDROM1 CDRCACH$ 12 DEVICEHIGH=D:\FDOS\BIN\TDSK.EXE 8192 Try others, TDISK crash in my test config long time ago, and I switched to SRDISK (Resizeable RAMDisk) DEVICEHIGH=D:\FDOS\BIN\NANSI.SYS /S INSTALLHIGH=D:\FDOS\BIN\LBACACHE.COM 8192 Use QCACHE or LBACACHE, don't load both. SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /P=C:\FDAUTO.BAT Fdauto.bat @ECHO OFF PROMPT $P$G SET DOSDIR=D:\FDOS SET NLSDIR=%DOSDIR%\NLS SET HELPPATH=%DOSDIR%\HELP SET PATH=%DOSDIR%\BIN SET TEMP=E:\TEMP SET TMP=E:\TEMP SET DIRCMD=/P /OG /A SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 SHCDX33A /D:?CDRCACH$ /V /~+ /Q+ SHCDX33C was out. CTMOUSE.EXE ECHO CuteMouse Driver Loaded I use CTMOUSE /Y If still crash, try MEMTEST86+ to check the RAM, a very small chance ... maybe the RAM have problem. Rgds, Johnson. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] freedos msclient
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 00:06:01 +0200, you wrote: Hi Richard, I have tried to install msclient but I get the following error on boot: Error 3658: The IFSHLP.SYS driver is not installed. Because FreeDOS use FDCONFIG.SYS that MSClient fail to modify, try manually configure FDCONFIG.SYS to: DEVICEHIGH=C:\NET\IFSHLP.SYS I have a 3com 3c905c-tx nic. It picks up the driver fine during install. I have read something about UMB causing problems but haven't seen any solutions. You'll have another problem soon after solved IFSHLP.SYS. Anyone know how to get past this error? http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/ click Setup MS Client 3.0, the document should be able to help. If not, e-mail me. Rgds, Johnson. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Boot Halted After RAM Upgrade
On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:45:17 +0100 (MET), you wrote: Hi, QCACHE did the same job as LBACACHE... A similar job, not the same ;-). Of course not 100% the same. Users will pick what they like. DEVICE=D:\FDOS\BIN\QHMBOOT.SYS /T7 Why does he use T7?? What is QHMBOOT, some HIMEM placeholder? It's in the very detail README.TXT of QHIMEM package, try to download and read it, it's good to learn from others. DEVICE=D:\FDOS\BIN\QDBOOT.SYS /R /W Try remove /W, see if it crash or not What does /W mean? What does /R mean? What is QDBOOT? Just like QHMBOOT, for saving conventional memories. DEVICE=D:\FDOS\BIN\UMBPCI.SYS Download latest QHIMEM v3.2, inside have a modified QXUMBPCI.SYS for QHIMEM, use them to save lots of conventional memory. Lots of? UMBPCI only uses a few 100 bytes of memory at all...? Too long to explain, RTFineM. DEVICEHIGH=D:\FDOS\BIN\QDREL.SYS What is this? Same usage as QDBOOT and QHMBOOT DEVICEHIGH=D:\FDOS\BIN\QHIMEM.SYS /N128 /T7 Same question as above, why T7? Use which approach to detect XMS, different BIOS may only support their own way DEVICEHIGH=D:\FDOS\BIN\QCDROM.SYS /D:CDROM1 /UF /L /X Are you sure that /UF /L /X are always safe? If use with QHIMEM and QDMA, yes. I agree that TDSK is not so good, by the way... No one works on the old source code. And why not use SRDISK? It'S GPL and have full source, and it's quite stable (except fail to create RAMdisk 510 MB). Rgds, Johnson. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Boot sector not standard?
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:17:34 +0200, you wrote: Hi, Is FreeDOS' boot sector 100% compatible with a DOS boot sector? No, not even 50% compatible. :-) That's why Virtual PC refuse to read the FreeDOS floppy?! Rgds, Johnson. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Boot sector not standard?
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:18:05 +0200, you wrote: Virtual PC doesn't refuse to read the FreeDOS floppy at all, neither Version 2004 nor Version 2007 beta. Weird, last 2 week I've download Virtual PC from M$, but all FreeDOS disk can't read in Virtual PC, but MS-DOS have no problem. VPC is fully working with FreeDOS and even better than with MSDOS. Both FreeDOS boot sectors (SYS 3.2 and 3.6a) are working great under VPC. Can you send a small disk image to me? Your problem that VPC is refusing to read freedos floppy might be related to something other than VPC. Once I quite VPC, it can read in my XP-Home and another PC with FreeDOS only. Also I found VPC didn't support UDMA in all emulated device, VMWare seems better than it. Rgds, Johnson. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Need help ... calling COMMAND.COM from C
Hi, Please help Marton (marton=at=argentina.com), he stuck with a C program calling COMMAND.COM: Now that I moved onto my next step on my project, another issue arised... If I run this: TestDir.bat: dir /b c:\testdir d:\dirout.put The file dirout.put has the directory output... BUT, if I do it this way: TestDir2.bat: command /c dir /b c:\testdir d:\dirout.put The file dirout.put has the directory output but CUT... it never reaches the end of the output, it just cuts... Tried with many command coms and kernel versions... I really need to do it that way because I'm using the system() function on my C program and it runs command /c with what to run as an argument. Any ideas on that? Kind regards, Marton - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Need help ... calling COMMAND.COM from C
On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 02:29:02 -0700, you wrote: Hi Blair, Thanks. Sent him email. Hi. It almost sounds to me like the destination file isn't getting flushed to the disk. I would recommend doing the recirection internally in the C program, and then you have direct control of the file. A simple close(1); open(blah, O_WRONLY); /* system() stuff here: */ blah blah blah close(1); open(CON, O_WRONLY); should do but there are also ways to 'save' the original stdout and restore it later. Get him to contact me for details. Rgds, Johnson. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] JEMM386 v5.21
On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 19:47:11 -0700, you wrote: Hi, no, it is much different from Michael's. It may become known as EMM386 3.xx, but who knows. Just try to run those applications doesn't work before and see the result, the program will speak for itself. Rgds, Johnson. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Old program [ Directory Control v1.2 ] get a new breath
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:23:10 -0700, you wrote: Hi Blair, What's wrong with the current MOVE? I am perfectly happy with it. You replied the wrong topic :-) Rgds, Johnson. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: FD-KEYB 2.0 final ready!
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:05:44 +0100, you wrote: Hi Gerry, I completely agree, I think it's already 100x better! We're now in 21 century :-) Yes, but where do you draw the line, and how do you deal with backward hardware capability and how far back in history do you go? What about Just my own standard ... I think programmers need some guideline to work, otherwise everyone code different standard programs with different compiler and got different problems, consuming lots of human resources. 1) Basically should be 80386 based, because of the Protect mode, necessary for programs to access large amount of memory, but if the program don't need lots of memory, no need speed optimizations, 8086 should be supported if possible forward compatibility such as eight core 64 bit processor? If you 2) If the program is not TSR, and it's operation need large amount of memory or CPU power (e.g. codec, need a lot of calculating), it should have a routine to detect CPU ability and full utilize it. However program like FDISK or FORMAT doesn't need those advance detection. need/want a modern fast open-source o/s with a UI how does FreeDOS fit into this concept sitting next to Linux? Who will write all the drivers 3) The UI I refer to is a better layout TEXT, the Russian PTS-DOS shows a good UI, also TurboVision like UI is good for beginners. But for history reason, the original DOS UI need to preserve, solution is simple, just a switch or .CFG file to let user choose what they like for the latest NICs, USB, Kerberos, signed SMB, NFS, NTFS, TCP/IP with IP v6, not to mention cameras, scanners, printers - how will they all work? What standards will this new UI adhere to? These new things not exist before can have a TurboVision like UI, or try to direct inherit from Linux (if not too complex). I use RM more than deltree, and a number of DOS people sure have some UNIX port command line utils because they're really better than DOS, I don't think we need to wipe out the current DOS one, just improve it is enough! For example, DEL can be improved by adding /r for recurse sub-directories, XCOPY can be improved to handle date and time or file size filtering (refer to XXCOPY)... etc. Rgds, Johnson. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: FD-KEYB 2.0 final ready!
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:45:28 -0700, you wrote: Hi Blair, Hi. About the 80386 code thing. It is not necessary to switch to protected mode to use large amounts of memory. This is possible with plain 8086 code. And XDEL has options close to what you wish with DEL. If 8086 code can works. What I mean is ... only use 80386 when necessary, just like your LAME port, it should support the latest CPU candies such as 3DNOW Professional and SSE3 because CPU did affect the speed. Rgds, Johnson. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Old program [ Directory Control v1.2 ] get a new breath
Hi, BAHCL did improve the easy and tiny good old program Directory Control (DC), the new version is V1.2. It can show Kilobyte and Megabyte automatically without having 9 digit bytes, added attribute change feature, also many improvements and bugfix. Since he don't have a homepage, currently I'll host for him, details and download here: http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/dc.html Rgds, Johnson. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: FD-KEYB 2.0 final ready!
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:33:55 +0200, you wrote: Hi Aitor, As I wish to embrace other FreeDOS projects, there will be a small evolution through small evolutives in the 2.X projects (leaving maybe some for the 3.X series). I just mention some of the planned changes: - A first new release with lots of many more documents - Improvements in library file manipulation (UPX support to save space) - dynamic translations (as opposed to nowadays static ones) - supplementary loadable mappings (e.g. multimedia, apm, ...) - multiple layouts in memory - accessibility options - optional usage of XMS Best wishes to the success of KEYB, you did great job making it better. My own point of view, FreeDOS programs should better than MS-DOS old one (like KEYB), not just a clone, now we have a lot of memory and CPU power, allow to use a better UI, easier operation and a better speed. Rgds, Johnson. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Cutemouse locking up; suggestings on things to try?
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 04:20:04 +0400, you wrote: Hi, If you need wide array of systems and not need wheels support - 1.9.1 is your choice. 1.9.1 works with PS/2 mice on higher levels (through BIOS, not directly with hardware) and, thus, should be more portable and reliable. Agree! 1.9.1 should be kept absolute simple and portable, it works for most PC without any problem. For sophisticated functions the new 2.0a4 development thread is better. Rgds, Johnson. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Old program [ Directory Control v1.2 ] get a new breath
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 21:19:38 -0700, you wrote: Hi Chris, Dude, I have a webhost at www.aotksc.com 5gb disk quota if anyone want to I can host for them.. giving that the page not pull huge load of bandwidth. (Economy plan) I am writing a replacement for freedos move command an will add some xcopy recursive dir copy too. Thanks for your offer. BAHCL don't have a broadband connection in home, also he feel trouble to manage the host. I have no trouble host for him, just few files. If he want a personal page he may reach you later. Thanks. Rgds, Johnson. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Is Freedos a good OS?
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:40:27 -0600, you wrote: Hi Staffanson, As I am basically new to the world of DOS, how easy is it to adapt the sound card driver from Win98 to DOS? I now await your thoughts, comments, and ideas. Any help would be appreciated. You can ask BAHCL for details, he coded automatic jukebox alike program. The most improtant step is to find the sound card driver of your DELL PC. It may be a SoundMAX, REALTEK or CMI chipset (AC97), to make AC97 work in DOS, as I remember only MPXPLAY can. If you can post more information about your hardware, I may try to help to find sound driver for you. Rgds, Johnson. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Is Freedos a good OS?
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:15:21 -0600, you wrote: Hi, I have been to the Dell website, and downloaded the win98 soundcard driver. I don't remember off the top of my head, what the specific hardware is. But can the win98 driver be adapted to DOS? Chris was right, VxD can't run under DOS. For a very little chance some old Win95 drivers will include .SYS may work under pure DOS. If you can figure out the model number of the sound chips, then you may have a chance. Rgds, Johnson. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Novice FD User is looking for an USB driver
On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 11:28:49 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: Hi Edward, As I now understand DOS does not recognize the USB ports on this new fangled laptop. Where can I obtain a driver file to add to FreeDOS that will let me use the USB ports under FreeDOS? Then I can use connector Try my USB Driver disk first, I hope it work for you. Working or not depends on your hardware's compatibility. http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/usbdrv.html converters (parallel-to-USB) to connect the milling machine to the computer. Last choice. Rgds, Johnson. Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Little drivers
On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 14:55:32 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: Eric, Sorry to disturb you when you're watching world cup. In short, a nice extra for people who want to use little XMS and little DOS memory but still want to have a cache. Note that disks are so fast today that caching a fast disk on a slow PC can make overall speed actually go down, especially if you use a large cache configured to a think a lot about caching strategy mode. However, having a large cache is always a good idea if you want to reduce noise or want to reduce energy consumption :-). I think a RAMDISK is better if I got a lot of RAM, in fact I got trouble creating a 1GB RAMDISK. SRDISK only up to 512MB. And I need to test the other RAMDISK. And, in DOS, also if you have nothing better to do with your modern gigabytes of RAM ;-). Use RAM wise, search a large RAM area did take time too, it just work faster. I just want to notice users Q-series drivers are updating frequently, they should check what were fixed and update to latest version, for safety. Rgds, Johnson. Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FRISK Software stops development of F-ProtAntivirus for DOS
On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 10:24:06 +0200, you wrote: Hi Robert, You forget to mention F-Prot's resident shield or reliability. ClamAV is far from perfect and so it is NOT a replacement for F-Prot. Oh! I forgot, thanks for reminding me, it's been a long time. I use F-PROT because SCAN become slow like snail, it's been a long time, time proved it's solid design. Too bad it's not OpenSource, maybe we can ask FRISK to release the source. Rgds, Johnson. Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Glad to know FreeDOS move fast again!
On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 07:41:59 -0500, you wrote: Hi Jim, Warning: if you have slow dialup, visit http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/index.html instead. The top-level page has a 769kb photograph. I'm on broadband, and it still took about 8 seconds to load the image. (Johnson: if you save the photo as a JPG, it's 290kb.) I'll change it, not only because of the size, but the quality. Thanks for advise. Rgds, Johnson. Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Glad to know FreeDOS move fast again!
On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:44:11 +0100, you wrote: Hi Gerry, Your site is very helpful. It makes a change to see a site that is active; there are too many projects get forgotten and their sites not updated. Thanks. I steal the idea from someone, to let you know what's updated ASAP. It's not clear to new visitors you have to click DOS in the left frame. Sorry, forgot to mention. The latest driver not only do UltraDMA, also can REPLACE the bulky SMARTDRV, NORTON CACHE and CACHE2 ... But not for SCSI and SATAII? SCSI, no! SATAII ... planning. ATA/IDE disks have pretty much died... Well ... As a habit, people will use the old PC for DOS, but we're trying to catch up and show them even latest PC can run DOS, Jack built the latest drivers for new hardware, but we also need powerful OS and killer applications. I think a easy to use package of DOS + network + applications are urgent for those people still suffering from MS's slot machine. Rgds, Johnson. Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FRISK Software stops development of F-Prot Antivirus for DOS
On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:45:00 +0100, you wrote: It seems, that FRISK Software has stopped further development of the DOS version of F-Prot Antivirus. File 316F.NEW reads: 3.16f is expected to be the last version of the DOS scanner. Bad news?!? Of course, I like F-PROT, small and powerful. Clam have no official for DOS (DOS version port by Blair Campbell, have some minor problems), and without a nice UI like F-PROT. Rgds, Johnson. Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Glad to know FreeDOS move fast again!
On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 21:45:58 +0100, you wrote: Hi, Yes it's a nice photo, but it took ages to load! It's night view of Hong Kong. I'll replace it, let me find a better photo. Rgds, Johnson. Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Glad to know FreeDOS move fast again!
Dear All, Glad to know some of the developers back to work. I'm frightened by someone who want to kick me away (oh! censorship?). But I still want to help people in need, so my homepage updated with NEW DRIVERS, welcome to have a try on your PC. Don't want to put advertisement here, someone will be angry. Please visit my homepage (http://johnson.tmfc.net) and have a look. The latest driver not only do UltraDMA, also can REPLACE the bulky SMARTDRV, NORTON CACHE and CACHE2 ... with 3K resident size (oh, benchmark welcome, it's a read cache), performance should be close to them or better. Rgds, Johnson. Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] fdos install to f:
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:11:42 -0700, you wrote: Hi, You have to have bios that support USB disks at boot time through INT13H. If not then there be a usbaspi driver on the web... IIRC.. forgot web address. Anyone know where's the boot sector in the Compact Flash? I've tried to use a combo-card reader (support multiple flash, e.g. CF, SD, MS, SM) but failed. Will the card reader affect the boot process? Thanks. Rgds, Johnson. Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Help needed! Test for compatibility
Dear Users, A few people reporting the compatibility of Jack's QDMA driver recently, so Jack working hard to improve them. Can anyone help to test? http://johnson.tmfc.net Now QHIMEM and QDMA should be able to run in FreeDOS, DR-DOS and MS-DOS without problem (I've tested FreeDOS and DR-DOS, but no time to test MS-DOS), glad if someone can really help to test. ***QDMA now have Sector Caching, performance almost same with the CACHE2 but only consume 1712 bytes and no extra XMS! Thanks. Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Mailing list vs forum
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:31:08 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: Hi Johnson, with a forum, you would have to log in every time when you want to get the news. I prefer receiving the DOS news in my mailbox automatically... I don't mind, my software manage it well, just BAHCL feel pain. Also this method waste more bandwidth than forum, everyone yelling environmental protection but feeling convenient still override everything. A forum-like thing on our homepage is the FAQ: If you have a problem with DOS, report it in the FAQ, and check back from time to time to see if somebody has added a description of the solution to your FAQ entry. The best FAQ entries are linked from our Wiki, from a page there called the MetaFAQ. It's traffic is low because exactly it's not a forum, just guarded by a few people who keep watching. As we have many short mails between few people on the list recently, those people might want to mail each other directly, rather than through the list. Only OFF-TOPIC or not DOS related need to email privately. I respect the right of everyone, related topics should be public. needing an account) but this only works if you have time at the same moment, which can be a problem because FreeDOS is a world-wide project :-). Exactly. Rgds, Johnson. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem - PANIC: MCB chain corrupted System halted
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 05:48:54 +0400, you wrote: Hi, Not enough information: which config.sys and autoexec.bat content on those disk? After which statement in config.sys you get this message (what you see on screen before this message)? Which kernel and FreeCOM version you use (do you get latest versions?)? Cherry Chien replace memory manager and the problem gone. Rgds, Johnson. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem - PANIC: MCB chain corrupted System halted
Hi Arkady, Sorry, she downloaded the SR9 beta2 ISO and got MCB Chain corrupt, I told her to try Odin 0.6, well it solve the problem. The Kernel should be 2035a-unstable. Rgds, Johnson. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Mailing list vs forum
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:34:19 +0100, you wrote: Hi Gerry, I've never understood why mailing lists are so popular; surely NNTP is a far better and more efficient way to discuss things, plus it has the advantage of being able to manage archives and reduce bandwidth? Why would anyone want to send out and receive 100s of emails when you could simply view headers on a server and choose the ones of interest? I prefer a forum software, Simple Machines work great (I'm using it now). The login system secure no forge identity. Easy to manage, save bandwidth, you can even add your avatar. Rgds, Johnson. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] SYS A: C:
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:41:13 +0100, you wrote: Hi, 5. SYS B: C: /oem:ms (it says system transferred) When I reboot with the C drive marked Active I get two dots on a black screen and a flashing cursor, that wasn't expected... I suggest SYS should check the target to see it's bootable or not, otherwise don't report System Transferred since FDISK's default worry about your previous record and did not write anything to the hard disk. Rgds, Johnson. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FDISK bug (sorry I don't know how to use bugzilla)
On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 08:00:53 +0400, you wrote: Hi Arkady, MS-FDISK _never_ writes MBR code (at least, if MBR not empty), unless you do this explicitly through undocumented /MBR option. Suddenly a flash come across my mind -- You and those replied all correct, this is me who're wrong. I have to apologize to those replied, I'm awfully wrong. My problem is NOT MBR, and I got stuck in MBR. And, if MS-FDISK was to write MBR code in any case, then this was should broke any boot-managers, including MS' own itself, which comes with XP. My problem is another thing ... FD-FDISK refuse to make a Linux hard disk to FreeDOS, I guess it should be MBR, but I'm wrong. The problem is simple. I delete the Linux partitions and make re-partitioned with FD-FDISK, but it did not update the boot sector to DOS even I did a FORMAT C: /S, when I boot up I can still see LILO on screen with the PC hanged. Then I force a FDISK /MBR to solve the problem, this time I can boot up FreeDOS! Or use MS-FDISK (7.01) without FDISK /MBR, then use FreeDOS FORMAT C: /S, FreeDOS booted. I just don't understand why MS-FDISK can work without FDISK /MBR but FreeDOS won't, after that I try several times to remove the partition by FD-FDISK and did the same thing, butn the symptom can't be recreated. Driving me nuts. Rgds, Johnson. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FDISK bug (sorry I don't know how to use bugzilla)
On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 14:46:52 +0300, you wrote: Hi, This behavior is by design and documented. If you want to use fdos' fdisk then you should take advantage of it's features and read before you use it unattended in batch files. It is a drop-in replacement for the MS counterpart, but it corrects and enhances it. Sorry, stupid me ... read through the documents in the ZIP file but fail to locate the skip MBR details. Also If the Free FDISK skip writing MBR, better have an extra message to warn the user. I don't mind enhancement, but I don't think normal user will first search all the documents, recite them and use it, so warning is necessary. It's not a hidden rule, it's documented. Documented but with no warning and no message after making the partition, sorry for my stupidity but I expect it works same as MS-FDISK because interface and usage almost the same. Also when you choose NOT to let FDISK create a single partition and did on your own, the logical drive size will be wrong. I don't know if anyone got this problem also. dunno about this one. I'll try to take a photo each screen (can't capture inside FDISK). Rgds, Johnson. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FDISK bug (sorry I don't know how to use bugzilla)
On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 18:32:07 -0400, you wrote: Hi Jeremy, Assumming I recall correctly, this is by design, if the MBR is considered non-empty then it is not overwritten on purpose (also only the MBR on the primary drive is ever written to). The purpose behind this decision is to not overwrite LILO or any other multi-boot program or whatever program you have installed on your MBR; to forcefully overwrite use the not so documented /MBR switch (or one of FreeFdisk's other similar options) or clear the MBR prior to fdisking. This behavior is different from MS-FDISK, this will cause automated batch file fail. It's good to warn user NOT to overwrite if they're not sure, but this hidden rule cause trouble IF no one tell me what's happening. The solution should be Are you sure to write MBR? but not skipping the MBR, causing misunderstanding. Also when you choose NOT to let FDISK create a single partition and did on your own, the logical drive size will be wrong. I don't know if anyone got this problem also. Rgds, Johnson. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Partitioning Software
On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:28:13 +, you wrote: Hi, The fact that it is running Linux isn't a problem...it doesn't install Linux on the hard drive and GParted is a GUI program very similar to Partition Magic. It is about 40 Mebabytes and fits on a CD just fine. Linux runs from the CD and memory. GParted is already installed with the bootable CD. My incompetent language ability ... I mean the GParted actually very small for a 800MB CD (maybe it's below 100MB), and then the CD media is not very convenient for carrying outdoor. It'll great if it can put on Compact Flash, I just bought a 2GB CF. Rgds, Johnson. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] why make partitions hidden?
On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 22:28:00 +, you wrote: Hi Mark, http://gparted.sourceforge.net I would recommend trying that. The price is right! :-) Easy to use, the GUI really help understanding how the partition layout. Too bad it's too small for CD and too big for floppy, and need to boot Linux. Rgds, Johnson. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Distributions (Mpxplay)
On Fri, 26 May 2006 20:44:41 +0200, you wrote: Hi Flo, I wrote with the author of Mpxplay. He said, that there are very few downloads, so he wants to develope a windows version. Why? I love MPXPLAY! What do you think of including Mpxplay in all FreeDOS distributions? So that maybe more people would use it. And it would sound cool: ...with mp3,ogg and wmv player... ;-) Ask Blair, I think he don't mind. I asked him, and he allowed it. Good news. Actually it's AC97 and other strange sound chips native support made it unique, also not many player can play WMV. It's really a great player! But I don't think porting to Windows is a good idea, Windows have too many players. Rgds, Johnson. --- All the advantages of Linux Managed Hosting--Without the Cost and Risk! Fully trained technicians. The highest number of Red Hat certifications in the hosting industry. Fanatical Support. Click to learn more http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=107521bid=248729dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Sorry Jack, but you need to examine
On Thu, 18 May 2006 23:59:20 +1200 (NZST), you wrote: Jack, I'm afraid Bart may interpret your idea wrong, so let you check this. I'll try to respond with low profile. Quote a few lines from his email: = I did not model QHIMEM after Microsoft HIMEM V2.03, like you know. QHIMEM's source or binary files are very different from V2.03 HIMEM. Disassemblies may only confuse folks. But they are welcome to try. = Hey, I always like a challenge, so if I was welcome to try, I disassembled a bit. Some observations: QHIMEM is indeed not modelled after MS HIMEM. You can see that the MS source has been referenced, e.g. in the algorithm for allocating an EMB (very similar) and how to decide when to use PS/2 A20 switching (the MCA bit for int15/ah=c0). It certainly doesn't have a clean-room feel (purely coded from XMS spec), but that may not be necessary. Just like FD-HIMEM and FDXMS it either uses INT15/AH=87, or temporarily switches to protected mode (almost the same GDT setup) to copy. However, and that is what the interrupt stuff is all about, it copies in chunks of 8K: for every 8K it returns to real mode, STI's, CLI's and gets back into protected mode. QHIMEM, unlike MS-HIMEM, does not use flat real mode (aka unreal mode). I'm not sure where Jack got the 8K from -- maybe the timing on the slowest possible machine (386SX 16MHz) has something to do with it. The value for int15/87 is 1K, where FD-HIMEM and FDXMS use 8K chunks. QHIMEM uses a few tricks to save memory, e.g.: * the KBD A20 switching code is overwritten with PS/2 A20 switching code when necessary * eax is initialized to 0 and is exploited that way (saves 1-3 bytes in various asm instructions, versus an immediate 0 operand) * comparisons versus number of handles are patched in the code to save on an extra variable in the data segment * the XMS spec requires that In order to maintain compatibility with existing device drivers, DOS XMS drivers must not hook INT 15h until the first non-Version Number call to the control function is made. the hook int15 code + various other delayed init code is copied to (hardcoded) segment 0x7030, and called from there so it does not stay resident. This is somewhat risky: it relies on the fact that the DOS kernel does not overwrite anything there, and will make XMS calls itself. That usually happens, or QHIMEM would crash. Segment 7030 is also used for communication between QHMBOOT and QHIMEM. That's the gist of it, at least from my mileage. Bart Rgds, Johnson. --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid0709bid3057dat1642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Sorry for sending to wrong destination
Hi, I've sick for too long, so I did send the last message to the list (it's for Jack), I'm sorry for my mistake. I'm trying hard to keep the Q series of driver for everyone, to benefit all the people on the earth. I respect Bart's effort trying to disassemble it, and found clues to let others improve. I wish the clock can tick back to 1 years ago, when the source is still available, then someone like Bart can help Jack to improve the drivers. Rgds, Johnson. --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Re: Sorry Jack, but you need to examine
On Fri, 19 May 2006 03:48:21 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: Eric, as Jack did not want to reveal WHY qhimem is, in his opinion, better than freedos himem, Bart HAD to disassemble qhimem to TRY to find out about the things which Jack did not want to reveal. Of course it is Sincerly I beg you not to upset Jack anymore, otherwise everyone will have no more QHIMEM/QDMA/QCDROM to use. very easy to misunderstand things in a disassembly, so the better way would have been if Jack had told about the technical details of qhimem. In either case, you can be sure that Bart TRIED to understand qhimem right :-)). I just want Jack to check if Bart's assume is correct or not. If Jack allow me to correct the mistake. I believe this can benefit everyone. It's good Bart disassemble it, it shed some light to know Jack's coding philosophy. What I do not understand is: Why did you email the list? After I'm sick for a week, my brain devolve and did a lot of mistake. It looks like you wanted to mail Jack, not the list... I'm not 100% recovered. Rgds, Johnson. --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid0709bid3057dat1642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] (fwd) FDXMS Sources.
On Tue, 9 May 2006 21:20:25 +1200 (NZST), you wrote: Bart, Ok, in that case, what is the bugzilla bug number? I think people are wondering here what this stuff is all about, without any real (reproduceable) technical details given. I'm sorry, from the very beginning I don't know how to use it. You're right, it's non-productive, but since Jack totally pissed off by Eric, he refuse to disclose any detail, even I cannot help. All we can see is that someone wrote a closed-source driver that allegedly fixes a problem that I can't find in bugzilla, and now nobody knows what it's all about. All I can say is too late, once upon a time UDMA and XDMA is open source, but he was greatly upset so he closed the source. Now he keep on working on it IS request by many users, otherwise he simply stop all the projects. Well --- obviously, if you have a lot of time you can disassemble qhimem.sys, diff it with the MS reference source code and try to make sense of it. But that's a bit of a waste of time with no developer benefit, ain't it? QHIMEM was written from scratch, with refer to MS-source, so there will be no MS code in it. Quote a few lines from his email: = I wanted (A) a smaller XMS manager, (B) to help you and me save low- memory, and (C) when other XMS drivers all failed, I created my own. After that, I have no obligation to debug nor document FDXMS faults. Those who wonder what is going on can now see your QHIMEM page for the problems I noted in other XMS managers. I did not model QHIMEM after Microsoft HIMEM V2.03, like you know. QHIMEM's source or binary files are very different from V2.03 HIMEM. Disassemblies may only confuse folks. But they are welcome to try. = I'm tired of many meaningless quarrels, now I'm trying to clam down and return peace in the mailing-list. Honestly I'm sorry to disturb everyone's mood, being bad mood is not a pleasure. Rgds, Johnson. --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid0709bid3057dat1642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] (fwd) FDXMS Sources.
On Tue, 9 May 2006 10:14:42 +0200, you wrote: Hi, Sorry I'm quite sick physically, got a flu and problem in right eye, may not be able to reply within a few days. And Jim was right, this kind of email are very annoying, I'm too tired to reply. Or someone will glad to see me unsubscribe from the list, I'll respect your decision. technical advise is welcome. Wise. I can't remember any technical advise. I can't remember any technical description of the problem, Originally he found 4 bugs, this is one of them. But since he's so fury now, he won't tell. why ellis thinks that this problem was caused by disabling interrupts, and how he solved it (it's probably not as easy as just leaving interrupts enabled) Leave the interrupts diables is safe? He told me it's dangerous. If you blame him for anger and upsetting language, I'm very sorry, he's only a human. I join the list to help people, and want to share any good programs I found, but the people here simply don't want the truth, 'the truth' ? the one eternal truth ? really THE TRUTH ? Play the tricks again? There's no eternal true, but DO challenge someone with REASON, maybe you buy the style of Mr. Auer, you can tolerate him but not Jack? Rgds, Johnson. --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid0709bid3057dat1642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] (fwd) FDXMS Sources.
On Mon, 08 May 2006 14:49:26 -0500, you wrote: Dear Mister, You know, I'm _really_ tired of hearing this same rant. I'd appreciate if you wouldn't keep reposting this to the mailing lists. It's not productive; you know what the results are going to be, how people are going to react. And we really don't need another flame war about this topic. I'm completely flamed out these days. I think Jack want to end up the topic right now. I'm sorry to post just insult to Eric Auer, but since his speech was not base on facts but almost near to personal attack, the feedback maybe a bit too much to him. If you accuse Jack for his impolite, I can agree. I can only say if Eric leave Jack alone, most of the angry post will not appear. I gave up listening to Jack's rants a long time ago. I'm sorry that Jack (and you) believe that my not responding to these flame attempts means that I don't care about FreeDOS anymore. That's not the case. I _do_ care about FreeDOS. But the truth of the matter is that I have stopped listening to your and Jack's rants on this matter. I don't think it's a good practice to gave up listening to Jack's rants a long time ago, did you gave up listening to Eric's rants? If you still insist ignoring the technical advise, I'll care no more, it only cause the users who lost their data mourn and grinning their teeth. Jack just want to warn about the FDXMS/HIMEM interrupt not locking simply need to change, yet a number of people go seize him! Is it a OPEN and FREE community's rules? This really needs to stop. I join the list to help people, and want to share any good programs I found, but the people here simply don't want the truth, the one who burnt out is me. Rgds, Johnson. --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] (fwd) FDXMS Sources.
On Mon, 8 May 2006 19:57:55 -0700, you wrote: Jack shouldn't take offense to things that half the people on the list don't consider offensive. Everybody has a different way of expressing themselves and others should just accept that. Eric is not only offend Jack, he offend a lot of people, but he's happily keep on his good work, but nobody did anything to balance. Rgds, Johnson. --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] running descent in dosemu (was: game crashes)
On Fri, 05 May 2006 04:02:18 -0500, you wrote: Mister, I also don't like this sort of extremely early speculation coming on the heels of Mr. Lam's recent spate of ridiculous posts, because it just feeds Thank you for your praise. into him posting more irrelevant advice about trying alternate memory managers when they have nothing to do with the situation. Plus, it confuses and wastes time for general users who don't -- and shouldn't need to -- understand fine details of how memory management affects various low-level behaviors. I don't want more argue with you, if you insist you're correct. But Jack did give his true heart advise to some people, to avoid using FDXMS and HIMEM, not because of the author, just because of they both have programming flaw! I did wait for a chance to post this, for the benefit of other users. Jack sent this email to me a day ago, and I've already removed his drivers from my homepage: Do offer QHIMEM in private to Mark Bailey. If he questions this, tell him to read the first 50 lines of the FDXMS source, that note interrupts are left DISABLED across an XMS move, which may hurt him! You can tell him QHIMEM does allow interrupts during XMS moves and will not hurt him! If Mark goes to UMBPCI, do ask him to go with QHIMEM as well. Rgds, Johnson. --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] running descent in dosemu (was: game crashes)
On Fri, 5 May 2006 18:45:54 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: Eric, Your style, long paragraph, I'd rather prefer K.I.S.S. Ah, so throw away MANY hours of work, as FDXMS and HIMEM are too bad for Jack to even touch them? Why does he have to write a completely new QHIMEM based on somebody else's commercial XMS driver sources instead...? Repeated many times, OK, one more repeat: 1) FDXMS - Strange coding type, Jack don't want to touch because he will make easily make mistake, also hard to adapt those strange assembly type 2) HIMEM - Too big, too complex to touch. Jack want a small driver that optimize for simple usage for himself Now we are getting somewhere. Jack thinks that leaving interrupts disabled for too long during XMS moves is bad. And this is why he thinks that FDXMS is evil? It would have been an idea to tell Hey, speak carefully, Jack and I never assume FDXMS bad, we just worry that Martin Stormberg was too busy to update, or he may already leave FreeDOS because of some reasons ... Recently I found you always making trouble or try to make matter worse by inserting evil or try to make us look evil. the FDXMS maintainer that enabling interrupts from time to time during a move would improve FDXMS. Probably Jack thinks that the FDXMS maintainer is too stupid to read email from Jack? Or maybe Once more, Jack and I NEVER speak any FDXMS stupid, he and I always thanks Martin Stormberg creating FDXMS for the users, the only problem is FDXMS need to update, but we didn't see Martin appear a long time, also FDXMS was designed in 1995 by Till Gerken, PC speed have a great leap from 4.77MHz to now 2.8GHz average, the FDXMS or HIMEM design was not good enough for nowadays high speed Ethernet access. he wrote a mail Mr FDXMS maintainer, you are stupid because you leave interrupts disabled, and this is because FDXMS did not get updated (as insults do not make people follow advice)? Sorry for the harsh words, but I hope you get the idea... Harsh doesn't matter, please don't attack the other programmers and tell the others WE speak that, it's from Eric Auer, NOT me and Jack. The bug is not a few flaws in FDXMS or HIMEM. They could be fixed. The bug is in the hearts of a few programmers who are too proud to notify each other about bugs in their software, politely. Jack never hide the way to fix the bug, but someone did play a lot of English literature to attack him, and claim that compatibility is not an issue!. Well, such impolite action was very upset, we better leave him alone, no more discussion, otherwise I'll receive those literature again, too difficult for me, I'm not graduate, just a Form-5 (grade 10 in US) student. PS: I doubt that Mark Bailey understands Assembly language or the technical details related to writing XMS drivers ;-). Enough! Please stop mocking Mark Bailey, he is a few good guy I met, don't get him or the others, involved into your evil whirls. Johnson. P.S. Now I fully agree with Joe Cosentino, his eye much clearer than me. I must quote his message, to let the others know the fact: = To: FreeDOS Devel freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Freedos-devel] Proposed name change From: Joe Cosentino [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 19:42:34 -0500 Hey all, I've got a proposed name change for the FreeDOS project. Why don't we just call it the EricDOS project. Because he's practically the only one actually contributing to the project, and I'll tell you why that is. It's not because he's a good programmer who wants to see this through...no. It's because you, Eric, have pissed so many people off that no one wants to work with you and have therefore left the project. Why do you think so many of the core group of developers have left the project. It's not because they're too busy, it's because they dont want to deal with YOU. Myself included. God you're fucking annoying. Later, Joe = --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Boot FreeDOS from CF
On Fri, 5 May 2006 10:44:24 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: Hi Alan Command? I have a system with only a HDD and a 256MB CF card, plus USB ports. I had tried everything to boot this system, from USB CD-ROM with bootable Win2k CD, to USB flash drive, but nothing works. Even plugging in the HDD to another PC and install doesn't work (after replugging back to the system, Windows fails to load, sigh...) I've tried, I can boot from flash finger (flash drive) on my office's HP 7100dc SSF and also IBM ThinkCentre by setting the BIOS to try USB-HDD or USB-FDD first, you need a freedos floppy disk image and this: === TITLE: HP Windows Format Utility for USB Drive Key or DiskOnKey VERSION: 2.00.006 Rev. B DESCRIPTION: US=HP Windows Format Utility for USB Drive Key or DiskOnKey SOFTPAQ NUMBER: SP27213 I'm planning to install FreeDOS into the CF from my Win XP Pro laptop via PCMCIA card reader, and use it to boot up this system so that i can install Win2K on the HDD. I have been browsing through the net for few days but has yet to find a way. Can anyone please help? Is it an IDE to PCMCIA adapter? For a laptop maybe try a bootable CD-ROM is easier. There's a IDE-to-CF adapter which can plug into the IDE channels, but may not suitable for laptop: http://sewelldirect.com/IDE-CF-Adapter.asp http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/adidecf.asp Rgds, Johnson. --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Answers to Eric's repeating and repeating questions
Almighty Eric, I can't sleep without replying the message, it's so disturbing ... I missed a detailed reply, sorry! You asked again and again annoyingly. We Cantonese invented a new term call Tape Rewind, I remember you know a lot of language, so you may read Chinese. It's on our Wiki, reference below: [ http://evchk.wikia.com/wiki/%E5%9B%9E%E5%B8%B6 ] You claim that SHSUCDX need no align, OK ... finally I found Jack's message in my old mail archive, sorry again, I'm not using Outlook Express or Outlook, no way to crash my mail database! ***Why SHSUCDX V3.03A need to align with UltraDMA: And uhm, there are REASONS why I revised SHSUCDX into SHCDX33A. It SAVES over 1000 bytes of file space, for my poor old 1.4-MB diskettes! And its directory buffers are all aligned to 4-byte boundaries so REAL ULTRADMA (not XMS memory nor PIO mode) can be used with directory I-O! I do not fault Jason Hood at ALL by saying this; he did a GREAT job with SHSUCDX! But, UltraDMA has RULES Jason would not have noticed in using only VIDE-CDD, which offers no UltraDMA. QCDROM/SHCDX33A DO offer it! No problem, it is enough to tell the maintainers about the bugs, it is not necessary to give patches to the maintainers. Of course some maintainers are happy to get patches instead of bug descriptions, but a bug description is already very useful. I've email Martin Stormberg and waiting for his email. Another developer seems no interest in the bugs Jack found, so leave him alone. Or you want to fix the bug for him? I'll ask Jack to tell you where the bug one by one, please fix them one by one. He might leave FreeDOS because somebody replaced his driver. Negative, zero mark. Trying to upset me? your highness. Are you getting mad and your logic gone? Read the last date of FDXMS 0.94, it's dated 2005-05-28, QHIMEM dated 2006-04-10. He might actually be happy if somebody gives him a hint about how to improve FDXMS. At least it is worth trying. No more tape rewind please. Did you try to contact him? Yes. As far as I remember, Jack did not want to tell us about the four (if I remember correctly) critical bugs in himem/emm386, so Michael cannot fix them either. He only told us THAT there are bugs, but did not provide details about the bugs. Don't rewind your tape anymore, very annoying. Mr. Devore refused to believe FD-HIMEM have bugs, so we have no need to report anything. I think I did not insult Mark at all... I only wrote that If that's is not an insult, then your definition of insult is really loose, and why you pissed off so many people. Mark is not a programmer in Assembly language and probably unable to understand the problem in FDXMS source code. He is an experienced DOS user and a nice guy but no Asm programmer. Are you out of your mind? Jack ask him to read the comment, that is not source code, it's text! Read line #29, please! Almighty Programmer Eric, your version of EDIT fail to load a 63.5K text file, since Joe left because of you, please fix your EDIT before Tape rewind your long message here, the other mailing-list subscriber must be very annoying. Rgds, Johnson. --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] QDMA/QCDROM/QHIMEM/SHCDX33A available again!
Forward an email from Jack: - Johnson, After writing you today, Thursday 4-May-2006, re: helping Mark Bailey, I noted with some sadness the comments by Ladislav Lacina on FD-Devel. Ladislav once helped me track-down a nasty bug in UDMA2, and I never forgot him nor his help to me. I also realize that offering QDMA/QCDROM/QHIMEM/SHCDX33A privately may prove to take too much of your time, as it seems there are MANY people who do want and apparently do NEED them.I do not want you burdened like that, and so I have relented a bit. With this E-Mail, I am granting you permission to REPOST all the QDMA, QCDROM, QHIMEM, and SHCDX33A drivers to their regular English-language HTML pages on your website, for all to use worldwide like before. Do delete my other comments, and forward this E-Mail to George at AXCEL16 [I lost his E-Mail address!] and re-establish his links to whichever directory on your website will contain the driver files. I hope my drivers will continue to benefit the many GOOD people around the world who use them in their DOS systems. As for FreeDOS [and all who attack me or my work ARE ONLY from FreeDOS!!] my friends may use whatever they like and may expect NO further help nor support from me. Best wishes, Jack R. Ellis -- At the risk of involving us both in another so-called flame war, you are nevertheless FREE to post the above, exactly as-is, on FD-User and FD-Devel as well!J.R.E. - --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Booting FreeDOS from a SCSI Hard Drive
On Wed, 03 May 2006 08:36:06 -0400, you wrote: Hi Mark, Booting FreeDOS with kernel version 1.1.35 gives me the following 8 line error message at the bottom of the screen when the boot process fails: Can you ask Steve press F8 and trace line by line? Or this happened before FreeDOS 2 sec pause? Will the SCSI base address conflict? Rgds, Johnson. --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] cdrom trouble
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 02:31:54 -0500, you wrote: Thanks , the cd drivers worked . Glad to know it works. It took me a little while to figure out i needed to edit fdauto.bat. Now if I can figure out my sound card.. Which brand, or which sound chip (if you know)? Oh yeah .Anyone heard of an autoplay feature for cd's like windows has? Actually it's no problem to code something monitor the CD drive, but the program must resident and take some memory. Maybe some GUI for DOS works, I don't know. Rgds, Johnson. --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] QHIMEM 1.4
Hi, QHIMEM 1.4 released. http://johnson.tmfc.net/freedos/qhimem.html What's New == - [ QHIMEM V1.4 ] Added full XMS Reallocate request handling. QHIMEM now meets all XMS V3.0 requirements. Rgds, Johnson. --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] cdrom trouble
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 17:37:45 -0500, you wrote: Hi, You can press F8 during boot, it'll let you execute line by line to see what happened. 1?DEVICEHIGH=C:\\BIN\ATAPICDD.SYS /D:CDROM1 Did you see any error message? And this is from my autoexec.bat. LH ShsuCDhd /QQ /F:C\\FDBOOTCD.ISO ShsuCDX /C /Q+ /D:?CDROM1 Any complain from SHSUCDX? I am a linux user ,but I like the fact that dos doesn't have to mount drives ,starts fast can be shut off quickly and is small .The only thing I need now is an autoplay feature like windows .So when you put a cd in the drive it starts playing. Of course you can use OAKCDROM.SYS from Win98 boot disk, but it's too big, VIDE-CDD.SYS not bad, but it have no UltraDMA support, try another CD-ROM driver by Jack Ellis which support UltraDMA: http://johnson.tmfc.net/freedos/ Click QCDROM and download, also download SHSUCDX V3.03A because it's modified to work correctly with UltraDMA QCDROM. Hope this help. Rgds, Johnson. --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] QHIMEM 1.3
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 23:58:16 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: Hi, Where can I get a reasonably simple autoexec.bat for Freedos that will load just the minimal things, and load things high when that's safe? I don't need a mouse, keyboard, video, or other standard devices; it's just A: (flash card used to hold my app), the packet driver for the ethernet provided by the hardware, and my code. Jack suggested the following, please try and consider which is the best to help you to save conventional memory. Recently I try to help someone but causing some problem here. shellhigh=c:\command.com /e:512 /p=c:\fdauto.bat device=c:\qhmboot.sys dos=high,umb device=c:\qdboot.sys ;Optional, loads QDMA high with UMBPCI. device=c:\umbpci.sys ;For packet DMA, may need EMM386! devicehigh=c:\qhimem.sys /n32;Can be /n16 if XMS usage is low. devicehigh=c:\qdma.sys /o /d /f /l ;Optional, for use with overlays. . . . fileshigh=12 ;Optional, can be adjusted. buffers=8,0 ;Optional, can be adjusted. stackshigh=9,256 ;DO NOT omit! RISKY if so! lastdrivehigh=c ;If only diskette, use a. I don't know if the Trick updated or not, please try. BUFFERS=-1 will use less buffer. Also, is there a way to kick the command interpreter out of memory? Once my app runs, there is no return to the prompt - power cycle is the only way out. The traditional design of command.com was prepared to continue running programs when your application quit (unlike Apple][), so I have no idea how to kick it away. Maybe you need a custom built command.com. Rgds, Johnson. --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] PG 1.14
Hi, BAHCL got a problem with the ISP, and he can't access Internet from home right now (have to use public library). He finished updated PG to 1.14 and ask me to announce for him. Since he didn't have any hosting, I put up a PG page for him, appreciated if anyone can help to mirror: http://johnson.tmfc.net/freedos/pg.html Rgds, Johnson. --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] QHIMEM 1.3
Hi, QHIMEM 1.3 released. http://johnson.tmfc.net/freedos/qhimem.html What's New == Null Handle logic fixed, minor speed improvements. Rgds, Johnson. --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] re: Not to flame but let others know ...
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:45:13 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: Hi Friend, What's going on? What happened to FreeDOS? Everybody talking about a memory manager, but I can't imagine what happened. Who started the trouble? Don't get into the trouble. I suggest you ignore all these message, most of them are argue, disagree, quarrel. Once you involved you can get out of it. Rgds, Johnson Lam. --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] re: Not to flame but let others know ...
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:22:32 -0700, you wrote: Hi Blair, You should understand that Jim and others have given up trying to keep Jack happy, basically. I tend to join them. Count me in too. I have personally never used the Q drivers and will distribute the X drivers with my distro because I am NOT violating any license whatsoever. I'm very sorry to everyone make FreeDOS distributions (including you), for the XDMA matter. Rgds, Johnson. --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] re: Not to flame but let others know ...
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:50:41 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: Eric, You got lot of time writing, I don't mind if you keep everything reasonable. 1) Jack don't want to let people think his work is a part of FreeDOS, he didn't ask ALL the people to remove the XDMA source, just don't want it on FreeDOS server Fewer people will use XDMA when it is no longer included with FreeDOS. Exactly no one will use XDMA if they knew it's terminated. Threre're several emulation project like this, such as Final Burn Alpha, the author terminate or leave the project, someone pick it up and rename a little bit and start their own. Some people always insist Jack violate GPL, he was just ask Jim to remove it, he didn't FORCE Jim to remove it, and Jim did keep it until now. Since Jim didn't respect Jack's will, so he terminate the XDMA project, that's the whole story. Anywhere includes FreeDOS. And Johnson, you no longer have XDMA online, so the ONLY place where I can still get XDMA is from FreeDOS. So you should be happy that Jim refused to delete it. I didn't get your meaning, you can modify XDMA and release it without Jack R. Ellis or amend altered by Eric Auer and release it, I won't feel happy or angry because it's not belong to Jack R. Ellis and not distribute by me, we're responsible to the quality and want to share it with people, we're not trying to advertise ourself and become famous, I didn't earn my living by this, and Jack retired, we have nothing relate to power or money. In fact, if you did want to take over XDMA, well please do it, you take the responsibility by yourself. Arguably. If we had deleted our copies, Jack would probably have made XDMA, sorry, QDMA closed source 3 weeks later, because he would have been upset about somebody else, but it would not have made a big difference in the end. And, by the way, Ibiblio is NOT FreeDOS. It is an archive of nice and useful software in general. Then I assume Jack misunderstand Ibilblio server equal to official FreeDOS hosting site. Whatever his reasons are, I still disagree with his wish to punish the world (he wanted that nobody can see XDMA sources anymore) because he is unhappy with a few people of FreeDOS. Then you're totally wrong, close the source CAN punish anyone, what kind of logic is it? He was totally responsible to his work, if someone change it without updating the document, then distriibute the corrupted binary to user, and fortunately they lost their priceless data because of the corrupted driver and blame Jack, he will be the victim! That's why he try to minimize the distribution to avoid this kind of tragedy happen, at the very beginning I ask Jim to have a link to my homepage for the same reason, ask Jim for that email. That's not professional. Even though he might be a very professional programmer, it is hard to deal with him personally. You never sit in his position and think, try to reverse you and him: A guy send email to others explain my work, but in his interpretation and some of the information was wrong, and he did critize my work not smart enough! He even don't know how the driver work, and why I design it, he even challenge me without a better code! If you still not angry, thanks! You're not near from God. You should understand that Jim and others have given up trying to keep Jack happy, basically. I tend to join them. Jack will happy if everything reasonable, can you happy with someone call you stupid or against you will without a good reason. He may not did everything correct, but anyone listen to his words? PS: Jack does not violate GPL, but GPL violates the wish of Jack. As Lucho said, this is bad luck for Jack but might be good luck for XDMA. Again, I regard Lucho as a friend, I hope he won't be unhappy when I tell the truth. What do you do then something happened below: He alter my program without telling me or update the document, then send the altered program to a user, if that user corrupted the data because of the program, who will be the target? Me! Who was responsible? Who will take care of the consquences? This is why UDMA become XDMA. Rgds, Johnson. --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid0709bid3057dat1642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Not to flame but let others know ...
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:29:40 +0100, you wrote: Hi, What a load of nonsense this is. If you talk about the GPL, there're misunderstanding here. That was not a particularly useful thing to do Johnson. I think you missed some scene here, so I don't want to talk about the personal matter between Jack, Mr. Devore and Mr. Eric. I respect the spirit of GPL, need clarify. Completely incorrect. If you release something under GNU GPL license you cannot revoke that license. The GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. The license can only be selectively revoked if people break the terms contained inside the license. The situation is a bit complex, I'm not going to judge because I don't know the law thing, but I'll try to explain and you can judge yourself. 1) Jack don't want to let people think his work is a part of FreeDOS, he didn't ask ALL the people to remove the XDMA source, just don't want it on FreeDOS server 2) He didn't limit anyone to use the XDMA source, you can get a copy anywhere and modify it, he allow 3) Jim Hall insist he have the right to host the XDMA, I agree GPL grant the right to distribute the source and the binary, but I explain to Jim Hall that if he insist, Jack will take action to reflect his dissatisfy, finally because Jim Hall still keep the XDMA on Ibiblio server, Jack stop release update XDMA, he change the program name, change the license and closed the source The final result is no one have the source, the author have the right to do anything, GPL is a right which grant by the author, now the author want his work independent by removing it from a certain place, is it conflicting with GPL? If this gent has any reason to doubt this, I suggest talking to Dave (Turner) at the Free Software Foundation. He's in charge of licenses, so you can contact him at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think it's too late, the author choose to stop developing XDMA I cannot force him to do anything, did you agree? The rest of the email is a waste of time. I agree, it doesn't help anything, just to let the other know the author was unhappy because of some reasons, he didn't go crazy and ask everybody to remove the source and binary, he did it with REASONS. Johnson, I stress that we are meant to be making software, not helping people vent their bile in public. Your reposting of this does not help the project in any way. I don't have a proper word, I call it the human emotion, all kind of unhappy, hatred, angry. You're right, that doesn't help anything. Being a friend of him, I help him to post the message, and to explain the situation, because seems everyone think that he's crazy, going nuts The human emotion are the most complex things that I don't want to involve, especially during a project, but someone did light the fire again and again. There are real things that need to be done. The FreeDOS Beta9sr2 distribution is broken (and I am working to fix that). There are bugs listed in the roadmap. I suggest contributing to something useful. Totally agree. I sent a message to Bernd, beg him to help. Maybe I say something wrong to him, I don't know. I want to apologize to him because he's involved in the emotion war. Shane OpenGEM Project Leader Glad that your project didn't affected. Rgds, Johnson. --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Re: Do you see why I retired from the FreeDOS development?
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:57:36 +0300, you wrote: Hi Lucho, Do you see now why I retired from the FreeDOS development? Yes, sadly. I view of all latest events I must say that however I admire Jack's work, Shane, Eric and Jim are right. It was me who sent the deleted XDMA to Jim to add to his ibiblio collection. Once a program is released, the author has no longer power over it, especially if its licence is such. It starts living its own life, sometimes better than the life of its author. I must also note that it isn't good to discover bugs in an open source project and keep that knowledge secret. After Jack only ask Jim to remove it, not the other (such as me). He don't want his work put on the same shelf as FreeDOS. I think the work around is make a folder not a part of FreeDOS, but Jack did take his action so fast ... all, users will benefit from fixing them. Well, if this was real commercial competition between developers who gain money from their work, then I could understand. But in our case, I simply don't get the reason why those bugs should be kept secret! I wouldn't do this, if I were Jack. As to Michael, I really don't understand his worry. Leave the users decide which product to use; let the others do the product they want. To all: Be above all quarrel, flames, etc. Peace!!! Sigh! I'm no laywer, solicitor. I guess maybe technically Jack violate the GPL (I don't really know), but I think from the very beginning of GPL spirit is from the author want to share the work with others, if the people did something to against the author, this action destroy the trust, even the law is correct, the hatred feeling started from the quarrel is wrong. Why is peace impossible even in such a peaceful project as FreeDOS? Because we are human, can someone start to change? I didn't think Eric and Michael is enemy, I hope they can concentrate the time and effort working on the project, beat me up didn't make them happier, if so, just do it. I don't mind to apologize to them, if I did something wrong to them P.S. I give you my permission to send the above to the FreeDOS mailing list. Thank you. Rgds, Johnson. --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid0709bid3057dat1642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Not to flame but let others know ...
Forward an email from Jack, hoping everyone can understand what's going on, I'd like the others to understand the whole thing, not out of context: = Johnson, Thank you for forwarding Lucho's nice comments about QHIMEM to me. Re: his comments to you that FD-HIMEM has completed development, I have noted not 1 but 4 ERRORS in FD-HIMEM![... Text deleted ...] I also agree with Mr. Auer's note to you, that any idea for FD-HIMEM from ME would not be accepted now. Thus, having noted exactly what FD-HIMEM's 1 minor and 3 major ERRORS are, I will now be silent, and I will merely correct the two which also affect QHIMEM. Nor will QDMA, QCDROM, and now QHIMEM ever be part of FreeDOS, after other TRASH involving the word stupid directed at me on FD-Devel 2 months ago, and Jim Hall's refusal to delete XDMA/XCDROM on IBiblio! Hall's twisted view of the GNU Open-Source license makes him think he need NOT. I felt the GNU was NOT intended to limit my rights as their AUTHOR, so XDMA/XCDROM were gone in 24 hours!QDMA/QCDROM now have no GNU or sources, as Hall ALSO made an issue of sources! So, pardon me if I LAUGH at Mr. DeVore's comments about QHIMEM being in any sort of memory manager race! I simply wanted a better XMS driver, and I wrote my own, whether OR NOT anybody in Illinois or in Germany gave me their bloody permission! What Chutzpah, to think THEIR way is The ONLY Way, over which the U.S.A. has fought WARS!! QHIMEM is in NO real or fantasized memory manager race, as it will NEVER be any part of FreeDOS! Folks should now understand why NOT! I will NOT be taken to task for writing my own XMS manager, after in fact FDXMS/FDXXMS failed on my system, PTS-DOS HIMEM is questionable if FreeDOS loads it, and FD-HIMEM was OUT of the question!I will not touch the obscure sources for FDXMS/FDXXMS and have no sources for PTS-DOS HIMEM. And though I have sources and can fix FD-HIMEM, that would now require a COLD DAY in Bloody HELL, after Mr. DeVore's self righteous ATTACK on you and me! Jack R. Ellis = --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] parallel port question
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:59:03 -0700, you wrote: Hi, Can anyone explain how a dos program could be coded to depend on a bios feature of the parallel port ? I found the following page may help: http://www.beyondlogic.org/spp/parallel.htm There're a simple C program of finding out the parallel port addresses in the BIOS Data Area. Rgds, Johnson. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid0944bid$1720dat1642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Detail explain of Why QHIMEM
On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 01:30:34 -0500, you wrote: Dear Sir, Sorry for my limited ability of English language, I hope I didn't interpreted your meaning in a wrong way. that should never have been publicly reposted Jack did a TECHNICAL reply to Eric's wrong interpretation of QHIMEM, what's wrong? We didn't SELL QHIMEM nor ask the other to quit FD-HIMEM and FD-EMM386, for what reason we need to keep it private? I don't understand why you overreacted. What I suggest you reflect upon, Mr. Lam, are your personal reasons for posting this entire private e-mail to the public list. It serves little purpose here other than to incite more anger and hurtful retaliatory I want to introduce a good alternative memory manager to the others, helping the users to solve problems, WHO start complaining this and that, and speak of suspicious, advocate? I'm trying to be polite, tolerate and avoid conflicts, but someone just want these. I'm really tired of the non-constructive email of some human emotional discussions without solid technical reasons. I didn't hate Eric, sometimes he did say something wrong, then I think we need to correct this, towards the specific matter, not toward the person, purely subjective. remarks. The action follows on the heels of your sidetracking a technical support request into an exercise in unrelated memory manager advocacy. In short, your recent behavior demonstrates a serious failure of judgement in how to positively contribute to an open-source project. This is your point of view, not the whole Open-Source community, everyone contribute their parts, not attacking the others because of the emotional reason such as I don't like it. Apparently you feel uniquely justified in your efforts to topple stable and well-tested drivers in favor of the output of a single individual you hold in unimpeachable regard. Directly or by proxy, you denigrate the sum of thousands of hours of testing, development, and support hours contributed by hundreds of FreeDOS users and developers. Project team effort is all to Many users or contributors REALLY become CD-ROM (read-only) to avoided the human social trouble here, but I can't shut up simply because Eric or someone making wrong assumptions. We speak the truth base on technical reasons. be swept away by the single unsung genius. For you, the presumed raw talent of one person trumps all other aspects of development and the talents contained therein. And finally, although the new driver is at least three years too late to enter the official FreeDOS memory manager race this close to the 1.0 release goal line, it seems it still must be crowned the best mostly by virtue of -- as near as can tell -- abuse towards the unenlightened. I see no conflict here, users will pick the best software of their own, because they're not quest for a GANG style, maybe I should say a nationalism like collections of programs, they just want something works best on their computers. Who you like and what you think of their work is strictly your business. The rest is not. Jack and I just want to make FreeDOS better, and a few people not appreciate his hard work, and turn against him. I really don't know what kind of world it is, I don't want to scare away other users here, if you don't mind, please return our discussion to technical issue. I didn't include Jack reply this time, because his reply really speak the whole truth, too exciting ... truth is always the hardest thing to be accepted. Rgds, Johnson Lam. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Detail explain of Why QHIMEM
are DOING to GO AROUND them! Glad I did, as protected-mode was UNNEEDED!QHIMEM uses an 80-byte low-memory stub and Ye Olde Ordinary JUMPS to upper-memory! The Russians and the well-known software guys could have SAVED 672 low-memory bytes!And though protected-mode schemes FAIL, Ye Olde Jmp commands WORK with FreeDOS! Are THOSE enough REASONS for you, Eric?? Such groundless and FALSE assumptions, before ever inquiring about the REAL reasons for QHIMEM, absolutely mark Eric Auer as somebody who still needs to learn he should WATCH HIS BLOODY MOUTH!!! A really good driver more or less by Jack is actually XCDROM/QCDROM: Johnson: C8E4h .. 2,400Device=QCDROM (by the way, what is qbuf...?) 027Ch 528.. Device=QDBOOT Eric: cae8 5008VIDE-CDDdevice driver Note that saving 2.5k of memory is quite good but that it is not necessary at all as we both have the driver in UMB anyway :-)). My GAWD! A NICE comment from friend Eric regarding one of my drivers! Incroyable!, as the French might say! By the way, QBUF is a diskette buffer, reserved by QDBOOT for diskette ISA DMA above 640K, which cannot be handled by UMBPCI shadow RAM upper memory. It is equivalent to the buffer used by the old LOWDMA program. Same as QDMA I-O above 640K goes through XMS memory, diskette I-O beyond 640K goes through the QBUF buffer. Slower, as it must be done 1 sector at a time. However, NO shadow RAM CRASHES occur, and that is why the QBUF buffer is an automatic feature of the QDBOOT driver! For comparison of memory drivers: 028e 2672HIMEM device driver 0336 3360EMM386 device driver I guess Eric must enjoy giving up 6032 bytes of low-memory for FD-HIMEM and FD-EMM386. His choice. I prefer NOT to give up that much, which is why I use UMBPCI and wrote QHIMEM to complement it! So I have 620k low DOS RAM and 41k UMB free and I even have a 64k EMS 3.0 page frame (otherwise I would have more UMB free) and a VESA VBE 3.0 compatible BIOS :-). 620k are 635,120 bytes to be exact. Read my MEM display listing below. A few differences, as my video card takes 16K more than the regular C000-C7FFh, and as I declare only drives A: through H: on my system.Why lose 1500 bytes more upper-memory for drives I: through Z: which I do not HAVE??After one subtracts 65,536 bytes for an EMS page, which I ALSO do not need, Eric will find that I have about the SAME upper-memory he has, and 5K more LOW-memory as well! This is from using only a basic FreeDOS diskette. If I were not just a casual FreeDOS user and knew more of it, YOU BET I would do BETTER!! As I have not seen programs which need more than 590k low DOS RAM, all available drivers are good enough ... Others HAVE seen such programs, DOS video games and the like, that use ALL available low-memory. I did not begin this low-memory race. My drivers only HELP by requiring minimal low-memory: 80 bytes for QHIMEM, 528 bytes for QBUF, and 160 bytes for Uwe Sieber's latest UMBPCI.All other drivers or TSRs can then be put in upper-memory. Eric is welcome to try and find another combination which takes less. I have 6 words for him: Good LUCK! You will NEED IT! If Eric thinks the current DOS/FreeDOS drivers are good enough, he can STAY with them, and let others of us who care to do a BETTER job proceed with our efforts! Such sniveling comments, from Eric AND others, are the reasons why I have QUIT FreeDOS and shall Damned-Well NEVER return!! Johnson Lam, and George at AXCEL16, are both welcome to post my drivers, with my compliments and my Thanks. Jack R. Ellis * My diskette FDCONFIG.SYS * shell=a:\command.com /e:512 /p=a:\fdauto.bat device=a:\qhmboot.sys dos=high,umb device=a:\qdboot.sys device=a:\umbpci.sys devicehigh=a:\qhimem.sys /n32 devicehigh=a:\qdma.sys /o /d /f /l devicehigh=a:\qcdrom.sys /d:mscd001 /uf /l fileshigh=12 buffers=8,0 stackshigh=8,256 lastdrivehigh=h * My diskette FDAUTO.BAT * @echo off set path=a:\ loadhigh a:\ctmouse.exe loadhigh a:\shcdx33a.com /d:mscd001 /c * My resultant FreeDOS MEM display * Segment Size Name Type --- -- - 0273 1024 DOS system data 0275 192FILES data area 0282 80QHMBOOT device driver 0288 528QDBOOT device driver 02aa 160UMBPCI device driver 02b4 96 free 02bb 2992 COMMAND program 0377 128 MEM environment 038048240 MEM program 0f48 591712 free 9fc0 181248 reserved cc00 9040 DOS system data cc02 1728QHIMEM device driver cc6f 1584QDMAdevice driver ccd3 2400QCDROM device driver cd6a 480FILES data area
Re: [Freedos-user] announce: dosfsck 2.11 for dos
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 16:57:18 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: Hi Eric, I finally merged the dosfstools 2.10 - 2.11 patches into my DOS port of DOSFSCK. Actually I had been planning to do this since 8/2005, shame on me... Thanks. You got your own works and daily life, nice to know you spare time to finish this. Rgds, Johnson. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] QHIMEM V1.2 [2006-04-16]
QHIMEM -- DOS XMS Manager, V1.2 === QHIMEM is a DOS driver that functions as an XMS memory manager. It is a replacement for HIMEM, FDXMS, and other XMS managers, and it is meant to complement the UMBPCI Upper-Memory Manager driver. QHIMEM supports up to 4-Gigabytes of XMS memory and was designed in accordance with the V3.0 XMS Specifications.It was not intended for more complex upper-memory drivers like EMM386 or QEMM and may not run with all versions of those drivers. QHIMEM is a smaller and simpler driver that, when used with UMBPCI, can handle the memory-management needs of most DOS users. NEWS 2006-04-16 [ QHIMEM V1.2 ] Fixed 1 major and 2 minor bugs. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] QHIMEM V1.2 [2006-04-16]
Download here: http://johnson.tmfc.net/freedos/qhimem.html NEWS 2006-04-16 [ QHIMEM V1.2 ] Fixed 1 major and 2 minor bugs. 2006-04-13 [ QHIMEM V1.1 ] Added 4-Gigabyte capability and most XMS V3.0 logic. 2006-04-11 [ QHIMEM V1.0 ] Original Release. QHIMEM -- DOS XMS Manager = QHIMEM is a DOS driver that functions as an XMS memory manager. It is a replacement for HIMEM, FDXMS, and other XMS managers, and it is meant to complement the UMBPCI Upper-Memory Manager driver. QHIMEM supports up to 4-Gigabytes of XMS memory and was designed in accordance with the V3.0 XMS Specifications.It was not intended for more complex upper-memory drivers like EMM386 or QEMM and may not run with all versions of those drivers. QHIMEM is a smaller and simpler driver that, when used with UMBPCI, can handle the memory-management needs of most DOS users. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Not loading high: Display, Nlsfunc, Keyb, Lbacache
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 09:42:34 -0400, you wrote: Hi John, I got some new drivers from my friend Jack, he did code them to save memory and keep DOS running with the latest hardware (also thanks to Uwe Sieber, he provide source code of UMBPCI.SYS). My PC have 620K base memory (including NANSI.SYS, HXLDR32.EXE and IFSHLP.SYS), can suggest you to try. They're QHIMEM, QDMA, QCDROM and SHSUCDX V3.03A. I'm trying to clean up your CONFIG.SYS, I assume you're running FreeDOS: -- SWITCHES=/F/N (no need) COUNTRY=001,858,C:\FDOS\BIN\COUNTRY.SYS SET LANG=EN LASTDRIVE=Z BUFFERS=20 FILES=40 DOS=HIGH,UMB DOSDATA=UMB (For compatabiility, I didn't load it high) SET DIRCMD=/OGN /4 DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\HIMEM.EXE (Try QHIMEM.SYS) DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\QHIMEM.SYS /N128 DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\EMM386.EXE NOEMS X=TEST VDS (Try UMBPCI) DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\UMBPCI.SYS NOEMS DEVICEHIGH=C:\CDROM\OAKCDROM.SYS /D:FDCD0001 (Try QCDROM) DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\QDMA.SYS /O /D /F DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\QCDROM.SYS /D:FDCD0001 /UF SHELL=C:\command.com C:\ /E:512 /P=C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT --- My FDCONFIG.SYS AUTOEXEC.BAT for your reference, sorry for some DOS high ASCII turn into '?'. [FDCONFIG.SYS] MENUDEFAULT=2,10 MENU +--+ MENU | 1 - HIMEM + EMM386 (NOEMS) | MENU | * 2 - QHIMEM + UMBPCI| MENU +--+ VERSION=7.10 !FILESHIGH=20 !BUFFERS=-1 !LASTDRIVE=Z !DOS=HIGH,UMB !SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /E:512 /P=C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT ECHO ECHO þ Enlarge environment to 512 byte ECHO 2?DEVICE=C:\DOS\QHMBOOT.SYS ECHO 2?DEVICE=C:\DOS\QDBOOT.SYS ECHO 1?DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS ECHO 1?DEVICE=C:\FREEDOS\EMM386.EXE X=TEST NOEMS 2?DEVICE=C:\DOS\UMBPCI.SYS NOEMS ECHO 2?DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\QHIMEM.SYS /N128 ECHO 1?DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\QDMA.SYS /O /D /F 2?DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\QDMA.SYS /O /D /F /L ECHO 1?DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\QCDROM.SYS /D:SHSU-CDN /UF 2?DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\QCDROM.SYS /D:SHSU-CDN /UF /L ECHO DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\SRDXMS.SYS ECHO DEVICEHIGH=C:\FREEDOS\NANSI.SYS /S ECHO DEVICEHIGH=C:\NET\IFSHLP.SYS ECHO DEVICE=C:\HXRT\BIN\HXLDR32.EXE C:\HXRT\BIN\DPMILD32.EXE ECHO ECHO EECHO [1;37;44m End of FDCONFIG.SYS [0m [AUTOEXEC.BAT] @echo off ECHO [1;37;44m þ Setting ... Environmental variables [0m SET 1DIRCMD=/OG SET DPMILDR=8 SET TZ=GMT+8 ECHO - ECHO [1;37;44m þ Setting ... PATH [0m PATH=C:\HXRT\BIN;C:\FREEDOS;C:\DOS;C:\NET;C:\TOOLS;C:\TE;C:\ARJ;C:\QV;C:\MPX;C:\EMT ECHO - echo [1;37;44m þ Loading ... CT MOUSE Driver [0m C:\FREEDOS\CTMOUSE ECHO - echo [1;37;44m þ Loading ... SHSUCDX CD-ROM Extension [0m C:\DOS\SHCDX33A /D:SHSU-CDN,Z /R- ECHO - echo [1;37;44m þ Loading ... Resizeable RAM Disk [0m SRDISK /v1 40960 /e ECHO - SET ARJ_SW=/W%SRDISK1%:\ /I5 /JT1 SET TEMP=%SRDISK1%:\ SET TMP=%SRDISK1%:\ echo [7m Entering FreeDOS [0m ECHO - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Not loading high: Display, Nlsfunc, Keyb, Lbacache
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 17:09:33 -0500, you wrote: Hi Sir, QHIMEM is a totally new and alternate -- utterly superfluous in my opinion -- memory manager that can have nothing to do with your problem, and I do not recommend it's use for debugging here. For trouble shooting purpose, is there any problem switching to something else and see if the problem was gone, then consider next move? There is no correlation between the HIMEM-style memory manager and an application's use of upper memory blocks since it doesn't do the memory mapping and does not load the programs when DOS is in control of UMB's, as you have indicated. John Hupp say: I find that loading EMM386.EXE can cause Ctrl-Alt-Del to fail., I'm sorry but sometimes ago I did have similar experience, and the trouble shooting takes a long time, did you mean I can't change to FDXXMS and UMBPCI for trouble shooting? I suggest being highly suspicious of people attempting to rewrite your CONFIG.SYS files to serve their own advocacy purposes. Can you see my FDCONFIG.SYS have HIMEM and EMM386 there? I always tracking bugs by switching my memory managers. If your serve their own advocacy purposes means I want to put advertisement here, sorry let you got this feeling, I just want to help other people. I sincerely ask Jack's to let me host his drivers because I want to provide the DOS user an alternative, a choice. His QHIMEM let me have 620K base memory, I got plenty of base memory for me to run LAN Manager. I DID NOT ask people to drop FD-HIMEM and FD-EMM386, apologize again if you feel I am. And please don't blame Jack, he have no intention to compete with FD-HIMEM, he just want a simpler XMS manager. - Memory Info V9 à (c)1993 Central Point Software, Inc. Total bytes owned Addr. Low area High area Program or device driver - - -- 0276h 80.. Device=QHMBOOT Attr=A000h Name=QHMLOW$ 027Ch 528.. Device=QDBOOTAttr=8000h Name=QBUF$ 029Eh 160.. Device=UMBPCIAttr=E000h Name=UMBPCIXX 02AEh 432.. Device=HXLDR32 Attr=8000h Name=HXLDR32$ 03DFh2,992512COMMAND 04ADh 635,168.. largest free area Begin High (Upper) Memory C802h .. 2,000Device=QHIMEMAttr=A000h Name=QHIMEM$ C880h .. 1,584Device=QDMA Attr=8000h Name=QDMA1$ C8E4h .. 2,400Device=QCDROMAttr=C800h Name=SHSU-CDN C97Bh .. 1,328Device=SRDXMSAttr=2842h Drive D C9CFh .. 3,248Device=NANSI Attr=8013h Name=CON CA9Bh .. 3,952Device=IFSHLPAttr=D000h Name=IFS$HLP$ CBC1h .. 3,312CTMOUSE CC91h .. 5,968SHCDX33A 654,336 bytes (639k) total DOS 7.10 conventional memory. 635,168 bytes (620k) largest executable program. 138,624 bytes if loaded high. - Rgds, Johnson. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
