Re: [Freedos-user] was: Windows 3.1 - Pending kernel patches 2037/2038

2009-04-25 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Christian, If you're waiting for further improvements to 2038 before you release 2038, then you're doing this wrong. [...] I'd strongly recommend making 2038 available, and putting the few pending improvements in 2039. The problem is that Eric holds back at least three necessary

Re: [Freedos-user] was: Windows 3.1 - Pending kernel patches 2037/2038

2009-04-25 Thread Jim Hall
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: Hi Christian, If you're waiting for further improvements to 2038 before you release 2038, then you're doing this wrong. [...] I'd strongly recommend making 2038 available, and putting the few pending improvements in 2039.

Re: [Freedos-user] was: Windows 3.1 - Pending kernel patches 2037/2038

2009-04-25 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Jim Hall schreef: The problem is: how will you (Eric) know that the patches will work? How long do you intend to hold back the 2038 version before deciding it is good enough? I'd agree with Jim here, release, then ask feedback. People might lack the skill to comment on individual patches,

Re: [Freedos-user] was: Windows 3.1 - Pending kernel patches 2037/2038

2009-04-14 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Christian Masloch schreef: Since disassembling MS-DOS is considered legal by UDOS and RBIL authors (and these sources are considered legal by all members of the FreeDOS project) I think there's no problem using some DLL examination tool. Regards, Christian I hope you have heared

Re: [Freedos-user] was: Windows 3.1 - Pending kernel patches 2037/2038

2009-04-14 Thread Adam Norton
Bernd Blaauw wrote: Christian Masloch schreef: Since disassembling MS-DOS is considered legal by UDOS and RBIL authors (and these sources are considered legal by all members of the FreeDOS project) I think there's no problem using some DLL examination tool. Regards, Christian

Re: [Freedos-user] was: Windows 3.1 - Pending kernel patches 2037/2038

2009-04-14 Thread Travis Siegel
On Apr 13, 2009, at 11:29 AM, Adam Norton wrote: Also I remember from my pre dot net days using a program which would inspect a dll and identify all the public methods/functions that it has. Would this be considered legal? If so anyone remember what that program is/was? I used it at a

Re: [Freedos-user] was: Windows 3.1 - Pending kernel patches 2037/2038

2009-04-13 Thread Christian Masloch
Simple: If you only use WIN /S then you can use the stable 2036 or stable 2038 kernel. The latter is on http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/ as binary snapshot. There are a few pending improvements before 2038 can be put on sourceforge file releases... The sources already are on sourceforge in

Re: [Freedos-user] was: Windows 3.1 - Pending kernel patches 2037/2038

2009-04-13 Thread Adam Norton
Windows 3x Issues I was reading the Undocumented Dos book and according to it Win 3.x goes to extraordinary lengths to insure that the operating system it is running on os MSDos and not one of the alternatives. Plus it replaces parts of DOS while running. (Either for underhanded as the book

Re: [Freedos-user] was: Windows 3.1 - Pending kernel patches 2037/2038

2009-04-13 Thread Fuzzy Zabriskie
I was thinking of calling the GUI Janus after the code name for windows 3.11. Which I think should be ok legalwise. Thoughts? hmm you could name it after the Roman god Janus, thinking of looking back to DOS and forward to a GUI? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus In Roman mythology,

Re: [Freedos-user] was: Windows 3.1 - Pending kernel patches 2037/2038

2009-04-13 Thread Christian Masloch
I was reading the Undocumented Dos book and according to it Win 3.x goes to extraordinary lengths to insure that the operating system it is running on os MSDos and not one of the alternatives. Yes, but note that the described AARD code is not really used in any retail release (UDOS 2nd

Re: [Freedos-user] was: Windows 3.1 - Pending kernel patches 2037/2038

2009-04-13 Thread King InuYasha
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Adam Norton usul.the.mo...@gmail.comwrote: Windows 3x Issues I was reading the Undocumented Dos book and according to it Win 3.x goes to extraordinary lengths to insure that the operating system it is running on os MSDos and not one of the alternatives.