Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze wrote:
Jay Maus wrote:
Wow, I'm impressed by all the discussion this has sparked. It's good
to see
an active dev community. So I think I'm nearly ready to start futzing
around
with FreeDOS code, but it's still a little foreign to me: I'm used to
32-bit
Windows
Hi,
Jay Maus escribió:
Wow, I'm impressed by all the discussion this has sparked. It's good to see
an active dev community. So I think I'm nearly ready to start futzing around
with FreeDOS code, but it's still a little foreign to me: I'm used to 32-bit
Windows C++. In Visual Studio, no less. Are
Hi!
24--2004 18:55 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jay Maus) wrote to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
JM Also, do I need a native FreeDOS environment to compile in, or can I
JM cross-compile with gcc?
No, you can't. Also as with VC and BCB - all them don't support 16-bit
target platform.
JM Also also, is there a
Wow, I'm impressed by all the discussion this has sparked. It's good to see
an active dev community. So I think I'm nearly ready to start futzing around
with FreeDOS code, but it's still a little foreign to me: I'm used to 32-bit
Windows C++. In Visual Studio, no less. Are there any good books or
Jay Maus schreef:
This whole File Search Utility thread has gotten me thinking about DOS
programming. I program mainly in either Win32 C++ for apps or Perl for
scripts. However, I've played around with DOS C programming from time to
time, and would like some 'real-world exercises', so to speak.
At 04:50 AM 4/24/2004 +0200, Bernd Blaauw wrote:
smallest allowable blocksize seems to be 4KB,
so I'd like a utility which can check each 4KB.
UMBPCI can do this right now (and even use it),
UMBCHK cannot (16KB only),
Emm386 I'm not sure if it can check in 4KB blocks,
but it can use no smaller
Michael Devore schreef:
DOS can deal with blocks down to 16 bytes, so you could probably run UMB size down that low,
although the overhead there wouldn't be worth it. But 1K (or less) is feasible.
It's a matter of how hard you want to squeeze memory and
how much risk you're willing to accept
At 05:26 AM 4/24/2004 +0200, Bernd Blaauw wrote:
Michael Devore schreef:
DOS can deal with blocks down to 16 bytes, so you could probably run UMB size down
that low,
although the overhead there wouldn't be worth it. But 1K (or less) is feasible.
It's a matter of how hard you want to squeeze
