[Freedos-user] re: LFN support?

2004-02-07 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, as far as I know, only Windows-aware programs generally notice it at all if you have LFN support active. Normally you need a TSR like LFNDOS or DOSLFN to provide LFN support, but there was a project to merge that into a special kernel at some time. FreeCOM does not really do much with LFN.

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS boot images for 2.88 MB floppy and 8 MB harddisk

2004-02-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I have not tested those, but check yourself: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/ - freedos-boot-2.88mb.bin (only the boot sector for 2.88 MB floppy) freedos-boot-floppy-2.88mb.zip (boot sector and 2.88 MB image, plus some howto and an 8 MB harddisk image). Supposed

[Freedos-user] re: (no subject) (downloading FreeDOS files)

2004-02-11 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, you can download all of FreeDOS beta9rc4 on one ISO image, or all of FreeDOS ODIN 0.6 as one 720k or 1440k floppy image in a zip file together with the software to put the image onto a real floppy. If this is still not what you want, we should put all the files from the IMAGES into a ZIP file

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

2004-02-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I just tried to mail SEN but the mail bounced. Maybe you know more? Bounced mail follows: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: HIEW 4.41 ? Hi, I have an HIEW 4.41 binary around - it only tells by SEN but does not show licensing info. Now I found HIEW 6.16 and it is shareware. [...] It looks

[Freedos-user] re: Beta 9 very hard to install

2004-03-01 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jonathan, sorry to hear that FreeDOS install did not work for you. Indeed, we have TWO installers. One is text mode and the other one looks very Windows-ish (which I personally do not really like...). Both in fact do almost the same as the Linux commands mkdir /fdos cd /fdos for x in $(find

[Freedos-user] re2: Beta 9 very hard to install

2004-03-02 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, nice to hear that you are getting closer. BITDISK is a variant of TDSK, and both are ramdisk drivers. APPEND is very fresh, so maybe it was not considered stable enough for beta9rc4. ATAPICDD is commented out by default in the config,sys which you get after installing beta9rc4 because

[Freedos-user] re: Using FreeDOS on a disk image for a bootcd...

2004-03-05 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Nicholas! Please be a bit more careful... I've got xmsdsk set up to make a 32 MB RAMdisk. When I try to do anything with said ramdisk I get an error message, similar to XMSDsk or MS-RAMDRIVE and DOS PART: SECTOR NOT FOUND No helpful error description. Try using - other XMS drivers:

[Freedos-user] re: Questions praise

2004-03-05 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Mika! 1. ... need a DOS-compatible driver from the modem ...? No, modems work with generic drivers under all operating systems. Some operating systems have extra drivers to allow optimized usage. Note that your modem has to be a generic serial port one (internal or external) to work with

[Freedos-user] re: Installing symbios SCSI drivers

2004-03-07 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, if there is a fdconfig,sys file, FreeDOS ignores config,sys ... so please try editing fdconfig,sys instead. In addition, DEVLOAD is indeed a very limited kludge to load device drivers. Whenever possible, use DEVICE (or DEVICEHIGH) instead. Use DEVICEHIGH only if your UMBs are compatible with

[Freedos-user] re: edit problem (fwd) - files 64k

2004-03-10 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Claudia... Sorry, but making EDIT process data structures of more than 64k size would be quite complicated. There is already a very good EDITOR for 386 which can handle very big files: http://setedit.sourceforge.net/ Especially if you install some of the plugins it will have an huge set of

[Freedos-user] re: FreeDOS CD-ROM cache problem (was: Q from user)

2004-03-11 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, looks like you ran into some error right after CDRcache showing a message that the CD-ROM driver reported a disk change. Strange. You can configure CDRcache to more or less verbosity, maybe this helps. Try echo ? CDRCACH$ (or however you called the device) to get help about how to do that.

[Freedos-user] Re: Descent 1

2004-03-15 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Adam, I think you have an EMM386 problem. 0F 20 xx is read CRn which some EMM386 do not emulate (it is not allowed natively to programs which are locked into a vm86 environment, and all EMM386 must use vm86 to make DOS run). I found that DESCENT runs best for me with DOS32A instead of DOS4GW:

[Freedos-user] Re: FreeDOS Bootable CD

2004-04-02 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, Keith sends extra information: The error appears after the lines that display the hd, pri, chs, start and size and the bios reported 0 sectors/track assuming 63. old int13=f000e024 int15=f000f859, new int13=9f48 int15=9f40027c. The last invalid opcode says f000 9f40 0216 f601 e003

[Freedos-user] Re: Re: FreeDOS Bootable CD

2004-04-03 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, tried to mail Johnson directly, but got relaying denied... So on-list: Hi, this is NOT a problem with the CPU if you ask me. It is one with the BIOS for all what I can tell. FreeDOS runs fine on K6-2, I have one myself. The K6-2 is 100% compatible to 386, and as you know, FreeDOS is even

[Freedos-user] Re: Re: Writing Utilities for FreeDOS

2004-04-23 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Imre! SCANDISK - this should be implemented as an user interface to DOSFSCK Yes, for this you should strip down dosfsck (throw out delayed writing and I disagree: Delayed writing is perfectly useful because you can use the code to create an UNDO LOG before actually changing the disk,

[Freedos-user] Re: formatting FAT32 hard disk partitions

2004-05-11 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, you think that FORMAT C: /U on a 40 GB partition would hang? No, but you selected /U which means wiping the entire 40 GB and doing a surface scan for it! This can take very long, and FORMAT is not optimized for that. I recommend that you use FORMAT C: /Q /U instead, which only writes the

Re: Subject: [Freedos-user] freedos kernel, samba and clipper locks

2004-05-11 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, try loading SHARE, for file sharing and locking: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/freedos-share-04may2004.zip or use an older version. Try with FAT16 if FAT32 is a problem. Do not forget to try loading network / ... drivers low, loading them into UMB can give spurious

[Freedos-user] Re: Re: formatting FAT32 hard disk partitions

2004-05-13 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Kurt! Yes, the percentage did change, depends on what kind of hard disk you have. I've tried it take several hours (5 hours as I remember, my PC very slow) to format 40GB. So we have the 5 second quick format and the 5 hour surface scan format. What is the Win9x format command doing

[Freedos-user] Re: New EMM386 release (long description)

2004-04-27 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I would call X=TEST either HIGHSCAN or SAFESCAN if you were to ask me what syntax should be used to exclude all high areas which contain other than all-0 / all-ff. By the way, while googling for NoMovExBDA I found that in EMM386 of DOS 6.22 / newer ROM= got improved. If that means that older

[Freedos-user] 40 years of BASIC

2004-05-01 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I found some interesting article about BASIC: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/47035 (in German)... It first worked 40 years ago today. The inventors slept while students finally made it to get it running for them :-). The history of Microsoft is closely related to BASIC, too. Bill

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

2004-05-03 Thread Eric Auer
Moikka Leke [and Finnish-for-and :-)] Mika! The fdos1440.img file is only meant for people who cannot boot from CD-ROM. So you have to use it in combination with the CD-ROM. Alternatively, use FreeDOS ODIN, which is a distro which packs all the best on a single floppy. HINT: I am working on an

[Freedos-user] Bug in hu208.key file?

2004-05-26 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, here is somebody who needs help with the Hungarian keyboard map on FreeDOS. Either he uses KEYB the wrong way or there is a bug in hu208.key ... http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/faq/cgi-bin/viewfaq.cgi?faq=incoming/249 Eric --- This

[Freedos-user] Classic user interfaces: MS Bob and many others [OT]

2004-06-04 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, maybe a bit off topic, but a friend found a nice page about the 1995 Microsoft Bob user interface: http://toastytech.com/guis/bob2.html Bob is a desktop for Windows 3 (and 95) and aims to be VEY intuitive. Actually, the desktop looks like a room and you can place objects there instead

[Freedos-user] Re: Configuration files help

2004-06-12 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Ray, answering some embedded questions... - please update to kernel 2035 or at least use in *config.sys: SWITCHES=/E to avoid EBDA movement problems - FreeDOS does have an EMM386, check www.freedos.org - software - base But DR DOS EMM386 will work, too (avoid the DPMI option, though, as

[Freedos-user] Re: Looking for Ensoniq 1370 Dos driver

2004-06-17 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, for your Ensoniq 1370 / SB PCI64 soundcard, you might try those drivers: http://www.fujitsu-siemens.co.uk/rl/servicesupport/techsupport/boards/Soundcards/PCI64-Q3D/PCI64(238Q).html http://www.nickles.de/c/a/archiv1-78531.htm - try APINIT / APLOAD

[Freedos-user] Re: BIOS update FreeDOS enabled ISO

2004-06-23 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, to create a very simple FreeDOS bootable system, get the kernel from http://freedos.sourceforge.net/ (-32 version supports FAT32 as well, -16 version does not). The download will contain a version of FreeCOM command.com, too, and some simple examples for autoexec / config. It also has the SYS

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS USB storage driver news

2004-07-02 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, James and I have updated the FAQ entry about FreeDOS and USB storage: http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/faq/cgi-bin/viewfaq.cgi?faq=./incoming/219 - http://www.bootdisk.com/usb.htm - http://newdos.yginfo.net/usbdos.htm Maybe somebody can tell more about the licensing? Available drivers: USB_CD

[Freedos-user] Re: New EMM386 Available

2004-07-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, Tyler reports some interesting things: - The DOS extender freeze on exit from QV (QuickView32 media player?) no longer happens with the new version (in the old version, you had to use DOS32A to avoid the problem) - Quake (and Doom) work(s) with the new version, while other drivers caused

[Freedos-user] Re: catgets/gettext

2004-07-18 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Just install FreeDOS and you will notice which programs have message catalog files :-) For my system: ls nls choice.de diskcopy.de find.es help.de localize.en pause.ensort.en choice.en diskcopy.en find.hu help.en more.de runtime.de sort.es choice.hu diskcopy.nl

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

2004-07-18 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! I have closed: http://www.freedos.org/bugs/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1022 and updated: http://www.freedos.org/bugs/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=998 I think we can postpone SCANDISK to post-1.0, for example PC-DOS does not have one either. http://www-306.ibm.com/software/os/dos/psm952a.html

[Freedos-user] Freeware: FileMaven (- laplink), CHK-SAFE (md5sum)

2004-07-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, a FreeDOS user found two nice (closed source) freeware programs: FileMaven - a file manager (one window on the left, one on the right, drop down menu with hotkey control, text mode, 25 or 50 lines) with support for some archives (ZIP...), encryption and: A file transfer module! You can run

[Freedos-user] Re: Freeware: FileMaven (- laplink), CHK-SAFE (md5sum)

2004-07-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Johnson! FileMaven - a file manager ... with ... and: A file transfer module! You can run one instance in host mode and then open a connection from another FileMaven on another PC. Transfer uses serial or parallel link cables (wiring instructions included). * Yes it DOES

[Freedos-user] Eric's new and shiny inofficial FreeDOS 1.0/2.0 TODO list ready

2004-07-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I am proud to have finished the first version of my inofficial FreeDOS 1.0 TODO list on: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/freedos-inofficial-1.0-todo-list.html Features: - post 1.0 items are included and marked in a separate color (all link to

[Freedos-user] Re: Eric's new and shiny inofficial FreeDOS 1.0/2.0 TODO list ready

2004-07-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Ranting on... Eric, you say your list is not to replace the official, then why you do it? why, being over 70 bugs, do you waste your time (and mine) in creating such a list? I claim that my list actually saves me some time: I can annotate things there, while doing so would often be

[Freedos-user] Re: Please remove my message in Sourceforge

2004-07-23 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, let me clarify the background of the discussion: Johnson had put the new HTML help texts online only to make reviewing easier. Once they get added to the ZIP file of HTML-help, there will be no problem with embedded mail addresses. HOWEVER, we accidentally got too much attention to the HTML

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

2004-08-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Arkady, you can do even more: with a boot loader (lilo, grub, WinXP one...) you can boot FreeDOS from any partition on any sane int 13h device which is in FAT12/16/32 format. HOWEVER, the kernel will always search the config file on A: (if booted from ANY floppy) or C: (if booted from ANY

[Freedos-user] DOSFSCK 2.10b for DOS / Win test release

2004-08-13 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I created a new DOS version of DOSFSCK 2.10, based on the original 2.10 sources, Imre's and Lucho's 2.10 DOS port, my own 2.8 DOS port, and FreeDOS FORMAT's Lock_Unlock_Drive function. The changed files (excuse the sloppy packaging) can be found on

[Freedos-user] New TICKLE for LBAcache, please test

2004-08-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, there is a new experimental TICKLE version based on suggestions from Erwin and some new ideas: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/lbacache-tickle-update.zip The new version combines TICKLE (1k) and TICKLEHD (1.5k) into one binary (2k). The resident code for harddisk handling is only kept in

[Freedos-user] int 25/26 LBAcache extension useful for FreeDOS?

2004-08-18 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I have been thinking about an extra tool for LBAcache: hook int 25/26 (or the FAT32 equivalent int 21.7xxx function, or all), for ONE drive. That drive must not use int 13 BIOS disk access. For all calls, call int 13 LBA functions, using the linear sector number from the call and a fixed

[Freedos-user] Announce: FORMAT 0.91s

2004-08-24 Thread Eric Auer
Hi all, I am pleased to announce FORMAT 0.91s, which you can get at: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/ format-0.91s.zip (remove the space to get the actual URL) Changes: Daniele Giacomini did several tests with his various old PCs with 5.25in drives, and I think the (broken

[Freedos-user] Re: Kernel LFN support

2004-08-28 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, before we re-invent the wheel again, we should first try to get DOSLFN working with FreeDOS again. Jason writes that DOSLFN uses the FAT32 sector I/O functions for FAT32 enabled kernels for ALL drives in DOSLFN 0.33, and he thinks that DOS should be clever enough for that. In other words, he

[Freedos-user] Re: Memory swapping and DOS service problem - from MASM to NASM

2004-08-31 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, try the newest testing kernel: http://linux.tu-varna.acad.bg/~lig/freedos/kernel/ it fixes a memory allocation problem - maybe useful for MASM, too. In addition, int 25 should be supported, our disk tools use it without problems. Maybe you could visit our IRC channel or ICQ me (see contact

[Freedos-user] Announce: new LBAcache 01sep2004 with new TICKLE and temperature control

2004-08-31 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I finally added the updated TICKLE (separately available 2 weeks ago) to the LBAcache download. So TICKLEHD.COM is no longer needed, TICKLE.COM can do both floppy and harddisk. Read TICKLE /? output and the lbacache and ticklehd documentation. There is an update in LBAcache as well: you have

[Freedos-user] Re: Memory swapping and DOS service problem

2004-09-01 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Andy, we found that RBIL is indeed wrong: Sector numbers are actually 0 based for int 25/26, and the FreeDOS kernel treats them as 0 based, too. You should debug your program a bit interactively. It will be interesting to find out why FreeDOS needs the DIR first. Please compare a few kernel

[Freedos-user] Re: Multiple Hard Drives/Operating Systems

2004-09-04 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Angela, you should look on the web for ways to unhide the MS DOS which is still there in WinME: Win95, Win98 and WinME are all using DOS to get started. It is only that WinME does not want that you use DOS... As WinME uses a FAT filesystem, you should be able to - save the boot sector of WinME

[Freedos-user] Q from users: USB boot / RXDOS boot menu / others

2004-09-15 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/faq/cgi-bin/viewdir.cgi?dir=incoming is now featuring two interesting problems: - what is the best way to install FreeDOS on USB storage devices? - how can you dual-boot RXDOS and FreeDOS? If anybody has experiences with this, please reply in the FAQ system.

[Freedos-user] Install on 386/10 10mb 40mb floppy laptop fails (was: my first post...)

2004-10-10 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, can you give more details about your install attempt? There should be an installer boot floppy, and this should let you enter floppy install mode if none of the following is found: - CD ROM of beta 9 - ISO image of beta 9 on harddisk - contents of beta 9 CD on harddisk ... but of course you

[Freedos-user] test: SmallBASIC processing MSish .bas files

2004-10-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I tested SmallBasic.sourceforge.net with some old QBASIC and GWBASIC .bas files, here a short list of things which did not work: KEY, DEFINT, DEFDBL, CLEAR, POKE, FILES, DO, GOTO as shorthand for THEN GOTO ... WIDTH, OUT, LPTINT, SHELL, signs in REM lines (if non-balanced, which should not

[Freedos-user] Re: FreeDOS Beta9 Distribution is out.

2004-09-29 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I started collecting some errata / comments about the FreeDOS beta 9 ISO image and the readme.txt file in the download directory. Unless our fileserver gets confused again, you can find it at: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/beta9errata.zip Summary: the docs/kjdavis/ files, in particular

[Freedos-user] Re: FreeDOS Beta9 Distribution is out.

2004-09-29 Thread Eric Auer
Hi again, I tried to install beta 9 without a CD-writer, and I ran into some problems... The boot image contains: command.com kernel.sys fdconfig.sys driver - atapicdd.sys cdrcache.sys eltorito.sys DEVLOAD.COM udma.sys SHSUCDHD.EXE himem.exe lbacache.com shsucdx.exe tickle.com freedos -

[Freedos-user] Mini-announce: syseecho / sysdelay

2004-10-01 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, you may remember syseecho (show a string, but replace $ signs by the ESCAPE character), which is now available through EECHO in config sys (if you use a recent FreeDOS kernel - my initial kernel implementation was, alas, broken: it sent the text to BIOS instead of to CON, so ANSI had no

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS to partition 200 GB disk (was: new member with a simple question?)

2004-10-17 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, yes, if your BIOS supports disks above 128 GB, then FreeDOS will support them, too. Disk size limit for FreeDOS is 2 Terabytes right now :-). So if you know how to work with FDISK, use a FreeDOS boot disk and free FDISK and FreeDOS FORMAT... If you want to create Linux partitions or

[Freedos-user] Re: F5/F8 fails to bypass config.sys/autoexec.bat?

2004-10-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, please try updating to a 2035 kernel, something like 2035bt or 2035cvs- stable: http://fdos.org/kernel/ (e.g. OpenWatcom, 386 optimized, FAT32), as your tovatest.com page recommends 560k RAM and 0.5-100 MB disk space on a 386 or better, with VGA and printer port, that seems to be a good

[Freedos-user] FAQ updated: How to make USB disks bootable

2004-10-21 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I updated http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/faq/cgi-bin/viewfaq.cgi?faq=incoming/316 further. Lots of points open for feedback now :-). Preferrably feedback by IRC (irc.i7c.org, #freedos), maybe also feedback by email or through the FAQ system. Eric [Thanks for getting us started with this,

[Freedos-user] Some automagic SETVER for FreeDOS

2004-11-01 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I fount a SETVER with source codes, and Simtel writes that it is part of the FreeDOS project. So we already have SETVER? Why did nobody tell me? http://www.bookcase.com/library/software/msdos.util.system.html - SETVERB by David McIlwraith, written in ASM, 3k binary. This tool (beta 6,

[Freedos-user] How to invoke DOS prompt / edit files (was: ... digest, Vol 1 #287)

2004-11-06 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, normally you RETURN to the DOS prompt when you leave a program. The DOS prompt is done by command.com ... However, e.g. in Windows, you can START a new instance of command.com to get a new DOS prompt window. You can only edit text files with text editors in DOS, everything else is only

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

2004-11-17 Thread Eric Auer
Hi all, the big warning on freedos.org is indeed important to know about. IF you have WinXP (or WinNT or Win2k) on your PC on a NTFS drive AND IF you have a FAT based operating system as well, for example Win98, AND IF you boot from the FreeDOS beta 9 CD-ROM to install FreeDOS, THEN FreeDOS

[Freedos-user] Question about FDAPM suspend versus clock

2004-12-12 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I got a report that FDAPM SUSPEND mode stops the timer tick clock (so far so good) and fails to update it to current time when waking up. Does that happen for you, too, or does it only happen for a few BIOSes? The FDAPM STANDBY mode does not stop the timer, as the CPU is not halted completely

[Freedos-user] Re: Re: GRUB for DOS How-To

2004-12-29 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, the sample GRUB configuration items are all quite interesting, but please fix the following line before making a technote of the HowTo: DEVICE=C:\MSDOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS I=B000-B7FF Forcing EMM386 to place an overlay of UMBs over RAM of the graphics card, even if it is only mono text buffer

[Freedos-user] anybody wants some of my ISA cards?

2005-01-03 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I would like to get rid of some ISA hardware in a more hardware friendly way than throwing it away... Maybe anybody is interested in really USING that stuff for anything? Best postage would be in Germany, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, France. Or in other words, those are the best places to pick

[Freedos-user] Re: anybody wants some of my ISA cards?

2005-01-06 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Lucas, shipping would be something like 3-13 Euros... Would be a lot easier if somebody in NL would add the ISA cards to his DOS lab... I am interested in the SB16 and the Aztech sound cards. I'm poking at how to program different sound cards from long ago. Is it worth it?

[Freedos-user] Re: UMB in mono/VGA RAM (was: GRUB for DOS How-To)

2005-01-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi all, Michael is right, if you I=..., then EMM386 should just do what you tell it to do. He is also right that autodetection should be careful, not overenthousiastic. Anyway, I like the suggestion from Arkady: Ok. Let make another question: how to make _conditional_ inclusion of B000 or

[Freedos-user] Borland C++ 5.5 compiler freeware?

2005-01-11 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, http://www.franksteinberg.de/psprach.htm tells me that the compiler of BC++ 5.5 is available as a free download. What does that mean? Many people seem to use the non-free BC++ 3.x, so is this really the BC 5.5 one (without the IDE), or is it just Turbo C or Turbo C++ 5.5? Does it include

[Freedos-user] Re: problem with Pictview under FreeDOS

2005-01-15 Thread Eric Auer
Hi all, I found back some old mails (8/2004) to Erwin about EAthe findfirst/findnext has the wrong treatment for attribute selection EAversus disk label Some code lines from current unstable kernel (http://fdos.org/kernel/) COUNT dos_findfirst(UCOUNT attr, BYTE * name) ... if ((attr

[Freedos-user] New FDAPM: Clock update after SUSPEND

2005-01-18 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I have improved FDAPM. Version 18 Jan 2005 now updates the clock (timer tick) to the real (RTC) time after a SUSPEND or PURESUSP. On systems where this has a real effect, a pretty- printed message like ... 45.6 minutes (always ???.?, in 2-119.9 range) about the amount of the clock adjustment

[Freedos-user] New PCISLEEP tool released: PCI listing, energy saving

2005-01-21 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I am happy to announce the first public version of my PCISLEEP tool. You can get it at: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/pcisleep-21jan2005.zip Functions of this (2.5-3.5 kB / 1000 lines NASM) new creation: - /L mode shows a (mostly numeric) PCI device listing, including

[Freedos-user] Announce: FDAPM with ACPI, PCISLEEP

2005-02-04 Thread Eric Auer
Hi all, I am proud to announce a double-update: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/pcisleep-03feb2005.zip and http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/fdapm-04feb2005.zip Features: PCISLEEP - scans your PCI bus and shows device information like: bus.device(.function)

[Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: FreeDOS FORMAT 0.91t

2005-02-15 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I have uploaded http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/format-0.91t.zip ... Please wait for some test results before announcing the update on the FreeDOS.org homepage. Improvements: - FORMAT is now compiled with smaller prf.c printf - reduced

[Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: New PCISLEEP sleep/info tool, FDAPM with ACPI support

2005-02-15 Thread Eric Auer
(This is a forward of the news item post - you will have seen announcements for FDAPM / PCISLEEP on the list before... But you may have missed the updates!) Hi all, please check out the newest versions of PCISLEEP and FDAPM at http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/ (fdapm-04feb2005.zip and

[Freedos-user] Re: Re: freecom

2005-02-16 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, strange subject line, but: Arkady, SYS C: is for transferring systemfiles from current drive ... to C: and writing bootsector. IIRC bootsector is not overwritten, unless you do /MBR (at least in MS's). SYS does write the boot sector all the time - you are mixing things up with FDISK,

[Freedos-user] Re: Master of Orion emm386 // RE: sound cards apogee games

2005-02-18 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, the function 53 in EMM386 is, according to Ralf Brown's Interrupt List (RBIL), paragraph m-6753-: INT 67 - LIM EMS 4.0 - GET/SET HANDLE NAME AH = 53h I think that explains the purpose :-). About having problems with games on modern PCs: Please try the new FDAPM SPEEDn setting, where

[Freedos-user] Re: About shutdown

2005-02-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, COLDboot / WARMboot - do a reboot with / without BIOS tests (POST) HOTboot - try reboot at once using int 19h (will often crash!) According trial, it seems HOTboot just jump to MBR without run the BIOS and as the help says, it crashes. But I can't distinguish COLDboot and

[Freedos-user] Re-Release / ANNOUNCE: FORMAT 0.91t

2005-03-04 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I have re-released FORMAT 0.91t, so you get some additional clean-ups. Changes compared to 0.91s (8/2004) are: - FORMAT is now compiled with smaller prf.c printf - reduced debugging messages and avoiding duplicate 100%. - improved detection for

[Freedos-user] Re: Re: Question: How to use CMedia CM8738 sound in DOS?

2005-03-04 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Johnson, cmedia.com.tw tells that their CM8737 chip has a great SB16 emulation, including DMA... However, I now downloaded the newest DOS driver from them, told my BIOS to force the IRQ to 5..10 range (so the interrupt redirector part of the CMedia DOS driver is not needed), and read the

[Freedos-user] Re: Question: How to use CMedia CM8738 sound in DOS?

2005-03-06 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Nicholas, thanks for informing me that CMI sound chips suck. I agree with you on that by now :-). Lucho has sent me his drivers (initializers) for DOS, and my SB AWE32 diagnostics tool got happy after using them, even played sample sounds, but most games still only worked Adlib- or OPL3-wise.

[Freedos-user] New PCISLEEP version

2005-03-11 Thread Eric Auer
names. Useful if you want to do PCISLEEP Q02 to find all network cards but have forgotten that the number of the network class is 02xx :-P. Non-UPXed size would be 5.5k, by the way. If you do not know what PCISLEEP is good for, check the help screen: pcisleep /? This is PCISLEEP by Eric Auer 2005

[Freedos-user] Re: New PCISLEEP version

2005-03-12 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Arkady, Not fixed help screen: neither comma, nor version number. Oops, indeed. Fixed in: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/pcisleep-12mar2005.zip Enjoy. Eric PS: That one is compiled in Linux (nasm) and UPXed in Linux (1.20). Still it is compressed better than the 11mar

[Freedos-user] Re: FreeDOS and Voodoo

2005-03-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, according to http://sites.inka.de/~W1752/tv/tvout.html the trick to boot without monitor attached and then stay in BIOS modes (e.g. using VESA modes, not Linux lowlevel drivers) to stay in TV-out mode is quite common. For Voodoo3, some i2c bus is mentioned which configures the port. A full

[Freedos-user] Re: Question

2005-03-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Theresa, according to WWW, a Dell Lattitude 433c can have e.g. 4 MB RAM, 170 MB harddisk, 486sx processor with 33 MHz. Some have as much as 20 MB RAM, 250 MB harddisk. You write that you run it with Win95 but have no OS disks for it. For Linux, even with a simple fvwm2 GUI, 16-20 MB RAM are

[Freedos-user] Re: Question

2005-03-15 Thread Eric Auer
Theresa, PLEASE configure your mail program to use ONLY TEXT, NO HTML... In addition, if you write only ONE line of an answer, do NOT quote the ENTIRE mail in your reply. Thanks. Now about Nicholas' comment: There is an ODIN (one disk INstall) available on the website, so yes. = It's going

[Freedos-user] Re: FD-DOC wiki

2005-03-16 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I noticed that http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php has the questions from the normal FAQ system, but not the answers, copied over to the Wiki FAQ system copy. That will make people believe that there are many open questions, which causes either frustration if you want to get the answer

[Freedos-user] Re: Compilation with DJGPP using RHIDE

2005-03-18 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Michael, I had problems with DJGPP (long compile times, mystical error messages) until I removed FreeDOS EMM386 from my CONFIG.SYS. Heavy port I/O and use of software interrupts are way too freaking slow in V86 mode, no doubt about it. No way around it, either, as it's the nature of

[Freedos-user] Question: VIM for DOS

2005-03-18 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, has any VIM user tried the DOS version recently, in particular the 32bit DOS version (you probably need CWSDPMI to run it) vim63d32.zip? http://www.vim.org/download.php As VIM-non-user it is always hard to tell whether you have a good port installed or not X-). For me, that is. I

[Freedos-user] Re: Do FreeDOS need a password program?

2005-03-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Kristaps, Well. I would like to see a password program (running from autoexec.bat) with login/password database in crypted file which would set USER (logged in user) and HOME (user's profile directory) environment variables on exit. I guess you mean a file with hashes of passwords and

[Freedos-user] Re: x-comment to Michael Devore's message of 18 March

2005-03-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Michael, Many illegal memory accesses in programs which won't fail under HIMEM will fail with EMM386 loaded. EMM386 does not allow memory reads/writes outside of the actual PC memory range due to protected mode /V86... You forget that the MEMCHECK switch for your EMM386 fixes this, by

[Freedos-user] Questions to users about FDAPM roadmap

2005-03-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I updated my local FDAPM copy 2 weeks ago, fixing the idle time statistics and making the ACPI support more insisting (ignores im- plausible values from BIOS, for example). However, I cannot get my plans settled for other possible updates, most of them inspired by PC-DOS documentation, so it

[Freedos-user] Re: comment to Aitor Santamaria message of 19 March

2005-03-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, the error message translates to, roughly, program jumped to address 257.7 MBytes which does not exist. While FD EMM386 has the MEMCHECK option to make access to non-existing memory allowed, it would not help for YOUR case, because the program tried to RUN in non-existing memory. You might

[Freedos-user] Re: Linux on FreeDos or vice versa?

2005-03-23 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Leke Lapinkangas (interesting name...), Is it possible to install Linux on FreeDos or vice versa? More importantly could I do it on my machine? (Which is a 486dx25 with 12MB RAM and plain VGA) A small / old Linux will run in acceptable ways on that kind of PC, I assume. I myself had it

[Freedos-user] Re: DESCRIPT.ION files under FreeCOM

2005-03-28 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Fox, the DOS version of the 4DOS shell is now free anyway, easier than using some add-on for FreeCOM ;-). FreeCOM really could use some help to reduce bugs, alas the official maintainer cannot do much for it at the moment :-(. So even adding features is kind of way beyonds scope for now...

[Freedos-user] Re: Look for a Dos File manager

2005-04-01 Thread Eric Auer
is is there a File manager with FreeDos, like MC (Midnight Commands) that a linux version, I would like find it for DOS version. You got the reply: DOS Navigator, Volkov Commander, Norton Commander, DOSShell (the one bundled with MSDOS 5.x), DirTree, Necromancer's Navigator and many many

[Freedos-user] Re: Re: freedos

2005-04-04 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jeremy, Geraldo, on one hand it would be nice to include a lot of useful software, but on the other many people just want a simple boot environment (and tiny download); if we had the manpower, an ideal situation would be multiple distributions maintained... My current preferrence

[Freedos-user] Announce: Yet another FreeDOS CD distro

2005-04-05 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, Fritz sent me the following text to forward to the list: You can download the FreeDOS Lite-CD at http://www.bootablecd.de/downloads/bootablecd/ fdoslite09.iso (about 35 MB) The intention of this CD is not only to distribute software but to help people which have problems with their machine

[Freedos-user] Re: Re: Announce: FDSHIELD 26mar2005 anti-malware shield / docs

2005-04-10 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Arkady, FDSHIELD has no problem with loading to UMBs: If the selected UMB is too small, then the stack pointer will be too low when the UPX stub of the compressed FDSHIELD starts, and the stub will exit to DOS at once, before any damage is done. If you do not UPX FDSHIELD, then you cannot

[Freedos-user] Re: Fwd: Running DANCAD3D.EXE v3.7K under FreeDOS,

2005-04-11 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, yes, you can run several DOSEMU instances with several DOS versions: To do that, you can either write a short shell script which shuffles the configuration files / diskimages / symlinks- to-virtual-drive-directories / whatever, or you can install a boot menu in DOSEMU. The latter can be quite

[Freedos-user] Re: check for format

2005-04-12 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, to check for formatting, you can indeed use WHICHFAT, but I think OSCHECK has grown to be a superset of WHICHFAT. You can find it on http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/ in the file boot-sector-ave-n-analyze-oscheck.zip Note that OSCHECK does not try to determine the FAT

[Freedos-user] Methods against harddisk password troubles

2005-04-13 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, as neither harddisk makers nor BIOS makers really seem to care about users getting locked out of their own disks, you might want to have a look at this article: http://www.heise.de/ct/english/05/08/172/ Years ago, IDE / ATA harddisks started to support a password lock feature, but nobody

[Freedos-user] Re: Methods against harddisk password troubles

2005-04-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Gordon, thanks for the info... The SECURITY FREEZE LOCK command shall set the device to Frozen mode. After command completion any other commands that update the device Lock mode shall be command aborted. Frozen mode shall be disabled by power-off or hardware reset [which you explain to

[Freedos-user] Re: legal distribution of GNU programs

2005-04-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, if you combine GNU and non-GNU programs on one disk, you would have to make sure that the user is informed about the license of all programs. For the GNU programs, you normally would provide a copy of the license on the disk, possibly zipped, possibly as a self-displaying compressed

[Freedos-user] Re: Ultimate 9x/NT Boot Disk up for download

2005-04-23 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Chris / Gryphon, you should really make that a FREEDOS boot disk if you tell the FREEDOS people to use it! And it will not even hurt. At least less than pissing MS by distributing their stuff. A:\CHKDSK.EXE If that is FreeDOS chkdsk, then you should include chkdsk32 (Tu Varna) or dosfsck

[Freedos-user] Re: RE: Methods against harddisk password troubles

2005-04-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Gordon... # ... The CPU has several sleep states, and in # the deeper ones, all state / register information is lost, so you # have to save it to RAM first, and the BIOS will jump to your wake-up # handler to let you restore it when the system wakes up. I would be *extremely* surprised

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