Re: [Freedos-user] Kernel LFN support (was: 32BD.BAT)

2004-08-27 Thread Luchezar Georgiev 
So I think both of them reached a certain level of stability, say 84% of 
M$-DOS
;-) So we have only 16% left now ;-)
We need a new Victor Vlasenko to integrate LFN support in the kernel.
IMHO, LFN is a high priority task because we can really replace some 
Windows application by FreeDOS.
I agree. It's not accident that the ROM-DOS kernel supports LFNs.
FreeDOS is best for low level hardware access such as hard disk 
maintenance. I can imagine in future I use Lucho's ROMDISK to boot and 
rescue my hard disk's data, wipe away all the virus, spyware, defrag, 
backup, etc.
As Federico Felini said, The visionary is the only true realist! ;-)
Unfortunately ROMDSK works only with older BIOSes. Newer ones no longer 
support ISA option ROMs, so ROMDSK must be wrapped in a PCI option ROM, 
which is much more complex to do.

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Re: [Freedos-user] Kernel LFN support (was: 32BD.BAT)

2004-08-27 Thread Johnson Lam 
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:02:33 +0300, you wrote:

Hi Lucho,

;-) So we have only 16% left now ;-)

Maybe already 10% less ;-)

I got a friend testing FreeDOS and he report lots of problem with his
old software.

I agree. It's not accident that the ROM-DOS kernel supports LFNs.

I notice some of the restaurant or hotel is still using DOS (wow!).
It's networked for billing and it's in Chinese. Windows is not ruling
the world since this kind of small terminal only need entry level
hardware.

As Federico Felini said, The visionary is the only true realist! ;-)

I hope this will be true.
Now we can did it but in a more complex way:

1) boot DOS
2) LFN
3) DOSNTFS driver
4) Retrieve information from hard disk

But still unable to fully access NTFS or alter LFN files.

Unfortunately ROMDSK works only with older BIOSes. Newer ones no longer 
support ISA option ROMs, so ROMDSK must be wrapped in a PCI option ROM, 
which is much more complex to do.

Yes, and PCI-X is coming out, oops ... target change again.

Better to think other ways such as writing code and put them in
bootable USB flash, boot the flash and clean virus, spam, fix or clone
your hard disk! A huge market ahead ... the commercial didn't do it
just for 1 reason - RD cost too much.


Rgds,
Johnson.



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