The newest freedos kernel is up at sourceforge now, at the usual places -- http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5109 you can construct the urls from previous announcements.
The emphasis for this release was on fixing bugs. short list of changes: bugs fixed: - 1712 findfirst returns wrong filename[0] in TP 7 - 1722 "COPY X+Y Z" which makes drive overfull causes corruption - 1729 int21 func 3d (open handle) doesn't work for char device - 1730 int 0x21 func 0x44 (ioctl) has problem with char devices - 1737 external stdin stdout filter fails in BP7 IDE (grep2msg) - fix when DosUpChar() is called via CharMapSrvc with DS != SS - ctty now works without funny characters repairing onscreen. - sys corrects sectors/track, head and hidden sector values in the boot sector when appropriate - FAT32 kernels now ignore the high word of cluster numbers on FAT16 partitions (as they should) - Use a table so that FATs won't be too big for FAT32 partitions. - Improve FAT size calculations - fix problem with creating r/o files - fix int2f/ax=1216. Affects Artz Praxis Wiegand, a German program for medical doctors. - fixes for multisegmented device drivers, in particular DUSE - fix FCB problems with int21/ah=27,28 (RandomBlockIO) - fix boot sector problems with largish FAT12 partitions. new features: - sys now has a /L option to specify the kernel load segment - the SET command is now supported in config.sys. - allow 0 as a menu item in fullscreen menus - the kernel prints a message to run chkdsk if it ever has to encounters invalid cluster numbers in the FAT - added (basic) support for the following int2f functions: ax=1211h NORMALIZE ASCIZ FILENAME ax=1220h (get job file table entry). also affects APW. ax=4a33h CHECK MS-DOS VERSION 7; necessary for SpinRite (Steve Gibson) Enjoy, Bart ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
