Blair Campbell wrote: > After finally resolving that Florian's hard disk trashing problem was > related to LBACache, I think that 1.0 can be released as long as > LBACache isn't loaded during the install process.
That is good news indeed! Kudos to all contributors of the upcoming 1.0 release! Especially in the last months great progress has been made towards this milestone. ... <snip> ... > Since FreeCOM 0.84pre2 has become quite stable recently, it will be > included, and 0.82 pl3 MIGHT find its way in as a backup in case any > users would prefer legacy (but possibly better-working) versions. I would like to ask on the status of 2 allready mentioned issues on this list: -1- 'map_cluster: empty' With almost every redirection (piping) this is printed to screen. BTW, Eric Auer's kernel released on 2006-07-26 does not seem to be affected by this. -2- PATH problems Some commands can not be found in the PATH. The behaviour seems rather erratic. Adding the extension usually solves the problem. I tested the new FreeDOS stuff (upto and including emm386 2.23 release) with my lengthy batch-routines on the NwDsk boot disks. These disks are based on http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/ See http://www.veder.com/nwdsk/#images for older 3.35 releases. Currently everything runs fine on the NwDsk 3.40 betas except for the 2 problems mentioned above. The PATH-problem is only happening with some commands: HELP, MENU, VC, NET. HELP, MENU, and VC are batch-files, NET is NET.EXE the Microsoft network-utility. When called with extension they work, when called without they do not work: 'Bad command or filename - "vc"'. The set of updated FreeDOS-components seems far more compatible to different hardware and 3rd party software. However the PATH-problem would be a show stopper for me including 0.84pre2 with upcoming new NwDsk release. End users should just be able to type HELP, MENU, or NET to get a proper response. BTW the NwDsk 3.40 betas (e.g. all their batch-files) run fine on MsDOS 6.22, MsDOS 7.10 (W98se), OpenDOS (DrDOS by Udo Kuhnt), and FreeDOS-pre-pre-1.0. FreeDOS-1.0 vastly improves compatibility with respect to the previous FreeDOS used (kernel 2006-04-28, freecom 2006-01-06, emm386 2005-11-28) but triggers the 2 mentioned problems. Just tell me there is a new kernel/freecom that I can test addressing these issues ... ;-) Erwin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
