Hi,
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Bret Johnson <bretj...@juno.com> wrote:
>
> I live in the USA, so don't have a need for any alternative language settings
> in my everyday life.
Ditto. But we're "behind the times". I think only 24% of the world (or
some such small number) is monolingual. Everybody else speaks more
than one.
> Most of the other stuff (NLSFUNC, COUNTRY, etc.) are mostly for
> sorting/collation
> and currency/number/time display. But, even this is limited to DOS itself, or
> programs that call DOS services to provide this functionality. I'm not sure
> how
> many programs would call DOS services to do this kind of thing for them,
There aren't that many (relatively), but I'd be wrong to say none.
Especially European users seem to do it (more) often. One example
offhand is FASMD, though I can't remember exactly what for (perhaps
8-bit filename capitalization in the file open browser).
Maybe some others (NDN?) do also, but again, like you, I never tested
too heavily for default reasons (English only).
> anyway -- a "serious" program would likely do all of this internally and not
> depend
> on the user to enter the appropriate settings in CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT.
Correct, e.g. TDE or Mined or GNU Emacs.
> IIRC, PRINTER.SYS only supported a few different kinds of printers anyway,
> and was relatively useless even back in the day (at least for me).
Well, I can't remember if it even exists! And, let's be honest,
printers are a pain even at the best of times. So me holding out blind
hope that FreeDOS will ever work ("for me"), in this particular
hardware area, is not going to happen.
Eric (Auer) probably knows more (or maybe Jim Tabor).
> I personally always use LASTDRIVE=Z.
I know, but it wastes a (tiny?) bit of extra RAM that way. Besides,
who needs more than "P"?? Besides you (in heavy testing), of course.
;-)
> If you don't make LASTDRIVE big enough, you can end up needing to edit
> CONFIG.SYS and reboot -- really annoying.
JEMM386 FASTBOOT :-)
> If you are trying to make a "universal" disk that will work on any machine,
> you need to be > careful about using JEMMEX. It doesn't work on every
> machine. I have a Sony
> laptop that JEMM refuses to install on, no matter which configuration options
> are
> chosen. MS HIMEM.SYS+EMM386.EXE installs just fine on the same computer.
Well, we'd *all* have to test all our dopey machines (even virtual).
Or you'd have to make sure it can be overriden (F8, so don't do
"SWITCHES=/F /N").
We still never officially patched HIMEMX to 3.33 with the "jmp $+2"
patch for old 386s. :-(
>>> alias reboot=fdapm warmboot
>>> alias halt=fdapm poweroff
>
> On the same machine (Sony laptop), FDAPM doesn't work at all because
> the BIOS doesn't have APM (only ACPI). So, if you're trying to create a
> "universal" disk, you probably shouldn't use FDAPM at all.
My old (dead) laptop didn't work with CTmouse. I think we all know
that hardware is flaky and incompatible, sometimes.
Just be sure not to use "SWITCHES=/F /N", and it'll be fine, IMHO. Or
alternately include a (very lean, spartan) setup as #1 choice or
whatever. At least then somebody can reboot "just to see" if it'll
work then if it didn't otherwise.
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