Hi!
17-Июл-2004 00:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to
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>> EA> Hi, when I press F5 at the 2035a boot choice, an improper
>> EA> shell command line is selected: I get an error message from
>> EA> FreeCOM that it cannot find itself (even though I have copied
>> EA> it to c:\ to be easier to find) ONCE and then I get an error
>> EA> message about the shell having exited INFINITELY. So I am not
>> EA> given a chance to enter a new shell command / arguments, and
>> EA> it looks as if the kernel does not even try to run the shell
>> EA> again. This did not happen with kernel 2035 classic.
>> Reason: after fixing task.c:ChildEnv() (where was wrong handle empty
>> environment), I remove adding to empty environment "PATH=." variable.
>> Unfortunately, FreeCOM (included into 2035 package) wrongly handles empty
>> enviornment ...
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Unfortunately, FreeCOM (included into 2035 package) wrongly handles empty
enviornment (easy to reproduce in MS-DOS, as I report this in group). Looks
like Steffen fixes (at least, one) bug, related to environment, but up to
now I don't know where to download fixed version. (May be, now you remind
for Steffen to make fixed version available for download?)
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EA> Hi Arkady, please UNFIX the environment then!
I may ADD adding any variable (including "PATH=.") to (empty)
environment, but better, if Steffen at last makes fixed FreeCOM available
for download. Steffen?! When? May be, now you see that fixed programs should
be available to download?
EA> Seems to be a very bad idea that people get throw out of FreeDOS after
EA> updating to your kernel just because they forgot to update FreeCOM as well!
FreeCOM included into kernel package.
>> EA> PS: It is annoying that I have to press enter after pressing a digit
>> EA> in non-fullscreen menu mode (even in fullscreen menu mode, you can be
>> EA> sure that I know what I want when I press a digit! So no enter needed
>> EA> there either...). Please remove the "wait for enter" at that place.
>> May be, you initiate voting in freedos-kernel? For me personally, Enter
>> after digit sometime convenient (if you press digit before menu is shown),
>> sometime not. But Enter is comptaible with MS-DOS and requiring Enter after
>> digit makes FreeDOS more comfortable for those, who often uses MS-DOS.
EA> Other point: Please use FreeDOS style menu digit processing - AT LEAST
EA> for the non-fullscreen menu. I like it to boot FreeDOS with only ONE
EA> keypress to select a load configuration.
This compatability should be broken, if all (most) will be agreed, that
MS-DOS is wrong here.
EA> all people would have to change their config files! Well, maybe you could
EA> autodetect the right syntax by searching for ^[0-9]*? lines (FreeDOS syntax)
EA> and lines with [ and ] inside (MS syntax).
_If_ add compatability with MS-DOS menu, then should be added full
compatability ("MENU=section,text" as menu lines and any alpha-numeric
characters in section name). Current FreeDOS menu structure have own
advantages and I myself satisfied by it. I will change it only if there will
be enough requests (and small or none opposition).
EA> Hereby taking the discussion to the list, as suggested :-)).
EA> PS: BONUS BUG *** If you boot from 1.68 MB floppy, the (fd)config,sys file
EA> is not used! However, FreeCOM successfully reads the autoexec file, so the
EA> disk access in general works.
EA> [that bug was found by MiFritscher today]
This question I can't yet answer. No ideas. Do you reproduce this
yourself?
EA> PPS: Anybody having Virtual Pool (VPOOL)? I think it *might* be broken
EA> because of FreeDOS, so if you have another DOS or a collection of old
EA> kernels, please try! I can send you the files, it is shareware.
1. What wrong with VPOOL?
2. If it small, I may try to receive it.
3. Old kernels are available from site.
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