Hello!
Jeremy:
as for patch starting this discussion, I'll look at it when I get home from work tommorrow afternoon; anyway I've got to get ready
Thanks for your commitment to maintain the kernel now when it's branched and thus hard to maintain
Aitor:
Could you please fill bugzilla entries with these please?
Done. See bugs 1817 to 1821.
A pitty to hear you go, or am I misinterpretating your words?
They were misty enough to be understood. I don't leave FreeDOS but won't likely work on it anymore
Michael:
I'd like to know of any DOS extender compatibility problems as I have looked carefully for them. All the big name extenders and several 2nd or 3rd tier ones, work fine for all the applications tested.
Borland 32RTM 1.5 fails to work in FreeDOS but works in MS-DOS. I've patched it to make it work by modifying the byte at offset 284h from 0 to 1. The X32 DOS extender used in Digital Mars SMAKE had caused problems, so I've patched its offset 4707 from 23h to Bh, but right now when I test it, it works! (So somehow the bug got fixed during the last year ;-) Last not least, since it modifies the SFTs, the HiNTOS DOS extender (or Windows to DOS converter) doesn't work at all in FreeDOS. Alas, I did my patches more than an year ago and I don't remember how I found out these offsets :(
Bart:
Of course this is since the DOSLFN author apparently isn't interested in running it on FreeDOS and most FreeDOS developers aren't interested enough in DOSLFN (it's useless on networked drives for instance, which makes it almost useless in DOSEMU!).
As Tom suggests, it's best to integrate LFN services into the kernel. The it can be distributed in two versions: LFN-enabled and non-LFN-enabled. But the task is rather complex as you know :-(
Same for SMARTDRV, anyway why SMARTDRV if we have LBACACHE?
Because it works better for me. They're very different beasts, using entirely different principles
In any case these "China DOS Union" guys seem to think they can freely redistribute MSDOS 7.10 so if they think that's all fine and it works for what they want then I wish them good luck.
Actually, the kernel they distribute is almost twice as small as the original kernel, because they managed to remove the embedded logo bitmap and other Windows-only code/data. If you have a chance to find Wengier's boot disk, take a look at it. Very good job! It's the best boot disk I've seen.
PC-DOS 7.1 never seems to have been officially released but just appears to be what's used on Norton Ghost's boot disks.
It can be freely downloaded with the trial Symantec Ghost version from the Symantec site. However, to get a DOS kernel consisting of only the IBMBIO and IBMDOS files and two boot sectors without even a SYS utility, one must download the whole 90 MB :( Latest build: 1.29 dated 9 November 2003.
Remember that Steve Gibson went round trip back to FreeDOS after evaluating several other DOSes so this means that FreeDOS can't be that bad :) I just hope that if I ever need spinrite myself Steve can pay back by giving me a free copy ;)
;-) ;-) ;-) You're right. It's not bad at all. You know I like it, but I'm afraid the remaining bugs (I don't mean just "my" bugs of course) may play bad jokes on us in the future if not fixed. Besides, Steve can't afford to use any DOS illegally. So if I were him, I'd choose FreeDOS too.
Sorry for this rather long message of mine.
Regards, Lucho
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