Hi everybody, please test the updated NANSI 4.0c package at http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/nansi40c.zip
Changes: New /Q option to mute the bell. Note that FreeCOM beeps by directly accessing the speaker - there might be an option to configure this, though. New INT2F handler to support the classic ANSI install check. For completeness sake, the INT2F handler also has support for get/set geometry and for get/set flags. The latter is dummy and small. The former is a bit complex. RAM footprint of NANSI 4.0c is 250-300 bytes larger than in 4.0b because of that. The get/set geometry interface lets you: 1. Query the resolution of a text mode in chars and pixels (less reliable for graphics modes?) and 2. Force NANSI to assume a certain resolution (in chars) for the current mode and force NANSI to access it as graphics mode (call BIOS to draw chars) or as text mode (write chars directly). The "blink or intensity?" and "bits per pixel" aspects of geometry set and get calls are dummy / ignored for now. Unfortunately I have no real life test cases for the int 2f thing, not even for the ANSI install check. I hope somebody else has. Maybe Dan Kegel himself? :-) I myself just tested the new int2f with DEBUG. Cheers, Eric PS: The "screen size" interface thing should alledgedly also be accessible via IOCTL of the CON device. I guess this has as little use for most people as the screen size interface in int2f. Probably I should compile the default binary without any size API? PPS: You can UPX the SYS from 4.6 kB to 3.7 kB but then you MIGHT get silent failure to load when you try to use it in a UMB which has between 3.7 and 4.5 kB size. Converting NANSI to be internally EXE would be a solution if you need it "safely UPXable". Or just UPX it as it is and be aware of the (small) possible failure case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
