Re: [Freedos-kernel] please change the default freecom and increase the kernel version

2006-01-26 Thread Alain
Bernd Blaauw escreveu: reason was for better bug reporting. People often only report the FreeDOS version, or something out of VER. Hardly ever VER /R, let alone the production date of a (CVS) kernel which can only be viewed at boottime. I agree. I would like to propose thar the "VER" command

Re: [Freedos-kernel] please change the default freecom and increase the kernel version

2006-01-26 Thread Bernd Blaauw
David O'Shea schreef: It says "The UNSTABLE (aka development) branch is what I refer to as the development kernel (kernels with w suffix)." It looks like those kernels actually have ".dev" or ".dbgdev" in them, right? There doesn't seem to be a discussion of the naming convention for FreeCOM.

[Freedos-kernel] please change the default freecom and increase the kernel version

2006-01-25 Thread David O'Shea
Howdy, > Hi, > http://fdos.org/kernel/ > makes people use 8086 FreeCOM if I understand the text right. > This means they will likely have no XMS swap and no LOADHIGH. > In short, they will think FreeCOM is really a BAD command.com I find the site a bit confusing. It says "The UNSTABLE (aka devel

Re: [Freedos-kernel] please change the default freecom and increase the kernel version

2006-01-25 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Bart Oldeman schreef: To be fair I found Eric's email rather demanding. In general if you want things to happen in the NEAR future you either have to do it yourself or pay big bucks, not just pizza money. Certainly when the kernel doesn't have a real maintainer (just an interim one who does wh

Re: [Freedos-kernel] please change the default freecom and increase the kernel version

2006-01-25 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Kenneth J. Davis wrote: Just wanted to let everyone know I haven't completely dropped off the face of the Earth, but my moving is taking me longer than anticipated, so I still don't have my computers yet. Once I'm back operational I'll finish my merge work and release a new

Re: [Freedos-kernel] please change the default freecom and increase the kernel version

2006-01-25 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Just wanted to let everyone know I haven't completely dropped off the face of the Earth, but my moving is taking me longer than anticipated, so I still don't have my computers yet. Once I'm back operational I'll finish my merge work and release a new stable kernel and see read the rest of this req

Re: [Freedos-kernel] please change the default freecom and increase the kernel version

2006-01-23 Thread Alain
Eric Auer escreveu: Hi, http://fdos.org/kernel/ makes people use 8086 FreeCOM if I understand the text right. This means they will likely have no XMS swap and no LOADHIGH. In short, they will think FreeCOM is really a BAD command.com I agree. My other wish is using a new version number. PLE

[Freedos-kernel] please change the default freecom and increase the kernel version

2006-01-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, http://fdos.org/kernel/ makes people use 8086 FreeCOM if I understand the text right. This means they will likely have no XMS swap and no LOADHIGH. In short, they will think FreeCOM is really a BAD command.com Please make the XMS SWAP 186+ FreeCOM the one which is linked at the "Stable Kernel