Re: [Freedos-user] Command prompt returns without commands executing
Blair Campbell schreef: the data from XMS... There might be some code which decides about whether restore-from-XMS is needed and which is too optimistic. But maybe I am totally wrong about that whole swap/overwrite topic... From what I can tell it always swaps back from XMS and there is no other memory block that I am aware of. Would your changes to FreeCOM be worthwile to be published at the same time as 2038 (in other words to be included as a new FreeCOM version, included with 2038 release) ?. Bernd -- Crystal Reports #45; New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensign option that enables unlimited royalty#45;free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] chkdsk broken?
When I run chkdsk it reports many problems: ChkDsk beta 0.9 Copyright 2002, 2003 Imre Leber under the GNU GPL \KERNEL.SYS has an invalid size, the size should be about 4294901760, but the entry says it's 45341 \COMMAND.COM has an invalid size, the size should be about 4294868992, but the entry says it's 66945 ... This is a known bug from 2003, bugzilla says it would be fixed? www.freedos.org/bugzilla/cgi-bin/show_bug.cgi?id=1633 I do not know what the current version is but a 0.91 exists: www.freedos.org/bugzilla/cgi-bin/show_bug.cgi?id=1954 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailaid=2462084group_id=5109atid=105109 That version still fails for drives without subdirectories :-( According to the software list, 0.9.1 (probably same as 0.91) is the latest version: http://www.freedos.org/cgi-bin/lsm.cgi?mode=lsmlsm=base/chkdsk.lsm -- Crystal Reports #45; New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensign option that enables unlimited royalty#45;free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FDUPDATE and the 486...
On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 16:35 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: Hi, Has anyone gotten fdupdate to work with a 486? I lost the link to fdupdate v0.55 and the instructions on how to use it in fdupdate v0.54. If using a 486 is the problem because of a bug in the math coprocessor or something similar, that would be nice to know. I've noticed that I get a C prompt back after the crash if I say 387=no in autoexec.bat. I haven't confirmed this, I should test with and without it to confirm. It seems to be true though. Please check if this is the case. Another thing is that you can put em387.dxe or wemu387.dxe or emu387.dxe or so...? The file seems to be emu387.dxe in djdev203.zip ... Somebody in the freebasic forum said: Anyways, in pure DOS (not Windows) I think you can disable the FPU detection for DJGPP by doing set 387=n and set EMU387=c:\mydir\wmemu387.dxe. It should work. I guess other options are putting the dxe in your PATH or in the current directory or the directory where FDUPDATE is etc. Eric I fried all my 486 processors and it makes more sense to fix a Pentium III up then it does to try and cobble together another 486. I'm getting out of the 486 business, so I may never find out if fdupdate will work on one. -- Crystal Reports #45; New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensign option that enables unlimited royalty#45;free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Abandonware site...
MS-DOS and Windows 3.x are clearly abandonware. If I want to use this abandonware, am I suddenly breaking the law? Not suddenly. It is and was breaking the law. Of course you can hope that MS is too busy hunting people who steal Vista, but you cannot just say that stealing MS DOS is suddenly legal... Some MS-DOS games don't work in freedos, something that can be fixed hopefully, and one needs MS-DOS for them. That said, games like Ultima VII and any game based on the Wolfenstein 3D gaming engine will work on 98 on down and in some cases in XP if you use either dosbox or in the case of Ultima VII, Exult. It is illegal to download and use MS-DOS, but I have a wrecked copy of it sitting on the shelf. If Microsoft were to try and sue me for my copy, I can point to the one on the shelf as well as the fact that MS-DOS licenses were never tied to specific computers. I could also complain that Microsoft isn't supporting MS-DOS and claim that it doesn't have a right to sue people over it. There is also the fact that I don't profit from MS-DOS in any way which is outside of the realm of personal use. MS-DOS to my knowledge never asked for an installation code and it is not marked in any way as copy XYZ. Windows 95 is a different story where I threw away my cracked copy which is labeled as being the property of McDonald's. The fact that Microsoft can prosecute illegal use of ancient versions of Windows and all versions of MS-DOS is all the more reason for this project to pick up and release a better freedos. It is also high time that a Windows 3.1/9x replacement got under way. Most games that run in either 98/XP are really meant for 98. ReactOS is not 98 and the ReactOS team will never pursue a gui that runs on top of dos. Actually, one thing I don't like about ReactOS is that it asks for identifying information including a name and company just like Windows 9x and later does. -- Crystal Reports #45; New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensign option that enables unlimited royalty#45;free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
