Re: [Freedos-user] Poor mouse pointer visibility in Edit

[John Hupp]

I tried this today.  It improves the pointer situation in Edit, but the 
arrow gets chopped up a lot as I move it around.


Something about Edit seems to be hostile to pointers.  Nothing else 
looks nearly so bad.


But for the degree of improvement in Edit, it sits in memory all the 
time occupying 7K, so I may remove it and let Edit function like 
keyboard-only.


On 2/20/2016 6:37 PM, Don Flowers wrote:

I use this neat little mouse pointer it's pretty cool.
http://www.pcorner.com/list/GRAPHUTI/PP111.ZIP/INFO/

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 5:27 PM, John Hupp > wrote:


With the default installation of FreeDOS 1.1 on real hardware (Pentium
II @ 300 MHz, 48 MB, ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP video with 4 MB), I find that
the mouse pointer in Edit with a file open is almost invisible. 
 There

are partial-image flashes of the expected brown rectangle. But if I
open a menu, then there is a nice solid brown rectangle while the menu
is open.

In the FreeDOS Help system, the pointer is a nice solid gray.

I got the same results with 2 LCD monitors and also a CRT.

I don't have anything additional installed on this system yet so I
don't
know what the behavior will be in other programs.

The mouse pointer has never been pretty in Edit -- it's usually
flashing
but fully visible -- but I have never seen it virtually invisible like
this.  Initially I thought there was no pointer until I stepped
through
the Autoexec.bat startup and confirmed that MOUSE does indeed run
successfully, after which I looked harder and saw the visual traces of
the pointer in Edit.

Does anyone have an explanation or solution?


--
Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance
APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month
Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now
Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now!
http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=272487151&iu=/4140
___
Freedos-user mailing list
Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net

https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user




--
Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance
APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month
Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now
Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now!
http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=272487151&iu=/4140


___
Freedos-user mailing list
Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user


--
Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance
APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month
Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now
Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now!
http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=272487151&iu=/4140___
Freedos-user mailing list
Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

[Freedos-user] State of native FD 1.1 programs support for FAT32?

[John Hupp]

I haven't looked at this question for a long time so it probably bears 
asking again.

I have been using 2GB FAT16 partitions because of my recollection that 
some of the FreeDOS programs didn't support FAT32 properly. I'm sorry I 
don't have notes on the particulars, just a recollection of my 
conclusion from a dive into the question a long time ago.

Can anyone say with some authority what the current state of affairs is?

--
Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance
APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month
Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now
Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now!
http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=272487151&iu=/4140
___
Freedos-user mailing list
Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Poor mouse pointer visibility in Edit

[Don Flowers]

I had forgotten how bad that cursor is in EDIT, I use SETEDIT for most
everything these days. I just tried a no-blink utility and that helps a bit
more, but not enough to waste the memory.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 8:06 PM, John Hupp  wrote:

> I tried this today.  It improves the pointer situation in Edit, but the
> arrow gets chopped up a lot as I move it around.
>
> Something about Edit seems to be hostile to pointers.  Nothing else looks
> nearly so bad.
>
> But for the degree of improvement in Edit, it sits in memory all the time
> occupying 7K, so I may remove it and let Edit function like keyboard-only.
>
>
> On 2/20/2016 6:37 PM, Don Flowers wrote:
>
> I use this neat little mouse pointer it's pretty cool.
> http://www.pcorner.com/list/GRAPHUTI/PP111.ZIP/INFO/
>
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 5:27 PM, John Hupp  wrote:
>
>> With the default installation of FreeDOS 1.1 on real hardware (Pentium
>> II @ 300 MHz, 48 MB, ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP video with 4 MB), I find that
>> the mouse pointer in Edit with a file open is almost invisible.   There
>> are partial-image flashes of the expected brown rectangle.  But if I
>> open a menu, then there is a nice solid brown rectangle while the menu
>> is open.
>>
>> In the FreeDOS Help system, the pointer is a nice solid gray.
>>
>> I got the same results with 2 LCD monitors and also a CRT.
>>
>> I don't have anything additional installed on this system yet so I don't
>> know what the behavior will be in other programs.
>>
>> The mouse pointer has never been pretty in Edit -- it's usually flashing
>> but fully visible -- but I have never seen it virtually invisible like
>> this.  Initially I thought there was no pointer until I stepped through
>> the Autoexec.bat startup and confirmed that MOUSE does indeed run
>> successfully, after which I looked harder and saw the visual traces of
>> the pointer in Edit.
>>
>> Does anyone have an explanation or solution?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance
>> APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month
>> Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now
>> Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now!
>> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=272487151&iu=/4140
>> ___
>> Freedos-user mailing list
>> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance
> APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month
> Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now
> Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup 
> Now!http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=272487151&iu=/4140
>
>
>
> ___
> Freedos-user mailing 
> listFreedos-user@lists.sourceforge.nethttps://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
>
>
>
>
> --
> Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance
> APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month
> Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now
> Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now!
> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=272487151&iu=/4140
> ___
> Freedos-user mailing list
> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
>
>
--
Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance
APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month
Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now
Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now!
http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=272487151&iu=/4140___
Freedos-user mailing list
Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] State of native FD 1.1 programs support for FAT32?

[Don Flowers]

Whatever issues I have found have been totally unrelated to FAT32 (well
today, I found an installer that wouldn't install to a FAT32 partition, but
that was a rare find); most issues I have are of the Freecom variety I have
to LOADFIX way too many programs, but .082 fixes that for my most stubborn
vintage programs.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 8:15 PM, John Hupp  wrote:

> I haven't looked at this question for a long time so it probably bears
> asking again.
>
> I have been using 2GB FAT16 partitions because of my recollection that
> some of the FreeDOS programs didn't support FAT32 properly. I'm sorry I
> don't have notes on the particulars, just a recollection of my
> conclusion from a dive into the question a long time ago.
>
> Can anyone say with some authority what the current state of affairs is?
>
>
> --
> Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance
> APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month
> Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now
> Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now!
> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=272487151&iu=/4140
> ___
> Freedos-user mailing list
> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
>
--
Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance
APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month
Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now
Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now!
http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=272487151&iu=/4140___
Freedos-user mailing list
Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user