Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS utility to insert keystrokes in the keyboard buffer?

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi,

KEYB implements such a "bigger secondary buffer" whenever you use 
STRINGS, as 16 characters is too few to decently support placing 
strings. True that you need the overhead of the STRING subsystem if you 
want this secondary buffer.
I'd study to allow you to use the secondary buffer independently of 
strings, but as far as I know, there haven't been many requests to do 
this, so it has low priority at the moment... (there are many other 
things to do first I guess).


Aitor

Carl Spitzer escribió:

Why the limit of 16??


That's the size of the typeahead buffer maintained by the BIOS (I think
that's what maintains it anyway).  I guess you could work around that
limitation with a TSR that continually polled to find out if there was any
room in the buffer and added additional characters once room was available
(due to the application reading the keystrokes).




That is what I was thinking about I am surprised that FreeDOS has not
done that yet.

CWSIV





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Re: [Freedos-user] Enumerating available drives in FreeDOS...

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi,

Some kind person on the net once submitted to me a very nice piece of 
Pascal code able (allegedly) to determine up to 30 different kinds of 
media. Unfortunately, I no longer know where I do have it.
I wrote a small piece of code to detect 4-5 types for FreePascal some 
time ago, but I doubt you are interested any longer. If so, please do 
ask and I'll try to find that.


Aitor

Andre Tertling escribió:

Dear Mailinglist members,

I am currently working on a legacy project that needs some updating. 
While reviving my Turbo Pascal and Assembler skills, I stumbled across 
one strange thing. My Application needs to enumerate the available 
drives (C:, D:, etc.) and determine their types. In addition, an NTFS 
wrapper (ntfs4dos for example) might be loaded at this point.
I found some old code in the SWAG archive that claims to be able to to 
this but I can't get it to work properly. Actually, it just finds my 
CDROM and RAM disk. :(


So how can I find

a) assigned drive letters, and
b) the corresponding drive type for each drive letter, distinguishing 
between local drives, network drives, cdroms and drives hosted by tools 
like NTFS4DOS?


a) can be solved by using the "DREADY" method. This tool from Horst 
Schaeffer just tries to open a file on the specified drive - probably 
not the best solution but short, simple and effective.


b) however gives me quite some headaches. I tried to examine the Int21h 
calls from the SWAG source code, but e.g. Int21h/AX=4409 always returns 
an error (Carry flag set), no matter whether the drive exists or not.


Any suggestions on how to solve this are most welcome :)

Best regards,
Andre



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Re: [Freedos-user] FAT Patents of Microsoft

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

(Un)fortunately, FAT is so inherent to DOS in a way that no block 
devices can host other fs (all the rest are "network file systems"), 
that I doubt that these ideas, yet if marvelous, are hardly possible.


Aitor

Christian Voß escribió:

Hi,
 
I can't understand the crying about the FAT patent. In the whole "world" 
of file systems are enough candidates to replace the Grandma of file 
systems. And most of them are free. I.e. HFS and HFS+ (the file systems 
of MacOS) are GPL and is supported by the linux distros for free. Ok, on 
Windows there are only commercial solutions but it is a option. And the 
ReiserFS is also free.
And perhaps someone create solutions for DOSes because FAT isn't free 
anymore. This can be the beginning of a better FreeDOS :-)



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Re: [Freedos-user] LPTLink

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Little time here, but if it's Spanish I can try to help. Written 
Portuguese is partly understandable by me, but you'd better get someone 
else's help in thie case.

Aitor

Blair Campbell escribió:

instead of specifying the port.  After looking at the source code, it
seems as if the port is hard-coded into the program.  But then again,



The source code comments are also in portugese (or possibly spanish),
which makes understanding a bit more difficult.  Could anyone help me
to translate the source code?


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Re: [Freedos-user] long live hotmail :(

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

So what is it meant by "Normal POP3"?? I have my share of virus problems 
with my POP3 accounts...
Anyway I'm glad to hear that at least one mail system (gmail) may be 
regarded as somewhat reliable against spam.


Aitor

Bernd Blaauw escribió:


I assume you mean you are receiving lots of emails with viruses 
attached, which is not really a "virus outbreak", but merely spam 
which is normal. Or do you mean the actual Hotmail system has been hit 
by a virus?


Something has to send mails with the attachment.. Anyway, looks like a 
purge occurred, as now it's 195 mails instead of 1200+ in my "unwanted 
email" folder in my webmail. Normal POP3 and Gmail accounts seem to stay 
completely clean, no trouble whatsoever.


Bernd



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[Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: DISPLAY 0.12 ready

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi all,

I want to announce that a new version of FreeDOS DISPLAY, ver. 0.12 is 
ready for download here:


FOLDER: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/display/
SOURCE: 
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/display/disp012s.zip
BINARY: 
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/display/disp012x.zip


What's new:
(1) Changes in the Codepage Prepare Logic: the Multiplexer API is 
enlarged to support the following two "unstandard" function calls:

- Generic IOCTL pseudo-call
- IOCTL Write pseudo-call
Of course, these functions will not be available through the 
multiplexer, but through device driver IOCTL in version 1.0 (when it 
becomes a device driver).
The immediate consequence: you need a new version of MODE, that has 
already been compiled by Eric, and that he will probably make available 
in the following days.
With this Eric (with which testings were made) it is possible to load 
several codepages to be prepared at once. For example, you replace

MODE CON CP PREP=((850) EGA.CPI)
MODE CON CP PREP=((,858) EGA.CPI)
with
MODE CON CP PREP=((850,858) EGA.CPI)
(2) Bug fixes:
- MS-Graftabl incompatibility
- Using 6 prepare buffers
- Using more than one hardware codepages

Happy font changing!

FUTURE: DISPLAY 0.13 and DISPLAY 1.0. There are really few features 
remaining for a DISPLAY 1.0 true device driver. My plan is that all the 
remaining features are to be implemented in DISPLAY 0.13, and no new 
features will be accepted for DISPLAY 1.0. I just want DISPLAY 1.0 be 
the device driver version of DISPLAY 0.13.

Some remaining features:
- Improve DISPLAY/PRINTER.SYS compatibility (easier to write DISPLAY or 
PRINTER hardware managers)

- Software codepages take precedence over hardware codepages
- Several switches to allow the ussage of different memory areas (still 
being thinking), such as /NOXMS, /BIOS, /HMA


Finally, I have a list of other possible improvements, that I have kept 
as wishes, but that I am unwilling to implement, first because I don't 
think they are too interesting, second because I don't want to delay 
FreeDOS 1.0 because of DISPLAY.
Here you have the list, should you want any of these to be implemented 
for FreeDOS 1.0/DISPLAY 1.0 please try to convince me now about it, as 
it should be implemented for DISPLAY 0.13 (unaccepted for DISPLAY 1.0). 
You'll have to be very convincing, I am not feeling the appeal to 
implement them. Of course, code contributors for these are wellcome.


(a) Ability to expand the IOCTL capabilities of more than one device 
driver at a simple call. In other words, the ability to sum these:

DISPLAY CON:=(EGA,437,1)
DISPLAY OTHER:=(VGA,437,1)
on
DISPLAY CON:=(EGA,437,1)  OTHER:=(VGA,437,1)

(b) Allow to be able to IOCTL-Write a CPI file in more than one chunk 
(this makes FD-DISPLAY incompatible with MS-MODE)


(c) PREPARED codepages to be compressed in memory. For this I require 
suggestions on assembler compressing code.


(d) Writing a new hardware manager for NEC Pin Writers (for 
PRINTER.SYS). I am unwilling, becase despite of having source to watch 
out, I don't have such a printer, and it's not IMHO a popular printer 
(it would, for example, for IBM ProPrinter).


(e) Ability to use a single XMS handle for all the PREPAREd codepages 
(currently using one XMS handle per codepage prepare buffer). I am 
unwilling because most people are using just one buffer anyway.


Cheers,
Aitor


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Re: [Freedos-user] display size+resolution

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi,

A bit more of information is required. As you are talking about full 
screen, it seems that you are not running [Free]DOS standalone, but 
inside a virtualizer or emulator, which one? DOSEMU?


Aitor

seorge escribió:
I've downloaded a bunch of old dos-games (some of them from '80s) for my 
dauhhter, but some of those games won't run in full-screen mode. Instead of 
full-screen I got some incorrect resolition and wierd screen-size. Can it be 
fixed globally, os should I try to setup display parameters for each 
application separately?
BTW: where can I download (get) the superfrog game for x86, because i've find 
only amiga and win32 files? But I remember there was an x86 version of this 
game for DOS.
Thanks in advance!  




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Re: [Freedos-user] Impossible to start WFG 3.11 or Windows 3.11 in enhaced mode

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi,

Robert Riebisch escribió:

could help me? Nobody has developed a better vesa driver for Windows
3.xx?



That would require the Windows 3.1 DDK from Microsoft which was/is not
free!


Oh, my! I wish there was ANY way to get a copy of this anyhow... 
depending of price I could even pay.


Aitor


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Re: [Freedos-user] re: DOS operating systems

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi,

Chema escribió:

For a DOS GUI, I would recommend GEM. Shane of Shaneland has made a
really nice GEM distro. Free GUI with, quite important, quite a few
apps available for it as well. Windows has more, sure, but Windows
is complex. Still you can get that for "free" if you use ReactOS as
standalone or Wine as inside-Linux way of running Windows apps.
Preemptive multitasking is just not DOS, as little as it would be
"sailing" if you equip your sailing ship with a fusion starship drive.



But ReactOS tries to create an OS compatible with all Windows series,
I don't find it. I hope the day somebody creates a opensource GUI
clone of Windows 3.xx for DOS systems, with the same look & field, but
with support for current devices like USB, wireless, graphic cards...
and of course it can run the Windows 3.xx applications created until
now.


Well, I would say that Win32 compatibility is more appealing than Win16 
compatibility, also given that there are few (I know none) Win16 open 
source apps that do not have a counterpart for Win32. Win32 releases you 
from much of the machine-specific discomforts, Win16 doesn't.



GEM is nice, but only supports 16 color screen and it doesn't have
many applications.


I am not used to GEM, and for some reason am not a fan of the 
Macintosh-is style (or Macintosh has GEM style, but I don't want to open 
that discussion) of having menues at top, but I don't think Seal has 
many more applications either. Much for the contrary GEM seems to have 
much more, although I ignore how stable are they.


Aitor


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Re: [Freedos-user] re: Impossible to start WFG 3.11 or Windows 3.11 in enhaced mode

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Only a quick look, but he seems to be running Windows with 32BDA and 
32BFA off, I just wonder what's the use of WinForWG then, instead of Win3.1.


Aitor

Eric Auer escribió:

A German guy has written a DOS GUI in StarTrek NG design (also interacts
with Windows, plus it uses a storage of extra file information similar
to the 4DOS descript.ion system and has some other fancy stuff), and on
the homepage of this GUI, you can find his DOS tool distro and some Win3
hints: http://www.deskwork.de/DOWNLOAD/DOS.HTM and
http://www.deskwork.de/DOWNLOAD/DOS/WINDOWS.TXT and
http://www.deskwork.de/DOWNLOAD/DOS/DWDOS.ZIP




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Re: [Freedos-user] trouble with russian-named files

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi,

Arkady V.Belousov escribió:

Hi!

17-Окт-2005 10:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote to
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net:

ao> (1) You'll need to use COUNTRY= setting with an unstable kernel version (in
ao> the future stable one).

 Correction: with any kernel version. Without correct country
specification will be used US file name character conversions.


Precisely in my understanding his problem is about DISPLAY supporting 
codepages, whereas kernel doesn't.


I remember time ago Tom mentioning this risk, in the end we've found a 
user with this problem... Reason why I vote for including this COUNTRY= 
stuff into the stable before the next FreeDOS distribution release (I'm 
sure that such a hard working person as Blair will update his 
distribution soon too :)).


Aitor


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Re: [Freedos-user] Conventional Memory

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi,

Jesse Petre escribió:

Eric & Bernd:
Thanks for the info, I think I'll stick with beta 8 until the new one 
comes out (1.0 correct?).  Will the new version be available on floppies 
like the betas?


No, no 1.0 yet (http://wiki.fdos.org/Main/Todo_1_0).

Aitor


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Re: [Freedos-user] UPX compression, was FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi,

Michael Devore escribió:
After three days of on-and-off hacking on it, I built a mutant UPX 1.25 
to compress EMM386.EXE and HIMEM.EXE to work both as a device driver and 
as a stand-alone EXE file.  As almost always is the case, the actual 
changes were small, figuring them out was the hard part.


Very interesting and nice job, Michael! I hope to see a place where to 
get such a beast in the remaining 20 messages I have to read :)


Using the custom mutated UPX will eliminate SY3PACK closed-source 
issues, including the 80186-level requirements for the [de]compressor (I 
think that's the SY3PACK minimum CPU opcode req).


What will make you sad is that SY3PACK compression actually beats UPX by 
a few hundred bytes on each of HIMEM and EMM386 files, but file growth 
is what you'll have to live with to keep the masses happy.  SY3PACK 
winning may be due to the UPX rebuildable open source using the less 
efficient UCL compression library than the optimal UPX build which uses 
the closed-source NRV big-brother version.  I can't do anything about 
that, either.


So did you manage to build UPX with the UCL library? I tried some time 
ago, failed and forgot about it. I am not saying that I did a big 
research, but the simple/plain first try didn't work.


So could you make that mutatn UPX/UCL file downloadable somewhere? I am 
hightly interested on that (provided that it can still compress the 
regular COM/EXE/SYS files), and furthermore, I think it'd be quite 
interesting to be used in the whole FreeDOS for all the programs and 
drivers.


Aitor



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Re: [Freedos-user] re: FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi,

Eric Auer escribió:

So my suggestion is: Review the needs, and think about a
new DEVICE variant CPUDEVICE[HIGH]=[minlevel],[maxlevel],[driver and args]
or similar, where you could do for example
CPUDEVICE=1,2,FDXMS286 ...
CPUDEVICE=3,,HIMEM ...
CPUDEVICE=3,,EMM386 ...
(the CPUDEVICE command would be combineable with n?command=...
style FreeDOS menu system, e.g. to select whether to try to load EMM386)


Well, for the sake of useability, I'd prefer something like Michael's 
idea. Something like:


IF condition LINE

condition can be expanded in the future, but there could be something 
basic like


IF CPU386 ...
IF EXITCODE ... (from last line) (this one is tricky)

It should also be processed in the same stage as LINE.
Anyway, just a suggestion. We just miss someone to put his hands on it 
(I wish I could).


Aitor


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Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Bernd Blaauw escribió:

Arkady V.Belousov schreef:

MD>   HIMEM and EMM386 set up on a clean memory map.  It certainly 
isn't clean
MD> after loading device drivers of varying allocations, the DOS 
shell, and

MD> various AUTOEXEC TSRs.

 Yes. But I say about difference between config.sys and command line,
not about difference between loading himem/emm386 before or after other
programs. Let example config.sys and autoexe.bat:
  


HIMEM and EMM386 blank (wipe out) the XMS contents? FDXMS also? in that 
case FreeCOM would probably crash quite soon, as it uses XMS to store 
quite a large part of its data.


Well, I don't think it will allocate to XMS before there's a XMS driver 
installed ;-)


Aitor


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Re: [Freedos-user] re: FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi,

Eric Auer escribió:

Hi, I would suggest an extra column for the tables in the
post 1.0 TODO list: Level / State of the wish. Example
values:

[ http://wiki.fdos.org/Main/Post_1_0_Todo ]


I seem to like the idea of the categories , although I'd personally 
review what anyone puts anywhere.

If only this means that you are not branching again :)

My only request is that no feature is removed, even if you put it on the 
"forgotten vault".


Aitor


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Re: [Freedos-user] OT: Web hosting needed for a binary distribution

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi Shane,

Quite OT, but I see serious quirks about Thunderbird that don't seem to 
exist in Mozilla Mail. In particular, with 1.0.6, for example, at times 
when browsing messages with the 'F' (next message) key, a new window 
won't open anymore, Thunderbird would remain in memory even if you close 
the window, therefore it won't open again, and if you kill it with the 
task manager and reopen it, it won't show nor the messages neither the 
titles of the File and Edit menus.
Why I don't post to Thunderbird bugzilla, I'm a bit lazy about opening 
new accounts.
I would go back to Mozilla Suite, but they won't allow me to migrate 
back (there's no Import from Thunderbird).
Enough OT for the moment, I just thought you'd better prefer Mozilla 
Suite, stable and well tested, rather than Thunderbird, which IMHO is 
not yet a mature and stable project.

Just my 0.02EUR...
Aitor


Shane M. Coughlan escribió:

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1

Hello all

I am currently understaking a new project to make a highly mobile and
secure version of the Thunderbird email client (includings like Enigmail
and TrueCrypt containers).  The problem is that my website is maxed out
providing the OpenGEM GUI files to people (I've already had to increase
my hosting plan once this year).

Does anyone have spare server space to host the binary files of my new
project, Mobility Email? I would need about 30mb server space.  The
issue is likely to be traffic, which might get quite high.

Regards

Shane
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Re: [Freedos-user] [XT] Bug found - "zip" utility

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

You need to get a 8086 ZIP version, check with the InfoZIP page.
If the ODIN docs says it to support XT machines, then that's a bug :)

Aitor

Nick Bright escribió:
Just testing things about, I tried to zip a file, and received an error 
about requiring an 80386. The ODIN readme.txt file indicates this is an 
8086 compatible binary. Perhaps a documentation error, perhaps a compile 
error? Unzip successfully unzips a file from the ODIN disk; slowly, of 
course - it's an XT :)


The exact error text is:

C:\>zip
80386 required.
80386 required.
Load error: no DPMI - Get csdpmi*b.zip





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Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Bugzilla?

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Hi,

Easy to find in the FreeDOS main page:
http://www.freedos.org/freedos/bugs/

Aitor

Nick Bright escribió:
Is there a bugzilla for FreeDOS? It seems rather inefficent for me to 
post bugs to the mailing list. I can if that's how ya'll would prefer 
it, but I thought I'd check before firing one off :)


- Nick


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Re: [Freedos-user] PCI audio cards

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Yes, but my question is, there is no Audio standard to conform in DOS 
(as far as I know), so I suppose that a "DOS audio driver" means a 
driver that implements a well known API, such as SoundBlaster. Right?


Aitor

Blair Campbell escribió:

I'm curious about this, "DOS-Compatible" means "SoundBlaster compatible
API"?



I mean PCI cards that do not natively support DOS but will with
available drivers (distributable or non-distributable, they can be
downloaded for the user if they are non-distributable).




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Re: [Freedos-user] PCI audio cards

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Hi there,

Blair Campbell escribió:

Hi.  I am reqesting that everyone with a PCI audio card that needs
DOS-compatible drivers to run and has those DOS-compatible drivers
available to send me the PCIsleep output for "pcisleep /q0401".  This
will help me to add PCI audio card detection to my ISOs and make the
installation of FreeDOS even easier for many people.


I'm curious about this, "DOS-Compatible" means "SoundBlaster compatible 
API"?


Aitor


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Re: [Freedos-user] Posts not showing up?

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Same happened to me last night too...
Glad to read this, I am becoming an anti-spam paranoid...

Aitor

Gerry Hickman escribió:

Hi,

Since this Saturday, my posts are not showing up on this list until I
re-post them about three times? There's no bounce message, they just
disappear...






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Re: [Freedos-user] re: How to report a kernel bug?

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi,

Eric Auer escribió:

Hm... why not ask on -kernel or at least on -devel?


Because I was writing a follow up to someone else's message.

I have a machine where to reproduce this bug, or a similar one. It's a 
286. Strangely enough, FreeDOS will boot from floppy and see C:, but 
will refuse to boot from there (locks at InitDisk I think, I haven't 
investigated into this).



IF it locks in InitDisk then you will see the InitDisk string on the



I know. I know very well that it locks on InitDisk, but I don't have the 
PC available to investigate there.



screen. If you do not, then you can try FDISK /MBR to replace the MBR
program code by a fresh copy, and/or try a newer SYS version to


No, I won't do that, because my aim is not to have a machine working, 
but to discover a possible FreeDOS kernel bug.


I seem to recall that Arkady has a tool to inspect the MBR and 
find possible problems, right?



Arkady has BOOTFIX to analyze bootsectors. To analyze the MBR, use
FDISK /SMBR [drive number, e.g. 1] to save the MBR to a boot.mbr file.
You can also try MIRROR /PARTN ... or a debug script or other methods.


Thanks! I was wondering if Arkady could point us to a fresh version of 
BOOTFIX.


Aitor


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Re: [Freedos-user] re: FDISK MBR and FORMAT questions

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi,

Gerry Hickman escribió:

What is the correct procedure for getting a "working boot 
program" into the "valid Master Boot Record", and who supplies this 
program? Is it Microsoft, Intel??


Hard drives usually have a default MBR, just as pre-formatted floppies 
have default FAT the information in them.
One book I read (I think "Dissecting DOS") was considering the MBR as 
part of the OS itself.


I now realize why I have not experienced this very often. Most computers 
arrive with XP pre-installed, and I have to FDISK them to get rid of it, 
but those drives STILL HAVE an MBR right? I never really thought about 
it before now. The drive I took out of it's bag today was one of the few 
drives I get to play with that have never been used...


Yes, they do have it, with the empty partition table within them. 
There's something called "low lever formatting" of a hard drive. I 
assume this includes creating a MBR with empty partition table within 
them, but I've never digged into this myself.


Aitor


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Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS kicks some serious Ass!

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

In my opinion it is good that you have the option to buy a PC with or 
without the operating system.
What really sicks me is that absurd idea of the "preinstalled OS". I got 
an Acer laptop, they (almost sure) charged me for the OS, but they 
didn't give me the official WinXP Pro disk: it was "preinstalled", and 
there was a CD-ROM by which I could restore the whole HD as it was when 
I bought the PC (that is, with Windows "preinstalled" and erasing all 
other stuff added by you), but with NO OFFICIAL Microsoft Windows XP 
disk. Incidentally, I never cared actually if I had official Microsoft 
support with it. I ignore how efficient is MS support though (I do 
remember that the user support of Lotus Development used to be excellent!).
This idea of the preinstalled OS, in my humble opinion, SUCKS! (no 
matter how cheap it can be for me or for Acer).


Aitor

[EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:

Yeah, some people just don't like WindowsXP.  It's hard to
buy a new computer without it installed, though!





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Re: [Freedos-user] re: More FreeDOS FDISK tests - failure is repeatable

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi,

Johnson Lam escribió:

On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 03:17:48 +0200 (MEST), you wrote:

Hi,



XFDISK? I mean, XFDISK is open source. It only does not LOOK like
the old MS DOS user interface, but hey, that was crap anyway...



The correct procedure should be:

1) Contact Brian and ask him if he still works on Free FDISK or not

(or someone else if Brian can't)

2) Vote here, keep Free DISK or switch to XFDISK
3) Someone have to examine XFDISK's source to make sure it didn't
conflict with FreeDOS

Why not switching places (2) and (3)? :)

Aitor


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Re: [Freedos-user] re: New FreeDOS install CD

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi,

Eric Auer escribió:

Could be used with software with restrictive licenses.



Okay, I get it. Read: Antivirus stuff and VIDE-CDD. What else?
By the way, Bernd just never got a reply from Acer about the
driver, but they never said that you cannot put it on CD either.


What is the license of ACRODOS, for those that have used it?

Aitor


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Re: [Freedos-user] How to report a kernel bug?

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I have a machine where to reproduce this bug, or a similar one. It's a 
286. Strangely enough, FreeDOS will boot from floppy and see C:, but 
will refuse to boot from there (locks at InitDisk I think, I haven't 
investigated into this).
The bad point is that I wasn't able to investigate into this, my 286 is 
not handy at the moment. I'll have a window at the second week of 
August. I seem to recall that Arkady has a tool to inspect the MBR and 
find possible problems, right? Hopefully this may help to understand 
where and why kernel locks, and bypass this (I do not mean to mount the 
drive, but at least bypass the lock somehow, does it make sense to boot 
from a non-mounted partition).

Aitor

Mark Bailey escribió:

Good morning:

In all of my flailing around about MBR's, I do believe that I have
found a kernel bug.  The failure of the FreeDOS kernel to initialize
with the "incorrect" MBR looks like a bug.  It is impossible to use 
FDISK to correct the MBR when the kernel won't initialize.  :-)

(Yes, I can use a different operating system to fix it).

How do I report the bug?  I tried the bugzilla link from the
freedos.org home page, but it won't let me create an account.

The bug is that, with an apparently incorrect MBR, the development
kernel refuses to boot.

Thanks.

Mark Bailey



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Re: [Freedos-user] announce: devload 3.14

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Hi,

Eric Auer escribió:

Please test if your devices can still be loaded with the new DEVLOAD
version (DEVLOAD allows you to load devices from the prompt which
otherwise would be loaded with DEVICE= or DEVICEHIGH=, but note that
UMB support is limited, memory drivers like HIMEM / EMM386 should not
be loaded with DEVLOAD and that using DEVICE= is still the official
way while DEVLOAD is just a convenient "cheat" to load drivers later).


It is ok that it is convenient, even otherwise-pointless, to load HIMEM 
and EMM386 within CONFIG.SYS, so that other devices, DOS Initialization 
can make true use of UMBs and such, but is there a technical reason, 
appart from being "hibrid" drivers, not to be able to load them with 
DEVLOAD?


Aitor


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Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS EDIT (was XDMA, SHSUCDX and other split-version programs)

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Jim Hall escribió:

Whatever.  I had tried to contact Joe Cosentino off-list, but never 
heard back from him, even after several re-attempts.  So I'll assume 
that Joe doesn't mind that Eric has forked a copy of FreeDOS EDIT.


Just a little bit of info, I tried to contact him too, but I am unsure 
wethere he even got my messages.


Aitor


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Re: [Freedos-user] XDMA and SHSUCDX V3.00/V3.02

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi,

Jim Hall escribió:


Jim Hall wrote:


Not sure what to do about the LSMs for either SHSUCDX or XDMA...





Johnson Lam wrote:


Attached 2 LSM, not 100% sure about the format ...



Format looks good.  I've edited the shsucdx LSM a little bit .. just to 
make sure the distinction is clear when you look at the LSM summary. Let 
me know if that's not a good change for me to make.


Both are now in the Software List:

http://freedos.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/freedos-lsm.cgi?q=f&a=base/shsucdx-jack.lsm 


http://freedos.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/freedos-lsm.cgi?q=f&a=util/xdma.lsm


I think XDMA belongs in "Util" since it doesn't try to duplicate 
functionality in MS-DOS.  We made an exception with UDMA and UDMA2, 
though .. and I guess I'm open to discussion about moving XDMA into 
"Base" as well.


I think the same argument applies, except that perhaps it is better to 
decide for one as MAIN (in Base) being the others "variations" (in UTIL).

Aitor


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Re: [Freedos-user] turbo c and c++ compiles of kernel source and freecom source

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi,

coralline algae escribió:


Havent downloaded the cpp files from open watcom so do not know if it
is possible to compile freecom with watcom.  I may start looking into it.


Personally I'd appreciate it very much, in my opinion, FreeDOS programs 
(mine included) should be able to compile under Watcom. Should you write 
any doc, I'm sure it could be posted or kept somewhere.


Aitor


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Re: [Freedos-user] USB Driver Disk v1.1

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi,

Johnson Lam escribió:


Hi,

Talk for a year, finally after a lot of test ... The USB Driver disk
(1.44MB floppy) was ready for novice user, in order to let them did
their backup or GHOST job more easily.

The driver should work on PentiumIII grade PC. I can access a 128MB
Compact Flash card and a Toshiba notebook size hard disk through
USB-IDE adapter, hope you can find more USB device working.

Since I don't have USB CD-ROM, I've no way to test, if you can help
please try and send me feedback.

The disk image was a self-extract DOS executable.


I don't have USB CD-ROM's, but I do have an IDE/ATA->USB adapter, and I 
have ATAPI CD/DVD recorders (too few, in any case), any chance that I 
may help?


Aitor


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Re: [Freedos-user] emx at sourceforge

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Hi,

coralline algae escribió:


emtex which is the dos version of TeX also uses emx.  I have not used
it extensively but it seems to work ok on small documents.  Also
there is a dvi viewer which works under dos.   


I want also to mention that I have had problems with ghostscript under
dos in that I have not been able to figure out how to get it to display
documents at a readable size, usually the text is too small to read
on my monitor.   Anyway ignorance is bliss so I dont use it.

Instead I found acrobat reader for dos and it actually works fairly
well with pdf documents.  


I was very interested in the past to know about TeX/LaTeX under DOS. 
There's also a DJGPP version, that I haven't used yet. Any report on 
progress on this all under FreeDOS is welcome, even if personally ;-)

(specially because I have little time lately to try myself).

Aitor


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Re: [Freedos-user] text editor's and mem command

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Hi,

(Didn't I reply to this already?, just in case...)

Because it is compiled for 286+ and in the resident code it uses 186+ 
specific opcodes (PUSHA, POPA,...)

Planned to be changed soon anyway.

Aitor


GNU_man escribió:
Actually, i discovered (thanks to Eric Auer) that TED3 works perfectly 
on the 8088. Being a bit speed-impaired, this is a more ideal editor FD 
Edit .7x for an XT. What is it about FD-KEYB that makes

it 286 compatible, but not 8088?




Hi,

It seems you solved your problem, but for the records, notice that
FD-KEYB is still 286+ (planned to support 8088)

Aitor




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Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.01

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Hi Arkady,

Thanks, I read that, but I was wondering if someone could explain a 
little bit more, does RSX/EMX provide DPMI as well, does it get the 
system into protected mode, running as a single task a-la EMM386 or such 
details

Mere curiosity, but there isn't much documentation around.

Aitor

Arkady V.Belousov escribió:

Hi!

2-Июн-2005 21:13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aitor Santamarэa Merino) wrote to
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net:

ASM> - what EMX is exactly
ASM> - how does it relate to RSX.EXE?

copying.rsx:
RSX : DPMI-DOS 0.9/1.0 extender for 80386+ processors

rsx.exe:
RSX (32-bit 5.21) DPMI DOS extender for emx and rsxnt programs.
Copyright (c) Rainer Schnitker 1993-1998. All rights reserved.

emx.exe:
emx 0.9d (rev 61) -- Copyright (c) 1991-2000 by Eberhard Mattes
Usage: emx [-cdeoqOV] [-s]  []

 As I understand, EMX is a layer, which allows to run OS/2 programs
outside of OS/2. And Eugene Roshal selects EMX/RSX because this property.

ASM> - how does it compare to WDOSX, if it can be compared?

 Don't know, but I don't hear about OS/2 in context of WDOSX, which is
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Re: [Freedos-user] Fox-cubs v0.1 appared!

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Hi there,

Kristaps Kaupe escribió:


Tuesday 03 May 2005 21:43, Fox rakstīja:
 


Hi there,

I want to announce that I wrote Fox-cubs v0.1.
It's a Pascal library (TPU unit) which supports using CATS/Kitten formatted
language files into Pascal programs. With Fox-cube the programmer get a new
function, called "LoadMessage", some technical stuff:
   



If I remember correctly, there is already some Cats Pascal implementation by 
Aitor, written few years ago. Can't find the URL right now.
 


Yes, that's right. Here it is the url for everybody:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/libs/cats/old/
that's catspas.zip. A quick hack based on a direct translation from the
old CATS (no kitten), so I said nothing. I was planning to use it on
KEYB, but so far I have mostly turned PAS->ASM, so it isn't under activ
e development right now, nor I think it will.
At the moment you can have KEYB translated by translating the hardcoded
messages in KEYBMSG.NLS file and re-compile, but will change that in the
future.

Aitor

PS: Kristaps, I assume that my message will disappear and never arrive
freedos-devel, could you please forward it to freedos-user for me? Thanks!





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Re: [Freedos-user] XMS Manager on '286

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Hi,
Kristaps Kaupe escribiÃ:
I don't know if DOS6's HIMEM works on 286 machines. Someone told me DOS
7.10 (Win98) only runs on 386+ machines.
   

MS-DOS 5 and 6 HIMEM.SYS works on 286 machines, I have used it on my first PC 
(286) long time ago.
In MS-DOS 7.10 (Win98) even kernel runs only on 386+ machines.
 

Well, FAT32 requires 32-bit registers to operate comfortably. For the 
FreeDOS case, can I run a FAT32 enabled kernel in a 286 machine? (which 
of course doesn't have FAT32 partitions in its HD).

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[Freedos-user] Brief notes on using KEYB

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi,
For those of you that may find confusing the multiplicity of files used 
by KEYB, you can read some instructions in the FAQ item:

http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/faq/cgi-bin/viewfaq.cgi?faq=Using_FreeDOS/249
(more info is to be appended with the forthcomming version FD-KEYB 2.0 pre3)
In short,
KEYB.EXE binary to modify the keyboard; uses KL information files
Latest version of KEYB.EXE:  
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kb2pre2x.zip
Latest version of a bunch of KL files (by Henrique Peron):
- for DOS codepages(*): 
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kblayout/KPDOS11X.zip
- for Windows codepages: 
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kblayout/KPWIN10X.zip

KC binary used to create/customize KL files (from human readable KEY files).
Latest version of KC (Keyboard Compiler, docs included): 
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kc110x.zip
You may use the following source samples (sources of Henrique's packs), 
under the GNU GPL:
- for DOS codepages: 
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kblayout/KPDOS11S.zip
- for Windows codepages: 
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kblayout/KPWIN10S.zip

(*) A CODEPAGE is a character set, or if you like, a font.
Best wishes, and questions welcome,
Aitor

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Re: [Freedos-user] Re: corrputed disk

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi,
Arkady V.Belousov escribiÃ:
Hi!
13-ÐÐÑ-2004 17:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arne Eckmann) wrote to "Arkady V.Belousov"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
AE> I'm sorry to trouble you with this. FreeDOS really need to have an official
AE> address to which unsuspecting people like I can address our anger,
AE> disappointments, frustrations and legal-claims.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I disagree. There is no channel to communicate anger, and even less for 
legal claims. Arkady cleared very well the legal issues. Respect to the 
anger and such, you can obviously post, but most probably you are not 
likely to get any help, because it will upset people that mostly 
contribute their spare time to build the operating system. And that is 
why we choose a license by which noone can be legally liable of any 
damage produced. If you use FreeDOS or Linux or any other GPL-ed 
software, *you* are the only responsible.
Disappointments and frustrations? well, try.
Having said that, if a gentle (that is, anger free) communication 
channel is opened (that is what the list is for), we are most likely 
open to try and patch the bugs, for which report we are welcome (and a 
tool, bugzilla, available, appart from the user list). Furthermore 
response and patch times are usually shorter than for commercial software.
Finally, I am not into the thread (in fact, Arkady's messages are the 
only ones I have seen about this topic), so I don't know very well 
what's going on, but if Arkady is right, you seemed not to choose the 
correct disk to be download. I agree that perhaps there are parts of the 
FreeDOS project that are not well documented, but the install process 
and instructions is NOT one of those (I know well because I invest much 
of my time translating those docs into Spanish), please are you sure 
that you have read all the accompaining documentation, readme files, 
etc? (appart from the license file). Writing those takes a substantial 
amount of time, and that's what they are actually for: so that you get 
sure that you won't have problems of misuse with what you are doing.
My apologies if that all sounded rude, it wasn't my intention. I just 
posted this message because I thought that the story about legal issues 
is worth to be posted and reposted to leave things clear.

Best wishes,
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[Freedos-user] Microsoft Windows runs on FreeDOS (and now for sure)

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

(new attempt)
(NOTE: this is a copy of my infamous post, but this time WITHOUT the 
attachment; I hope we all don't get it three times later)
(The attachment was a zip-ed BMP image (around 10KB) of Paintbrush over 
Windows 3.1 over FreeDOS)

==
Hi,
From time to time I like testing how far we've gone with FreeDOS, and a
good way to know is to test MS-Windows compatibility.
First of all, Windows in the enhanced mode (WIN /3) does not work,
(first it says that 32BDA can't be enabled, because DOS 3.20 version is
required, I wonder why it complains, if reported version is 7.10), and
the final obtained message is "This version of DOS cannot be accepted",
irrespective of the VERSION= setting of CONFIG.SYS, thus it's quite
likely that the true DOS version is checked.
The testings were made with a 386DX machine, running FreeDOS kenel 2035
FAT32. 2035 stable and 2035a unstable (posted by Lucho) were tested,
with no apparent change of situation. Mouse was NOT present in my
testings. Microsoft's HIMEM was used.
The version of Windows tested is Windows 3.1 in Spanish. Some of the GRP
files that the Program Manager needs were missing (and this was
interesting for the test).
I know that other people (e.g. Eric) posted about Windows working, I
just wanted to give a hint.
At a first glance, it seemed not to work: the complaining dialog by
Program Manager of the missing GRP files seemed to lock the file:
keyboard was irresponsive.
However, if you make the change
shell=winfile.exe
in the adequate section of SYSTEM.INI (that is, replace the Windows
shell from Program Manager to File Manager), then WinFile boots
normally, and seems to work well. Further, if you open ProgMan.exe, the
dialog complaining about the missing GRP files is responsive to
keyboard. Some other programs (NOTEPAD, WINHELP, WINVER) seem to work
well as well.
Happy windowing over FreeDOS...
Aitor
PS: Attached picture is quite lame, it is as much as I could do without
a mouse and with a poor screen resolution. Yet it is true ;-)

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Re: [Freedos-user] 32BD.BAT

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi,
Luchezar Georgiev escribiÃ:
So this in fact is a mini-Windows... without windows ;-)

Well, a question of point of view. For me, this all is DOS, the DOS 
extender of Microsoft, and Windows is what comes behind KRNL386.EXE. 
After all, the same "Windows" application (KERNEL, USER, GDI) could 
be written over DOS (32-bit DOS, true), or over the WinNT kernel.

If the Windows file system drivers have taken over, it's not a DOS 
anymore :-(
What is a Windows driver? For me it's either vga.drv, mouse.drv, or 
WDM-style drivers. A VxD is a (32-bit) DOS driver...

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Re: [Freedos-user] 4DOS free now!

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Hi,
Luchezar Georgiev escribiÃ:
Best use is from a clean win98 installation. You might need to copy 
additional VXD files to the 32BD directory (or a subdirectory) to 
satisfy the registry requirements (netware drivers, for example).

So this in fact is a mini-Windows... without windows ;-)
Well, a question of point of view. For me, this all is DOS, the DOS 
extender of Microsoft, and Windows is what comes behind KRNL386.EXE. 
After all, the same "Windows" application (KERNEL, USER, GDI) could be 
written over DOS (32-bit DOS, true), or over the WinNT kernel.

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Re: [Freedos-user] 4DOS free now!

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi,
Bernd Blaauw escribiÃ:
Aitor,
have a look at the batchfile at
http://www.pcwelt.de/index.cfm?pid=239&pk=6626&p=2
it contains some batch code for creating a 32bit DOS out of a fresh 
installed Win98.
The so-created 32bit DOS supports LFN's. No real usefullness, though.
google search term: 32bd.bat
Ok, so what your script does basically is loading the extender, and 
renaming the shell to KRNL386.EXE.
So MS-DOS 7.10 real mode kernel doesn't do LFN after all...

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Re: [Freedos-user] 4DOS free now!

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi,
Luchezar Georgiev escribiÃ:
Silly Microsoft for including a bitmap into a 220KB kernel which was 
also intended to be put on bootdisks with only 1.44MB capacity.

Wengier's "Super Boot Disk" IO.SYS at 
http://newdos.yginfo.net/msdos71/ is just 123 KB. He managed to remove 
the bitmap logo ;-)
Hmmm, interesting page. I am watching:  
http://newdos.yginfo.net/msdos71/whatsnew.htm
I see a couple of inaccuracies, such as Euro Sign support can't be in 
850, but 858 (andAltGr+5 in some keyboards, AltGr+E in mine).
However, it talks about LFN support, but AFAIK this is implemented in 
VFAT, not in MS-DOS kernel. At least my Win98 DOS (MS-DOS 7.10) can't 
see LFNs, so unless the author has taken the shots on a Win9X DOS box, 
do you know how is that he mentions and has screenshots of DOS with LFNs?

Aitor

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Re: [Freedos-user] 4DOS free now!

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Hi,
Luchezar Georgiev escribiÃ:
The next logical step will be releasing the source code :)
Needless to say 4DOS is compatible with the FreeDOS kernel.
I've used it for a long time under it and it's very stable.
I attach the license under which 4DOS is now distributed.
Does it allow its inclusion in the FreeDOS distributions?
I think - yes. But you know I'm a copyright illiterate :)
From what you say, it comes as freeware without source. Therefore, even 
if it might eventually come (I don't think so either) as a "Third Party" 
utility, having no sources it cannot replace FreeCOM (which by the way 
is also a quite good tool) (although I might be wrong, Jeremy, Jim or 
Bernd can tell me wrong).

Regards,
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[Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: DISPLAY 0.11

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi all,
I announce version 0.11 of FD-DISPLAY, with several new features:
- It implements a new MODULE for the "CGA" hardware type (CGA adapters), 
thus making unnecessary the existence of a GRAFTABL tool for the FreeDOS 
project. This is yet untested (I have no CGA cards handy). Furthermore, 
any other GRAFTABL is prevented from loading
- It allocates buffers to XMS if available, thus saving 9-10KB of 
convenctional memory for each buffer (in the most frequent case of a 
single buffer, resident TPA memory size reduces to about 11KB. The 
SELECT buffer has now the approrpiate size (and may save even more KBs 
on CGA and EGA)
- DISPLAY is now DISPLAY.EXE (instead of DISPLAY.COM), with the same 
resident size, in the hope that it will bypass the kernel UMB allocation 
bug for COM files (as reported by Bernd). Notice that in few more 
versions it'll be turned into a SYS
- Better commandline parsing (tab, #10 are now blanks also)
- The maximum number of allocated buffers now depends on buffer size and 
available memory (and is no longer of 5), with a maximum of 8 (or the 
available memory)
- FIX: the limit mentioned in the previous item was not observed when 
you specify the fonts explicitely in the commandline.

Unfortunately, the new version (that has already been tested and seems 
to work) requires that FD-MODE be modified to admit this new version 
(it's simply that FD-MODE allows version 0.10, and has to check wether 
version=0.10 OR version=0.11).

Download links:
executable: 
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/display/disp011x.zip
source: 
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/display/disp011s.zip

Happy testing...
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[Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: New version of KC

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi,
I have uploaded version 1.10 of KC, the keyboard layout creator for KEYB 
2.X.
In this version, a couple of minor bugs are fixed:
- Corrects illformed KL files when strings are used
- In case of program abort, any already opened file is closed

You can get it at ibiblio,
executable: 
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kc110x.zip
source: 
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kc110s.zip

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[Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: KEYB2.0 pre2

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi all,
A minor update to KEYB, namely, KEYB2.0 pre2, is ready.
- Fixes a bug that prevented KEYB from correctly executing the Advanced 
Power Management commands (suspend, turn off, etc)
- Fixes several other miscellaneous bugs that I was reported
- When you select a non-existing codepage, the existing ones are reported
- Ancient misdesigned versions of DR-KEYB are now checked, and if found, 
refuses to load

You can find it, as usual, at ibiblio:
executable: 
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kb2pre2x.zip
source: 
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kb2pre2s.zip

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[Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: FD APPEND 1.0

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi all,
I'd like to announce FreeDOS APPEND 1.0, a very basic APPEND that I have 
created.
With this, I could run WordStar Express in a mixed directory 
installation, as I intended.
APPEND 1.0 is very basic. In particular, it is NOT implemented:
- APPEND /E
- FCB functions
- The function 11 of the API

You can get it from here:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/append/aappend.zip
(not to be confused with the other file present there).
Regards and enjoy,
Aitor
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Re: [Freedos-user] Using the internet with FreeDOS made easy

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi,

(By the way, Eric, a problem with my ISP destroyed your original 
message, could you send it to me in private?)

PS: I did not test IRCABI because the LSM tells that you would need
SLIP, while I have plain Ethernet / LAN. Do you think it would work
anyway? 

I don't know about SLIP, but PLIP does work for FreeDOS for a long time 
(unless something was broken in between).
The following article (a "recipe" for the "La Espiral" project, (Debian 
in Spanish)), in Spanish, describes how to connect a DOS machine to the 
internet via PLIP using FreeDOS and a machine with Linux.
http://laespiral.org/recetas/1-100/receta45.html
(using the crynwr PLIP driver, and even NCSA Telnet).

There are still many things that have changed in FreeDOS since then 
(23rd march 2001), in particular, the article mentions the missing 
EMM386 (that we now have), mentions xkeyb as keyboard driver. Otherwise ok.
I hope babelfish works well, it's a pretty lengthy article to be 
translated ;-)
(but can do it if popular request).

Aitor

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Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS beta9 release candidate 5.

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Arkady V.Belousov escribiÃ:

Hi!

3-ÐÐÐ-2004 02:36 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mika Salakka) wrote to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
MS> As I understand it, FreeDOS' support for FAT32 is limited, though, but I
MS> could be dead wrong on that one, too.
FD suppors FAT32 completely.
 

FreeDOS *KERNEL* supports FAT32 completely, but the support of FAT32 
amongst the utilities is uneven...

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Re: [Freedos-user] dualboot fdos and win98

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi,

Rafał Kula escribió:

Can I dualboot Freedos and win98 on the same primary partition?
I'm afraid about conflict of command.coms in root. Are they both have to be
there?
 

Not necessarily: you control the Shell you want to have loaded with 
SHELL= in config sys or better use fdconfig.sys to avoid conflicts there 
too. So you can do
SHELL=C:\FDOS\COMMAND.COM /P

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[Freedos-user] DISPLAY 0.10b ready

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi,

This is to announce a revision of DISPLAY 0.10, namely DISPLAY 0.10b.
It just fixes a couple of bugs:
- a bug that assumed a space to lead the parameter
- a bug affecting the DISPLAY Installation check function (AD00h in int2Fh)
MODECON.EXE also disappears from the distribution: please always use 
latest version of FreeDOS MODE.

Source: 
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/display/dis010bs.zip
Executable: 
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/display/dis010bx.zip

Regards,
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[Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: KC 1.0 ready

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi all,

I want to announce the availability of the KC (Key Compiler) tool, which 
is a tool for compiling text source keyboard descriptors into 
binary-type KeybCBs that will be used by KEYB2.
In the binary pack, you have
- the compiler,
- documentation about the KEY language, that is used to describe the 
behaviour of a keyboard
- documentation about the KL compiler and its particularities
- a small test program to explore the behaviour of your current keyboard 
(KEYCODE); this will retrieve the (scancode/ascii) pair generated by a 
keystroke or key combination
Output compied files can be bare KeybCBs, or they can be wrapped by a 
small header (forming a KL file) that is required for the forthcomming 
KEYB 2.0.
The source package contains more information about the anatomy of a 
KeybCB, and of a KL file.

On the KEYB page:
http://projects.freedos.net/keyb
you will find other useful documentation, such as the list of KEYB2 
commands, that is, a reference of the actions you can program KEYB to do 
upon a keystroke. These include diacritic starters, string display, 
interrupt trigger, APM functions, codepage/layout management, 
user-defined modifier keys or switches manipulation. [NOTE1: the page is 
to be updated now, perhaps you'll read this before I have updated the 
page] [NOTE2: it seems that doosh.net is tyding up at the moment of 
writing this]

If you want to test the output files, KEYB2 is available on personal 
request. For the moment I am optimising it a bit and writing 
documentation, and when this all is finished, KEYB2 will be released. 
The command list for KEYB2 is also available to be sent via mail.

KC can be obtained from here:
EXECUTABLE:  
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kc100x.zip
SOURCE:  
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kc100s.zip

Both KC and KEYCODE have been packed using the UCL version of the UPX 
packer kindly provided by Lucho, thanks indeed!!!
They are just a little bit bigger than with NRV, but the difference is 
really small and I am fully satisfied. It is warned that the packer 
version used is beta and may contain errors. Should errors occur due to 
the packing, I would immediately produce a patched or UPX/NRV version of it.

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Re: [Freedos-user] freedos

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Dear Karel,

This means that your program requires a DPMI server.  The applications 
you are trying to run will probably come with CWSDPMI.EXE, that you will 
have to run before running the application. If you don't have it, then 
you can get it from here:
http://clio.rice.edu/cwsdpmi/
Also notice the restriction in the ussage of EMM386.EXE (you can use 
UMBPCI instead) that were posted some messages ago. There are some notes 
about memory management here:
http://www.freedos.org/freedos/news/technote/202.txt
If you have problems, please ask.

Aitor

karel thys escribió:



Respected users of "freedos",
 
 
 
When I run applications (mainly emulators) in freedos i get the 
message "No DPMI , get csdpmi*b.zip" .
 
Anyone any sollutions? I am puzzled.
 
Thanks anyway,
 
Karel Thys, Belgium
 
 


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Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS.org is getting a facelift

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Hi,

Jim Hall escribió:

The html errors you mention are "&" appearing in the news items - this 
is a result of laziness when I enter news items on the site.  I'll 
have to clean that up, but it shouldn't cause your browser to have 
problems.  This is a common validation error on most sites.  I know it 
doesn't validate on .
Yes, figure out how tiring is to make the conversions á á  ñ for 
ñ and ª for ª
Some editors (e.g. Microsoft FrontPage) seem to bypass this by defining 
the 
I don't know how valid this is for the w3, and if there's some universal 
charset, I guess this is all about codepages (Henrique may know more 
about this, unfortunately he seems to have problems with subscription to 
freedos list and isn't subscribed).

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Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS.org is getting a facelift

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Found it, sorry:
http://texturizer.net/firefox/
Also see that with current font face one can do nice things like:
http://www.mozillazine.org/
but I still prefer the firefox link above. Just a suggestion, the guys 
at mozilla.org seem to have very good taste with web design...

Aitor

Aitor Santamaría Merino escribió:

Looks great!
Just one thing in cas the font face can also be improved: some days 
ago I seem to recall browsing a page on mozilla.org (not current 
cover) that had a VERY NEAT and SMOOTH typeface, would be great that 
it could be adopted too.
Regrettably I CAN'T remember which page was that, anybody?

Aitor

Jim Hall escribió:

The current design of this site was created several years ago. It 
looked good at that time, and it still looks very nice, but both the 
web and FreeDOS have evolved since then. Several of you (hi!) have 
helped me work on a new design and re-worked the appearance in order 
to make it easier on the eyes. We will soon replace the current 
FreeDOS.org site with a new version, which is currently in beta testing.

The new design is here:
<http://www.freedos.org/freedos_new.php>
<http://www.freedos.org/freedos/about/index_new.html>
Compared to:
<http://www.freedos.org/>
<http://www.freedos.org/freedos/about/>
As most of you probably know, I work in a technology group at a 
university, and many of the people I work with are web designers and 
usability consultants.  We snuck in a usability evaluation on the new 
site.  Even though the layout hasn't changed, the evaluation scored 
very well.  :-)

The new site will likely go up in the next few weeks.

-jh




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Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS.org is getting a facelift

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Looks great!
Just one thing in cas the font face can also be improved: some days ago 
I seem to recall browsing a page on mozilla.org (not current cover) that 
had a VERY NEAT and SMOOTH typeface, would be great that it could be 
adopted too.
Regrettably I CAN'T remember which page was that, anybody?

Aitor

Jim Hall escribió:

The current design of this site was created several years ago. It 
looked good at that time, and it still looks very nice, but both the 
web and FreeDOS have evolved since then. Several of you (hi!) have 
helped me work on a new design and re-worked the appearance in order 
to make it easier on the eyes. We will soon replace the current 
FreeDOS.org site with a new version, which is currently in beta testing.

The new design is here:


Compared to:


As most of you probably know, I work in a technology group at a 
university, and many of the people I work with are web designers and 
usability consultants.  We snuck in a usability evaluation on the new 
site.  Even though the layout hasn't changed, the evaluation scored 
very well.  :-)

The new site will likely go up in the next few weeks.

-jh




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Re: [Freedos-user] re: graphics display problem

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi,

Eric Auer escribió:

I guess you have some "hypermodern" graphics card which no longer contains
a proper EGA 8x14 font (only CGA 8x8 and VGA 8x16 would still be there).
To solve the problem, you can make your program use another screen resolution
if possible (EGA is 640x350 etc.) or you can load a driver which supplies
the EGA font. Maybe such a driver came with your hardware? Alternatively
you can use FreeDOS DISPLAY or similar:
http://www.freedos.org/freedos/software/lsm.cgi?q=f&a=base/display.lsm
The LSM is a bit outdated: 0.10 is latest version.
Anyway, I don't think it will help, because DISPLAY much relies on BIOS 
for loading new font data into the graphic card

Aitor



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Re: [Freedos-user] re: LFN support?

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Eric Auer escribió:

Hi, as far as I know, only "Windows-aware" programs generally
notice it at all if you have LFN support active.
Well, not always. I've seen several fancy editors, and ALL the programs 
made in FreePascal can also notice this, because LFN is supported when 
found automatically...

Programs compiled with DJGPP generally support LFN, I think. 

Probably. What is true for DJGPP is usually true for FPC/GO32 and 
conversely.

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Re: [Freedos-user] LFN support?

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

Hi John,

John Price escribió:

I've seen some mention of LFN support in FreeDOS.  I
wonder exactly how much support we are talking about...
Is it supported in the kernel, or just command.com?

In my understanding, there's no LFN support at all, except in the DIR 
command of FreeCOM, where an existing LFN is searched and displayed.

Can I boot a machine with a kernel that has LFN support
and command.com that supports LFN and then use long
filenames on that system or is it more complex than that?
You would have to look for third party support. For a while I used 
DOSLFN and seemed to work ok...

I assume that if this is all true that I will have to use
different DOS calls for findfirst/next as well as other
file handling functions or will they all be happy to take
my long filenames without problems?
Yes, see functions AH=71h of 21h.

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Re: [Freedos-user] re:Re: (formmail) klavese

[Aitor Santamaría Merino]

But is there any problem with that that needs to be solved? Does that 
mean that he can't use the keyboard under FreeDOS?
I can help with that if need be.

Aitor

Eric Auer escribió:

Hi Jim, this is badly spelled German (but .cz is in Czech Republic...):

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 

Es ist teinlich,aber es ist mir nich gelungen auf meinem loptot den 
simbol sterne finden.Ihc weisnicht was ich machen soll was soll ich drückem
um den simbol zu erzeugen.
petr 
   

It is very embarassing but I did not succeed in typing the star symbol on
my laptop. I do not know what I have to do to create this symbol.
 



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