Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: best free C++ compiler

2004-07-22 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 21--2004 23:46 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Koder) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: K OpenWatcom, of course!! How could I forget! I just passed there a moth ago, K thinking it was a nice thing to open up Watcom C++. But does it also do K 16bit exe's? Yes. Unfortunately, this is only modern compiler

Re: [Freedos-devel] best free C++ compiler

2004-07-22 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 22--2004 10:42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roberto Mariottini) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Probably, OpenWatcom is not only the best, but, probably, only one RM I must add the Digital Mars C++ compiler (http://www.digitalmars.com), I hear, its host OS is Win32 only.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Announce: italian translations for CHOICE, DISKCOPY, HTMLHELP, MORE, SORT and TREE

2004-07-22 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Hi, I've noted that the NLS strings are used only when the environment variable NLSPATH is defined. There's nothing wrong with it, but the beta9rc5 install program created a variable NLSDIR instead, and that didn't work. Ciao --- This SF.Net

[Freedos-devel] Small EMM386 update call for bugs

2004-07-22 Thread Michael Devore
Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads are the files emm386.zip (uncompressed executable) and emm386sr.zip (revised source code) for EMM386. This relatively minor update adds an SB option, adds silent recognition to the bare RAM option, and restores the VDS experimental option for

[Freedos-devel] Re: Small EMM386 update call for bugs

2004-07-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Michael! The SoundBlaster drivers hook EMM386's interrupt descriptor table, as well as its GDT (per previous release remarks) and redirect all INT 3's (debug interrupt) to a general protection fault with error code 1ah IF an application is running in virtual 8086 mode. As a result,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Small EMM386 update call for bugs

2004-07-22 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Michael, Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads are the files emm386.zip (uncompressed executable) and emm386sr.zip (revised source code) for EMM386. and restores the VDS experimental option for those who can use it in its current skeletal condition. if you didn't make VDS

Re: [Freedos-devel] Small EMM386 update call for bugs

2004-07-22 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 22--2004 13:24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: MD were enabled by the last EMM386 change. The SoundBlaster drivers hook MD EMM386's interrupt descriptor table, as well as its GDT (per previous MD release remarks) and redirect all INT 3's (debug interrupt) to a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Small EMM386 update call for bugs

2004-07-22 Thread Michael Devore
At 10:41 PM 7/22/2004 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: Nice. One thing which I remember: XTree file manager had INT 3 (1 byte opcode) as replacement for INT 21, both to make the code smaller and make debugging harder. So that falls into the category (why NEWDES?). NEWDES appears to be a case of the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: best free C++ compiler

2004-07-22 Thread Alain
Only TC 2.01 and TC++ 1.02 are free. And OpenWatcom! Quite big but seems to be quite powerful as well. ... And note: TC/TC++ are free as in beer (zero cost.) But they are not free as in speech - source code is not available. IMHO it is not free. it says only for Personal Use. This makes

[Freedos-devel] Re: LBAcache problem: finds no SCSI drives when loaded high if...!?

2004-07-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi all, with help of Tyler and his collection of test systems, we finally figured out the LBAcache SCSI detection bug: IF you have SCSI and IF you load LBAcache to UMB and IF those UMBs are not fully DMAable - in other words IF those UMBs are created by some EMM386 THEN the LBA detection (int

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Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: best free C++ compiler

2004-07-22 Thread Gregory Pietsch
Alain wrote: Only TC 2.01 and TC++ 1.02 are free. And OpenWatcom! Quite big but seems to be quite powerful as well. ... And note: TC/TC++ are free as in beer (zero cost.) But they are not free as in speech - source code is not available. IMHO it is not free. it says only for Personal Use. This

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: best free C++ compiler

2004-07-22 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 22--2004 21:24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alain) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A PS: FWIU the later Borland museum compiler is BC1 that was released A _after_ TC2, but for mistirious reasons I posted this many-many times A and I fell into a some void. All see your mentions, but TCPP1 is very

Re: [Freedos-devel] best free C++ compiler

2004-07-22 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 23--2004 02:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Koder) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: K If anyone else here is already running OWC on a DOS host, I do. K then it would be K great if he/she would supply some howto, or zip a working installation to K share with others. I would certainly appreciate it!

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: LBAcache problem: finds no SCSI drives when loaded high if...!?

2004-07-22 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 23--2004 02:34 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: EA Please suggest some nice cozy place in low DOS RAM which can be used EA by LBAcache as temporary stack while calling int 13.08, thanks. None. There is only 16-byte Inter Application Area, but it anyway not

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: LBAcache problem: finds no SCSI drives when loaded high if...!?

2004-07-22 Thread Michael Devore
At 02:34 AM 7/23/2004 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: Please suggest some nice cozy place in low DOS RAM which can be used by LBAcache as temporary stack while calling int 13.08, thanks. I'm missing something here. Why can't you directly allocate stack memory low at LBAcache startup? It's not that many

Re: [Freedos-devel] Small EMM386 update call for bugs

2004-07-22 Thread Michael Devore
At 11:08 PM 7/22/2004 +0200, tom ehlert wrote: if you didn't make VDS support significant more complete then it was in the good old days of my code, I would disadvise to enable VDS by default (no problem if it's an option) VDS remains an option disabled by default, as it was originally. One