Re: [Freedos-devel] Ensemble Lite Redux

2004-07-29 Thread Bernd Blaauw
tom ehlert schreef: exactly. a) it shouldn't be needed b) MS /ALTBOOT is documented as 'if you *really* run into problems, use that' the current behaviour is pretty good tested, and should remain this way; I vote for michael. why not use the ALTBOOT behaviour as-is now, make the ALTBOOT

[Freedos-devel] Re: Ensemble Lite Redux

2004-07-29 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I vote for Bernd's idea: Make ALTBOOT an ignored option - at it would enable the behaviour which FreeDOS EMM386 has as default anyway - and introduce a NOALTBOOT option which suppresses INT9 (keyboard) hooking. Apart from that, / in front of options could be treated as optional, to allow more

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Ensemble Lite Redux

2004-07-29 Thread Alain
I sent a compiled beep program, but I have not seen my message in the list. did it get thrugh? Alain Eric Auer escreveu: Hi, I vote for Bernd's idea: Make ALTBOOT an ignored option - at it would enable the behaviour which FreeDOS EMM386 has as default anyway - and introduce a NOALTBOOT option

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Ensemble Lite Redux

2004-07-29 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Eric Auer escribió: Hi, I vote for Bernd's idea: me too. Aitor --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce.

[Freedos-devel] EMM386 ALTBOOT and GEOS too

2004-07-29 Thread Michael Devore
At 04:42 PM 7/29/2004 +0200, Bernd Blaauw wrote: why not use the ALTBOOT behaviour as-is now, make the ALTBOOT parameter a dummy (like RAM) and create the NOALTBOOT option. then DEVICE=EMM386.EXE equals DEVICE=EMM386.EXE ALTBOOT, and to get the opposite behaviour of these two, use