Re: [Freedos-devel] A dilemma affecting next DISPLAY

2005-08-23 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: Hi there, FD-DISPLAY is about 11KB size (the data for the 3 subfonts, 8x8, 8x14 and 8x16 is 10.5Kb). MS-DISPLAY is about 5KB resident size (the size of 8x16 is 4KB). Following Eric's step, I can use a single data pool to load the data into memory (I no need t

[Freedos-devel] Vorbis-tools for DOS

2005-08-23 Thread Blair Campbell
I just compiled vorbis-tools for DOS (except ogg123), which required no modifications, and if anyone is interested, I can send them the binaries. --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San

[Freedos-devel] A dilemma affecting next DISPLAY

2005-08-23 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi there, FD-DISPLAY is about 11KB size (the data for the 3 subfonts, 8x8, 8x14 and 8x16 is 10.5Kb). MS-DISPLAY is about 5KB resident size (the size of 8x16 is 4KB). Following Eric's step, I can use a single data pool to load the data into memory (I no need to make room for the three subfont

Re: [Freedos-devel] New CABExtract port

2005-08-23 Thread Blair Campbell
> It is under the GPL, but it is 32-bit (compiled with DJGPP), so it > would break the spec. It could be distributed in the util section, though. Did MS-DOS ship with a .cab extracter? Windows certainly did, but I'm not sure about DOS. --- SF

Re: [Freedos-devel] New CABExtract port

2005-08-23 Thread Blair Campbell
> If released under some GPL-ish license, I see no reason why not to > include it with the FreeDOS distr too. It is under the GPL, but it is 32-bit (compiled with DJGPP), so it would break the spec. --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better S

Re: [Freedos-devel] New CABExtract port

2005-08-23 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, tom ehlert escribió: Hello Blair, I couldn't find a cabextract DOS port anywhere, so I ported it myself, with minimal effort. If anyone wants the binary for testing, just e-mail me. I'll not do your testing. But if you would send source + instructions how to compile, I would be inter

Re: [Freedos-devel] DJGPP on FreeDOS LiveCDs

2005-08-23 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Florian Xaver escribió: Ghostscript is in the next release but LaTeX is HUGE (at least on linux), and I'm not considering it at present. I don't think, that LaTeX is very usefull for the _common_ FreeDOS user/developer. Well, I have been using it for years, and would be very glad, per

Re: [Freedos-devel] DJGPP on FreeDOS LiveCDs

2005-08-23 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Blair Campbell escribió: almost 100% TP-compatible code), perhaps GhostScript, the DJGPP LaTeX Ghostscript is in the next release but LaTeX is HUGE (at least on linux), and I'm not considering it at present. Ok, good work anyway. But have you seen the DJGPP-LaTeX? I seem to remember it

Re: [Freedos-devel] New CABExtract port

2005-08-23 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 08:34:27 -0700, you wrote: Hi Blair, >I couldn't find a cabextract DOS port anywhere, so I ported it myself, >with minimal effort. If anyone wants the binary for testing, just >e-mail me. I don't mind to help you test, though I didn't use CAB in DOS. I use ARJ for many year

Re: [Freedos-devel] DJGPP on FreeDOS LiveCDs

2005-08-23 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:57:55 +0100 (BST), you wrote: Hi Alex, >> You just hit *the*kernel* of the problem. In "C" many people can help, >> if it gets to asm, we will get dependent on one person. > >Yeah, it's a common tradeoff. Why not use Linux instead? :o) (that's a >joke) I've been challeng