Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0

2005-11-08 Thread Blair Campbell
> Many thanks! Interesting... I'll see about licensing, of course. > Aitor > Kim Kokkonen, TurboPower Software Co. CompuServe 76004,2611 May be distributed freely, but not sold as a programmer's tool. Version 1.0, 10/3/95 Hmm. Seems to be compatible with the GPL (or other open-source l

Re: [Freedos-devel] New source converter+EMM386 2.07+compression binary

2005-11-08 Thread Michael Devore
At 01:57 AM 11/9/2005 +0300, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: MD> Version 2.07 of EMM386 fixes an error in its upper memory handler which MD> causes crashes when attempting to free an upper memory MD> block. Specifically, this caused problems when trying to unload CTMOUSE MD> via its /U option. D

[Freedos-devel] Re: New source converter+EMM386 2.07+compression binary

2005-11-08 Thread Michael Devore
Message clarification #1: The converter file is named nomyso10.zip, not nomyso.zip Message clarification #2: NASM may generate harmless warnings if you recompile other MASM/TASM source code, making complaints about redefinition of segment attributes. Test files show these warnings are trigg

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0

2005-11-08 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Many thanks! Interesting... I'll see about licensing, of course. Aitor Blair Campbell escribió: (Well, personally I would not be happy with LFN being mandatory, it'd force me to entirely write LFN for Pascal, or see how FPC's LFN can be compiled for TP, as the KEYB non-resident code is, for the

[Freedos-devel] anyone want an old ms-dos encylopedia?

2005-11-08 Thread Patrick Risner
Hello Freedos developers! I found an old book about DOS titled "The MS-DOS Encyclopedia" from 1988.  The current version of DOS at the time it was published was 3.3. The book is a 1500 page reference work on DOS for programmers.  It's filled with assembly and C routines for doing lots of stuff in

Re: [Freedos-devel] Dir+Error+Abort: Kernel or FreeCom problem?

2005-11-08 Thread Alain
Hi Bernt and Jeremy, as suggested by Bernt I did some cross testing with MS-DOS 7.10: - NDD says that I have a bad sector in FAT copy 1 (disk is write protected to prevent it from being fixed) - with FreeDOS kernel I get aproximately the *same*behaviour* with MS-comman.com and FreeCOM: after

Re: [Freedos-devel] Dir+Error+Abort: Kernel or FreeCom problem?

2005-11-08 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Alain schreef: FreeDOS has a nasty behaviour: if I issue "DIR A:" and I get an error (Abort/Rety/Ignore/Fail) if I hit Abort or Fail, it does not abort but keeps asking again. That is in latest unstable, with older freecom it hangs forever. Is this a kernel bug, a FreeCOM issue or is it unhea

[Freedos-devel] Dir+Error+Abort: Kernel or FreeCom problem?

2005-11-08 Thread Alain
Hi everybody, FreeDOS has a nasty behaviour: if I issue "DIR A:" and I get an error (Abort/Rety/Ignore/Fail) if I hit Abort or Fail, it does not abort but keeps asking again. That is in latest unstable, with older freecom it hangs forever. Is this a kernel bug, a FreeCOM issue or is it unhea

Re: [Freedos-devel] New source converter+EMM386 2.07+compression binary

2005-11-08 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 8-Ноя-2005 15:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: MD> Version 2.07 of EMM386 fixes an error in its upper memory handler which MD> causes crashes when attempting to free an upper memory MD> block. Specifically, this caused problems when trying t

Re: [Freedos-devel] New source converter+EMM386 2.07+compression binary

2005-11-08 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Michael Devore schreef: Version 2.07 of EMM386 fixes an error in its upper memory handler which causes crashes when attempting to free an upper memory block. Specifically, this caused problems when trying to unload CTMOUSE via its /U option. HIMEM has a few minor source changes, but the binar

Re: [Freedos-devel] New source converter+EMM386 2.07+compression binary

2005-11-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Michael, good news again :-). fixes an error in its upper memory handler which causes crashes when attempting to free an upper memory block. Specifically, this caused problems when trying to unload CTMOUSE via its /U option. Whoa. I never expected EMM386 to be the problem here. Maybe this

[Freedos-devel] New source converter+EMM386 2.07+compression binary

2005-11-08 Thread Michael Devore
Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386 are the files emmx207.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly executable package, and emms207.zip, EMM386/HIMEM mostly source package. Also available are the files nhimem.zip, nomyso.zip, and mutant-upx125-cygwin-exe.zip. Version 2.07 of EMM386 fixes