Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Japheth
1. Bug: wrong handling for clc/stc in some places (they ignored, because popf follows, thus caller receives always success): __O\_/_\_/O__ @@loc2: [...] clc ; flag success @@locret:

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 28-Июл-2006 15:36 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japheth) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: 1. Bug: wrong handling for clc/stc in some places (they ignored, because popf follows, thus caller receives always success): @@loc2: clc ; flag

Re: [Freedos-devel] XMS fragmentation follow-up

2006-07-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 26-Июл-2006 16:19 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: MD Okay, I can get minor XMS free block fragmentation during direct calls to MD the VCPI/EMS allocator for large blocks. Since the VCPI/EMS allocator MD directly manipulates the XMS handles,

Re: [Freedos-devel] fdisk

2006-07-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 27-Июл-2006 17:42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Imre Leber) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: IL Seems that fdisk doesn't allow you to change between FAT16 and FAT32. IL When you choose FAT32 support on an 800MB image, it will create a FAT32 IL partition automatically. IL Maybe there should

Re: [Freedos-devel] 2nd FreeDOS 1.0 Testing release

2006-07-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 27-Июл-2006 04:48 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: EA You said that the if no MBR 55aa found, replace ALL code and EA partition data in the MBR with an empty MBR function in FDISK, EA which has caused a lot of data loss in the past, would be EA

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Michael Devore
At 06:36 PM 7/28/2006 +0400, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! MD emmx220.zip, EMM386 version 2.20 memory manager, mostly executable files; One more place: 7. Code below is buggy (counted not expected bits - should be used SHL instead SHR) or redundant (result is always zero additions):

[Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.20 breaks FDAPM under QEMU

2006-07-28 Thread Andreas Bollhalder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello I have testet the version 2.20 of EMM386 under QEMU. The good news is, that the PS/2 driver of GEOS now works. Unfortunatly, it seems that this version breaks FDAPM. I use FDAPM to keep the CPU load off QEMU low and to shut down the QEMU

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Michael Devore
At 05:03 PM 7/28/2006 +0400, Arkady wrote: some stuff I can't tell yet because there's either a missing e-mail on list from you, or it's just because all your e-mails to the list are mashed together without any CR's and it's hard for me to parse them out, but it looks like you're sending me

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 28-Июл-2006 12:39 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: MD X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 7. Code below is buggy (counted not expected bits - should be used SHL instead SHR) or redundant (result is always zero additions): MD

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 28-Июл-2006 11:21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: MD some stuff MD I can't tell yet because there's either a missing e-mail on list from you, But you answer to my email? MD or it's just because all your e-mails to the list are mashed

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Michael Devore
At 10:02 PM 7/28/2006 +0400, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: MD There! Right there! Whatever you're doing there, keep it up. You have MD CR's in your e-mail message. Yes, because I right mailer. :) But, I suggest, most mailers may be customized Yargh! Back to the old format. Your's are

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS basic disc

2006-07-28 Thread Alain M.
I would *very much* appreciateit. I did some tests with it and could not make it work, nor did I find a suggested configuration anywhere. BUT: is it working? There was a lot of talk about LFN lately, but I did not find a final diagnostic, just that 1.0 will have it disabled... Alain Florian

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS basic disc

2006-07-28 Thread Alain M.
Japheth escreveu: could be DOSLFN included? I think that most people needs the driver! That would be good, but generally I had to realize that all the LFN things are a bit underdocumented in the distribution, someone not familiar with LFN support in DOS will not know what to do to make

Re: [Freedos-devel] 2nd FreeDOS 1.0 Testing release

2006-07-28 Thread Alain M.
Arkady V.Belousov escreveu: EA Several users have lost their boot loader, You wish to say, that some boot-loaders don't have MBR signature? Being one that lost it, I can say with 99.999% certainty that my MBR was ok. I believe that some obscure read error caused it to belive that my

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS basic disc

2006-07-28 Thread Japheth
BUT: is it working? There was a lot of talk about LFN lately, but I did not find a final diagnostic, just that 1.0 will have it disabled... Yes it works. That means, FreeCOM is aware that such a thing may exist. - load doslfn.com - set LFN=Y to make FreeCOM LFN aware - now use LFN in FreeCOM

Re: [Freedos-devel] 2nd FreeDOS 1.0 Testing release

2006-07-28 Thread Mark Bailey
Alain M. wrote: Arkady V.Belousov escreveu: EA Several users have lost their boot loader, You wish to say, that some boot-loaders don't have MBR signature? Being one that lost it, I can say with 99.999% certainty that my MBR was ok. I believe that some obscure read error caused it

Re: [Freedos-devel] 2nd FreeDOS 1.0 Testing release

2006-07-28 Thread Alain M.
So the problem was a false read error. Just the thing that programes believe that never happen! BTW my problem was a long time ago, so it could have that problem that has already been fixed. Alain Mark Bailey escreveu: Alain M. wrote: Arkady V.Belousov escreveu: EA Several users have

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Michael Devore
At 04:41 AM 7/29/2006 +0200, Japheth wrote: Since low-level changes were made to this version of EMM386, please keep an eye out for any problems and report them as soon as you can. While I don't The IF bug fix may have disclosed some previously hidden bugs which are due to a careless

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Michael Devore
At 07:48 AM 7/29/2006 +0400, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: ...but if you not object, I rewrote for you DefragXMS. You or anyone else can rewrite and submit whatever code you want with my blessing. The rules are simple: 1) As maintainer, I am the final decision maker if the change goes in. I

[Freedos-devel] Notes on rules: was EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-28 Thread Michael Devore
At 11:13 PM 7/28/2006 -0500, I wrote: You or anyone else can rewrite and submit whatever code you want with my blessing. The rules are simple: snip Considering the circumstances, I have a couple of notes to add to the five rules for code submission -- not new rules, just notes to help avoid

Re: [Freedos-devel] Mailer problems

2006-07-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 28-Июл-2006 19:35 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alain M.) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: AM User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060516) Do you know, that 1.5.0.5 is released? AM I had a similar problem with Thunderbird in the past, new versions fixed AM it along the way. And