Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 bugreport place?

2006-11-02 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Blair Campbell schreef: > He meant the OpenWatcom package that is supplied with FreeDOS 1.0, but > I don't know what that has to do with config.bat > What I mean is that the kernel sources (if installed by FreeDOS 1.0.0) use a file named config.bat to indicate compiler settings. Also, FreeDOS 1

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 bugreport place?

2006-11-02 Thread Blair Campbell
On 11/2/06, Arkady V.Belousov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > 2-Ноя-2006 19:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to > freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: > > BB> Also I'm curious if installing OpenWatcom from FreeDOS 1.0 configures > BB> the config.bat, > > OW doesn't presents DOS i

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update proposal

2006-11-02 Thread Blair Campbell
> EA> That is a pity. Did Blair comment about the FreeCOM patches? Did > > Ask Blair yourself, for me he is too rare answers. Some of us work 12 hours/day. -- Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) Se

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 bugreport place?

2006-11-02 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 2-Ноя-2006 19:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: BB> Also I'm curious if installing OpenWatcom from FreeDOS 1.0 configures BB> the config.bat, OW doesn't presents DOS installer. If you wrote own installer, you may update there anything. BB

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update proposal

2006-11-02 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 2-Ноя-2006 15:20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Hall) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: JH> Using 2-digit subversions ("1.01") looks too similar to "1.0.1" kind of JH> naming. Yes. And for me, second looks more sensible, because allows explicitly differ intermediate releases (1.0 ==

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update proposal

2006-11-02 Thread Jim Hall
Yes, "1.3.2" makes perfect sense, I think. First, "1.3" indicates the third minor release after "1.0". Now let's say there was a really bad bug discovered in FreeCOM 0.99B in that distro, found just after going live with "1.3", so we'd make a bug-fix distro right away as "1.3.1" that included

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update proposal

2006-11-02 Thread Aitor Santamaría
It looks good, but I just wonder how to name the second bug-fix release after the third release after FreeDOS 1.0, in that case you are forced to something like 1.3.2... Aitor 2006/11/2, Jim Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Using 2-digit subversions ("1.01") looks too similar to "1.0.1" kind of > nami

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update proposal

2006-11-02 Thread Jim Hall
Using 2-digit subversions ("1.01") looks too similar to "1.0.1" kind of naming. I'd rather we reserve those numbers for bug-fix releases that don't add any new functionality. For standard distributions, I prefer we use the simpler 1-digit subversions. In my mind, if we make 9 small updates af

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update proposal

2006-11-02 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hi, 2006/10/30, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi Jim, > > > E! I'd rather not go back to "beta9 SP2" etc naming scheme... > > Right. I have a related question: Tom gave me a copy of his > 2035-Tom kernel sources, and I included a 2037-findfirst fix > in the 2036 kernel. I might find some

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update proposal

2006-11-02 Thread Aitor Santamaría
May I suggest two decimal cyphers? (1.01, 1.02, 1.03... 1.99) 9 small updates to FreeDOS 1.0 may not make FreeDOS 2.0. Aitor 2006/10/29, Jim Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > E! I'd rather not go back to "beta9 SP2" etc naming scheme. The > next FreeDOS should _not_ be a "FreeDOS 1.0 SP1". The n

Re: [Freedos-devel] free paint and file manager dos navigator for the distro

2006-11-02 Thread Aitor Santamaría
2006/11/1, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Questions are: > - what is the roadmap for FreeDOS 1.1 release? Call on me... wanted to consolidate some documents here and there. On the way ;-) Aitor - Using Tomcat but need to d

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 bugreport place?

2006-11-02 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Arkady V.Belousov schreef: > EA> But no valid install targets. > > This is another question. > FreeCOM does allow COPY NUL C:\TEST.TXT resulting in a 0 byte file. Can't help it if MS COMMAND.COM doesn't allow it, we're using FreeCOM anyway for installation purposes due to its added functi

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 bugreport place?

2006-11-02 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 2-Ноя-2006 18:41 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to "Arkady V.Belousov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> EA> cdrom drives have drive letters and are non-FAT, plus >> But then they anyway "formatted". :) EA> But no valid install targets. This is another question.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update proposal

2006-11-02 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 2-Ноя-2006 15:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to "Arkady V.Belousov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> No! There should be present somewhere stable, no-more-changed edition, >> which should used as "absolute point". I think, with releasing FreeDOS 1.0, >> which uses 2036, 2036 should be froz

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 bugreport place?

2006-11-02 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 2-Ноя-2006 15:38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to "Arkady V.Belousov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> You can't write on non-FAT partitions, because such partitions >> don't get drive letter. EA> cdrom drives have drive letters and are non-FAT, plus But then they anyway "formatted". :)

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update proposal

2006-11-02 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 2-Ноя-2006 15:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to "Arkady V.Belousov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/kernel2036-binary.zip >> http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/kernel2036-source.zip EA> Correct - when I update

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 bugreport place?

2006-11-02 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 11-Окт-2006 12:48 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: >> %comspec% /f /c copy nul c:\test.txt EA> This is probably because the FIRST shell does the redirection and EA> the second shell only does ECHO YES! Good point. And of course it EA> would be very g

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 bugreport place?

2006-11-02 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 11-Окт-2006 02:24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: BB> * SETUP.BAT batchfile, line 99, which tests if a file can be created on BB> C:\ , kinda needs a change. It relies on redirection and on BB> the /F parameter of the SHELL LINE in a config.sys

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update proposal

2006-11-02 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 2-Ноя-2006 12:14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: >> This is what stops me currently from dealing with kernel, because there >> is no management centralization. Eric, do you support/control your kernel >> edition? What about Kenneth' edition? Who con

Re: [Freedos-devel] [Freedos-cvs] kernel build.bat, 1.17, 1.18 buildall.bat, 1.6, 1.7 default.bat, 1.5, 1.6 filelist, 1.9, 1.10 makefile, 1.2, 1.3

2006-11-02 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Arkady, Bart, > This is what stops me currently from dealing with kernel, because there > is no management centralization. Eric, do you support/control your kernel > edition? What about Kenneth' edition? Who control and support CVS? You can assume that I am the only maintainer of kernel 2036,

Re: [Freedos-devel] [Freedos-cvs] kernel build.bat, 1.17, 1.18 buildall.bat, 1.6, 1.7 default.bat, 1.5, 1.6 filelist, 1.9, 1.10 makefile, 1.2, 1.3

2006-11-02 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 1-Ноя-2006 04:04 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: >>> Looks like this change wasn't tested. >> It looks like Eric has magic powers to produce .zip files anyway! EA> actually i do not use makefiles or batchfiles to create zip files. EA> but i hav