Re: [Freedos-devel] ideas about FreeDOS resident calculator

2007-04-07 Thread Tony
Since the source is freely available (given its license) why not just add the parts you need to a library (obviously minus startup and resident code) and use the equivalent of DOS DLL files (the wonderful world of overlays) or just link it in. Then you can add the portions of this program are

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS and WfW 3.11

2007-04-07 Thread Tony
I was bored so I tried FreeDOS 1.0 and WfW 3.11. Setup installed fine (in VirtualPC 2K4) totally trashed in VMWare... Reboot, attempt to load WfW, get an error message that WfW can't run because some protected mode application is running that I need to kill. Hmmm, so I look in the Windows direc

Re: [Freedos-devel] File manager

2007-04-07 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 13:54:38 +0200, you wrote: >Maybe Necromancer's DOS Navigator? It is GNU but it doesn't indorse FreeDOS. NDN crash on some weird video mode, my office NetVista will cause a reboot. Despite this, NDN is very good. Rgds, Johnson. --

Re: [Freedos-devel] ideas about FreeDOS resident calculator

2007-04-07 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 13:38:57 +0200, you wrote: >This all is needed because Blo?ek works in VESA graphics mode so the dialog >window of FDRC can't be displayed. I wonder nowadays display card still have support of VESA or not. UNIVBE refuse to work long ago, and other free VESA drivers stopped al

Re: [Freedos-devel] File manager

2007-04-07 Thread Lyrical Nanoha
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Ladislav Lacina wrote: > I would like to ask: which file manager is preffered for FreeDOS > distributions? I think it is very important thing - nobody will use DOS > without any NC clone. And it is stupid to not have such thing on the > distribution CD/diskette. Maybe Necrom

Re: [Freedos-devel] File manager

2007-04-07 Thread Florian Xaver
Hi, I have 2 favourite file managers: NDN - file managers with most features FW - file wizard, also very good and much faster than NDN. I would prefer FW in FreeDOS (and it is also open source!). I uploaded source and binary to http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Mai

[Freedos-devel] File manager

2007-04-07 Thread Ladislav Lacina
I would like to ask: which file manager is preffered for FreeDOS distributions? I think it is very important thing - nobody will use DOS without any NC clone. And it is stupid to not have such thing on the distribution CD/diskette. Maybe Necromancer's DOS Navigator? It is GNU but it doesn't indors

[Freedos-devel] ideas about FreeDOS resident calculator

2007-04-07 Thread Ladislav Lacina
FDRC is nice and comfortable. But you could go further. Now is the TSR module called by hotkey. What about making a alternate interface through some interrupt? Now FDRC serves to users but if you would make some API let's say on 2Fh DOS multiplex it could serve to programmers also. I would like