Re: [Freedos-devel] building freedos

2009-03-24 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Christian, > Assembling anything on NASM is a nice goal (for me, anyway) but isn't yet > achieved and probably won't ever be. For example, DOSLFN requires TASM DOSLFN is probably not free enough for Fedora as LFN are patented?? > IDEAL mode and the assembly source files of much advertise

Re: [Freedos-devel] building freedos

2009-03-24 Thread Christian Masloch
> The FreeDOS Spec says: > > "Our reference C compiler is OpenWatcom C. (Borland C 3.1 was > originally chosen as the reference standard because this is the > compiler used to build the FreeDOS kernel. However, it is preferable > to use entirely free tools to create FreeDOS.)" > [...] > "This does

Re: [Freedos-devel] building freedos

2009-03-24 Thread Bart Oldeman
2009/3/24 Japheth : > I'm not a lawyer. But I used my brain and asked myself the following > questions: > > 1. What is Open Watcom, is it a part of Sybase? > 2. If OW is NOT a part of Sybase, is it a - juristic - person which probably > could have a - disclosed - contract with Sybase concerning t

[Freedos-devel] FDAV 0.2

2009-03-24 Thread Blair Campbell
Hi. Finally the follow-up to FDAV 0.1 :-). The TUI was re-written from scratch (it's now based on newt) and now includes a file/directory selection dialog and a mostly-complete help-viewer (press F1). I need to complete the help file though :-). Progress dialogs during scanning now work properl

Re: [Freedos-devel] building freedos

2009-03-24 Thread Japheth
> More importantly, it means a > developer cannot download the source code, make changes to suit > his/her needs, and SHARE those changes with others. I did exactly this with JWasm. I also read the Sybase license. I found parts of it unclear, apparently contradictory, may be even nonsense. I'm