[Freedos-devel] Could almost all packages use links?

2022-08-24 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
I know some packages use "Links" to make executables in the executable %PATH% to make them callable from any directory. The question I ask myslf, is why is is the exception rather than the norm? Would it make it significantly slower? ___ Freedos-dev

[Freedos-devel] edit and ospedit limited to 64k?

2022-08-24 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
One of my reflex when going to Games\Vertigo was "edit vertigo.txt" to read the file. It say the file is too big for this version of edit. "edlin vertigo.txt" worked... as "less vertigo.txt"... I think the file was 79k... not sure at all... but I am kind of surprised that edit (and ospeditt) woul

[Freedos-devel] MBR not written by default?

2022-08-24 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
I have installed FreeDOS 22.08 (interim release) on a ... frankly SMART reporting problematic HD. My first attempt have failed. I believed, not sure, it was because the disk was not having previously a FATish partition. So I got the first stage where FDISK was doing it's job (in english... where

Re: [Freedos-devel] Template for writing DOS Device Drivers in Open Watcom C

2022-08-24 Thread Jim Hall
On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 4:48 AM Eduardo Casino wrote: > > Hi, > > I needed to implement a DOS device driver for something I'm working on > related to vmsmount. While searching for information, all the examples > I found were developed in assembler. Although I have done things in > assembler before

Re: [Freedos-devel] Template for writing DOS Device Drivers in Open Watcom C

2022-08-24 Thread Robert Riebisch
Hi Eduardo, > I needed to implement a DOS device driver for something I'm working on > related to vmsmount. While searching for information, all the examples I > found were developed in assembler. Although I have done things in > assembler before, I find it much more satisfying to program in C and