Re: [Freedos-devel] IFS API

Hi, On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 5:19 PM Bret Johnson wrote: > > As an aside, I'm wondering if anybody has a "fool-proof" test for FAT32 > capability in the kernel. In USBDRIVE > what I currently do is go through all the drive letters and see if any of > them responds correctly to INT 21.7302h > (G

Re: [Freedos-devel] IFS API

Hi, I got bored (despite already knowing about this history), so I started watching Nostalgia Nerd's video on "AARD" (re: Win 3.1 beta atop DR-DOS) on YouTube. "Windows’ Hidden Self Destruct Code | Nostalgia Nerd" * https://youtu.be/TIfNIWn2Ad4?t=753 (comments further below) On Wed, Feb 22, 20

Re: [Freedos-devel] Proposal: remove Graphical Desktops from next FreeDOS

Jim put it best, I think - remove the GUI's from the official media, but leave them on ibiblio, which would be the FreeDOS equivalent of the Hobbes archive for OS/2. On Wed, 22 Feb 2023 at 23:53, Liam Proven wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Feb 2023 at 17:52, Jim Hall wrote: > > > > It's been a few days si

Re: [Freedos-devel] Proposal: remove Graphical Desktops from next FreeDOS

On Wed, 22 Feb 2023, Liam Proven wrote: On Sun, 19 Feb 2023 at 17:52, Jim Hall wrote: It's been a few days since the last comment on this thread, so I think those who have an opinion on this have voiced it. Just seen it. I've moved house recently and have no broadband at my new place. The

Re: [Freedos-devel] IFS API

> Also I found references on IFSFUNC: in 2Fh (AH=11h), IFSFUNC > functions seem to be entangled with the network redirector > functions: > > http://www.ctyme.com/intr/int-2f.htm > > Apparently, these functions would be made available by IFSFUNC.EXE > (curiously not provided by kernel itself). >...

Re: [Freedos-devel] IFS API

On 2/21/2023 5:05 PM, Yll Buzoku wrote: Hi Aitor, Preface: The following holds true for PC-DOS 3.3, though I have no reason to suspect anything I say holds any different for any DOS version from 3.1 onwards. My understanding of what is expected of the redirector interface is due to having di

Re: [Freedos-devel] IFS API

On 2/21/2023 4:29 AM, tom ehlert wrote: Hallo Herr Ralf Quint, am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2023 um 01:17 schrieben Sie: Don't recall when MSCDEX first showed up, but I think it was after the networking redirector stuff (for both Novell and LanManager) in MS-DOS 3.0. early version of Novel

Re: [Freedos-devel] Proposal: remove Graphical Desktops from next FreeDOS

On Sun, 19 Feb 2023 at 17:52, Jim Hall wrote: > > It's been a few days since the last comment on this thread, so I think > those who have an opinion on this have voiced it. Just seen it. I've moved house recently and have no broadband at my new place. > The consensus appears to be "Keep OpenGEM

Re: [Freedos-devel] IFS API

Hi, Well, thanks to all that contributed to this interesting topic (there are quite a few interesting mails in the thread). I could find very little extra information, like this: https://www.os2museum.com/wp/dos/dos-4-0/ Also I found references on IFSFUNC: in 2Fh (AH=11h), IFSFUNC functions see

Re: [Freedos-devel] More on Packages

Hi, On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 7:53 AM wrote: > > So…. > > There is only an old version with sources. Or, a newer version without > sources. We only have 1.1 of P5 mirrored (so far). I've built 1.4 (pcom.exe, pint.exe) locally but haven't run the test suite yet. (He changed it so my old GNUmakefi

Re: [Freedos-devel] IFS API

On at 2023-02-22 01:05 +, Yll Buzoku wrote: Hi Aitor, Preface: The following holds true for PC-DOS 3.3, though I have no reason to suspect anything I say holds any different for any DOS version from 3.1 onwards. The LoL, SDA, CDS, and SFT layouts differ somewhat between MS-DOS versions

Re: [Freedos-devel] IFS API

On at 2023-02-21 22:39 +0100, Aitor Santamaría wrote: Thanks!! Just a 5-min check so I may be wrong, but it seems to hook int13h and issue some Iomega ZIP HPFS driver SCSI calls to do the work. Which is just another way to accede other filesystems. :) iHPFS proper (not iHPFSOM which I do not

Re: [Freedos-devel] IFS API

What I found : The IFS seems an extension of the network redirector, intended to solve some data corruption problems. It did exist in DOS 4 only and was not well documented by Microsoft. The following books offer some information: Schulman "Undocumented DOS", 1991 edition page 217 Podanoffsky "Dis

Re: [Freedos-devel] More on Packages

> On Feb 21, 2023, at 7:41 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > Hi, > > On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 10:22 AM > wrote: >> >> On Feb 21, 2023, at 3:19 AM, jer...@shidel.net wrote: >> [..] >> I’ve not looked into P5 Pascal. It would be nice to have a alternative to >> FPC for DOS. >>

[Freedos-devel] OpenGem Corrupt Nested Zip

Hi All, Just giving Willi a thank you for figuring out the problem with the corrupt nested zip file. As it turned out, that file was not a zip archive. It is a plain text document. Renaming the file extension to .TXT appears to fix the issue. This will fix the verification error during the rel