Re: [Freedos-devel] Free FDISK interim builds

2023-02-28 Thread Aitor SantamarĂ­a
Hi, On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 at 20:31, Eric Auer wrote: > > PS: Interesting that Bing ChatGPT answers Aitor using his own > mails, does it at least include some thanks to the author? :-) > Lol it does not, but it links to the log of pages, etc. where it took the answers from. That's how I found out.

Re: [Freedos-devel] IFS API

2023-02-28 Thread Aitor SantamarĂ­a
Hi, On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 at 12:23, tom ehlert wrote: > Hey! > > > > As a matter of curiosity, given that we were unable to find a > > precise answer to why Microsoft dropped IFS after MS-DOS 5.0 > > to start with, your question is pretty much nonsense. IFS or the > "networking redirector" was de

Re: [Freedos-devel] Free FDISK interim builds

2023-02-28 Thread Bernd Boeckmann via Freedos-devel
Hi Eric, > Now I would like to know how long each of those bugs has been > in FDISK, can you see that in change logs or by comparing your > version to various older versions? It must have been ages :-o I will try to find out and leave a note in CHANGES.md for all critical (potential data loss) e

Re: [Freedos-devel] Free FDISK interim builds

2023-02-28 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bernd, thank you for your work on FDISK! Version 1.3.5 (unreleased) -- - CRITICAL: Fix FDISK loading wrong head and sector values from MBR if operating in LBA mode. The previous incorrect behaviuor was hardcoding them to cylinder boundaries instead of

Re: [Freedos-devel] Free FDISK interim builds

2023-02-28 Thread Bernd Boeckmann via Freedos-devel
Hi Rugxulo, thanks for the advice! > Is makefile.bor still maintained? Do you still (also) support building > it with that toolset (presumably freeware-ish TC++ 1.01 would work)? Yes! At the moment I have it compiling with Borland C++ 3.1, Turbo C++ 3.0 and Open Watcom 1.9. While mainly develop

Re: [Freedos-devel] IFS API

2023-02-28 Thread tom ehlert
Hey! > As a matter of curiosity, given that we were unable to find a > precise answer to why Microsoft dropped IFS after MS-DOS 5.0 to start with, your question is pretty much nonsense. IFS or the "networking redirector" was definitively there in MSDOS 6.2 and most likely in 7 (aka Win95). it