On Fri, 26 Apr 2024, Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel wrote:
Microsoft and IBM released the source code of MS-DOS 4.0 under MIT
license [1]. To me, it looks fairly complete.
Everything but himem, dosshell, gwbasic, and parts of xmaem/xma2ems,
apparently. I got most of it compiled using the t
On Fri, 26 Apr 2024, Eric Auer via Freedos-devel wrote:
As mentioned by DOSEMU2 people, this is a somewhat exotic,
but interesting MS DOS 4.00, not the once widespread 4.01:
Actually, apart from having the io.sys sources to the multitasking 4, this
is the regular 4.x line from 1988. Most of
> Am 26.04.2024 um 09:08 schrieb Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel
> :
>
> I got most of it compiled using the tools in the archive.
Side effect of having these tools in the repo is that these are released under
MIT license too, espectially:
- MASM 5.1
- Microsoft LINK 3.65
- Microsoft C 5.1
> On Fri, 26 Apr 2024, Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel wrote:
>
> > Microsoft and IBM released the source code of MS-DOS 4.0 under MIT
> > license [1]. To me, it looks fairly complete.
On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 2:25 AM Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Everything but himem, dosshell, gwb
On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 2:28 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
[..]
> How did you compile it? I'm having trouble getting the compile to work.
>
> Here's what I'm doing: I've booted my system using FreeDOS but using
> their tools. My C: drive is FreeDOS, and my D: drive is empty except
> for the SRC directory f
Hi Jim,
>> D:\>nmake
>>
>> Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 1.00.05
>> Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1987, 1988. All rights reserved.
>>
>> NMAKE : fatal error U1051: usage : 'NMAKE' [-bcdeinpqrst -f makefile -x
>> stderrfi
>> le] [macrodefs] [targets]
>> Stop.
>
>
> But when
Jim Hall wrote:
[..]
> > But when I try to build it, it fails in the MAPPER directory with
> > "line too long":
> >
[..]
> >> cd ..\mapper
> >> nmake
> >>
> >> Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 1.00.05
> >> Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1987, 1988. All rights reserv
On at 2024-04-26 14:28 -0500, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel wrote:
On Fri, 26 Apr 2024, Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel wrote:
Microsoft and IBM released the source code of MS-DOS 4.0 under MIT
license [1]. To me, it looks fairly complete.
On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 2:25 AM Steve Nickolas via Free
To correct myself: I was getting a bunch of unrelated errors because I
made a mistake in my SETENV.BAT file. I set the CL, LINK, and MASM
variables to point to the executables (similar to what you might do on
Unix makefiles with CC, CFLAGS, etc)
But those variables are options to those commands (l