Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: Re: Problem with writes to NVMe disk

2025-03-06 Thread Alain Mouette via Freedos-devel
I don't reallyknow, IIRC there is a timeout or idle detection for flushing. It did not impact speed as a do-not-flush would do It greatly improved databade system stability Alain Em 27/02/2025 19:02, tom ehlert via Freedos-devel escreveu: Hallo Herr Alain Mouette via Freedos-devel

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: Re: Problem with writes to NVMe disk

2025-02-27 Thread Alain Mouette via Freedos-devel
disk which lowered considerably power failure problems 2) It is much better then MS-DOS for compatibility with modern machines, specialy big disks and memory So I vote for implementing whatever is needed in FreeDOS's kernel. This way it will be more compatible with big disks t

Re: [Freedos-devel] ZEROFILL R2.00 Released

2025-01-30 Thread Alain Mouette via Freedos-devel
Reminder: XDEL fas an option to erase files with overwriting before erasing... I ma not sure if this is relevant in this thead, but it's just an information Alain Em 30/01/2025 07:26, Bitácora de Javier Gutiérrez Chamorro (Guti) via Freedos-devel escreveu: Recently it has been

Re: [Freedos-devel] Thinking about FreeDOS 2.0

2022-03-28 Thread Alain Mouette
If you are thinking about another FreeDOS distro, you may consider inquiring about a 8086 version. IIRC a few people use but it is quite difficult do setup, so a simple image or release can be very helpfull Just a random thought, Alain Em 28/03/2022 12:40, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel

Re: [Freedos-devel] began to list problems I see with FD 1.3-rc3

2020-11-10 Thread Alain Mouette
don't agree that it should be closed. QEMU works with all other OSs, so this is a FreeDOS quirk and should be addressed Alain ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fr

Re: [Freedos-devel] VME Broken on AMD Ryzen

2017-05-12 Thread Alain Mouette
On 12-05-2017 16:14, Rugxulo wrote: >> Should JEMMEX or the FreeDOS installer work around this? > Just use "NOVME", and don't worry about it. Could you please explain that... Alain -- Ch

Re: [Freedos-devel] Announcing FDOSTUI

2017-02-03 Thread Alain Mouette
I believe that changing a config file is just great for that! Avoinding bloat is important At most, there could be 2 or 3 sets of parameters, not only that would help but it can also serve as aguide for creating a new one Alain On 02-02-2017 20:26, Mark Olesen wrote: Skinning at the moment

Re: [Freedos-devel] Announcing FDOSTUI

2017-02-02 Thread Alain Mouette
I like that :) Just one question: can default collors be configured? I would like something like "dialog" in Linux which has a gray background... :) Alain On 01-02-2017 21:49, Mark Olesen wrote: Hello, I liked and made the changes you had pointed out. Thanks for the input.

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 official release!

2016-12-25 Thread Alain Mouette
Thank you, all of you :) On 25-12-2016 13:16, Jim Hall wrote: I am proud to announce the release of FreeDOS 1.2! You can download it from our website at www.freedos.org . The latest official FreeDOS distribution is the result of the hard work from many people. Thanks

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-11-21 Thread Alain Mouette
n caries all the sources ;-) Alain On 21-11-2015 00:33, Geraldo Netto wrote: > Hi All, > > Based on Rugxulo/Mateusz FreeDOS local link > I took a few minutes to make some (brazilian) portuguese translations > of the following softwares: > (Translatations available at [1]

Re: [Freedos-devel] exfat support from android linux for freedos sdxc support and more?

2015-10-01 Thread Alain Mouette
... But then I don't know how to make a distribution CD... anyone? Alain On 01-10-2015 00:23, Geraldo Netto wrote: > Oi Alain/All, > > Tudo certinho por ai? :) > > Well, i think we have different approaches for different needs :P > > Alain, while many people dislike th

Re: [Freedos-devel] exfat support from android linux for freedos sdxc support and more?

2015-10-01 Thread Alain Mouette
s not really fixed, just a work-around that works fine. I have reported it a lonk time ago but as I am not a regular contributor, I got no answer Alain On 01-10-2015 00:23, Geraldo Netto wrote: > Oi Alain/All, > > Tudo certinho por ai? :) > > Well, i think we have different approaches

Re: [Freedos-devel] exfat support from android linux for freedos sdxc support and more?

2015-09-30 Thread Alain Mouette
The point is _running DOS programs_ And also having a stable modern platform behind to run on any possible new hardware (x86) Alain On 29-09-2015 22:50, Chelson Aitcheson wrote: What would be the point of freedos ? Might as well be another Linux distro On 29/09/2015 1:09 pm, "Ge

Re: [Freedos-devel] exfat support from android linux for freedos sdxc support and more?

2015-09-29 Thread Alain Mouette
I use regularly both Linux and Dosemu with FreeDOS ans I am willing to help... Alain On 29-09-2015 00:08, Geraldo Netto wrote: > Hi All, > > First of all, thank you all very very much for your support :) > Indeed, i have to follow the whole thread as Eric said > Also, all tips are very

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.1 and DOSEMU

2012-01-20 Thread Alain Mouette
Hi, I was making a fresh Dosemu install and I noticed that it still has freedos 1.0: <http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosemu/files/dosemu-freedos/> It could be a goor idea to make a new release file there... :)

Re: [Freedos-devel] commercial uses/products for DOS/freedos that I know of

2011-12-22 Thread Alain Mouette
And me :) Serurity and Alarm monitoring: http://www.cosmodata.com.br Alain Em 22-12-2011 18:56, Jim Michaels escreveu: > > uses for DOS that I know of: > - embedded systems https://www.google.com/search?q=embedded+systems+dos > - process control > - POS (Point Of Sale) >

Re: [Freedos-devel] dosbox dos emulator

2011-11-13 Thread Alain Mouette
please send a link to that? I am very interested in it because I *need* packet drivers... Alain -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rs

Re: [Freedos-devel] Calling interrupts when iddle

2011-09-23 Thread Alain Mouette
osemu, it will eat needless CPU Alain -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Freedos and lack of drivers

2011-09-19 Thread Alain Mouette
include what you have bade into next boot, but it is complex and not automatable... So I abandoned it... As for using memory, there is no problem using more than 66Mb of ram in Dosemu, it provides good memory drivers. Alain Em 18-09-2011 16:13, Rugxulo escreveu: > Hi, > > 2011/9

Re: [Freedos-devel] Freedos and lack of drivers

2011-09-14 Thread Alain Mouette
already working on a VM with a Debian+Lxde to run Dosemu with some predifined configurations like networking and charsets. Alain Em 14-09-2011 04:05, Andreas Berger escreveu: > I also think the task should look exactly like DOS. This either means > that resources (e.g. serial ports, printer

Re: [Freedos-devel] Freedos and lack of drivers

2011-09-05 Thread Alain Mouette
There is an ndis set of drivers that works very well: www.netbootdisk.com I use them extensively. Alain Em 05-09-2011 15:39, iw2evk escreveu: > > Hi, > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NdisWrapper > > why possible in linux and not under DOS? > I suppose only because no one wa

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.1 (again)

2011-05-04 Thread Alain Mouette
do command line redirection. Why not use some other make, like gmake? so freedos only compiles with it and the mess is fixed (at least partialy)? This make problem has been a nightmare around here too ;-) Alain -- WhatsUp Gold

Re: [Freedos-devel] is anybody even using my apps?

2010-07-08 Thread Alain Mouette
the latest stable FreeDOS is working fine in all new machines, including SATA2 drives. Just avois Asus. I will be glad to help, just ask here. Alain Em 08-07-2010 07:52, Jim Michaels escreveu: > does anyone have a good safe config for doslfn? I don't want to have to > read through th

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-14 Thread Alain Mouette
Sorry, I cannot help you. My advice seems to be not good :( Alain Em 14-05-2010 16:30, Jim Michaels escreveu: > since I need binaries for windows, I have narrowed the choices down to > vmware workstation and windows xp mode for 7. > > I have the chance to try both, but I will have t

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-14 Thread Alain Mouette
You install a Microsoft Network client, using www.netbootdisk.com Alain Em 13-05-2010 21:43, Jim Michaels escreveu: > > I did more research I and I heard some rumblings about windows 7's > "Windows XP Mode". > it turns out it's a Windows Virtual PC that emulates

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-13 Thread Alain Mouette
n be used as a packet driver for later FreeDOS boot. The big deal is that he creates a working set of config files that I just can go on using afterwards. And he has a magic source for drivers ;) It is a well done, well mantained and up-to-da

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-13 Thread Alain Mouette
compiles on windows, but it might not be so easy. I am sure that poking around, a precompiled version must be available somewhere (that is not a GPL violation) But the simples might be to use VirtualPC, from... Microsoft itself. Alain Em 13-05-2010 14:25, Jim Michaels escreveu: > can

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-12 Thread Alain Mouette
vesa graphics. Neither will give you shared folders, you will have to use network only access. Probavly the easy way to instal is with www.netbootdisk.com If you have more problems, please ask. I will be interesting in solving that issue. Alain

Re: [Freedos-devel] IDE CDrom/Dvd

2010-04-27 Thread Alain Mouette
an Intel message. OAKCDROM.SYS worked only and with all IDE/CDROM, as expected. So UIDE is the best, by far. I will keep AHCI as optional anyway because there *could* be a mahine with AHCI only... Thanks for UIDE, Alain PS: and Thanks for FreeDOS to :) Em 25-04-2010 11:25, Johnson Lam

Re: [Freedos-devel] IDE CDrom/Dvd

2010-04-26 Thread Alain Mouette
heap here in brazil and > has drivers for (free)dos afaik... I already use them when possible: if the user has one, if there is a free PCI slot, if it is not a fake Realtek...

Re: [Freedos-devel] IDE CDrom/Dvd

2010-04-26 Thread Alain Mouette
tor in motherboards, paralel port, network drivers, few PCIs, and so on... Alain Em 26-04-2010 12:40, Tom Ehlert escreveu: > Hallo Herr Alain Mouette, > > am 26. April 2010 um 16:03 schrieben Sie: > > >> Em 25-04-2010 14:53, Eric Auer escreveu: >>> Alain, you start

Re: [Freedos-devel] IDE CDrom/Dvd

2010-04-26 Thread Alain Mouette
IS AHCI only for USB? or is it for SATA? For me SATA is important, the more compatible the better. USB is not so important for me... Alain Em 25-04-2010 07:10, Ladislav Lacina escreveu: >> Any advantage using AHCI? >> > No, but some notebooks lack in BIOS the option "Hand

Re: [Freedos-devel] IDE CDrom/Dvd

2010-04-26 Thread Alain Mouette
Em 25-04-2010 14:53, Eric Auer escreveu: > Alain, you started the thread, do you think such a big > UDF CDEX driver would be useful? Or do you think that > it would indeed be too big and too complex for most? I will not need the UDF driver for what I have in mind... I believe that us

Re: [Freedos-devel] IDE CDrom/Dvd

2010-04-22 Thread Alain Mouette
Sorry I wrote it wrong :( What I need is a SATA cdrom driver... Thanks for any hint, Alain Em 22-04-2010 22:09, Alain Mouette escreveu: > Hi, > > is there any way to use an IDE cdrom drive in FreeDOS? > >

[Freedos-devel] IDE CDrom/Dvd

2010-04-22 Thread Alain Mouette
Hi, is there any way to use an IDE cdrom drive in FreeDOS? Thanks, Alain -- ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Freedos-devel] DISPLAY problem

2010-02-25 Thread Alain Mouette
Hi Aitor, wellcome back (from wherever you were...) the point is that in the last version, VGA is no longer accepted. As you said, both should be synonims. Alain Aitor Santamaría escreveu: > Hello Alain, > > I am mostly coming back to life at this moment (or trying), it's jus

Re: [Freedos-devel] Comments & suggestions

2010-02-23 Thread Alain Mouette
dos386 escreveu: > > some partially: [...] FDISK (patch pending), If there is a patch, there should be a build?? Does anyone have information on this? Thanks, Alain -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try t

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Distro: checking everything

2009-11-30 Thread Alain Mouette
performance (all very similar). I will be using "UIDE /B" to avoid cache and "LBACACHE 15000 tunw" afterwards. So, *THIS PROBLEM IS SOLVED* Thanks all, Alain Alain Mouette escreveu: > Thanks, I just tested the new version 11-27-2009 > > THE ERROR IS GONE :) :) :)

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Distro: checking everything

2009-11-30 Thread Alain Mouette
Thanks, I just tested the new version 11-27-2009 THE ERROR IS GONE :) :) :) but performance is still bad. With XDMA: write: 19 read: 34 Mb/s With UIDE: write: 14 read: 19 Mb/s Alain Robert Riebisch escreveu: > Alain Mouette wrote: > >> Making more tests, I run into another proble

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Distro: checking everything

2009-11-30 Thread Alain Mouette
XDMA (V3.3 2-15-2006) this does not happen, and performance is good. Alain Alain Mouette escreveu: > Ah, I forgot to report of one... > > SUBST is working fine, all past problems seem to have been fixed. > > Alain > > Alain Mouette escreveu: >> Hi all, >> >> I

[Freedos-devel] DISPLAY problem

2009-11-27 Thread Alain Mouette
around? it's been a while since I heard news... Alain -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what y

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Distro: checking everything

2009-11-27 Thread Alain Mouette
B". I have some others that I classify as "very problematic B" from ASUS, but I don't have one around. Alain Christian Masloch escreveu: > Hi Alain, > >> JEMMEX crashes XMSDSK, so it could crash other programs and I did no >> further test. > > I often

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Distro: checking everything

2009-11-27 Thread Alain Mouette
Ah, I forgot to report of one... SUBST is working fine, all past problems seem to have been fixed. Alain Alain Mouette escreveu: > Hi all, > > I am making a new version of my mini FreeDOS distro, so I put togheter > all latest versions. Here is What I Get: > > KERNE

[Freedos-devel] New Distro: checking everything

2009-11-26 Thread Alain Mouette
t any more, it is just for me and my dear users. Thanks to all, Alain -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and foc

[Freedos-devel] looking for LABEL latest version

2009-11-25 Thread Alain Mouette
Hi, I am looking for the newest LABEL version => on IBIBLIO there is a 122 version, dated 2000 => I have a version 1.4b dated 2003 (I lost the original .zip) Does anyone have any information? thanks, Alain

Re: [Freedos-devel] kernel SVN build availability

2009-06-23 Thread Alain Mouette
without worrying about "hey, old > machine's processor instructions not supported - it won't boot". That is not reasonable for a piece of code with so much restrains as the kernel. BUT this is a

Re: [Freedos-devel] New RxDOS memory subsystem source code

2009-06-16 Thread Alain Mouette
>> You're saying development of free DOS software is not on topic in the >> "FreeDOS devel" list? > > RxDOS is another DOS clone entirely from FreeDOS. I agree, but *please* send the link to that other list... I

Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

2009-05-15 Thread Alain M.
86 (I check the box, that is how to spell it) and it was 100% stable. > Anyway windows 95 was stable too. please send me the coordinats of that parallel universe ;) Alain -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and

Re: [Freedos-devel] FrreDOS+Linux (was:Projects in need of a maintainer?)

2009-05-15 Thread Alain M.
ed on slack, but it could be very interesting to build one based on busybox... I could CONTRIBUTE as I have toyed a little with busybox on an ARM9 and I could be interested in it... Alain -- Crystal Reports - New

Re: [Freedos-devel] Next step in transition

2009-05-11 Thread Alain M.
Welcome back... Pat Villani it is nice to have you as a coordinator. It feels a bit like old times, as we also have Jeremy back too :) :) :) Alain Jim Hall escreveu: > Hi again! > > Most of you should recognize Pat Villani. He is the original author of > the FreeDOS kernel, and h

Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

2009-04-14 Thread Alain M.
lyricalnanoha escreveu: > > Though, a truly free 16-bit bash or ash would be nice. Why do you need it to be 16 bit. DOS's programs can be 32 bits without any problem. How many 286 PC are there still around? Most are dead, but DOS in new machines is alive just fin

Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

2009-04-14 Thread Alain M.
I would say that the ideal script language is BASH, which exists dor DOS... (or at least sh) Alain Adam Norton escreveu: > I would use something more common like python. > (http://www.caddit.net/pythond/) > > > Bruce Axtens wrote: >> 2009/4/12 Aitor Santamaría http:

Re: [Freedos-devel] Volunteering

2009-03-27 Thread Alain M.
probably modify a little the installer. Then you you really wnat to get into it, you could help with the kernel. There are some open problems that need attention. There are a lot of highly skilled programes in this list, if you start working on something, I am sure they will step in :) Alain

Re: [Freedos-devel] Free-DOS help

2009-03-05 Thread Alain M.
CDX > /D:, Ok, I forgot about that (i use it...) but use a high letter because the targer machine may have more than one disk/partitions... Ah! about image size: you should be ok with 1.44 as whatever alse you need can be used from the CD. Just to ma

Re: [Freedos-devel] Free-DOS help

2009-03-04 Thread Alain M.
file exists 3) make whatever you want with that combination to work 4) when you burn you CD, chose bootable, and you wll be asked for an image, that is the floppy you created. In the CD you put the files that will be seen as CD after boot Please feed-back, Alain Arpit Patel escreveu: > Hi

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: [Freedos-kernel] Error compiling ...

2009-02-26 Thread Alain M.
I believe that this is a new philosophy that is getting more and more common: issue as many warnings as possible, specially when portability is compromised. I don't like it too, but whenever I will have to port something to 64 bits, it surely will help... Alain Blair Campbell esc

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: [Freedos-kernel] Error compiling ...

2009-02-26 Thread Alain M.
has been made to improve compatibility with other compilers. * The segment argument used with _dos_allocmem(), _dos_freemem() and _dos_setblock() is now unsigned int instead of unsigned short. This change was made for compatibility with other compil

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: [Freedos-kernel] Error compiling ...

2009-02-26 Thread Alain M.
This looks like a real error to me !!! You can cast a short to an int, an the conversion in ok, but to cast a short* to an int* will bring in 2 extra bytes and an INVALID POINTER... Alain Aitor Santamaría escreveu: > Sending over here too, as this list is more popular, and in case > some

[Freedos-devel] Testing: dosfsck

2009-02-19 Thread Alain M.
Hi all, good news: today I had gpf problems with a 160Gbytes SATA disk... I updated DOSFSCK to the latest version 2.11c and it worked like a charm :) Thanks to whoever maintains that (I gess it would be Erik)... Alain

Re: [Freedos-devel] fd 1.1 pkg doubts

2009-02-02 Thread Alain M.
Oi Geraldo, Only some programs are able to use NLS, so for some other progs it is not needed. Those that have NLS are easy to translate because they use kitten (or cats)... Alain Geraldo Netto escreveu: > Hi Guys, > > How are you doing there? > > first, sorry for posting it

Re: [Freedos-devel] Question on S-ATA disks

2008-12-22 Thread Alain M.
, avoid it, and you will be happy. Alain Aitor Santamaría escreveu: > Hello, > > I have been living during the past years ignoring the existence of > S-ATA disks, but nowadays the difference in price between P-ATA and > S-ATA suggests me that I should no longer ignore them ;) > I&

Re: [Freedos-devel] Question on S-ATA disks

2008-12-22 Thread Alain M.
, avoid it, and you will be happy. Alain Aitor Santamaría escreveu: > Hello, > > I have been living during the past years ignoring the existence of > S-ATA disks, but nowadays the difference in price between P-ATA and > S-ATA suggests me that I should no longer ignore them ;) > I&

Re: [Freedos-devel] utime() for Turbo C++ 1.01?

2008-09-09 Thread Alain M.
"could" be made for us but that is a very complex and small piece of code... so I can evaluate if it is useable for you Alain Robert Riebisch escreveu: > Hi! > > Where can I get a POSIX-compatible utime() for TC? &

Re: [Freedos-devel] Gmake

2008-09-08 Thread Alain M.
ll be reused some day... Cheers, Alain Aitor Santamaría escreveu: > Well, I have my doubts, WMAKE is also opensource (as much as > OpenWatcom), when compiling with OWC I just prefer the all-in-one > approach. > I do not know much about GMAKE, but the ones I've seen look like a bit

Re: [Freedos-devel] Gmake

2008-09-08 Thread Alain M.
thanks, that is it, I was looking for gmake, and that is in the index by that name :) Alain Oleg O. Chukaev escreveu: > Alain M. wrote: >> Unfortunatly it is not there. I asked because it is not a trivial >> question, Abdreas looked very hard for it and could not find, nor c

Re: [Freedos-devel] Gmake

2008-09-08 Thread Alain M.
Unfortunatly it is not there. I asked because it is not a trivial question, Abdreas looked very hard for it and could not find, nor could I :( Alain Oleg O. Chukaev escreveu: > Hello Alain, > > Alain M. wrote: >> All this discussion abou make files brings a new (or old?) idea:

[Freedos-devel] Gmake (was: compiling dflat+)

2008-09-08 Thread Alain M.
All this discussion abou make files brings a new (or old?) idea: why no use *gmake* for all projects. wmake is too much different (I know because I use it) and Borland is limited. Where can I find a DOS version o gmake? thanks, Alain

Re: [Freedos-devel] Virtualization made in Sun Microsystems

2008-09-05 Thread Alain M.
irtualBox. Works great. What about speed of graphical dos programs under virtualbox on WinXP? That is a big issue for me :) Alain - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Bu

Re: [Freedos-devel] OT: mount a local directory onto VMWare

2008-09-03 Thread Alain M.
Interesting... can you use it to mount directories or only disks and/or partitions? It makes a big difference because a disk cannot be accessed by two OSes... Alain Aitor Santamaría escreveu: > Thanks to both, I knew the DOSEMU stuff, and was new to VirtualBox!! > Incidentally, some m

Re: [Freedos-devel] OT: mount a local directory onto VMWare

2008-09-03 Thread Alain M.
special deriver :( Cheers, Alain Aitor Santamaría escreveu: > Hello: > > I seem to remember that there was an easy way to mount a local win > directory inside VMWare (as an extra driver or whatever), but I can't > find the reference, could someone give me a clue? > > I am n

[Freedos-devel] Disk size limit

2008-08-26 Thread Alain M.
Hi, is there any disk size limit to FreeDOS's FAT32? My concer is that HDs are getting stupidly big, and I want to make a simple .BAT that uses fdisk batch capability to make one partition and trouble may be waiting somewhere... thanks,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting rid of kitten

2008-08-25 Thread Alain M.
port back to the lib that you wrote, which will make things bigger, I thing that it should be an option and that the standard FeeeDOS version should not grow or be incompatible because of it. ALain Gregory Pietsch escreveu: > I didn't write the spec, I just have to implement it. I thought

Re: [Freedos-devel] boot drive partition and geometry questions

2008-06-16 Thread Alain M.
uations colud a problem happen? Thanks, Alain - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sou

Re: [Freedos-devel] UDMA drivers, please report usage...

2008-06-03 Thread Alain M.
ity of messages :) So... sorry, sometimes I get mixed up/down :) Alain - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/s

Re: [Freedos-devel] UDMA drivers, please report usage...

2008-06-03 Thread Alain M.
ur answers :) Alain Alain M. escreveu: > That is a prety impressive driver... > > I would like to know who is using it and in what situations, specially > real-world cases (as oposed to simulations, not fantasy :) ) > > thanks to all, > Alain > > Eric Auer escreveu: >

[Freedos-devel] UDMA drivers, please report usage...

2008-06-03 Thread Alain M.
That is a prety impressive driver... I would like to know who is using it and in what situations, specially real-world cases (as oposed to simulations, not fantasy :) ) thanks to all, Alain Eric Auer escreveu: > Hi! > >>> [...] and that you can use Jack's UIDE driver wi

Re: [Freedos-devel] dir bug?

2008-05-14 Thread Alain M.
quot;DIR *." not "DIR *.*". I guess I'm wrong. > > Yes, you are wrong. ;-) Tested on MS-DOS 5.00 and 6.22. Can you be more specific? Alain - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft D

Re: [Freedos-devel] Willing to help

2008-05-13 Thread Alain M.
w FreeDOS utilities are just a DOS port of Linux utilities... Dosfsck is one example :) That is why a new port of those utilities would run very well. Unlike the old ports available that have too many limitations. Alain -

Re: [Freedos-devel] Willing to help

2008-05-13 Thread Alain M.
Hi Claude, just an idea came to my mind: you could make a freash port of those common Unix utilities... IMHO it would be most welcome. Thanks for volunteering, Alain Claude (Wayne) Smith escreveu: > I am an old time programmer - Programmed many things. > > At one time, I programme

Re: [Freedos-devel] Creating packages

2008-04-11 Thread Alain M.
etter then using a text viwer or an editor ?? NOTE: the discussion started about OpenWatcom manuals, and that is a biiig package anyway Alain - This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss

Re: [Freedos-devel] Creating packages

2008-04-10 Thread Alain M.
Robert Riebisch escreveu: > "Alain M." wrote: > >>>> 2. groff has an option to generate html output (not sure if djgpp's >>>> groff can do this, though.) So I suppose you could process the man >>>> files using groff's html output gene

Re: [Freedos-devel] Creating packages

2008-04-09 Thread Alain M.
t; pages. > > Please find a consensus now with Eric! :-) I vote for this one... *IF* it achieves a good readability!! Alain - This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this ye

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: freedos defrag methods (OT)

2008-03-19 Thread Alain M.
Interesting... What information is tored in the "FAT refered table" it needs 32 bits? Alain Imre Leber escreveu: > Here are the numbers for the data structures used by defrag, when calculated > for FAT32. > > Cluster movable map: 32 MB (fat size * 1 bit) > FAT refere

Re: [Freedos-devel] How to create alternative shell

2008-03-14 Thread Alain M.
the BAT approach solves a very nasty variable problem. just 2c, Alain Eric Auer escreveu: > Some added comments... > >> Secondly, if you know about BNF, lex and yacc > > Those are about parsing. In other words, they are about how > you decide what a STRING like "copy *.t

Re: [Freedos-devel] How to create alternative shell

2008-03-13 Thread Alain M.
ves" like a command com. That is common and it is used by many comanders, like NDN (Norton Commander clone) Alain - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Mouse Driver Development...

2008-01-05 Thread Alain M.
With what? > > AM> No discuttionon that matter because *have it working* so > AM> everything else is vain philosophy. > > If you not have problems with your set of apps doesn't mean that there > not exist apps, which will have problems with changed on the fly mo

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Mouse Driver Development...

2008-01-04 Thread Alain M.
Eric Auer escreveu: >> Alain, talking about disabling/enabling through command line >> completely, API doesn't have (yet?) functions to enable wheel support. ONLY for PS2 > Indeed. If you had a function to enable wheel support, it would > have to re-detect the m

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Mouse Driver Development...

2008-01-04 Thread Alain M.
is *very* few programs around that would use it > AM> anyway and it would be logical that *these* programs have instructions > AM> to activate it. > Alain, talking about disabling/enabling through command line > completely, API doesn't have (yet?) functions to enable whe

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Mouse Driver Development...

2008-01-03 Thread Alain M.
e BIOS to fetch mouse > data for PS2, so you cannot do byte by byte processing in > those more compatible versions. Only the less compatible but > more "forced wheel" version 2.0 could do that... Of course > nothing stops you from giving your PS2 patch to 2.0 and your

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Mouse Driver Development...

2008-01-03 Thread Alain M.
marks the middle button STATE, not the toggle, > you can always get the middle button "fixed" by pressing and > releasing it once to get the driver back in sync. But maybe > there are other protocols where for example "LR encodes a M > toggle" is used to get along wi

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Mouse Driver Development...

2008-01-03 Thread Alain M.
Arkady V.Belousov escreveu: > > EA> I must admit that the CuteMouse source code is ugly but on the > > Let me object this assertion. :) Hi Arkady, wellcome back... I look forward to many new discussions :) Alain PS:

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Mouse Driver Development...

2008-01-03 Thread Alain M.
First thing that come to mind: if you write free software, write it using free compiler. Alain Андрей Влащенко escreveu: > Hello everybody! CuteMouse project is dead; I can develop new mouse driver > for the FreeDOS project. This driver, named "FreeMouse", I started today. &

Re: [Freedos-devel] Keyboard problem

2007-10-18 Thread Alain M.
Confirmed: I just managed to boot this same machine in pure FreeDOS and the key works just fine. ScanCode is 0x73=115 The probelm is then with dosemu that is not forwarding the scancode. Forgive me for bothering everyone with a false problem, Alain chris evans escreveu: >> I just ins

[Freedos-devel] Keyboard problem

2007-10-18 Thread Alain M.
ading is working because I succeded modifying some character just for a test. Please Help, Alain - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log event

Re: [Freedos-devel] Porting FreeDOS to OLPC XO Laptops?

2007-09-26 Thread Alain M.
ther emu (qemu vmware M$...) and usualy compiling a big program is a little faster in DOSEMU then pure dos (thanks to Linux's cache) Alain - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsof

Re: [Freedos-devel] Porting FreeDOS to OLPC XO Laptops?

2007-09-26 Thread Alain M.
I remember that there was a project IIRC called L(i)DOS tha loaded a minimal Linux kernel, DOSEMU and one shell. IMHO this could be a way to go, but withou graphics, for graphics you would need X which would make things bigger. Alain xo user escreveu: > Hello > I plan to buy OLPC XO l

Re: [Freedos-devel] Porting the FAT filesystem (18)

2007-08-24 Thread Alain M.
Hi, I also found this very good FAT32 tutorial <http://www.pjrc.com/tech/8051/ide/fat32.html> Alain - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Sear

Re: [Freedos-devel] Porting the FAT filesystem (18)

2007-08-24 Thread Alain M.
<http://www.robs-projects.com/filelib.html> that looks very interesting. Could no find the licene, though. Alain Imre Leber escreveu: >> >> Hi guys, >> >> here I'm back on track. >> >> I've been pretty busy in the past two months so I couldn&#

Re: [Freedos-devel] Network boot disk

2007-06-20 Thread Alain M.
etect... Anyway, I just hope that someone has a copy of the other one to send me, a few more drivers will never be too much. Thanks, Alain Eric Auer escreveu: > Hi Alain, > >> That is why I asked... there is nothing more there to download... >> Thanks to M$ lawyers > > Hmmm? Do

Re: [Freedos-devel] Network boot disk - OK

2007-06-20 Thread Alain M.
Hi, I found something that works: http://www.netbootdisk.com/ And it works very well :) :) I will neet time to understand it and do what I want, but it is working, so it is all there... Alain >> Can anyone tell me where to fing "Bart's N

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