Re: [Freedos-devel] working 720k format tool anybody? mirror speed okay?

2004-02-06 Thread Alain
hole :) Alain --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn

Re: [Freedos-devel] Please try new HIMEM64

2004-02-06 Thread Alain
. For some misterious reason, FreeDOS memeory manager is a very hot subject. IMHO you should just use good common sense (as you have been doing) ;-) Alain --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools

Re: [Freedos-devel] Executable compression

2004-02-12 Thread Alain
thank him very much ;-) Alain So, we are (OK, I am) in the trap of our own license! The GPL, instead of giving us freedom, takes it away from *us*, the *developers*! Isn't that absurd?! :-( --- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your L

Re: [spam score 5/10 -pobox] Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: GPL and other licenses

2004-02-12 Thread Alain
Luchezar Georgiev escreveu: Oh, if you or I could do that! Good dream, but too difficult to do :( So we're STUCK with the GPL! We cannot forget that if it were *not* GPL it would not have had so many people helping ;-) Alain --- SF.N

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re:Eric's idea to put "PG binaries online"

2004-02-17 Thread Alain
HI, I have a BIG question: What is PG? I just searched the site, followed every link and could not find any explanation, it only says how it can solve "many" PC problems, not even specifying which... If so many people in FreeDOS are interested, I would like to know about

Re: [Freedos-devel] Don't you think its better to use Msdos file names?

2004-02-20 Thread Alain
so. I also agree. This was discussed some time ago, but we could open the chapter again because FreeDOS is getting really mature now I would prefer a C:\DOS directory with all exacutables inside. Users will feel more confortable with it ;-)

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: UDMA as base?

2004-02-23 Thread Alain
up-to-date and more frequently updated is UUDMA? Am I correct or not? Both ways, the version to include in 'base' should be selected by LUCHO... Alain --- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps

Re: [Freedos-devel] Don't you think its better to use Msdos file names?

2004-02-24 Thread Alain
Jim Hall escreveu: DOS- all exe/com/sys files Definetly yes DOS\HELP - all help files but the help command should be in the DOS directory Alain --- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: file to diskette

2004-02-26 Thread Alain
Hi, This brings a very important question: If I create an image with FreeDOS's disckcopy, can I write it back with rawrite? Are they compatible? Alain Kenneth J. Davis escreveu: Hi Arkady! To write a diskimage to disk, simply use FreeDOS DISKCOPY. For Windows, use: http://www.ibiblio.or

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: "Undocumented DOS" by Andrew Schulmann

2004-03-03 Thread Alain
Luchezar Georgiev escreveu: [...]if anyone has this (or Pat's) book and wants to sell it to me, you're welcome ;-) I would by one too. anywhere even with a credit card. I have already searched but could not find it :( Alain --- T

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: "Undocumented DOS" by Andrew Schulmann

2004-03-03 Thread Alain
etchbook.co.uk/compare.do?search=0201570645 for £22.01 Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamen

[Freedos-devel] Version 1.0

2004-03-10 Thread Alain
working version od DOSFSCK should be included in version 1.0 to have a full set of tools. I don't believ that we will see a working and debugged version of either chkdsk or scandisk any time soon ... Now we have a good FORMAT, and even a EMM386 (will be working soon) :)

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 with VCPI for testing

2004-03-10 Thread Alain
it) 3) free as much as possible Low-Memory for comon programs (EMS takes 64k of UMB)(very often needed). Will this configuration work?? Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by

Re: [Freedos-devel] FREEDOS

2004-03-10 Thread Alain
Hi Amy, I am not the official mantainer, but I can assure you that FreeDOS works well with both Fat16 anf Fat32. As far as I know there is no knwn bug, and I am using it on same machines without problem for quite a while :) Alain PS: as you sent your address I am bcc'ing this to you

Re: [Freedos-devel] Version 1.0

2004-03-10 Thread Alain
ot have time to learn how to write a read/write absolute sector (it has to run on djgpp). Many people here could help on just this item ;-) IMHO a working version od DOSFSCK should be included in version 1.0 to have a full set of tools. Agreed. :) :) Alain ---

Re: [spam score 3/10 -pobox] Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 with VCPI for testing

2004-03-10 Thread Alain
ny places. This way if there is at least 4Mb, a little more in various tables is wellcome. Alain PS What program are usint to write you messages? my Thunderbird is behaving strangely in the answer screen and I have to break lines manually. --

Re: [spam score 3/10 -pobox] Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 with VCPI for testing

2004-03-10 Thread Alain
Michael Devore escreveu: At 07:34 PM 3/10/2004 -0300, Alain wrote: EMM386 will only allocate VCPI memory from the EMS memory pool. Making it automatically use the XMS memory pool would require backdoor interaction with HIMEM[64] and generally make things quite a bit more complex. Of course

[Freedos-devel] Message problem EudoraPro/Thunderbird on this list

2004-03-10 Thread Alain
h 3 to 4 lines. When I am answering the message, every paragraph opens in one single very long line. All other messages seem to work normaly. Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial present

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: Version 1.0

2004-03-10 Thread Alain
iting file by nonexisting file zaps file. I believe this is fixed Context memory has a memory leak. ?? looks bad Renaming dir with trailing \ makes it disappear. ?? looks bad Most other problems I (personaly) don't see as show stoppers Alain

Re: [Freedos-devel] re3: Version 1.0

2004-03-11 Thread Alain
it is really easy to make sure of what you are doing and never any friend reported a problem even with the crazy things that it can do. Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robb

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 with VCPI for testing

2004-03-11 Thread Alain
needed. VCPI and EMS memory are a shared pool. The 32K doesn't affect the DOS conventional memory footprint. Very nice... Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins,

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: Version 1.0

2004-03-11 Thread Alain
s not advancing... cheers, Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration

Re: [Freedos-devel] Executable compresison, part II

2004-03-18 Thread Alain
e may pack executables freely. NOT AT ALL. Following SCO example, if we do that, _every_ FreeDOS user could be sued. That would be catastrophic. Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Dani

Re: [Freedos-devel] UPX/UCL Hell

2004-03-22 Thread Alain
relinked by the user, then it can be distributed. So if the GPL part can be _replaced_ by one compiled by the user himself, it should be ok, but it seems that some people do not agree with me... :( Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 TODO list ready (but not yet posted)

2004-03-25 Thread Alain
Hi, I found this: chkdsk Ready 2003-10-6 I don't agree. If we have a fat32 kernel, and chkdsk is only fat16 we cannot use it :( There could be a reference to dosfsck, stating not compatible or something. Alain Aitor Santamaría Merino escreveu: I have committed most of the pe

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 TODO list ready (but not yet posted)

2004-03-25 Thread Alain
that functionality in mind. Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 TODO list ready (but not yet posted)

2004-03-25 Thread Alain
inserted by some mis-configured bios), and other gross errors. That is more or less what the Bios "should" do. I agree more with Eric than with Tom (see bellow). Alain Eric Auer escreveu: > HIMEM /TESTMEM:... is indeed not that useful. An exist-check might be > useful, but a check

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS 1.0 TODO list ready (but not yet posted)

2004-03-25 Thread Alain
l it FreeDOS 1.0 ... There is probably a patent to prevent us of it anyway :( Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn every

Re: [Freedos-devel] SCANDISK vs DOSFSCK

2004-03-29 Thread Alain
Aitor Santamari'a Merino escreveu: Luchezar Georgiev escribio': On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 20:08:32 -0300, Alain wrote: about fat32 testing: I believe a working DOSFSCK 2.10 just what is needed (not what is whished for). Actually, I agree! If Eric can say "FreeDOS SMARTDRV is LBAC

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: SCANDISK vs DOSFSCK

2004-03-30 Thread Alain
. Agreed ;-) Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad

[Freedos-devel] Kernel version

2004-03-31 Thread Alain
Johnson Lam escreveu: I've an idea, as the official MEM of FreeDOS, is it good to include the FreeCOM and Kernel information also? I got a bit annoy because when I want to check Kernel version I have to reboot, and I don't prefer to have another tool just check for Kernel and FreeCOM. I wrote som

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel version

2004-04-01 Thread Alain
numbers is not enough, there are too many variants that show only in the kernel description string string (like fat32) Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel version

2004-04-01 Thread Alain
ON_SEQ; There is also one other for DR-DOS and something (which I don't know) for Datalife-ROM-DOS. But specificaly for FreeDOS it is not enough because there are far too many versions with the same numbers :( Alain --- This SF.Net emai

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel version

2004-04-02 Thread Alain
ical?), I don't care about anything but FAT32/80386 kernels. But fortunately, Bart is not like me ;-) In fact my focus in on that too :) Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Dan

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Ralf Brown's interrupt list 62 will never be released?

2004-04-02 Thread Alain
P.S. Under what license was the RBIL released? What about an ABIL (Arkady Belousov's Interrupt List)? ;-) What about puting somwhere an APTR (Arkady's patchews to Rbil)? He just said in a message that hes has his own collection do you agree, Arka

Re: [Freedos-devel] HIMEM64 - KBC

2004-04-06 Thread Alain
tom ehlert escreveu: LG> send me a binary to test at lucho gawab com here are part of the headers, which I get forwarded from SF From: Luchezar Georgiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I seems that you have to hide you adress better ;

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS Beta9 RC5 has been released

2004-04-20 Thread Alain
v and internal cache) it is best _not_ to have too much buffers, no more that something between 10 and 20. In my case I limited to 10, but I remember som Windows problem if buffers were <20, but that could be in wfw3.11... Alain --- Thi

Re: [Freedos-devel] TDSK with EMM386 function 58h fix

2004-04-20 Thread Alain
r make it available immediately? I think, for bugfixes you should release immediately. :) I Agree Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo tec

[Freedos-devel] OT: Problem with C-compilers and #if

2004-04-22 Thread Alain
#if NET_ABP == 1 and NET_ABP is not defined? or even #if defined(NET_ABP) && NET_ABP == 1 this works in C, but would it work with compilers? I have in mind Borland C (3.1 and 4.52) and Watcom C thanks for any help :) Alain

Re: [Freedos-devel] OT: Problem with C-compilers and #if

2004-04-22 Thread Alain
tween the keyboard and the chair ;-) Alain --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Robotic Monkeys at ThinkGeek For a limited time only, get FREE Ground shipping on all orders of $35 or more. Hurry up and shop folks, this offe

[Freedos-devel] HIMEM64+EMM386

2004-04-22 Thread Alain
device driver was more dificult? (just curious ;-) ) Alain PS: I am really impressed, specially by the speed that you can turn up with fixes ;-) --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Robotic Monkeys at ThinkGeek For a limited time only, get

Re: [Freedos-devel] HIMEM64+EMM386

2004-04-22 Thread Alain
Hi Michael, I just Tested HIMEM64+EMM386 in a Texas (aka Acer) Notebook Extensa 502DX with a Pentium 266MHz with 64Mb Ram. And ecverything else M$DOS 7.10 More tests: allways does a cold-boot with memory test. Maybe you intend it to be soo, but it is non-standard behaviour. Alain

Re: [Freedos-devel] HIMEM64+EMM386

2004-04-22 Thread Alain
n the serial interface stops working, iirc the break detect. Alain Michael Devore escreveu: At 11:05 PM 4/22/2004 -0300, Alain wrote: Hi Michael, I just Tested HIMEM64+EMM386 in a Texas (aka Acer) Notebook Extensa 502DX with a Pentium 266MHz with 64Mb Ram. And ecverything else M$DOS 7.10 More

Re: [Freedos-devel] HIMEM64+EMM386

2004-04-25 Thread Alain
hat's true in either real or protected mode. Do you meen ther usualy Warm-Boot dos not do a reset? I allways understood that that the only thing that is skipped is the memory test, not the hardware reset... Alain --- This SF.net email

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS Beta9 RC5 has been released

2004-04-26 Thread Alain
Just one question: How much does MODE grow with Zlib? And one more: What about an install program that extracts needed information from a standard .zip file specific for that user's needs? Alain right now on updated ODIN bootdisk the CPI files take almost 600KB (10 * 60KB), which is n

Re: [Freedos-devel] Rainone offering Italian translation for FD

2004-04-28 Thread Alain
e any accents. I will some time soon release a new version. If anyone is interested, contact me ;-) Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracl

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: ANNOUNCE: Edit 0.81

2004-04-28 Thread Alain
good for bug reports. I believe that he is right ;=) Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Rainone offering Italian translation for FD

2004-04-28 Thread Alain
Aitor Santamaría Merino escreveu: Hi, Alain escribió: Eric Auer escreveu: Again, I suggest to ask Francesco to translate the FreeCOM shell message catalogue first. Hope that is a good idea... Good Idea. I have parttially fixed FreeCom in pt_BR (Brazil), but it is 2 or 3 versions late and

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCOM German translation fix

2004-04-29 Thread Alain
all the international binaies of FreeCom should be kept online somewhere. Most users are non-programers and I feel it can be alittle over-complicated for them. Who has an opinon about this? Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeCOM German translation fix

2004-04-29 Thread Alain
difficult, but a normal user could not do it. If someone makes a binary, at least it will be tested and useable. Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: hardware database

2004-05-04 Thread Alain
somewhere... Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&allo

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: [Freedos-cvs] kernel/kernel fattab.c,1.30,1.31 fatfs.c,1.66,1.67

2004-05-04 Thread Alain
eady lost Lucho for no more than this. Maybe things could get a bit more polite around here, or whatever it takes to keep good helpers from fleeing :( Alain PS: A very sad alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified

Re: [Freedos-devel] ANNOUNCE: FD APPEND 1.0

2004-05-21 Thread Alain
Hi Aitor, Can I use this append with MS-DOS or in Win98se dos-box? thanks for this, Alain Aitor Santamaría Merino escreveu: Hi all, I'd like to announce FreeDOS APPEND 1.0, a very basic APPEND that I have created. With this, I could run WordStar Express in a mixed directory installation,

Re: [Freedos-devel] ANNOUNCE: FD APPEND 1.0

2004-05-21 Thread Alain
ns... Am I right? Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&

Re: [Freedos-devel] ANNOUNCE: FD APPEND 5.0 v0.4

2004-06-18 Thread Alain
Is this append FreeDOS only or should it run in MS-DOS 7.10 or in a Win98 DOS-BOX? Alain Eduardo Casino escreveu: Hello All, This fixes a nasty bug, so upgrading is recommended for everyone. Most important changes from v0.1 (v0.2 announce got lost and v0.3 was never public): * Fix hang when

Re: [Freedos-devel] ANNOUNCE: FD APPEND 5.0 v0.4

2004-06-21 Thread Alain
w? This is probably a very usefull information ;-) Alain --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor p

Re: [Freedos-devel] bug in UMB support

2004-06-21 Thread Alain
as a fix for something that will never get used ;-) Alain --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, n

Re: [Freedos-devel] bug in UMB support

2004-06-21 Thread Alain
Arkady V.Belousov escreveu: Hi! 21-Июн-2004 18:37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alain) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: if the a000 block is ever merged into the lower memory area, interesting things might happen. A> I remember one for instance: it was possible with a MDA to have 704k A> lower memor

Re: [Freedos-devel] bug in UMB support

2004-06-22 Thread Alain
Arkady V.Belousov escreveu: ? _Now_ behavior of FD is same as with MS-DOS (ie. it not hangs when base memory size is more than 640k after loading some driver). I must agree that he has a point here ;-) --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Bla

Re: [Freedos-devel] PSP as storage area in a TSR

2004-06-22 Thread Alain
remember that the second half is save (command line buffer) Alain --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical exp

Re: [Freedos-devel] FORMAT 0.91p released

2004-07-06 Thread Alain
e -> A: [DEBUG] DOS 7+ detected, LOCKing drive. Could not lock logical drive (error 0x5)! Aborting. -- I believe this is very Windows specific, but if you are willing to try, I am willing to test Alain Eric Auer escreveu: Hi, I have improved FreeDOS FORMAT again: http://www

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 VCPI/DPMI Help / Question

2004-07-06 Thread Alain
Yes, I remember that Tom was not willing to add VCPI _himself_ and no-one volunteered for the job befor Michael. Oh! there was a lot of people saying that it _should_ be this way or the other, but noone volunteered to do it. TRUE. Alain tom ehlert escreveu: > be you have difficulties with

Re: [Freedos-devel] A000 to A001 possible change

2004-07-08 Thread Alain
those? Alain Michael Devore escreveu: At 06:56 AM 7/7/2004 +0200, tom ehlert wrote: Hello Michael, > Should EMM386 remove its current code which changes returned upper memory > block start addresses from A000 to A001? Is it safe? Is it sane? Is it > The Right Thing To Do or not? whe

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: EMM386 VCPI/DPMI Help / Question

2004-07-08 Thread Alain
ny years of experience and surely there will be exceptions, but I have seen only one in all this time. So this makes me VOTE for the RAM option ;-) thanks for your patience, Alain Michael Devore escreveu: At 07:00 PM 7/6/2004 +0200, Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: By the way, it's long since I

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: EMM386 VCPI/DPMI Help / Question

2004-07-08 Thread Alain
Hi Michael, I am 99.9% sure thar without RAM there is no UMB. I will check it tomorow. Alain Michael Devore escreveu: At 01:08 PM 7/8/2004 -0300, you wrote: Hi Michael, I would like to give you my opinion about the RAM option: I USE IT !!! And I have two reasons to use it: 1) it is easy and works

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: EMM386 VCPI/DPMI Help / Question

2004-07-08 Thread Alain
Bernd Blaauw escreveu: Alain schreef: 2) on NEW HW it works fine. In modern machines (mostly from PCI and P133 up) upper memory area is not encombered with anything. Before that QEMM's optimiser was the only way to make good use of UMB, but now any conservative auto setup will just se

Re: [Freedos-devel] GRC and FreeDOS

2004-07-08 Thread Alain
I believe this is a very typical representation of FreeDOS development. Some people are optimizing it while critical problems (for some people) remain unsolved. Gregory Pietsch escreveu: I got this in an e-mail that was also sent to Steffen Kaiser. I haven't included Roland's e-mail address per

Re: [Freedos-devel] GRC and FreeDOS

2004-07-11 Thread Alain
tom ehlert escreveu: Hello Alain, I believe this is a very typical representation of FreeDOS development. Some people are optimizing it while critical problems (for some people) remain unsolved. I don't think that this statement is valid for the last 3 years of kernel development. tom Not

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: best free C++ compiler

2004-07-22 Thread Alain
This makes devellopment even of FreeDOS utilities theoreticaly forbidden ... Alain PS: FWIU the later Borland museum compiler is BC1 that was released _after_ TC2, but for mistirious reasons I posted this many-many times and I fell into a some void. Well, now we know for sure that information is n

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: best free C++ compiler

2004-07-23 Thread Alain
with FreeDOS (in the CD version) and it should make life easyer. Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: best free C++ compiler

2004-07-23 Thread Alain
Arkady V.Belousov escreveu: Hi! 22-Июл-2004 21:24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alain) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A> PS: FWIU the later Borland museum compiler is BC1 that was released A> _after_ TC2, but for mistirious reasons I posted this many-many times A> and I fell into a some void. All

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Kernel 2035/2035a versus FreeCOM

2004-07-23 Thread Alain
hines and never detected a problem. Mostly I use BC31 sound() and nosound(), but I made my own too, theoreticaly equivalent and installed in over a hundred assorted machines. Does someone know how FreeCOM does this so that I can compare? Alain ---

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: best free C++ compiler

2004-07-25 Thread Alain
;memcmp". Probably, memcpy() contains same bug. Which one you mean? I mean mamcpy(), but I will check it it could possibly have the 3rd argument =0. thanks. Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Re: Kernel 2035/2035a versus FreeCOM

2004-07-28 Thread Alain
Hi Eric, I don't remember ever having problem with those sound() functions. In fact the time I thought I had, I made my own functions end the problem was NOT there ;-) Alain Eric Auer escreveu: Hi Alain! FreeCOM uses direct hardware access to beep in TAB completion, maybe THAT hangs

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Freeware CHKDSK with FAT32 support

2004-07-28 Thread Alain
I am VEEERY glad to hear this :))) Alain Eric Auer escreveu: Hi, I would like to comment that I am planning to improve the DOS port of dosfstools DOSFSCK 2.10 next month, which should give us an open source FAT12-FAT16-FAT32 filesystem checker This could be improved by wrapping everything into a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Ensemble Lite Redux

2004-07-29 Thread Alain
I sent a compiled beep program, but I have not seen my message in the list. did it get thrugh? Alain Eric Auer escreveu: Hi, I vote for Bernd's idea: Make ALTBOOT an ignored option - at it would enable the behaviour which FreeDOS EMM386 has as default anyway - and introduce a NOALTBOOT o

Re: [Freedos-devel] BEEP

2004-07-30 Thread Alain
Yes, FreeCOM has to work over serial lines. In embeded this is used. Alain Luchezar Georgiev escreveu: Hello Bart and Tom, Don't forget that FreeCOM is also supposed to be able to run over a serial line via CTTY. In that case the beep should happen on the terminal and not on the PC where Fr

Re: [Freedos-devel] 32RTM Bug Found, no good fix

2004-08-13 Thread Alain
OS is Beta, that is because things may change, this is as good an example as anyone can get. Alain Michael Devore escreveu: [Sorry, this is going to be long. I can't describe the problem properly otherwise. I'm cc'ing to devel since the problem isn't really in the kernel and a

[Freedos-devel] [Fwd: freedos and networking]

2004-08-19 Thread Alain
ver to Tom...) Alain PS, be wellcome to join the list ;-) -- Hi How are you? I have hit a brick wall with trying to get Lantastic to work on Freedos, We run a Point of sale on dos and now we have to switch to freedos, It's a very nice system, We use lantastic to communicate be

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Idea about Virtual PC compatibility / A20 handling

2004-08-24 Thread Alain
ne reason: I install it on any client machine and I don't expect it to do any optimization, but to provide _some_ UMB which ususaly makes a better system as a whole. Alain Michael Devore escreveu: At 08:02 PM 8/23/2004 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: "Conclusion": I wrote to the list, su

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Idea about Virtual PC compatibility / A20 handling

2004-08-24 Thread Alain
comment about that here some time ago, I remember some arguments that this is not so good any more and the latest ones with Serial-ATA and other things consume most of UMB :( Alain --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 options, was: Idea about Virtual PC compatibility / A20 handling

2004-08-24 Thread Alain
Michael Devore escreveu: At 04:30 PM 8/24/2004 -0300, Alain wrote: Michael Devore escreveu: But, (is there always one?) does the "RAM" option fall within "a compatibility problem"? I use it as default for one reason: I install it on any client machine and I don&#

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 options, was: Idea about Virtual PC compatibility / A20 handling

2004-08-24 Thread Alain
Michael Devore escreveu: At 05:45 PM 8/24/2004 -0300, Alain wrote: Michael Devore escreveu: I could map RAM to X=TEST which is about as safe as you can automatically get for UMB's, but that would appear to break MS compatibility for RAM option. What the heck does the documentation st

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 options, was: Idea about Virtual PC compatibility / A20 handling

2004-08-27 Thread Alain
is still a "???" :( May I suggest a table similar to this in the docs or even help? thanks for everything so far, Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 options, was: Idea about Virtual PC compatibility / A20 handling

2004-08-30 Thread Alain
;RAM" to enable them). NOUMB option is a good idea for a post 1.0 FreeDOS change. It certainly is a more intuitive option to change the FreeDOS UMB-on default condition. I agree that it is a goog option, but what about compatibility? Alain ---

Re: [Freedos-devel] Zurenava DOS extender

2004-09-08 Thread Alain
Hi Mechael, I agree with what you say below, but... why recomend dos4gw and not Causeway. - I understand that you would be much more familiar with it, and - dos4gw is not free ?? Alain Michael Devore escreveu: At 04:40 PM 9/4/2004 +0300, Luchezar Georgiev wrote: OK, ZRDX 0.47 is buggy. But why

Re: [Freedos-devel] Zurenava DOS extender

2004-09-09 Thread Alain
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Re: [Freedos-devel] Zurenava DOS extender

2004-09-10 Thread Alain
piler :) Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 13. Go here:

Re: [Freedos-devel] Zurenava DOS extender - and others

2004-09-16 Thread Alain
e and distribute. the "w" stands for "Watcom version" My licence explicitely ways that it is royalty-free for owners of WatcomC and it is limited to 32Mb. The full version is called WDOS/X and was US$150.00 last time I checked. Alain --

Re: [Freedos-devel] Zurenava DOS extender - and others

2004-09-17 Thread Alain
here only in January, so we can wait... Alain PS. Cont bet on rats. Serious... --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your proj

Re: [Freedos-devel] CHKDSK / DEFRAG / XCOPY to the rescue...

2004-09-22 Thread Alain
th on screen/file log) would be a big help and configurable SURFACE SCAN 'confidence' (be more pessimistic, but try hard to rescue data; Spinrite did that in in old days (Seagate STR238 could not live without it) Alain --- This SF.Net

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Re: I quit.

2004-09-23 Thread Alain
tom ehlert escreveu: seriously - would you use AnyDOS for your everyday work ? I do. For devellopent. But my clints do it 24/7... (machices are up to P4, graphics mode and database) do you think anyone else does ? Not very much ;-) Alain

Re: [Freedos-devel] Extracting filesystem from freeDOS

2004-10-21 Thread Alain
instal MS-CLIENT over a packet driver and was unable to find a driver (shim?) for that. If you can do it, please point me at the right direction thanks, Alain --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT

[Freedos-devel] NDIS + ODI + PKT

2004-10-21 Thread Alain
Does anyone have a copy of PDETHER version 1.05? (pde105.zip) all links I could find in Google are broken... tom ehlert escreveu: Hello Alain, [...] * Port DosEmu from Linux to SUN SOLARIS * boot dos, giving it a lot of memory (for the RAMDISK) * start XMSDSK * start MS LANMANAGER as server

Re: [Freedos-devel] [OT] A Sync program

2004-11-11 Thread Alain
misses one thing: a side by side view of averything that will be done. This is very important in the Notebook/desktop scenario. Alain Aitor Santamaría Merino escreveu: Hi there, Sorry for the OT, does anyone know of a good and free (to download, not necc. open source) Win32 program that can be

[Freedos-devel] 32bit debuggger

2004-12-07 Thread Alain
for any help, Alain Jim Hall escreveu: Thanks Eduardo! I've mirrored this release on ibiblio, and posted a news item on FreeDOS.org. Also, I've added your LSM to the Software List. -jh Eduardo Casino wrote: Hi all, at long last, this is the first version of FreeDOS NLSFUNC. Althou

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 bugs update

2004-12-08 Thread Alain
Hi Michael, you keep impressimg me :)) Thanks, very much Alain Michael Devore escreveu: Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads are the files emmx13b.zip, EMM386 mostly executable package, and emms13b.zip, EMM386 mostly source package

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: EMM386 bugs update

2004-12-08 Thread Alain
that *someone* is happy :)) Alain Michael Devore escreveu: At 11:27 AM 12/8/2004 +0100, Eric Auer wrote: > Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads are the files > emmx13b.zip, EMM386 mostly executable package, and emms13b.zip, EMM386 > mostly source package. > These version

Re: [Freedos-devel] Recommended C Compiler

2004-12-26 Thread Alain
it. So I recomend both BC31 and OW1.3 Alain Goh, Yong Kwang escreveu: Hi. I'm planning to do some DOS programming and I'm hoping that my DOS program will run on MS-DOS, Win9x and FreeDOS as well. So I'm looking for recommendation for a C compiler that works best in generating a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Recommended C Compiler

2004-12-26 Thread Alain
Arkady V.Belousov escreveu: Earlier, there was recommended Borland C++ 3.1. But it is very outdated (in sense of language), closed source, commercial, non-free and contains bugs, which will never fixed. I remember that you had a list of BC 3.1 bugs, could you send it to us, please? Alain

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