Re: [Freedos-devel] FDISK does not respect DLASortByDriveNo config of the kernel

2024-01-04 Thread Andrew Bird via Freedos-devel
On Thu, 4 Jan 2024 00:57:18 +0100 Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel wrote: > Hi, > > while hunting a FDISK  bug reported to me on Github regarding the order > of the drive letters FDISK assigns, I noted that the FreeDOS Kernel > actually supports different drive sorting algorithms via its >

Re: [Freedos-devel] dir issues

2023-07-23 Thread Andrew Bird via Freedos-devel
On Sun, 23 Jul 2023 09:51:24 +0800 Paul Edwards via Freedos-devel wrote: > Hi. > > My main interest is using Freedos+HX as a substitute for Windows 95. > > Recent unrelated (PDOS/386) advances mean that this goal is > now possibly within reach - I'm still looking and I will be reporting > any

Re: [Freedos-devel] Minor problems FreeDOS 1.3 (Spanish translation)

2023-04-09 Thread Andrew Bird via Freedos-devel
On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 07:17:56 -0400 (EDT) Steve Nickolas wrote: > On Sat, 8 Apr 2023, Andrew Bird via Freedos-devel wrote: > > > I think I can shorten the Spanish text, which fixes both the alignment > > problem and the lack of a space. I'll send a PR but I'd be grateful if

Re: [Freedos-devel] Minor problems FreeDOS 1.3 (Spanish translation)

2023-04-08 Thread Andrew Bird via Freedos-devel
Hi, On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 10:51:38 +0100 Andrew Bird via Freedos-devel wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 02:05:53 -0400 > Jerome Shidel wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > On Apr 6, 2023, at 5:44 PM, Andrew Bird via Freedos-devel > > > wrote: >

Re: [Freedos-devel] Minor problems FreeDOS 1.3 (Spanish translation)

2023-04-08 Thread Andrew Bird via Freedos-devel
Hi, On Sat, 8 Apr 2023 02:05:53 -0400 Jerome Shidel wrote: > Hi, > > > On Apr 6, 2023, at 5:44 PM, Andrew Bird via Freedos-devel > > wrote: > > > > Hi Aitor, Hi Wilhelm, > > Can you check if the package in FreeDOS 1.3 has the current translation &

Re: [Freedos-devel] Minor problems FreeDOS 1.3 (Spanish translation)

2023-04-06 Thread Andrew Bird via Freedos-devel
Hi Aitor, Hi Wilhelm, Can you check if the package in FreeDOS 1.3 has the current translation from fd-nls? The reason I updated in fd-nls was that the Spanish was garbled. At this time I also added the UTF-8 in the hope that that would be considered the master and the cp850/858 could be

Re: [Freedos-devel] Bonus/Devel CD

2022-10-25 Thread Andrew Bird via Freedos-devel
On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 16:54:12 -0500 Rugxulo wrote: > > > DOSEmu / DOSEmu2 > > Is this available in any repos? I'm very naive. Didn't the original > used to be in "multiverse"? I'm not sure it's there anymore. Dosemu 1.4 was dropped from Ubuntu just before 20.04 release, presumably that's

Re: [Freedos-devel] GitLab - problem with codepages

2022-08-02 Thread Andrew Bird via Freedos-devel
Hi Aitor, On Wed, 3 Aug 2022 00:37:29 +0200 Aitor Santamaría wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to adapt to work with GIT from the GitLab repository, and am > committing a couple of changes on FD-KEYB that I had ready. > > However, I have noticed a problem with the codepages. I try to avoid >

Re: [Freedos-devel] Now that 1.3 is released will there be a repos directory for it on www.ibiblio.org

2022-06-29 Thread Andrew Bird via Freedos-devel
On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 17:57:24 -0500 Jim Hall wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 5:54 PM Andrew Bird via Freedos-devel > wrote: > > > > Hello, > >Thanks for the good work you are doing here. Are you planning on > > populating the repos directory on 1.3 just li

[Freedos-devel] Now that 1.3 is released will there be a repos directory for it on www.ibiblio.org

2022-06-29 Thread Andrew Bird via Freedos-devel
Hello, Thanks for the good work you are doing here. Are you planning on populating the repos directory on 1.3 just like you did for 1.2 and 1.1? Over at dosemu2 we have scripts that can install the userspace from there, but as yet there are no zips for 1.3.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3]

2021-08-06 Thread Andrew Bird via Freedos-devel
Hi Aitor, On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 23:28:54 +0200 Aitor Santamaría wrote: > On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 at 21:11, Ralf Quint wrote: > > > > Insights from native english/american (English/American) people? > > > > > I learned this from my first English class in school, pretty much 50 > > years ago... ;-) >

Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3]

2021-08-06 Thread Andrew Bird via Freedos-devel
Hi Tom, On Fri, 6 Aug 2021 20:05:05 +0200 tom ehlert wrote: > Hi Robert, > > >> attaches the german resources to fdisk.exe, and makes german the > >> default language for fdisk.exe. > > > Minor note: AFAIK, correct spelling of "german" in English is > > "German" with a capital "G". Same for

Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3]

2021-08-01 Thread Andrew Bird via Freedos-devel
Hi Robert, > > Could you please specify the "some extra code to manage everything" in > bytes? Just curious. Is it ~500 or ~2,500? > I just did a quick compile of the kitten test program with gcc-ia16 and found that without upx packing the sizes were as follows: With kitten 11264 bytes

Re: [Freedos-devel] CHAR: echo ascii characters

2021-07-30 Thread Andrew Bird via Freedos-devel
Just for referance Alt-248 works on Dosemu2, but of course depending on your window manager it could be eaten before Dosemu2 sees it. ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Freedos-devel] What are the blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3?

2021-07-29 Thread Andrew Bird via Freedos-devel
On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 21:46:32 +0100 Andrew Bird via Freedos-devel wrote: > Hi Robert, > > On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 21:21:25 +0200 > Robert Riebisch wrote: > > > Hi Jim, > > > > > What are the blocking issues or bugs in FreeDOS 1.3 RC4? (What remains &

Re: [Freedos-devel] What are the blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3?

2021-07-29 Thread Andrew Bird via Freedos-devel
Hi Robert, On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 21:21:25 +0200 Robert Riebisch wrote: > Hi Jim, > > > What are the blocking issues or bugs in FreeDOS 1.3 RC4? (What remains > > to be updated or fixed from RC4?) > > This COUNTRY.SYS issue is still not fixed after 1.5 years, although I > provided a patch to

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS kernel distro and package repository update moments?

2021-05-03 Thread Andrew Bird via Freedos-devel
On Tue, 4 May 2021 00:59:19 +0800 TK Chia wrote: > Hello Tom, > > > even if anyone else could compile this: how exactly would you test > > this? > > [...] > > > I am not able to *immediatly*, or even *after some thought* see the problem. > > that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. it only means