Re: [Freedos-devel] dosfsck, chkdsk, whatever and doslfn41

2012-01-11 Thread Decheng Fan
y). I think, as long file name entries are stored as directory entries with "label", "hidden", "system" attribute, they are not likely to be damaged by a chkdsk program if the disk logical structure is in good condition. On the

Re: [Freedos-devel] [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1

2011-12-18 Thread Decheng Fan
_ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > Just a buzz, I'm trying out the previous FreeDOS 1.1 beta CD. I haven't got it a full stretched run yet.

Re: [Freedos-devel] pretty soon no more floppy controllers, only usb floppies

2011-10-12 Thread Decheng Fan
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > Op 12-10-2011 19:38, Tom Ehlert schreef: > >> Good to know. If only I could find floppies somewhere, they're neither > >> made nor sold anymore I think. > > go to www.amazon.com /www.amazon.de and search for 'diskette' > > Good to know, no id

Re: [Freedos-devel] How does the boot sector know the partition start

2011-09-25 Thread Decheng Fan
Hi, On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > As far as I remember, the MS DOS 7.x / Windows 9x boot > sectors did use it and it is in fact intentional there. > > > In a boot sector, you could attempt to use that information; if so, > > verifying that the byte at address ds:si contai

Re: [Freedos-devel] How does the boot sector know the partition start

2011-09-21 Thread Decheng Fan
Hi, On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 4:43 AM, François Revol wrote: > Le 21/09/2011 21:25, François Revol a écrit : > > > > IIRC there is a convention that the MBR partition info (somewhere in the > > sector buffer it just read) that the MBR handed control to is passed > > over to the partition boot secto

Re: [Freedos-devel] How does the boot sector know the partition start

2011-09-20 Thread Decheng Fan
Hi, Thank you for so detailed explanation! This helps me a lot! I'll take time to read it more carefully and search through the Web for clearer understanding. Thanks again. Best regards, Robbie On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:30 PM, C. Masloch wrote: > Hi, > > This doesn't seem to have received any

Re: [Freedos-devel] e-mail of September 19

2011-09-20 Thread Decheng Fan
Right. But I know Rugxulo is expert in this area, so I'd like to have a try. :-P On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:23 PM, jasse...@itelefonica.com.br < jasse...@itelefonica.com.br> wrote: > Decheng Fan wrote: > > >Yes, I still want to do this. To try run in VM and if > >it

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

2011-09-18 Thread Decheng Fan
Hi Rugxulo, On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > Vista and 7 let you resize the NTFS partition. With XP you may have to > use (external) GParted (on a Linux liveCD), which is a little tricker. > Then ideally you'd maybe (?) use EasyBCD to configure the Windows > bootloader (a

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

2011-09-18 Thread Decheng Fan
Box. Thank you for your idea. Best regards, Robbie (Decheng) Fan On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 3:13 AM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > 2011/9/18 Aitor Santamaría : > > > > 2011/9/13 Jim Hall : > >> In DOS, it would be awesome to have true multitasking > > > > Pick the

[Freedos-devel] How does the boot sector know the partition start

2011-09-17 Thread Decheng Fan
nd best regards, Robbie (Decheng) Fan -- BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.

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

2011-09-14 Thread Decheng Fan
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Travis Siegel wrote: > Another thing I wonder, is why it is that nobody has built anything > that allows executing of multiple oses on a single computer, using > one cpu core for each os, thereby allowing each os to run natively on > it's own cpu, thus eliminating

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

2011-09-14 Thread Decheng Fan
de, a minimal Linux + DOSEmu sounds the best solution to me, because although it requires a Linux, as we have modern machines with ample RAM (for DOS and a minimal Linux, at least) and ample hard disk space, and these two are ready stuff

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

2011-09-10 Thread Decheng Fan
ich means the thread (or process, as in Windows 3.1 no thread support exists) should call some system API to give up CPU explicitly, otherwise the thread would never be switched. 7-Zip with the 7z format seems to be utilizing multiple cores. I remember once I use "7z a -t7z -mx=1" it uses

Re: [Freedos-devel] If I want to compile applications in FreeDOS, which compiler should I use?

2011-09-09 Thread Decheng Fan
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > Op 4-9-2011 13:06, Decheng Fan schreef: > > > I've also compiled FreeCOM, but there seems to be some warning messages, > > although I still get the final COMMAND.COM <http://command.com/> file. > > The w

Re: [Freedos-devel] If I want to compile applications in FreeDOS, which compiler should I use?

2011-09-08 Thread Decheng Fan
TODAY! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev > ___ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > Hi dos386, Thanks for these interestin

Re: [Freedos-devel] ANSI C (C89) locale.h -- DOS compiler support?

2011-09-04 Thread Decheng Fan
sion of MS-DOS 6.22), but I don't know how to use them in programs. Is locale.h functional in Microsoft compilers? Best regards, Robbie (Decheng) Fan -- Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a

Re: [Freedos-devel] If I want to compile applications in FreeDOS, which compiler should I use?

2011-09-04 Thread Decheng Fan
gt; > some contribution as long as I can. > > I think you will enjoy DOS then. It gives you flexibility to write > user mode apps (with some limitations compared to bigger OS) while > giving you the chance to create small software which has a direct > feeling with the hardware because

Re: [Freedos-devel] If I want to compile applications in FreeDOS, which compiler should I use?

2011-08-21 Thread Decheng Fan
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 9:46 PM, dos386 wrote: > Welcome :-) > > Kernel AFAIK compiles with OW 1.9 + NASM (what versions ???). > > Tools are OW or BC or NASM or JAWASM. > > (BTW: is this documented somewhere ... easy to find and up-to-date ? Wiki > ?) > > For new code you can use any compiler, th

Re: [Freedos-devel] If I want to compile applications in FreeDOS, which compiler should I use?

2011-08-21 Thread Decheng Fan
write > user mode apps (with some limitations compared to bigger OS) while > giving you the chance to create small software which has a direct > feeling with the hardware because the OS layer is less heavy there > which in turn makes it interesting to look at and work with the DOS > k

[Freedos-devel] If I want to compile applications in FreeDOS, which compiler should I use?

2011-08-21 Thread Decheng Fan
nce my skills in operating systems so I'd like to learn about FreeDOS first, while also do some contribution as long as I can. Thanks and best regards, Robbie (Decheng) Fan (aka R.Mosaic) -- Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! an