Re: [Freedos-devel] Append

2024-02-17 Thread Eduardo Casino via Freedos-devel
Hi Jerome, I'm the autor of Append. I'll have a look at it, although it's been a long time... Thanks, Eduardo El sáb., 17 feb. 2024 22:51, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel < freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> escribió: > Hi All, > > Append received a “critical” merge request in the GitLab Arc

Re: [Freedos-devel] No simple cpu identification program returning an error code as an answer?

2022-08-26 Thread Eduardo Casino
Hi Paul, I've just put this together with the cpu identification code I use in vmsmount. Tested only in a 386, I don't have an 8086 emulator at hand. https://github.com/eduardocasino/cpucheck.git Cheers, Eduardo El vie, 26 ago 2022 a las 20:26, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel (< freedos-devel@l

Re: [Freedos-devel] Template for writing DOS Device Drivers in Open Watcom C

2022-08-25 Thread Eduardo Casino
El mié., 24 ago. 2022 21:37, Jim Hall escribió: If you're up for it, I think this would be a *great* article to write > for the wiki. If you don't have a FreeDOS wiki account, let me know > and I can make an account for you. > Hi Jim, An article for the wiki sounds good. I'm now busy with the n

[Freedos-devel] Template for writing DOS Device Drivers in Open Watcom C

2022-08-23 Thread Eduardo Casino
Hi, I needed to implement a DOS device driver for something I'm working on related to vmsmount. While searching for information, all the examples I found were developed in assembler. Although I have done things in assembler before, I find it much more satisfying to program in C and much, much easi

Re: [Freedos-devel] XFTOOLS - exFAT access a la LTOOLS

2015-10-03 Thread Eduardo Casino
El 3/10/2015 8:57 a. m., "Georg Potthast" escribió: > To use the standard DOS interface for device drivers one would have to write > a block device driver for DOS that provides support for ext2/ext3/ext4. This > is usually done in Assembler to save memory space. This way DOS would e.g. > provide a

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

2015-09-27 Thread Eduardo Casino
Hi Geraldo, > does freedos have any vfs-equivalent interface? which files are involved? > is Pat's book a valid/current reference to freedos kernel? > which books would you suggest me to read? > what is the easiest way to setup the compiler? > > i mean, should i setup a freedos vm with with openwa

Re: [Freedos-devel] potential issues with freedos in virtual environments

2011-08-10 Thread Eduardo Casino
2011/8/10 Eric Auer : > Even VMWare has open source mouse and X drivers around: > > www.vmware.com/resources/opensource/projects.html#c53533 > > vmmouse.c is "only" 1350 lines, the graphics driver has > circa 250 kilobytes of sources in their 11.0.3 version, > you can download the sources as zip/tg

Re: [Freedos-devel] confused by NLS-settings

2011-07-15 Thread Eduardo Casino
> So in short, I do not know what broke int 2f.122b and 122d > or whether it was removed deliberately. The changelog says: Definitely, they are not implemented. > - the unstable branch supports country.sys in kernel 2037 > > - the stable branch supports country.sys in kernel 2039 and 2040 Suppo

Re: [Freedos-devel] confused by NLS-settings

2011-07-15 Thread Eduardo Casino
2011/7/15 Rugxulo : > Eek. Um, anybody want to tell us why 2039 has it but 2040 doesn't?? > Certainly lacking NLSFUNC support can't be good, can it?  :-/ 2039 was part of the UNSTABLE series, along with 2035 and 2037 and had a lot of experimental features, but also had the unstable tag for a reas

[Freedos-devel] Anybody working on a CIFS/SMB redirector?

2011-07-15 Thread Eduardo Casino
Hi, Anybody working on that already? I'm about to start making one myself. Of course, any tips or ideas will be more than welcome :) Eduardo. -- AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries

Re: [Freedos-devel] confused by NLS-settings

2011-07-14 Thread Eduardo Casino
Hi Bernd, 2011/7/13 Bernd Blaauw : > 4) Why's NLSFUNC 0.4 not throwing errorlevel 1 or so when already installed? Because it is harmless. Is it really necessary to treat that case in a different manner than a successful installation? If it is, I'll look into that, it is trivial to modify. > 6)

Re: [Freedos-devel] Updated country.sys file

2009-03-27 Thread Eduardo Casino Almao
Eric Auer escribió: > Rugxulo wondered whether you have plans to add support for > Esperanto... You can contact him at rugxulo at gmail :-). > You're kidding, aren't you? > Another interesting point is, of course: Would you want to > help porting the country sys handling code of freedos 2037 > t

Re: [Freedos-devel] Updated country.sys file

2009-03-18 Thread Eduardo Casino Almao
Jim Hall escribió: > The zip file seems to be dated December 22. Is this correct? The files > are from 2007: > > Archive: country.zip > Length Date TimeName > >126689 10-06-07 07:20 country.asm > 30250 10-06-07 07:20 country.sys > ---

[Freedos-devel] Updated country.sys file

2009-03-07 Thread Eduardo Casino Almao
Hi All, I have an updated COUNTRY.SYS version at http://eduardocasino.es/freedos/country Latest changes are support for Belarus and codepages 866, 808, 849, 1131 and 30033 for Bulgaria, thanks to info from Radi (RDPK7) and Henrique Peron. The complete list of supported countries and codepages

Re: [Freedos-devel] 8086/XT compatibility issues for FreeDOS 1.0

2006-10-17 Thread Eduardo Casino
> append.exe (but does not affect fc.exe, find.com) It shouldn't, unless you use "append /x" Eduardo. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated

Re: [Freedos-devel] 8086/XT compatibility issues for FreeDOS 1.0

2006-10-17 Thread Eduardo Casino
> append.exe (but does not affect fc.exe, find.com) It shouldn't, unless you use "append /x" Eduardo. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated

[Freedos-devel] Announce: NLSFUNC 0.4 (critical bug fix)

2006-08-22 Thread Eduardo Casino
Hi All, I'd like to announce version 0.4 of NLSFUNC. It fixes a critical bug that can cause memory corruption, so upgrade is mandatory. You can download it from http://perso.wanadoo.es/babelfish/nlsfunc/nlsfn04x.zip (binary) and http://perso.wanadoo.es/babelfish/nlsfunc/nlsfn04s.zip (source) Re

Re: [Freedos-devel] Announce: Nlsfunc 0.3

2006-06-30 Thread Eduardo Casino
I should have warned that it needs latest development kernel (1.1.37w) to work. -Mensaje original- De: "Eduardo Casino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Enviado: 30/06/06 23:45 Asunto: [Freedos-devel] Announce: Nlsfunc 0.3 Hello All, I'd

[Freedos-devel] Announce: Nlsfunc 0.3

2006-06-30 Thread Eduardo Casino
Hello All, I'd like to announce the availability of NLSFUNC version 0.3. It now uses generic IOCTL calls for changing device codepages, so it should be ready for FreeDOS 1.0. This version also works with current versions of DISPLAY (uses its int 2f interface if DISPLAY reports version < 1.0) D

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCOM feature list outdated / wrong?

2006-05-31 Thread Eduardo Casino
"Aitor Santamaría" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know the current status of NLSFUNC, but I think it is now > using the same interface as MODE, which is good: for the final, the > same kind of Generic IOCTL calls should be issued to ALL character > device drivers (and not through the DISPLAY

[Freedos-devel] ANNOUNCE: Nlsfunc

2004-12-04 Thread Eduardo Casino
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Re: [Freedos-devel] COUNTRY.SYS

2004-12-03 Thread Eduardo Casino
El vie, 03-12-2004 a las 00:37 -0300, Jose Antonio Senna escribió: > I could not find a COUNTRY subdirectory at > www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files > nor a COUNTRY.DOC or COUNTRY.TXT in the kernel files. www.ibiblio.org/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/kernel/country Latest UNST

Re: [Freedos-devel] New COUNTRY.SYS

2004-11-04 Thread Eduardo Casino
El jue, 04-11-2004 a las 10:40, tom ehlert escribió: > Hello Eduardo, > > > Without a country= line, you have the kernel hardcoded info, which is > > equivalent to US, codepage 437. Date format is MM-DD-, though. > in all kernels, you can have > country=49 (german) > > to have date format

Re: [Freedos-devel] New COUNTRY.SYS

2004-11-03 Thread Eduardo Casino
El mié, 03-11-2004 a las 20:27, Bernd Blaauw escribió: > country=country_code, codepage_code,filepath > > all 3 are required? I need a default selection for FreeDOS. > I was thinking about country=xxx,858,c:\fdos\bin\country.sys, but I > don't know what to enter for xxx. > Preferably something wh

Re: [Freedos-devel] New COUNTRY.SYS

2004-11-03 Thread Eduardo Casino
El mié, 03-11-2004 a las 17:59, Bernd Blaauw escribió: > Jim already suggested a LSM file for COUNTRY.SYS, > but shouldn't it instead be added to the kernel package, just like SYS? > This country.sys is kernel-specific (FreeDOS-only), and first read by > kernel. It is not FreeDOS-only. It is in M

Re: [Freedos-devel] New COUNTRY.SYS

2004-11-03 Thread Eduardo Casino
El mié, 03-11-2004 a las 17:22, Jim Hall escribió: > Could you email me an LSM for this release of COUNTRY? I just want to > make sure that the LSM that gets posted on FreeDOS.org is the correct > one. Or should I re-use the LSM from the kernel (and change the title)? Hi Jim, This COUNTRY fi

Re: [Freedos-devel] New COUNTRY.SYS

2004-11-03 Thread Eduardo Casino
El mié, 03-11-2004 a las 16:48, Bernd Blaauw escribió: > I was planning on uploading this to fdos.org (www.fdos.org/kernel), but > it seems like that server is currently down. Please, don't do it yet. I've just post it to give people a chance to have a look at it. In fact, I've discovered that i

[Freedos-devel] New COUNTRY.SYS

2004-11-02 Thread Eduardo Casino
Hi All, I've uploaded a new version of COUNTRY.ASM to http://perso.wanadoo.es/samelborp/country.zip It is the complete file and not a patch to UNSTABLE's country.asm, as it seems that it is no longer mantained (Lucho?) and changes are so many that the patch is bigger than the file itself. I've

[Freedos-devel] COUNTRY.SYS: Proposal for new country codes

2004-09-20 Thread Eduardo Casino
Hello All, While adding support for more countries into COUNTRY.SYS and living as I am in a country with four official languages, I've faced some problems trying to fit the multilingual stuff into the DOS NLS schema. Those problems became more evident when adding the "YESNO" table extension, but t

[Freedos-devel] ANNOUNCE: FD APPEND 5.0 v0.5

2004-07-06 Thread Eduardo Casino
Hello All, Changes from v0.4: * Back to EXE format (Arkady, me). Arkady warned that it could cause problems when loading high. It only adds 32 bytes to the file size. * Fixed a bug when releasing the environment. Now it does it properly. * Updated help to make clear that APPEND become

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

2004-06-22 Thread Eduardo Casino
Hello All, Can anybody tell me if there is something that prevents using the _whole_ PSP as an storage area in a TSR? I mean within the TSR extension itself, I know the limitations when executing a program. I'm specifically interested in FreeDOS particularities, in case they differ form MS-DOS.

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

2004-06-19 Thread Eduardo Casino
Hi! El sáb, 19-06-2004 a las 14:30, Aitor Santamaría Merino escribió: > I have done a couple of testings with /X:ON and DIR > > FD-APPEND + NT/CMD.EXE is NOT affected > MS-APPEND/NT + FreeCOM is AFFECTED > > Thus my guess is that it is, I would say, COMMAND.COM who has to care > about this

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

2004-06-19 Thread Eduardo Casino
Hi, Bernd! El sáb, 19-06-2004 a las 14:50, Bernd Blaauw escribió: > I'll retest FreeCOM behaviour, but already experienced when A: and B: are > equal that FreeCOM asks for disk change about 3 times, when using APPEND > B:\;B:\DRIVER /X:ON > > hopefully this is now gone, but we'll see (if I fin

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

2004-06-19 Thread Eduardo Casino
Hi, El sáb, 19-06-2004 a las 10:19, Arkady V.Belousov escribió: > This is reason, why I wrote COM2EXE and convert CTMOUSE.COM into .EXE. > This adds only 32 bytes of header, so, overhead is small, but safety and > convenience for user is much increased. You may get my COM2EXE from > CuteMous

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

2004-06-19 Thread Eduardo Casino
Hi, Arkady, El sáb, 19-06-2004 a las 08:49, Arkady V.Belousov escribió: > EC> * APPEND is now a COM file (smaller), as suggested by Eric, but > EC> it keeps the EXE extension. > > Is it .COM file renamed to .EXE or this is .EXE file with header, as in > .COM? If first, then I against this

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

2004-06-18 Thread Eduardo Casino
El vie, 18-06-2004 a las 23:12, Alain escribió: > Is this append FreeDOS only or should it run in MS-DOS 7.10 or in a > Win98 DOS-BOX? FD only. It is untested under MS-DOS 7.10 or W98 DOS-Box and it breaks DIR under MS-DOS 6.22 when using /X[:ON]. Anyway, can you please test it under MS-DOS 7 an

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

2004-06-18 Thread Eduardo Casino
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 switches appear before the path in the command line. Thanks to Bernd Blaauw for reporting this bug. * Make it compi

Re: MUX-AE (Re: [Freedos-devel] ANNOUNCE: FD APPEND 1.0)

2004-06-02 Thread Eduardo Casino
> > I tried to ask MS DOS 6 about enlightment and discovered the very problem > > I had last time, too, I meddled with MUX-AE: Regardless of how I change > > either the command or argument buffer, DOS 6 always reacts with "drive not > > ready". > > > > Hmmm... I've encountered no problems wit

[Freedos-devel] ANNOUNCE: New FD APPEND 5.0

2004-06-02 Thread Eduardo Casino
Hi everybody, I'm glad to announce FreeDOS APPEND 5.0, which aims to be a fully functional MS APPEND replacement for the FreeDOS project. Although this is the first release of this program, I have named it Version 5.0 because it implements the full MS APPEND 5.0 API, and also to avoid confusion w

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

2004-05-25 Thread Eduardo Casino
Steffen Kaiser wrote: > > intercepted and executed by this hook. FreeCOM supports this mecanism, > > although in a slightly different (read "incompatible") way than > > COMMAND.COM. > > Hello Eduardo, > > what has to be changed in order to make FreeCOM compatible? Hi Steffen, FreeCOM blank-pads

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

2004-05-22 Thread Eduardo Casino Almao
Aitor wrote: >(b) If you check RBIL, Int 2F/AX=AE01h it says that "APPEND hooks this >call", and not just APPEND USES this call (as could be used to SET >APPEND= in APPEND /E, for example). I haven't hooked this call, I don't >know exactly why to hook this. MS Append hooks thi