Re: [Freedos-devel] ANNOUNCE: Edit 0.82

2004-10-24 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 23-Окт-2004 20:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Cosentino) wrote to "FreeDOS Devel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: JC> 4) As of right now, /H DOES NOT WORK. It does not work, has not worked and JC> unless someone wants to write an algorithm to determine the maximum number JC> of lines

Re: [Freedos-devel] HIMEM/EMM386 compressed EXEs and roadmap

2004-09-28 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 27-Сен-2004 00:56 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ha, I'm stupid. It was compressed with Diet, but UNP undid it. UNP looks like a pretty slick tool, particularly for something that's almost ten years old. SN

Re: [Freedos-devel] FORMAT problem

2004-08-27 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Johnson Lam wrote: I work for PC hardware since IBM PC was born. I learn too much program incompatible to some kind of hardware (especially Japan PC-9801 series). So being a programmer is tough. Ah yeah... I've heard of them. There's actually, I think, a customized version of FreeDOS for the PC98

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

2004-08-13 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Alain wrote: Hi Michael, Thanks very much for the debugging... IMHO this is a case of needed "bug for bug" compatibility :( I say needed because there are _A_LOT_ of Borland programs around. It would not be needed if it happened only in an obscure rarely used program. I can even argue that FreeDO

Re: [Freedos-devel] ODIN update comments.

2004-08-12 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Bernd Blaauw wrote: Hello Steve, others, I'd like some comments on files which should be added, or which are outdated, to the ODIN (One Disk INstaller) bootdisk. Per suggestion of Eric I've uploaded a list of all present files. http://fdos.org/ripcord/beta9-final/addon/odinlist.txt and the disk-i

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

2004-07-21 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Koder wrote: Only TC 2.01 and TC++ 1.02 are free. And OpenWatcom! Quite big but seems to be quite powerful as well. OpenWatcom, of course!! How could I forget! I just passed there a moth ago, thinking it was a nice thing to open up Watcom C++. But does it also do 16bit exe's? As far as I know, it

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

2004-07-21 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Koder wrote: Hi, After a few years of being idle in the DOS-scene, I am looking to writing some new apps. I am using Borland's TC 2.01 because that has been released for free. Here are some questions for you dev's: 1) If I were to write a FreeDOS-targetted application on FreeDOS, which C++ compiler

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

2004-07-06 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: Eric Auer escribió: This is also the main problem now: Arkady wants RAM= and he wants an HIGHSCAN change, as far as I understand. I have had longish discussions with Aitor about what exactly those options should do, so I recommend that Aitor tells us some more details

[Freedos-devel] Latest results of limited Win3.10 testing under FreeDOS (kernel 2034)

2004-07-04 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
My limited testing of Windows 3.10 under FreeDOS ODIN 0.7 has had rather impressive results. Last time I tested Windows 3 on FreeDOS, version 3.1 wouldn't load completely at all, and 3.0 was highly crashprone even with programs like WINFILE. Now, Windows 3.10 Setup completed flawlessly, and

Re: [Freedos-devel] generatin binary files by TLINK

2004-06-19 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! Some years ago Bart shows, how to generate binary files (file with any ORG, not only 100h) by TLINK. Unfortunately, I lost those description. Does someone knows how to do this? Explicitly provide an extension other than .COM for the output file and supply the /t s

[OT] Re: [Freedos-devel] debug 0.95f and 0.98 'Unexpected single-step interrupt'

2004-05-05 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 4-Май-2004 20:30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Vojta) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: PV> Under MS-DOS 2.1 with fd-debug, you're back at the DEBUG prompt. MS-DOS 2.1? Where you find such anciency? :) I once took pieces of PC-DOS 2.10, Tandy MS-DOS 2.11 and Osborne MS-DOS

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

2004-05-04 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
tom ehlert wrote: Hello Arkady, + wasfree = 0; + if (cluster == FREE) +wasfree = 1; wasfree = cluster == FREE; well - we know that gifted russian programmers can read this cryptic stuff fluently. mortal programmers like me prefer a more readable style. tom "wasfree =

Re: [Freedos-devel] updates

2004-04-25 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
david lowe wrote: First a few updates... My considering converting to FreeDOS was because of some recent problems with my system, some of which were problems in Windoze. Eventually (over the course of this weekend) I had to reformat my hard drive. Now that that's over with, I have a few more qu

Re: [Freedos-devel] HIMEM64+EMM386

2004-04-25 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Michael Devore wrote: Long long ago, I remember my now-recycled Epson dot-matrix printer resetting on cold boots and seems > like it maybe it didn't reset on warm boots, but I > could be remembering that wrong. All my dot matrix printers have always reset on warm boot. -uso. -

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: FreeDOS Version 1.0 reviewed

2004-04-24 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Michael Devore wrote: At 01:52 AM 4/25/2004 +0400, Arkady V.Belousovwrote: Hi! 24-áÐÒ-2004 23:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: EA> EMM386 RAM= is well enough implemented if you make it an alias to X= if EA> you ask me. Wrong. X= will limit the range checked, same

Re: [Freedos-devel] Upgrading?

2004-04-21 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
david lowe wrote: I want to know if whether I can install from a floppy or if I have to burn the files on a CD & go from there. A floppy install is possible, I think. If there's no CD image, there is at least the ODIN, and you can manually install that... I'm sure by the final B9 there will

Re: [Freedos-devel] MEM? How about "Central Point's MI"

2004-04-01 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Johnson Lam wrote: 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. "ver /r" does sh

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

2004-03-30 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Bernd Blaauw wrote: who knows if MS scandisk runs on <386 ? that's our specification after all. DOS 6.2x's scandisk runs on a Tandy 1000 HX, that's an 8086. -uso. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial p

Re: [Freedos-devel] UDMA

2004-03-28 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Luchezar Georgiev wrote: It's good to have so experienced programmers contribute to FreeDOS. One thing could prevent them from doing so though - the possibility of being "flamed off" in our forums. Not everyone can withstand the ingratitude, disrespect and quarrelsomeness that SOMETIMES pour fr

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

2004-03-25 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: Hi, Alain has introduced in this mail something interesting that was introduced in other posts too: the spec mentions a kernel compatible to MS-DOS 3.30, 3.31 actually (which first did >32 MB partitions) :P Alain escribió: some others like Win 3.11 compat should

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

2004-03-18 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
tom ehlert wrote: unlikely. changing the license (from GPL2 to GPL3) requires written consent from all contributors ;) Most GPL'd programs have this statement: This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published b

Re: [Freedos-devel] mKEYB 0.40

2004-03-18 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
tom ehlert wrote: AFAIR, the Borland museum compilers have a license similar to 'free for personal use. if you want to distribute compiled programs, you have to buy a license' Someone asked what they meant and they said it simply meant you can't redistribute the compiler. (This was on their

Re: [Freedos-devel] Don't we want at least to see each others' photos?

2004-03-08 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Luchezar Georgiev wrote: I got your photo, sailormoon otaku :-) Is this is some mixed English-Japanese language? :) Kind of an inside joke. :P (He downloaded a Sailor Moon special I subtitled) -uso. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM

Re: [Freedos-devel] Don't we want at least to see each others' photos?

2004-03-07 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Luchezar Georgiev wrote: Hello, Thanks to Jim, Johnson and Eric for creating the information pages about the FreeDOS people - http://johnson.tmfc.net/freedos (by the way, this page seems incompatible with Opera, so I recommend linking to http://johnson.tmfc.net/freedos/contributors/frame.html