Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

2009-05-13 Thread Imre Leber
- Original Message - > - tridos (multitasking, not a freedos packet but interesting, licence > unclear (free?), > http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.TripleDOS) The license for this is GNU GPL. Anyway i wouldn't put my time in this one. I don't think mu

Re: [Freedos-devel] Zet PC platform

2009-05-13 Thread Imre Leber
> Zeus' website incorrectly lists FreeDOS version 1.1 as released. ;-) Is't that the one on the knoppix live cd? Imre > > Robert Riebisch > -- > BTTR Software > http://www.bttr-software.de/ > > -- >

Re: [Freedos-devel] Zet PC platform

2009-05-13 Thread Imre Leber
Well I think it is cool to have an open source PC. Now just waiting for it to become printable, maybe powered by an open source magnetic motor? ;) Imre - Original Message - From: "Robert Riebisch" To: Cc: Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 9:11 PM Subject: [Freedos-devel] Zet PC platform

Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

2009-05-13 Thread Imre Leber
> AFAIR this has been done; this is called 'linux' ;) yup > > Tom -- The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to

Re: [Freedos-devel] Projects in need of a maintainer?

2009-05-13 Thread Imre Leber
> whatever 'this' technique is - DeskView was stable multi tasking for > DOS. So this is at least possible. > Yes the rumored to once have existed deskview/X. Was that not the reason for the bankrupcy of quarterdeck? Anyway windows 95 was stable too. Point remaining is that tridos tries to inte

[Freedos-devel] [anounce] chkdsk 0.9.2

2009-05-14 Thread Imre Leber
I am hereby releasing a new version of chkdsk. This version fixes bug http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2462084&group_id=5109&atid=105109-- The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances!

[Freedos-devel] [anounce] chkdsk 0.9.2

2009-05-14 Thread Imre Leber
I am hereby releasing a new version of chkdsk. This version fixes bug http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2462084&group_id=5109&atid=105109-- The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances!

[Freedos-devel] [anounce] chkdsk 0.9.2

2009-05-14 Thread Imre Leber
Hi, I am hereby releasing a new version of chkdsk. This version fixes bug: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2462084&group_id=5109&atid=105109 You can download it from: http://users.telenet.be/imre/FreeDOS/ckdsk092.zip Imre

[Freedos-devel] [anounce] defrag 1.3.2

2009-05-15 Thread Imre Leber
Hi, I am hereby releasing a new version of defrag. This version fixes bug: http://www.freedos.org/bugzilla/cgi-bin/show_bug.cgi?id=1964 You can download it from: http://users.telenet.be/imre/FreeDOS/dfrag132.zip Imre -

Re: [Freedos-devel] [anounce] defrag 1.3.2

2009-05-16 Thread Imre Leber
Fixed - Original Message - From: Jim Michaels To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 6:26 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] [anounce] defrag 1.3.2 I tried it twice. this file appears to be corrupted. please fix. Jim Michaels >From: I

Re: [Freedos-devel] test

2009-05-19 Thread Imre Leber
:) - Original Message - From: "dos386" To: ; ; Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 6:49 AM Subject: [Freedos-devel] test > as Eric suggested :-D > > -- > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out

[Freedos-devel] Fw: Fw: chkdsk checked

2009-05-23 Thread Imre Leber
I think more people might be interested ;) Imre - Original Message - From: "Imre Leber" To: "Eric Auer" Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 7:38 PM Subject: Re: Fw: chkdsk checked > > - Original Message - > From: "Eric Auer" > To: &

Re: [Freedos-devel] New RxDOS memory subsystem source code

2009-06-18 Thread Imre Leber
You are right, But we do have a long history of using this list for pointing out DOS related software. - Original Message - From: "Pat Villani" To: Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 2:24 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] New RxDOS memory subsystem source code > Actually, replying here woul

Re: [Freedos-devel] [anounce] defrag 1.3.2

2009-07-03 Thread Imre Leber
dos/defrag/dfrag132.zip Regards, Aitor 2009/5/16 Imre Leber : > Fixed > > - Original Message - > From: Jim Michaels > To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 6:26 AM > Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] [anounce] defrag 1.3.2 > I tried

Re: [Freedos-devel] [anounce] chkdsk 0.9.2

2009-07-03 Thread Imre Leber
iblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/chkdsk/ckdsk092.zip > > Regards, > Aitor > > 2009/5/14 Imre Leber : >> Hi, >> >> I am hereby releasing a new version of chkdsk. This version fixes bug: >> >> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid

Re: [Freedos-devel] Standardized development tools

2010-08-21 Thread Imre Leber
I think you need to define what exactly you mean with the project. Do you mean only the kernel and command.com, or including all the utilities. I think moving to openwatcom is a noble goal, but it would be a huge undertaking, I think. - Original Message - From: Pat Villani To: fr

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

2012-01-15 Thread imre . leber
chkdsk fully supports long file names. It even has checks to ensure the long file names are correct. It does not however support FAT32. - Originele e-mail - Van: "Rugxulo" Aan: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Verzonden: Zondag 8 januari 2012 20:21:53 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlijn

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kickstarter project for FreeDOS 2.0

2015-01-01 Thread imre . leber
Not that I all of a sudden want to jump the bandwagon, but is he planning on hiring current/past FreeDOS developers at least? - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: "Jim Hall" Aan: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Verzonden: Woensdag 31 december 2014 17:12:57 Onderwerp: [Freedos-devel]

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kickstarter project for FreeDOS 2.0

2015-01-01 Thread imre . leber
Just to put in my own two cents. The lastest happening thing is all about open source hardware. Open source operating systems are so 2000. Intel has recently released a number of x86 based boards. With a simple operating system like DOS you could do all sorts of hardware things directly, wit

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kickstarter project for FreeDOS 2.0

2015-01-02 Thread imre . leber
And then why not emphasize the real benefits of DOS since like for ever? Direct access to hardware and real time behaviour (linux is not real time) - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: "imre leber" Aan: "Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers."

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 and 2.0 roadmap discussion

2015-01-08 Thread imre . leber
But emails keep people interested long enough for code to be written. - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: "Tom Ehlert" Aan: "Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers." Verzonden: Dinsdag 6 januari 2015 18:40:43 Onderwerp: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 and 2.0 roadmap disc

Re: [Freedos-devel] Multi user system

2015-01-26 Thread imre . leber
https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~horie/intx.bas - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: "JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU" Aan: "Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers." Verzonden: Vrijdag 23 januari 2015 12:01:02 Onderwerp: [Freedos-devel] Multi user system Unfortunately,to my dismay,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Instituting a vetting process for FreeDOS software

2015-01-28 Thread imre . leber
Ok, this is starting to sound like a real archeology project. But QuickBASIC always produced .exe files. Also, some of the earliest computer like sinclair QL really only had BASIC. There used to be a BASIC compiler in the PC/XT called ROM-BASIC, which would do BASIC. And of course the very fir

Re: [Freedos-devel] Clock

2015-01-30 Thread imre . leber
Well, you could be notified when lunch break is over. - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: "Michael Brutman" Aan: "Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers." Verzonden: Vrijdag 30 januari 2015 06:24:01 Onderwerp: Re: [Freedos-devel] Clock Let's think about this critic

Re: [Freedos-devel] 16 bit fat 32 chkdsk and defrag!

2015-02-05 Thread Imre Leber
- defrag does FAT32 (you have to select the right defragmentation method from the menu) - chkdsk does not do FAT32, you have to use DOSFSCK for FAT32. There is not enough memory in 16 bit to check the disk in a reasonable amout of time sparky4 schreef op 15/01/2015 om 17:24: > I noticed they do

[Freedos-devel] Fwd: 16 bit fat 32 chkdsk and defrag!

2015-02-05 Thread imre . leber
- Doorgestuurd bericht - Van: "imre leber" Aan: "Roberto Perotti" Verzonden: Donderdag 5 februari 2015 20:46:48 Onderwerp: Re: [Freedos-devel] 16 bit fat 32 chkdsk and defrag! There are significant different ways of defragmenting. In the old days if fat12/16 de

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS compatibility issue according to Asus

2015-03-23 Thread imre . leber
FreeDOS is open source, if Asus wants to do something with FreeDOS, they can do so regardless. - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: "Teddy T." Aan: "Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers." Verzonden: Zondag 22 maart 2015 21:53:51 Onderwerp: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeD

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS compatibility issue according to Asus

2015-03-23 Thread imre . leber
I mean if they sell you a computer and they choose to use FreeDOS for this, it's there concern to make sure it runs correctly. If they build a product around FreeDOS, they have to make sure the FreeDOS runs correctly. - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: "imre leber"

Re: [Freedos-devel] FW: FreeDOS compatibility issue according to Asus

2015-03-26 Thread imre . leber
It's either technically broken or bad marketing. The provided function clearly does not work. It's up to Asus to make sure such an option, if they provide it, works. And if they want to technically incorporate FreeDOS then they have to make sure it works around the limitations of what they are

Re: [Freedos-devel] FW: FreeDOS compatibility issue according to Asus

2015-03-26 Thread imre . leber
I wonder if it's even physically possible to sue FreeDOS because it doesn't exist as a legal organization. - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: "Teddy T." Aan: "Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers." Verzonden: Donderdag 26 maart 2015 07:08:15 Onderwerp: Re: [Fre

Re: [Freedos-devel] FW: FreeDOS compatibility issue according to Asus

2015-03-30 Thread imre . leber
I was just installing my new computer with ASUS motherboard and I came across the following page: http://www.manualslib.com/manual/806097/Asus-B85-Pro-Gamer.html?page=40#manual . Unless I am reading this correctly, the FreeDOS is on the USB flash drive (which you have to obtain seperately) an

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos os

2015-04-13 Thread imre . leber
No that would actually be a superb idea. I am not going to go into the details of why running mono on FreeDOS is pure genious. I started work on it years ago, but not going to start that again. - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: "Steve Nickolas" Aan: "Technical discussion and questions for

Re: [Freedos-devel] multiThreaded kernel

2015-05-12 Thread imre . leber
no, it is not However there are some multithreading kernels that run on it, like: http://www.erickengelke.com/ertos/ - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: "jo van montfort1" Aan: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Verzonden: Dinsdag 12 mei 2015 15:51:06 Onderwerp: [Freedos-devel] mult

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS (ODIN) and 8086 compatibility

2015-05-26 Thread imre . leber
defrag requires a VGA screen to use the user interface There is an option to run it from the command line - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: "Mateusz Viste" Aan: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Verzonden: Zondag 24 mei 2015 11:29:32 Onderwerp: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS (ODIN) and 8086 com

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS (ODIN) and 8086 compatibility

2015-05-26 Thread imre . leber
C++ has become a very obscure language, that is generally not used very often anymore. Objective C is much bigger then C++ now. - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: "Steve Nickolas" Aan: "Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers." Verzonden: Dinsdag 26 mei 2015 17:25:54 On

[Freedos-devel] Totaly weird DOSemu behavior

2004-01-30 Thread Imre Leber
Hi, When testing defrag in DOSemu, it seems that i am constantly getting a middle mouse button press, (from the int33h handler) even if i don't press on the mouse. That is why the menu is so shaky (I don't get the same behavior in MSDOS). Does anybody have ever seen similar behavior? You woul

RE: [Freedos-devel] dosfsck 2.10 for DOS

2004-02-04 Thread Imre Leber
Hi, Tested Imre Leber's dosfsck(8) 2.10 port for DOS (at http://users.pandora.be/imre/FreeDOS/) and it works for me on most disks, except on diskettes (hangs up until the diskette is removed, then says "Read 32 bytes at n:No Error") and on large FAT32 drives (says "Seek to nnn:No

Re: [Freedos-devel] Horrible Joke on FreeDOS.org??

2006-06-30 Thread Imre Leber
And here I was just putting in my 5 cents: First let me state that I am very sorry that I have been unable to fully do my work for the FreeDOS project. After Aitor posted the 1.0 TODO list it kind of took out the fun of this project. When I started working on the project in 1999 there wasn't a

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS

2006-06-30 Thread Imre Leber
Well according my projects then. The bugs in defrag are posted by me and can be discarded: Defrag is never going to have FAT32 support. This is just not possible in such a small amount of RAM. If anybody remembers what's up with the interface, you can remind me now. As far as I can say it wor

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS

2006-07-01 Thread Imre Leber
I guess not. You see, in order to support that memory the DOS extender has to create a swap file. And cwsdpmi puts that file on the exact same disk that is being defragmented. The results may be quite disastrous! Imre >-Original Message- >From: Blair Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

[Freedos-devel] [anounce] defrag beta 0.9

2006-07-03 Thread Imre Leber
indication that this is not currently supported. You can find it at: http://users.telenet.be/imre/FreeDOS/defrag09.zip I tested and I am quite sure that this is a stable release and a candidate for version 1. Imre Leber Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security?

[Freedos-devel] [announce] chkdsk 0.9

2006-07-03 Thread Imre Leber
Hi, I am hereby releasing a new version of chkdsk. This version now has a status indicator in surface scan mode and does not stop the checking when a suspicious media descriptor was found. You can find it at: http://users.telenet.be/imre/FreeDOS/chkdsk09.zip This release seems to be stable so

Re: [Freedos-devel] Why 1.0 (was: Horrible Joke)

2006-07-04 Thread Imre Leber
>-Original Message- >From: Lyrical Nanoha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, July 4, 2006 08:44 AM >To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Why 1.0 (was: Horrible Joke) > >On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, HCL BA wrote: > >> The version number is not important to me

Re: [Freedos-devel] New installer

2006-07-06 Thread Imre Leber
Good toolkit, very portable, no threading. At the time, I told Victor how he needed to port the code, and when I came back after the weekend the work is done. Never tested wether it worked with the FLTK though. Imre >-Original Message- >From: Pat Villani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent

Re: [Freedos-devel] Things about the upcoming distro

2006-07-06 Thread Imre Leber
The most used TUI for DOS is of course turbo vision. And then of course there are the reusable controls from the defrag interface. This code was build from the ground up to implement the interfaces for the FreeDOS project. Imre >-Original Message- >From: Jim Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

[Freedos-devel] [slighly OT] version 1

2006-07-06 Thread Imre Leber
>From homesteading the noosphere: This rule underlies the fact that open-source software tends to stay in beta for a long time, and not get even a 1.0 version number until the developers are very sure it will not hand out a lot of nasty surprises. In the closed-source world, Version 1.0 means `

Re: [Freedos-devel] Contributions towards FreeDOS 1.0

2006-07-10 Thread Imre Leber
Thanks, I'll look more into the diskcopy translation tonight. Question: >From diskcopy.it reserved to condition for example yes, no, quit 0.0:S 0.1:S It seems you are using S for both yes and no. Should this not be: 0.0:S 0.1:N Imre >-Original Message- >From: Roberto

Re: [Freedos-devel] the 14th

2006-07-15 Thread Imre Leber
>-Original Message- >From: Blair Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 08:49 AM >To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.11 minor update, VDS fix > >Just in time :-) (15 min left here) > Defrag still has the warning messag

Re: [Freedos-devel] 2nd FreeDOS 1.0 Testing release

2006-07-26 Thread Imre Leber
Isn't it more logical to change ctmouse then? Imre >-Original Message- >From: Michael Devore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 05:35 AM >To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: [Freedos-devel] 2nd FreeDOS 1.0 Testing release > >At 09:48 PM 7/25/2006 +020

[Freedos-devel] fdisk

2006-07-27 Thread Imre Leber
I was just installing freedos. Seems that fdisk doesn't allow you to change between FAT16 and FAT32. When you choose FAT32 support on an 800MB image, it will create a FAT32 partition automatically. Maybe there should be a message indicating this? Imre PS. it stops halfway the installation, b

[Freedos-devel] The kitten bug

2006-07-29 Thread Imre Leber
I was just using deltree and it gave me all fancy characters on the screen. I think that it is due to a bug in kitten that has existed as long as kitten exists. For version 1, we should either fix kitten or recompile all programs with catgets which doesn't have that problem (that's why i use c

[Freedos-devel] QEmu problems

2006-07-29 Thread Imre Leber
Am i the only one or does QEMU realy suck. Been trying since this morning to do a simple compile and it simply does not work in qemu. Anyway, just tried to use deltree in bochs and there was no problem there. Imre - Take

[Freedos-devel] repackaging files

2006-07-29 Thread Imre Leber
Here's a nice one if you repackage files: There's are two files in the defrag sources: rdwrsect.c rdwrsect_linux.c Now the rdwrsect_linux.c was stored in the distribution zip for defrag. This file actually belongs to the linux version of chkdsk. Imre

Re: [Freedos-devel] repackaging files

2006-07-29 Thread Imre Leber
>-Original Message- >From: Imre Leber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 06:56 PM >To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: [Freedos-devel] repackaging files > >Here's a nice one if you repackage files: > >There'

Re: [Freedos-devel] QEmu problems

2006-07-30 Thread Imre Leber
>-Original Message- >From: Andreas Bollhalder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 10:38 PM >To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] QEmu problems > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >Imre Leb

Re: [Freedos-devel] New version 2.21 EMM386 release, inc. Qemu/FDAPM fixes, maybe

2006-07-31 Thread Imre Leber
>If someone knows an easy way to get Qemu and FreeDOS IMG files working >under XP without having to burn/rip ISO's a bunch, flip floppies, or other >major fooling around, let me know and I'll try it out here. I am >incredibly lazy and need streamlined setups for testing, i.e. updating the >IM

Re: [Freedos-devel] New version 2.21 EMM386 release, inc. Qemu/FDAPM fixes, maybe

2006-07-31 Thread Imre Leber
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA013937/editdisk/index_e.html is a tool to read/write images for qemu (use vmware format on hd images) >-Original Message- >From: Imre Leber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 10:06 AM >To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.

Re: [Freedos-devel] DeSmet C compiler available under GPL

2006-07-31 Thread Imre Leber
Cool, the only commercial quality C compiler suite for 16 bit DOS under GNU GPL. Said that by now, we already have better, watcom C. Otherwise it may have some importance. Still we should mirror it. Imre >-Original Message- >From: Wesley Parish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday,

Re: [Freedos-devel] DeSmet C compiler available under GPL

2006-07-31 Thread Imre Leber
Good compiler, it even supports overlays. Does openwatcom support overlays? Maybe we should keep this around. Imre >-Original Message- >From: Wesley Parish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 10:28 AM >To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: [Freedos-devel]

Re: [Freedos-devel] DeSmet C compiler available under GPL

2006-07-31 Thread Imre Leber
Yes, I agree that openwatcom is better. And that we had all the compiler discussions anybody can stand years ago. But still it would have been nice to have this kind of compiler when I was searching for one before I started writing on FreeDOS. I think this compiler might even be better than the

[Freedos-devel] defrag changes

2006-08-01 Thread Imre Leber
By now, you are all just wandering what happened to defrag version 1. Well, I am working on defrag. There will be two versions out shortly. One will be the version 1, stable. Same speed, no FAT support. A rather flat in your face screen problem with large disks will be fixed in this release tho

[Freedos-devel] website

2006-08-02 Thread Imre Leber
Is the website supposed to remain looking like it is. It doesn't look very nice :-( Imre - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your op

[Freedos-devel] [anounce] defrag version 1.0

2006-08-03 Thread Imre Leber
I am hereby releasing version 1 of defrag. It has been tested in depth on FAT12 and FAT16. This release features: - no prompt to say that this is a beta version - the drive map is now correctly updated in "unfragment files only" - you can now stop "crunch only" mode with the F3 key You can find

Re: [Freedos-devel] [anounce] defrag version 1.0

2006-08-03 Thread Imre Leber
The URL seems a bit off, it should be: http://users.telenet.be/imre/FreeDOS/DEFRAG10.ZIP Imre >-Original Message- >From: Imre Leber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, August 3, 2006 08:06 PM >To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: [Freedos-devel] [

[Freedos-devel] defrag

2006-08-08 Thread Imre Leber
I have made all my changes to support FAT32 in defrag. Just needs to be tested. But I see that my previous version (1.0) was not picked up. Is there any specific reason? I could understand if it is not going to be in FreeDOS 1, altough it is highly recommended. Imre ---

Re: [Freedos-devel] defrag

2006-08-08 Thread Imre Leber
t get to adding it at that time (I wanted >to make sure that things didn't fail horrilbly like they did for the >previous version). > >On 8/8/06, Imre Leber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have made all my changes to support FAT32 in defrag. Just needs to be >> tes

Re: [Freedos-devel] defrag

2006-08-08 Thread Imre Leber
doesn't work, but because this is rather standard procedure before you use tools like this. And again, I didn't want to make an unsollicitated commercial, I just couldn't find it back at ibiblio. >Thanks > Flo > Imre >On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 09:15:59 +0200, Imre Leber <

Re: [Freedos-devel] FD 1.0 destroies hard disc with FAT32

2006-08-09 Thread Imre Leber
>-Original Message- >From: Florian Xaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2006 11:59 AM >To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: [Freedos-devel] FD 1.0 destroies hard disc with FAT32 > >Any idea? Maybe somebody could test

[Freedos-devel] redirector

2006-08-11 Thread Imre Leber
The other day I was searching for information regarding the DOS network redirector and it seems that I could not find any information on the web. Then again I found the following in the DOSEmu documentation: "The var 'running_DosC' is set by the DosC kernel and is used to handle some things

[Freedos-devel] defrag on FAT32

2006-08-13 Thread Imre Leber
I guess it would probably be wise to only allow "unfragment files only" method on FAT32. Even if you could get 1 Gb an hour for a defragmentation. It would still take 160 hours to defragment a 160Gb drive. I don't think anyone could wait 10 days to defragment his computer. Imre ---

[Freedos-devel] diskcopy on bochs

2006-08-17 Thread Imre Leber
It seems that bximage.exe of bochs does not fill in the boot sector correctly. FreeDOS seems to be able to cope with this. But some tools, especially mine, defrag, chkdsk, diskcopy can't handle it and diskcopy crashes. So when creating an image for the emulator, you should first format it and th

[Freedos-devel] dpmi and dosfsck

2006-08-18 Thread Imre Leber
I've just been reading up on DPMI, seems that there are some functions that prohibit a dpmi host from writing to a swap file. >From the specification "Four functions are provided that allow an application to notify the DPMI host that memory is or is not eligible for paging to disk: 0600H Lock Li

Re: [Freedos-devel] [OT] MS-DOS image

2006-08-18 Thread Imre Leber
>"Fully considering" as in "I'll sue you to death like SCO"? For as far as I understood it, wether or not SCO won the case, they actually had a very good point. Linus Torvalds should have refused code from IBM. Just like we should refuse code from Digital Research or Novell if they ever come

Re: [Freedos-devel] [OT] MS-DOS image

2006-08-19 Thread Imre Leber
>-Original Message- >From: Andre Tertling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2006 09:28 AM >To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] [OT] MS-DOS image > >Imre Leber wrote: >>> "Fully considering&quo

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compatibility EMM386/HIMEM 2.25 New Release

2006-08-22 Thread Imre Leber
>-Original Message- >From: Arkady V.Belousov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 09:06 PM >To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Compatibility EMM386/HIMEM 2.25 New Release > >Hi! > >20-Авг-2006 13:56 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) w

Re: [Freedos-devel] [bug] mem.exe crashes on 8086

2006-08-23 Thread Imre Leber
Base list still shows: MEM 1.7 Bart Oldeman Jim should decide wether to take the 1.9 from that other side. Was it ever contributed? Maybe the author should be contacted. Imre >-Original Message- >From: Bernd Blaauw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 05:16 PM

Re: [Freedos-devel] TRUENAME doesn't remove trailing '\'

2006-08-25 Thread Imre Leber
Are you sure? Anyway if this is true, then there is also a bug in move, since that requires the FreeDOS behaviour. Imre >-Original Message- >From: Diego Rodriguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 08:13 PM >To: 'freedos-devel' >Subject: [Freedos-devel] TRUENAME

Re: [Freedos-devel] announce: freedos mem 1.10

2006-08-25 Thread Imre Leber
No cr/lf in readme. Should be converted from linux style line endings. Imre >-Original Message- >From: Eric Auer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 01:00 AM >To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: [Freedos-devel] announce: freedos mem 1.10 > > >Hi all, > >

[Freedos-devel] Nice FAT32 problems

2006-08-26 Thread Imre Leber
I have created a FAT32 partition with fdisk, then formatted the disk using format to FAT32. Then I used fdisk to change my drive to FAT16. I use format to format my drive to FAT16. Format still insists on FAT32 and formats the drive to FAT32. Now how do i change my file system to FAT16? Imr

Re: [Freedos-devel] New MOVE release

2006-08-29 Thread Imre Leber
>-Original Message- >From: Diego Rodriguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 05:56 PM >To: 'freedos-user' >Cc: 'freedos-devel' >Subject: [Freedos-devel] New MOVE release > >Hi! > >I want to announce that there is a new version of MOVE (3.3a) that >fixes the followin

[Freedos-devel] [anounce] defrag version 1.1

2006-08-29 Thread Imre Leber
Hi, I am hereby finally releasing the new version of defrag. The speed has significantly increased on FAT16, by a factor 10 or 15 times faster. FAT32 is now also supported. Altough it runs depressingly slow. On FAT32 the only recommended method is thus "unfragment files only", which still run

[Freedos-devel] defrag problems

2006-08-31 Thread Imre Leber
Hi, It seems that the latest version of defrag is not fully stable. 90% of the defragmentation code has been rewritten and it seems that even after 2 months of testing it doesn't work correctly. I will look into it. Make a new release and then make it more like the windows nt defragmentation A

[Freedos-devel] [anounce] defrag 1.2

2006-08-31 Thread Imre Leber
Hi, I am hereby releasing a new version of defrag, defrag version 1.2. This solves the bug found by Fritz Mueller, regarding disk corruption in the root directory. Version 1.1 should hereby no longer be used, as it corrupts disk data. You can find it at: http://users.telenet.be/imre/FreeDOS/D

Re: [Freedos-devel] Surprise!

2006-09-03 Thread Imre Leber
This is indeed joyfull news. We worked long and hard to make this day happen. So I'd would like to thank everybody who was involved. I think you would agree that it supercedes everybody's wildest imagination of what FreeDOS should have become. I realy hope this project can survive this event

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS

2006-09-04 Thread Imre Leber
>-Original Message- >From: Jim Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, September 5, 2006 03:54 AM >To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS "1.0" in the news > >Just in case anyone is interested in the press coverage this is getting: > >Heise Online

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS

2006-09-05 Thread Imre Leber
Are you always this positive? This is a time of celebration. Now is the time to bring FreeDOS into the 21st century. And to discover what FreeDOS can realy do today. If you have not been following recent events. There are already plans unfolding, and there are people who are indeed eager to kn

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS

2006-09-05 Thread Imre Leber
>-Original Message- >From: Jim Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, September 5, 2006 03:54 AM >To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS "1.0" in the news > >Just in case anyone is interested in the press coverage this is getting: > >Heise Online

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS

2006-09-05 Thread Imre Leber
Well i am still kind of im(/de)pressed that FreeDOS chkdsk has some 30 lines of code and that a chkdsk in reactos takes only about 100 lines. Imre >-Original Message- >From: Eric Auer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, September 5, 2006 12:56 PM >To: freedos-devel@lists.sour

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS

2006-09-05 Thread Imre Leber
Well all the FAT manipulation code is in ufat.dll. But this is shared by all the disk utilities. This is something we do not have. About the size it seems that I type a 0 too much: Global Summary (635 kB, actual: 490 kB) --- Number of lines of code:

[Freedos-devel] The show must go on

2006-09-05 Thread Imre Leber
Or at least the project. Here are the changes to defrag you can expect from me in the forseeable future. I will move it to openwatcom. This way it can be compiled for 386. This will probably double the speed, since everything is internally computed as 32bit. Anyway I believe that all of FreeDOS

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS

2006-09-05 Thread Imre Leber
s opinion: you cannot write a complete, good >> CHKDSK code in that few lines. >> >> Aitor >> >> >> 2006/9/5, Imre Leber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > Well i am still kind of im(/de)pressed that FreeDOS chkdsk has some 30 >> lines of code and that a chkd

Re: [Freedos-devel] The show must go on

2006-09-06 Thread Imre Leber
But then time could be better spent making all openwatcom file functions work for long file names. Like djgpp does. Imre >-Original Message- >From: Blair Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, September 6, 2006 03:58 AM >To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: R

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS web site

2006-09-07 Thread Imre Leber
>-Original Message- >From: Lyrical Nanoha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, September 7, 2006 06:47 PM >To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS web site > >On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Jim Hall wrote: > >> We're still getting hit pretty hard on the web

Re: [Freedos-devel] [Freedos-user] Announcing FreeDOS on some newsgroups

2006-09-09 Thread Imre Leber
>-Original Message- >From: Aitor Santamar?a [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Saturday, September 9, 2006 11:45 AM >To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] [Freedos-user] Announcing FreeDOS on some >newsgroups > >Incidentaly, when reading this message on the g

Re: [Freedos-devel] [Freedos-user] Announcing FreeDOS on some newsgroups

2006-09-09 Thread Imre Leber
>-Original Message- >From: Imre Leber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Saturday, September 9, 2006 12:04 PM >To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] [Freedos-user] Announcing FreeDOS on some >newsgroups > > >>-Origi

Re: [Freedos-devel] [anounce] defrag 1.2

2006-09-09 Thread Imre Leber
nother window pops up sometimes, it says, that there is not enough memory. > >Bye > Flo > >On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:30:30 +0200, Jim Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Imre Leber wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am hereby releasing a new version o

Re: [Freedos-devel] [anounce] defrag 1.2

2006-09-09 Thread Imre Leber
xed a problem on FAT32 that may be the one you are talking about. But this only occurs with "unfragment files only". Other then that it seams to work, also on 15Gb. Can you tell me which other method(s) you are talking about? Imre >Bye > Flo > >On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 2

Re: [Freedos-devel] [anounce] defrag 1.2

2006-09-09 Thread Imre Leber
>-Original Message- >From: Florian Xaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Saturday, September 9, 2006 06:43 PM >To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] [anounce] defrag 1.2 > >Hi, > >> I have fixed a problem on FAT32 that may be the one you are talking >> ab

Re: [Freedos-devel] [anounce] defrag 1.2

2006-09-10 Thread Imre Leber
;Unfragment Files only". > On my download area you can find a version that should work: http://users.telenet.be/imre/FreeDOS/DFRAG121.ZIP Imre >Bye > Flo > >On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 20:58:17 +0200, Imre Leber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > >> >>&

Re: [Freedos-devel] [anounce] defrag 1.2

2006-09-10 Thread Imre Leber
>-Original Message- >From: Jim Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 06:42 PM >To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] [anounce] defrag 1.2 > >Imre Leber wrote: >>> -Original Message- >>

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