[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.1 (again)

2011-05-04 Thread dos386
As noted somewhere on this list, FreeDOS 1.1 is supposed to come out now 2011 (same had been previously promised for 2010, 2009, 2008 and 2007 too) after kernel 2040 comes out. Some personal suggestions of mine what should come in: Base: KERNEL 2040 (hopefully fixed, if not, the fallback level i

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.1 (again)

2011-05-04 Thread Bernd Blaauw
(retransmit, sf.net mailserver disliked me). Op 4-5-2011 11:08, dos386 schreef: As noted somewhere on this list, FreeDOS 1.1 is supposed to come out now 2011 (same had been previously promised for 2010, 2009, 2008 and 2007 too) after kernel 2040 comes out. Once 2040 is out a new FreeDOS distri

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.1 (again)

2011-05-04 Thread Bart Oldeman
On 4 May 2011 15:18, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > FREECOM (updated (in progress ?) or not (from 2003)) > > Still same one I guess, unless Jeremy, Pat or Blair succeeded in improving > things like porting to Openwatcom for example. I just finished porting FREECOM in SVN to OpenWatcom. It seems to work pr

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.1 (again)

2011-05-04 Thread Alain Mouette
Em 04-05-2011 16:45, Bart Oldeman escreveu: > > I had to use some of the kernel build infrastructure to be able to > still also build with Turbo C(++). Writing portable DOS makefiles > causes all sorts of funny restrictions, esp. dealing with Turbo C 2.01 > make: it cannot do command line redirect

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.1 (again)

2011-05-05 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Alain Mouette wrote: > > Em 04-05-2011 16:45, Bart Oldeman escreveu: >> >> I had to use some of the kernel build infrastructure to be able to >> still also build with Turbo C(++). Writing portable DOS makefiles >> causes all sorts of funny restrictions, esp. de

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.1 (again)

2011-05-05 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > > Op 4-5-2011 11:08, dos386 schreef: Good ol' DOS386, gotta love his enthusiasm! :-)) Although you left out some important things (and seem stuck on some questionable tools, which is fine, but I still disagree about the uniqueness

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.1 (again)

2011-05-05 Thread dos386
> Not aware of this bug, guess you notified Japheth? YES. http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=6445 > Bret's USBDOS (free& OS, not GPL) > Downloaded it, not worked with it yet. Very good design and open source ... and only UHCI so far and sure there are devices it doesn't like.

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.1 (again)

2011-05-06 Thread Bart Oldeman
On 5 May 2011 10:52, Rugxulo wrote: > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Alain Mouette wrote: >> >> Em 04-05-2011 16:45, Bart Oldeman escreveu: >>> >>> I had to use some of the kernel build infrastructure to be able to >>> still also build with Turbo C(++). Writing portable DOS makefiles >>> causes

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.1 (again)

2011-05-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi again, On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 7:38 PM, dos386 wrote: > >> Not aware of this bug, guess you notified Japheth? > > YES. http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=6445 (Japheth): "The problem is: I modified this himem thing mainly for myself, I don't regard myself as "maintainer". So

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.1 (again)

2011-05-23 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 4-5-2011 21:45, Bart Oldeman schreef: > On 4 May 2011 15:18, Bernd Blaauw wrote: >> FREECOM (updated (in progress ?) or not (from 2003)) >> >> Still same one I guess, unless Jeremy, Pat or Blair succeeded in improving >> things like porting to Openwatcom for example. > I just finished porting F

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.1 (again)

2011-06-10 Thread dos386
> Heh, you have a habit of renaming things, making them unrecognizable. > Anyways, here you're referring to Steve Kirkendall's public domain > untar.c, which is indeed good. The name "untar.c" is very BAD ... it neglects the internal piping :-\ > > ### 7ZDECWAT (from major versions 4.65 or 9.20 p

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.1 (again)

2011-06-10 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 8:57 AM, dos386 wrote: >> Heh, you have a habit of renaming things, making them unrecognizable. >> Anyways, here you're referring to Steve Kirkendall's public domain >> untar.c, which is indeed good. > > The name "untar.c" is very BAD ... it neglects the internal pipin

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.1 (again)

2011-06-11 Thread Rugxulo
Hi again, On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 8:57 AM, dos386 wrote: > >> > ### 7ZDECWAT (from major versions 4.65 or 9.20 please) >> https://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/7zdec912.zip?attredirects=0 > > 9.12 was buggy and beta ... Well, I wouldn't recommend 7zdecode from 4.65 since it didn't support 'x' (d

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.1 (again)

2011-06-13 Thread Jim Michaels
this is greatly appreciated, having a stable up-to-date release of 7-zip!  thanks! > >From: Rugxulo >To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 3:13 PM >Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.1 (again) > >Hi aga

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.1 (again)

2011-07-02 Thread dos386
> > The name "untar.c" is very BAD ... it neglects the internal piping :-\ > Not sure what "internal piping" means here. > You mean because it also supports Gzip? Pipes the un-GZIP'ped data into the TAR (DOS itself can't). > > > I personally think we must include CWSDPMI r7 > > why ? > Because mo

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.1 (again)

2011-07-02 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 3-7-2011 3:55, dos386 schreef: >> I'd recommend only using it in virtual machines > > ??? There's stuff to fix before I'd recommend it for general usage. For example the batchfiles on cdrom still have a FORMAT C: and SYS C: somewhere hidden, which already wrecked my USB flash drive as that