Hello,
Fritz pinged me about possibly making updates to fix some HTMLHELP bugs,
but I wasn't sure if it was going to continue to be included with the
distribution.
I'm happy to try to resolve issues with the project if it is worth my time.
I submitted a merge request here for whomever is a maint
Hello,
I uploaded Willis recent changes containing the HTML help 1.1.0
(English) to the unstable Gitlab repo [1]. The other languages are still
shipped in version 1.0.8. This also contains version 5.3.6 of the
HTMLHELP.EXE with several bugs fixed. Crashes and display corruptions
should hopefu
Hi Bernd,
> On Feb 9, 2024, at 3:00 PM, Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I uploaded Willis recent changes containing the HTML help 1.1.0 (English) to
> the unstable Gitlab repo [1]. The other languages are still shipped in
> version 1.0.8. This also contains version 5
Hi Jerome,
thanks for the explanations!
> Am 10.02.2024 um 00:18 schrieb Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
> :
>
> Oh BTW... If your interested in seeing the RBE in action, or making builds
> locally, it’s very easy to install and create builds. You can read the
> instructions for installation
Hi Bernd,
> On Feb 11, 2024, at 2:11 PM, Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
>
> Hi Jerome,
>
> thanks for the explanations!
>
>>> Am 10.02.2024 um 00:18 schrieb Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
>>> :
>>
>> Oh BTW... If your interested in seeing the RBE in action, or making builds
>>
Hi Jerome,
it currently fails at:
tools/common: line 1075: make-dosfs: command not found
I am currently searching for the make-dosfs executable.//It is not under
the builder directory, and I have not found it as an external command in
the open suse package repo. Can you confirm that this is p
Hi,
> On Feb 11, 2024, at 7:43 PM, Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
>
> Hi Jerome,
>
> it currently fails at:
>
> tools/common: line 1075: make-dosfs: command not found
>
> I am currently searching for the make-dosfs executable.//It is not under the
> builder directory, and I have
Hi Bernd,
So…
I booted the (Windows 10) machine that I use for creating FreeDOS builds. (Host
OS should not be relevant.)
There was an update to VirtualBox. So, I installed that and the related new
extension pack.
( Following the instructions in the RBE’s Wiki. Except for CPU’s, I went with 2
I am one step further. I installed dosfstools via zypper and ran the RBE
install script again. It showed the following output:
required lower permissions for creating DOS filessystems.
'/usr/sbin/mkfs.msdos' -> '/home/rbe/bin/make-dosfs'
required lower permissions for labeling DOS filessystems.
Hi Bernd,
> On Feb 12, 2024, at 5:58 PM, Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
>
> I am one step further. I installed dosfstools via zypper and ran the RBE
> install script again. It showed the following output:
>
> required lower permissions for creating DOS filessystems.
> '/usr/sbin/m
Hi -
I can help with the English proofreading for HTMLHELP if you still need
someone. I am a senior technical writer/editor.
- Steve
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To whom it may concern: Current issues with HTMLHELP from Fritz :-)
a) If there is a language set in environment variables, e.g.
"set LANG=ID" and there is NO "htmlhelp.ID"
help hangs instead of working and falling back to english language,
b) help.exe often crashes when moving around fro
Hi,
the last week I worked on HTMLHELP fixing various bugs, and initial tests by
Fritz Müller and me give hope that the crashes and display corruptions are
gone. The changes made so far, which will make it into the next FreeDOS interim
build, are:
! Fix a heap corruption bug leading to crash
> To whom it may concern: Current issues with HTMLHELP from Fritz :-)
why do we accept input from 'Fritz' who wants to remain anonymous?
did you verify these bugs?
or could this be dependend on the Fritz's configuration?
what version of HTMLHELP with what version of help files?
> a) If there i
Hi Tom,
Of course I meant Fritz Mueller who does have a lot
of experience in using HTMLHELP and working with help
texts for it. So I trust him that those bugs do exist.
He just is not on the mailing list, so I am forwarding.
You wondered whether bugs depend on configuration: One
of the bugs is
Hello,
I started working on getting HTMLHELP building with OpenWatcom because I
don't have access to Borland C++ 3.1 in preparation for fixing some bugs.
This was around the same time that Mateusz released the AMB format and
converted the FreeDOS help HTML files to that format.
Should I continue
Hi Andy,
nice to hear that you are working on improving HTMLHELP.
If you ask me, it would be great to keep a working HTML
based help viewer around. The format has the advantage
that people already know HTML and can contribute content
and translations easily. AMB converted versions are nice
to h
Hi Bernd,
thanks for all those fixes in HTMLHELP!
How much faster are Unicode and HTML entity translation now?
I would NOT remove the ZIP feature, because a typical help zip
contains more than 100 files, with a median length of just 1 kB
uncompressed. This would waste a lot of disk space with
Hi Eric,
> How much faster are Unicode and HTML entity translation now?
The speed up of the table lookup is about factor 3. However, there are still
some bottlenecks in the tag / entity substitution code (not the UTF to codepage
translation). The code makes heavy use of memmove and realloc, doi
Hello,
I notice my name is still listed for the various help
projects. However, I left the FreeDOS project around
last October and you won't get a new maintainer unless
you advertise!
I've updated the website to reflect the situation.
Please remove my name and email address from the
software list
Hello Bernd,
just tested HTMLHELP with ke2035+ (toms boring stable version).
AFAICT, everything works fine. no crashes,...
sorry bernd: thanks for the crashing boot disk, but I somhow managed
to loose it in cyberspace.
you might resend me a crashing version ;)
tom
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