[Freedos-devel] LH DISPLAY problems / NLSFUNC in a nutshell

2004-05-04 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! I recommend to move this discussion to freedos-devel, with a nice subject line. So here some information about UPX: UPXed SYS can crash when loaded into a too small memory area (only UMBs are typical cases of small memory areas, so the problem arises only with UMBs in most cases). This

Re: [Freedos-devel] LH DISPLAY problems / NLSFUNC in a nutshell

2004-05-04 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Eric Auer wrote: Hi! I recommend to move this discussion to freedos-devel, with a nice subject line. So here some information about UPX: how easy is it to prepare DISPLAY for COM2EXE as Arkady suggests? still, why would LH not abort on MSDOS but abort on freedos kernel? FreeCOM is being used as

Re: [Freedos-devel] LH DISPLAY problems / NLSFUNC in a nutshell

2004-05-04 Thread tom ehlert
The latter suggestion is especially important if you want to make DISPLAY a real DEVICE. Other than an EXE (with heap specification in the header), the SYS would have to be an huge file, 60k or something, unless you allocate the buffers dynamically. or you use .EXE style sys-files, of course.