RE: Re: [Freedos-devel] New COUNTRY.SYS

2004-11-05 Thread aitor . sm
Hi, >Hi! >4-îÏÑ-2004 17:52 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote to >[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >ase> Divide tools in three types: >ase> (a) Those that implement the national settings (that is the >character you >ase> use for thousand separators, etc) and codepages for the kernel >(filena

Re: [Freedos-devel] New COUNTRY.SYS

2004-11-04 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, tom ehlert wrote: > BTW: I'm not sure, if translated yes/no's make much sense at all, unless > the program (int24 handler, command,...) is translated as well, and > then the yes/no should be translated at that stage. [...] > are you really sure you want to continue ? > > expe

Re: [Freedos-devel] New COUNTRY.SYS

2004-11-04 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 4-Ноя-2004 17:52 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ase> Divide tools in three types: ase> (a) Those that implement the national settings (that is the character you ase> use for thousand separators, etc) and codepages for the kernel (filename ase> tables and suc

Re: [Freedos-devel] New COUNTRY.SYS

2004-11-04 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 4-Ноя-2004 13:08 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eduardo Casino) wrote to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: EC> I think it was Eric who suggested to keep the yes/no out of COUNTRY.SYS EC> and implement YESCHAR= and NOCHAR= in config.sys, a la DR-DOS, to modify EC> this behaviour. Would it be a bett

Re: _ Re: [Freedos-devel] New COUNTRY.SYS

2004-11-04 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 4-Ноя-2004 10:40 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (tom ehlert) wrote to Eduardo Casino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: te> BTW: I'm not sure, if translated yes/no's make much sense at all, unless te> the program (int24 handler, command,...) is translated as well, and te> then the yes/no should be translated at that st

RE: Re: [Freedos-devel] New COUNTRY.SYS

2004-11-04 Thread aitor . sm
Hi, >> What does the German version of MS-DOS expect for yes/no? >it expects J(a) or N(ein), but the question is also > Sind Sie sicher ? >> The Spanish one expects "S" and "N", so it is >> actually translated. >but the question is probably > Es usted seguro ? >and not > Are you sure ? > >tom

RE: Re: [Freedos-devel] New COUNTRY.SYS

2004-11-04 Thread aitor . sm
Hi Bernd, >Any idea for a compressed COUNTRY.SYS file? Kernel decompression >code >overhead should be minimal. >28KB uncompressed versus 5KB compressed is quite a difference, for >bootdisks. >I have no idea how all the NLS/country/codepage stuff works, except >COUNTRY=031,858,C:\FDOS\BI

Re: [Freedos-devel] New COUNTRY.SYS

2004-11-04 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Eduardo, > True, but once you have a COUNTRY.SYS file and a kernel that can read > from it, this info belongs to that file. agreed. > That is what UNSTABLE do (OK, I know your feelings about that branch ;-) doesn't depend on my feelings, but it's a bit difficult to pick the relevant ~200 l

Re: [Freedos-devel] New COUNTRY.SYS

2004-11-04 Thread Roberto Mariottini
Hi, tom ehlert wrote: BTW: I'm not sure, if translated yes/no's make much sense at all, unless the program (int24 handler, command,...) is translated as well, and then the yes/no should be translated at that stage. because country=49,858,c:\country.sys would lead to a yes/no respecting format pro

Re: [Freedos-devel] New COUNTRY.SYS

2004-11-04 Thread Eduardo Casino
El jue, 04-11-2004 a las 10:40, tom ehlert escribió: > Hello Eduardo, > > > Without a country= line, you have the kernel hardcoded info, which is > > equivalent to US, codepage 437. Date format is MM-DD-, though. > in all kernels, you can have > country=49 (german) > > to have date format

Re: [Freedos-devel] New COUNTRY.SYS

2004-11-04 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Eduardo, > Without a country= line, you have the kernel hardcoded info, which is > equivalent to US, codepage 437. Date format is MM-DD-, though. in all kernels, you can have country=49 (german) to have date format DD-MM-(+currency, yes/no,...); that's why I introduced it (hardcod

Re: [Freedos-devel] New COUNTRY.SYS

2004-11-03 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 3-Ноя-2004 20:27 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BB> country=country_code, codepage_code,filepath BB> all 3 are required? No. Same as in MS-DOS. BB> I need a default selection for FreeDOS. BB> I was thinking about country=xxx,858,c:\fdos\bin\country.sys, bu

Re: [Freedos-devel] New COUNTRY.SYS

2004-11-03 Thread Eduardo Casino
El mié, 03-11-2004 a las 20:27, Bernd Blaauw escribió: > country=country_code, codepage_code,filepath > > all 3 are required? I need a default selection for FreeDOS. > I was thinking about country=xxx,858,c:\fdos\bin\country.sys, but I > don't know what to enter for xxx. > Preferably something wh

Re: [Freedos-devel] New COUNTRY.SYS

2004-11-03 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Eduardo Casino schreef: It is not FreeDOS-only. It is in MS-DOS format with extensions, which are ignored if the OS does not support them. You can use it with MS-DOS and any other DOS that understands the MS format. Alright, good to know. country=country_code, codepage_code,filepath all 3 are re

Re: [Freedos-devel] New COUNTRY.SYS

2004-11-03 Thread Eduardo Casino
El mié, 03-11-2004 a las 17:59, Bernd Blaauw escribió: > Jim already suggested a LSM file for COUNTRY.SYS, > but shouldn't it instead be added to the kernel package, just like SYS? > This country.sys is kernel-specific (FreeDOS-only), and first read by > kernel. It is not FreeDOS-only. It is in M

Re: [Freedos-devel] New COUNTRY.SYS

2004-11-03 Thread Jim Hall
Eduardo Casino wrote: El mié, 03-11-2004 a las 17:22, Jim Hall escribió: Could you email me an LSM for this release of COUNTRY? I just want to make sure that the LSM that gets posted on FreeDOS.org is the correct one. Or should I re-use the LSM from the kernel (and change the title)? Hi Jim,

Re: [Freedos-devel] New COUNTRY.SYS

2004-11-03 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Eduardo Casino schreef: Please, don't do it yet. I've just post it to give people a chance to have a look at it. In fact, I've discovered that it has a bug (the number of countries was wrong) and Yuki has already suggested a change for Japanese. I've already uploaded the new version to the same pla

Re: [Freedos-devel] New COUNTRY.SYS

2004-11-03 Thread Eduardo Casino
El mié, 03-11-2004 a las 17:22, Jim Hall escribió: > Could you email me an LSM for this release of COUNTRY? I just want to > make sure that the LSM that gets posted on FreeDOS.org is the correct > one. Or should I re-use the LSM from the kernel (and change the title)? Hi Jim, This COUNTRY fi

Re: [Freedos-devel] New COUNTRY.SYS

2004-11-03 Thread Eduardo Casino
El mié, 03-11-2004 a las 16:48, Bernd Blaauw escribió: > I was planning on uploading this to fdos.org (www.fdos.org/kernel), but > it seems like that server is currently down. Please, don't do it yet. I've just post it to give people a chance to have a look at it. In fact, I've discovered that i

Re: [Freedos-devel] New COUNTRY.SYS

2004-11-03 Thread Jim Hall
Eduardo Casino wrote: Hi All, I've uploaded a new version of COUNTRY.ASM to http://perso.wanadoo.es/samelborp/country.zip It is the complete file and not a patch to UNSTABLE's country.asm, as it seems that it is no longer mantained (Lucho?) and changes are so many that the patch is bigger than the

Re: [Freedos-devel] New COUNTRY.SYS

2004-11-03 Thread Jim Hall
Bernd Blaauw wrote: Eduardo Casino schreef: Hi All, I've uploaded a new version of COUNTRY.ASM to http://perso.wanadoo.es/samelborp/country.zip I was planning on uploading this to fdos.org (www.fdos.org/kernel), but it seems like that server is currently down. Thanks for the new version though.

Re: [Freedos-devel] New COUNTRY.SYS

2004-11-03 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Eduardo Casino schreef: Hi All, I've uploaded a new version of COUNTRY.ASM to http://perso.wanadoo.es/samelborp/country.zip I was planning on uploading this to fdos.org (www.fdos.org/kernel), but it seems like that server is currently down. Thanks for the new version though. No idea if it works