[Freedos-kernel] Re: test bootdisk

2004-09-14 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Bernd Blaauw wrote: Hello all, I've put online a new bootdisk with which I, and you, can easily experiment. Download it from: http://fdos.org/ripcord/beta9-final/test/testing.zip [274KB, 1.44MB unzipped] OK, just uploaded a new version, now includes fixed autoexec.bat and mounting. program for s

[Freedos-kernel] test bootdisk

2004-09-14 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Hello all, I've put online a new bootdisk with which I, and you, can easily experiment. Download it from: http://fdos.org/ripcord/beta9-final/test/testing.zip [274KB, 1.44MB unzipped] just select option 1. Never mind the menu, just did not get rid of it, and thus you see bug 1. I see some stran

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Lucho gives up arguing with Arkady

2004-09-14 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Alain escribió: Lucho, you introduce change in interface. _Such_ actions necessarily _must_ be discussed and approved. By whom? By the Boss? Who is the Boss? Arkady? Hi Lucho, don't feel hurt, he is just sayint what we yelled at him so many times :) The boss is ... gess who? the comunity, repre

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Lucho gives up arguing with Arkady

2004-09-14 Thread Alain
Lucho, you introduce change in interface. _Such_ actions necessarily _must_ be discussed and approved. By whom? By the Boss? Who is the Boss? Arkady? Hi Lucho, don't feel hurt, he is just sayint what we yelled at him so many times :) The boss is ... gess who? the comunity, represented in this li

[Freedos-kernel] Version setting / Goodbye from Lucho

2004-09-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, CALLVER is http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/callver.zip ... and it does not support int 2f.122f nor int 21.33fc YET. If the kernel has it, CALLVER will offer some "set version to ... until the next change" functionality in a later version. FREEVER source code got lost in so

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Creation times

2004-09-14 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Luchezar Georgiev wrote: > > #include > > #include > > #include > > > > int main(void) > > { > > int fd = open("fool.dat", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC); > > write(fd, "hello", 5); > > close(fd); > > sleep(2); > > fd = open("fool.dat", O_WRONLY); > > write(fd, "hell

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Goodbye from Lucho (this time forever)

2004-09-14 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Luchezar, Tuesday, September 14, 2004, 12:18:08 PM, you wrote: > Sorry Bart, I was wrong AGAIN. I will add creation times again, and this > will END my participation in the FreeDOS project. I feel that I'm NOT good > for such activity anymore. Jack R.Ellis was right to never participate in

[Freedos-kernel] Goodbye from Lucho (this time forever)

2004-09-14 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
Sorry Bart, I was wrong AGAIN. I will add creation times again, and this will END my participation in the FreeDOS project. I feel that I'm NOT good for such activity anymore. Jack R.Ellis was right to never participate in mailing lists. At the age of 45, it's time for me to leave the struggle to

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Creation times

2004-09-14 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
#include #include #include int main(void) { int fd = open("fool.dat", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC); write(fd, "hello", 5); close(fd); sleep(2); fd = open("fool.dat", O_WRONLY); write(fd, "hello bye", 9); close(fd); return 0; } Thanks, Bart. Seems that as I already have written so, I

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Creation times

2004-09-14 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
The question is: does anyone know what does MS-DOS do? What now unstable FreeDOS does - ZERO creation time/date and access date on each directory entry write. Verified. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Proje

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Creation times

2004-09-14 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Luchezar Georgiev wrote: > Not speaking about access date, which > shouldn't be set in DOS as it would mean unexpected writes. I don't understand why access dates are different in DOS than other OSes. If the volume is r/o you can't change the access date, sure. I wonder thou

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Creation times

2004-09-14 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Luchezar Georgiev wrote: > Bart wrote: > > I wonder about those creation time set removals. It looks like your > > removing a useful feature here. Sure a reason given is "MSDOS 7.10 > > doesn't do this". Well, I say, who cares about this specific DOS, > > Isn't *this* specific

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Reading new COUNTRY.SYS records

2004-09-14 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
Hola Eduardo, Not really. In the worst case, only the 4 bytes for the empty DBCS table will be unused. The idea is to overwrite the hardcoded tables for CTYINFO, UCASE, FCHAR, and COLLATE and allocate new memory (if needed) for FUCASE, LCASE and DBCS _only_. What about a combination of your (1)

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Creation times

2004-09-14 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Luchezar Georgiev escribiÃ: I wonder about those creation time set removals. It looks like your I will consider reverting it, but a config.sys option is overkill. Yes, it is. It'll be difficult to revert it as it leaded to numerous other optimisations. Besides, I already explained why I remov

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Lucho gives up arguing with Arkady

2004-09-14 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
CVS isn't accesible for me. Sorry, I can't help you. Lucho, you introduce change in interface. _Such_ actions necessarily _must_ be discussed and approved. By whom? By the Boss? Who is the Boss? Arkady? So "don't ask me more" is not in given case. Eric, read and remember forever! I SWEAR TO NEVER

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Patch: COUNTRY.ASM

2004-09-14 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
BTW, Lucho, if you wish, I may prepare for you macroses in TASM to ease writing more readable and safer country.asm. Probably, someone then may translate these macro to NASM? Such translation will be very difficult if not impossible because NASM is too incompatible :-( So, don't bother with it.

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Boot drive incompatibility with other boot sectors

2004-09-14 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
The trouble is that most SYSes don't bother to set this value - they just copy the whole data area from the old boot sector and replace only the code and OEM ID. So the FF remains there. Verified. _And_ their boot code reuse this field? Yes. No DOS boot sector trusts BIOS DL value like us... (Bec