Re: [Freedos-user] 4DOS free now!

2004-08-27 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
Well after all it's not going to happen very soon, but as soon as 4NT is far enough ahead of 4DOS and 4NT specific code is removed there may be a possibility. http://email.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?visit=jpsoft_support click read messages, then scroll down to Matthias Paul and Rex Conn's

Re: [Freedos-user] 32BD.BAT (was: 4DOS free now!)

2004-08-27 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
So this in fact is a mini-Windows... without windows ;-) Well, a question of point of view. For me, this all is DOS, the DOS extender of Microsoft, and Windows is what comes behind KRNL386.EXE. After all, the same Windows application (KERNEL, USER, GDI) could be written over DOS (32-bit DOS,

Re: [Freedos-user] 32BD.BAT (was: 4DOS free now!)

2004-08-27 Thread Johnson Lam
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:26:47 +0300, you wrote: Hi, We need a new Victor Vlasenko to integrate LFN support in the kernel (Victor wrote FAT32 support). IMHO, LFN is a high priority task because we can really replace some Windows application by FreeDOS. FreeDOS is best for low level hardware

Re: [Freedos-user] 32BD.BAT

2004-08-27 Thread Aitor SantamarĂ­a Merino
Hi, Luchezar Georgiev escribi: So this in fact is a mini-Windows... without windows ;-) Well, a question of point of view. For me, this all is DOS, the DOS extender of Microsoft, and Windows is what comes behind KRNL386.EXE. After all, the same Windows application (KERNEL, USER, GDI) could be

Re: [Freedos-user] 32BD.BAT

2004-08-27 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
If the Windows file system drivers have taken over, it's not a DOS anymore :-( What is a Windows driver? For me it's either vga.drv, mouse.drv, or WDM-style drivers. A VxD is a (32-bit) DOS driver... I now see that the VXDs are LE (linear executables) and can be run under a DOS extender. But if

Re: [Freedos-user] Kernel LFN support (was: 32BD.BAT)

2004-08-27 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
So I think both of them reached a certain level of stability, say 84% of M$-DOS ;-) So we have only 16% left now ;-) We need a new Victor Vlasenko to integrate LFN support in the kernel. IMHO, LFN is a high priority task because we can really replace some Windows application by FreeDOS. I agree.

Re: [Freedos-user] Kernel LFN support (was: 32BD.BAT)

2004-08-27 Thread Johnson Lam
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:02:33 +0300, you wrote: Hi Lucho, ;-) So we have only 16% left now ;-) Maybe already 10% less ;-) I got a friend testing FreeDOS and he report lots of problem with his old software. I agree. It's not accident that the ROM-DOS kernel supports LFNs. I notice some of the