[Freedos-user] New FreeDOSers Monthly Reminder

2006-08-31 Thread jp_freedos
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Re: [Freedos-user] Problem with FD-KEYB 2.0 final

2006-08-31 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Many thanks, Diego. It is, then, a known problem (ocurred in last version too, but doesn't seem to arise under MS-DOS or NTVDM, so as you say the problem may be in FreeCOM). I would like to investigate into that too, although I just wanted to clean up some missing bugs in KEYB itself before proceed

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem with FD-KEYB 2.0 final

2006-08-31 Thread Diego Rodriguez
> Hi, > > Memory in separate MCBs is not written to after being loaded. I'll > try > to do some testings myself (it seems to work ok under NTVDM and > MS-DOS). The following variants occur to me: > - With/without EMM386 > - Different versions of FreeCOM > - Use /B to avoid beeping at all > Testin

Re: [Freedos-user] TC 2.01 IDE Slooow

2006-08-31 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 30-Авг-2006 17:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Collin Donnell) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: CD> Seems to be much faster when I run without drivers. CD> Anyone know why or what causes this? What mean "slow" (how you measure? how much "slow"?)? What you mean by "drivers"? -

[Freedos-user] For Eric - NWCACHE write caching test results; and a new problem

2006-08-31 Thread saywhat
There's good news and there's bad news. The good news is that, as you expected, there's only a small difference between a big write cache with a long delay and a small write cache with a short delay. The bad news is that I found some big performance problems (in reading and deleti

[Freedos-user] defrag problems (fwd)

2006-08-31 Thread Eric Auer
Hi all, forwarding a message from Imre. You should probably use DEFRAG 0.9 or older versions until the 1.x series is repaired. Eric -- Forwarded message -- > Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:15:23 + > Subject: [Freedos-devel] defrag problems Hi, It seems that the latest version o

Re: [Freedos-user] announce: fdshield update, fixes potential freeze

2006-08-31 Thread Jim Hall
Eric Auer wrote: > Hi, as fdshield could conceivably freeze DOS, > I replaced all "retf +2" commands in fdshield > by less "invasive" code. This means that the > updated fdshield no longer messes for example > with the interrupt enabled / disabled state > of the caller. The update should make fdshi

Re: [Freedos-user] Using PCI parallel ports

2006-08-31 Thread Robert Riebisch
Andrew Greenberg wrote: > As far as I can tell, PCI parallel port cards do not work under FreeDOS. > Is that true? Does anyone have any guidance on getting PCI parallel No. Some work in DOS, some not. > ports to work under FreeDOS? Use, e.g., http://www.exsys.ch/english/products/ex_41012_41212.