That makes great sense - learning! Thanks for the reply, the detail, and the great links.
- Darrin On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 12:33 PM Robert Riebisch <r...@bttr-software.de> wrote: > Hi Darrin, > > > How is EIDL (claims to mimic IDLE.COM <http://IDLE.COM>) different from > > FDAPM (which is basically POWER.EXE)? > > Exactly in that way! (EIDL doesn't mimic MS POWER.EXE.) > > Quoting myself from > <https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=16269>: > ### > Recently I wanted to know, how IDLE.COM in Microsoft Virtual PC works. I > can say, it is a rather simple tool and contains lots of garbage in its > only 128 bytes. -- IDLE works by hooking the DOS idle interrupt 28h and > executing a HLT instruction every time. > > At the end I put together a tool, that does the same. I named it EIDL, > but you pronounce it "idle". (A little play with the German language.) > It's 80 bytes only, but comes with source code for NASM. > > See it as little ASM example, because it is not as advanced as all the > other DOS idlers including Eric Auer's FDAPM. > ### > > FDAPM has commands to control APM functions, to reboot the machine, to > power off, to flush disk caches. (see DOC\FDAPM\FDAPM.TXT) > > EIDL.COM takes 80 bytes on disk. (Comppressed) FDAPM.COM takes 7,434 > bytes. > (Ignoring cluster sizes on disks.) > > > I'm curious to know the differences between all of the solutions really. > > Feel free to try all the solutions to find the one, that fits your needs > best. > > > But I'm mostly curious why (freedos related) FDAPM didn't work for you? > > (worked great for me!) > > I never said, it didn't work. > > Cheers, > Robert > -- > +++ BTTR Software +++ > Home page: https://www.bttr-software.de/ > DOS ain't dead: https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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