[Freedos-user] x-comment to Michael Devore's message of 18 March

2005-03-18 Thread Jose Antonio Senna
MD>GNU-ish type stuff suffers from the "we despise everything related to MD>Microsoft" and "Not Invented Here" syndromes, and its relationship with DOS MD>is often uneasy. That said, DJGPP has never given me a problem when MD>testing recent EMM386 versions. I never compiled anything using DJ

Re: [Freedos-user] Do FreeDOS need a password program?

2005-03-18 Thread Kristaps Kaupe
> Eric said that too so working on it now, I got my freadln() working > right, it was only retrieving one character from file and not the whole > string, cause it to return false every time. It going to exit with users > record number as errorlevel if successful login. I would not like to have to

Re: [Freedos-user] Do FreeDOS need a password program?

2005-03-18 Thread Christopher Evans
Eric said that too so working on it now, I got my freadln() working right, it was only retrieving one character from file and not the whole string, cause it to return false every time. It going to exit with users record number as errorlevel if successful login. Kristaps Kaupe wrote: Well. I wo

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Compilation with DJGPP using RHIDE

2005-03-18 Thread Michael Devore
At 06:24 PM 3/18/2005 +0100, you wrote: Not true - in Pentium and newer CPUs, you have VME, which allow software interrupts and the interrupt enable flag to be handled by hardware even for V86 tasks. And following-up with a more accurate answer, no, your VME does NOT help. You have to specificall

Re: [Freedos-user] Compilation with DJGPP using RHIDE

2005-03-18 Thread Michael Devore
At 01:12 AM 3/19/2005 +0100, Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: Michael Devore escribió: Heavy port I/O and use of software interrupts are way too freaking slow in V86 mode, no doubt about it. No way around it, either, as it's the nature of V86 mode. Just curiosity, but is the same behaviour observe

Re: [Freedos-user] Do FreeDOS need a password program?

2005-03-18 Thread Kristaps Kaupe
> Well, I'm _not_ searching any password program, because for my own use I > have the mine, I am just interested if other people are using (or would > using) such software, because if there are a lot of users needing a > password program, it could be worth to think about including into the > FreeDO

[Freedos-user] RE: Freedos-user digest, Vol 1 #405 - 16 msgs

2005-03-18 Thread Schumacher, Gordon
> From: Kristaps Kaupe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Organization: NSS > To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Compilation with DJGPP using RHIDE > Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:49:12 +0200 > Reply-To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > > I had problems with DJGPP (long compil

Re: [Freedos-user] Compilation with DJGPP using RHIDE

2005-03-18 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Michael Devore escribió: At 02:49 PM 3/18/2005 +0200, Kristaps Kaupe wrote: I had problems with DJGPP (long compile times, mystical error messages) until I removed FreeDOS EMM386 from my CONFIG.SYS. Heavy port I/O and use of software interrupts are way too freaking slow in V86 mode, no doubt

Re: [Freedos-user] CT Mouse

2005-03-18 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 18-Мар-2005 18:42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Florian Xaver) wrote to fd-user : FX> What is the current status of CT Mouse? 1.9.1 and 2.0 alpha 4. FX> v2.0 alpha 4...it is under development? Now news since this (yet). --- SF email is

Re: [Freedos-user] USB for DOS

2005-03-18 Thread Charlie Wilkes
This page is a critical resource without doubt, especially now that the floppy drive has been deemed obsolete with no other bootable read/write media available on many new systems. The usbaspi.sys + di1000dd.sys drivers work reliably with flash keys. I have these drivers burned onto an MSDOS 7.10

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: FreeDOS command.com documentation?

2005-03-18 Thread kd4d
Hi Eric: Thanks! Great support. Wrong shell for the if (...) else (...) thing. Oh, well... Thanks again. Will try "vol d:>test" without the space. Thanks, Eric! Mark > > Hi, > > > 1. The "VOL" command built into command.com appears to > > output to stderr instead of stdout. > > No, b

[Freedos-user] Re: FreeDOS command.com documentation?

2005-03-18 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, > 1. The "VOL" command built into command.com appears to > output to stderr instead of stdout. No, but you have to do e.g. VOL d:>somefile.txt because VOL d: >somefile.txt is rejected. Looks like FreeCOM command.com is 1. too picky and 2. does not strip spaces before the < > | signs. Should

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS command.com documentation?

2005-03-18 Thread Bernd Blaauw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Hello, all: I've been fiddling with an MS-DOS script to find out what drive letter is assigned to a ram drive, trying to get it to work with tdsk and FreeDOS. The freedos.org frontpage contains a newsitem about a freeware utility to retrieve the Tdsk driveletter. Easi

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS command.com documentation?

2005-03-18 Thread kd4d
Hello, all: I've been fiddling with an MS-DOS script to find out what drive letter is assigned to a ram drive, trying to get it to work with tdsk and FreeDOS. I've run into two differences that suprised me. 1. The "VOL" command built into command.com appears to output to stderr instead of stdou

Re: [Freedos-user] Question: VIM for DOS

2005-03-18 Thread Florian Xaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I tried it last year. But i don't like it. For editing i usually use SetEdit or Necromancer DOS Navigator. Bye, Flo - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird -

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Compilation with DJGPP using RHIDE

2005-03-18 Thread Michael Devore
At 06:24 PM 3/18/2005 +0100, Eric Auer wrote: > Heavy port I/O and use of software interrupts are way too freaking slow in > V86 mode, no doubt about it. No way around it, either, as it's the nature > of V86 mode. Not true - in Pentium and newer CPUs, you have VME, which allow software interrupts

[Freedos-user] Question: VIM for DOS

2005-03-18 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, has any VIM user tried the DOS version recently, in particular the 32bit DOS version (you probably need CWSDPMI to run it) vim63d32.zip? http://www.vim.org/download.php As VIM-non-user it is always hard to tell whether you have a good port installed or not X-). For me, that is. I personally

[Freedos-user] Re: Compilation with DJGPP using RHIDE

2005-03-18 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Michael, > >I had problems with DJGPP (long compile times, mystical error messages) > >until I removed FreeDOS EMM386 from my CONFIG.SYS. > Heavy port I/O and use of software interrupts are way too freaking slow in > V86 mode, no doubt about it. No way around it, either, as it's the nature

Re: [Freedos-user] Compilation with DJGPP using RHIDE

2005-03-18 Thread Michael Devore
At 02:49 PM 3/18/2005 +0200, Kristaps Kaupe wrote: I had problems with DJGPP (long compile times, mystical error messages) until I removed FreeDOS EMM386 from my CONFIG.SYS. Heavy port I/O and use of software interrupts are way too freaking slow in V86 mode, no doubt about it. No way around it, e

[Freedos-user] USB for DOS

2005-03-18 Thread Florian Xaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I found a very good site about the topic: http://newdos.yginfo.net/usbdos.htm Bye, Flo - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

[Freedos-user] CT Mouse

2005-03-18 Thread Florian Xaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! What is the current status of CT Mouse? v2.0 alpha 4...it is under development? Bye, Flo - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

[Freedos-user] New Club Dr-DOS site...

2005-03-18 Thread Florian Xaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I am making a new Dr-DOS site. New design, updated info etc. You can reach the first pages from the old site (http://www.drdos.org). - -) What do you think about the new layout? - -) It supports Arachne - that means worse source than i wanted. Bu

[Freedos-user] Re: countdown menu line repeated on boot screen

2005-03-18 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 17-Мар-2005 23:29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Massimo Pizzolante Leuzzi) wrote to "Arkady V.Belousov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: MPL> > primary precompiled files MPL> > http://www.fdos.org/kernel/KERNEL.SYS [stable kernel] MPL> > http://www.fdos.org/kernel/KERNEL.dev.SYS [dev kernel]

Re: [Freedos-user] Compilation with DJGPP using RHIDE

2005-03-18 Thread Kristaps Kaupe
I had problems with DJGPP (long compile times, mystical error messages) until I removed FreeDOS EMM386 from my CONFIG.SYS. Kristaps Kaupe, http://kristaps.netparks.lv Thursday 17 March 2005 18:49, GNU_man rakstÄja: > Hello everyone, I have a question regarding compilation of C > programs un

Re: [Freedos-user] Compilation with DJGPP using RHIDE

2005-03-18 Thread Florian Xaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I would install 2 tools: UDMA2 LBACACHE With both, it is very fast!! Bye, Flo - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD4DBQFC