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

2005-03-19 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 19-Мар-2005 13:59 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: EA> If not, you can at least replace the "mov al,[esi] / cmp al,0ffh / EA> je va_next / ... / va_next: inc esi / loop back" part by something like: EA> "mov al,0ffh / repz scasb [esi] Don't forg

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

2005-03-19 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 19-Мар-2005 18:40 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: EA> PS: Did you know that MS DOS shell and XCOPY all use "extended open" EA> but on the other hand the DEL function still uses FCB delete? Weird. FCB is only documented way to remove by mask, no

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

2005-03-19 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 19-Мар-2005 17:23 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Florian Xaver) wrote to fd-user : FX> As i understand, you may change the code if you have a license. FX> The license file is in the download. FX>> There was an open source version (for non-profit-organisations): OpenDOS FX>> 7.01. Udo Kuhnt developing it

[Freedos-user] Has anybody tried RDOS?

2005-03-19 Thread Florian Xaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! http://www.rdos.net/eng/ Bye, Flo - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCPGSZq2aHU5S35E0RAuYLAJ0YGBapEloQsoL1qO9JyXyXcz

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

2005-03-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bernd, > I'm thinking this should be more like Eric's implementation of GETARGS: > create a batchfile and allow to redirect it, then call it and delete it. > set user=Bernd > set home=R:\users\BBlaauw I still prefer things like logon set user=%errorlevel% set home=%_CWD% but of course that on

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

2005-03-19 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 19-Мар-2005 16:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aitor Santamarэa Merino) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >>set HOME=d:\homes\%USER% ASM> a detail: please not "homes" or whatever. Use "Documents and settings". Very bad name. :( Looks like MS tries to illustrate usage of LFNs by disturb

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

2005-03-19 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 19-Мар-2005 16:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: BB> passwd > output.bat passwd>%temp%\output.bat BB> CDD %home% How to do CDD without CDD: %home%\ cd %home% --- SF email is sp

Re: [Freedos-user] USB for DOS

2005-03-19 Thread Florian Xaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 USB4DOS isn't avaiable anymore. I don't know why... :-( Bye, Flo - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCPE36q2aHU5S35E0RAgk4

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

2005-03-19 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 19-Мар-2005 13:08 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: EA> number in the errorlevel. After that, you can do EA> set HOME=user%errorlevel% MS-command.com doesn't allows to access errorlevels outside "if". -

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

2005-03-19 Thread Florian Xaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As i understand, you may change the code if you have a license. The license file is in the download. Bye, FLo - Original Message Subject: Re: New Club Dr-DOS site... Resent-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 20:29:59 -0500 Resent-From: <[EMAIL

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

2005-03-19 Thread Bernd Blaauw
and then set HOME=d:\homes\%USER% a detail: please not "homes" or whatever. Use "Documents and settings". Yes, perhaps one day we'll have decent LFN support ;-) (for non-LFN apps, use Docume~1 or whatever). I'm thinking this should be more like Eric's implementation of GETARGS: create a batchf

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

2005-03-19 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Jose Antonio Senna escribió: 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 n

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

2005-03-19 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Eric Auer escribió: Hi Kristaps, Well. I would like to see a password program (running from autoexec.bat) with login/password database in crypted file which would set USER (logged in user) and HOME (user's profile directory) environment variables on exit. I gave a thought at this some

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

2005-03-19 Thread Michael Devore
At 01:59 PM 3/19/2005 +0100, Eric Auer wrote: > Many illegal memory accesses in programs which won't fail under HIMEM will > fail with EMM386 loaded. EMM386 does not allow memory reads/writes outside > of the actual PC memory range due to protected mode /V86... You forget that the MEMCHECK switc

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

2005-03-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Michael, > Many illegal memory accesses in programs which won't fail under HIMEM will > fail with EMM386 loaded. EMM386 does not allow memory reads/writes outside > of the actual PC memory range due to protected mode /V86... You forget that the MEMCHECK switch for your EMM386 fixes this, b

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

2005-03-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Kristaps, > Well. I would like to see a password program (running from autoexec.bat) with > login/password database in crypted file which would set USER (logged in user) > and HOME (user's profile directory) environment variables on exit. I guess you mean a file with hashes of passwords and

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

2005-03-19 Thread Michael Devore
At 01:26 PM 3/19/2005 +0300, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: MD> Could be interesting to add the required TSS fields and throw the VME MD> switch in EMM386. Then benchmark against non-VME and see if there is a Just for information: __O\_/_\_/O_

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

2005-03-19 Thread Michael Devore
At 03:41 AM 3/19/2005 -0300, Jose Antonio Senna wrote: 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 E

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

2005-03-19 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 18-Мар-2005 20:19 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: MD> Could be interesting to add the required TSS fields and throw the VME MD> switch in EMM386. Then benchmark against non-VME and see if there is a Just for information: __O\

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

2005-03-19 Thread Michael Devore
At 05:33 PM 3/18/2005 -0700, Schumacher, Gordon wrote: Well, one thing that comes to mind is that (at least) Microsoft's EMM386 affects how the DPMI host allocates memory - I don't know if the same will be true of FreeDOS's, but we found some issues where it did definitely negatively impact the per

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

2005-03-19 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 18-Мар-2005 19:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: kn> 2. The MS-DOS syntax kn> if condition ( kn> ... kn> ) This is not MS-DOS syntax, this is NDOS/4DOS syntax. In MS-command.com "if" is always one-line thing, and, BTW, I not seen docu