Re: [Freedos-user] Not loading high: Display, Nlsfunc, Keyb, Lbacache

2006-04-15 Thread Johnson Lam
Hi Eric, >Note: SHCDX33A now in conventional memory, thaks to Eric Auer for advice. Did you found SHCDX33A have any problem when loaded high? Can you share your experience with us? Also Did you tell dima Jack's version was smaller? Then he can save more base memory. Rgds, Johnson. --

Re: [Freedos-user] Not loading high: Display, Nlsfunc, Keyb, Lbacache

2006-04-15 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 17:09:33 -0500, you wrote: Hi Sir, >QHIMEM is a totally new and alternate -- utterly superfluous in my opinion >-- memory manager that can have nothing to do with your problem, and I do >not recommend it's use for debugging here. For trouble shooting purpose, is there any p

Re: [Freedos-user] re: FreeDos a good choice for me?

2006-04-15 Thread Scott Mayo
>> I tried compiling my code with Watcom. I got extremely strange behaviour >> - >> the compiler planted stack checking calls, and the stack checks were >> *convinced* I needed vast amounts of stack space to proceed with even >> the >> first function call out of main(). (I make very little use of

Re: [Freedos-user] re: FreeDos a good choice for me?

2006-04-15 Thread Blair Campbell
> I tried compiling my code with Watcom. I got extremely strange behaviour - > the compiler planted stack checking calls, and the stack checks were > *convinced* I needed vast amounts of stack space to proceed with even the > first function call out of main(). (I make very little use of the stack.)

Re: [Freedos-user] Not loading high: Display, Nlsfunc, Keyb, Lbacache

2006-04-15 Thread Michael Devore
QHIMEM is a totally new and alternate -- utterly superfluous in my opinion -- memory manager that can have nothing to do with your problem, and I do not recommend it's use for debugging here. There is no correlation between the HIMEM-style memory manager and an application's use of upper memor

[Freedos-user] re: FreeDos a good choice for me?

2006-04-15 Thread Scott Mayo
> > Hi, did you already try Linux, with your software running > as root so that it can access all I/O ports directly? > Or maybe RTLinux to get better "realtime" performance? My concerns with Linux: 1) It has to have some sort of processing in the background to handle ethernet and serial ports -

Re: [Freedos-user] Not loading high: Display, Nlsfunc, Keyb, Lbacache

2006-04-15 Thread dima
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, John Hupp wrote: > MEM /C /P for all 3 machines shows that DISPLAY, NLSFUNC, KEYB and > LBACACHE are all loading in conventional memory even though they are > loaded with LH. Try to use fdxxms.sys + umbpci.sys instead of himem.sys + emm386.exe. > Have these programs all be

Re: [Freedos-user] Not loading high: Display, Nlsfunc, Keyb, Lbacache

2006-04-15 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 09:42:34 -0400, you wrote: Hi John, I got some "new" drivers from my friend Jack, he did code them to save memory and keep DOS running with the latest hardware (also thanks to Uwe Sieber, he provide source code of UMBPCI.SYS). My PC have 620K base memory (including NANSI.SYS,

[Freedos-user] FreeDos a good choice for me?

2006-04-15 Thread Scott Mayo
I'm looking for an OS to run on an embedded system (a 586 based PC104) board. What I need is pretty simple: 1) Access to ethernet, TCP and UDP. (Waterloo should do it.) 2) The ability to hook interrupts. 3) I need to be able to handle serial ports via interrupts; potentially more than 4 ports some

[Freedos-user] QHIMEM V1.2 [2006-04-16]

2006-04-15 Thread Johnson Lam
Download here: http://johnson.tmfc.net/freedos/qhimem.html NEWS 2006-04-16 [ QHIMEM V1.2 ] Fixed 1 major and 2 minor "bugs". 2006-04-13 [ QHIMEM V1.1 ] Added 4-Gigabyte capability and most XMS V3.0 logic. 2006-04-11 [ QHIMEM V1.0 ] Original Release. QHIMEM -- DOS XMS Manager

[Freedos-user] QHIMEM V1.2 [2006-04-16]

2006-04-15 Thread Johnson Lam
QHIMEM -- DOS XMS Manager, V1.2 === QHIMEM is a DOS driver that functions as an XMS memory manager. It is a replacement for HIMEM, FDXMS, and other XMS managers, and it is meant to complement the UMBPCI Upper-Memory Manager driver. QHIMEM supports up to 4-Gigabytes o

Re: [Freedos-user] announce: dosfsck 2.11 for dos

2006-04-15 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 16:57:18 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: Hi Eric, >I finally merged the dosfstools 2.10 -> 2.11 patches into >my DOS port of DOSFSCK. Actually I had been planning to >do this since 8/2005, shame on me... Thanks. You got your own works and daily life, nice to know you spare time to

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: EMM386 causes Ctrl-Alt-Del to fail with some video cards

2006-04-15 Thread Michael Devore
At 09:29 AM 4/15/2006 -0400, you wrote: So I added back a range exclusion, thus: NOEMS X=A000-EFFF VDS NOALTBOOT. This booted up in unstable condition, locking altogether (or with Ctrl-Alt-Del still not working). I increased the exclusion to the range that one of you had recommended: NOEMS X=A0

[Freedos-user] announce: dosfsck 2.11 for dos

2006-04-15 Thread Eric Auer
Hi all, I finally merged the dosfstools 2.10 -> 2.11 patches into my DOS port of DOSFSCK. Actually I had been planning to do this since 8/2005, shame on me... http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/dosdosfsck-2.11.zip has the sources and the DOS binary (needs a 386 or better

[Freedos-user] Not loading high: Display, Nlsfunc, Keyb, Lbacache

2006-04-15 Thread John Hupp
On 3 different old computers (486 to Pentium 100 - all with at least 16 MB), I installed the new Service Release 2 from the bootable installation CD.  I installed on either FAT16 or FAT32 partitions (1 to 2 GB) created by FreeDOS.  All of the installations were error-free.   MEM /C /P for a

[Freedos-user] FreeCOM memory allocation error with SHSUCDX

2006-04-15 Thread John Hupp
Hello, all!   On 3 different old computers (486 to Pentium 100 - all with at least 16 MB), I installed the new Service Release 2 from the bootable CD.  I installed on either FAT16 or FAT32 partitions (1 to 2 GB) created by FreeDOS.  All of the installations were error-free.   On all 3 machine

[Freedos-user] Re: EMM386 causes Ctrl-Alt-Del to fail with some video cards

2006-04-15 Thread John Hupp
Thanks to Michael, Chris and Eric for replying to the list or directly. The number of permutations of a half-dozen command options is rather large, so I didn't test every possibility. But I think I hit all of your suggestions: In my test configuration, I had no AUTOEXEC.BAT and this 3-line CONF