Re: [Freedos-user] Abandonware site...

2009-04-28 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
Simply put: User: user Organization: Unknow 2009/4/28, Robert Riebisch : > Michael Robinson wrote: > >> I could also complain that Microsoft ... >> ... doesn't have a right >> to sue people over it. > > Could you please explain this strange POV? > >> MS-DOS to my knowledge never asked for an inst

Re: [Freedos-user] jam

2009-04-28 Thread 4625
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Robert Riebisch wrote: > > jam - Real-Time Data Compression Utilities. Driver won't load, complain > > about incorrect DOS OEM number. > > Now run "debug < jampat.deb". > The output should be as follows. > > The JAM.SYS driver now passes the OEM number check, but it always

Re: [Freedos-user] jam

2009-04-28 Thread Christian Masloch
> The JAM.SYS driver now passes the OEM number check, but it always hung > my VMware session. Maybe you have better luck. There's probably more to it. JAM doesn't know about FAT32, and if I recall the documentation correctly, it apparently accesses low-level DOS structures (DPBs) and devices d

Re: [Freedos-user] jam

2009-04-28 Thread Robert Riebisch
4625 wrote: > jam - Real-Time Data Compression Utilities. Driver won't load, complain > about incorrect DOS OEM number. JAM.SYS checks the OEM (vendor) number returned in register BH after calling function 30h ("Get DOS version") of interrupt 21h by looking at a table containing allowed numbers.

Re: [Freedos-user] Abandonware site...

2009-04-28 Thread Robert Riebisch
Michael Robinson wrote: > I could also complain that Microsoft ... > ... doesn't have a right > to sue people over it. Could you please explain this strange POV? > MS-DOS to my knowledge never asked for an installation code > and it is not marked in any way as copy XYZ. That's correct, but it

Re: [Freedos-user] What about changing our packaging style for v1.1?

2009-04-28 Thread King InuYasha
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Jim Hall wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:21 AM, King InuYasha wrote: > > Instead of asking for it to remove the sources each time a package is > > installed, why not tally it all up and as the last step, users can select > if > > they want sources or not, and