Re: [Freedos-user] Announce: vmsmount, a driver for mounting VMware's shared folders in DOS

2011-10-09 Thread Eduardo Casino
Hi Ralf, 2011/10/9 Ralf A. Quint : > But don't you do an check for the presence of VMWare to begin with? > That should likely include a test of the available CPU, doesn't it? I use 386 instructions to test the presence of VMware :) I've added a CPU test to the "master" branch of the GIT reposito

Re: [Freedos-user] Announce: vmsmount, a driver for mounting VMware's shared folders in DOS

2011-10-09 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 12:53 PM 10/9/2011, Bernd Blaauw wrote: >Op 9-10-2011 20:53, Eduardo Casino schreef: > > Hi Bernd, > > > If you are running under VMware, it is a 586+. Have you tested what > > happens when yoy try to execute it in a real 286 or earlier? My old > > 80186 died quite a few years ago. VMSMOUNT is u

Re: [Freedos-user] Announce: vmsmount, a driver for mounting VMware's shared folders in DOS

2011-10-09 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 9-10-2011 20:53, Eduardo Casino schreef: > Hi Bernd, > If you are running under VMware, it is a 586+. Have you tested what > happens when yoy try to execute it in a real 286 or earlier? My old > 80186 died quite a few years ago. VMSMOUNT is useless in real > hardware, but I can add a processor

Re: [Freedos-user] Announce: vmsmount, a driver for mounting VMware's shared folders in DOS

2011-10-09 Thread Eduardo Casino
Hi Bernd, 2011/10/8 Bernd Blaauw : > If VMSMOUNT can safely abort on ancient hardware then it would be a > plus. All the rest can easily stay 586+, perhaps even 686+. If you are running under VMware, it is a 586+. Have you tested what happens when yoy try to execute it in a real 286 or earlier? M

Re: [Freedos-user] Announce: vmsmount, a driver for mounting VMware's shared folders in DOS

2011-10-09 Thread Eduardo Casino
Hi, 2011/10/8 Michael B. Brutman : > Congratulations on writing a network file redirector.  I've been mulling > this over for a while, trying to build up the nerve to do it.  I have > "Undocumented DOS, 2nd Ed" as well, and now with this code I have two > different samples to work with. Thanks!

Re: [Freedos-user] FDAPM

2011-10-09 Thread Ulrich Hansen
Am 09.10.11 02:21, schrieb Jack: > Absolutely NO "self respecting" computer, or computer program, > should at-all REQUIRE using "FDAPM" or any equivalents! What > has happened to Industrial RESPONSIBILITY, i.e. making systems > that RUN, WITHOUT requiring such "Band Aid" power software??!! > > In