Re: [Freedos-user] Re : Freedos-user Digest, Vol 808, Issue 1

> Thanks. It would work indeed because - as I was checking a few minutes > before reading your mail - FreeCOM does maintain the master environment > pointer (its segment) in its PSP:3Ch slot, additionally FreeCOM seems > to use the contents of that 'slot', not some copy it made, whenever > it needs

Re: [Freedos-user] Re : Freedos-user Digest, Vol 808, Issue 1

> My bet would be on JEMM as the one which messes with memory control > blocks. You're right. It is JEMM. > Yup. TSRs which are never unloaded would not be a problem, otherwise > they could leave holes, but that's life... One could even re-run your > program and try to relocate the ENV again in

[Freedos-user] Re : Freedos-user Digest, Vol 808, Issue 1

Hi, Matej Horvat: > I've spent the last three hours writing a tiny COM program that moves > COMMAND.COM's environment block to the lowest address possible (using > DOS's "low memory first fit" strategy). Nice ! > Unfortunately, it does not seem to   > be able to find the environment block if u

Re: [Freedos-user] command.com (Freecom) main environment location

Hi Bertho, I've spent the last three hours writing a tiny COM program that moves COMMAND.COM's environment block to the lowest address possible (using DOS's "low memory first fit" strategy). Unfortunately, it does not seem to be able to find the environment block if used in AUTOEXEC.BAT afte

Re: [Freedos-user] command.com (Freecom) main environment location

Hi, On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Bertho Grandpied wrote: > > Should OTOH you (and the FreeDOS project at large) wish to offer the > free XBDA mover as a supplement/alternative to FreeDOS's internal, I'll > contact you for arranging the mirroring. It's a simple, robust and > tiny DOS device dr

Re: [Freedos-user] command.com (Freecom) main environment location

Hi, > Should OTOH you (and the FreeDOS project at large) wish to offer the > free XBDA mover as a supplement/alternative to FreeDOS's internal, I'll > contact you for arranging the mirroring. It's a simple, robust and > tiny DOS device driver coded in ASM, a few hundred bytes altogether. it probab

Re: [Freedos-user] command.com (Freecom) main environment location

Att: Rugxulo Hi, > Patience, young padawan. I had to look that padawan up on wOOkipedia (not a typo!) :=) > Things like this take time and thought (and research and testing). Accepted. I've passed the message, now letting things ripen (and tone down

Re: [Freedos-user] command.com (Freecom) main environment location

>> you would end up with >>    3   K COMMAND.COM, (resident part) >>    100 K FREE         (remainders of freecom before resizing) >>    1   K   command.com environment (at ~1800:0) > How lame ! Of course, your Freecom shall have to play a minimum game of > releasing its own initialisation code an

Re: [Freedos-user] command.com (Freecom) main environment location

Hi, On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Bertho Grandpied wrote: > > What is the legal status of 4DOS in relation to FreeDOS ? There's a fully > baked > product, could it become /the/ main FD shell ? Unlikely to become the main shell (though that's not my decision anyways). I'm honestly not sure how

Re: [Freedos-user] command.com (Freecom) main environment location

>> You may call me Czerno, Herr Ehlert > your email signature reads "Bertho Grandpied " > that translates to Bob Bigfoot, right ? Ask Yahoo!... Then if you insist on calling me Bertho, be my guest. >> And EVEN if for some reason HMA was not available or not given to >> the DOS kernel, what makes

Re: [Freedos-user] command.com (Freecom) main environment location

Hi, On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 5:30 AM, Bertho Grandpied wrote: > > I must say, though, the reception which I got from Herr Ehlert on this list > is making me wonder whether spontaneous contributions made in > good faith are welcome and / or opportune. Patience, young padawan. Things like this take

Re: [Freedos-user] command.com (Freecom) main environment location

>> Bertho ???, > You may call me Czerno, Herr Ehlert your email signature reads "Bertho Grandpied " that translates to Bob Bigfoot, right ? >>> You can't escape having to explain what "adverse effects" you were evoking, >>> now anyway. >> command.com is a 'normal' program. just allocating DOS

Re: [Freedos-user] command.com (Freecom) main environment location

> Bertho ???, You may call me Czerno, Herr Ehlert >> You can't escape having to explain what "adverse effects" you were evoking, >> now anyway. > command.com is a 'normal' program. just allocating DOS memory will > give you an environment at ~1800:0. not such a good idea. You are joking, Her

Re: [Freedos-user] command.com (Freecom) main environment location

Hi, Eric Auer ! > PS: XBDA and moving it is not necessarily trivial. Our EBDA mover is working flawlessly AFAICT.Old code of mine actually, written for MSDOS 5+ before MS introduced the switches=/E option (or before I was aware of the switch?). Last week when I had discovered that the respecti