Hi,
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 4:47 AM, daniele wrote:
>
> is there any news about having FreeDOS Xcopy work with LFN-Support?
> I'm using DOSLFN:
> but when xcopying file names are kept short.
There was a similar thread about two years ago where several of us
gave some suggestions:
http://sourcef
Hi,
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 5:17 PM, Louis Santillan wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Jim Hall wrote:
>>
>> If Jack has reviewed the source code for MS-DOS HIMEM and MS-DOS
>> EMM386, then we should not use any memory manager written by him.
>
> Sadly, this seems exactly what jack wants
Hi,
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
> On 1/14/2016 4:20 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
>> Linus Torvalds heavily studied and used Minix sources, which was a
>> UNIX (tm) clone. It was not free/libre at all, they were commercially
>> selling it with their text book about OSes.
>
> Sorry, bu
On 1/14/2016 4:20 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
> Linus Torvalds heavily studied and used Minix sources, which was a
> UNIX (tm) clone. It was not free/libre at all, they were commercially
> selling it with their text book about OSes.
Sorry, but that is not correct. Minix was distributed by Tanenbaum (who
Hi,
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Jim Hall wrote:
>
> I am not a lawyer, but over time I have received advice from lawyers.
Jim, at risk of sounding very naive (or very stubborn), there's
absolutely no reason to worry about things like this without some kind
of official court judgement direc
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 7:25 PM, Bret Johnson wrote:
> There's also a question of the timing, since I think Jack wrote and released
> those programs and source code before the MS-DOS source code was released
> (unless Jack had gotten access to some MS source code earlier than that). I
> also t
Excerpt from Eric Auer:
> Absolutely NOT TRUE! "V86" mode was created by Intel to provide a
> way of (a) running 16-bit programs on 32-bit systems, (B) providing
> protection for the system from such programs. EMS hardware is NOT
> "simulated" but is REQUIRED to access extended memory, which i
Hi everybody
is there any news about having FreeDOS Xcopy work with LFN-Support?
I'm using DOSLFN:
http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=doslfn
but when xcopying file names are kept short.
Thanks
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> I am concerned by this statement from Jack's email: "Take a look at
> the sources for Microsoft HIMEM or EMM386, as I have…" This is the
> first I was aware that Jack had reviewed any source code from
> Microsoft.
Microsoft made the source for HIMEM.SYS available to programmers in
1988.
"Febru
Hi Jim,
> I am concerned by this statement from Jack's email: "Take a look at
> the sources for Microsoft HIMEM or EMM386, as I have..." This is the
> first I was aware that Jack had reviewed any source code from
> Microsoft.
...
> When Microsoft released the source code to an earlier version o
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