Re: [Freedos-user] State of native FD 1.1 programs support for FAT32?

2016-02-24 Thread Don Flowers
Whatever issues I have found have been totally unrelated to FAT32 (well today, I found an installer that wouldn't install to a FAT32 partition, but that was a rare find); most issues I have are of the Freecom variety I have to LOADFIX way too many programs, but .082 fixes that for my most stubborn

Re: [Freedos-user] Poor mouse pointer visibility in Edit

2016-02-24 Thread Don Flowers
I had forgotten how bad that cursor is in EDIT, I use SETEDIT for most everything these days. I just tried a no-blink utility and that helps a bit more, but not enough to waste the memory. On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 8:06 PM, John Hupp wrote: > I tried this today. It improves the pointer situation

[Freedos-user] State of native FD 1.1 programs support for FAT32?

2016-02-24 Thread John Hupp
I haven't looked at this question for a long time so it probably bears asking again. I have been using 2GB FAT16 partitions because of my recollection that some of the FreeDOS programs didn't support FAT32 properly. I'm sorry I don't have notes on the particulars, just a recollection of my con

Re: [Freedos-user] Poor mouse pointer visibility in Edit

2016-02-24 Thread John Hupp
I tried this today. It improves the pointer situation in Edit, but the arrow gets chopped up a lot as I move it around. Something about Edit seems to be hostile to pointers. Nothing else looks nearly so bad. But for the degree of improvement in Edit, it sits in memory all the time occupyin