[Freedos-user] DOSBox I/O issue follow-up

2016-03-22 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hello Eric (and anyone else who is interested), Here is a little proof-of-concept demonstration of the issue regarding I/O redirection in DOSBox. ; begin example code ; NASM 2.11.08 for DOS ; Jerome Shidel, Public Domain. use16 cpu 8086 org 0x100 StdPassThru: mov ah, 0x0b; DOS C

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 BETA, Coming soon--ish.

2016-03-22 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hello Eric, > please explain what goes wrong with Dosbox, Freecom and V8: Basically, the current DOSBox doesn't really support Stdin/out I/O redirection. It mostly seems to work once FreeCOM is loaded. However, testing if input is waiting on Stdin, it always replies yes when the data is piped i

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 BETA, Coming soon--ish.

2016-03-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jerome, please explain what goes wrong with Dosbox, Freecom and V8: It might go wrong in the same way in other situations, so it may be better to always use the safe Dosbox compatible configuration. Is it about virtual drives? Dosemu and Qemu also have features to simulate non-diskimage drive

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 BETA, Coming soon--ish.

2016-03-22 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
Hello All, This is mostly a status update regarding the FreeDOS 1.2 BETA release. There have been no installer related issues reported with the current FDI Preview 14 and it is technically ready for the BETA release. However, I intend on implementing a couple things prior to that release. They