Re: [Freedos-user] MEMA / MEM /EMM386 error

2004-03-18 Thread Matthias Paul
On 2004-03-17, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: >> device=3Demm386.exe noems >> mema /e -> MEM: error: EMM call 41h > > This is because EMM returns no page frame. Well... May be, this > shouldn't be an error (I remember someone says that we may work with > EMS without page frame). It is possible to use E

Re: [Freedos-user] MEMA / MEM /EMM386 error

2004-03-18 Thread Matthias Paul
On 2004-03-17, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > Michael, no interest in the Vmware workaround (scan for Vmware magic > number)? > > device=emm386.exe noems Have I missed something? I'm not Michael, but anyway, could you elaborate on what you mean by "Vmware workaround" above? Always interested to learn abo

[Freedos-user] High serial port speeds of 2/4/8 * 115.2 kbps

2004-03-12 Thread Matthias Paul
On 2004-03-10, Eric Auer wrote: > some chipsets use extra division by up to 8 to generate the > serial port clock, and the above software can reduce the > divisor to reach > 115.2 kbps. Do not expect that to run > with long cables or reliably or something :-). I use an almost 20 meters long seria

[Freedos-user] FYI: JP Software removed support for startup option /Y in 4DOS

2004-03-12 Thread Matthias Paul
[Somehow, the mail seems to have vanished on it's way into the list, so I am resending it.] Hi folks, I assume that quite a few DOS users inhere use JP Software's otherwise excellent command processor 4DOS.COM as replacement for COMMAND.COM or FREECOM. It happens that with one of their recent bu

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: problem with dosgir

2004-03-12 Thread Matthias Paul
[Resend] On 2004-03-05, Henrique (BuSab) wrote: >> On DISPLAY's side there's another thing that could be done: the fonts >> can be set in a format called DR-FONTs, where they are compressed. >> However, I don't know much about this format, and I don't know if >> Henrique is able to create CPIs th