Re: [Freedos-user] (fwd) FDXMS Sources.

2006-05-18 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Wed, 10 May 2006, Johnson Lam wrote: Quote a few lines from his email: = I did not "model" QHIMEM after Microsoft HIMEM V2.03, like you know. QHIMEM's source or binary files are very different from V2.03 HIMEM. Disassemblies may only confuse folks. But they are welcome to try. =

Re: [Freedos-user] (fwd) FDXMS Sources.

2006-05-10 Thread Johnson Lam
On Tue, 9 May 2006 21:20:25 +1200 (NZST), you wrote: Bart, >Ok, in that case, what is the bugzilla bug number? I think people are >wondering here what this stuff is all about, without any real >(reproduceable) technical details given. I'm sorry, from the very beginning I don't know how to use

Re: [Freedos-user] (fwd) FDXMS Sources.

2006-05-09 Thread Florian Xaver
I only see this emails and am frustrated. If all of these words would be code, FreeDOS 1.0 would have been released ;-) bye flo Johnson Lam wrote: On Tue, 9 May 2006 10:14:42 +0200, you wrote: Hi, Sorry I'm quite sick physically, got a flu and problem in right eye, may not be able to reply

Re: [Freedos-user] (fwd) FDXMS Sources.

2006-05-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Tom, the mails from Jack / Johnson actually do contain technical advice. Jack thinks that leaving interrupts disabled during a big XMS move means that interrupts from fast hardware like gigabit ethernet will be lost. So Jack recommends to split the big move into several smaller moves. Between

Re: [Freedos-user] (fwd) FDXMS Sources.

2006-05-09 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Tue, 9 May 2006, Johnson Lam wrote: Originally he found 4 bugs, this is one of them. Ok, in that case, what is the bugzilla bug number? I think people are wondering here what this stuff is all about, without any real (reproduceable) technical details given. All we can see is that someon

Re: [Freedos-user] (fwd) FDXMS Sources.

2006-05-09 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Tue, 9 May 2006, Robert Riebisch wrote: Yes. ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/softlib/mslfiles/XMS.EXE Just google a bit: deja vu: http://freedos.sourceforge.net/freedos/news/press/2000-himem.txt and the consensus was " ... Therefore you cannot derive any rights from it to change or modify it or

Re: [Freedos-user] (fwd) FDXMS Sources.

2006-05-09 Thread Johnson Lam
On Tue, 9 May 2006 10:14:42 +0200, you wrote: Hi, Sorry I'm quite sick physically, got a flu and problem in right eye, may not be able to reply within a few days. And Jim was right, this kind of email are very annoying, I'm too tired to reply. Or someone will glad to see me unsubscribe from the

Re: [Freedos-user] (fwd) FDXMS Sources.

2006-05-09 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Johnson, > If you still insist ignoring the "technical advise", I'll care no > more, it only cause the users who lost their data mourn and grinning > their teeth. technical advise is welcome. > Jack just want to warn about the "FDXMS/HIMEM interrupt not locking" > simply need to change, ye

Re: [Freedos-user] (fwd) FDXMS Sources.

2006-05-09 Thread Robert Riebisch
Eric Auer wrote: > That is indeed interesting to know. MS published the sources > of their own himem on their own servers? Why did you not tell Yes. ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/softlib/mslfiles/XMS.EXE > that before? And which license do they use? I guess we have I knew (read "guessed") that alread

Re: [Freedos-user] (fwd) FDXMS Sources.

2006-05-08 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 8 May 2006 19:57:55 -0700, you wrote: >Jack shouldn't take offense to things that half the people on the list >don't consider offensive. Everybody has a different way of expressing >themselves and others should just accept that. Eric is not only offend Jack, he offend a lot of people, bu

Re: [Freedos-user] (fwd) FDXMS Sources.

2006-05-08 Thread Blair Campbell
If you accuse Jack for his impolite, I can agree. I can only say if Eric leave Jack alone, most of the "angry" post will not appear. Jack shouldn't take offense to things that half the people on the list don't consider offensive. Everybody has a different way of expressing themselves and others

Re: [Freedos-user] (fwd) FDXMS Sources.

2006-05-08 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 08 May 2006 14:49:26 -0500, you wrote: Dear Mister, >You know, I'm _really_ tired of hearing this same rant. I'd appreciate >if you wouldn't keep reposting this to the mailing lists. It's not >productive; you know what the results are going to be, how people are >going to react. And

Re: [Freedos-user] (fwd) FDXMS Sources.

2006-05-08 Thread Blair Campbell
On 5/6/06, Johnson Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Johnson, You are free to post this on FD-Devel. They should see it. Johnson, I would highly recommend to not repost these e-mails publicly, because they are quite upsetting and completely uncalled for. If Jack says he doesn't want flame wars

Re: [Freedos-user] (fwd) FDXMS Sources.

2006-05-08 Thread Scott Mayo
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Re: [Freedos-user] (fwd) FDXMS Sources.

2006-05-08 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Johnson, > You are free to post this on FD-Devel. They should see it. ... > If Auer/DeVore/Ehlert/Lucho/Hall believe I would ever help THEM again, > after all the ABUSE directed at me on FD-User and FD-Devel, they truly > have LOST THEIR MARBLES!!! I'm tired/annoyed/pissed by this ellis g

Re: [Freedos-user] (fwd) FDXMS Sources.

2006-05-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Johnson / Jack / Jim / ..., I'm not going to tell that man ONE DAMN THING of what I know about FDXMS. I had hoped you would want FDXMS to improve. But okay, it seems like you prefer to replace it, and do want FDXMS to stay buggy. Your choice. ... after saying "the first 50 lines" ... I s

Re: [Freedos-user] (fwd) FDXMS Sources.

2006-05-08 Thread Jim Hall
Johnson: You know, I'm _really_ tired of hearing this same rant. I'd appreciate if you wouldn't keep reposting this to the mailing lists. It's not productive; you know what the results are going to be, how people are going to react. And we really don't need another flame war about this top

[Freedos-user] (fwd) FDXMS Sources.

2006-05-08 Thread Johnson Lam
Johnson, You are free to post this on FD-Devel. They should see it. Re: your private E-Mail to Auer [in which you noted my request to tell Mark Bailey to try QHIMEM, and if he inquired why, to see the first 50 lines of the FDXMS source], and given Auer's reply -- > So I could not know that Jac