Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-07 Thread dos386
Jim wrote: > I like this one: > > "2011-08-02 18:09:06" just make it the default ;-) cm wrote: > Except if a 12-hour time format is desired no point ;-) -- BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA Th

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-07 Thread cm
> Also, using the all-numeric representation ("2011-08-02 18:09:06") > makes DIR dead simple for localization. There are no strings to > replace. Except if a 12-hour time format is desired. Regards, Christian -- BlackBer

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-06 Thread Jim Hall
>> How's DIR gonna sort by date when AUG goes before JUL > > Don't spell the month out if there is a risk of sort, see older post: I like this one: > "2011-08-02 18:09:06" But not these: > "2011-08(Aug)-02 (Tue) 18:09:06" (sorts well) > > or > > "2011-Aug-02 Tue 18:09:06" (doesn't sort well) >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-06 Thread dos386
> > Why not 18'446'744'073'709'551'615 ??? Comma and dot > > are usually used to separate fractional part: PI = 3.14159265358979 > That's a nice idea, though at first glance a bit odd looking. Any > systems using this upper [`] or ['] ? FASM :-) Using it in all my sources :-) The ASCII code is 39.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-04 Thread cm
>> Why not 18'446'744'073'709'551'615 ??? Comma and dot >> are usually used to separate fractional part: PI = 3.14159265358979 > > That's a nice idea, though at first glance a bit odd looking. Any > systems using this upper [`] or ['] ? I considered adding the single quote <'> as separator to my d

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-04 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 4-8-2011 14:32, dos386 schreef: >> * number: nnn.nnn.nnn,xyz (european) > > Why not 18'446'744'073'709'551'615 ??? Comma and dot > are usually used to separate fractional part: PI = 3.14159265358979 That's a nice idea, though at first glance a bit odd looking. Any systems using this upper [`]

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-04 Thread Single Stage to Orbit
On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 06:10 -0700, dos386 wrote: > "2011-08-02 18:09:06" My vote's on the ISO 8601 standard (like above) - it makes it easy to sort directories in date order. I recommend FreeDOS adopts the ISO 8601 standard, and only convert dates for humans based on their country/locale. -- Ta

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-04 Thread David C. Kerber
> -Original Message- > From: dos386 [mailto:dos...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 9:10 AM > To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks. > > > > "2011-Aug-02 Tue 18:09:06

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-04 Thread dos386
> > "2011-Aug-02 Tue 18:09:06" > That one doesn't sort very well either (puts April next to August) Indeed :-( so "2011-08-02 18:09:06" or "2011-08(Aug)-02 (Tue) 18:09:06" -- BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, S

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-04 Thread David C. Kerber
> -Original Message- > From: dos386 [mailto:dos...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 8:32 AM > To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks. ... > > and use AM/PM time, e.g.: > >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-04 Thread dos386
> * number: nnn.nnn.nnn,xyz (european) Why not 18'446'744'073'709'551'615 ??? Comma and dot are usually used to separate fractional part: PI = 3.14159265358979 > * separater: ehm no idea. Of who or what ? > * keyboard: QWERTY with EURO (858 thus), still not managed to get a > euro-sign in DOS b

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-02 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > Op 2-8-2011 14:05, dos386 schreef: > > I'd prefer a default of: > * date: MMDD (Japanese notation, right?) > * time: HHMMSS > * number: nnn.nnn.nnn,xyz (european) > * separater: ehm no idea. > * keyboard: QWERTY with EURO (858 thus), s

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-02 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 2-8-2011 14:05, dos386 schreef: >> ... or all the other date formattings > > No point of existence ;-) > >> German dd.mm. hh:mm 1.000,00 for COUNTRY >> than BIOS default US QWERTY) are totally different > > I prefer to keep things simple (QWERTY, "@" and "\" discoverable) > and convenient (Y

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-02 Thread e . auer
Hi dos386, >> ... or all the other date formattings > > No point of existence ;-) I hope zou do not think that about other countries as well... >> German dd.mm. hh:mm 1.000,00 for COUNTRY >> than BIOS default US QWERTY) are totally different > > I prefer to keep things simple (QWERTY, "@" a

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-02 Thread dos386
> ... or all the other date formattings No point of existence ;-) > German dd.mm. hh:mm 1.000,00 for COUNTRY > than BIOS default US QWERTY) are totally different I prefer to keep things simple (QWERTY, "@" and "\" discoverable) and convenient (-MM-DD HH:MM:SS) - no need for messing up ev

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-01 Thread e . auer
Hi Bernd, Dos386, > I'd like to see -MM-DD (with dashes) and without COUNTRY. ... or Japanese MMDD as Bernd mentioned ... >> makes sorting files by date so much easier. > > :-) ...or all the other date formattings: You can just set your country depending on your taste. As long as you d

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-07-30 Thread dos386
I'd like to see -MM-DD (with dashes) and without COUNTRY. > makes sorting files by date so much easier. :-) -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask f

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-07-30 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 30-7-2011 15:05, Zbigniew schreef: >> Another one: all dates should be -MM-DD and times without the >> silly "a" and "p" > > ...or could respect the convention: > - when dash used as separator - date is -MM-DD > - when dot - date format is DD.MM. > - when slash - the format is MM/DD/

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-07-30 Thread Zbigniew
2011/7/30, dos386: > Another one: all dates should be -MM-DD and times without the > silly "a" and "p" ...or could respect the convention: - when dash used as separator - date is -MM-DD - when dot - date format is DD.MM. - when slash - the format is MM/DD/ Such way it could be mo

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-07-30 Thread dos386
> intentionally, as far as I remember for mimicking MS style EDR-DOS doesn't have this bug ;-) > If MS COMMAND.COM for DOS didn't have a setting for 4-digit year Another one: all dates should be -MM-DD and times without the silly "a" and "p" -- ~~~ wow ~~~ --

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-07-29 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 29-7-2011 13:22, Eric Auer schreef: > That is not a bug, dos386. FreeCOM command.com DIR does this > intentionally, as far as I remember for mimicking MS style, > which in turn might be necessary for some older batch files. > > However, I understand your point, so maybe we could either > make th

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-07-29 Thread Eric Auer
Hi for the third, > IIRC I had reported this BUG some time ago ... if volume is > empty, I want to see how much space for bloat I have ;-) That is not a bug, dos386. FreeCOM command.com DIR does this intentionally, as far as I remember for mimicking MS style, which in turn might be necessary for

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-07-29 Thread dos386
IIRC I had reported this BUG some time ago ... if volume is empty, I want to see how much space for bloat I have ;-) -- ~~~ wow ~~~ -- Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't a

[Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-07-23 Thread Juan Castro
DIR command on a floppy disk with files: C:\>dir a: O volume no drive A e FDOSFLOPPY O Numero de Serie do volume e 0F22-0808 Diretorio de A:\ FDAUTO BAT 1,009 07-24-2011 12:29a FDCONFIG SYS 780 07-17-2011 3:38a 2 arquivo(s) 1,789 bytes 0 dir(s

Re: [Freedos-user] freecom portuguese brazilian translation recovery

2008-07-10 Thread Alain M.
Eric Auer escreveu: > I found a binary copy of a Brazilian Portuguese freecom > command.com (ca 11/2005 or older) in my archives... This > is, as far as I remember, from Alain or Henrique who lost > his source text file... That was me :) all my machines were stolen the same weekend :( > So I ex

[Freedos-user] freecom portuguese brazilian translation recovery

2008-07-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi all, I found a binary copy of a Brazilian Portuguese freecom command.com (ca 11/2005 or older) in my archives... This is, as far as I remember, from Alain or Henrique who lost his source text file... So I extracted all text strings from the binary, preserving the accented chars in the DOS cod

[Freedos-user] FreeCOM memory allocation error with SHSUCDX

2006-04-15 Thread John Hupp
Hello, all!   On 3 different old computers (486 to Pentium 100 - all with at least 16 MB), I installed the new Service Release 2 from the bootable CD.  I installed on either FAT16 or FAT32 partitions (1 to 2 GB) created by FreeDOS.  All of the installations were error-free.   On all 3 machine

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCOM ^Z in copy con indeed broken

2005-10-31 Thread Blair Campbell
> Which version? Kernel 2.0.35 stable (I think) with FreeCOM 0.84pre. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today * Register for a JBoss Training Course Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCOM ^Z in copy con indeed broken

2005-10-31 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:53:37 -0800, you wrote: Hi Blair, >> I don't see it, with a quick test (of the stable cvs branch kernel). >Works for me too. Which version? I want to test again with the identical version. Rgds, Johnson. --- This SF.N

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCOM ^Z in copy con indeed broken

2005-10-30 Thread Blair Campbell
> I don't see it, with a quick test (of the stable cvs branch kernel). Works for me too. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today * Register for a JBoss Training Course Free Certification Exam for All Training At

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCOM ^Z in copy con indeed broken

2005-10-21 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Eric Auer wrote: Hi, odd, while I remembered ^Z to be working, it actually is broken when testing in Dosemu and Bochs, with FreeCOM versions 0.82pl1, 0.82pl3 and 0.84-pre. This really should not happen :-(. Copy con test.txt type something ^Z --> does not end the copy con

[Freedos-user] FreeCOM ^Z in copy con indeed broken

2005-10-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, odd, while I remembered ^Z to be working, it actually is broken when testing in Dosemu and Bochs, with FreeCOM versions 0.82pl1, 0.82pl3 and 0.84-pre. This really should not happen :-(. Copy con test.txt type something ^Z --> does not end the copy con (^Z at start of line should do that!). E

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCOM

2005-10-20 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Henrique Peron schreef: Hi all, before anyone asks: after reading this, I used FD-KEYB (under MS-DOS), tried "copy con test.txt", typed something, hit + and it worked fine. MS shell will probably have CTRL-Z working anyway. your post means KEYB does not change any ctrl-z behaviour. FreeC

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCOM

2005-10-20 Thread Henrique Peron
9:39 AM Subject: [Freedos-user] FreeCOM On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 08:44:04 -0400, you wrote: >... and Arkady's >> FreeCOM. >... > >What changes are in this? and where is it? I'm not very sure, because I got the binary only without document. But what I know is this version

[Freedos-user] FreeCOM

2005-10-20 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 08:44:04 -0400, you wrote: >... and Arkady's >> FreeCOM. >... > >What changes are in this? and where is it? I'm not very sure, because I got the binary only without document. But what I know is this version implemented CTRL+arrow keys, before this FreeCOM have none. Also I n

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCOM 0.84-Pre

2005-08-13 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Johnson Lam wrote: On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 15:08:26 -0400, you wrote: ... I've tested the CMDXMS.HEAD for a period of time, it's very stable thanks for testing I updated the descriptions a little, so hopefully it is clearer which are the recommended versions for more general testing/use.

[Freedos-user] FreeCOM 0.84-Pre

2005-08-13 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 15:08:26 -0400, you wrote: Hi Kenneth, >FreeCom only has one branch that I touch (HEAD is just cvs terminology >for the primary branch); though other branches do exist (state unknown >and/or already merged into HEAD). I've tested the CMDXMS.HEAD for a period of time, it's v

Re: [Freedos-user] freecom compile errors

2005-06-04 Thread Tom Lee Mullins
Kenneth J. Davis wrote: Tom Lee Mullins wrote: " Hello All, I am trying to complie the freecom source using all the tools given by them on the site but i am receiving the error.. no such command or file as "make" i have turboc 1.01 and nasm and all the things given by the site.. i al

Re: [Freedos-user] freecom compile errors

2005-06-04 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Tom Lee Mullins wrote: " Hello All, I am trying to complie the freecom source using all the tools given by them on the site but i am receiving the error.. no such command or file as "make" i have turboc 1.01 and nasm and all the things given by the site.. i also have installed the late

[Freedos-user] freecom compile errors

2005-06-03 Thread Tom Lee Mullins
" Hello All, I am trying to complie the freecom source using all the tools given by them on the site but i am receiving the error.. no such command or file as "make" i have turboc 1.01 and nasm and all the things given by the site.. i also have installed the latest freedos on my hard dis

Re: [Freedos-user] freecom Was: Re:Edlin 2.4 italian binary

2005-02-21 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 16-Фев-2005 14:27 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (AITOR SANTAMARIA MERINO) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >> Arkady, SYS C: is for transferring systemfiles from current drive (perhaps >> even directory) to C: and writing bootsector. ASM> IIRC bootsector is not overwritten, unless you do /MB

Re: [Freedos-user] freecom Was: Re:Edlin 2.4 italian binary

2005-02-16 Thread AITOR SANTAMARIA MERINO
Hi, Bernd Blaauw escribió: > by the way, would be nice if daily kernel builds also include batchfile for SYS A: /BOOTONLY , copying kernel, and optionally FreeCOM/shell. Now I first have to go to commandline to use SYS A: >>> >>> >> >> I think, any irrever

Re: [Freedos-user] freecom Was: Re:Edlin 2.4 italian binary

2005-02-14 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 14-Фев-2005 22:10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: by the way, would be nice if daily kernel builds also include batchfile for SYS A: /BOOTONLY , copying kernel, and optionally FreeCOM/shell. Now I first have to go to commandline to use

Re: [Freedos-user] freecom Was: Re:Edlin 2.4 italian binary

2005-02-14 Thread Bernd Blaauw
by the way, would be nice if daily kernel builds also include batchfile for SYS A: /BOOTONLY , copying kernel, and optionally FreeCOM/shell. Now I first have to go to commandline to use SYS A: I think, any irreversible actions should be ommited as much, as possible. And I think, typing

Re: [Freedos-user] freecom Was: Re:Edlin 2.4 italian binary

2005-02-14 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 12-Фев-2005 01:44 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth J. Davis) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >> by the way, would be nice if daily kernel builds also include batchfile >> for SYS A: /BOOTONLY , copying kernel, and optionally FreeCOM/shell. >> Now I first have to go to commandline to us

[Freedos-user] freecom Was: Re:Edlin 2.4 italian binary

2005-02-11 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Bernd Blaauw wrote: Kenneth J. Davis schreef: Does this includes ITALIAN.ERR also? .ERR files are only generated by FIXSTRS if translation is not 100% correct, if I remember correctly. It's different from the 'critical error handler'. actually strings.log contains the missing or extra strings, s