Re: [Freedos-user] Writing Utilities for FreeDOS

2004-04-25 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 24-Апр-2004 18:55 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jay Maus) wrote to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: JM> Also, do I need a native FreeDOS environment to compile in, or can I JM> cross-compile with gcc? No, you can't. Also as with VC and BCB - all them don't support 16-bit target platform. JM> Also also, is th

Re: [Freedos-user] Writing Utilities for FreeDOS

2004-04-25 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Jay Maus escribió: Wow, I'm impressed by all the discussion this has sparked. It's good to see an active dev community. So I think I'm nearly ready to start futzing around with FreeDOS code, but it's still a little foreign to me: I'm used to 32-bit Windows C++. In Visual Studio, no less. Are

Re: [Freedos-user] Writing Utilities for FreeDOS

2004-04-25 Thread Yann Bénigot
Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze wrote: Jay Maus wrote: Wow, I'm impressed by all the discussion this has sparked. It's good to see an active dev community. So I think I'm nearly ready to start futzing around with FreeDOS code, but it's still a little foreign to me: I'm used to 32-bit Windows C+

Re: [Freedos-user] Writing Utilities for FreeDOS

2004-04-24 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Jay Maus wrote: Wow, I'm impressed by all the discussion this has sparked. It's good to see an active dev community. So I think I'm nearly ready to start futzing around with FreeDOS code, but it's still a little foreign to me: I'm used to 32-bit Windows C++. In Visual Studio, no less. Are there an

Re: [Freedos-user] Writing Utilities for FreeDOS

2004-04-24 Thread Nicholas Basso
essor in MS-DOS style (since FreeDOS is mostly compatible the calls should mostly be the same =) ). Good luck, Jay. - Original Message - From: "Jay Maus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 7:55 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Wr

Re: [Freedos-user] Writing Utilities for FreeDOS

2004-04-24 Thread Jay Maus
Wow, I'm impressed by all the discussion this has sparked. It's good to see an active dev community. So I think I'm nearly ready to start futzing around with FreeDOS code, but it's still a little foreign to me: I'm used to 32-bit Windows C++. In Visual Studio, no less. Are there any good books or o

Re: [Freedos-user] Writing Utilities for FreeDOS

2004-04-23 Thread Michael Devore
At 05:26 AM 4/24/2004 +0200, Bernd Blaauw wrote: >Michael Devore schreef: > >>DOS can deal with blocks down to 16 bytes, so you could probably run UMB size down >>that low, >> although the overhead there wouldn't be worth it. But 1K (or less) is feasible. >> It's a matter of how hard you want to

Re: [Freedos-user] Writing Utilities for FreeDOS

2004-04-23 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Michael Devore schreef: DOS can deal with blocks down to 16 bytes, so you could probably run UMB size down that low, > although the overhead there wouldn't be worth it. But 1K (or less) is feasible. > It's a matter of how hard you want to squeeze memory and how much risk you're willing to accept

Re: [Freedos-user] Writing Utilities for FreeDOS

2004-04-23 Thread Michael Devore
At 04:50 AM 4/24/2004 +0200, Bernd Blaauw wrote: >smallest allowable blocksize seems to be 4KB, >so I'd like a utility which can check each 4KB. >UMBPCI can do this right now (and even use it), >UMBCHK cannot (16KB only), >Emm386 I'm not sure if it can check in 4KB blocks, >but it can use no small

Re: [Freedos-user] Writing Utilities for FreeDOS

2004-04-23 Thread Bernd Blaauw
smallest allowable blocksize seems to be 4KB, so I'd like a utility which can check each 4KB. UMBPCI can do this right now (and even use it), UMBCHK cannot (16KB only), Emm386 I'm not sure if it can check in 4KB blocks, but it can use no smaller than 16KB blocks. fine by me, but still I'd like to k

Re: [Freedos-user] Writing Utilities for FreeDOS

2004-04-23 Thread Michael Devore
At 03:52 AM 4/24/2004 +0200, Bernd Blaauw wrote: another challenge might be to check 4KB blocks of upper memory if they can be used for EMM386, >just like UMBPCI (specifically: the UMBCHK program) does. >current EMM386 sticks to 16KB blocks, current UMBCHK also, UMBPCI can use 4KB blocks, >but I'd

Re: [Freedos-user] Writing Utilities for FreeDOS

2004-04-23 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Jay Maus schreef: This whole File Search Utility thread has gotten me thinking about DOS programming. I program mainly in either Win32 C++ for apps or Perl for scripts. However, I've played around with DOS C programming from time to time, and would like some 'real-world exercises', so to speak. So,

Re: [Freedos-user] Writing Utilities for FreeDOS

2004-04-23 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi Jay, The TODO list for FreeDOS 1.0 would be a place to start. Just mind that some of them are quite a technical stuff that may require some DOS technical reading before getting into that (see the freedos.org main place) (see in particular the currently unmaintained PRINT? Mabe you'd like it

[Freedos-user] Writing Utilities for FreeDOS

2004-04-22 Thread Jay Maus
This whole File Search Utility thread has gotten me thinking about DOS programming. I program mainly in either Win32 C++ for apps or Perl for scripts. However, I've played around with DOS C programming from time to time, and would like some 'real-world exercises', so to speak. So, is there a list