Here is the IsShareInstalled patch which also does
not seem to be commited to SVN yet?? The goal is
to reduce the share install check call floods that
FreeDOS would normally cause. The side effect is
minimally later detection of share, should be fine.
Thanks for commenting :-)
Eric
diff -bur f
Hi Tom,
here is one of two diffs for patches that I have not
commited to SVN because I was waiting for review...
Topic: Handle floppy type 6 and use DF_DISKCHANGE and
DF_NOACCESS as well as InitializeAllBPBs in a way which
should help disk tools to avoid confusion about FAT1x
versus FAT32.
Ques
Hi Tom :-)
>> - int 21.1c should report invalid drives via AL (keep other regs?)
>> News here: DR-DOS modifies BX/CX/DX but not DS for inv drives.
Unfortunately I do not know to what value DR DOS sets BX/CX/DX,
only got the information that they looked kind of random...
In any case AL has to b
Eric,
>>> That was the case with the "unstable" DOS-C version 2037 (which
>>> had many features version 2036 and the upcoming 2038 don't have).
>>
>> I forgot to mention:
>> 2038 is 'upcoming' since about 2 years. it's probable stable
>> (the last changes were done by Bart, no Arkady in sight ),
>
> Does anybody know why we assumed that all compilers except
> MS C (which almost nobody uses for the kernel) would init
> BSS to 0, while at least the often-used OpenWatcom does not?
a) ALL compilers initialize BSS to 0
b) ALL compilers do this in the RTL startup code
c) there is no RTL startup
Hi Tom,
>> That was the case with the "unstable" DOS-C version 2037 (which
>> had many features version 2036 and the upcoming 2038 don't have).
>
> I forgot to mention:
> 2038 is 'upcoming' since about 2 years. it's probable stable
> (the last changes were done by Bart, no Arkady in sight ),
> mo
