Re: [Freedos-user] invalid opcode when loading mode

2008-10-05 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2008/10/4 Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> From his AUTOEXEC he does not seem to be using >> codepage 437 at all, but 850 > > As far as I understood, the number mentioned when > you load DISPLAY is about the hardware codepage, > not about the codepage loaded by DISPLAY...? Yes >> I would

Re: [Freedos-user] invalid opcode when loading mode

2008-10-04 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! It seems there was some delay in some emails here so some of my replies today might be out of context. > >> lh DISPLAY CON=(VGA,,1) > > Maybe vga,437,1 instead? Sorry that was just a guess - basically because I use the VGA,437,1 setting and it works for me :-) > From his AUTOEXEC he does no

Re: [Freedos-user] invalid opcode when loading mode

2008-10-04 Thread Der kleine Beitrag eines Computeranwenders (Users)
Hello Eric! Am Sonntag, 28. September 2008 schrieb Eric Auer: > How about COUNTRY=049,437 or COUNTRY=049 ... Thanks, I'll give it a try. As soon as my ancient i486DX-50 is running again... If the plan holds this will be next year. And it will be running FreeDOS and all those DOS programs I've mi

Re: [Freedos-user] invalid opcode when loading mode

2008-10-04 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2008/9/21 Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> prompt $p$g >> set path=a:\dos >> set NLSPATH=A:\DOS\NLS >> set LANG=PT >> >> lh DISPLAY CON=(VGA,,1) > > Maybe vga,437,1 instead? LH makes no sense without emm386... I don't see in what sense will notifying that his machine is codepage 437 help

Re: [Freedos-user] invalid opcode when loading mode

2008-09-28 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, > The idea is that after you've load it all (DISPLAY, KEYB, NLSFUNC, > ...), your only had to work it out with CHCP: > CHCP 850 True. With a kernel that supports it. If not, you do this: LH DISPLAY CON=(EGA,,1) MODE CON CP PREP=((858) D:\FDOS\cpi\EGA.CPX) MODE CON CP SEL=858 (in autoexec.

Re: [Freedos-user] invalid opcode when loading mode

2008-09-28 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2008/9/28 Der kleine Beitrag eines Computeranwenders (Users) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm a DOS user since the early 90's, I used DR DOS 5.0, later MS-DOS 7.00 and > DR-DOS/OpenDOS 7 a lot, always together with 4DOS. > I always removed DISPLAY.SYS, MODE CON ... and just left COUNTRY=49,850, >

Re: [Freedos-user] invalid opcode when loading mode

2008-09-28 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Andreas, > I always removed DISPLAY.SYS, MODE CON ... and just left > COUNTRY=49,850,C:\DOS\COUNTRY.SYS in my start-up files. How about COUNTRY=049,437 or COUNTRY=049 then, the country.sys file only adds Umlaut alphabetic sorting and Umlaut upper / lower case things and only with the unstable

Re: [Freedos-user] invalid opcode when loading mode

2008-09-28 Thread Der kleine Beitrag eines Computeranwenders (Users)
Am Sonntag, 28. September 2008 schrieb Aitor Santamaría: > Hello Andreas, Hello Aitor! > Apparently not, as we can read in one of my favourites posts on this > topic by Matthias Paul (from whom we haven't read much lately, and > that hopefully will be there ;)). > > http://www.freedos.org/freedos/

Re: [Freedos-user] invalid opcode when loading mode

2008-09-28 Thread Aitor Santamaría
2008/9/28 Der kleine Beitrag eines Computeranwenders (Users) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Geraldo, the parameter here is to describe how your *hardware* is, >> which is most likely to be 437. >> If you put a 850 there, you are saying that your hardware already has >> 850 encoded, and thus you wouldn't e

Re: [Freedos-user] invalid opcode when loading mode

2008-09-28 Thread Der kleine Beitrag eines Computeranwenders (Users)
Hi! Am Sonntag, 28. September 2008 schrieb Aitor Santamaría: > 2008/9/21 Geraldo Netto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> lh DISPLAY CON=(VGA,,1) > >> > >> Maybe vga,437,1 instead? LH makes no sense without emm386... > > > > actually i would use it with 850 cp which pt-br, it seems to 'run > > better' wit

Re: [Freedos-user] invalid opcode when loading mode

2008-09-28 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2008/9/21 Geraldo Netto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> lh DISPLAY CON=(VGA,,1) >> >> Maybe vga,437,1 instead? LH makes no sense without emm386... > > actually i would use it with 850 cp which pt-br, it seems to 'run > better' with no value > ie: if i try to use display con=(vga,850,1) the screen

Re: [Freedos-user] invalid opcode when loading mode

2008-09-24 Thread Alain M.
There are a lot of problems with different compilers, including bugs. What I use is: TZ=X0Y0 it defines a TimeZone with localtime=UTC and no daylight save time, all explicitly. AFAIK it makes everything local time... Alain Eric Auer escreveu: > Hi! > set TZ=X)Y) >>> Do not set TZ, it co

Re: [Freedos-user] invalid opcode when loading mode

2008-09-24 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > > > set TZ=X)Y) > > Do not set TZ, it confuses info-zip zip and unzip. > However, unzip32 will complain about TZ absent. You can ignore that message :-) > I have set up TZ and variable confuse nobody. As far as I know, there is a known bug in DOS (un)zip timezone handling: If you do not

Re: [Freedos-user] invalid opcode when loading mode

2008-09-23 Thread D.A.
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Eric Auer wrote: > > set TZ=X)Y) > Do not set TZ, it confuses info-zip zip and unzip. However, unzip32 will complain about TZ absent. I have set up TZ and variable confuse nobody. -- D.A. id 0xC4D22CDD fp 8F52 8619 6918 DAE3 5E61 3146 C89F BDB8 C4D2 2CDD -

Re: [Freedos-user] invalid opcode when loading mode

2008-09-21 Thread Geraldo Netto
Eeheh! Thanks Eric! > [when running MODE CON CODEPAGE ... you get this?] yep >> invalid opcode at 000B 0002 >> 03C8 259F 044E 2AEB 0667 034A FEF8 >> 0647 >> >> kernel from Rugxulo: >> http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/fatsecurity-binaries.zip >> >> autoexec.bat: >> @echo off >> set

Re: [Freedos-user] invalid opcode when loading mode

2008-09-21 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! [when running MODE CON CODEPAGE ... you get this?] > invalid opcode at 000B 0002 > 03C8 259F 044E 2AEB 0667 034A FEF8 > 0647 > > kernel from Rugxulo: > http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/fatsecurity-binaries.zip > > autoexec.bat: > @echo off > set TZ=X)Y) Do not set TZ, it confus