At 02:51 PM 7/28/2004 -0500, Jim Hall wrote:
Ok.
Since it's already been released, if it stayed as-is for now BUT IS CLEARLY DOCUMENTED POST-1.0 when the option changed definition, that should be fine for the end-users.
Just so people don't lose the big picture here: The majority of FreeDOS EMM386 incompatibilities with people's existing MS configurations won't have anything to do with ALTBOOT, present or not. It's a minor player in the options, existing for probably a handful of applications (judging by bug reports).
Biggest serious difference is rather than the Microsoft approach of using a bare number to specify EMS allocation amount, FreeDOS uses EMM=####. It is a fundamental change with no point of agreement.
Second, FreeDOS EMM386 uses '/V' or '/VERBOSE' option instead of the MS-standard V or VERBOSE. In fact, it's the only option that uses a '/', except for matching Microsoft's weird '/P' exception to the rule. I imagine that in a future post-1.0 version, EMM386 parsing would be modified to accept a slash as an optional leading character, rather than warning on it for everything but its required presence in '/VERBOSE'.
I'm not saying the above is bad or should necessarily changed, but mentioned it for perspective.
------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
