Re: [Freedos-devel] UPX/UCL Hell

2004-03-22 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
Hola Aitor! I'd like to ask if someone has successfully compiled UPX/UCL. I did this last year with DJGPP 3.02, and could try UPX 1.91 with DJGPP 3.33, but I don't think it's worth! See my post at http://upx.sourceforge.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=255 (quoted below). Lucho Posted: Wed May 14, 20

[Freedos-devel] Re: [announce] help hhstndrd 1.0.3

2004-03-22 Thread Robert Platt
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[Freedos-devel] [announce] help hhstndrd 1.0.3

2004-03-22 Thread Robert Platt
Just loaded up a new version of HTML Help. Version 1.0.3 adds a search function. M$ Help had one, so its only right that FreeDOS Help should have one. In spite of adding this big new feature, there have been various code improvements which means a *decrease* in binary size... cool!

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Internationalisation of HTML Help

2004-03-22 Thread Robert Platt
OK, I'll end up in a giant mess if I try to put code page detection and information into HELP. I've been looking at things all wrong. Why not use the catalogues to translate the character entities for a given language, and stop worrying about code pages altogether? If a catalogue is being used, H

Re: [Freedos-devel] UPX/UCL Hell

2004-03-22 Thread Alain
Hi tom, IFF it's ok to compile a GPL program with any compiler of your choice, and distribute it, The problem is not the compiler but the library. On clear example is (in Linux) if you use GCC/GPP you can make a comercial program, but you cannot include it's _library_ because it's GPL. In

Re: [Freedos-devel] Executable compresison, part II

2004-03-22 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 17:38:00 +0200, you wrote: Hi Lucho, >> Now maintained by hobbist, but almost no update except the core. This page claimed there's a release of 1.75 but still nothing out yet: http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc >I mean what do you mean by "dropped"? Abandoned? Abandoned. Plea

Re: [Freedos-devel] UPX/UCL Hell

2004-03-22 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Bart Oldeman escribió: On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: I'd like to ask if someone has successfully compiled UPX/UCL. yes, but only on Linux. of those that I have corrected where due to things such as using SYSLIMITS.H not being present (it was SYSLIMIT.H, I guess t

Re: [Freedos-devel] UPX/UCL Hell

2004-03-22 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Bart, many thanks, you are absolutely right, I'll try and let you know. tom ehlert escribió: ASM> But anyway, and in order to avoid discrepancies, I'd like to use UPX/UCL ASM> if available Seems GPL forces you to use second best choice (similar to choosing LINUX) However, after rereading the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Internationalisation of HTML Help

2004-03-22 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 22-Мар-2004 13:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Henrique Peron) wrote to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: HP> Would it help? (Do you have a program to browse DOS fonts?) I have. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutori

Re: [Freedos-devel] UPX/UCL Hell

2004-03-22 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, tom ehlert wrote: > ASM> But anyway, and in order to avoid discrepancies, I'd like to use UPX/UCL > ASM> if available > > Seems GPL forces you to use second best choice > (similar to choosing LINUX) Hmm. What's the best choice then? Solaris? FreeBSD? FreeDOS? For whom? :) Bu

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: [Freedos-cvs] kernel/kernel [...] dsk.c,1.35,1.36

2004-03-22 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Luchezar Georgiev wrote: > > if (hd(pddt->ddt_descflags) && !(pddt->ddt_descflags & DF_CHANGELINE)) > > Thanks! As hd(x) is #defined as ((x) & DF_FIXED), the above can be > optimised to: > > if ((pddt->ddt_descflags & (DF_FIXED | DF_CHANGELINE)) == DF_FIXED) Hmm, looks like I

Re: [Freedos-devel] UPX/UCL Hell

2004-03-22 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: > I'd like to ask if someone has successfully compiled UPX/UCL. yes, but only on Linux. > of those that I have corrected where due to things such as using > SYSLIMITS.H not being present (it was SYSLIMIT.H, I guess that to follow > DOS 8.3 file

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Internationalisation of HTML Help

2004-03-22 Thread Michal H. Tyc
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Robert Platt wrote: > Is there somewhere I can find an ASCII character map > for each code page? Please try http://www.unicode.org/ Hope this helps, Michal --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Fre

Re: [Freedos-devel] UPX/UCL Hell

2004-03-22 Thread tom ehlert
ASM> But anyway, and in order to avoid discrepancies, I'd like to use UPX/UCL ASM> if available Seems GPL forces you to use second best choice (similar to choosing LINUX) However, after rereading the *exact* GPL terms, I still consider an exepacker kind of runtime library. IFF it's ok to comp

[Freedos-devel] UPX/UCL Hell

2004-03-22 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, I'd like to ask if someone has successfully compiled UPX/UCL. I have spent several hours trying everything, and following the instructions, and whereas UCL compiled fine, it fails for UPX. As it seems I didn't download C++ in my old DJGPP distro, I updated with a minimal distro, set all the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Internationalisation of HTML Help

2004-03-22 Thread Henrique Peron
Hi Robert, > Is there somewhere I can find an ASCII character map > for each code page? It would save Eric the ordeal of > sending me a transcription ;-) I have 122 codepages ready here, though I don't have a TXT file detailing their mappings. Would it help? (Do you have a program to browse DOS f

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Internationalisation of HTML Help

2004-03-22 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
An addition... Robert Platt escribió: Is there somewhere I can find an ASCII character map for each code page? It would save Eric the ordeal of sending me a transcription ;-) If you can't map in general codepage to codepage, it's almost impossible to have a decent mapping from codepage (8bit, 25

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Internationalisation of HTML Help

2004-03-22 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Robert Platt escribió: Help is often run when the user is having problems setting up FreeDOS. Their codepage could be incorrect. Help should be robust in such circumstances. It would be great if I could detect the codepage, rather than assume it. Is there a DOS interrupt or something that cou

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Internationalisation of HTML Help

2004-03-22 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 22-Мар-2004 17:11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Platt) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: RP> Help is often run when the user is having problems setting up FreeDOS. RP> Their codepage could be incorrect. Help should be robust in such RP> circumstances. It would be great if I could detect the codepage, r

Re: [Freedos-devel] Another EMM386 release, bugfixes and enhancements

2004-03-22 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Michael Devore wrote: > I've tried QuickView Pro and a DOS extended PNG viewer and they both are > documented as using an LFB and work fine under EMM386, so we're dealing > with something beyond a simple LFB existence problem here. that's right. Quake also works in LFB modes

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Internationalisation of HTML Help

2004-03-22 Thread Robert Platt
Help is often run when the user is having problems setting up FreeDOS. Their codepage could be incorrect. Help should be robust in such circumstances. It would be great if I could detect the codepage, rather than assume it. Is there a DOS interrupt or something that could do this? Kitten: as I und

[Freedos-devel] Re: [Freedos-cvs] kernel/kernel [...] dsk.c,1.35,1.36

2004-03-22 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
if (hd(pddt->ddt_descflags) && !(pddt->ddt_descflags & DF_CHANGELINE)) Thanks! As hd(x) is #defined as ((x) & DF_FIXED), the above can be optimised to: if ((pddt->ddt_descflags & (DF_FIXED | DF_CHANGELINE)) == DF_FIXED) Lucho --- This SF.Net e

Re: [Freedos-devel] Executable compresison, part II

2004-03-22 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
What do you mean? The ARACHNE DOS browser! (maybe it's the only browser work under DOS) I hardly configured it to work under FreeDOS, but when I search for APM I found that it's dropped. Now maintained by hobbist, but almost no update except the core. I mean what do you mean by "dropped"? Abandoned

Re: [Freedos-devel] Executable compresison, part II

2004-03-22 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 16:22:20 +0200, you wrote: Hi Lucho, >> Also sorry to see ARACHNE dropped. >What do you mean? The ARACHNE DOS browser! (maybe it's the only browser work under DOS) I hardly configured it to work under FreeDOS, but when I search for APM I found that it's dropped. Now maintai

Re: [Freedos-devel] Executable compresison, part II

2004-03-22 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
Also sorry to see ARACHNE dropped. What do you mean? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to syste

Re: [Freedos-devel] Executable compresison, part II

2004-03-22 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
This proves nothing: - you is liar? - no. OK, King of logic! ;) My logic is wrong but my assertion is right as you'll see. "Qui prodest"? the century of the downfall of empires... ;-G Oh, Lucho, please, make less general purpose "loud" sentences. OK. More specifically, the first empire to fall w

Re: [Freedos-devel] Executable compresison, part II

2004-03-22 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 13:39:23 +0200, you wrote: Hi Lucho, >I agree. But I'm also sure that we'll live to see it! Our century will be >the century of the downfall of empires... ;-G Look forward to see. I'm trying to run network on FreeDOS, but resources are scattered. Also sorry to see ARACHNE d

Re: [Freedos-devel] Executable compresison, part II

2004-03-22 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 22-Мар-2004 13:39 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luchezar Georgiev) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> But SCO deny it. LG> Microsoft!" ;-) Their denial only proves this fact! This proves nothing: - you is liar? - no. LG> I agree. But I'm also sure that we'll live to see it! Our century will be LG> t

[Freedos-devel] bootfix 1.4

2004-03-22 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! With help of Michael Devore, on his site placed version 1.4 of BOOTFIX. This version is now compilable both by Borland C and OpenWatcom. It shows slightly more information (to ease using logs even without dumps), before reading BPB added reseting disk (look like this is sometime required

[Freedos-devel] Re: Internationalisation of HTML Help

2004-03-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Rob, for internationalization of HTML help with KITTEN you have to take care of TWO aspects: Kitten does not accept HTML (obviously) but does accept escape sequences like \n for a line break etc. - so you cannot use HTML entities to encode local chars like Umlauts (ä for example which is in DO

Re: [Freedos-devel] Internationalisation of HTML Help

2004-03-22 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, What you need for the help question you are asking is to make sure that the catalog files (and by the way, the HTML help pages, if you decide to have it localised too) are displayed using the same codepage in which they were composed. E.g. my translation of FreeCOM is best suited to CP 850

Re: [Freedos-devel] Another EMM386 release, bugfixes and enhancements

2004-03-22 Thread Michael Devore
At 11:16 PM 3/17/2004 +, Bart Oldeman wrote: >On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Michael Devore wrote: > >> > >> >Duke Nukem 3D reboots the machine as soon as it enters graphics mode. Its >> >setup program (which also uses dos4gw 1.97) works correctly though. DOOM >> >on the other hand works. Will try to run

Re: [Freedos-devel] Executable compresison, part II

2004-03-22 Thread Luchezar Georgiev
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 16:42:55 +0800, Johnson Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Would you be surprised to know that in fact the one who stands behind SCO is... Microsoft? They've already paid them $8600 (http://www.opensource.org/halloween/halloween10.html) But SCO deny it. Of course! Do you imagi

[Freedos-devel] Internationalisation of HTML Help

2004-03-22 Thread Robert Platt
Hi folks, I could do with advice and hints on internationalisation, to make sure I do it correctly. HTML Help has no international support at present, and I was planning to tackle this next. And now I have had an enquiry into creating a German translation, so I now really want to get a move on.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Executable compresison, part II

2004-03-22 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 14:32:36 +0200, you wrote: Hi Lucho, >Would you be surprised to know that in fact the one who stands behind SCO >is... Microsoft? They've already paid them $8600 >(http://www.opensource.org/halloween/halloween10.html) But SCO deny it. The fact is SCO can't battle IBM wi