Re: [Freedos-devel] best free C++ compiler

2004-07-21 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 21-Июл-2004 22:11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Koder) wrote to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: K> 1) If I were to write a FreeDOS-targetted application on FreeDOS, which C++ K> compiler would be the most interesting? Probably, OpenWatcom is not only the best, but, probably, only one modern, working and enou

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: best free C++ compiler

2004-07-21 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Koder wrote: Only TC 2.01 and TC++ 1.02 are free. And OpenWatcom! Quite big but seems to be quite powerful as well. OpenWatcom, of course!! How could I forget! I just passed there a moth ago, thinking it was a nice thing to open up Watcom C++. But does it also do 16bit exe's? As far as I know, it

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: best free C++ compiler

2004-07-21 Thread Koder
> Only TC 2.01 and TC++ 1.02 are free. And OpenWatcom! Quite big but seems > to be quite powerful as well. OpenWatcom, of course!! How could I forget! I just passed there a moth ago, thinking it was a nice thing to open up Watcom C++. But does it also do 16bit exe's? As far as I know, it only uses

Re: [Freedos-devel] best free C++ compiler

2004-07-21 Thread Gregory Pietsch
Koder wrote: Hi, After a few years of being idle in the DOS-scene, I am looking to writing some new apps. I am using Borland's TC 2.01 because that has been released for free. Here are some questions for you dev's: 1) If I were to write a FreeDOS-targetted application on FreeDOS, which C++ compiler

Re: [Freedos-devel] New tools: CONCAT, OSCHECK (for installer)

2004-07-21 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Aitor Santamaría Merino schreef: A bit offtopic, well, I don't know much about the NT loader, but it always surprised to me how fragile is the whole installation of a robust operating system like WinNT can be easily trashed in a few seconds, by just SYS:-ing whenever it loads from an existing MS

Re: [Freedos-devel] New tools: CONCAT, OSCHECK (for installer)

2004-07-21 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Bernd Blaauw escribió: still SYS should have some additional possibilities, like WARNING the user. I remember my SYS C:..while C: contained Win2000 bootloader..bye bye Win2000 installation :( A bit offtopic, well, I don't know much about the NT loader, but it always surprised to me how fragile i

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: best free C++ compiler

2004-07-21 Thread Jim Hall
Eric Auer wrote: Hi! 1) If I were to write a FreeDOS-targetted application on FreeDOS, which C++ compiler would be the most interesting? I have a copy of TC++ 3.0 lying around somewhere. Is that one freely available yet? Only TC 2.01 and TC++ 1.02 are free. And OpenWatcom! Quite big but seems to

[Freedos-devel] Re: best free C++ compiler

2004-07-21 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > 1) If I were to write a FreeDOS-targetted application on FreeDOS, which C++ > compiler would be the most interesting? I have a copy of TC++ 3.0 lying > around somewhere. Is that one freely available yet? Only TC 2.01 and TC++ 1.02 are free. And OpenWatcom! Quite big but seems to be quite p

Re: [Freedos-devel] best free C++ compiler

2004-07-21 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Koder wrote: Hi, After a few years of being idle in the DOS-scene, I am looking to writing some new apps. I am using Borland's TC 2.01 because that has been released for free. Here are some questions for you dev's: 1) If I were to write a FreeDOS-targetted application on FreeDOS, which C++ compiler

[Freedos-devel] Re: New tools: CONCAT, OSCHECK (for installer)

2004-07-21 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, Bernd wrote about OSCHECK: > verry nice! however still not safe to SYS C: if a bootsector is > analysed but contains a strange name. > Say, a KERNEL2.SYS. I thought about "scan for *.SYS / *.COM in boot sector" but then I dropped the idea because I only wanted to protect the innocen

[Freedos-devel] Some incompatibilities with MS-DOS (bugs?)

2004-07-21 Thread Koder
Hi, The recent distribution of FreeDOS is very well done and very stable in my first try-outs. I can still remember the days where I would curse the entire thing to hell, just a some years ago. It's a very OS now! But in just some minutes of installing and configuring it, I have come around some

[Freedos-devel] best free C++ compiler

2004-07-21 Thread Koder
Hi, After a few years of being idle in the DOS-scene, I am looking to writing some new apps. I am using Borland's TC 2.01 because that has been released for free. Here are some questions for you dev's: 1) If I were to write a FreeDOS-targetted application on FreeDOS, which C++ compiler would be t

Re: [Freedos-devel] New tools: CONCAT, OSCHECK (for installer)

2004-07-21 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Eric Auer schreef: In addition, OSCHECK searches the boot sector for typical kernel file names. When such a string is found, OSCHECK looks for the corresponding file on disk. Both on-screen messages and returned errorlevels give you detailled information about which FORMAT/SYS tool was probably use

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Re: EMM386 VCPI/DPMI Help / Question

2004-07-21 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 22:58:22 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: Hi Eric and everyone, >> "DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\HIMEMORY\EMM386 FRAME=NONE EMM=1024" >> ... and any /EMM= values below 2354 cause the following error: > >Interesting, but then you already know the solution - use an EMM=... >value above 2354. O

Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: Re: EMM386 VCPI/DPMI Help / Question

2004-07-21 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Салям! 8-Июл-2004 19:52 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BB> MSDOS uses errlvl 1 for unformatted, and errlvl 12 is OK then. BB> However, I don't know code to implement it: BB> If errorlevel 16 goto skipwipe // don't format BB> If "%errorlevel%'=="1" format c: // unfo

Re: [Freedos-devel] New tools: CONCAT, OSCHECK (for installer)

2004-07-21 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 21-Июл-2004 06:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: EA> Hi, I wrote 2 tools which might be useful for the installer: EA> http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/ EA> tiny-file-append-concat.zip EA> Usage: "concat somefile.xyz" will append the contents of so