Hi all,
Yesterday I've tested FORMAT on a 40GB HD, with a one big partition. I
was trying to format it as FAT32 under WinXP, but it refuses to format
such a large partition as FAT, it wants to format it as NTFS.
So I've inserted a floppy with FreeDOS in it (sorry, I had only the
official beta9pr
At 04:42 PM 7/29/2004 +0200, Bernd Blaauw wrote:
why not use the ALTBOOT behaviour as-is now,
make the ALTBOOT parameter a dummy (like RAM)
and create the NOALTBOOT option.
then DEVICE=EMM386.EXE equals DEVICE=EMM386.EXE ALTBOOT,
and to get the opposite behaviour of these two, use DEVICE=EMM386.EX
Hi Lucho,
Luchezar Georgiev escribiÃ:
(sometimes I think that these lists should be abolished if we keep
wasting bandwidth and time ;-)
I remember you starting a thread complaining how lame MS-DOS is, and Tom
replying (and I agreeing) the improvements that MS introduced in DOS in
their version 2
At 11:48 AM 7/28/2004 +0200, Eric Auer wrote:
Our SHARE is quite simplistic, and my attempt to reduce size / TSR size
did not involve improved function either. I am told that Word is not happy
with it either, and that ROMDOS SHARE (which traps int 21 directly, while
FreeDOS SHARE gets called by Fre
Eric Auer escribiÃ:
Hi,
I vote for Bernd's idea:
me too.
Aitor
But I vote for Michael's and Tom's!
Lucho
(sometimes I think that these lists should be abolished if we keep wasting
bandwidth and time ;-)
---
This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG
Hi,
Eric Auer escribió:
Hi,
I vote for Bernd's idea:
me too.
Aitor
---
This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on
Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now,
one more big change to announce.
I sent a compiled beep program, but I have not seen my message in the
list. did it get thrugh?
Alain
Eric Auer escreveu:
Hi,
I vote for Bernd's idea: Make ALTBOOT an ignored option - at it would enable
the behaviour which FreeDOS EMM386 has as default anyway - and introduce a
NOALTBOOT option whi
Hi,
I vote for Bernd's idea: Make ALTBOOT an ignored option - at it would enable
the behaviour which FreeDOS EMM386 has as default anyway - and introduce a
NOALTBOOT option which suppresses INT9 (keyboard) hooking.
Apart from that, "/" in front of options could be treated as optional, to
allow mor
tom ehlert schreef:
exactly.
a) it shouldn't be needed
b) MS /ALTBOOT is documented as 'if you *really* run into problems, use
that'
the current behaviour is pretty good tested, and should remain this
way; I vote for michael.
why not use the ALTBOOT behaviour as-is now,
make the ALTBOOT paramete
Hello Jim,
> Michael Devore wrote:
>>
>> This is pretty cosmetic stuff and really, EMM386 has been acting like
>> ALTBOOT from the beginning.
> I would agree with Aitor - the /ALTBOOT option in FreeDOS EMM386 should
> act the same as MS-DOS EMM386.
exactly.
a) it shouldn't be needed
b) MS /AL
10 matches
Mail list logo
