Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS

2006-07-01 Thread Blair Campbell
On 7/1/06, Imre Leber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess not. > > You see, in order to support that memory the DOS extender has to create a > swap file. > > And cwsdpmi puts that file on the exact same disk that is being > defragmented. Not always... you can manually specify to cwsdpmi NOT to cr

[Freedos-devel] HX-DOS Extender and FreeDOS 1.0

2006-07-01 Thread Florian Xaver
Hi! I have another idea (maybe I am not the only person). With HX extender many Windows programs can be launched in DOS. For example QEMU. This would be very interesting for the FreeDOS 1.0 release. You can get more info at following forum: http://www.drdosprojects.de/forum/drp_forum/posts/979.

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS

2006-07-01 Thread Florian Xaver
Alain M. wrote: > I suggest moving to OpenWatcom, it is much closer to BorlandC. I have > many programs for both BC 16bits / OW 32bits and I can help with the port... We aren't in the Windows or Linux world... I would be happy about ANY program. Bye Flo -- Florian Xaver

Re: [Freedos-devel] Defrag and fat32

2006-07-01 Thread Florian Xaver
> There is an alternative that is both easy and already working: dosfsck. > I have been using it and it apears to be working. (is is in djgpp) The > pnly prople is that there was some fixes to the working release that I > don't remember who did and where they are. > All that is needed is to all t

Re: [Freedos-devel] Horrible Joke on FreeDOS.org??

2006-07-01 Thread Florian Xaver
Blair Campbell wrote: > I'm preparing FreeDOS 1.0-pre1 as we speak. Thank you very very much! Bye Flo -- Florian Xaver Dr-DOS Wiki oZone-a GUI operating system for DOS,Linux,Win SWORD-a nice GUI library for DOS/DJGPP

Re: [Freedos-devel] Horrible Joke on FreeDOS.org??

2006-07-01 Thread Florian Xaver
> If I don't sound terribly sympathetic, well, I'm afraid it is because I'm > not. It isn't because your web joke was stupid; my own scrapbook of > stupidity has much worse. It's because it is past time for you stop > observing how things here have degenerated, and to instead take the > init

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS birthday

2006-07-01 Thread Florian Xaver
> if I remember correctly, FreeDOS turned 12 this week. I would say > this is a nice time for a birthday edition of the distro :-). Do > you have forgotten updates somewhere on your harddisk or patches > which you never got around to wrap up in a zip or cvs upload yet? I have an update of oZone a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Why 1.0

2006-07-01 Thread Florian Xaver
Yes, I also think so - it *is* time for version 1.0. Bye Flo Jim Hall wrote: > Jim Hall wrote: >> [...] >> It's as though we're afraid of the "1.0" label, sort of asymptotically >> approaching "1.0" but never really getting there. >> > > > > A lot of people probably wonder "why is '1.0'

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS

2006-07-01 Thread Imre Leber
I guess not. You see, in order to support that memory the DOS extender has to create a swap file. And cwsdpmi puts that file on the exact same disk that is being defragmented. The results may be quite disastrous! Imre >-Original Message- >From: Blair Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT