Re: [Freedos-devel] [Off-topic] Gemini 2.0 getting bored of me (I think) also -mdos gcc option

2025-03-27 Thread Kirn Gill II via Freedos-devel
> IMHO "AI" is at present a giant scam. I'd say that's only half-true. It's more oversold than it's a true scam. This does lead to it being a scam in part, though. It has its uses. For example, ChatGPT and DeepSeek blow Google Translate, et. al., out of the water in terms of translation quality.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Format and unformatted blank floppies

2025-03-27 Thread Victoria Crenshaw via Freedos-devel
sorry things been hectic. ill look into this soon. most likely tomorrow my time in like 12 hours On 3/23/25 20:02, Eric Auer via Freedos-devel wrote: Hi! i cannot seem to format blank unformatted floppies it fails to verfiy the disk after formatting the 1st 7 sectors even though the disk wil

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: release MOVE 3.4 WAS: Re: XCOPY 1.7 Stack Overflow

2025-03-27 Thread Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
> Thx, this is great. If you could come in contact with Bernd and combine it > with all his already existing bugfixes this would be VERY great. > My fixes, along with many others not provided by me, are part of Jeremies repository over at GitHub [1]. I’m not holding back any other patches for

Re: [Freedos-devel] [Off-topic] Gemini 2.0 getting bored of me (I think) also -mdos gcc option

2025-03-27 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
> > > Please do not vibe code. > > 100% this. > > LLM bots are not intelligent and they are not artificial. Therefore > they are not "AI" and that's why I always refer to it in quotation > marks. > +1 I've experimented with "AI" coding assistants (my work has Copilot) and it does ok on small stuf

Re: [Freedos-devel] [Off-topic] Gemini 2.0 getting bored of me (I think) also -mdos gcc option

2025-03-27 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 at 21:41, Kirn Gill II via Freedos-devel wrote: > > AI chat models work on the exact same principles as the automatic word > suggestion feature on your phone: statistical probability of the next word > (or here, token.) > > It cannot think, it cannot truly reason, it cannot u

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: release MOVE 3.4 WAS: Re: XCOPY 1.7 Stack Overflow

2025-03-27 Thread Fritz Mueller via Freedos-devel
Thx, this is great. If you could come in contact with Bernd and combine it with all his already existing bugfixes this would be VERY great. And if you remember my bug report with config.sys menudefault (see: https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/OS/fd-nls/-/issues/3) - I assume it is also a kenrel probllem -

Re: [Freedos-devel] LSM (Linux Software Map) entries: Entered-date fields

2025-03-27 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
I should also mention…Even if Entered-date was used properly and strictly conformed to ether the v3 or v4 standard, it is not adequate for using to compare package versions to determine which is newer. For example, just the other day, there were 3 releases of XCOPY. Assuming each was packaged and u

Re: [Freedos-devel] LSM (Linux Software Map) entries: Entered-date fields

2025-03-27 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
> On Mar 27, 2025, at 10:01 AM, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel > wrote: > > I think there is so much confusion about the Entered-date fiels, that maybe > we should switch on using version 4. > > > "The 1999-12-22 version (version 4) is only a minor change from version 3. > - First, versi

[Freedos-devel] Allegro: fixing compilation stdint.h:22:21: error: duplicate 'signed'

2025-03-27 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
This is a trick about compiling Allegro programs that use #include I was getting the following errors: i586-pc-msdosdjgpp-gcc -Wall -O2 -g -fcommon    -c -o src/bullet.o src/bullet.c In file included from /usr/local/djgpp/i586-pc-msdosdjgpp/sys-include/allegro/internal/alconfig.h:66,    

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: release MOVE 3.4 WAS: Re: XCOPY 1.7 Stack Overflow

2025-03-27 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-devel
Hallo Herr Fritz Mueller via Freedos-devel, am Donnerstag, 27. März 2025 um 17:51 schrieben Sie: > thanks, I already tested it, also works fine. so only the copy command is > over for the moment, but I will have to test if it is already fixed or not (i > already reported anywhere at git that 3

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: release MOVE 3.4 WAS: Re: XCOPY 1.7 Stack Overflow

2025-03-27 Thread Fritz Mueller via Freedos-devel
thanks, I already tested it, also works fine. so only the copy command is over for the moment, but I will have to test if it is already fixed or not (i already reported anywhere at git that 3 files with 1,6 gb and copy a +b +c 4 gb creates a 4gb file where the rest of file c is written to the b

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: release MOVE 3.4 WAS: Re: XCOPY 1.7 Stack Overflow

2025-03-27 Thread perditionc--- via Freedos-devel
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025, 5:09 PM wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM Wilhelm Spiegl > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > thanks, move works fine now. > > But what about xcopy which reports the same bug? > > > > -- > > Had time to apply an update, see: > https://github.com/FDOS/xcopy/ > https://github.com/

[Freedos-devel] LSM (Linux Software Map) entries: Entered-date fields

2025-03-27 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
I think there is so much confusion about the Entered-date fiels, that maybe we should switch on using version 4. "The 1999-12-22 version (version 4) is only a minor change from version 3.   - First, version 4 entries begin with a line containing "Begin4" rather     than "Begin3".   - The o

Re: [Freedos-devel] bolitare: a fix for issue #3 (crash when doslfn is loaded) is tried

2025-03-27 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
Hi, > On Mar 27, 2025, at 4:06 AM, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel > wrote: > > You are right. > My mind was about trying to figure out what was the original version, in the > idea to add something to it. > But I was not able to find the original source code. > So I just said to myself, then j

Re: [Freedos-devel] bolitare: a fix for issue #3 (crash when doslfn is loaded) is tried

2025-03-27 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
You are right. My mind was about trying to figure out what was the original version, in the idea to add something to it. But I was not able to find the original source code. So I just said to myself, then just add 1 to the version... as the original poster is very unlikely to do the same thing

Re: [Freedos-devel] bolitare: a fix for issue #3 (crash when doslfn is loaded) is tried

2025-03-27 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
On Sun, Mar 23, 2025, 4:04 PM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel < [email protected]> wrote: > Jerome Shidel gave me the role of developer on Bolitare. > So I implemented my propsed change (make the background file in config.txt > 8.3 friendly): > https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/games/bo