On 29/04/2025 10:47, Eric Auer via Freedos-devel wrote:
The problem with SETVER style tools is their relatively large RAM
footprint, which is why CALLVER is a lot more simple, at the price
of having to be used as a wrapper for calling one app at a time.
Update: One of the posts in this thread sa
On Mon, 28 Apr 2025, Bret Johnson via Freedos-devel wrote:
Unfortunately, not all programs are that simple. Many of the MS utility
programs are looking for a very specific version of DOS, but some are
looking for "categories". On some of my programs, e.g., I have a
"GetDOSVersion" subroutine
Hi!
mov AH, 30h
int 21h
cmp ax, ABCD <<< this is the version wanted
jne exit_program
The kernel contains a bit of magic for that. Enable it via config sys.
there are lots of "regular" programs (not utilities from MS) that require
special version numbers for various reasons
> extraction the version wanted out of
>
>mov AH, 30h
>int 21h
>cmp ax, ABCD <<< this is the version wanted
>jne exit_program
>
> is not "heuristic". So simple.
>
> It returns exactly the version required to the calling program. if this
> request > is posted in the proper form.
>
seems your day was not the best...😇
what about msedit?
Willi
> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
> From: "tom ehlert via Freedos-devel"
> To: "Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers."
>
> Cc: "tom ehlert"
> Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4 known issues
>
> H
Hallo Herr Bret Johnson via Freedos-devel,
am Montag, 28. April 2025 um 04:53 schrieben Sie:
>> the resident part of SETVER (MS-DOS 6.22) when loaded as a device
>> driver is 464 byte on my system. This is mainly the version table
>> (4Bh bytes for other stuff like the device header). The SETVER
Hallo Herr Wilhelm Spiegl,
> c) edit: there are so many bugs reported at gitlab (one a small part of it
> see:)
>...
> that it would make sense to create a new editor. But anyhow it works.
And that from a guy who has not the faintest idea how much time it takes
"to create a new editor". Unpai
Okay,
here is a first list of known bugs (this list is not complete):
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a) shsufdrv: mounting a diskette image does not work. There is an error message:
  U
  Tested with VirtualBox.
  This is known by the programmer, he told me that it works on other DOSes, but not with FreeDOS.
  There ex
