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iw2evk | 2 Apr 13:42
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Patch for concatenation problems


Hi at all, 
it's possible patch in kernel or freecom this problem caused a problem when
arachne work under freedos? 

See in attachment the comment of Joe da Silva (arachne developper) 
-------------Snip----------------------------------------- 
Hi Roberto, 
s you may recall, the problem I found with FreeDOS compatibility 
was with the following line in 'mime.cfg' : 

file/apm.dgi  >HTM|[100]copy $eapm.htp+$esystem\\apm.db\\*.htm $2>NUL 

Unfortunately, the command processor in FreeDOS gets confused 
by the somewhat elaborate concatenation required here. OTOH, 
both M$-DOS and DR-DOS handle it without any problem. 

In searching for a solution, I tried a few file copy and 
concatenation utilities. The one I found that could be made 
to work was 'cat.exe' from the lynx386 distribution (BTW, 
I think this utility originally came from www.delorie.com). 

If you copy this 'cat.exe' into the Arachne directory (or if 
we include it in future distributions), then the following 
line in 'mime.cfg' works with FreeDOS (and other DOSes) : 

file/apm.dgi  >HTM|cat -s $eapm.htp $esystem\\apm.db\\*.htm >$2 

Note that the "-s" option (must be lower case) forces 'cat.exe' 
to treat files as ASCII, so doesn't copy any ^Z characters ...
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Jim Hall | 28 Jun 01:17
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Close down the list?

I've noticed that traffic on this list has decreased to the point of a 
trickle.  It's been suggested to me that we try to consolidate lists, to 
re-invigorate discussion among FreeDOS developers and focus discussion 
to relevant development topics.

Closing down some of the lists in order to funnel new users into a 
common discussion area does seem to be the best move.

I copied the list traffic stats into a spreadsheet so I could look for 
trends.  See http://www.freedos.org/jhall/temp/traffic/traffic.png

It's pretty clear that freedos-user, freedos-devel, and freedos-32-dev 
are the most active lists.  The others have declined in traffic since 
about Sept 2004, if they had any traffic to speak of.  That means the 
lists to close down would be freedos-devel-net, freedos-kernel, 
freedos-freecom, freedos-cvs, and fd-doc-list.

So, I'd like to close down freedos-freecom, and just have kernel stuff 
go to freedos-devel.  What do you think?  If you have any objections, 
please email me (off-list only ... I'm not subscribed to this list 
anymore) and let me know.

If I don't see any responses within the next week or so, I'll assume 
there's no one on this list anymore, and I'll go ahead and close it down.

-jh

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Judy Vaughan | 9 Apr 11:58
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Re: Subscibe Re: Freedos-freecom digest, Vol 1 #36 - 2 msgs

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Geraldo Netto | 4 Apr 00:03
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freedos

Hi folks,

Some updates

Some Eric's comments/suggestions:

>Hi, could you tell all lists that the discussion / saga
>continues on freedos-user? I am on freedos-user, freedos-devel
>and freedos-kernel, not on freedos-freecom or fd-doc-list, and
>the latter are pretty quiet at the moment anyway, because we
>have no dedicated doc workers right now (except maybe Johnson
>and Fox) and because Steffen cannot do much for FreeCOM at the
>moment either. Only few people, like Erwin and Jeremy, can
>compile FreeCOM at all.

So could you redirect the answers to
freedos-useratlists.sourceforge.net (please change at -> @)
once most people are on freedos-user :)

and all kind of answers are welcome :)

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Geraldo Netto | 3 Apr 20:23
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freedos

hi folks,

i'm geraldo from brazil and this email is a mix of
questions/congratulations
and other things.

a little introduction of myself
i'm geraldo from brazil as i said above and i'm a huge
freedos fan.
well, i knew freedos a long time ago when it was at beta5
version.
i'm a student of "information systems" here in brazil and
always that i can
i make some tests for eric.

so i separated this email in some parts...
congratulation, support eric/jason hood/all developers,
support pcmcia driver,
lucho<>jack (udma driver rules), internationalization/docs,
irc people,
kernel development, distribution, misc

so here it goes, i hope to be not banished of mailing list :)

congratulations
---------------
wow i think that the freedos people does a nice work :)
my little "try" to contribute to freedos is trying to help
eric, i make some tests for eric always that i can.
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FreeCOM | 19 Aug 23:33
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[ANN] Another TESTING release of FreeCOM

Hello,

unfortunately, I have to inform you that I have put together another 
testing release of FreeCOM, instead of the next patch level release.

The reasons are numerous, extending that I'm offline the next two weeks 
and that there should be another release soon.

In
http://freedos.sourceforge.net/freecom/packages/TESTING/

you'll find:
com082pl3ak/ -- TESTING release
tst-crit/    -- Critical Error handling test release
tstsuppl.zip -- built test release

a) tst-crit

implements a feature to autofail Critical Errors, but the first per 
drive. It should make DIR and %PATH% searches a lot less noisy.
Please test, and offer your opinion. I will offer the design descissions 
later on. (Why so and not Eric's for instance.)

b) tstsuppl.zip

Because of complains about the tricky SUPPL stuff, I put together this 
package. This would be downloaded from CVS. What do you think about it?
(Hint: DOCS\COMPILE.TXT is updated)

c) com082pl3ak/
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Jim Hall | 6 Aug 18:36
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(FWD) Suggestion for FreeDOS debugging

Bryan emailed me a few weeks back to say that he was working with 
FreeDOS on a side-project at his work, and he hoped to send some FreeDOS 
improvements/suggestions related to that.  He's moved to a new area, so 
he won't be able to continue his FreeDOS work.

However, he did send in this interesting .bat trick that he has used 
successfully in the past ... maybe others will find it interesting and 
useful.  Also, Bryan makes a request for a new feature when parsing a 
.bat file.

I thought the FreeCOM list was the most appropriate place to fwd Bryan's 
email:

Bryan Nahrwold wrote:
> Jim:
>  
> I have recently moved to a group that uses imaging and focuses on 
> Windows and Linux, so I will have less occasion to use FreeDos.  
> However, I am still interested in your project.  I feel that there is a 
> long life for DOS as an Automation tool.
>  
> I have one suggestion that I think would greatly improve FreeDOS's debug 
> capabilities.  Of course, I am aware of the command /y /c filename 
> option, but this can be tedious to traverse.
>  
> In my batch files, I use the following construct
>  
> At the top of each batch file:
>  
>> SET TEMP_BAT=CURR_BAT
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Arkady V.Belousov | 13 Jul 00:22
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compiled FreeCOM

Hi!

     Last posts to freedos-cvs shows, that bug with empty environment in
FreeCOM should be solved. Steffen, may you point me URL, where I may
download latest FreeCOM compiled image?

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Arkady V.Belousov | 5 Jul 14:06
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bugs in FreeCOM

Hi!

1. FreeCOM incorrectly handles empty environment, _as this understanded by
   MS-DOS_. Trouble is that for empty environment MS-DOS places before
   16-bit counter not _one_, but _two_ zero bytes. This is easy to see: make
   empty config.sys with line INSTALL=FREECOM.COM and FreeCOM will not
   detect presence of path after environment.

   Solution (accept right variant and as MS-DOS):

/* env_seg != 0 */
const char FAR *p = MK_SEG_PTR (const char, env_seg);
while (*p)                              /* find end of environment */
  p += fstrlen (p) + 1;                 /* skip next variable */
if (FP_OFF (p) == 0)                    /* empty enviroment? */
{
  /* by definition empty enviornment should be
     "\0\1\0<path>\0", but MS-DOS make one more zero:
     "\0\0\1\0<path>\0"; accept both variants
  */
  if (*(const word FAR*)p == 0)         /* two zero bytes? */
    p++;                                /* skip one */
}

2. For empty config.sys with line SHELL=FREECOM.COM MS-DOS calls FreeCOM
   with PSP.ps_environ=0. This cause that FreeCOM not finds itself for
   strings resources. This is not bug, but unconvenient.

   Solution: before saying error message (when no environment, path not
   found after environment or path is wrong), FreeCOM should (like MS-DOS)
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Roberto Mariottini | 29 Jun 10:33

Announce: italian translations for FreeCOM

Hi,
I have successfully translated the FreeCOM strings to italian, following 
the instructions provided by Bernd Blaauw two months ago.

You can temporarily find the translated italian.lng (codepage 850) and 
the pre-built italian command.com (version 0.82 pl 3) at the following 
address:

http://www.mariottini.net/public/italian.zip

Ciao

P.S.: I am available for other translations, if and when time permits.

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