Re: [Freedos-devel] Incompatibility issue due to FreeCom Dir command's output layout and Dosbox kernel limitations

[Denis St-L. <ds...@ym...>]

Hi Eric,
Thanks for your answer.
I agree it would be far better using a switch to avoid recompiling the FreeCOM command.com but after my research I concluded DOSBOX do not offer these country settings and is missing any config.sys functionality. I've read they are not very interested in adding this because they focus only on the minimum work required for games compatibility. They don't even support the dir /-4 switch in their own command.com. I will continue to investigate and asking them just in case. But I do not expect much help on their side because my program is not a game.

Also I want to avoid booting the FreeDOS kernel on a disk image, because doing so do not allow access to the host file system. Without the DOSBOX kernel, we don't have the "mount" command and we constantly have to mount/unmount the DOS disk image from the GNU/Linux or Windows host (or use FTP networking) to exchange data. This is tedious and the disk image gets corrupted if simultaneously mounted or written on by the Host and the DOS. I need to use the DOSBOX kernel because I want direct access to the directories without being confined in virtual disk images. 

>From my point of view an interesting improvement for the next FreeDOS's kernel could be to duplicate the DOSBOX capability to mount external directories...

PS: ymail exists since many years. For me it is not a recent renaming.


 

    Le samedi 18 février 2017 16h19, Eric Auer <e....@jp...> a écrit :
 

 
Hi Denis,

you write that for getting 2 digit, AM/PM, space 1000s sep
DIR output from freecom, you use SET DIRCMD=/-4 but failed
to find a way to set COUNTRY to 002,863,c:\fdos\bin\country.sys
in the context of DOSBOX. I still think it would be a lot
easier to find out how to change DOSBOX country settings
compared to compiling a special freecom command.com which
has your desired settings hardcoded.

Any DOSBOX fans who could make a recommendation here? :-)

Regards, Eric

PS: As far as I remember, you can also tell DOSBOX to boot
a freedos kernel with freedos config.sys from a disk image,
so if the simulated DOS kernel of DOSBOX lacks country.sys
support at all, then booting freedos would be a workaround.

PPS: Did yahoo mail get renamed to ymail?


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