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

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

Hi everyone,
vDOS is very nice. Unfortunately also blocked with Dir-command related issues with my program (file dates in style 2-10-98 intead of 02-10-98). I posted a topic on their site. I also found they not support modification of the global Country setting (locked to 1).

About VMWARE and VMSMOUNT. I think it's nearly equivalent to what we have at work with Microsoft VirtualPC. I didn't try sendkeys automation through this heavier layer but I will give it a try if I cannot use vDOS and DOSBOX.

Eric, I found you are author of MODE.COM !! To set the codepage I added this in my autoexec.bat:
       DISPLAY CON=(ega,863,)
       MODE CON CODEPAGE PREPARE=((863) %dosdir%\cpi\ega9.cpx)

I don't know how far I can follow you in the TSR trail to get country informations but I'm interested to learn at least up to the next obstacle :-) I filled the table you showed to me, if it's not taking too much of your time:

> Offset  Size    Description     (Table 01399)
>  00h    WORD    date format [2 Y-M-D]
>  02h  5 BYTEs   ASCIZ currency symbol string ['$'.. so I imagine it is 24h, 00h ?]
>  07h  2 BYTEs   ASCIZ thousands separator [you want this to be 20h, 00h...Yes]
>  09h  2 BYTEs   ASCIZ decimal separator ['.' = 2E, 00h ?]
>  0Bh  2 BYTEs   ASCIZ date separator ['-' = 2D, 00h ?]
>  0Dh  2 BYTEs   ASCIZ time separator [':' = 3A, 00h ?]
>  0Fh    BYTE    currency format [not relevant for you? probably not, answers bellow]
>                 bit 2 = set if currency symbol replaces decimal point
                          [I would say No, do not replaces decimal point]
>                 bit 1 = number of spaces between value and currency symbol
                          [I would guess 1 space]
>                 bit 0 = 0 if currency symbol precedes value
>                         1 if currency symbol follows value
                          [Not sure but I would guess bit 0 =1]
>  10h    BYTE    number of digits after decimal in currency 
                  [not relevant? maybe not but I would say 2 digits]
>  11h    BYTE    time format [you say you want 24h time, so make this 1--Yes]
>                 bit 0 = 0 if 12-hour clock
>                         1 if 24-hour clock
>  12h    DWORD   address of case map routine [could point to RETF opcode]
>                 (FAR CALL, AL = character to map to upper case [>= 80h])
>  16h  2 BYTEs   ASCIZ data-list separator [not relevant? who uses this?]
>  18h 10 BYTEs   reserved [so not relevant for you by definition...]


To answer your question about our old MS-DOS program: We have used it in MS-DOS and winXP-win32 console only. It is described at <http://www.dynatest.com/elmod>. There is not so many users since it is addressed to a very specialized domain. Only the newer Windows version is supported by the maker.

Thanks, Denis
 

    Le Dimanche 19 février 2017 8h39, Ulrich Hansen <my....@ma...> a écrit :
 

 

Am 18.02.2017 um 23:22 schrieb Denis St-Lau <ds...@ym...>:
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.

Yes, you are completely right about that. 
But please take a look at a new project: „EtherDFS“ by Mateusz Viste.http://etherdfs.sourceforge.net
If your host is running GNU/Linux, you can start EtherSRV on the host and EtherDFS on your DOS guest.
On the host go to the directory, that EtherSRV is mounting. Share it with Samba to your Windows clients.
That’s it. You have now what everybody wants: A network disk in FreeDOS, shared with everybody in your LAN, and still 618 K conventional memory free.
The only downsides, as I see it:- At the moment EtherSRV will change timestamps of received files to the actual date and time.- On VirtualBox a guest with EtherDFS can not reach (yet) an EtherSRV running on a machine outside the host.- EtherSRV is running on GNU/Linux only.


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