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Re: [Freedos-devel] Format 0.92 announce Was: Re: Xcopy 1.5
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From: Fritz M. <fri...@ma...> - 2024-08-13 18:18:25
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<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><div>Hi Jeremy, hi Bernd,</div> <div> </div> <div>is there a decision done what will happen with the "label" problem (the labels are written to two different positions)</div> <div>see: https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/issue-reporting/-/issues/31 as this problems runs through some more commands if I remember right?</div> <div> </div> <div>Fritz / Willi</div> <div> <div> <div name="quote" style="margin:10px 5px 5px 10px; padding: 10px 0 10px 10px; border-left:2px solid #C3D9E5; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"> <div style="margin:0 0 10px 0;"><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:11 PM<br/> <b>From:</b> "Eric Auer via Freedos-devel" <fre...@li...><br/> <b>To:</b> fre...@li...<br/> <b>Cc:</b> "Eric Auer" <e....@jp...><br/> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [Freedos-devel] Format 0.92 announce Was: Re: Xcopy 1.5</div> <div name="quoted-content"><br/> Hi Jeremy and Bernd,<br/> <br/> > I published a new version of format to fix the couple bugs reported and<br/> > finally got around to merging a pull request adding 128KB cluster support.<br/> ><br/> > <a href="https://github.com/FDOS/format" target="_blank">https://github.com/FDOS/format</a><br/> ><br/> > (I bumped version from 0.91w to 0.92 since almost out of letters and 128KB<br/> > feature seamed to justify at least a small increase in version #)<br/> <br/> Thank you, that was VERY quick! I had noticed the bug reports,<br/> but had not even started yet checking what caused those bugs,<br/> let alone done anything to fix them :-o<br/> <br/> <a href="https://github.com/FDOS/format/commits/master/" target="_blank">https://github.com/FDOS/format/commits/master/</a> tells me that<br/> you and Bernd have actually fixed several things at once:<br/> <br/> - update Watcom makefile<br/> - add 128 kB cluster size support<br/> - a large change for 0.91w:<br/> <br/> <a href="https://github.com/FDOS/format/commit/ea30eef093f2c2a09fe70ef47e1cabd1a60c93a1" target="_blank">https://github.com/FDOS/format/commit/ea30eef093f2c2a09fe70ef47e1cabd1a60c93a1</a><br/> <br/> which fixes a wrong semicolon in savefs.c line 139, renames the<br/> old turboc and watcomc makefiles, updates the main makefile,<br/> fixes a missing */ in main.c line 695 which nested comments,<br/> makes some main.c Write_System_Files step Turbo C only, corrects<br/> the way init.c sets some char/byte values to 0, fixes some other<br/> comment nesting issues in format.h line 217 and floppy.h line 33<br/> and floppy.c line 1024, drops the locking_invalid_drive label<br/> in driveio.c, updates readme, news and contrib and of course<br/> bumps version numbers to 0.91w everywhere.<br/> <br/> - ignores extended keys when entering volume label to fix<br/> <a href="https://github.com/FDOS/format/issues/3" target="_blank">https://github.com/FDOS/format/issues/3</a><br/> <br/> <a href="https://github.com/FDOS/format/commit/9001f74b1dbd4d419cb4c6f7624726eca59b6afc" target="_blank">https://github.com/FDOS/format/commit/9001f74b1dbd4d419cb4c6f7624726eca59b6afc</a><br/> <br/> This now uses int 21.07 with a smarter macro and an extra check.<br/> <br/> - prints more debug info in debug mode, in particular:<br/> tell being done with file system created,<br/> announce record bad clusters step,<br/> and print which type of FAT we use.<br/> <br/> - fixes a stack overflow to fix<br/> <a href="https://github.com/FDOS/format/issues/4" target="_blank">https://github.com/FDOS/format/issues/4</a><br/> <br/> <a href="https://github.com/FDOS/format/commit/72417d51cb1036e2a49fe125f14e2d0e4ce82b1a" target="_blank">https://github.com/FDOS/format/commit/72417d51cb1036e2a49fe125f14e2d0e4ce82b1a</a><br/> <br/> This just makes fat12_fat[6145] static instead of on-stack,<br/> so FORMAT may need a bit more RAM, but a lot less stack :-)<br/> <br/> - and bumps the version to 0.92 :-)<br/> <br/> The previous LSM version was 0.91v (14 Jan 2006) :-o<br/> <br/> I guess the install.txt could be a bit more verbose on OpenWatcom?<br/> <br/> For those who are curious, few exotic TO-DO remain for FORMAT lovers:<br/> <br/> - add Kitten translations<br/> - debug fat32, mirror, unformat etc.<br/> - clean up sources<br/> - fool-proof filesystem locking<br/> - make safe formatting safer<br/> <br/> The 19 year old BUGS text only lists:<br/> <br/> - add more reaction choices to critical I/O errors<br/> - add specific messages when trying to format CD-ROM, SUBST, remote<br/> - some other bugs seem fixed, but could be re-tested<br/> <br/> Thanks Jeremy and Bernd :-)<br/> <br/> Regards, Eric<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> _______________________________________________<br/> Freedos-devel mailing list<br/> Fre...@li...<br/> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel</a></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html> |