Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 1.15 release is out

[Arkady V.B. <ar...@be...>]

Hi!

21-=E6=C5=D7-2005 18:48 _Fr...@de... (Michael Devore)=
 wrote to
fre...@li...:

>>MD> information properly and crashed the Benchmark selection.  This was
>>      Forget to mention: your EMM386 outputs help screen to stderr (ver=
y
>>bad) and complains for /? option.
MD> "My" EMM386?

     I mean, EMM386, which you currently evolute and which I download fro=
m
your site. How else name it? FD-EMM386?

MD> Whatever output EMM386 writes to, it's been doing it that way for yea=
rs.  I

     So what? Help screen is not very requested feature, so this
inconvenience was unnoticed for this long time.

MD> don't know if it's right or wrong, elegant or grotesque.  Not my deci=
sion
MD> and I wouldn't change it without good reason.

     When I try to get help from program into file (for example, I wish t=
o
compare help from different versions or helo is too long), I use
redirection. Unfortunately, this not works with some programs, fortunatel=
y,
such program not too much. So, stderr for help screen is definitely wrong.

MD> It's unclear if a /? option is necessary,

     It _is_ necessary, because it is de-facto standard for getting help
screen.

MD> can say about MS-DOS.  Could make /? a do-nothing option I suppose, b=
ut
MD> what's the need?

     It will be better.

     The more so, I think, startup screen also should be nicer - for
example, without /VERBOSE not need to dump options from command line.

>>  Also, warm reboot at smartdrv loading happens with 1.12 also.
MD> More detail on what you're referring to in your bug report is needed.=
  Are
MD> you trying to use a version of the very old low-level MS disk caching
MD> software with EMM386?

     MS-DOS 7.1 (Win98) with all its components (io.sys/command.com 7.1,
himem.sys 3.95, smartdrv.exe 5.02). Config.sys (note: DOS\ contains copy =
of
files from WINDOWS\ and WINDOWS\COMMAND\):

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numlock =3D off
break =3D on
dos =3D high,umb
country =3D 7,,c:\dos\country.sys
lastdrive =3D z
buffershigh =3D 16
stackshigh =3D 0,0
fileshigh =3D 40
fcbshigh =3D 1
shell =3D command.com /p /e:1024
device =3D c:\dos\himem.sys
device? =3D c:\dos\emm386.exe ram i=3Db000-b7ff
device? =3D c:\temp\emm386.exe ram i=3Db000-b7ff
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autoexec.bat

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@echo off
[...some SETs...]
smartdrv 8192 64
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