Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 14:54:57 -0800 From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" <jgowdy@home.com> To: "Mike Smith" <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <emulation@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: DOS Emulation KLD Message-ID: <002101c06a0e$b5c92a80$035778d8@server> References: <200012192315.eBJNFIQ13895@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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> > > Cool! Careful though, or you'll end up as its maintainer. 8) > > > > That wouldn't bother me a bit. :) I've been trying to bring my BSD > > programming skills up to par so I can contribute to the project, but haven't > > yet found an area in which I would really be of use. However, as I said, > > DOS programming is something I excel at, having been programming in DOS > > since I was 11 years old. Once I knock off this stupid Borland Builder NTP > > project for my boss, I'm going to contact the current maintainers. > > You just have. 8) Actually, several people have sort of nibbled around > the edges of doscmd for a while; you should check the commit logs and > poll to see if any of them still have uncommitted changes lying around. heh. This reminds me of the time when I was in #gnutella, and I said, GnOTella SUCKS ! And this guy asked me why I thought it sucked, and I went off for like 10 minutes on why it sucked. And he said he would fix it as soon as possible, and I realized I was ranting to the author :) > - The DOS emulation for standalone mode could probably be improved a lot. This is probably the area in which I could be the most useful. I've still yet to get my MSDOS 5.0 disk to boot, and it keeps saying unimplemented interrupts. I believe I will start on implementing as many interrupts as I can (that seem useful). > - I recall that path translation in standalone mode was very > nonintuitive. I'm not sure what could be done to improve this. I found that it doesn't handle capital filenames very well. I tried running SNAP.EXE and it said it couldn't find the file. I renamed to snap.exe and it (tried) to run it. I'm going to print out the source, break out some DOS Interrupt books and see what I can come up with. If you can think of any interrupts you would suggest to be implemented first, let me know. I'm going to address the ones I'm getting from DOS's bootdisks 5 and 6. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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