From owner-freebsd-emulation Sun Sep 22 09:05:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-emulation Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA27764 for emulation-outgoing; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 09:05:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA27657 for ; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 09:05:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id BAA20718; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 01:35:27 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199609221605.BAA20718@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: New DOScmd snapshot available To: emulation@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 01:35:26 +0930 (CST) Cc: prb@bsdi.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-emulation@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Yes, it's that time of the evening again, where us antipodeans that haven't had enough sleep crawl off under a rock, and the rest of the world gets to forget about us completely. Meanwhile, if you've been following the twisted tortured DOScmd saga, you may remember that our hero was undergoing major surgery to deal with some intimate abstraction problems. I'm pleased to announce that the patient appears to have come through unharmed, and is thus available for your scrutiny and emulating pleasure. The most significant changes in this snapshot are internal; there should be little or no manifest difference in operation between this and the 960920 snap, other than the correction of a small bug in the redirector code. For more details, check the README in the distribution archive, which can be found at : ftp://genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au:/pub/doscmd/doscmd_fbsd-960923.tar.gz If you have been considering looking at or working on DOScmd, this is most definitely the version to start with. Submissions of interest in any form of assistance, whether it be development or testing are welcomed! Particular items requiring work are the NetBIOS interface (if it is deemed worthwhile), the XMS interface (which is essentially nonexistent), and some more work on the redirector (the code which allows access to the *BSD filesystem by programs running in the emulator). For more details, respond to this message. If you're a DOS expert with some time and experience to spare, a critical eye over the memory and exec routines would be very helpful. I do not profess to understand these, and I suspect that there may be some lurking problems. If you're an ex-DOS user with a pile of applications, any success or failure reports will be appreciated. Note that you should avoid (for now) applications such as "MSD" and "Norton Sysinfo", as they are known to hang your system. As with any rough-edged object, handle with care! Also, anyone with a NetBSD system and some time is invited to pull the code down and look at making it compile (again); without a system here to test on, I'm unable to update things to work properly. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[