Mail Archives: djgpp/2011/09/17/15:23:21
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Rugxulo <rugxulo AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sep 17, 8:56 pm, Ozkan Sezer <seze DOT DOT DOT AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Juan Manuel Guerrero
>>
>> <juan DOT guerr DOT DOT DOT AT gmx DOT de> wrote:
>> > Here is a patch
>> > - to set always the CF flag before calling a 0x71XX function
>> > - to check that AX does not contain 0x7100 after return signaling
>> > that the driver supports the called function.
>> > - to react if the driver does not support the function.
>> > In almost all cases I followed Eli Zaretskii's suggestions.
>>
>> Tested this _very_ briefly on IBM PC-DOS 7 + DOSLFN 0.40e
>> (from http://adoxa.110mb.com/doslfn/) by running hexen2 for dos,
>> no problems so far with or without doslfn loaded in memory.
>> FWIW, though, I have to note that all disk access was in 8.3 style.
>
> You mean Hammer of Thyrion? I assume this means you rebuilt it.
>
> http://uhexen2.sourceforge.net/
>
Yep. I'm the main developer of it.
>> <rant>
>> With doslfn loaded, the hard disk scratching was unbearable to
>> hear. Living with conventional dos is a bliss..
>> </rant>
>
> Yeah, LFNs are a pain sometimes. But most .ZIPs these days refuse to
> live without them. :-/
>
> Anyways, DOSLFN is still a bit buggy, and technically I don't think
> it's maintained (by Henrik or Jason) anymore. Recently Japheth did
> contribute a very small (third-party) patch (re: FCBs or whatever),
> but it still has issues.
>
> Anyways, here's his (minor) fix w/ binary if you're curious, though of
> course it's unofficial.
>
> https://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/DOSLF40F.ZIP?attredirects=0&d=1
>
Thanks.
> P.S. You quoted his whole (long) message. Oops! Luckily I'm not one of
> those that cares. ;-)
:)
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