Paul Edwards

executing command.com

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Hi Japheth. I have the following code which works fine on Windows and does a "dir": #ifdef __WIN32__ BOOL rc; PROCESS_INFORMATION pi; STARTUPINFO si; DWORD ExitCode; char *cmdproc; char cmdbuf[300];...

once-off exception

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Hi Japheth. It's good to find you again (we exchanged email on 2009-03-30 and 2006-11-19). I have a problem with HX 2.18 which also occurred in HX 2.17. Under Freedos,...

C90 counterpart

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Thanks for your fantastic work. You have literally changed my life by releasing a small non-copyrighted (subset of) C compiler. I have made a public domain C90 equivalent to your...

executing code in 16-bit memory needs DosCreateCSAlias in doscalls

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Under Windows 2000 I am able to run my 16-bit PDOS-generic with: bios pcomm.exe But with HX16 under Freedos like this: dpmild16 bios.exe pcomm.exe I am told that 0x2b (DosCreateCSAlias)...

Hi. Would it be possible to have an hxldr16.exe that works the same way as hxldr32.exe, that would essentially turn an MSDOS system into a mini OS/2 1.x system? With...

Hi Japheth. Recent advances in PDOS/386-related tools means that Freedos + HX is now potentially a viable alternative to Windows 95 for me (for doing PDOS/386 development). So I am...

Hi. I'm not sure if I did something wrong, but for my Debian I also needed to install zlib1g-dev But that's just an aside. On MacOS, I can do this:...

keyboard through dos calls

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Hi Japheth. MSDOS 4.0 (at least) has a "ctty" command so that I can do: ctty com1: to redirect input/output to a serial port. Apparently blind people can't "see" (using...

rogue parameter from DosGetEnv (OS/2 16-bit)

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Hi Japheth. Thanks again for your brilliant work and the new 2.22 release which I just found out about today. Anyway, I was trying out the OS/2 1.0 support by...