Subject: Re: TDISK information Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:26:36 -0700 From: Matthias Paul To: alainm@pobox.com, frinke@cs.bonn.edu, fd-dev@topica.com Hi Alain, > >Matthias Paul ( PAUL-MA@reze-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de ) is developing TDISK now Please use my offical in-box instead of the mentioned internal account. This will auto-forward to where I actually am. Thanks. > >(like FreeKEYB, he includes some new features). If you want, you can get > >the current beta version from him!! > > I didn't know about it (I am currently using XMSDSK). Could you send us > ( fd-dev@topica.com ) some information about it? Not much, just intended > features and liceense as well as current status. Well, TDSK is still a project of Ciriaco Garcia de Celis, not me. But, yes, I have been working on TDSK some while ago (based on an enhanced issue of the driver from Axel C. Frinke) and have added a few additions myself. Let's see if I get them together right here: - For example, 64 MB disk support should now be working all the time (when this is possible ;-). - I have updated the internal country code database to support some more codes revealed by my own research as well as the new DR-OpenDOS 7.02+ ISO 28601 and Eurocurrency country codes above 999. - Like with most of my own tools I have revised TDSK's messages and help screens to be compatible with the "DR DOS" look-and-feel. - A few minor changes and fixes here and there. Axel has also added a few useful features, especially a method to store the drive letter of a TDSK drive in a pre-defined environment variable for easy use in batchjobs. I still have a few maintenance changes to add before the new issue is ready for release. This will at least include some provision to detect cache programs (RAMdisks shouldn't normally be cached, but sometimes it is difficult to let a cache refuse to cache such drives without risking compatibility programs somewhere else.) However, at least TDSK should defend attempts to resize a drive being cached, as this can cause serious crashes. I would also like to fix the "compatibility mode" issue under Windows 95, but I don't know what goes wrong there. Adding TDSK to the IOS.INI (???) list does not seem to fix it... Any ideas? I haven't recently talked with Ciri about a release, but I would think that Ciri will make the final release, and similar to previous issues it will include the source code. License? Well, AFAIR TDSK sources are not GPL, but a "free-style" Freeware license, however, I don't think, Ciri would refuse to release the next issue under GPL. But of course, that's up to him. I will try to forward this into the FreeDOS mailing list, but since this will be my first email to this forum, things may go wrong. In this case, please feel free to forward this email to the list yourself. Bye, Matthias PS: Everyone who likes can have the current BETA issue of TDSK from me by email request. I appears to be very stable, and due to lack of time the actual release of TDSK may still last some while... ------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthias Paul, Ubierstrasse 28, D-50321 Bruehl, Germany eMail: Web : http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html -------------------------------------------------------------------