Originally posted: 10/04/2003

[fd-dev] Possibly obsolete bugs in Bugzilla - list

Eric Auer writes:

Hi, I found a number of bugs that are likely to be fixed
by now. However, I generally feel others should agree on
that judgement first before those bugs are closed...

http://www.freedos.org/bugs/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9999
is the generic URL syntax - not quoting full URLs here
because the Bugzilla spam protection is not yet installed!
So replace the 9999 by the bug number to reach the report...

1701: A duplicate of bug 1698 but...
1698: A duplicate of bug 1701!

1692: MOVE acts strange with 3 or more filespecs given - still?
1675: As far as I know, SHSUCDX now has an help screen.
1674: I wonder if the Lemmings the Chronicles bug is FreeDOSes fault?

1658: New 2032 boot sectors should fix Ghost problems!?
1647: 720k FORMAT bugs should be fixed in 0.91!?
1640: Yet another Ghost problem.
1618: DELTREE /V parameter order should now be compile time option
      and sufficiently documented?

1589: DEFRAG fragmentation statistics should use a better formula
      in current versions, so the bug is probably fixed by now?
1309: SHSUCDX is far beyond version 1.4 by now, how about the bug?
1295: FORMAT C: crashes - I think for FAT16, 0.91 should fix this,
      but I guess FAT32 still has caveats?
1176: Does 2032 recognize a third floppy (drive letter would be after
      those of the first harddisk)? If yes, the "alloc drive letter"
      would be interesting to know about for those DRIVER.SYS ponderings.
1148: As far as I know, FORMAT 0.91 checks whether the user specified a drive.
1043: Does 2032 still have the bood troubles of 2029 reported here???
1021: The "end of chain" values in FAT have long been fixed, I believe.
1664: FORMAT 0.91 should be able to format 720k floppy disks.

Hope at least some of the suggested bugs are really gone and somebody with
the right hardware can verify that? Or feel free to discuss the bug state
with the original bug reporters if you are unsure... Thanks.

Eric.

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Imre Leber adds:


> 1589: DEFRAG fragmentation statistics should use a better formula
>       in current versions, so the bug is probably fixed by now?


Saidly enough the version that is still on line is the one in which the bug
is not fixed yet. Since there are some really heavy isues with defrag i
wanted to fix the major bugs (which are not in bugzilla) before releasing
a new version.

Because the last few months have been rather unusual for me, my work for
the FreeDOS project is lagging a bit behind. I started now working on
fixing the last problems with defrag and doing a major speedup, and a
total code review.

For chkdsk, well those bugs will be obsolete in an hour or so, after i
uploaded the new version. That should make it ready for version 1.0?!

Imre