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Which text editor do you use for dos programming? (Developers)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 15.05.2013, 17:40

> Hi Rugxulo,
>
> let me comment on your severe condemnation of FlWriter:
Those remarks weren't meant to be insulting.

> > Georg's FLWriter 1.2 tried to be some kind of graphical word processor.
> > Unfortunately, for me at least, it seemed to crash a lot (esp. open file
> > dialog).
>
> I only release software that does not crash here. I also have not heard
> from users of FlWriter that it does crash.
I know all this. That much was implied. That's why it's so confusing as to why it's crashing for me. Must be some obscure bug or maybe quirk in my setup (though I'm honestly not doing anything weird).

> However, I believe that you
> observe the crashes you mention, but maybe you could test it a bit further
> and report: "it works fine as long as I do not load the xyz driver.";-)

You mean DOS system drivers? Dunno. Again, I'm not really doing anything out of the ordinary, but I'll try again and see what I can find. (Unfortunately, my skills with GDB are limited.)

BTW, native DOS with "cwsdpmi -p -s- -x" still didn't work (crash). DOSEMU only loads to blank screen. DOSBox seems to work fine, ironically.

> > Georg's FLWriter 1.2 tried to be some kind of graphical word processor.
>
> After working on it for many months I consider it more than a try. If you
> work on such an application alone and not as a large team you cannot
> provide all the features of LibreOffice etc.
I understand all of that, but stability issues prevent me from using it. I'm not sure if I really believe it's all a problem exclusively on my end. Maybe it's a libc bug, who knows.

> Also, DJGPP requires long file name support as far as I am aware.
You can use DJGPP proper entirely within SFNs, if you unzip it with LFNs disabled. It's all the blasted third party sources that make so many bad assumptions about the file system, etc. that make things harder.

> After you load DOSLFN compiling seems to take
> a much, much longer time compared to a Windows XP DOS box.
Yes, DOSLFN makes things 2x slower, at least. But for various reasons FreeDOS won't (and can't) have LFN support in the kernel.

DOSEMU supports LFNs out of the box. The other alternative is cross-compiling (e.g. from Linux host). As I don't have any XP machines anymore (they stopped working, sadly), I can't rely on that (though IIRC it did work "mostly" well there for DJGPP stuff).

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