DOS ain't dead

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posted by kerravon , Sydney, Free World South, 06.05.2025, 07:51

> Plus debug another issue (CRC errors).

This was a fascinating problem. As far as I can tell,
the DOS 4.0/HX reading of COM1 is causing the x'1A'
(MSDOS EOF) to be lost. So I joined the people who
zmodem was written for. Mysterious people on
mysterious "networks" where some characters caused
issues. So I added x'1A' to the list of characters
to be escaped.

> I will need to translate the filenames to ASCII
> next.

And I have done this now too. So now I haven't
just made contact with Andromeda, I can understand
what they're saying too.

New freewin2.zip available, plus a pdos.zip that
has the source code that went into it. (at pdos.org)

ie currently both things match.

Next thing would be to get COM1 working for UEFI,
so that a mainframe running on a Macbook M1 gets
access to the outside world.

Plus other environments like PdAndro are probably
possible.

But I will be pausing for now.

BFN. Paul.

Complete thread:

• freewindows - kerravon, 01.05.2025, 15:31 (Announce)
  • freewindows - kerravon, 01.05.2025, 15:49
    • freewindows - kerravon, 01.05.2025, 16:20
      • freewindows - Oso2k, 01.05.2025, 20:30
        • freewindows - kerravon, 02.05.2025, 02:49
          • freewindows - kerravon, 03.05.2025, 06:55
            • freewindows - Japheth, 03.05.2025, 08:04
              • freewindows - kerravon, 03.05.2025, 08:50
                • freewindows - kerravon, 03.05.2025, 09:23
                  • freewindows - kerravon, 03.05.2025, 14:25
                    • freewindows - kerravon, 04.05.2025, 14:08
                      • freewindows - kerravon, 05.05.2025, 10:12
                        • freewindows - Oso2k, 06.05.2025, 06:04
                          • freewindows - RayeR, 06.05.2025, 19:42
                        • freewindows - kerravon, 06.05.2025, 07:51