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GdM's EDIT (TP6 / Pascal): DR-DOS aware (Developers)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 09.03.2009, 00:56

> > > Looks like there is really a lot of copyrighted borland code in there,
> > and
> > > not just Editors* From a version (6.0) that is afaik never released
> > into
> > > PD. TP 5.5 is the newest PDed one. (TP7 French is free though).
> >
> > There's no TP or BP in the public domain (PD). It's still copyrighted
> > freeware.
>
> Could be. I don't follow it as much, since while there are one or two
> things we could use from TP7 (colorsel unit and TV demo), since we have an
> own, copyright free TV, we stopped asking them.

Well, his editor has readonly file issues and is limited to 64k file sizes, which I'm sure yours is not. Not sure what he uses EMS for (Exec? save/restore screen? compile .ext assoc + errors?), but there's something in there about that (which you undoubtedly don't need). And I doubt you need his LFN functions either.

His OPENDOS unit is interesting, but he lacks some functions (e.g. 2707h, preferring running TASKMGR.EXE directly, which doesn't work by default for me since only DRDOSCFG is set instead of OPENDOSCFG, probably same issue for NWDOSCFG users). Also, the whole "opened files" status of the task monitor always says "0" for me. In other words, he hasn't had DR-DOS for a few years now (nor updated this since 2005)!

some misc. DR-DOS links:

http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pc/simtelnet/msdos/turbopas/opendos2.zip
http://www.cowlark.com/obsolete-dos-software/index.html
http://www.delorie.com/opendos/archives/browse.cgi?p=opendos
http://www.msfn.org/board/lofiversion/index.php/t109018.html
http://www.drdos.com/dosdoc/index.htm
http://www.drdos.com/dosdoc/multtask/index.htm

P.S. That PS util above can be compiled with TC++ 1.01 and JWasm 1.94c. (Still seems to work too! )

Complete thread:

• GdM's EDIT (TP6 / Pascal) - Rugxulo, 04.03.2009, 03:26 (Developers)
  • GdM's EDIT (TP6 / Pascal) - marcov, 04.03.2009, 16:18
    • GdM's EDIT (TP6 / Pascal) - rr, 04.03.2009, 22:49
      • GdM's EDIT (TP6 / Pascal) - marcov, 06.03.2009, 10:13
        • GdM's EDIT (TP6 / Pascal): DR-DOS aware - Rugxulo, 09.03.2009, 00:56
          • GdM's DOS 3d engine in Ada - Rugxulo, 10.03.2009, 23:26
            • GdM's DOS 3d engine in Ada - Rugxulo, 14.03.2009, 03:59
              • GdM's DOS 3d engine in Ada - marcov, 14.03.2009, 14:35
          • another (B)Pascal real-mode editor, > 64k filesizes - Rugxulo, 27.03.2009, 18:30
    • GdM's EDIT (TP6 / Pascal) - Rugxulo, 04.03.2009, 23:48
      • GdM's EDIT (TP6 / Pascal) - rr, 04.03.2009, 23:55
        • GdM's EDIT (TP6 / Pascal) - Rugxulo, 05.03.2009, 00:05
          • GdM's EDIT (TP6 / Pascal) - marcov, 11.03.2009, 11:36
  • GdM's EDIT (TP6 / Pascal) - rr, 04.03.2009, 22:47