DOS ain't dead - Blocek 1.6

Laaca

Czech republic,
13.10.2017, 00:04

Blocek 1.6 (Announce)

Hello all!
After a quite long period I prepared a new version of my unicode (and not unicode) text editor and image viewer Blocek.
There is quite a many new features here:

1.6
- fixed graphical glitch causing garbage in some circumstancies when opening a new window
- mouse sometimes caused noticeable slowdown of program
- reenabled the char typing using ALT + <codes on numeric keyboard>
- fixed crash when "word wrapping" on empty file was selected
- optimized the method for getting the hardware glyphs from graphic card
+ implemented function keys CTRL+right arrow and CTRL+left arrow
+ implemented function CTRL+A (select all)
+ CTRL+Del deletes selected block
+ selected blocks are now visible just in the text - not only in status line
+ program language can be switched directly from menu system (no manual editing of conf. files is needed)
* not only the final compilation but also regular development is done with Freepascal 3.0.2

The download site is still the same like before.

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RayeR

CZ,
14.10.2017, 01:55

@ Laaca

Blocek 1.6

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Interesting, when I tried to UPX the new blocek.exe it crashed:
Ultimate Packer for eXecutables Copyright (C) 1996 - 2017 UPX 3.94d Markus Oberhumer, Laszlo Molnar & John Reiser May 12th 2017 File size Ratio Format Name -------------------- ------ ----------- ----------- Assertion failed at ../../../src/p_djgpp2.cpp line 328: bss->vaddr == ((size + 0 x1ff) &~ 0x1ff) + (text->vaddr &~ 0x1ff) Exiting due to signal SIGABRT Raised at eip=00196e8c eax=00269930 ebx=00000120 ecx=00265a10 edx=00000012 esi=0026b1d8 edi=0026b050 ebp=002699f8 esp=00269920 program=E:PAKUPX.EXE cs: sel=01af base=03640000 limit=0084ffff ds: sel=01b7 base=03640000 limit=0084ffff es: sel=01b7 base=03640000 limit=0084ffff fs: sel=01cf base=00000000 limit=0010ffff gs: sel=01cf base=00000000 limit=0010ffff ss: sel=01b7 base=03640000 limit=0084ffff App stack: [0026a068..001ea068] Exceptn stack: [001e9f94..001e8054] Call frame traceback EIPs: 0x00196de7 0x00196e8c 0x001923ba 0x0002ea1c 0x00150bb0 0x00165456 0x00165700 0x00022d59 0x0019216f

It seems to crash all versions of UPX, even very old and also windows versions.

I successfully compressed it with 32lite 0.02d

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Guti

15.10.2017, 18:44

@ RayeR

Blocek 1.6

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I was going to report it, but already found it https://github.com/upx/upx/issues/134

> Interesting, when I tried to UPX the new blocek.exe it crashed:
> > Ultimate Packer for eXecutables > Copyright (C) 1996 - 2017 > UPX 3.94d Markus Oberhumer, Laszlo Molnar & John Reiser May 12th > 2017 > > File size Ratio Format Name > -------------------- ------ ----------- ----------- > Assertion failed at ../../../src/p_djgpp2.cpp line 328: bss->vaddr == > ((size + 0 > x1ff) &~ 0x1ff) + (text->vaddr &~ 0x1ff) > Exiting due to signal SIGABRT > Raised at eip=00196e8c > eax=00269930 ebx=00000120 ecx=00265a10 edx=00000012 esi=0026b1d8 > edi=0026b050 > ebp=002699f8 esp=00269920 program=E:PAKUPX.EXE > cs: sel=01af base=03640000 limit=0084ffff > ds: sel=01b7 base=03640000 limit=0084ffff > es: sel=01b7 base=03640000 limit=0084ffff > fs: sel=01cf base=00000000 limit=0010ffff > gs: sel=01cf base=00000000 limit=0010ffff > ss: sel=01b7 base=03640000 limit=0084ffff > App stack: [0026a068..001ea068] Exceptn stack: [001e9f94..001e8054] > > Call frame traceback EIPs: > 0x00196de7 > 0x00196e8c > 0x001923ba > 0x0002ea1c > 0x00150bb0 > 0x00165456 > 0x00165700 > 0x00022d59 > 0x0019216f >
>
> It seems to crash all versions of UPX, even very old and also windows
> versions.
>
> I successfully compressed it with 32lite 0.02d

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Laaca

Czech republic,
15.10.2017, 23:45

@ Guti

Blocek 1.6

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Thank you for reporting this issue into UPX bugtracker.

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Rugxulo Usono, 15.10.2017, 01:15 @ Laaca	Blocek 1.6 Post reply
	> The download site is still the same like > before. > Sources > Both programs are free and can be spread under condition of GNU licence. > Grab sources here or here (8.3 format) That first (LFN) download link isn't functioning properly. Nevertheless, I did upload all of this to iBiblio for FreeDOS. Please tell me if there are any complaints.

Laaca

Czech republic,
15.10.2017, 23:44

@ Rugxulo

Blocek 1.6

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> Nevertheless, I did upload all of this to
> iBiblio
> for FreeDOS. Please tell me if there are any complaints.

Thank you for upload. The link for LFN version of archive should be OK now.

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