DOS ain't dead

> However I found a bug: in drive selection dialog DC shows also drive B: But
> I don't have any drive B: because in AUTOEXEC.BAT i have JOIN B:
> C:\FREEDOS\JOIN_B

The testing in DC does not invoke any "hard-error" functions to avoid wakeing up the sleeping disk, so it may fail in some cases.

I have no way of testing the "extra B drive", but I made some changes to the test function that may work:


include clib.inc
include disk.inc

PPROC   _disk_type, disk:word
        mov dx,disk
        .if dl <= 1
            mov ah,15h          ; GET DISK TYPE
            int 13h
            .if CARRY? || !ah
                xor ax,ax
            .elseif disk == 1   ; remapped B drive ? *
                mov bx,disk
                inc bx
                mov ax,440Eh
                int 21h         ; IOCTL - GET LOGICAL DRIVE MAP
                .if al
                    xor ax,ax
                .else
                    mov ax,_DISK_FLOPPY
                .endif
            .else
                mov ax,_DISK_FLOPPY
            .endif
        .else
            mov bx,disk
            inc bx
            mov ax,4409h        ; IOCTL - CHECK IF BLOCK DEVICE REMOTE
            int 21h
            .if CARRY?
                xor ax,ax
            .elseif dh & 80h        ; bit 15: drive is SUBSTituted
                mov ax,_DISK_SUBST
            .elseif dh & 10h        ; bit 12: drive is remote
                mov ax,_DISK_NETWORK
            .else
                mov ax,_DISK_LOCAL
            .endif
        .endif
        ret
PEND    _disk_type

        END


File: dz/src/clib/dir/drvtype.asm

> And please, change to unixish paths like C:/FREEDOS/BIN into normal
> C:\FREEDOS\BIN

File: dz\src\clib\dir\drvtype.asm

Edit: *dl --> disk

> And please, change to unixish paths like C:/FREEDOS/BIN into normal
> C:\FREEDOS\BIN

The unix path is set in the file dz\src\dzmain\panel.asm
Function dostounix in panel_putinfo:

  ifdef __ARC__
        test    [si.wp_flag],_W_ARCHIVE or _W_ROOTDIR
        jz      @F
        invoke  strfcat, dx::ax, addr [si.wp_file], addr [si.wp_arch]
  endif
    @@:
        invoke  dostounix, dx::ax

Fix: (archives use unix path)

  ifdef __ARC__
        test    [si.wp_flag],_W_ARCHIVE or _W_ROOTDIR
        jz      @F
        invoke  strfcat, dx::ax, addr [si.wp_file], addr [si.wp_arch]
        invoke  dostounix, dx::ax
  endif
    @@:


There is currently some problems with the new "full panel view" functions in v2.21:
- The mouse functions is not updated correctly
- The command line overlaps the panels on init (CLS)

Drive B: is not shown more. Thank you!
However I found one other small bug.
I press ALT-F1 to select new drive. The F: drive is my CD drive. When no CD is inserted, the system error is raised. (it is done absolutely perfect, much better then in other, similar programs). I choose "Abort". Then the drive selection dialog shows again but I can't properly select new drive because after one key stroke it exits. After that the left panel is not drawn properly - the occurs two cyan rectangles.

And I have one feature request.
it is about ESC key. I would preffer to have same function as CTRL-O

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DOS-u-akbar!

When the Ctrl-Home function was implemented the disk init function was bypassed. A read attempt was issued on the drive, and this brings up the System Error dialog if the drive was not ready.

The Drive Not Ready dialog should now be invoked instead of the System Error dialog.