From:	MORRIS JP <jpmorris AT csm DOT uwe DOT ac DOT uk>
Date:	Wed, 29 Jan 1997 10:52:36 GMT
Message-Id:	<199701291052.KAA14166@milly>
To:	opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net, jamesl AT albany DOT net
Subject:	Re: [opendos] A more ordered fixlist
Sender:	owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net

> From owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Tue Jan 28 23:12:08 1997
> Comments: Authenticated sender is <jamesl AT mail DOT albany DOT net>
> From: "Jim Lefavour" <jamesl AT mail DOT albany DOT net>
> To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 17:12:33 +0000
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> Subject: [opendos] "Things to be fixed"
> 
> Well, here is the first (?) on the list of "things to be fixed"
> 
> I have tried everything that I can think of, and I can't get the 
> OpenDOS memory manager to be compatible with certain protected 
> mode programs.  These include games, such as DOOM2, and programs
> compiled with DJGPP 2.01, that use timer routines.
> 

I tried more things than I could think of...  EMM386 PIC=ON
should fix it.

1.)  EMM386 bugs should be investigated/fixed.

> I have set up a "Multi config" menu, which loads my OLD (6.22) memory 
> manager (HIMEM/EMM386) when I wish to play games, until such time as 
> this is fixed.  Of course, Caldera has to get the source code cleaned 
> up first, and that may take some time, from what I'm hearing.
> 

2.) A boot manager would be nice... lessons could be learned from OS/2 bootmgr.

3.)  For some reason key 7 on the numeric keypad is NOT sending out a 7.
     This may just be me, and I have not checked thoroughly. (UK keymap)
     I just noticed my characters weren't going the right way in Ultima 6...

4.)  The behaviour of TAB on the dos prompt is just a TAB.  I (and many others)
     would prefer the TAB key to do a file search like it does on UNIX.
     I was planning to recomile the command.com to do this, but obviously I
     can't do that yet...

That's all for now.. can anyone else add to this list?

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