Message-Id:	<199701291439.JAA02133@keeper.albany.net>
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From:	"Jim Lefavour" <jamesl AT mail DOT albany DOT net>
To:	MORRIS JP <jpmorris AT csm DOT uwe DOT ac DOT uk>, opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Date:	Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:32:57 +0000
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Subject:	Re: [opendos] A more ordered fixlist
Reply-to:	jamesl AT albany DOT net
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> To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net, jamesl AT albany DOT net
> Subject: Re: [opendos] A more ordered fixlist
> 
> > Subject: [opendos] "Things to be fixed"
> > 
> 
> Hmm, this is turning more into a wishlist...
Yes, it is...

> > I have tried everything that I can think of, and I can't get the 
...
> I tried more things than I could think of...  EMM386 PIC=ON
> should fix it.
Nope - can't use it unless you install emm386 as a device in 
config.sys, and once it is installed, my test program (DOOM2 V 1.9)
still locks up at startuptimer()

> 1.)  EMM386 bugs should be investigated/fixed.
> 2.) A boot manager would be nice... lessons could be learned from OS/2 bootmgr.
Definitely a good idea...
 
> 3.)  For some reason key 7 on the numeric keypad is NOT sending out a 7, but
>      all the other keys work fine.  This may just be me, and I have not checked
>      thoroughly to find out what 7 IS sending.
>      I simply noticed my characters wouldn't go NW 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...
This may prove confusing to long time M$DOS users.

> 5.)  Installable filesystems!!  This is NOT urgent, and am I sure most people
>      could wait until release 8 or so for this one.  Possibly some of the more
>      advanced IFS modules could be sold commercially by Caldera???
What exactly is IFS?

If this isn't IFS, how 'bout replacing FAT - perhaps an option for 
LFN/32 bit PM combined (official wish).  As in LINUX...

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

Thanks, everyone.
jamesl AT albany DOT net
http://www.albany.net/~jamesl/
He shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment tothe people. - Psalms 8:8

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