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Subject: HimemX patch (was Re: Rebuilding 2.04 from source)
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Hi,

On Thursday, June 27, 2013 4:40:04 AM UTC-5, Rod Pemberton wrote:
> <rugxulo AT nospam DOT gmail DOT duh> wrote in message
> 
> news:f54c7536-b2e9-46e0-b3a7-561d52bcad00 AT googlegroups DOT com...
> 
> > On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 3:05:30 AM UTC-5, Rod Pemberton
> > wrote:
> 
> Well, the existing functionality needs to be retested too.  That's
> just to confirm that all of it still works for various machines.
> If all the retesting falls on me to do, it could be a while even
> though I have a variety of machines.  Not all of them are working
> and some are packed away.  I guess I was hoping that someone
> maintaining HIMEMX had a test array of computers for regression
> testing.
 
I don't want to discourage you, but I don't know of
any perfect way to test. Even most of my older machines
have died (and I'm no repair guru), so I'm not much help
either.

There is no maintainer for FD HimemX. It hasn't been
touched in five years (outside of a small makefile
tweak). I guess it's considered stable by most people.
Or maybe they use other XMS drivers (FDXMS, XMGR).
Japheth apparently has little interest in working
on it directly, and emailing Devore shows similar
disinterest.

I mean, it's not totally hopeless, and as long as
regular DOS users can test in normal circumstances,
that's probably better than nothing. However, I'm
not sure who's up for even light testing. Presumably
everyone at BTTR and/or freedos-user.

Though thanks anyways for your efforts!

> So, it may just be better to build it, package it, and list it as
> experimental, or use at your own risk for now.  I'll let you know
> if I do upload it somewhere so you can grab it.  Although, it is
> easy to build.

I'm sure it's easy to build, but my weak attempts to
do so failed. (Well, the patch failed, which could mean
my own failure, but generally I know that such tools
are quite frail and picky, so I don't know.) I could
probably patch by hand if necessary. "It's always
something!"  :-)

Anyways, I went ahead and uploaded to iBiblio. Feel
free to doublecheck it, correct it, build it, etc.

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/himem/himemx/

ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/himem/himemx/himem_rp.dif