From: MORRIS JP <jpmorris AT csm DOT uwe DOT ac DOT uk>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 11:58:00 GMT
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To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net, jamesl AT albany DOT net, jpmorris AT csm DOT uwe DOT ac DOT uk
Subject: Re: [opendos] A more ordered fixlist
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From owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Wed Jan 29 11:48:40 1997
From: MORRIS JP <jpmorris AT csm DOT uwe DOT ac DOT uk>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 10:52:36 GMT
To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net, jamesl AT albany DOT net
Subject: Re: [opendos] A more ordered fixlist

> From owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Tue Jan 28 23:12:08 1997
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> From: "Jim Lefavour" <jamesl AT mail DOT albany DOT net>
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> Subject: [opendos] "Things to be fixed"
> 

Hmm, this is turning more into a wishlist...

> 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, 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...

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???

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