Message-Id: <199701291439.JAA02133@keeper.albany.net> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Jim Lefavour" To: MORRIS JP , opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:32:57 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: [opendos] A more ordered fixlist Reply-to: jamesl AT albany DOT net Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk > 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