Re: comcom.com

[Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel@planet.nl>]

Clarence Dang wrote:
> Does it still happen after the attached patches have been applied?

The 3 bugs have now disappeared. Thanks!

For some reason the fourth bug which I mentioned to Bart Oldeman
("Sidekick refuses to install") has now also disappeared. I cannot
explain this. It is not due to your patches because I cannot even
reproduce the bug now with earlier versions. It must have been
some of my messing about with dosemu.conf, maybe config.sys which
did this.

I still have some problems with Sidekick which suggest that the
freedos algorithms for finding files are not yet 100 %. Part of
Sidekick is a program SKINST.COM. This aborts with a message:

*** FATAL ERROR: Message file SKINST.MSG not found

although SKINST.MSG is in the Sidekick directory. Similarly,
though SK now installs, one of its functions ("Help") does not
work; it complains of the file SK.HLP not being present (but it
is). Finally, Sidekick's "Notepad" function. The existing NOTES
file is not found, and trying to save a (new) notepad, Sidekick
gives an error message:

*** Directory full. Press <ESC>

These things do not happen with dosemu-dos6 or dosemu-dos98.

Regards, Jan