loadhi in dosemu-1.4.0-1.i386.rpm

loadhi in dosemu-1.4.0-1.i386.rpm

[Frank Cox]

Has loadhi disappeared by accident or design in the latest dosemu rpm?

I can find it in dosemu-1.2.2-1.i386.rpm, but it's missing in 1.4.0-1.i386.rpm.

And if it's by design, is there a list of other dos commands that have been
removed or replaced for whatever reason?

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Re: loadhi in dosemu-1.4.0-1.i386.rpm

[Bart Oldeman]

On 5/30/07, Frank Cox <theatre@melvilletheatre.com> wrote:
> Has loadhi disappeared by accident or design in the latest dosemu rpm?
>
> I can find it in dosemu-1.2.2-1.i386.rpm, but it's missing in 1.4.0-1.i386.rpm.
>
> And if it's by design, is there a list of other dos commands that have been
> removed or replaced for whatever reason?

loadhi isn't necessary anymore because the same functionality is
provided by command.com's internal lh (or loadhigh) command.

shsucdx is also gone (replaced by the "c" option of lredir).

Bart

Re: loadhi in dosemu-1.4.0-1.i386.rpm

[Frank Cox]

The over-aggressive spam filtering on this list has eaten my reply once again.
This makes it very difficult to post anything to this mailing list.

Is it possible to get my address white-listed so this won't keep happening?

On Wed, 30 May 2007 10:20:12 -0400
"Bart Oldeman" <bartoldeman@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> loadhi isn't necessary anymore because the same functionality is
> provided by command.com's internal lh (or loadhigh) command.

loadhi is still listed as an available command when you run the help command.

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Re: loadhi in dosemu-1.4.0-1.i386.rpm

[Mike McCarty]

Bart Oldeman wrote:
> On 5/30/07, Frank Cox <theatre@melvilletheatre.com> wrote:
> 
>> Has loadhi disappeared by accident or design in the latest dosemu rpm?
>>
>> I can find it in dosemu-1.2.2-1.i386.rpm, but it's missing in 
>> 1.4.0-1.i386.rpm.
>>
>> And if it's by design, is there a list of other dos commands that have 
>> been
>> removed or replaced for whatever reason?
> 
> 
> loadhi isn't necessary anymore because the same functionality is
> provided by command.com's internal lh (or loadhigh) command.
> 
> shsucdx is also gone (replaced by the "c" option of lredir).

I thought the idea behind DOSEMU and FREEDOS was to provide
an open source and free environment which faithfully emulated
the MSDOS environment. Removing commands because they are
redundant will break existing systems, causing them to
fail. In this particular case, it is difficult to think of
a case where that would happen, since a batch file could
most likely be edited, and I don't know why a program would
use LOADHI, but it still seems to me to be a departure from
the original goal.

Mike
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Re: loadhi in dosemu-1.4.0-1.i386.rpm

[Bart Oldeman]

On 5/30/07, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I thought the idea behind DOSEMU and FREEDOS was to provide
> an open source and free environment which faithfully emulated
> the MSDOS environment. Removing commands because they are
> redundant will break existing systems, causing them to
> fail. In this particular case, it is difficult to think of
> a case where that would happen, since a batch file could
> most likely be edited, and I don't know why a program would
> use LOADHI, but it still seems to me to be a departure from
> the original goal.

But LOADHI was never a command in MSDOS... (unless you also had QEMM).
It was only there because the built-in command.com of DOSEMU 1.0.2 did
not support LH and LOADHIGH.

Bart

Re: loadhi in dosemu-1.4.0-1.i386.rpm

[Mike McCarty]

Bart Oldeman wrote:
> On 5/30/07, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> I thought the idea behind DOSEMU and FREEDOS was to provide
>> an open source and free environment which faithfully emulated
>> the MSDOS environment.

[snip]

> But LOADHI was never a command in MSDOS... (unless you also had QEMM).
> It was only there because the built-in command.com of DOSEMU 1.0.2 did
> not support LH and LOADHIGH.

Ah, yes. I just booted a machine which runs pure MSDOS 6.0 and
it has LOADHIGH but not LOADHI. I see that my copy of 1.3.2.0
does have LOADHIGH in it.

Mike
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Re: loadhi in dosemu-1.4.0-1.i386.rpm

[Joaco]

On Wed, 30 May 2007 00:59:56 -0600
Frank Cox <theatre@melvilletheatre.com> wrote:

> Has loadhi disappeared by accident or design in the latest
> dosemu rpm?
> 
> I can find it in dosemu-1.2.2-1.i386.rpm, but it's missing in
> 1.4.0-1.i386.rpm.
> 
> And if it's by design, is there a list of other dos commands
> that have been removed or replaced for whatever reason?
> 
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> http://www.melvilletheatre.com
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Maybe you can write something like a loadhi.bat that runs:

C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM /C LH $1

TonyB

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