RE: [fd-dev] Re: Clipper printing problem with FreeDOS: try this...

Bart Oldeman <[email protected]> Fri, 21 Mar 2003 23:20:47 -0500 (EST)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.msdos.general,gmane.os.freedos.devel
Message-ID <Pine.LNX.4.33.0303212317210.8006-100000@DHCP-94-246.math.ohio-state.edu>
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Eric Auer wrote:

>
> Hi Norman,
> well, thank YOU. You found the versions of FreeDOS at which
> 1. File locking started to work better (2026) and
> 2. Clipper printing broke (2027).
>
> This will probably help the kernel experts to figure out WHY
> 1. and 2. did happen, and how to solve 2. - maybe all this
> even helps with figuring out the "Clipper double locking"
> problems...

1. is because file region locking was not implemented at all for
network drives before kernel 2026.
2. I don't know. I've never used Clipper; but try to produce a log using
dosemu -D+dD -o log
using both FreeDOS kernel versions and watch the differences; that might
reveal something.

Bart

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