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**Tom Hanlin** · 5 Aug 2003, 10:43 PM

Mmmm... are you asking for OPEN HANDLE support? Or is what you really
want LFN support? I'd guess they're both likely prospects...

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Tom Hanlin
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**Clay Clear** · 5 Aug 2003, 11:10 PM

Either/or, Tom. If y'all only go the OPEN HANDLE route, then I can
continue to use my existing LFN DOS OpenFile... routines. If y'all
go wholehog and add native LFN support, then I won't need my own
routines at all. So, either way is fine by me. (Personally, though,
I'd recommend going the LFN support route. That way, programmers who lack
the level of expertise to deal with ASM won't have to worry about
OPENing the files in LFN mode - such things will be handled internally
by the PB engine).

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**Matthias Kuhn** · 6 Aug 2003, 04:19 PM

Hi,

nice to here from a wishlist for the next Dos-Compiler.

And when would the next version arrive ? Date ? Year ?

Or is it just a 'Ghostlist' because the Dos-Compiler is already
'out of time'.

Regards

Matthias Kuhn

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**Tom Hanlin** · 7 Aug 2003, 01:13 PM

Another version of PB/DOS is expected. "When" is not available.

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Tom Hanlin
PowerBASIC Staff

**Tim Camarda** · 8 Aug 2003, 02:21 PM

Lance,

Will the new version be able to Read/Write to an NTFS?

As far as I know PB 3.5 is only for FAT

Thanks

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**RM Green** · 8 Aug 2003, 02:42 PM

Originally posted by Tim Camarda:
Lance,

Will the new version be able to Read/Write to an NTFS?

As far as I know PB 3.5 is only for FAT

Thanks

Well, PB3.5 is only for DOS, which is limited to FAT.

You can read (or even write, though I wouldn't recommend trying
it) NTFS volumes from a PB3.5 app, but of course you have to
have functions to handle the NTFS metadata structures.

You can find a free NTFS undeleter written in PB3.5 at http://download.filerecovery.biz. The NTFS specific library
(NTFSUNIT.PBU) used in that program is commercially available.

Bob Green

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[This message has been edited by RM Green (edited August 08, 2003).]

**Tim Camarda** · 9 Aug 2003, 04:08 AM

Thanks Bob, I'll give that link a try. Right now it appears not to work.
Anyhoo, I can run my PB3.5 aplication under Win2000, there the DOS Emulation(command com) works. I guess the same as if you were in a real DOS enviorment. However, I want to be able to Read/Write to the NTFS, and not have to boot with Win2000. So, I figured if MS DOS emulation can do it, there should be a way to do it with a DOS start-up disk.

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**RM Green** · 9 Aug 2003, 06:57 AM

Originally posted by Tim Camarda:
Thanks Bob, I'll give that link a try. Right now it appears
not to work. Anyhoo, I can run my PB3.5 aplication under Win2000, there the
DOS Emulation(command com) works. I guess the same as if you
were in a real DOS enviorment. However, I want to be able to
Read/Write to the NTFS, and not have to boot with Win2000. So,
I figured if MS DOS emulation can do it, there should be a way
to do it with a DOS start-up disk.

Right. There's always the free NTFSDOS, which mounts NTFS
volumes for read-only access from pure DOS and the rather
expensive NTFSDOS PRO which provides file level read/write
access.

I was assuming you wanted to work with NTFS volumes from your
disk editor. In which case you probably want to limit it to
read-only. Hex edits to a file might be OK, if the edits do
not change the file's length, but allowing low level write
access to metadata is just too dangerous. For one thing, the
publicly available documentation (from the Linux guys) is
incomplete and not entirely error free.

Don't know what's going on with that link. Its correct in the
message body. I'll try again:
http://download.filerecovery.biz

Bob Green

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**Tim Camarda** · 9 Aug 2003, 08:28 AM

Bob, That link is working now, must of been a problem with their server before.
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Thanks again.
-
Tim

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**Jerry Fielden** · 9 Aug 2003, 11:14 AM

Originally posted by Tom Hanlin:
Another version of PB/DOS is expected. "When" is not available.

I was a young man in my 50s when I first heard that news. Now I
draw social security and in my 60s. If you wait much longer, it's
going to be hard for me to use, since there is no computers
in the bone yard.

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**David Radcliffe** · 21 Aug 2003, 07:59 AM

I suggested this once before
- a long time ago it seems -
when PB/DOS 3.6 or 4.0 or whatever was first mooted...

I'd like " PB/WinDOS " (no, not a typo).

It would use something like the Windows VB6 IDE
to write & compile, but the EXE file
would be a DOS EXE file just like now...

This would give us the benefits of both platforms.

Oh, and built in TCP/IP sockets, please ;-)

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**Lance Edmonds** · 21 Aug 2003, 10:26 AM

The Windows IDE idea has been kicked around a little, but the big problem would be trying to create an integrated debugger as a Windows app as such a scheme would need a fast and reliable way to communicate and control the DOS app on all Win32 platforms... and unfortunately using a memory mapped file is simply horrid for such a task.

If you have any ideas to solve that problem, we'd love to hear about them...

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**Tony Damigo** · 28 Aug 2003, 10:42 PM

Don’t know if this has been addressed elsewhere, but it would be great if PB/DOS could accurately
report the SIZE of drives above 2 gigs -- (independently, or from within a Win / Dos Box….

T

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**Clay Clear** · 29 Aug 2003, 01:59 AM

Tony,

Personally, I do not see how such a thing would be possible.
PB/DOS-created EXE's are *DOS* apps, and I am not aware of any
version of DOS that breaks the 2.1GB limit. Hopefully, if anybody
does know of such a thing, they will correct me.

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**Michael Mattias** · 29 Aug 2003, 03:24 AM

Don’t know if this has been addressed elsewhere, but it would be great if PB/DOS could accurately
report the SIZE of drives above 2 gigs

Same suggestion as for another post...

Code:

 SHELL "Windows program which writes disk size to file 'filename'.exe" 
 OPEN "filename" ....

MCM

**Buck Huffman** · 30 Aug 2003, 10:09 PM

There was a similar question asked by Mel Bishop in march 2002, in
this forum and the discussion led to some PB sources that I was
able to tweek into some working code. You can probably find it in
the archives somewhere. I don't have any idea how to find it but
I'm sure someone here could help. If I find anything else I will
post it here.
Buck

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**Buck Huffman** · 31 Aug 2003, 04:42 PM

Sorry about last nights ramblings. It was just the beer talking.
try this:

Code:

   Type DiskBuffer
      Info AS STRING * 512
   End Type

   Type DriveParameters
      Size AS WORD
      InformationFlagTable AS WORD
      CylindersTotal AS DWORD
      HeadsTotal AS DWORD
      SectorsPerTrack AS DWORD
      SectorsTotal AS QUAD
      BytesPerSector AS WORD
   End Type

   TYPE XInt13BufferStructure
      PacketSize AS BYTE
      Reserved AS BYTE
      BlocksToTransfer AS WORD
      TransferBuffer AS BYTE PTR
      StartingBlock AS QUAD
   END TYPE

   %FALSE = 0
   %TRUE = NOT %FALSE

   $INCLUDE "REGNAMES.INC"

   DIM DI AS DriveParameters
   DIM GetBack AS DiskBuffer

   CLS
   Int13_Parameter &H0080, DI
   PRINT DI.Size;" Buffer Size"
   Temp% = LEN(BIN$(DI.InformationFlagTable))
   PRINT STRING$(8-Temp%, "0");BIN$(DI.InformationFlagTable);" Flag Table"
   PRINT DI.CylindersTotal;" Total Cylinders"
   PRINT DI.HeadsTotal;" Heads Total "
   PRINT DI.SectorsPerTrack;" SectorsPerTrack"
   PRINT DI.BytesPerSector;" BytesPerSector"
   PRINT CQUD(DriveInfo.SectorsTotal)
   X&& = DI.CylindersTotal * DI.HeadsTotal * DI.SectorsPerTrack * DI.BytesPerSector
   PRINT X&&; "Bytes Total"
   FOR I&& = 1024 TO 1025
      Int13_READ &H0080, GetBack, I&&
      PRINT GetBack.Info
   NEXT I&&
   END

FUNCTION Int13_Check(DriveNum AS INTEGER)
   REG %AX, &H4100
   REG %BX, &H55AA
   REG %DX, DriveNum
   CALL INTERRUPT 13
   FLAGM?? = REG(%FLAGS)
   ACCUM?? = REG(%AX)
   BASEM?? = REG(%BX)
   COUNT?? = REG(%CX)
   DATAM?? = REG(%DX)

   IF BIT(FLAGM??, 0) = 1 THEN
      FUNCTION = %FALSE
      EXIT FUNCTION
   END IF
   SHIFT RIGHT ACCUM??, 8
   FUNCTION = %TRUE
END FUNCTION

SUB Int13_READ(DriveNum AS INTEGER, Sector AS DiskBuffer, SectorNumber AS QUAD)
   DIM XInt13Buffer AS XInt13BufferStructure
   XInt13Buffer.PacketSize = &H10
   XInt13Buffer.Reserved = &H00
   XInt13Buffer.BlocksToTransfer = 1
   XInt13Buffer.TransferBuffer = VARPTR32(Sector)
   XInt13Buffer.StartingBlock = SectorNumber
   REG %AX, &H4200
   REG %DX, DriveNum  '&H0080
   REG %DS, VARSEG(XInt13Buffer)
   REG %SI, VARPTR(XInt13Buffer)
   CALL INTERRUPT &H13
END SUB

SUB Int13_WRITE(DriveNum AS INTEGER, Sector AS DiskBuffer, SectorNumber AS QUAD)
   DIM XInt13Buffer AS XInt13BufferStructure
   'Initialize Buffer Information For Write
   XInt13Buffer.PacketSize? = &H10
   XInt13Buffer.Reserved? = &H00
   XInt13Buffer.BlocksToTransfer?? = 1
   XInt13Buffer.TransferBuffer = VARPTR32(Sector)
   XInt13Buffer.StartingBlock&& = SectorNumber&&
   REG %AX,&H4300
   REG %DX, DriveNum
'   REG %DX,&H0080
   'Load Segment Pointer For Disk Address Packet Buffer Into DS Register
   REG %DS,VARSEG(XInt13Buffer)
   'Load Offset Pointer For Disk Address Packet Buffer Into SI Register
   REG %SI,VARPTR(XInt13Buffer)
   CALL INTERRUPT &H13
END SUB

SUB Int13_SEEK(DriveNum AS INTEGER, Sector AS DiskBuffer, SectorNumber AS QUAD)
   DIM XInt13Buffer AS XInt13BufferStructure
   'Initialize Buffer Information For Write
   XInt13Buffer.PacketSize? = &H10
   XInt13Buffer.Reserved? = &H00
   XInt13Buffer.BlocksToTransfer?? = 1
   XInt13Buffer.TransferBuffer = VARPTR32(Sector)
   XInt13Buffer.StartingBlock&& = SectorNumber&&
   REG %AX,&H4700
   REG %DX, DriveNum
'   REG %DX,&H0080
   'Load Segment Pointer For Disk Address Packet Buffer Into DS Register
   REG %DS,VARSEG(XInt13Buffer)
   'Load Offset Pointer For Disk Address Packet Buffer Into SI Register
   REG %SI,VARPTR(XInt13Buffer)
   CALL INTERRUPT &H13
END SUB

SUB Int13_VERIFY(DriveNum AS INTEGER, Sector AS DiskBuffer, SectorNumber AS QUAD)
   DIM XInt13Buffer AS XInt13BufferStructure
   'Initialize Buffer Information For Write
   XInt13Buffer.PacketSize? = &H10
   XInt13Buffer.Reserved? = &H00
   XInt13Buffer.BlocksToTransfer?? = 1
   XInt13Buffer.TransferBuffer = VARPTR32(Sector)
   XInt13Buffer.StartingBlock&& = SectorNumber&&
   REG %AX,&H4400
   REG %DX, DriveNum
'   REG %DX,&H0080
   'Load Segment Pointer For Disk Address Packet Buffer Into DS Register
   REG %DS,VARSEG(XInt13Buffer)
   'Load Offset Pointer For Disk Address Packet Buffer Into SI Register
   REG %SI,VARPTR(XInt13Buffer)
   CALL INTERRUPT &H13
END SUB

SUB Int13_PARAMETER(DriveNum AS INTEGER, DriveInfo AS DriveParameters)
   DriveInfo.size = SIZEOF(DriveInfo)
   REG %AX, &H4800
   REG %DX, DriveNum
   REG %DS, VARSEG(DriveInfo)
   REG %SI, VARPTR(DriveInfo)
   CALL INTERRUPT &H13
END SUB

IMPORTANT:
Keep in mind that I have not tested this very well, so back up
your hard drive before trying it (you do back up, don't you?).

hope this helps.
Buck

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[This message has been edited by Buck Huffman (edited August 31, 2003).]

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