DOS ain't dead

Hi! A small update of my editor Blocek.
Changelog and download site is here:
http://www.laaca-mirror.ic.cz

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> small update of my editor Blocek.



> using FPC 2.2.0a

where did you get it ?

> now checks for swap



Minimal test:

- Search only seems to work now, unlike in 1.32c
- S&R crash as always (HDPMI32 : reboot CWSDPMI : see shot)
- Some regressions in the GUI
- "image filter select" buggy

More detail later

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> > using FPC 2.2.0a
>
> where did you get it ?

FPC 2.2.0 by me: http://www.bttr-software.de/misc/fpc/
FPC 2.2.0a by Pierre Muller: ftp://freepascal.stack.nl/pub/fpc/beta/2.2.0a/go32v2/

> - S&R crash as always (HDPMI32 : reboot CWSDPMI : see shot)

What?

>

Did you run http://www.memtest.org/ and http://www.memtest86.com/ for some hours now?

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Search and replace...

I really don't know what to do because I am not able to reproduce any crash in S&R. Can anybody else confirm it?
Yes, in versions before 1.32 sometimes occured a crash but only in extreme situations when all RAM was eaten and keyboard interrupt routine got into virtual memory into swap file. This issue was fixed.

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> I really don't know what to do because I am not able to reproduce any
> crash in S&R. Can anybody else confirm it?

No. That works fine for me.

But there's always room for enhancements:

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> No. That works fine for me.
>
> But there's always room for enhancements:

You mean the comma and parenthesis? Sheesh, too subtle for my eyes, I didn't notice until now (unless I'm imagining things, heh).

> > But there's always room for enhancements:
>
> You mean the comma and parenthesis?

Yes.

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BTW anybody else doesn't get messed up display when loading text files with tabulators (saved with optimal fill option)? This problems persist since I 1st tried blocek.

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> BTW anybody else doesn't get messed up display when loading text files with
> tabulators (saved with optimal fill option)? This problems persist since I
> 1st tried blocek.

A request of enanchement for this program:

this can help like a simple RTF support?

VDE2RTF 1.31, by Pavel Zampach, converts a text file with VDE printer codes (bold, italic, etc.) to a Rich Text Format file. It also does code page translations, based on a user?configurable table of correspondences. Package includes executable, other working files, source code & docs. 10K download.

RTF2VDE 1.01, by Pavel Zampach, converts a Rich Text Format file to a text file with VDE printer codes (bold, italic, etc.). It also does code page translations, based on a user?configurable table of correspondences. Package includes executable, other working files, source code & docs. 14K download.

A bug in word wrapping option:

- when I open a new file and pick in "word wrapping" option, the program always crash.

Runtime error 216 at $0007A6A0
$0007A6A0
$0005A7B8
$00059E57
$0006094F
$00061AF3
$0005EDBA
$0005A967

CONFIG.SYS
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device=himem.sys /testmem:off
device=emm386.exe RAM HIGHSCAN
files=20
buffers=20
dos=high,umb
lastdrive=z
devicehigh=a:\asuscd.sys /d:mscd001
devicehigh=display.sys con=(ega,,1)
country=034,,country.sys

AUTOEXEC.BAT
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@ECHO OFF
cls
set temp=c:\temp
set tmp=c:\temp
path=a:\;
set comspec=a:\command.com
lh MSCDEX.EXE /D:mscd001
lh a:\ctmouse.exe
mode.com con cp prepare=((850) ega.cpi)
mode.com con cp select=850
lh keyb.com sp
set blaster=a220 i7 d1 h7 p330 t6
set sbpci=c:\sbpci
c:\sbpci\sbload
c:\sbpci\sbinit
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- DOS 7.10 / Windows 98 (with Freedos also crash)

Oj, thanks! It will be fixed immediately.
(For trees I overlooked a forest)

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> VDE2RTF 1.31, by Pavel Zampach, converts a text file with VDE printer
> codes (bold, italic, etc.) to a Rich Text Format file. It also does code
> page translations, based on a user-configurable table of correspondences.
> Package includes executable, other working files, source code & docs. 10K
> download.

It converts the VDE editor's printer codes to RTF codes. If there are no VDE codes, conversion will only be to a simple RTF frame. Also can convert plain text, Unicode > ANSI, ANSI > DOS, and from one DOS code page to another.

> RTF2VDE 1.01, by Pavel Zampach, converts a Rich Text Format file to a text
> file with VDE printer codes (bold, italic, etc.). It also does code page
> translations, based on a user-configurable table of correspondences.
> Package includes executable, other working files, source code & docs. 14K
> download.

RTF codes are converted to VDE printer codes, if they exist. Other functions are the same as in VDE2RTF.

Both programs are written in Turbo Pascal.

VDE page: http://short.stop.home.att.net/vde/vde.htm
Pavel Zampach's site: http://www.volny.cz/zampach/hplx/index.html

A bugfix minirelease is here. List of changes is here:
- crash when checking word wrapping with new file
- filesector allows to manualy select a file by writting its name (press Space and then type the filename)
- tabs work correctly now
- thousands separator

http://www.laaca-mirror.ic.cz

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Bug in "select image filter"

when I pick in it, all options appear in the same line and I cannot select.

Bye :)

Aaa! Thanks! It is a new bug introduced in 1.33
In this version I changed char for line break from "|" to usual CRLF.
(I was afraid I forgot it somewhere )

reuploaded:
http://www.laaca-mirror.ic.cz

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Great, TABs are working now.
And could be possible to define mor than one UNproportional font? I want to use my .fnt files but they are treated as proportional.

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> Great, TABs are working now.
> And could be possible to define mor than one UNproportional font? I want
> to use my .fnt files but they are treated as proportional.

Hm...
In package with source code is a subdirectory called FN_UTIL. There is program FN.EXE which can convert fonts to proportional or unproportional form.

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Hola!

At the moment I can only use FreeDOS con DOSEMU under Linux. Tested Blocek, but I get following error:

Runtime error 202 at $0007AAB2
 $0007AAB2
 $D50005A9

Any idea?

Thanks,
Flo

> Hm...
> In package with source code is a subdirectory called FN_UTIL. There is
> program FN.EXE which can convert fonts to proportional or unproportional
> form.

Thanks, I converted my FNT files to FN as nonproportional and it works fine. Last thing, I'd like to setup CZ keyboard to be able to write in coding bri Kamenicti. Do I need to make special TBL file with proper mapping or is there some switch?

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> Thanks, I converted my FNT files to FN as nonproportional and it works
> fine. Last thing, I'd like to setup CZ keyboard to be able to write in
> coding bri Kamenicti. Do I need to make special TBL file with proper
> mapping or is there some switch?

You don't have to bother with TBL files. However you have to write own KBT file for Kamenicti layout:
Copy CESKA.KBT info f.e. CESKA2.KBT, then edit the first line of this file. (you can mandatory use the HTML like tags (description in FNFONT2.PAS file))
Then you should update upcase table (next few lines in []brackets) and then update the scancode-ascii code table. Unfortunately for czech language it is not trivial because of dead keys. If you not succeed I'll do it for you in Friday.

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Umm... Yesterday I was a little wrong. If you want to be able to convert between Unicode/Kamenicti you have to create a TBL file too. But if you want only to edit in ASCII, you don't need it.
Anyway, I am thinking about making a tool for easy creating of TBL files - a visual editor, similar to my font editor Kasmar.

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Currently I don't need KAM-UNI conversioj just want to type CZ chars in. I use resident display/kbd driver KEV which can switch keyboards by some ALT+... combination but in blocek I got garbage not right chars (when kamenicti font loaded).

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I recently downloaded Blocek and tried it, interesting project, great work from your part. But the Romanian language quote from the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" has some spelling and gramatical errors, you can find the correct quote here (with red color), please rectify the text in a future release.