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Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS (Announce)

posted by RayeR , CZ, 15.11.2011, 10:31

> The enclosed user guide mentions that long file names are required. I load
> doslfn when running it under real mode DOS.

Yes but it's evil. Netcard driver and TCP/IP stack are very hungry for low-memory and any extra TSR need will eat even more low-memory.

> Without doslfn loaded Dillo will not find the truetype fonts. These have
> been ported from Linux and therefore have these long names. There are so
> many font names and these in bold, italic etc that one would have to rename
> the fonts to numbers I guess to get them into 8:3 format. The code in
> Dillo, FLTK plus Xlib would have to be changed for that too. So just load
> doslfn for now.

But I think it may support also SFN. DJGPP itself use some LFNs in binaries, inludes and libs but if you unzip it in plain dos mode without LFN it can still work. Under LFN environment SFN can be enforced by setting env. var "LFN=N" It does some internal conversion when you open "this_is_lfn_file.bin" it tells dos to search "this_is_.bin" file. No tilda used like windows SFN. But there may occur a conflict when 8 leading chars will be the same. I think that unzip cannot handle it and display a request to overwrite previous file. Unfortunatelly this is case of Dillo. Eg. there are some font files starting with same string "DejaVuSans-" so they cannot be properly extracted. So I think that better solution would be use of some mapping file (conditionally only for dos version) that will translate long font names to SFN file names. Also there's problem with names starting with dot. They are not extracted at all.

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Complete thread:

• Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - georgpotthast, 14.11.2011, 17:36 (Announce)
  • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - ron, 14.11.2011, 22:33
    • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - ron, 15.11.2011, 01:51
      • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - RayeR, 15.11.2011, 02:23
        • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - ron, 15.11.2011, 02:50
          • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - georgpotthast, 15.11.2011, 09:54
            • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - RayeR, 15.11.2011, 10:31
              • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - georgpotthast, 15.11.2011, 13:11
                • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - RayeR, 16.11.2011, 01:12
            • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - ron, 15.11.2011, 12:05
              • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - georgpotthast, 15.11.2011, 12:42
                • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - ron, 15.11.2011, 13:31
                  • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - georgpotthast, 15.11.2011, 14:19
                    • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - Zyzzle, 15.11.2011, 21:50
                      • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - georgpotthast, 15.11.2011, 22:04
                        • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - glennmcc, 16.11.2011, 00:42
                          • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - RayeR, 16.11.2011, 04:33
                            • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - glennmcc, 16.11.2011, 05:53
                              • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - RayeR, 16.11.2011, 06:05
                                • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - RayeR, 16.11.2011, 06:15
                                  • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - georgpotthast, 16.11.2011, 07:59
                                    • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - RayeR, 16.11.2011, 10:18
                                      • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - georgpotthast, 16.11.2011, 19:37
                                    • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - bretjohn, 16.11.2011, 17:30
  • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - glennmcc, 15.11.2011, 00:53
  • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - RayeR, 15.11.2011, 01:08
    • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - RayeR, 15.11.2011, 05:04
      • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - RayeR, 15.11.2011, 05:07
  • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - Deniska, 16.11.2011, 15:16
    • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - georgpotthast, 16.11.2011, 19:56
      • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - Deniska, 17.11.2011, 12:58
        • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - georgpotthast, 17.11.2011, 21:04
          • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - RayeR, 17.11.2011, 23:15
            • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - georgpotthast, 18.11.2011, 08:15
              • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - RayeR, 19.11.2011, 01:52
                • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - glennmcc, 19.11.2011, 04:06
              • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - ron, 19.11.2011, 01:52
  • Please read the User Guide - georgpotthast, 16.11.2011, 19:59
    • Please read the User Guide - Doug, 17.11.2011, 04:56
      • NANOSCR environment variable - georgpotthast, 17.11.2011, 08:38
        • NANOSCR environment variable - Doug, 17.11.2011, 16:49
          • NANOSCR environment variable - RayeR, 17.11.2011, 23:22
        • DILLO - DOS386, 20.11.2011, 04:14
          • DILLO - RayeR, 20.11.2011, 17:18
            • DILLO | SS SA SO ... ... - DOS386, 12.12.2011, 04:17
  • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - obeythepenguin, 26.11.2011, 03:32
    • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - ron, 26.11.2011, 07:03
      • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - obeythepenguin, 26.11.2011, 16:50
        • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - beta2 - georgpotthast, 26.11.2011, 18:13
          • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - beta2 - glennmcc, 26.11.2011, 22:57
            • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - beta2 - georgpotthast, 26.11.2011, 23:15
            • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - beta2 - ron, 27.11.2011, 01:31
            • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - beta2 - ron, 27.11.2011, 01:51
              • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - beta2 - ron, 27.11.2011, 01:59
            • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - beta2 - obeythepenguin, 27.11.2011, 06:13
              • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - beta2 - obeythepenguin, 27.11.2011, 06:17
                • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - beta2 - ron, 27.11.2011, 06:43
                  • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - beta2 - obeythepenguin, 27.11.2011, 18:20
                    • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - beta2 - ron, 27.11.2011, 23:06
                      • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - beta2 - obeythepenguin, 27.11.2011, 23:33
                        • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - beta2 - ron, 28.11.2011, 00:44
                          • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - beta2 - obeythepenguin, 28.11.2011, 02:45
              • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - beta2 - favero, 29.11.2011, 14:05
                • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - beta2 - obeythepenguin, 29.11.2011, 16:59
                  • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - beta2 - Rugxulo, 01.12.2011, 06:06
                    • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - beta2 - obeythepenguin, 01.12.2011, 19:55
            • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - beta2 - obeythepenguin, 27.11.2011, 06:14
            • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - beta2 - obeythepenguin, 27.11.2011, 06:14
        • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - ron, 26.11.2011, 22:26
          • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - georgpotthast, 26.11.2011, 22:53
          • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - obeythepenguin, 27.11.2011, 05:36
            • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - Rugxulo, 27.11.2011, 15:23
              • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - obeythepenguin, 27.11.2011, 18:58
                • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - Rugxulo, 27.11.2011, 20:33
                  • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - obeythepenguin, 27.11.2011, 22:21
              • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - RayeR, 30.11.2011, 15:18
                • DJDEV 2.04 "beta" (2003) and CVS - Rugxulo, 01.12.2011, 06:33
                  • DJDEV 2.04 "beta" (2003) and CVS - RayeR, 02.12.2011, 19:23
    • Dillo - local file as command line argument - Japheth, 27.11.2011, 10:47
      • Dillo - local file as command line argument - obeythepenguin, 27.11.2011, 18:29
  • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - obeythepenguin, 29.11.2011, 01:41
    • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - RayeR, 01.12.2011, 03:22
      • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - obeythepenguin, 01.12.2011, 05:03
        • Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS - RayeR, 01.12.2011, 15:44
  • Dillo-Win32 development discontinued - georgpotthast, 05.12.2011, 21:07
    • Dillo-Win32 development discontinued - ron, 05.12.2011, 22:25
      • Dillo-Win32 development discontinued - georgpotthast, 05.12.2011, 22:37
        • Dillo-Win32 development discontinued - ron, 06.12.2011, 00:27
        • Dillo-Win32 development discontinued - glennmcc, 06.12.2011, 00:28
        • Dillo-Win32 development discontinued - RayeR, 06.12.2011, 03:06
    • Dillo-Win32 development discontinued - favero, 06.12.2011, 03:59
      • Dillo-Win32 development discontinued - georgpotthast, 06.12.2011, 09:06
        • Dillo-Win32 development discontinued - RayeR, 06.12.2011, 17:08