At 08:59 PM 2/20/2013, kurt godel wrote:
Answered my own question:
What does that all have to do with FreeDOS?
Ralf
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At 10:18 PM 2/8/2013, David Juicebox wrote:
I would like to get some help. Maybe a step by step instruction of
how to program a GUI. Also tell me what I need to do to start programming one
no hard feelings, but if you do not know how to start, well, I am not
sure if you are not getting in over
At 08:13 AM 1/28/2013, Sébastien FAVIER wrote:
Hello world!
I FAVIER Sebastien developer of Cpcdos OSx
(See http://microsf01.fr.nf/ or http://cpcdos.fr.nf/ French)
brief
I wonder if with freedos, there is a tool or
other for run a program compiled with
PDS7.1(QuickBasic)16Bit in 32bit ? just to
At 10:57 AM 12/7/2012, Chris Evans wrote:
They need to get a better web host,
They probably just need to pay their bills...
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At 09:41 AM 11/30/2012, Ladislav Lacina wrote:
I found strange and undocumented behaviour in kernel function INT21h/AX=6501h
I wanted to report this as a bug but MS-DOS 7.1 has exactly the same
behaviour.
We have this snippet of code:
var a:array[0..255] of byte;
begin
asm
seges lea di,a
mov
At 10:29 AM 11/30/2012, Ladislav Lacina wrote:
Ralf, you are wrong, you are speaking about INT21h/AX=6521h but we
are discussing about INT21h/AX=6501h
Oops, sorry my bad, but I was not talking about 21h/6521h, what I
found was this, and with not enough coffee yet, I misread A1h for
01h. I
At 11:04 AM 11/30/2012, Tom Ehlert wrote:
We have this snippet of code:
var a:array[0..255] of byte;
begin
asm
seges lea di,a
mov bx,0h
mov dx,0h
mov cx,256
mov ax,6501h
int 21h
end;
it's simply a bug in your program.
ES:DI - country information
At 01:10 PM 11/30/2012, Ladislav Lacina wrote:
I haven't expect that somebody on this forum doesn't understand
seges lea di,A instruction. So explanation:LEA DI,a - load address
of A into DS:DISEGES LEA DI,a load address of A into ES:DI
Careful!
As I mentioned, I have never see or used the
At 02:58 PM 11/30/2012, Rugxulo wrote:
1). Laaca, are you truly using BP7 (real mode? 286 pmode?) or (more
likely) FPC? The latter is DPMI only, and presumably won't work unless
you call int 21h indirectly via int 31h, 300h.
It is certainly BP7, as FreePascal has not the same (Intel) syntax as
At 04:04 PM 11/30/2012, Daniel Verkamp wrote:
I am not familiar with Borland Pascal's inline assembler syntax, but
presumably SEGES is the ES segment override prefix (26h), which is
meaningless with LEA. Only the destination register - DI in this case
- will be modified by LEA; the segment
At 03:22 PM 7/18/2012, sergei karhof wrote:
It's strange, because the LEAN filesystem was designed to work on
FreeDOS-32, which is a DOS too, judging by the name. Can someone
explain the incongruence. BTW, is FreeDOS-32 dead or what?
IMHO, it was dead right from the start, as those folks that
At 03:39 PM 7/18/2012, Rugxulo wrote:
A few years ago, one of the main developers left (for various reasons,
e.g. preference for different licensing). So the few others haven't
really done much since (except for a sporadic LEANfs add-on
documentation or whatever-the-heck it is).
Even without
At 04:13 PM 7/18/2012, sergei karhof wrote:
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:32 AM, Ralf A. Quint free...@gmx.net wrote:
Considering that there are no DOS application that can handle things
like Extended Attributes, what is the purpose of trying to use
it with DOS?
The fact
At 11:41 AM 5/2/2012, kurt godel wrote:
Now that you mention it, I have been toying with the idea of a
linux startup disk that would be comparable in size to a '98
startup disk'; problem is, I am too dumb to figure out how to take a
vmlinuz and boot it up. I assume the vmlinuz has a minimal
At 09:11 AM 1/28/2012, Bob Smith wrote:
Oops! Typo qink - qlink.
Thanks for the bug report.
Thanks for fixing, it's working now!
Ralf ;-)
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At 07:23 PM 1/26/2012, Bob Smith wrote:
Sorry for the trouble -- I
encountered some problems when making changes
to the site.
http://qlink.svn.sudleyplace.com
This one still has some troubles:
An Exception Has
Occurred
qlink not found! The wrong path for this repository was configured, or
the
At 04:01 PM 1/25/2012, Bob Smith wrote:
At long last, I am releasing the source code for three of my old DOS
projects:
Thanks, that's really great news!
4. Finally, if you are interested and I can find the time to wade
through it all, I'll release the source code for Qualitas MAX (a.k.a.
At 01:48 PM 1/4/2012, James Hall wrote:
Hi, one of the organizers of the Southern California Linux Expo
(SCALE) contacted me this afternoon.
He's the chair of a panel on OS'es at SCALE
http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale10x. They currently have Illumos,
Linux, BSD and (possibly) Haiku, and asked
At 07:38 AM 12/28/2011, Michael B. Brutman wrote:
Correction/misquote - You (Ralf) did not suggest comp.lang.c ..
I certainly will do/have never done so.
I made the mistake to question their approach to practical
programming about a decade ago and probably received some of the
fiercest
At 03:11 PM 12/27/2011, Rugxulo wrote:
(Though why they are subscribed to freedos-devel if they aren't
interested in such things is beyond me.)
Because it doesn't have anything to with the development of any part
of FreeDOS maybe?
Ralf
At 03:30 PM 12/27/2011, Rugxulo wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Ralf A. Quint free...@gmx.net wrote:
At 03:11 PM 12/27/2011, Rugxulo wrote:
(Though why they are subscribed to freedos-devel if they aren't
interested in such things is beyond me.)
Because it doesn't have
At 02:36 AM 12/25/2011, J.Philippa wrote:
I did look in the DOCs folder
and apparently missed important clues.
Well, the cutemouse.txt explains how to load/start the program with
all it's options. However, you are in a somewhat special/borderline
situation...
'forDOS'
indicates that my
At 03:26 PM 12/22/2011, James Hall wrote:
I think it's pretty cool to see vendors including FreeDOS as a
pre-installed operating system option. Unfortunately, I think many
vendors (and users, probably) view FreeDOS as the equivalent of naked
PC, with the intention of installing something else
At 09:28 AM 11/13/2011, Michael B. Brutman wrote:
Remember, DOSBox is not real DOS. There are some notable differences,
like the Ctrl-Break handling. It is primarily designed for running
older games on newer hardware. But it does very well for a lot of
applications, and it is convenient.
At 11:14 AM 9/17/2011, Jim Michaels wrote:
I am getting timeouts on that server. both web server and ftp server are dead.
Yeah, looks like they closed the FTP server...
is there a web site? all I can find is VMIX the video mixer.
Could it possibly cross your mind to try sysdev.org? :?
Ralf
At 06:20 PM 9/16/2011, Rugxulo wrote:
I think that Matthias mentioned long time ago
that some updates would/could be forthcoming, but
he has refrained from actively participating here
probably as long as I have, probably for similar reasons...
Dunno. He hasn't been active in a long time,
At 11:46 AM 9/13/2011, jhall wrote:
I emailed the contact person of VMiX yesterday, to see if he might
be interested in opening VMiX as open source software.
clicking on the [download] button leads to
ftp://ftp.sysdev.org/pub/VMiX-3/ftp://ftp.sysdev.org/pub/VMiX-3/
so it's possible no one is
At 11:22 PM 9/10/2011, dos386 wrote:
Nonsense. DOS is officially dead before that, so it if far more
relevant than you try to make it look...
There are even virii inside :-)
...
Yeah, messes even with your DNS :-}
I want to determine the size of a file. How to search for
this topic in the
At 10:35 PM 9/10/2011, dos386 wrote:
You'd likely __start__ with RBIL (Ralph Brown's Interrupt List) and
I would NOT do this ... it's obsolete (last update IIRC 1998) and
it's very hard to find the still useful stuff inside (but there is some).
Nonsense. DOS is officially dead before that, so
At 04:25 PM 8/29/2011, Jim Hall wrote:
FreeDOS friends:
I must share the sad news that Pasquale Pat Villani, 57, passed away
on Saturday night, at his home. Many of you knew Pat. For our new
members: Pat Villani was the author of the original FreeDOS kernel.
Really sorry to hear that... :-(
At 10:33 AM 8/9/2011, Eric Auer wrote:
Hi Bernd, Jeremy,
different virtual PCs seem to have different issues, but
they are all useable and I am quite sure that users run
Linux and Windows inside them without real problems. Why
should we have to tell DOS users that only a certain and
small subset
At 09:11 AM 8/8/2011, Steve Nickolas wrote:
On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Eric Auer wrote:
PS: ISO date/time seems to be popular, I see in another
thread (2011-08-02 18:09:06 etc.) but nobody yet said in
which COUNTRY this is the default anyway. USA, maybe? ;)
Japan?
It was for the longest time the
At 11:50 AM 8/8/2011, David C. Kerber wrote:
It's also the most logical one (unless you're American, but
then they still like to use FFU's anyway) and IMHO, should be
FFU? (I can see what FUU [Fd up units]) might stand for, but not FFU?
Fred Flintstone Units...
Ralf ;-)
At 10:20 PM 8/3/2011, Rugxulo wrote:
In my defense, I maybe? should've just taken the easy way out and used
DJGPP (which is 20+ years old, and that's as DOS as it gets, almost
...). But I didn't see a huge need or advantage.
Never really was DOS, always an attempt to prevent those Unix geeks
to
At 02:01 AM 8/4/2011, c...@bttr-software.de wrote:
Okay, I wasn't sure if you were writing it all in pure ASM or not!
I have been having serious health problem for quite a few years, but
rest assured, I am NOT mentally ill
Now that's offensive. And hilarious.
My intention was certainly
At 09:53 AM 8/4/2011, Rugxulo wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Ralf A. Quint free...@gmx.net wrote:
At 10:20 PM 8/3/2011, Rugxulo wrote:
In my defense, I maybe? should've just taken the easy way out and used
DJGPP (which is 20+ years old, and that's as DOS as it gets, almost
At 01:59 PM 8/3/2011, Rugxulo wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Ralf A. Quint free...@gmx.net wrote:
At 08:10 PM 7/26/2011, Steve Nickolas wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Ralf A. Quint wrote:
I would not call BWBASIC weak but including it would give users a
basic scripting tool
At 10:32 PM 7/26/2011, Steve Nickolas wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Rugxulo wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Steve Nickolas
lyricalnan...@usotsuki.hoshinet.org wrote:
Some versions of MS-DOS even included LIB (I have some specimens of 2.x and
3.x that do). DEC's releases for the
At 11:08 PM 7/26/2011, Rugxulo wrote:
Well, .BAT isn't exactly Turing complete, last I checked.
Why would that possibly matter?
GW-BASIC is fine if you like it. Most will complain about line
numbers.
What's wrong with line numbers?
As I already mentioned, too many people these days don't seem
At 09:06 PM 7/27/2011, Rugxulo wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Ralf A. Quint free...@gmx.net wrote:
At 11:08 PM 7/26/2011, Rugxulo wrote:
Well, .BAT isn't exactly Turing complete, last I checked.
Why would that possibly matter?
Hmmm? The whole point was about what
At 04:11 PM 7/26/2011, Rugxulo wrote:
It's just hard to imagine why they would ever include LINK and EXE2BIN
when nothing comes with DOS that can use them. BASICA/GW-BASIC surely
didn't. I don't know, I'm not as savvy as some people here (Ralf?).
Well, as you asked... ;-)
EXE2BIN and LINK where
At 08:10 PM 7/26/2011, Steve Nickolas wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Ralf A. Quint wrote:
Seeing that there is so little respect for the old tools that made
out DOS, I am not sure if I should pick up one of my projects I had
started a few years back, a GW-BASIC clone, looks like there won't
At 12:05 AM 7/23/2011, Rugxulo wrote:
Hi,
I recognize your name from random posts, but I can't place it.
Well, just saying, you must be valuable (in general)! ;-)
Well, the later must be a matter of opinion, seems some folks don't
like critical remarks from people rather sticking to the
At 06:00 AM 7/23/2011, Walt Nagel wrote:
--- On Fri, 7/22/11, Ralf A. Quint free...@gmx.net wrote:
as you folks all are abandoning DOS more or less
The assumption appears to be that every DOS program ever written is
DOS. This is a fallacy. DOS is just the kernel and command
processor; usually
At 04:51 PM 7/22/2011, Jim Hall wrote:
I am updating the 'devel' side of the FreeDOS software list, and
cannot find any DOS binaries for xHarbour. Can anyone help me? I also
need corresponding source code.
The upstream web site no longer points to DOS binaries:
At 12:23 PM 4/22/2011, Jim Hall wrote:
Anyway, let me take this moment to say I'm back. :-)
Welcome back Jim! ;-)
Ralf
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At 06:17 PM 1/15/2011, Eric Auer wrote:
by the way, I have an implentation of OpenGem 5 that is a
complete Open Source
implementation. version 6 does not run. :-(
Did you ask our GEM expert Shane (shaneland.co.uk afair) already?
Shane's web site (and apparently any work) is down for more
At 05:33 AM 8/21/2010, Walt Nagel wrote:
Another possibility worth considering is MinGW/GCC. As long as GCC
is under development, by extension, MinGW will be, as well. The
question here would be, do you want to use Windows, Linux or DOS as
the development platform -- Windows allows a smoother
At 11:27 AM 12/21/2008, Aitor Santamaría wrote:
Hello Tom,
2008/12/21 Tom Ehlert t...@drivesnapshot.de:
I am considering adquiring a new processor, but what can be found in
the shops is mostly x86-64.
If what I read is correct, there is no V86-mode, so there isn't NTVDM
under WIndows,
At 12:20 PM 12/21/2008, Robert Riebisch wrote:
Ralf A. Quint wrote:
Ralf
It's nice to see you still being around here! :-)
Robert Riebisch
Thanks, let's see if it lasts for a while this time, life hasn't been
to nice to me specially this year, but that means it only can get
better from here
At 09:23 PM 1/20/2008, Aitor Santamaría wrote:
Hi,
I have come across:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/69581
how could one interpretate that +,, ?
It's explained just below on that page:
Therefore, with the above command, the /b
forces the COPY command into binary mode,
the appended, and
At 10:06 AM 7/31/2006, Blair Campbell wrote:
Maybe we should keep this around.
I would definitely be interested in its compatibility with the Borland
family of compilers, as this could be improved in OpenWatcom. BTW,
OpenWatcom is also a commercial-quality 16-bit compiler :-).
I did use
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