Re: [Freedos-devel] zoo just needs packaging

On 23.05.2024 21:29, Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel wrote: I already incorporated rugxulos changes to my local copy of the ZOO FreeDOS package repository. I will push the changes as soon as I get write access to the repo. This is ZOO version 2.1. Hey, that's really nice! :)

Re: [Freedos-devel] zoo just needs packaging

On 23.05.2024 21:20, Eric Auer via Freedos-devel wrote: Apparently people somehow failed to come to a conclusion which version of ZOO to package under which license in January 2024. Zoo is in the public domain, with no strings attached. Years ago someone from Debain had sent an e-mail to

Re: [Freedos-devel] zoo

On 23.05.2024 13:56, Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel wrote: a) fdtui - a mixture between dosshell and an NC clone - please check it, I am sure you will confirm, (sorry, Berki) [Now that I have seen Jim's mail showing list services are working again, I'm sending my messages that got

Re: [Freedos-devel] Question about USBDOS license

On 30.11.2023 20:22, Bret Johnson via Freedos-devel wrote: They can voluntarily contribute if they want, but nothing is required. Hi Bret, I would have another question regarding USBDOS' license: what about manufacturers that sell computers with FreeDOS preinstalled to avoid the Windows

[Freedos-devel] Regarding Edlin in Chinese

Hi all, French and Turkish translation contributor to FreeDOS here. While browsing the archive of freedos-devel, I stumbled upon the thread about Edlin in Chinese and wanted to bring a few pages to your attention. Firstly, you may see that some people are asking for CJK (Chinese, Japanese,

Re: [Freedos-devel] mkey keyboard

On 3.01.2022 17:18, tom ehlert wrote: Hi, >> But I still think about adding turkish layouts in mkeyb. > why? obviously thraex has had a turkish keyboard driver > for the last 30 years. what is the problem ou are trying to solve? > > and thraex hasn't complained himself, so

Re: [Freedos-devel] mkey keyboard

On 31.12.2021 21:02, tom ehlert wrote: > > However I react supercritically when people that never contributed > anything suggest that I contribute some work. Hi Tom, I'm a newbie around here, I don't know much of the history of this mailing-list. Also, I didn't contribute much, and

Re: [Freedos-devel] Installer NLS Questions

izizi/freedos.img -cdrom /home/tizizi/DEV0LIVE.iso -sandbox on,obsolete=deny,elevateprivileges=deny,spawn=deny,resourcecontrol=deny -msg timestamp=on 2021-12-31T13:52:11.070315Z qemu-system-i386: Display 'sdl' is not available. when I use Jim's invocation, of which I barely understood less

Re: [Freedos-devel] Thank you Jerome

On 30.12.2021 03:11, Wilhelm Spiegl wrote: > Hi to all, > > I think it is time to say THANK YOU very very much to Jerome at this point. I had the exact same idea and thought about posting such a message when 1.3 was going to be released but you were faster Willi :-) Jerome has been dealing

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: FDTUI and Minibox

On 21.12.2021 20:28, Jim Hall wrote: > Hi everyone! > > Ercan sent this announcement and question to me, and I wanted to share > it with the freedos-devel list: > > > -- Forwarded message - > (...) Some commands of Minibox doesn't working with CWSDPMI. > But, it works on

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC5

On 10.12.2021 14:55, Jerome Shidel wrote: >> >> Ouch. PGM.BAT works just fine, I was looking for PGME.BAT, my bad. > > No problem.  > > When PGME is installed using it’s installer, it mentions the batch > loader PGM. But when installed via FreeDOS package, there isn’t a good > way to make

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC5

On 9.12.2021 18:35, Jerome Shidel wrote: > >> * When launching PGME, I couldn't find the PGME.BAT file. So I can't >> start FDIMPLES for instance. > > There is no such file as PGME.BAT. Ouch. PGM.BAT works just fine, I was looking for PGME.BAT, my bad. >> * Speaking of FDIMPLES, it doesn't

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC5

On 9.12.2021 01:15, Jerome Shidel wrote: > Hello FreeDOS Community, > > The wait for 1.3-RC5 is over. It has arrived! Yay! Thank you! I gave it a quick try in VirtualBox after choosing French and Turkish in the installer and here are some remarks: * Blocek needs to be updated to 1.62r2,

Re: [Freedos-devel] List of blocking issues for FreeDOS 1.3

On 16.08.2021 00:27, Jim Hall wrote: > Hi everyone > > Based on our email list discussion from a few weeks ago, I've captured > the "blocking issues" for FreeDOS 1.3 in a new wiki page: > > http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Releases/1.3/Issues > > > **Please review this page and let me

[Freedos-devel] Problems with the CRYNWR.BAT file in fdos\drivers\crynwr\

Hi, After creating a VM with VirtualBox 6.1.22_Ubuntu r144080 under Ubuntu 20.04, I did a full install of FreeDOS 1.3 RC4 from the Live CD. Then, with FDIMPLES I installed all networking programs with, amongst them, the Crynwr drivers. I found the CRYNWR.BAT file that is in the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3]

On 30.07.2021 13:31, Jerome Shidel wrote: > As a reminder…  > > If you want to contribute new or updated translations, please > visit https://github.com/shidel/fd-nls >  and be sure and check out > the https://github.com/shidel/fd-nls/blob/master/report.txt >

Re: [Freedos-devel] What are the blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3?

On 29.07.2021 17:44, Bret Johnson wrote: > While it should be relatively easy to write this output in another Indeed, looks like fairly doable :) > language, the options themselves are mnemonic to make it easier to > remember them (which is why I have some words capitalized in the >

Re: [Freedos-devel] What are the blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3?

On 28.07.2021 07:58, Bret Johnson wrote: > I saw Wilhelm's earlier comment and started thinking about some of its > implications: >   > i) NLS support: Is there anybody who can tell me if all DOS commands > support [J(a)|Nein] or [O(ui)|N(on)] etc. instead of [Y(es)|N(o)]? If > not, they should

Re: [Freedos-devel] What are the blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3?

On 26.07.2021 01:29, Jim Hall wrote: > And: With the updates we have, are we ready to release this as > "FreeDOS 1.3" or do we need a "FreeDOS 1.4 RC5"? As a translator and somewhat a tester, IMHO a RC5 would be necessary. For example, when one chooses the French or Turkish (and possibly

Re: [Freedos-devel] Bloček Update

On 14.02.2021 18:36, thraex wrote: > > On 14.02.2021 17:47, Jerome Shidel wrote: > >> I’m hoping one of you are familiar with the program and would like to >> provide an updated package for it.  >> >> https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/f

Re: [Freedos-devel] Bloček Update

On 14.02.2021 17:47, Jerome Shidel wrote: > (also posted to freedos-user) > > Hi All, Hey Jerome, > I downloaded the latest version and attempted to use it in DOSBox. > However, running its executable it simply hesitated and returned to the > command prompt. As someone who doesn’t use the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Translations (was: Re: Missing FDOS utilities)

On 19.05.2020 18:12, Eric Auer wrote: > Which leads to the question why Mateusz abandoned it in 2016. > Either it was too much work or there were too few fresh text > translations coming in per period of time to maintain it? Sorry for my late reply, I was in a spree finishing HTML Help

Re: [Freedos-devel] Missing FDOS utilities

On 20.05.2020 00:13, Jerome Shidel wrote: > But, eventually FDIMPLES will support multiple online software repos. So... That would be great IMHO, so that like Debian GNU/Linux we can separate free and non free programs. One repo for FreeDOS, another one for additional things that are not

[Freedos-devel] All the HTML Help files translated in French

Hello everybody, It took time, but I finished translating HTML Help files in French. You can find an archive containing them in this gopher hole: . It would be great if you could take a look and point out any mistakes I (could have) made. Please don't

Re: [Freedos-devel] Missing FDOS utilities

On 18.05.2020 23:28, Jerome Shidel wrote: >> Hehe, I have bad news for you Jerome. I reviewed French translations and >> I (or rather, the spellchecker and the Grammalecte tool) caught several >> mistakes in choice, edlin, fc, fdnpkg, find, freecom_err, freecom_lng, >> help, htmlhelp, md5sum,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Translations (was: Re: Missing FDOS utilities)

On 19.05.2020 02:52, Eric Auer wrote: > Of course it would also be nice to have a central point for the > translators: Somebody would have to collect all translatable code > bits from the individual packages (NOT normalizing it into single > file formats if you ask me) and put them in a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Translations (was: Re: Missing FDOS utilities)

On 19.05.2020 02:07, perditi...@gmail.com wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2020, 3:58 PM thraex <mailto:thr...@numericable.fr>> wrote: > > I understand both sides, from a translator perspective, having a single I can only talk about the translator's perspective as I can't code (

Re: [Freedos-devel] Missing FDOS utilities

On 18.05.2020 15:17, Jerome Shidel wrote: > First, http://freedoslocal.sourceforge.net is no longer maintained.  Indeed, that's a resource I miss sorely as a translator :( > Occasionally, individuals have sent me translations for packages other > than the ones I develop. With no good place to

Re: [Freedos-devel] Turkish Encoding in FreeDOS

On 31.10.2019 20:38, Eric Auer wrote: > I have not checked whether FreeCOM translations got > updated after 2003. Maybe a nice project for language > loving FreeDOS users on this mailing list? :-) Yes they were, the French translation was updated, a Turkish translation and several others were

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

2.01.2019 02:30 tarihinde Jerome Shidel yazdı: > > Sorry, I didn’t notice. Displaying the found translations is a new feature in > the build environment. I know there are a couple missin from the German > translations. So, I figured it might be nice that you were shown during that > phase.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

29.12.2018 18:18 tarihinde Jerome Shidel yazdı: >> Finally, if there is other stuff that can be translated for FreeDOS, >> feel free to yell at me. > > :-) Well, you should have yelled :-P Looking at all this scrolling text, I noticed that CuteMouse wasn't translated in Turkish (it wasn't

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

Jerome Shidel wrote: > Hi everybody. Hello Jerome, > If you want to see 1.3 built in the cloud on DigitalOcean, check out > the https://youtu.be/XZoWCFJDdqY Looking at all this scrolling text (after the make clean translate all command), I noticed that some packages (edict, fdtui and others)

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3 list of packages

On 11.11.2018 02:32 Jim Hall wrote: > Thanks, that's very helpful! > > I'll update USBDOS to be green. :-) It's pretty clear the current requirements make this application non free (see below), so shouldn't it be marked as red instead? > On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 12:30 PM Bret Johnson wrote:

[Freedos-devel] Regarding translations for FreeDOS

Hello everyone, For some reason the private e-mails I send end up in the antispam box of the recipients, so I'm sending to the list instead. I just wanted to remind that for French and Turkish all the packages have been translated on so please don't forget

[Freedos-devel] Starting FreeDOS 1.3

12-07-2018 02:01 tarihinde Jerome Shidel yazdı: >> Doom, Hexen, Heretic! :) > > Those old commercial games would be great. But, unfortunately very few were > ever released to open source or even a public license. So, we can not include > most of those games. > > But, if you know of any,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Starting FreeDOS 1.3

10-07-2018 23:46 tarihinde Jerome Shidel yazdı: >> On Jul 10, 2018, at 3:06 PM, Jim Hall > > wrote: >> >> Hi everyone >> >> I'd like to start work on FreeDOS 1.3! >> > More good games would nice. :-) Doom, Hexen, Heretic! :) > If anyone is interested in doing some

[Freedos-devel] Translations for FreeCOM 0.84-pre4

Hi all, I've read the announcement about the updated FreeCOM prerelease but couldn't find the Turkish translations in the tarball of freecom-com084pre4 (in the strings directory). Also, the French translation contained in the tarball seems to be fairly old, whereas a newer and updated version is

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 RC2 - Turkish Character Layout

Jerome Shidel wrote: > >> On Dec 10, 2016, at 2:10 PM, Ercan Ersoy wrote: >> >> I'm using Oracle VirtualBox 5.1.10. I installed FreeDOS 1.2 RC2 on >> virtual machine. I selected Turkish language in setup. In setup and >> after install, Turkish characters isn't applied by FreeDOS. >> > > (...)

Re: [Freedos-devel] How to rework some French translations and contribute a Turkish translation?

Hi, I worked a little bit on the French installer and translated it in Turkish. Mateusz's utf8tocp tool was really helpful to get the French file into utf8 :) I uploaded a tarball at , you can find these files both in UTF8 and in

Re: [Freedos-devel] How to rework some French translations and contribute a Turkish translation?

Hello, I translated a few files into French and sent them to Mateusz (fdnpkg.fr, fdpkg.fr, move.fr and xcopy.fr). After looking to these files, several questions and remarks spring to my mind: - I think providing a link to http://freedoslocal.sourceforge.net/ from freedos.org would be a good