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

2016-12-17 Thread Jerome Shidel
> On Dec 17, 2016, at 3:45 PM, thraex wrote: > > 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

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

2016-12-17 Thread thraex
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] FreeDOS 1.2 RC2 - Turkish Character Layout

2016-12-10 Thread Jerome Shidel
> On Dec 10, 2016, at 2:10 PM, Ercan Ersoy wrote: > > Hello. > > 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. > >

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

2016-12-10 Thread Ercan Ersoy
Hello. 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. Best regards, Ercan Ersoy

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 RC2 - Hungarian Keyboard

2016-12-04 Thread Roland Tóth Roland
Hi people, I want to suggest this: [FDCONFIG.SYS] COUNTRY=036,852,C:\DOS\BIN\COUNTRY.SYS [AUTOEXEC:BAT] SET lang=HU DISPLAY CON=(EGA,,1) MODE CON CODEPAGE PREPARE=((852) c:\DOS\CPI\EGA.CPX) MODE CON CODEPAGE SELECT=852 KEYB hu,852 /ID:208 Regards, Roland

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 -- Whats Up?

2016-11-03 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
Have you wondered exactly what has been updated in the new FreeDOS release since version 1.1? Check it out http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/previews/1.2-rc1/compare.html --

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2016-10-30 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
Hello all, Only one more day until FreeDOS 1.2-RC1. :-) Also, I made some minor updates to the scripting that auto-generates the html pages for the online software repository. Among the improvements, the pages for packages now provide links to “previous" package versions for added

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 - Keyboard Layouts

2016-10-23 Thread Henrik Schick-Hansen
reedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 - Keyboard Layouts Hello All, Jim has been very busy over the last couple weeks and I have not heard back from him as of yet. His decisions on these matters are not yet known. However, I fully understand the pain involved with trying to use a command line that is

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 - Keyboard Layouts

2016-10-23 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
Hello All, Jim has been very busy over the last couple weeks and I have not heard back from him as of yet. His decisions on these matters are not yet known. However, I fully understand the pain involved with trying to use a command line that is mapped to a a language other than the one

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 -- Keymap

2016-10-17 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Tom, Jerome, everybody, > however using any OS with the wrong keyboard driver is simply shit. Trying to explain: Imagine your keyboard has AZERTY written on it. Then DOS comes and simply assumes you have a "normal" QWERTY keyboard. Now every time when you press the A button, DOS types Q for

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 -- Keymap

2016-10-17 Thread Tom Ehlert
>> On Oct 16, 2016, at 11:33 AM, Matej Horvat >> wrote: >> >> On Sun, 16 Oct 2016 16:59:05 +0200, Jerome Shidel >> wrote: >> >>> If the user is in advanced mode OR selects a non-English language, the >>> installer will prompt for a couple of

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 -- Keymap

2016-10-16 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hello All, This is my plan. I will try to find the time over the next couple days to implement the keyboard mapping in the installer. If the user is in advanced mode OR selects a non-English language, the installer will prompt for a couple of keyboard settings. US, UK, GR, GR2, SG, NL, FR

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 23

2016-10-09 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
Just an FYI, I noticed a minor cut & paste error in the mkFDI.bat build utility. This issue effected using FDIDEV.BAT to replicate the build environment. This issue also prevented FDI from installing source files when installing FreeDOS. This issue has been resolved for the next release

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Auto NET Config

2016-08-21 Thread Ulrich Hansen
> Am 21.08.2016 um 15:33 schrieb Jerome E. Shidel Jr. : > > Hello Ulrich, > > I will definitely look into it very soon. > (Probably next weekend. Some changes at work have really limited my free time > lately) Hello Jerome, thanks for the reply. No reason to hurry… :-) >

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Auto NET Config

2016-08-21 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
Hello Ulrich, I will definitely look into it very soon. (Probably next weekend. Some changes at work have really limited my free time lately) Rugxulo has also pointed me to a FreeDOS based release that MetaDOS. It seems to do the automatic networking setup pretty well. Under VirtualBOX, it

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Auto NET Config

2016-08-21 Thread Ulrich Hansen
Hi Jerome, I experimented a bit more with your installer CD to find out the steps how to install the programs I talked about in my last post. Luckily most things are already there. Unfortunately there are some bugs. Crynwr and MTCP are on the CD so you could just install them if you detect

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Auto NET Config

2016-08-20 Thread Ulrich Hansen
Hi Jerome! >>> One thing I would like to see make it into the release is some networking. I >>> don’t think it would be practical to have a universal setup for each and >>> every machine and NIC at this time. But, it may be possible to have >>> the installer automatically do this for some of the

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Auto NET Config

2016-07-31 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hello, Rugxulo pointed me at a custom FreeDOS release that has some networking support. I haven't had time to look at it closely. But, initial quick and simple tests showed support for VirtualBox and VMware (bridged NIC). > On Jul 31, 2016, at 8:32 PM, Louis Santillan

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Auto NET Config

2016-07-31 Thread Louis Santillan
A couple weeks late. Apologies. I like this goal. The current FD 1.2pre 22 doesn't seem to have any networking subsystem packages installed. For me, this affects our direction. Michael Brutman has additional applicable analysis about DOS networking here [0]. WatTCP/Watt-32: Lots of apps.

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Auto NET Config

2016-07-17 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
Hello all, As you you may already know, we have been working on the FreeDOS 1.2 release. One thing I would like to see make it into the release is some networking. I don’t think it would be practical to have a universal setup for each and every machine and NIC at this time. But, it may be

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 17

2016-05-07 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
Hello all, I have just released Preview 17, http://up.lod.bz/FDI This release contains: * Minor package and data updates. * Some internal improvements. * Some VirtualBox compatibility updates. * USB versions include FDIDEV.BAT to aid in replicating

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 with Dimples

2016-02-10 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
Hello all, Just released FDI Preview 12. Some major non-UI underlying changes, for better performance and compatibility. Too many improvements and far to many things to list. Hopefully, this will be the last preview before FreeDOS 1.2 beta. Next, I intend on looking through the package lists

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-03 Thread Paul Dufresne
At least with fdisk /XO [Extended Options in user interface] on (set at the end of fdisk.ini), we have access to functions to change type of a partition in the interface. Looking a bit in the code, there seems to be an option for extended interrupt 13h functions. And it seems to use (more) LBA in

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-02 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
> On Feb 2, 2016, at 7:28 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > Hi, > > (I'll respond quickly here even though there's a billion follow-up > responses already.) > > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. > wrote: >> >>> On Feb 1, 2016, at 6:17 PM,

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-02 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, (I'll respond quickly here even though there's a billion follow-up responses already.) On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > >> On Feb 1, 2016, at 6:17 PM, Rugxulo wrote: >> >> On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Jerome E. Shidel

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-02 Thread Paul Dufresne
Your suggestion to "fdisk /mbr:81" (81=D:) was making much sense to me because the disk was having grub on it before I erase all with fdisk to make place for FreeDOS. So yes, it made sense that grub being installed in MBR might made me not having normal MBR. But trying "fdisk /mbr:81" have not

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-02 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > I just don't think most people downloading FreeDOS really need FPC or > FBC or DJGPP (even if I do like them). I think they can just grab them > separately. But OW and NASM are officially recommended and much > smaller, so to those I have no complaints. FreeBasic has a rather cool QB

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-02 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
> On Feb 2, 2016, at 7:39 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi! > >> I just don't think most people downloading FreeDOS really need FPC or >> FBC or DJGPP (even if I do like them). I think they can just grab them >> separately. But OW and NASM are officially recommended and much

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-02 Thread Louis Santillan
I wouldn't think the LBA aware type would have kept your system from booting. I thought that only affected Win9x and IFS driver. Glad you got it working anyways. On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 9:20 PM, Paul Dufresne wrote: > >What exact partition i.d. is your FAT? Perhaps it

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-02 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 11:20 PM, Paul Dufresne wrote: > >>What exact partition i.d. is your FAT? Perhaps it needs to be LBA >>aware (0xC)? I don't remember offhand. > > Yes, looks like you found the problem. > > I DID NOT SAW ANY WAY TO CHANGE THE TYPE OF THE PARTITION

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-02 Thread Paul Dufresne
>What exact partition i.d. is your FAT? Perhaps it needs to be LBA >aware (0xC)? I don't remember offhand. Yes, looks like you found the problem. I changed it in Linux, from b (W95 FAT32) to c (W95 FAT32 LBA). Then tried to boot my partition (that is now in GRUB since I just installed a Linux to

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-02 Thread Paul Dufresne
I have tried the latest FDI-USB.IMG and I would almost be happy with it. Yes, I can now install in french fine. Yes, fdisk now select the D: drive that is my hard disk. Yes, all the installation goes fine. Except when I reboot, it reboot in loop. My hard drive is SATA did read it should works

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-02 Thread Paul Dufresne
Note that I still used 4000 Mb primary FAT32 (big drive?) partition. -- Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-02 Thread Paul Dufresne
Ok, I open my box and literally found an old forgotten dusty unconnected PATA 40Gb drive. I connected it (after disconnecting SATA drive). And reinstall FreeDOS from USB key. Worked flawlessly this time. At least a few seconds until I try to type 'help dir' or 'help' (as suggested) which make the

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-02 Thread Paul Dufresne
Burn on a DVD latest SystemRescueCD but does the same as on my USB key: -divide by zero exception when trying to use FreeDOS on the DVD -SuperGrub just showing upperleft blinking cursor when booting SATA 149 GiB, FreeDOS partition But discovered that HardwareDetectionTool was showing MBR as Grub2

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-02 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 9:24 PM, Paul Dufresne wrote: > > Burn on a DVD latest SystemRescueCD but does the same as on my USB key: > -divide by zero exception when trying to use FreeDOS on the DVD Try F8 (single stepping) through your config, and disable any EMM386 or

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-02 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 6:56 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > >> On Feb 2, 2016, at 7:39 PM, Eric Auer wrote: >> >>> I just don't think most people downloading FreeDOS really need FPC or >>> FBC or DJGPP (even if I do like them). I think they can just

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-01 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
> On Feb 1, 2016, at 12:13 PM, Paul Dufresne > wrote: > > I just wrote (DD in Linux) the FDI-USB .IMG file on an USB-KEY. > Think this was my first try to boot FreeDOS on USB key. > Boots fine (once adjusted in BIOS). > > Suprise 1) Unable to

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-01 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > > I just the FreeDOS 1.2 Installer Preview 11. > > Also, a more permanent USB stick image url location. > There is a link to it on the FDI download page. I just downloaded the FDI-USB.ZIP file (now 178 MB

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-01 Thread Eric Auer
Hi :-) >> I just downloaded the FDI-USB.ZIP file (now 178 MB .ZIP'd, unpacks >> to 256 MB .img). > Yeah, It’s a little big. But, on the other hand it is really hard to find > a USB stick under 512mb. So, other than download size, it isn’t to > important. However, that being said. It should be

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-01 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
A side note to ALL, regarding what packages are included. There is really no reason you cannot make your own personal customized FDI based release. Two ways to do it. The easy way: For Floppy Image, just modify the package list files A:\FDSETUP\SETUP\*.LST. It will

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-01 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
> On Feb 1, 2016, at 7:55 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi :-) > >>> I just downloaded the FDI-USB.ZIP file (now 178 MB .ZIP'd, unpacks >>> to 256 MB .img). > >> Yeah, It’s a little big. But, on the other hand it is really hard to find >> a USB stick under 512mb. So, other

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-01 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
> On Feb 1, 2016, at 6:17 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > Hi, > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. > wrote: >> >> I just the FreeDOS 1.2 Installer Preview 11. >> >> Also, a more permanent USB stick image url location. >> There is a link to

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-01 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
I just the FreeDOS 1.2 Installer Preview 11. http://up.load.bz/FDI/latest Also, a more permanent USB stick image url location. There is a link to it on the FDI download page. Or, just use the direct link http://dnld.lod.bz/FDI-USB.zip

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-01 Thread Paul Dufresne
I just wrote (DD in Linux) the FDI-USB .IMG file on an USB-KEY. Think this was my first try to boot FreeDOS on USB key. Boots fine (once adjusted in BIOS). Suprise 1) Unable to select a language different than english. Others are shown, but key down does not move to others. Did not was able (or

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Packages

2016-01-29 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
Later today (EDT), I plan on have Preview 11 done. There may be a Preview 12 before the FreeDOS 1.2 Beta. There may not. So far, I’ve made several changes and improvements to the soon to come Preview 11. They include: Improved USB stick drive letter booting and general handling. Removed special

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2016-01-26 Thread Thomas Mueller
Excerpts from Eric Auer: > if Mateusz' repository has "500 MB of packages", then that > would make a good choice for ALL as far as I am concerned: > It easily fits on a CD and you get plenty of DOS stuff :-) > Also, it should fit on most USB sticks as well. Maybe you > could make a list of

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2016-01-23 Thread Louis Santillan
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 11:56 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > Excerpt from Rugxulo: > > > > Well maybe it would also be nice to have some BASH, such > > > as the DJGPP one - both shell and script language... :-) > > > Nah. Their Bash is ancient (2.05b), not well-supported by

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2016-01-23 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 1:56 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > Excerpt from Rugxulo: > >> > Well maybe it would also be nice to have some BASH, such >> > as the DJGPP one - both shell and script language... :-) > >> Nah. Their Bash is ancient (2.05b), not well-supported by

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2016-01-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
Excerpt from Rugxulo: > > Well maybe it would also be nice to have some BASH, such > > as the DJGPP one - both shell and script language... :-) > Nah. Their Bash is ancient (2.05b), not well-supported by anyone > anymore. Most DJGPP stuff mandatorily has to be cross-compiled > anyways, for

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 beta

2016-01-04 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 9:07 PM, Maarten Vermeulen wrote: > > Ps: For those wondering why I can't do the core utillity: > > In 2015 I made a school report about MS-DOS. After that (I just did!) Iooked > at some MS-DOS sources. I mailed to Jim that I had been reading it.

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 beta

2016-01-04 Thread Maarten Vermeulen
s-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Onderwerp: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 beta Hi Maarten, Thank you for your time. The packaging work is pretty straigh-forward - it's simply "look at what packages we have, and see if any newer versions are available and/or if any other interesting and u

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 beta

2016-01-03 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
The new FreeDOS batch file based installer (FDI) has been done for a while now and I have used it to install FreeDOS multiple times. Since, it just uses Mateusz’s repo disc image for packages and is not FreeDOS 1.1, I consider it a FreeDOS 1.2 preview/alpha version. It would be nice to have a

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 beta

2016-01-03 Thread Maarten Vermeulen
;Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers." <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Onderwerp: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 beta The new FreeDOS batch file based installer (FDI) has been done for a while now and I have used it to install FreeDOS multiple times. Since, i

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 beta

2016-01-03 Thread Mateusz Viste
-- > Van: Jerome E. Shidel Jr. <mailto:jer...@shidel.net> > Verzonden: ‎3-‎1-‎2016 23:12 > Aan: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. > <mailto:freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> > Onderwerp: [Free

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 ALL packages

2015-12-22 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 5:20 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > while DJGPP is rather large, in particular if you include > lots of sub-packages, I think FPC (Pascal) and FreeBASIC > can be a lot smaller to install and OpenWatcom C in the > middle... Also, I would assume that LFN

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 ALL packages

2015-12-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Rugxulo, while DJGPP is rather large, in particular if you include lots of sub-packages, I think FPC (Pascal) and FreeBASIC can be a lot smaller to install and OpenWatcom C in the middle... Also, I would assume that LFN drivers are part of the ALL install, so why not install ALL compilers?

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 ALL packages

2015-12-22 Thread Tom Ehlert
> while DJGPP is rather large, in particular if you include > lots of sub-packages, I think FPC (Pascal) and FreeBASIC > can be a lot smaller to install and OpenWatcom C in the > middle... Also, I would assume that LFN drivers are part > of the ALL install, so why not install ALL compilers? :-)

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 ALL packages

2015-12-21 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 11:52 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > On 21/12/2015 00:02, Rugxulo wrote: > >>> devel\fpc >> >> 3.0.0 was released recently, but there is no "package" for it yet. > > Same goes for DJGPP. And FreeBASIC. And surely many more packages. This > is one of the

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 ALL packages

2015-12-21 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > >> On Dec 21, 2015, at 12:52 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: >> devel\fpc >>> >>> 3.0.0 was released recently, but there is no "package" for it yet. >> >> Same goes for DJGPP. And FreeBASIC.

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 ALL packages

2015-12-21 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
> On Dec 20, 2015, at 5:45 PM, Antony Gordon wrote: > > Hi, > > An assembler and a Pascal compiler. Missing BASIC and C/C++. > > I don’t use Basic or C(s). :-) > That would make the programming languages complete. You should probably > mention sources for all packages

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 ALL packages

2015-12-21 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
> On Dec 21, 2015, at 12:52 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > On 21/12/2015 00:02, Rugxulo wrote: >>> util\fdnpkg >> >> Presumably latest here? (0.99.4 "<8 hours ago", according to SF.net page) > > Good catch! I did release (silently) FDNPKG to v0.99.4 yesterday. Since > it

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 ALL packages

2015-12-21 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
> On Dec 20, 2015, at 6:02 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. > wrote: >> >> This is the list of the ALL package list for the FDI installer. >> >> Please let me know if I should anything else or remove

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 BASE packages

2015-12-20 Thread Antony Gordon
Hi, Given the changes in DOS since 2.X until now, Edlin and EXE2BIN should be optional. DOS 5 replaced Edlin with EDIT and EXE2BIN wasn't included with DOS after 3.3 or 4.01. Which memory manager offers the most compatibility? FDXMS or HIMEMX? -T On Sun, Dec 20, 2015, 4:53 PM Jerome E. Shidel

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 ALL packages

2015-12-20 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > > This is the list of the ALL package list for the FDI installer. > > Please let me know if I should anything else or remove something. > > Also, V8Power Tools is also installed when ALL is selected. > > This

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 ALL packages

2015-12-20 Thread Mateusz Viste
On 21/12/2015 00:02, Rugxulo wrote: >> util\fdnpkg > > Presumably latest here? (0.99.4 "<8 hours ago", according to SF.net page) Good catch! I did release (silently) FDNPKG to v0.99.4 yesterday. Since it contains nothing big from the user's point of view, I didn't feel that it justify

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 BASE packages

2015-12-20 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, I don't know how useful this is (esp. this late in the release process), but On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > This is the list of the BASE Packages for the FDI installer. > > Please let me know if I left anything out or should remove

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 BASE packages

2015-12-20 Thread Mateusz Viste
On 20/12/2015 23:48, Rugxulo wrote: > ("BASE" does have both "uide" and "xmgr" but not "udvd2", so I'm not > sure why we don't just combine all that RDISK+UIDE+XMGR (etc.) into > one package) I think that was me who exploded this into different packages. The rationale was that when users look

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 ALL packages

2015-12-20 Thread Antony Gordon
Hi, An assembler and a Pascal compiler. Missing BASIC and C/C++. That would make the programming languages complete. You should probably mention sources for all packages in the "everything" install. Base should just reference that the sources are on the install media. IIRC, most Linux

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 BASE packages

2015-12-20 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Antony Gordon wrote: > > Given the changes in DOS since 2.X until now, Edlin and EXE2BIN should be > optional. DOS 5 replaced Edlin with EDIT and EXE2BIN wasn't included with > DOS after 3.3 or 4.01. DOS also stopped providing LINK.EXE

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 BASE packages

2015-12-20 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
This is the list of the BASE Packages for the FDI installer. Please note that I switched out UIDE for UDVD2. UIDE was causing strange disk errors with FDINST and with FreeCOM. Remember this is the Minimalist, MS-DOS functionality only BASE for FreeDOS 1.2. Please let me know if I left anything

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 ALL packages

2015-12-20 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
This is the list of the ALL package list for the FDI installer. Please let me know if I should anything else or remove something. Also, V8Power Tools is also installed when ALL is selected. This list includes all packages in the BASE. I just did not include them here to shorten the list. ;

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-11-25 Thread Maarten Vermeulen
questions for FreeDOS developers." <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Onderwerp: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 If it's just for the installer itself, it shouldn't be much text at all. In fact, a few KB may be all that's needed for all the supported languages. Now, if one were t

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-11-25 Thread Mercury Thirteen
Verzonden: ‎24-‎11-‎2015 15:22 Aan: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. <mailto:freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Onderwerp: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 On Tue, 24 Nov 2015, Geraldo Netto wrote: > well, nyc feels a l

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-11-25 Thread netraam70
-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 I am just a bit worried that our OS will be HUGE due to the language resources.A few KB is fine,hopefully it doesn't go above that. On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Mercury Thirteen <mercury0x0...@gmail.com> wrote: Thanks for the shout! :) Many (most?) OSs hav

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-11-25 Thread JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU
le that are unkind... >> Everywhere >> -- >> Van: Steve Nickolas <usots...@buric.co> >> Verzonden: ‎24-‎11-‎2015 15:22 >> Aan: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. >> <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> &g

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-11-24 Thread Mercury Thirteen
Van: Steve Nickolas <mailto:usots...@buric.co> Verzonden: ‎24-‎11-‎2015 15:22 Aan: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. <mailto:freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Onderwerp: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 On Tue, 2

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-11-24 Thread JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU
raa...@gmail.com> wrote: > There are always people that are unkind... > Everywhere > -- > Van: Steve Nickolas <usots...@buric.co> > Verzonden: ‎24-‎11-‎2015 15:22 > Aan: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. > <freedos-devel@lists.s

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-11-24 Thread Maarten Vermeulen
There are always people that are unkind... Everywhere -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: "Steve Nickolas" <usots...@buric.co> Verzonden: ‎24-‎11-‎2015 15:22 Aan: "Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers." <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net&g

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-11-24 Thread Maarten Vermeulen
s-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Onderwerp: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Hello Maarten, It's totally off-topic, but at which city do you live? :) BTW, Eric (Auer) used to live in Nijmegen (now in Trier) I have met him in person after years of mentoring (Eric mentors me on FreeDOS since

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-11-24 Thread Geraldo Netto
Hello Mateusz/All, How are you doing? Well, no one reported any issue until now So, we can upload the translations Regarding the update itself, whatever works best for you is okay for me :) In case you prefer the svn, my source forge user is geraldonetto Also, i have checked Alain's translation

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-11-23 Thread Maarten Vermeulen
ourceforge.net> Onderwerp: RE: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Where do you want to get it from? As well if there's Dutch in it, it us bad translated. Most likely the grammer is not good. I like the translating Van: JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU Verzonden: ‎23-‎11-‎2015 16:09 Aan: Technical discussion and

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-11-23 Thread Maarten Vermeulen
eulen" <netraa...@gmail.com> Verzonden: ‎23-‎11-‎2015 20:56 Aan: "Maarten Vermeulen" <netraa...@gmail.com>; "Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers." <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Onderwerp: RE: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 I maybe be

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-11-23 Thread Maarten Vermeulen
.net> Onderwerp: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 On Nov 22, 2015, at 2:48 PM, Maarten Vermeulen <netraa...@gmail.com> wrote: I like to add to this that I can give you Dutch. If you like the fact of being lazy, you can give me what you want to translate and I translate it. Or if you wa

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-11-23 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 8:13 AM, Maarten Vermeulen wrote: > > For those that didn't know, English is the second language in the > Netherlands. Everyone learns it on school and needs to do exam with it. 80% > of the Dutch people talk/write English. Also on school you

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-11-23 Thread Maarten Vermeulen
;Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers." <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Onderwerp: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Hi, On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 8:13 AM, Maarten Vermeulen <netraa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > For those that didn't know, English is the second la

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-11-23 Thread JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU
If it's any help,I speak in binary (No literally) in one of my Computer Physics classes.We have to translate our conversations into binary (ASCII to BINARY).I swear,my instructor has a stick of RAM in her head or something.She speaks in binary like it is a natural LANGUAGE.(This is off topic,but

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-11-23 Thread Rugxulo
Hi again, On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > Let's check WinRAR to see what languages it (still) supports: Oops! How the heck did I screw that up?? (Trying to remove the uninteresting redundancy of "32 bit / 64 bit".) Bah, let me try again: Albanian Arabic

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-11-23 Thread JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU
Dutch language > support... :) > > We'll see. :) > > Maarten > -- > Van: Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> > Verzonden: ‎22-‎11-‎2015 23:26 > Aan: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-11-23 Thread Maarten Vermeulen
;Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers." <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Onderwerp: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Well,a lot of OSes (Windows,Linux) support a ridiciolous amount of languages.Perhaps we should use an already avaible language archive?

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-11-22 Thread Maarten Vermeulen
‎20-‎11-‎2015 23:20 Aan: "Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers." <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Onderwerp: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 First: What languages would you like to see FDI 1.2 support: English (EN) Spanish (ES)

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-11-22 Thread Maarten Vermeulen
s-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Onderwerp: RE: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Hi, I personally like Dutch supported as well. I'm Dutch and can English but sometimes I prefer my own language. :) In the very old fdbasecd I liked the option of having Dutch. Maarten Van: Jerome E. Shidel Jr. Ve

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-11-22 Thread Geraldo Netto
> Aan: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. > Onderwerp: RE: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 > > Hi, > > I personally like Dutch supported as well. > I'm Dutch and can English but sometimes I prefer my own language. :) > In the very old fdbasecd I li

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-11-22 Thread Jerome Shidel
list of words or whatever else, I can search for it. But it >> is late here so that would probably be tomorrow or even Tuesday... While >> some words can be fast. >> You choose. :) >> >> Sorry for answering so late. :) >> >> Maarten >> _________

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-11-21 Thread Alain Mouette
I have made a pretty complete translation to pt_BR and an instlable .iso here: http://suporte.cosmodata.com.br/downloads/moni/CosmoData-M16001.iso Just don't install the Aplication (it is password protected, please don't crack it...) I have all NLS files plus - A translated command.com, just

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-11-20 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
First: What languages would you like to see FDI 1.2 support: English (EN) Spanish (ES) (anything else?) Second: Nobody has any idea on what additional packages are to be included in “all packages”?

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-11-20 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > But back to the original question: The installer should > support English, plus any language for which somebody on > this list is interested in giving you a translation of a > message file of your installer :-) For

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-11-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Let me take your question as an excuse to talk a bit about support of non-English languages in any DOS, maybe some of our experts can add interesting comments and hints about the status of support in FreeDOS :-) Of course I also answer the original two questions, a bit further below ;-) >

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-11-20 Thread Geraldo Netto
Hi All, Based on Rugxulo/Mateusz FreeDOS local link I took a few minutes to make some (brazilian) portuguese translations of the following softwares: (Translatations available at [1]) choice compute find help more password pause sort tee trch Before asking to push on SVN, i'd like to ask any

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

2015-11-20 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hi Geraldo, Looks nice! Let me know when it is confirmed that translations are okay, I will gladly add them. Or, if you wish, I can provide you svn access to the project so you can maintain these languages yourself. Side note: in any case, if/when you provide any files to the freedoslocal

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