Re: [Freedos-devel] .BAT tricks (%RANDOM%, ANSI escapes in %PROMPT%)

2011-07-26 Thread Jim Michaels
I seem to remember a DOS driver called NNANSI.SYS some time ago which gave the console ANSI escape sequences.   - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@jimscomputerrepairandwebdesign.com http://JimsComputerRepairandWebDesign.com

Re: [Freedos-devel] {Spam?} Re: .BAT tricks (%RANDOM%, ANSI escapes in %PROMPT%)

2011-07-26 Thread Jim Michaels
oh, yeah, and nnansi.sys was in color.  I think there was also a vt100.sys or something around somewhere but it wasn't in color. I will see if I can dig it up. well, guess what - it's in freedos. http://www.bootablecd.de/FreeDOS/help/en/hhstndrd/base/nansi.htm you basically send it escape

Re: [Freedos-devel] .BAT tricks (%RANDOM%, ANSI escapes in %PROMPT%)

2011-07-26 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:30 AM, Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com wrote: I seem to remember a DOS driver called NNANSI.SYS some time ago which gave the console ANSI escape sequences. I presume you mean this (now GPL): http://almy.us/dospage.html

Re: [Freedos-devel] EXE2BIN

2011-07-26 Thread Joe Cosentino
Who gives a shit? It's included in MS-DOS 6.22, it'll be included in FreeDOS. It's not hurting you is it? You don't suffer from erectile disfunction because you dir and see exe2bin listed there do you? NO! Jebus Christ, can't you find something better to bitch about? Or how about fixing

Re: [Freedos-devel] EXE2BIN

2011-07-26 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Joe Cosentino wrote: Who gives a shit? It's included in MS-DOS 6.22, it'll be included in FreeDOS. It's not hurting you is it? You don't suffer from erectile disfunction because you dir and see exe2bin listed there do you? NO! Jebus Christ, can't you find something

Re: [Freedos-devel] EXE2BIN

2011-07-26 Thread Robert Riebisch
Steve Nickolas wrote: For the record and for the sake of historical accuracy, I checked the installation floppies for both upgrade and nonupgrade versions of MS-DOS 6.22, as well as full installers all the way down to 5.0 - 5.0 was the last version to include exe2bin on the install

Re: [Freedos-devel] EXE2BIN

2011-07-26 Thread Joe Cosentino
HAHA, Oh snap, son! - Original Message - From: Robert Riebisch r...@bttr-software.de To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 2:49 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] EXE2BIN Steve Nickolas wrote: For the record and for the sake of historical accuracy, I

Re: [Freedos-devel] EXE2BIN

2011-07-26 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Joe Cosentino hardmar...@comcast.net wrote: Who gives a shit? I don't know, that's why I'm bringing it up. Constructive criticism is welcome (but ...). It's included in MS-DOS 6.22, it'll be included in FreeDOS. That's not a good metric since, as

Re: [Freedos-devel] EXE2BIN

2011-07-26 Thread Joe Cosentino
Jebus Christ, can't you find something better to bitch about? Or how about fixing something while you're at it? This might be a good time to practice what you preach. Sorry dude, but I've done more to advance this project in 6 months (not the last 6 months, mind you), than you have done

Re: [Freedos-devel] EXE2BIN

2011-07-26 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 26-7-2011 22:32, Joe Cosentino schreef: Jebus Christ, can't you find something better to bitch about? Or how about fixing something while you're at it? This might be a good time to practice what you preach. As useless as EXE2BIN might be, we'll keep it..in BASE even. I'll admit to never

Re: [Freedos-devel] EXE2BIN

2011-07-26 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Joe Cosentino hardmar...@comcast.net wrote: can't you find something better to bitch about?  Or how about fixing something while you're at it? This might be a good time to practice what you preach. Sorry dude, but I've done more to advance this project

Re: [Freedos-devel] EXE2BIN

2011-07-26 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: Op 26-7-2011 22:32, Joe Cosentino schreef: Or how about fixing something while you're at it? This might be a good time to practice what you preach. As useless as EXE2BIN might be, we'll keep it..in BASE even. it's

Re: [Freedos-devel] EXE2BIN

2011-07-26 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Steve Nickolas lyricalnan...@usotsuki.hoshinet.org wrote: On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Rugxulo wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Joe Cosentino hardmar...@comcast.net wrote: It's included in MS-DOS 6.22, it'll be included in FreeDOS. That's not a good

Re: [Freedos-devel] EXE2BIN

2011-07-26 Thread Ralf A. Quint
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

[Freedos-devel] New FreeDOS 1.1 test ISO (#3) released

2011-07-26 Thread Bernd Blaauw
I'd like to announce a new FreeDOS 1.1 test CD-image file, see FreeDOS website for download details. I've squashed quite a few bugs which were mentioned in the BugTracker that Robert Riebisch linked to. This new release should also be more compatible with several emulation and virtualisation

Re: [Freedos-devel] EXE2BIN

2011-07-26 Thread Steve Nickolas
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 be much interest for this at least in here. Or

Re: [Freedos-devel] EXE2BIN

2011-07-26 Thread Ralf A. Quint
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 be

Re: [Freedos-devel] EXE2BIN

2011-07-26 Thread Rugxulo
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 Rainbow even had MASM (!). Now that is surprising! I wonder which version (and why

Re: [Freedos-devel] EXE2BIN

2011-07-26 Thread Steve Nickolas
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 Rainbow even had MASM (!). Now that is