Re: [Freedos-devel] slow FreeDOS install - was: FreeDOS 1.2-RC1 onHyper-V 2012 R2

> On Nov 18, 2016, at 11:09 AM, Maarten Vermeulen wrote: > > Never mind! It was indeed a problem with only the booting CD's, I did > something wrong I guess…. No problem. It happens. Assuming I have the time, I will be looking into using the other bootable CD spec over

Re: [Freedos-devel] slow FreeDOS install - was: FreeDOS 1.2-RC1 on Hyper-V 2012 R2

> > @echo on in the batch files to the rescue. :) That would be a very painful experience. > > On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 1:43 PM Maarten Vermeulen > wrote: > Hi all, > > Maybe it is good to give some extra information, if it helps: > It

Re: [Freedos-devel] keyb us does not work

Hello Paul, > On Nov 6, 2016, at 12:14 AM, Paul Dufresne wrote: > > After installing in french, I get french keyboard... > you might find it strange, but here in Quebec, we are totally lost > with french keyboard. Are you certain you selected the US English when you were

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

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 --

Re: [Freedos-devel] VirtualBox and RC1 Networking

Hello Louis, > Any idea how VirtualBox was configured for the user reporting the > issue? NAT, Internal Network, Bridged, Host-only? This could answer > the firewall question. This was discovered to be an issue after the last VirtualBox update by Me during final testing just before the final

[Freedos-devel] VirtualBox and RC1 Networking

Hello All, The latest release of VirtualBox seems to have broken networking support on that “hardware.” Under the previous version of VirtualBox, installing the FDNET package (included with RC1) would provide an automatic fully working networking support. Programs like FDNPKG, PING, WGET and

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2

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

[Freedos-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 mapped to a a language other than the one

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting ready for FreeDOS 1.2

Hello Juan, First, thanks all the information. It definitely should be helpful. > [..] >> What host OS are you using? > openSUSE 11.4 Love openSuSE. (My personal favorite distro!) > [..] Based on your information, I have been able to replicate the problem in VirtualBox as well. Basically,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting ready for FreeDOS 1.2

> On Oct 22, 2016, at 1:11 PM, Antony Gordon wrote: > > Hi, > > Host OS should not matter. If the "gold standard" of MS-DOS works in that > configuration with the disk images, there is definitely something that isn't > right in this release. For those having a problem,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting ready for FreeDOS 1.2

Hello Juan, > On Oct 22, 2016, at 7:55 AM, Juan Manuel Guerrero > wrote: > > OFYI: I have tried to format a floppy image with a VMware Player 5.0.2 using > FreeDOS 1.2-pre23 and I have observed the same issue as described for > VirtualBox. The FreeDOS 1.2 preview

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting ready for FreeDOS 1.2

Hello Tom, > On Oct 15, 2016, at 12:27 PM, Tom Ehlert > wrote: > […] > I can understand that you - as a user of the BIOS standard US keyboard - > have little understanding of the size of the problem. > > we had recently a discussion about

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting ready for FreeDOS 1.2

Hello Eric, > On Oct 14, 2016, at 4:01 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, as said, I would recommend a little dialog in the > installer for the MKEYB keyboard languages only, with a REM > line in the config to let people enable other layouts with > the bigger KEYB

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting ready for FreeDOS 1.2

Hello again Juan, > On Oct 13, 2016, at 3:32 PM, Juan Manuel Guerrero > wrote: > > Hello Jerome and Eric > > Thank you for your comments. IMHO the issue of having a working keyboard is > essential. DOS and its clones appear to their users as TUI thus if the > keyboard

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 23

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] Road to Perdition

Hello Tom, > On Sep 29, 2016, at 1:07 PM, Tom Ehlert > wrote: > >> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/base/command.zip >> >>

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

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

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Auto NET Config

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

Re: [Freedos-devel] JEMM386

> On May 17, 2016, at 7:08 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > >>> I saw in a recent post that JEMM386 has been removed from >>> FreeDOS distributions, and perhaps from ibiblio, because >>> of license issues. >>> Would someone tell what is the problem with its licenses ? >>> There

Re: [Freedos-devel] JEMM386

> On May 16, 2016, at 7:51 PM, Jose Antonio Senna > wrote: > > I saw in a recent post that JEMM386 has been removed from > FreeDOS distributions, and perhaps from ibiblio, because > of license issues. > Would someone tell what is the problem with its

[Freedos-devel] Where are the FreeCOM Sources?

Hello All, Jim said he wants all of the packages in FreeDOS 1.2 to include their sources. Where are the latest 0.84 pre 2 (Or newer) FreeCOM sources? The latest versions I see are on the old sourceforge site 0.82pl3. Thanks, Jerome

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 17

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] FDI - Wiki

Hello all, For those who are interested, I have been working on the FDI Wiki. It is not complete yet. However, It currently contains the everything you would need to know to build a FDI based FreeDOS release. Including, how to replicate the build environment, updating and adding packages and

[Freedos-devel] FDI Preview 15, Update 3

Hello All, Sorry that it took so long, but I have been swamped the last couple weeks. Anyhow, I updated vinfo in V8Power tools to detect QEMU. So, FDI should no longer get stuck by trying to create a RAMDRIVE or have issues under QEMU emulation. Preview 15 Update 3 is now available at

[Freedos-devel] FDI Preview 15, Update 2

Hello All, I just pushed another minor update to Preview 15. Changes: - Typo correction on Partition Drive Screen. - Automatic updating of installed FDNPKG.CFG drive letters to C: (some were left pointing to D: after USB stick installation) Thanks, Jerome

Re: [Freedos-devel] Minor update to FDI Preview 15

Oh, I also started including a VMDK file with the USB images to ease usage with virtual machines. -- Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration

[Freedos-devel] Additional FDI translation text needed for included languages.

Hello All, There are a two of things that were recently added to the soon to be released and probably final preview of FDI #14 that could use translated into the included default languages (DE, EO, FR & NL). Please remember, exact translation and wording is not important. It is the concept the

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI remaining issue

need to prompt “This will upgrade you from any DOS OS. Setup > will copy the installer to your disk. To run type: ‘Upgrade’.” > > > Maarten > > > > Working on: > Bird OS 2017 1.0.0a (Western Schreech-Owl) > > Van: Jerome E. Shidel Jr. <mailto:jer...@s

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI remaining issue

I have a report of another issue regarding the USB stick installer. Basically, the user has 2 drives. one MS-DOS and one Other DOS formatted. The user boots the USB stick and all seems well through the install process. Reboots, and is faced with MS-DOS again. FreeDOS installed to D:. After, a

[Freedos-devel] FDI remaining issue

Hello all, Preview 13 testing is still underway. So far, I have not received any reports of major bugs or serious hiccups. However, there is one serious issue that is yet to be resolved to my satisfaction. The MBR issue. When incompatible boot code already is present or if the USB image is

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeCOM pipes

> On Feb 16, 2016, at 12:23 PM, Matej Horvat <matej.hor...@guest.arnes.si> > wrote: > > On 2016-02-16 3:06 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: >> When used at the tail of a pipe, if the set /p does not receive any >> input, FreeCOM will basically crash. So, it wo

[Freedos-devel] FreeCOM pipes

While working on FDI, a while back I noticed something interesting. Either FreeCOM pipes or it’s set /p command (or both) are flakey. I think it is related to set /p. I’ve worked around this issue in FDI. But, figured I would share what I have discovered. Take the following command: cd | set

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

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] FDISK Update

Hello Paul, > On Feb 5, 2016, at 10:06 AM, Paul Dufresne wrote: > > I am a bit confused as to what is/should be the current version. > > Antony Gordon said he made modifications to v. 1.2.1 and 1.3 but I > don't know if the changes have been published and if so where. > >

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

> On Feb 2, 2016, at 7:28 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> 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. <jer...@shidel.net> >

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

> 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

[Freedos-devel] Roll your own FreeDOS 1.2+

Hello all, I have created a youtube video that demonstrates how to create your own custom FreeDOS 1.2+ installation Floppy and USB stick images. It demonstrates the complete process from scratch, includes what you need to download, how to configure the build environment inside VirtualBOX,

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

> 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

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

> 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

> On Feb 1, 2016, at 6:17 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. <jer...@shidel.net> > wrote: >> >> I just the FreeDOS 1.2 Installer Preview 11. >> >> Also, a more perm

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

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

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 Packages

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] FDI USB stick

> On Jan 28, 2016, at 1:52 AM, Louis Santillan wrote: > > Well...so I finished my testing late last night with the MSI Wind Netbook. I > ran into an issue the MBR was never updated by FDI 1.2. :/ Figured it out > eventually. You can read more about it here [0]. There's

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI USB stick

> On Jan 28, 2016, at 7:15 PM, Louis Santillan wrote: > > I used the default, minimal install. No updates to autoexec.bat/config.sys. > That's a Jerome question. Ok. > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2016

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI and FreeDOS 1.2

Personally, I would like BASE to be more or less a minimum viable OS install and ALL to be a most likely wanted install. When I say minimum viable I mean: kernel, freecom, xcopy, deltree, move and a few other more or less absolutes. However, by my understanding of what Jim wants. BASE is

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI and FreeDOS 1.2

At present, BASE is fairly close to the 1.1 BASE. Of course, it no longer includes XMGR and UIDE. this is the current ALL packages that are installed. Pull rdisk? Anything else? https://github.com/shidel/FDI/blob/master/SETTINGS/PKG_BASE.LST Please note, that FDI’s floppy boot image needs a

[Freedos-devel] V8Power Tools install?

At present, V8Power tools (package) installs it’s executables to the %DOSDIR%\V8POWER directory. Do you think that they would be better suited to be installed in the %DOSDIR%\BIN directory. Remember, these are batch file enhancement utilities and must be able to be found by any batch file

[Freedos-devel] Welcome to FreeDOS n.n

Hello again, I was thinking of pulling the “autoexec & config loaded", "Welcome to FreeDOS” and "type help” messages out of the AUTOEXEC.BAT file and placing them in a %DOSDIR%\BIN\WELCOME.BAT file with the language translation files in %DOSDIR%\NLS\WELCOME.%LANG%. Also, installing them via a

[Freedos-devel] FDI, updated

I forgot something in the old (10 minute ago release). So, i just put up another FDI update. http://up.lod.bz/FDI/latest Also, if someone wants to see if the USB stick image thingy works. (I have no way to boot it at present) http://up.lod.bz/FDI-USB.zip

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI and FreeDOS 1.2

Hello Tom, > On Jan 22, 2016, at 3:28 PM, Tom Ehlert <t...@drivesnapshot.de> wrote: > > Hallo Herr Jerome E. Shidel Jr., > > am 22. Januar 2016 um 20:33 schrieben Sie: > >> I emailed with Jim the other day. He is extremely busy at present. >> However, he

[Freedos-devel] FDI and FreeDOS 1.2

I emailed with Jim the other day. He is extremely busy at present. However, he stated that he wished to get FreeDOS 1.2 out the door very soon. He did mention some reasons for getting it released. But, I’m not going to go into them. I see no reason why a beta release is not ready in the next

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI and FreeDOS 1.2

> On Jan 22, 2016, at 4:25 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. <jer...@shidel.net> > wrote: >> >> I see no reason why a beta release is not ready in the next >> few

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI and FreeDOS 1.2

> On Jan 22, 2016, at 4:25 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. <jer...@shidel.net> > wrote: >> >> I see no reason why a beta release is not ready in the next >> few

[Freedos-devel] FDI

I did a little tweaking and stuff to FDI. So, I just released latest image. Mostly, this was adding the ability to remove the install media before doing the reboot. Also, if FDINST is installed, an appropriate config file for it is also now included. (Same as the OS install: Binaries only or

Re: [Freedos-devel] FPC 3.0.0

> On Jan 14, 2016, at 11:54 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: > > Well, I was messing around a little with the new FreePascal Compiler for DOS. > > Basically, what ships requires DOS LFN support. Many units, libraries and > executables > are longer

[Freedos-devel] FPC 3.0.0

Well, I was messing around a little with the new FreePascal Compiler for DOS. Basically, what ships requires DOS LFN support. Many units, libraries and executables are longer than the 8.3 standard file names. It would be a lot of tedious work to migrate it to completely support 8.3 names. I

[Freedos-devel] FDI Translations

Hello again, I just made some changes to V8Power Tools so the user can remove the install media before FDI does a system reboot. So, I would like to get the following translated into all the appropriate languages. (ES, EO, FR, NL & DE) Once again, rewording is fine. Remove the installation

[Freedos-devel] Silly me

Hello again all you FDEV’s, I was feeling a little bored, so by adding 6 lines to FDI, I enabled “install from directory” support. Kinda, sorta. Basically, you do an xcopy /e a:\*.* . into a subdirectory for both the FDI boot image and Mateusz’s ALL_CD.iso. And it works… Mostly, that is.

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDISK issue

ng like “jump OverInfiniteLoop" :-) > > -T >> On Jan 4, 2016, at 4:07 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: >> >> >>> On Jan 4, 2016, at 10:54 AM, Antony Gordon <cuzint...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>&

[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, 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] A little message

> On Dec 31, 2015, at 6:13 PM, JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU > wrote: > > See you guys next year! (Hah...hah..hah?) > So your the one hacking into my webcam. :-) Happy New Year to Everyone. (5.37 hours to go here) > On Dec 31, 2015 10:29 AM, "Mercury Thirteen"

[Freedos-devel] FDI updated.

Thanks to Maarten, I found out that there was a compatibility issue in VirtualBox with the 186+ High Precision Interrupt Timer used by the V8Power Tool vdelay utility. The delay is used to prevent messages from flicker on/off the screen and having a user go “what did that say?” Basically,

[Freedos-devel] FDI Preview 9

FreeDOS Installer Preview 9, now ready. http://up.lod.bz/FDI/latest I updated the language translations, Thanks again. Increased performance and reduced code for the Language Options Screen. By, spending some time working on the install media build utility mkFDI. This reduced the need for

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI Language Translations

> On Dec 23, 2015, at 7:58 AM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste.fr> wrote: > > On 23/12/2015 13:38, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: >>> Japanese - Nobody. >>> Russian - Nobody. >>> Chinese - Nobody. >> >> I thought there was a standard

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI Language Translations

Just a minor note to those working on FDI Translations. I just updated the LangTest.bat utility for testing translation resource files. I had forgot to include a couple message and I also made a couple minor improvements. So, if you are using that utility, you should retrieve the latest

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI Language Translations

n.imho...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi Jerome, > > the German translation is done. You can find the files at > https://github.com/christianimhorst/FDI > > Hope I could help. > > Best regards, > Christian > > > > Am Wed, 23 Dec 2015 07:38:47 -05

[Freedos-devel] FDI updated

Just released new FDI boot image. http://up.lod.bz/FDI/latest Reduced some complexity and slight performance improvement. (add option to V8Power Tools vprogres program to calculate percentage internally the latest version is included in the FDI image and is also

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI Language Translations

> On Dec 21, 2015, at 9:06 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: > > At present, based on a user Facebook poll. This is the state of > current Language Translations for FDI. I don’t know if all of these > are possible using the Standard DOS Latin Codepag

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDos languages

> On Dec 22, 2015, at 10:01 PM, Jose Antonio Senna > wrote: > > How did "patagonian" appear in the list of > requested FreeDos languages ? > AFAIK > 1) There is no patagonian language. > 2) PT stands for "portuguese" in the ISO > page codes. > Regards >

Re: [Freedos-devel] fdisk translation

> On Dec 22, 2015, at 11:51 AM, Paul Dufresne wrote: > > When testing the installer, it was not feeling right to go from the > french installer to the english fdisk... how could fdisk be > translated? Just a note, when FDI launches, if the LANG variable is set it uses that

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 ALL packages

matically installed unless the user wants them. > Base should just reference that the sources are on the install media. IIRC, > most Linux distributions don't specifically install the source code unless > requested by the end user. > > -T > > > On Sun, Dec 20, 2015, 4:55

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 ALL packages

> 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

> On Dec 20, 2015, at 6:02 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. <jer...@shidel.net> > wrote: >> >> This is the list of the ALL package list for the FDI installer. >> >>

[Freedos-devel] FDI Language Translations

At present, based on a user Facebook poll. This is the state of current Language Translations for FDI. I don’t know if all of these are possible using the Standard DOS Latin Codepage. I don’t know if it is would be possible to have FDI keep changing the Codepage and Character set. But, I don’t

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 BASE packages

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

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] FDI Additional Languages

> On Dec 18, 2015, at 2:39 PM, Maarten wrote: > > Just a few things: > > I added this to the author section: > > > *** > FreeDOS 1.2 Installer (language) Translation. > Provided by: Maarten

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI Additional Languages

> On Dec 18, 2015, at 2:39 PM, Maarten wrote: > > Just a few things: Also, thanks for working on a Dutch translation. > Just some FYI, Also, you can delete any of the comment text of you want. Add lines, etc. The text resource file has a very strict look-up policy

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI Additional Languages

It has been several days. Are there no volunteers to do Language translations? If not, it will only support English and “Broken” Spanish. https://github.com/shidel/FDI/tree/master/LANGUAGE/TEMPLATE > On Dec 13, 2015, at 5:07 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. <jer...@shidel.net> wrote:

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI

t, Dec 12, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. <jer...@shidel.net> > wrote: > Tying to decide what to do about a specific upgrade situation regarding > package files. > > At present: > > DOSDIR is backed up. > > All packages that

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI Additional Languages

I have no problem including any submitted language translation for FDI. By it’s inclusion, it would be supported by FDI either through auto-detection or setting the LANG environment variable. I just make no promises that it will be on the Select Language screen. > On Dec 17, 2015, at 10:48 AM,

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI

s said, he has no desire for that feature. > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. <jer...@shidel.net> > wrote: > Hello Jim, > > Mostly, I don’t think it is too complex. > > It really only has one mode of operation. Fresh install. > > However, it will m

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI Additional Languages

ssion and questions for FreeDOS developers. > Onderwerp: Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI Additional Languages > > Yeah, I am thinking about translating the 3 files to french... just > have a little problem making it a priority. > Guess you should not postpone release if you don't get resu

[Freedos-devel] FDINST

Mateusz a reminder, You need to update your online repo and all_cd.iso to contain the fixed version of FDINST. :-) -- ___ Freedos-devel mailing list

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI

> On Dec 13, 2015, at 12:45 PM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > > >> Tying to decide what to do about a specific upgrade situation regarding >> package files. > >> At present: > >>DOSDIR is backed up. > >> All packages that are going to be installed are removed

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDI Additional Languages

Just an additional note on the languages. I ran a poll on Facebook. And the requests were in order: English (EN) +6 Spanish (ES) +5 German (DE) +4 Japanese +3 Russian +3 Chinese (ZH_TW) +3 Patagonian (PT) +1 Klingon Swahili Also, my “Broken” Spanish translation should really be redone by

[Freedos-devel] FDI Additional Languages

Well, except for adding package selection in FDI, all user facing text is ready for translation into any additional languages that the installer should support. All translation text for FDI is contained in 3 text files per language and will be located under the installers directory in a

[Freedos-devel] FDI

Tying to decide what to do about a specific upgrade situation regarding package files. At present: DOSDIR is backed up. All packages that are going to be installed are removed before installation. Package data files are backed up. The the DOSDIR is purged.

[Freedos-devel] FDI Advanced Mode

Added Installation Target Drive and Directory changing in FDI advanced mode. Now, I just need to find the time to write vchkbox to allow package selection in advanced mode. Maybe. --

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDINST

e was a "._PKGTEST.img" file in your zip archive. I completely > ignored it, because I didn't know what to do with it - I guess it's > useless, and you only included it to show off having a mac, right? ;-) It just sneaked in there. :) > > cheers, > Mateusz > BTW, d

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDINST

> On Dec 10, 2015, at 6:38 AM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste.fr> wrote: > > On 10/12/2015 10:46, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: >> I don’t know why the A:\FDOS shows no files on your vm. They are there. I >> even >> redownloaded the version I posted to double che

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDINST

fdinst install R = fdinst remove P = Manually purge of DOSDIR Stuff in red is bad. > > > > On 06/12/2015 23:02, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: >> >>> On Dec 5, 2015, at 6:36 AM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste.fr> wrote: >>> >>>

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDINST

> On Dec 5, 2015, at 6:36 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > On 04/12/2015 18:58, Mateusz Viste wrote: >> I am in the process of fixing all the ibiblio packages that contain LFN. > > Done. I spent the day on repackaging the whole base of ibiblio packages > so every single one is

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDINST

> On Dec 5, 2015, at 6:36 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > On 04/12/2015 18:58, Mateusz Viste wrote: >> I am in the process of fixing all the ibiblio packages that contain LFN. > > Done. I spent the day on repackaging the whole base of ibiblio packages > so every single one is

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDINST

> On Dec 2, 2015, at 3:28 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > I uploaded a new devel version right now: > > gopher://gopher.viste.fr/1/temp > > Joe Forster kindly hinted off-list that open watcom comes with a > 'doslfnX.lib' library that can be used to transparently enable LFN >

[Freedos-devel] vask

Well, just completed vask for V8Power Tools. http://up.lod.bz/V8Power/latest Single line text input utility. Features: Preset edit text. Time-out support. (/d) Control-C (on/off) (/c) Left/Right edit text panning. Global/Local input (V8 Framing

[Freedos-devel] V8Power Tools - vecho

Added some stuff to vecho to increase usage compatibility with echo command. Mostly, that is the /s+ and /s- switch. It used to only do /s-. Now, it defaults to /s+ for added compatibility. example: vecho /bGray /fBlack Hello /fRed there /fGreen my /fBlue friend /fBlack . Previously:

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDINST

Eric, Also, I should say that someone who is more up to date on all of the drivers and all of their different configuration options should design the config for the FDI boot disk and the configuration that will be installed by FDI. I do not have the time to devote to doing that task. If no

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDINST

> On Nov 28, 2015, at 7:48 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > > >>Virtual machine with 64MB ram. >>Boots FreeDOS 1.2-pre, (Using latest packages from your repo) >>Sets up a clean 32mb ram drive and some floppy caching. >>Configures FDNPKG.CFG to

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