On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 11:59 AM, dos386 dos...@gmail.com wrote:
detects,asm,basic,c,c
Try INFOPAD from CC386 and FASM IDE :-)
Alas, INFOPAD is a nice little editor with a multi-windowed Turbo
Vision style interface, but in no way an IDE. And FASM IDE is a Win32
application.
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Dennis
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
On Feb 3, 2013 8:11 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 11:59 AM, dos386 dos...@gmail.com wrote:
detects,asm,basic,c,c
Try INFOPAD from CC386 and FASM IDE :-)
Alas, INFOPAD is a nice
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Andrew Robins arob...@fastmail.fm wrote:
The second PATH statement above will override the first, so Access
will work, but stuff in FDOS\BIN won't. To have more than one
directory in the PATH, use ; as the separator between directory names:
PATH
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
P.S. I'm surprised nobody else mentioned TPE (TurboPower editor, 3.4).
It's an oldie but goodie (freeware) that some (e.g. ML1 guy) preferred
for various reasons.:
http://www.simtel.net/product/view/id/51220
I have it on the
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 6:32 PM, kurt godel wb2...@gmail.com wrote:
I wish geany could run in dos;best,simplest,cleanest IDE, I know.
Automatically detects,asm,basic,c,c++.
Geany is largely my standard editor under Linux. Getting it to run in
DOS would be non-trivial. First, you would have to
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 4:01 AM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste-family.net wrote:
My $0.02 - I totally agree with Denis here, that it's too late to create
new shiny editors for DOS.
That reply got sent by accident partially composed.
I don't think it's too late. I just can't see anyone
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:41 AM, bruce.bowman tds.net
bruce.bow...@tds.net wrote:
My biggest complaint about currently available editors are their
restrictions on file size. A new editor should page the file in from
disk as needed so as to avoid this restriction.
The usual limitation is a
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Michael B. Brutman
mbbrut...@brutman.com wrote:
- Editors do not need interpreted languages in them. (EMACs users,
please forgive me.)
Fundamentally, Gnu Emacs is a Lisp interpreter, and most of the editor
is written in Lisp.
But while you may not go the
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:00 PM, bruce.bowman tds.net
bruce.bow...@tds.net wrote:
The usual limitation is a 64K file size. How often must you *edit*
(as opposed to view) a larger file?
Often enough that I want it.
Fair enough. What are you editing when you do?
Bruce
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Dennis
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Ralf A. Quint free...@gmx.net wrote:
At 08:51 AM 1/29/2013, Michael B. Brutman wrote:
- Editors do not need interpreted languages in them. (EMACs users,
please forgive me.)
EMACS? Like the operating system, that's just lacking a decent editor? :-}
(Doesn't
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Евгений Нежданов copperm...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all, dear FreeDOS community members! I please answer all to my questions:
1. You want to have in the FreeDOS distribute more powerful text editor as
standard text editor?
No. The default is fine. The whole
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:21 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Ralf A. Quint free...@gmx.net wrote:
At 08:51 AM 1/29/2013, Michael B. Brutman wrote:
- Editors do not need interpreted
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
Some people (Dennis??) like built-in extension languages. But I guess
that's for heavy text scripting etc. I don't personally use such, but
it could be useful. THE uses Rexx, VIM has VIMscript (or can use Lua),
Emacs has ELisp,
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:34 PM, kurt godel wb2...@gmail.com wrote:
If anyone out there is familiar with vfd(virtual floppy disk), I create the
floppy, and associate it with
the 'send to' item in the right click, but when I try to send a file into
the virtual floppy, I get the box:
please
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Thomas D. Dean tomd...@speakeasy.org wrote:
On 01/13/13 18:28, Henrique Peron wrote:
Hi Tom,
does this happen while using other software as well?
I have not tried other terminal emulators - I will try tip tomorrow...
I think the question was Do you see this
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:10 AM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote:
Like I said, Win2k / XP aren't that bad, though they have quite a few
catches and omissions. It gets worse later on, but it depends on
whether you
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:32 AM, Michael Robinson
plu...@robinson-west.com wrote:
A protected mode dos like the one under Windows 9x and Windows ME
could be interesting and would justifiably deserve a different name
like Freedos-32. The problem with a dos environment is that there
isn't an
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 9, 2013 11:06 AM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
I thought WinME removed the real mode bootup, hence lower compatibility?
I'm pretty sure
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:36 PM, David C. Kerber
dker...@warrenrogersassociates.com wrote:
From: dmccunney [mailto:dennis.mccun...@gmail.com]
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
I thought WinME removed the real mode bootup, hence lower
compatibility?
Don't have
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 1:43 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 9, 2013 11:06 AM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
At the moment, I'm
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Ralf A. Quint free...@gmx.net wrote:
At 05:12 PM 1/9/2013, Louis Santillan wrote:
An interesting historical note, early versions of the FreeDOS kernel
(DOS-C kernel) were portable to the 68k architecture. See
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 8:06 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Ralf A. Quint free...@gmx.net wrote:
At 05:12 PM 1/9/2013, Louis Santillan wrote:
An interesting historical note, early
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:53 AM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 1:49 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:36 PM, David C. Kerber
dker...@warrenrogersassociates.com wrote:
From: dmccunney [mailto:dennis.mccun...@gmail.com]
On Wed
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
Though I'm mostly a noob at Nethack because it's so complicated, heh,
so I'm not sure if they're more patient or not.
The question with Nethack isn't whether you'll win: it's what novel
and interesting way you'll find to get
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 12:47 AM, Andrew Robins arob...@fastmail.fm wrote:
...why do I only spot my typos after I post, and not in the 3 re-reads I
make befpre pressing 'send'??
^^^
Like this one? :-)
Don't feel bad. I am in the final stages of producing the souvenir
book for an
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:20 AM, Jim Lemon j...@bitwrit.com.au wrote:
On 01/03/2013 12:57 PM, dmccunney wrote:
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Jim Lemonj...@bitwrit.com.au wrote:
If there was a Linux kernel in which the user could turn off everything that
isn't in DOS, that would be a way out
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 7:08 PM, wiwa64 wiw...@web.de wrote:
The new utility INLINE allows to place multi-line data, that is to be
fed as input into another program via stdin, directly within the
batchfile from which the program is invoked. Users who are familiar with
shell programming under
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Jim Lemon j...@bitwrit.com.au wrote:
If there was a Linux kernel in which the user could turn off everything that
isn't in DOS, that would be a way out.
If you could turn off everything that *isn't* in DOS, you might have
fun running the Linux kernel. You run
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 11:42 AM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
From: dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 17:30:53 -0500
The problem is what you *do* with it [Oberon].
My top uses are text editing and email. There are
several good tools including Diff text comparator
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 1:09 PM, David Kerber
dker...@warrenrogersassociates.com wrote:
On 12/28/2012 2:30 PM, dmccunney wrote:
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 7:23 AM, kurt godel wb2...@gmail.com wrote:
XP2 will run in as little as 100 mb.
I'll assume you've done so and will take your word
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 1:36 PM, David Kerber
dker...@warrenrogersassociates.com wrote:
On 12/29/2012 1:31 PM, dmccunney wrote:
We sell an industrial data collection machine based on XP that runs in
about 80MB of allocated memory. We turn off the server service, themes
and a couple others
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 3:33 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
On 12/29/2012 dmccunney wrote:
... a chap on the Puppy Linux forums got a working
Puppy installation in 16MB RAM.
For the following, TUI and GUI interfaces are in use.
Heap shows less than 4 MB in use. No malicious software
ever
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 7:23 AM, kurt godel wb2...@gmail.com wrote:
XP2 will run in as little as 100 mb.
I'll assume you've done so and will take your word for it, but I'm
assuming a flexible definition of run.
How long did it take to boot? What could you do under it once it had?
__
Dennis
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 6:59 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
XP itself should run in it. The question is apps you will run under XP.
As you
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote:
Op 26-12-2012 5:40, dmccunney schreef:
I have an old Fujitsu Lifebook p2110 with an 867mhz Transmeta Crusoe
CPU and 256MB RAM (of which the Crusoe grabs 16MB off the top for code
morphing.)
That morphing and learning
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
500 MB should be plenty for XP. Seriously, I know software is always
increasing requirements, but it's not reasonable (IMO) to need more
than that. While I can't say I've ever played Warcraft 2, I don't
think it would need much
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 9:58 PM, mcelha...@usnetizen.com wrote:
Just last week I took an old hard drive and installed Windows XP SP3
on this machine, and was surprised to find that it works just fine.
My box currently has 384MB of DIMM ram, I would suspect that would be
the minimum to try
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 1:45 AM, Michael Robinson
plu...@robinson-west.com wrote:
First I installed Freedos 1.1 and used the 4x4 NEC cdrom, only the
first slot seemed to work, to copy over the Windows 98SE cabinet files.
I then proceeded to boot from the 98se cdrom and run setup from the
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Chris Evans aaxiomfin...@gmail.com wrote:
why install win98?if the computer is specd for it, install freedos, and
then install ubuntu and dual boot
between the two. and use wine for windows stuff.
Because the intent is to play games that are native for
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Michael Robinson
plu...@robinson-west.com wrote:
On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 03:32 +, dos386 wrote:
I'm not even sure there's a reason to have FreeDOS in the mix.
Sure there is, especially if your 98 copy isn't legal.
My copy is sort of legal, but I don't
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
fav...@mpcnet.com.br wrote:
I hesitate to go for Linux/Samba on the server, firstly because
I'm a FreeDOS fan, and secondly because I've been told that a
Samba server is not easy to set up.
Samba servers aren't that hard to
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:53 PM, bruce.bowman tds.net
bruce.bow...@tds.net wrote:
Has anyone tried NTFS4DOS? I had it on a boot CD once that I occasionally
used for data recovery, but in that context it was all menu-driven and
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 11:47 AM, kurt godel wb2...@gmail.com wrote:
Bruce, et al,
I have reinstalled XP hundreds of times, and I always preformat the XP's
partition(usually c)
with fat32; this forces the XP install to give the option to install XP on
fat32, which I always choose.
it may
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Santiago Almenara almen...@gmail.com wrote:
I am looking for a good news reader for DOS
I need to subscribe in a news://news.foo.org; server.
Look at Yarn: http://www.vex.net/yarn/
Santiago
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Dennis
https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 2:16 AM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste-family.net wrote:
Another question: how are you storing your files on your FreeDOS
systems? As far as I'm concerned, I usually store games in a separate
directory, and other stuff under a 'programs' directory. But maybe other
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste-family.net wrote:
Marcos, Dennis - thanks for your valuable input. I see with only two
answers that we already have two very different point of view (Marcos
using a more 'classic' DOS-ish directory structure, while Dennis prefer
to
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:22 AM, Mark Brown eufdp...@yahoo.com wrote:
my account has been compromised, please watch out for false content!
I think a lot of Yahoo! accounts got hacked recently. Dunno more
They did.
beyond
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Karen Lewellen
klewel...@shellworld.net wrote:
Does freedos have its own long file name utility?
Yes. It's a loadable driver.
If so, is it close enough to ms dos to be run?
It seems to work here.
Just curious, the person I know seeking it says they are
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Karen Lewellen
klewel...@shellworld.net wrote:
Hi Dennis,
this post made me smile.
how command.com is documented vs how it works indeed.
I am not sure what edition of freedos is being run, have written to ask.
Invite your friend to join us and participate
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Karen Lewellen
klewel...@shellworld.net wrote:
Hi Chris,
indeed they are referring to doslfn, but as I am not sure, I have written
to ask just what edition. Also which of freedos.
they sent me the line they are loading...thoughts?
LH DOSLFN
On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Ivan Shmakov oneing...@gmail.com wrote:
dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com writes:
[…]
You can get a copy of the PC Mag archive with it and some other
things here:
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/simtelnet/msdos/pcmag/v13n07.zip
I'd like to note
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 5:50 AM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:14 AM, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote:
Is FreeDOS HD access as slow as PC or MS DOS? IIUC, the latter use slow 16
bit BIOS code,
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:19 AM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd be interested in what Felix is doing and where he sees visible slowness.
As you mention, FreeDOS is 16 bit code. But how fast things will
appear
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Kenny Emond cheeseylem...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a way to make FreeDOS be able to backscroll? Like in CMD, or
something where you use the page up and page down keys? Thanks,
FreeDOS 1.0 includes an old PC Mag utility called peruse.com. It
loads as a TSR and
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Michael C. Robinson
plu...@robinson-west.com wrote:
The latest version of Windows always seems to need more computing
horsepower than the last one...
Not just Windows. I run FreeDOS on an old notebook with an 867mhz
Transmeta CPU, an IDE 4 HD, and 256MB of RAM
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:36 AM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Michael C. Robinson
plu...@robinson-west.com wrote:
The latest version of Windows always seems to need more computing
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Kenny Emond cheeseylem...@gmail.com wrote:
What type of printer interface/language does FreeDOS support? Does it
support PCL ver3? For example, would I be able to use an HP Deskjet 950c (
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Garry Ricketson
garryricket...@hotmail.com wrote:
David Griffith
dgri...@cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Kenny Emond cheeseylem...@gmail.com wrote:
What programming language is FreeDOS written in?
You can browse the Sourceforge Svn repository at
http://freedos.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/freedos/kernel/trunk/kernel/
You'll find a mixture of C and Assembler for the
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote:
Not tried [ http://qemu.weilnetz.de/w32/2012-06-28/ , QEMU v1.1 I think]
yet, I'm too lazy to find out how to download an entire web directory in
1 go. Guess some FireFox extension should allow it.
Spiderzilla used to, but
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Kenny Emond cheeseylem...@gmail.com wrote:
dim ft as single, m as single, answer1 as single, answer2 as single, input1
as string, a as string, b as string
Might the mixture of singles and strings in your dim statement be the issue?
You are defining your
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Jeffrey ellsn...@aol.com wrote:
IIRC NT 4.0 included some DOS 5.0 utilities and programs (including edit,
debug, etc).
Actually, sometime after this, microsoft created a new version of edit that
doesn't require
qbasic.
The earlier version of edit was
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
fav...@mpcnet.com.br wrote:
Aha! So that's why one of my favorite text editors won't run in
some machines; it' the same error message, and it uses the
Borland interface too.
Which editor? An assortment use the Borland
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote:
In the case of GRUB2 (?) it will then search the
PC for bootable operating systems by looking at all
boot records and present those as boot menu. Classic
GRUB relied more on a configuration file for that, in
GRUB2 it is more
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 20, 2012 12:00 PM, Ralf A. Quint free...@gmx.net wrote
Anyway you slice it, that Virtual Box (and probably a few other VMs)
are not properly supporting this is rather due to the ignorance of
those VM developers and the
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Ulrich Hansen uhan...@mainz-online.de wrote:
Am 20.05.2012 um 20:15 schrieb dmccunney:
The number of people who still run DOS is a vanishingly small fraction
of the number of people who use computers. The number who run DOS in
a virtual machine is a small
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Kenny cheeseylem...@gmail.com wrote:
So I've been hearing that DOS needs no drivers for a printer. Well, it's not
working for me. If it helps, I have an HP printer. It's not that new, and
connects via USB, but other than that, that's all I know. I have no idea
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:32 AM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
I thought it was Javascript that Gmail required?? And Arachne of
course doesn't support that.
GMail *wants* JavaScript, but can work without it in a reduced
capability fashion using basic HTML mode. I've successfully accessed
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Kenny Emond cheeseylem...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey all,
I tried (using arachne) to put gmail as my pop3 email thing, but for some
reason it won't work. I even turned on the POP3 settings in gmail, but
arachne still won't pull from it. Any Ideas?
Huh? Arachne
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 9:18 PM, jasse...@itelefonica.com.br
jasse...@itelefonica.com.br wrote:
Huh? Arachne is a browser, not an email client. It doesn't do POP.
Arachne is also a POP and a SMTP client.
The reason why it is unable to access GMail has been pointed by Ralf:
Arachne does
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 2:42 PM, kurt godel wb2...@gmail.com wrote:
Amazing; never knew this capability existed in XP:
Where *have* you been? :-) (That's in Win2K, too.)
1. )right-click 'my computer';
2.) click 'storage;
3.) click 'disk management'.
shows 'drive 0(C drive) and drive 1(usb
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote:
On 2012/04/18 16:55 (GMT-0400) kurt godel composed:
If the EXT2 has something important
on it and you don't have Linux installed, boot a live Linux CD an
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:45 PM, jasse...@itelefonica.com.br
jasse...@itelefonica.com.br wrote:
On 9 april Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl said:
I'm not sure of DILLO's capabilities.
No javascript yet.
And it won't get it for some time. The devs need to add a lot more
DOM support before
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Brad Woosley c_brw_2...@yahoo.com wrote:
wow this is pretty intense check this out
hxxp://www.nbnews15.net/jobs/?employment=0582907
You are pwned. Change your Yahoo password, now.
__
Dennis
https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 5:04 AM, escape esc...@front.ru wrote:
On 12.04.12 20:38, dmccunney wrote:
I just made a post amending my statement.
Ok, but still it has nothing common with DOS itself. Because:
I amend my statement: they'll boot DOS if you jump through an
assortment of hoops to get
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Bret Johnson bretj...@juno.com wrote:
Yes, they do. But my fundamental question is still valid. What is
your use case? Do you actually *need* to boot DOS, or is a VM or
emulator a better solution?
In my case, I do it mostly for speed, but there are other
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 5:45 PM, BretJ bretj...@juno.com wrote:
If you could boot up in only a few seconds, would you turn things off when
you weren't using them (not necessarily servers, but clients)?
Nope. I run multitasking environments with things happening in the
background, and things
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Marco Achury marcoach...@gmail.com wrote:
At this point the options are to use emulators or to port DOS to new
processors (new x86 based or totally different processor family as ARM)
For example www.raspberrypi.org is working on a very interesting low priced
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 6:32 AM, Tom Ehlert t...@drivesnapshot.de wrote:
11. April 2012 um 21:23, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote
Current machines won't *boot* DOS, but will *run* it in a
compatibility box, emulator or virtual machine.
I wonder what you are talking about
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:23 PM, escape esc...@front.ru wrote:
On 11.04.12 22:23, dmccunney wrote:
Current machines won't *boot* DOS, but will *run* it in a
compatibility box, emulator or virtual machine.
I'm think you're making a bit misleading statement. While there *are*
current
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Alex alxm...@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry but I still don't find the above comments very reassuring, with
regard to the future usability of (Free)DOS on new hardware. The fact
that we will be able to run DOS in emulators/virtual machines, because
we can no longer
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:51 PM, BretJ bretj...@juno.com wrote:
Some DOS *apps* cared and choked on it, so I wrote Korn shell alias
wrappers to reset the option delimiter char to / before running them, and
set it back to - when they exited.
Like I said, this is why it won't work in the
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Zbigniew zbigniew2...@gmail.com wrote:
At the time of cheap computers, do we really need multiuser OS? It
was reasonable 20 years ago, when fast machine was really expensive -
but is it still today, when every average user can have his own
computer (and - in
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:55 PM, someone plu...@robinson-west.com wrote:
Is the way freedos is being used here legal, or have I discovered an abuse?
Perfectly legal. All the GPL requires folks using GPLed software to
do is provide the sources for the software upon request. There is
nothing
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Kenny Emond cheeseylem...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm going to just not beat around the bush. I'll and ask it straight out.
What the heck are Telnet, TCP and all those other programs that comes with
mTCP for?
Internet connectivity is done through TCP-IP, a protocol
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Marco Achury marcoach...@gmail.com wrote:
El 02/04/2012 03:35 p.m., dmccunney escribió:
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Mark Brown eufdp...@yahoo.com wrote:
as usual, we all need more and better freeware,
and like the gnu flag says, free thinking...
maybe
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Alex alxm...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Marco Achury marcoach...@gmail.com wrote:
El 02/04/2012 03:35 p.m., dmccunney escribió:
But is easier to learn how to write DOS programs than Windows or Linux
programs.
DOS is a great OS
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Zbigniew zbigniew2...@gmail.com wrote:
There are various tools for Windows/Linux, which can display actual
CPU workload. Since DOS doesn't do multitasking, my guess is, that
here external utility won't be of any use. But DOS-program could
have it built-in.
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
P.S. Who invented defrag? I want to say Norton (etc), but that's
probably wrong (though MS did license it from them, right?). John
Socha (of NC fame) basically invented the screensaver, Peter Norton
basically invented undelete,
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
P.S. The buzz is all around tablets and touchscreens these days. While
I can (barely) see the point, it seems bad for things like text input.
But I guess if all you're doing is browsing around or playing (very)
simplistic
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 5:09 AM, Bertho Grandpied y31415926...@yahoo.fr wrote:
(albeit much of the additional space is lost slack at the user files level
...)
Slack space will be a real issue? I don't see how.
Czerno
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Dennis
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Bertho Grandpied y31415926...@yahoo.fr wrote:
dmccunney dennis*** wrote :
(albeit much of the additional space is lost slack at the user files level
...)
Slack space will be a real issue? I don't see how.
There would be a net loss for partitions sizes
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Jim Hall jh...@freedos.org wrote:
On Feb 1, 2012 12:46 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote:
Whether this works will depend upon your BIOS. The box I have FreeDOS
on will boot from a USB floppy drive, but *not* from a USB stick.
BIOS limitation. I
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote:
Op 1-2-2012 17:56, Manjunath ML schreef:
I am trying to use a USB memory disk along with FreeDOS. I am a running
a CAM software and need a facility to transfer drawings from other
computers to the PC used to run the CAM
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 1:47 PM, kurt godel wb2...@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry, hit the wrong key; made this batfile in freedos 1.1:
dir dmyy.txt
dirdmyy.txt
With no change but the source directory, the bat stops after 'dirdmyy.txt'
;pressing enter it will continue;
Assuming you exactly
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Bret Johnson bretj...@juno.com wrote:
Anyway, here it is (kind of long). I can also send it as an e-mail
attachment if anyone cares.
Probably a good idea in any case. It shows by default in GMail will
all line breaks stripped out.
For anyone viewing the
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Bob Cochran bcochra...@verizon.net wrote:
I am pretty ignorant of how FreeDOS is used by the community as I am
sure my previous posts show. I would like to build a better
understanding of FreeDOS. What is it used for most commonly? I know it
is an operating
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Bob Cochran bcochra...@verizon.net wrote:
Thank you, Bret. I was just able to buy some reasonably priced USB
drives and I'll play with installing FreeDOS on these. I too seem to
remember that Win98 or Win XP DOS boot disks always boot with an
extended memory
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 4:30 PM, TJ Edmister damag...@hyakushiki.net wrote:
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:07:01 -0500, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com
wrote:
FreeDOS *is* a DOS system, so you'll have the standard DOS limit of
1MB of real memory, and 640KB of conventional memory available
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote:
Formatting something as NTFS doesn't guarantee a proper working on such
a USB bridge. Besides, using a reader implies no writing.
I use NTFS under Windows. Mark Russinovitch offered a freeware NTFS
*reader* for DOS through
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