Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS

2017-05-06 Thread DOS386
From: dos386 <dos...@gmail.com> > > The bloat increase is just incredible :-D and sure RAM and CPU > > consumption grows too > One man's bloat is another's feature. I've been running Mozilla code > since it was still an internal Netscape COOL ... at that time they refuse

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS

2017-05-06 Thread DOS386
From: dos386 <dos...@gmail.com> > On 21 July Eric Auer said: > indeed I am trying to motivate people to use TLS/SSL This (and without HeartBleed's, MD5-certificates, crippled 40-bit keys,...) definitely makes sense when hunting around big bucks or sensitive personal data ... howeve

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS

2017-05-06 Thread DOS386
From: dos386 <dos...@gmail.com> > > There must be SOME browsers for DOS which can handle it! > You talk as if you know for sure there is one. > Is this the case ? Links (well ... 2.13 works after minimal tests, but not tested on 80386 with < 16 MiO RAM) DOSLYNX (HTTPS work

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS

2017-05-06 Thread DOS386
From: dos386 <dos...@gmail.com> > Can I have the good old paper mail of FreeDOS lists? I meant: Can I have the good old paper mail __address__ of FreeDOS lists? -- __

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS and DOS browsers

2016-08-01 Thread dos386
> > The bloat increase is just incredible :-D and sure RAM and CPU > > consumption grows too > One man's bloat is another's feature. I've been running Mozilla code > since it was still an internal Netscape COOL ... at that time they refused to add support for MNG as it would add 10 KiO of bloat

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS and DOS browsers

2016-07-29 Thread dos386
> Can I have the good old paper mail of FreeDOS lists? I meant: Can I have the good old paper mail __address__ of FreeDOS lists? -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS and DOS browsers

2016-07-29 Thread dos386
> > There must be SOME browsers for DOS which can handle it! > You talk as if you know for sure there is one. > Is this the case ? Links (well ... 2.13 works after minimal tests, but not tested on 80386 with < 16 MiO RAM) DOSLYNX (HTTPS works, but has some other flaws, hopefully needs less RAM

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeBASIC status?

2016-07-08 Thread dos386
> I've never used QB64 but have heard some stuff about it. > For one, it uses a C++ compiler as backend, no? http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=8785 (shots and links are dead, unfortunately) http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=8891 > doing some reading on the

Re: [Freedos-user] Poor mouse pointer visibility in Edit

2016-03-21 Thread dos386
> mouse pointer in Edit with a file open is almost invisible http://sf.net/p/freedos/bugs/2 -- Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration

Re: [Freedos-user] Arachne locks when loading images

2015-09-12 Thread dos386
> > Problem solved! > Well, not really. Damne ... kial ??? > There are obscure corner cases where you don't want DPMI loaded. Some WATCOM-like extenders like DOS32/A. ### HDPMI32 -u Problem solved! > Although to be fair, it is somewhat better than CWSDPMI > here because it supports those

Re: [Freedos-user] duplicate files in a directory

2015-03-03 Thread dos386
How do I rename one of the files so I can treat them separately Any disk editor will do, try WDe: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/disk/wde pick your volume, [F3] goto [F6] root ... find affected file (you can go into subdirectories too) ... patch the name (you can

Re: [Freedos-user] Arachne locks when loading images

2015-03-03 Thread dos386
I have used Arachne for many years without any problems Nice to read this :-) Error messages are of the type: Page fault cr2=1002 at eio=11f0 This message seems to originate from desperately obsolete CWSDPMI bundled with Arachne. Solutions: [0] Get HDPMI32 and make it resident HDPMI32

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS article for freiesMagazin

2014-11-09 Thread dos386
it's better this way https://mistranslate.google.com Unfortunately the thing sometimes negates statements, reverses the causality, or performs other funny tweaks. Especially useful for crucial legal texts :-) PS: Thanks to Christian

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wiki updated

2014-07-13 Thread dos386
Hi The FreeDOS wiki has now been moved! The wiki now lives at http://www.freedos.org/wiki YES, it's there ... there is only one edit for this year (2014-Jan-18) and only 5 edits during 2013: www.freedos.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:RecentChangesdays=1000hidebots=0 Could I have edit

Re: [Freedos-user] SERIOUS Off-Topic, Part 2 -- U.S. Medicine.

2014-05-22 Thread dos386
So where-in-HELL did THIS come from?, and my doctor said it still hits 1 of 30,000 people with no other risk factors True :-( Good luck for your fight against the cancer __AND__ the doctors. If so, you all have XMGR/RDISK/UIDE/etc. in essentially mature form Thank you :-)

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS program for DOSEMU/FreeDOS enhancement in heterogenous Lin/Win environment

2014-04-22 Thread dos386
DOS programs, which are still maintained, are mostly supposed to be run under windows and their authors often complement them with windows programs True :-( which did some in DOS problematic tasks (e.g. print to windows printer Indeed a problem sent e-mail, find free disk space, download

Re: [Freedos-user] haauuuu something is wrong here....

2014-04-22 Thread dos386
are we ok and alive? YES. XP is dead, FreeDOS is alive. -- Start Your Social Network Today - Download eXo Platform Build your Enterprise Intranet with eXo Platform Software Java Based Open Source Intranet - Social,

Re: [Freedos-user] ytcrack.exe in Dillo/ links

2014-03-08 Thread dos386
easy download video-music with ytcrack-apm, but I have no idea how to do it in Dillo or Links the ytcrack-apm can only be used with Arachne just as the other apm's. Well, Arachne APM's can't be used as-is with other browsers, but the core EXE of YTCRACK should be usable with any other

Re: [Freedos-user] MPlayer: Tips and Tricks

2014-03-08 Thread dos386
Some hints, for FreeDOS lovers, or HowTo Create a Nice Multimedia System from Old Hardware http://www.xaver.me/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.Mplayer if you have corrections or additions let me know ... -- Subversion

Re: [Freedos-user] Needs an approval

2014-03-08 Thread dos386
Try something like ImageShack (see below): http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/832/lynx3.png/ AFAIK ImageShark already stopped working ... and maybe a DOS shot would be less bloated? -- Subversion Kills Productivity.

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag program issue

2014-03-08 Thread dos386
You can create a 4GB FAT16 partition using WinXP which uses 64KB clusters, but it probably isn't accessible from DOS. Did you test? EDR-DOS AFAIK does support 64 KiB clusters on FAT16, but I never tested. See http://support.macro$oft.com/kb/310561 See drdos.org and drdosprojects.de (latter

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS links page

2014-03-08 Thread dos386
Hi I just visited every link on the FreeDOS Links page, and fixed/removed these Thanks ... drdos.org is still commented out despite it works again ... it just redirects elsewhere (and is sometimes lazy). -- Subversion

Re: [Freedos-user] Needs an approval

2014-03-08 Thread dos386
DOS shots are smaller: http://board.flatassembler.net/files/ide1key_563.png (7 KiO) -- Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag program issue

2014-03-08 Thread dos386
Granted that you can, it may simply be more trouble than it's worth. Agree. No point to brew 64 KiO clusters. -- Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get

Re: [Freedos-user] Ibiblio blocked as malware site

2014-01-01 Thread dos386
Hi (somewhat late and somewhat related) 0. I didn't notice any problems with ibiblio (apart from already discussed bad directory timestamps) http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/ 1. for years until now I've been having issues with http://users.ohiohills.com/fmacall/ ... worx

Re: [Freedos-user] zip with aes?

2013-12-04 Thread dos386
PS: 7-ZIP 9.33-buggy-alpha is out. What's new: dropped support for Windaube ME (finally, not yet tested in DOS). -- Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base.

Re: [Freedos-user] MT.COM not found in internet !! :(

2013-08-22 Thread dos386
but if MT.COM is not found, i search a simple exe program for dos as MT.COM I program with FreeBasic for DOS, if a runtime or coroutines for this compiler, This could help me Note that reliable and useful multitasking needs a thorough design from the ground ... so be prepared for

Re: [Freedos-user] Dos ocr utility?

2013-08-22 Thread dos386
Several months ago, I did a quick DJGPP ports of GNU Ocrad and GOCR. Didn't thoroughly test them, but quick tests were successfull http://bocke.na.rs/djgpp/ports/misc/gocr049.zip (240 KiB) http://bocke.na.rs/djgpp/ports/misc/ocrad.zip (380 KiB) COOL ... thanks :-) You'll need CWSDPMI to run

Re: [Freedos-user] Atomiks - retro remake of Atomix

2013-08-11 Thread dos386
Hi the biggest problem was the keyboard that you could mostly fix ;-) Other smaller problems were the PNG's and TFM (mention DOS support using HX). BTW, I tried to play it on my COOL Pentium1 200 MHz PC too. Result: illegal instruction (CMOVNTQ) in SDL.DLL, and older SDL.DLL doesn't work.

Re: [Freedos-user] Atomiks - retro remake of Atomix

2013-06-25 Thread dos386
://users.freebasic-portal.de/dos386/optimized.zip (I hope I didn't cancel any transparency, 2 of them could be optimized even more but I couldn't do it due to strange transparency design ...) For next version there are at least 3 issues: - Keyboard - PNG's - Docs about OS support: My version of Atomix can't

Re: [Freedos-user] Atomiks - retro remake of Atomix

2013-06-24 Thread dos386
Hi I don't have this problem... Neither on the linux build, nor on the windows build (tested right now via virtualbox) probably you have 3 GHz CPU Keypresses are queued indeed, and I purposely don't 'eat them away' because it allows to play in advance (esp. useful when moving an atom

Re: [Freedos-user] Atomiks - retro remake of Atomix

2013-06-24 Thread dos386
Thanks, I'll test (can you run all your Atomar PNG's through PNGOUT or OPTIPNG+PNGZOPFLI in the meantime?). -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev

Re: [Freedos-user] more Yahoo! spam (was: Re: no sibject)

2013-06-17 Thread dos386
There is an assortment of web content that _requires_ flash Isn't the Google document viewer among them ? AFAIK It is not. Look stuff up. I did. Last time I checked it pressured me to enable JS, when it got JS, it asked for Flash ... this was the EOD for me.

Re: [Freedos-user] more Yahoo! spam (was: Re: no sibject)

2013-06-15 Thread dos386
Email is the principal vector for _v_i_r_u_s_ delivery, by attachments all reside on Google's servers too, and never reach my machine. Funny ... Google has viewers for all common file types Really? How does it work? How do you see the file on Gooogle's server? Maybe you have the ADOBE FLUSH

Re: [Freedos-user] more Yahoo! spam (was: Re: no sibject)

2013-06-15 Thread dos386
I do have the Adobe Flash player installed, but it's not involved in the transaction. The attachments in question are not SWF objects. But Google maybe translates them into SWF ... does the attach viewer still work when you disable or remove Adobe Flash ? There is an assortment of web

Re: [Freedos-user] Makehtml v0.0.1

2013-06-03 Thread dos386
Well, what program do you want written maybe I can help out with it Ideas, if you want to deal with HTML: 1. HTML to text converter (with nice output) ... TOTALCOMMANDER has a such HTML viewer 2. Simple offline HTML viewer, HTML to pixels (BMP or PNG) ... with tables and simple styles 3. Wiki

Re: [Freedos-user] Atomiks - retro remake of Atomix

2013-06-03 Thread dos386
tinf is a small library implementing the decompression algorithm for the deflate compressed data format (called 'inflate'). Deflate compression is used in e.g. zlib, gzip, zip and png. Source included Kick ZLIB and LIBPNG and use this one ;-) BTW, not sure if you knew, but the original 1.0

Re: [Freedos-user] Atomiks - retro remake of Atomix

2013-06-02 Thread dos386
OpenWatcom probably doesn't use Microsoft VC runtime library well known fact Same as MinGW in recent years evidence please ;-) It does not run on DOS WRONG. It DOES run. See shot: http://s8.postimg.org/8oq1qirb9/ATOMSHDS.png only Linux Windows (and should build on any modern platform

Re: [Freedos-user] Atomiks - retro remake of Atomix

2013-06-02 Thread dos386
Atomiks runs in DOS with HX? YES ... why don't you test? Got no DOS (evil grin) ? * keyboard is buggy ... it buffers too much Does it work better with Atomiks in other OS? NO. Same BUG with XP and HX ... NOT a HX BUG :-) (HX bugs are bunched elsewhere:

Re: [Freedos-user] Makehtml v0.0.1

2013-06-01 Thread dos386
Conclusion: 1. Registering a project at SF is easy 2. Programming is hard 3. Programming something that other people love is very hard -- Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite It's a free

Re: [Freedos-user] Atomiks - retro remake of Atomix

2013-06-01 Thread dos386
It does not run on DOS only Linux Windows (and should build on any modern platform where SDL is available Can''t you make it HX compatible ? I'll test ... -- Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics

Re: [Freedos-user] Makehtml v0.0.1

2013-05-25 Thread dos386
Should I make it a dos version too ? DOS versions of useful stuff are always welcome :-) Makehtml is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/makehtml What is it supposed to do ? Registered 5 days ago and source code is just 2 KiB :-) and there is a BUG inside: fprintf(f,a href=%simg src=%s

Re: [Freedos-user] Any Windows files useful for FreeDOS?

2013-05-23 Thread dos386
I got an old laptop with Windows 2000 Professional (NT). I will now change the file system to FAT16, and install FreeDOS Cool :-) Would such drivers for Windows be of any use in FreeDOS? MSVCRT.DLL, other MSVC*.DLL, CRTDLL.DLL, GLUE32.DLL ... maybe ReaCTOS will replace them one day? WHINE

Re: [Freedos-user] Active GUI development?

2013-04-17 Thread dos386
I found that there are almost no desktop GUIs being developed There used to be and are many GUI's ... just most of them are abandoned as buggy and IIRC Jim Hall removed them all from FreeDOS list some time ago. http://www.freedos.org/software/?cat=gui {{deleted}}

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag abhores windows

2013-03-27 Thread dos386
a Freedos 32bit defrag program for DOS FreeDOS DEFRAG is NOT a 32-bit program, but it should support FAT28 (at your own risk). DOS (7.0 for 32 bit file system Where did you get it? How is defrag deciding that it is running under Windows (when it really is not)? The detection indeed is

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag abhores windows

2013-03-27 Thread dos386
Actually you will have to disable all DPMI hosts completely, HDPMI=16384 will only switch the whining from Windaube to DPMI :-( -- Own the Future-Intelreg; Level Up Game Demo Contest 2013 Rise to greatness in Intel's

Re: [Freedos-user] New program - hexed.zip

2013-02-11 Thread dos386
yesterday) badly: http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/hexed.png scrolling is broken, editing too ... I am curious why textcolor() isnt working right in dosem Is the green really needed? // biosdisk(int cmd, int drive, int head, int track, int sector, int nsects, void *buffer

Re: [Freedos-user] uHex - a hex editor for DOS released under GPL

2013-02-11 Thread dos386
, there are already 1'000'000'000'000 hex viewers and editors around ... so the market is rather saturated, but most of them are rather unusable, so you could beat them all one day :-) Some ideas: http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/filedit.txt

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 install

2013-02-10 Thread dos386
I usually don't use the installers, try to install manually: - Copy KERNEL.SYS + FREECOM.COM + SYS.COM + WDE.COM - Backup B.S. with WDE - SYS C: /BOOTONLY On 2/9/13, Ray Davison ray...@charter.net wrote: A little background. My first PC ran DOS 3.3 on a 28M HDD that I broke into three

Re: [Freedos-user] Handhold for nervous newbie

2013-02-08 Thread dos386
I had thought to use FreeDOS to do the DOS work or play, then reboot back into Windows for other things. Make space for FreeDOS: http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.PartErase The ultra easiest way to play DOS games is DOSBox (emulator) Saves you from the

Re: [Freedos-user] editors.

2013-02-03 Thread dos386
detects,asm,basic,c,c Try INFOPAD from CC386 and FASM IDE :-) -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today:

Re: [Freedos-user] Club Dr-DOS - the DOS Wiki is up again

2013-02-03 Thread dos386
Hi News/Blog stuff is back ... but permissions are bugged ... I can't edit it (shows me editing page, but after Submit, it asks for PWD again). Have you heard anything from King Udo recently? His forum is spammed and dead :-(

Re: [Freedos-user] Made XP work okay...

2012-12-26 Thread dos386
Would Microsoft please distribute an activation crack and let people freely use 32 bit Windows XP at will? I prefer dumb programming questions (stack overflow) here ;-) -- LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos-98

2012-12-21 Thread dos386
But the Warcraft II that I`m familiar with did run under plain DOS (well... with DOS4GW). Then the complete ReactOS discussion is pointless. 1. Get WC II working under FreeDOS (troubleshoot DOG4/SW or try DOS32/A) 2. Get the network working Only the included map editor needed Windows (3.1 or

Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 98SE and ipxwrapper...

2012-12-21 Thread dos386
Microsoft should have skipped Windows 9x in favor of bringing everyone into an NT environment sooner. Right ... and even better skip Win16 and MS-DOG too ;-) HX probably won't run Warcraft II You still didn't reveal whether the thing is a DOS or Win16 or Win32 binary :WtF: open source

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos-98

2012-12-20 Thread dos386
I am curious if you can run Warcraft II under Wine I never tested this WC II at all :-| ReactOS used to an effort to clone Windows 95 YO ... FreeWin95 IIRC tried to clone 95, ReactOS always NT (but moving: NT4 - 2K - XP - Wi$ta - 7 - 8 - ???) until that was abandoned in favor of the NT

Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 98SE screwing up Freedos 1.1...

2012-12-19 Thread dos386
[Freedos-user] Windows 98SE screwing up Freedos 1.1 Worx for me with METAKERN. Is there a simple way to repair the freedos installation so that Windows and Freedos can happily coexist? YES. Backup Windaube98 BS, fix FreeDOS, backup FreeDOS BS, set up METAKERN with those 2 BS's. Looks like

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos-98

2012-12-19 Thread dos386
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. -- LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile

Re: [Freedos-user] Need your comments about the FreeDOS site

2012-09-26 Thread dos386
Another late comment: - When anouncing a bugfix release of something that hasn't been fully announced recently, write 1 or 2 sentences about what it actually is, before discussing the improvements. Example: WCD 5.2.0 Erwin Waterlander has released wcd 5.2.0. The new option '-I' (ignore

Re: [Freedos-user] New web site almost ready to go live

2012-06-14 Thread dos386
Voila: http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/fdorgara.png With Arachne, I can see the answers ... and ONLY the answers, but not the questions. Eric wrote: ... ... ... Agree :-) -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive

Re: [Freedos-user] New web site almost ready to go live

2012-06-12 Thread dos386
Hi (sorry for the lack of feedback, I've been dead) Thanks for your work, looks good, no deep test. What I miss is a news archive (now the oldest item is dos2unix 6.0 2012-05-07 10:35, how to see the older stuff ???). Also it links to the Wiki ... maybe the Wiki should have info about how to

Re: [Freedos-user] New web site almost ready to go live

2012-06-12 Thread dos386
There is a link to the news archive. It is at the bottom of the last news item, called 'Read more'. Right :-( Would the link be more obvious if it were called 'News archive' or 'More news'? What link text would make the most sense? Or FreeDOS news list at SF (with archive). happy to

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

2012-01-15 Thread dos386
wish VMware's video feature would use standard codecs so something could be posted to Youtube or Please provide your movies in OGV or WebM files, not Loo-Tube. - It fails to find any HD (see middle shot) In the normal configurations or the dedication one? Both, but in normal configurations

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 boot process ends with interrupt devide by zero and system halt

2012-01-15 Thread dos386
Please try to empty FDCONFIG.SYS and FDAUTO.BAT, and re-add USEFUL things piece after piece ... and supply shot of the crash ... it crashes AFTER the boot has finished is NOT very informative. -- RSA(R) Conference 2012

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

2012-01-14 Thread dos386
[Freedos-kernel] FreeDOS 1.1 released COOL :-) http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/freeds11.png Problems: - What's the purpose of the menu item Pasquale (see top shot) ? - It fails to find any HD (see middle shot) - Using the menu item install to harddisk, it starts installing but hangs

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

2012-01-14 Thread dos386
What's the purpose of the menu item Pasquale (see top shot) ? Are you such an idiot or are you just trying to play the troll here? It should be obvious to almost everyone that this is not an active menu item Idiot yourself. It is active. Just try to select it and push ENTER :-D

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

2012-01-14 Thread dos386
I can install and update FreeDOS manually (and I've been having it for years), so the problems don't really hurt me, but for potential new users, I'd prefer a well working distro. -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

2012-01-14 Thread dos386
Thanks ... It is not a menu item, just a dedication :-( the same respect to Pat can be shown even without the highlighting of that item/line and allowing to select it ;-) What types of HD do you have? IDE, SATA, USB? IDE, and there is a FAT16 partition on. Maybe because there actually is

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

2012-01-14 Thread dos386
My criticism addressed the fact that you can select Pat as a menu item, not the respect to Pat ... EOD @Ralf. -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2

Re: [Freedos-user] ew lynx for dos.

2011-12-15 Thread dos386
I can't find any. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/832/lynx3.png/ http://imageshack.us/f/832/lynx3.png/ Now I can see something (Windaube?). -- 10 Tips for Better Server Consolidation Server virtualization is being

Re: [Freedos-user] ew lynx for dos.

2011-12-14 Thread dos386
ew lynx for dos. where ? But will pick a few people who write me privately for this goal. If you are running freedos only, not under a windows structure I do. use ms dos 7.1. Doug has tested it already under Windows 7 did it successfully wipe C: partition ??? almost forgot, here's

Re: [Freedos-user] Dillo web browser for DOS

2011-11-23 Thread dos386
I wonder if a workaround would be to detect Dillo on the web site Please don't do it like that ... it's just recycling this B.S. technology: if (detectIE5) make IE5 happy else if (detectIE5.5) make IE5.5 happy else if (detectIE6) make IE6 happy else if

Re: [Freedos-user] Dillo fonts

2011-11-23 Thread dos386
I'm assuming the screenshot is from Dillo for DOS Right ... shot in DOS with Dillo-DOS, uploaded in Windaube with Dillo-Win32. Dillo is rendering all text in fixed-pitch (monospace) font, and all in the same font size. Shot please. I'm *not* loading DOSLFN since I got the SFN version of

Re: [Freedos-user] Dillo web browser for DOS

2011-11-19 Thread dos386
Thanks :-) It does something ... upload doesn't work (in Win32 version it works with minor trouble) ... HTTPS doesn't work ... posting in FASM forum works (without attachments only) ... FTP is strange ... and there are hangers (temporary and permanent) ...

Re: [Freedos-user] Dillo web browser for DOS

2011-11-19 Thread dos386
Here is a screenshot of Dillo for DOS running Another one (shot in DOS but uploaded in Windaube): http://board.flatassembler.net/files/d_948.png -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains

Re: [Freedos-user] Dillo web browser for DOS

2011-11-19 Thread dos386
Just curious, does the rest of the FreeDOS site render correctly on Dillo? The stuff on the left side is far below (bad, not visible on the shot), no further tests. FASM forum (php-BB2) looks good (as long as no big images inside) but produces warns after posting ... php-BB3 looks a bit messy.

Re: [Freedos-user] batch programming language

2011-09-21 Thread dos386
Long messages have appeared from people that want a multitasking DOS How about developing more TSRs for multitasking? ??? A more realistic goal to Freedos may be to expand the batch programming language to be compatible with newer windows versions, but keeping retro compatible with DOS

Re: [Freedos-user] Usefulness of DOS (Was: Re: Heads up: DOS ain't dead forum is closing

2011-09-20 Thread dos386
M.R. wrote: Thing is, DOS doesn't make sense at all in the multicore era as a primary operating system drop it, problem gone ;-) M.B. wrote: DOS enthusiasts can choose to remain on older hardware, live in emulation environments until finding how useless they are ... or roll up their

Re: [Freedos-user] desktop2 in freedos

2011-09-12 Thread dos386
http://www.mevis-research.de/~ritter/awakeideas/desktop.html COOL :) Got it ... it is very nice ... and very buggy :-( We used to link to this in the FreeDOS software list, long ago. As a desktop, Desktop2 was okay. It didn't support any advanced features What is missing ? I removed it

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos.org unreachable

2011-09-09 Thread dos386
Eigenlijk komt zelfs erger. freedos.org is soms onbereikbaar, zelfs met de www, zie geschoten: http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/fdorgxms.png :-D -- Why Cloud-Based Security and Archiving Make Sense Osterman Research

Re: [Freedos-user] Open source project suing a stranger...

2011-09-09 Thread dos386
Got banned from Reactos forum? :-D I had thought this would be FreeDOS list, not trash list for those banned from ROS ... but I might be wrong :-D -- Why Cloud-Based Security and Archiving Make Sense Osterman Research

Re: [Freedos-user] {Spam?} [OT] Problems in the ReactOS community...

2011-09-09 Thread dos386
Is there a way I can complain about the reactos.org site and get them sanctioned? Tell Mr. Bush that ReactOS cooperates with AL-Qaeda :-D In the land of FreeDOS we have the following problems: +1: - People refusing to boot DOS (and leave Windaube) + too much virtualization crap

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos.org unreachable

2011-09-09 Thread dos386
All other pages worked that day :-D -- Why Cloud-Based Security and Archiving Make Sense Osterman Research conducted this study that outlines how and why cloud computing security and archiving is rapidly being adopted

Re: [Freedos-user] desktop2 in freedos

2011-09-05 Thread dos386
is there anyone who did develop the desktop2 program (by F. Ritter?) I didn't :-( Please post shot, license, download link or something useful ;-) The most stable GUI depends on what you need. If you are wanting to run Windows applications, 16 bit ones that is, you are somewhat out of luck

Re: [Freedos-user] Will Freedos support more modern hardware?

2011-09-04 Thread dos386
Japheth wrote: So faithfully expect point 1. to be realized somewhere in the second half of this decade! I do (BTW, I have 2 CPU cores ... located in 2 PC's located cca 20 Km from each other ... total frequency is 800 MHz). Are yu going to complain about this? Sure. But not today. Expect

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos.org unreachable

2011-09-04 Thread dos386
Same for bttr-software.de :-D -- Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free Love Thy Logs t-shirt when you

Re: [Freedos-user] Will Freedos support more modern hardware?

2011-08-21 Thread dos386
I would imagine that Freedos in 16 bit mode can't use multiple cores It can't actively take benefit from them, but it still runs, FYI :shock: One of the problems with DOS that I recall is a total lack of hardware protection Right. Unfortunately, accessing hardware directly instead of

Re: [Freedos-user] Will Freedos support more modern hardware?

2011-08-21 Thread dos386
Interesting, how far did they get? public plans ... What stopped the plans? Only Japheth knows ... No. BZIP2 has a maximum block size of 900k anyway and Deflate and LZMA have no block limit ;-) 2. How do you glue the out fragments then ??? See above. Not really. You don't know the

Re: [Freedos-user] Will Freedos support more modern hardware?

2011-08-21 Thread dos386
forgot to mention: FAT performance will suck if you try to create 6 thumb files in parallel with your 6 core CPU Known issue. Is Linux able to share the file I/O ? Windaube XP definitely can't (2 tasks on 1 core). --

Re: [Freedos-user] dos backups in the 21st century?

2011-08-17 Thread dos386
Given the size of hard rives, using trusty pkip to create a set of backup discs is well not possible. No need to backup disk image ;-) how you do large backup work yourself now? say 3 gig or so? Copy gig files or archive and compress then. Personally, I'd probably just burn the files to

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-07 Thread dos386
Jim wrote: I like this one: 2011-08-02 18:09:06 just make it the default ;-) cm wrote: Except if a 12-hour time format is desired no point ;-) -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-06 Thread dos386
Why not 18'446'744'073'709'551'615 ??? Comma and dot are usually used to separate fractional part: PI = 3.14159265358979 That's a nice idea, though at first glance a bit odd looking. Any systems using this upper [`] or ['] ? FASM :-) Using it in all my sources :-) The ASCII code is 39. The

Re: [Freedos-user] How to install multiple instances..?

2011-08-06 Thread dos386
Lots of software (especially driver installers) still depends on CONFIG.SYS existing Bad hehaviour. Probably for same reason NTVDM always brews empty MSDOS.SYS and IO.SYS files whenever launched. Apparently there is at least one app checking for existence of those 2 files to make sure it is

Re: [Freedos-user] How to install multiple instances..?

2011-08-06 Thread dos386
COOL : %ifdef OLDSTYLE fdreplace db FDKERN fdreplacecnt db ELSYS %else fdreplace db KERNEL fdreplacecnt db SYS %endif NOT COOL : ; must match order of search strings: searchlist dw fdtype, mstype, ibmtype, wintype, othertype No ^^^ EDR-DOS

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-04 Thread dos386
* number: nnn.nnn.nnn,xyz (european) Why not 18'446'744'073'709'551'615 ??? Comma and dot are usually used to separate fractional part: PI = 3.14159265358979 * separater: ehm no idea. Of who or what ? * keyboard: QWERTY with EURO (858 thus), still not managed to get a euro-sign in DOS but

Re: [Freedos-user] How to install multiple instances..?

2011-08-04 Thread dos386
Could someone tell me if it's possible to have multiple instances of (Free)DOS installed to the same partition? YES. Unfortunately, the kernel looks for FDCONFIG.SYS and CONFIG.SYS only (I'd kick the latter, BTW), so all FreeDOS kernels will share this one file, except you patch the kernel.

Re: [Freedos-user] IMPORTANT Off Topic -- U.S. Medical Costs!!

2011-08-04 Thread dos386
Over $49,000 which did not include separate bills by all doctors involved!! I asked that hospital's people why they charge so much. Because we CAN charge so much!! :kalashnikov: -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-04 Thread dos386
2011-Aug-02 Tue 18:09:06 That one doesn't sort very well either (puts April next to August) Indeed :-( so 2011-08-02 18:09:06 or 2011-08(Aug)-02 (Tue) 18:09:06 -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-08-02 Thread dos386
... or all the other date formattings No point of existence ;-) German dd.mm. hh:mm 1.000,00 for COUNTRY than BIOS default US QWERTY) are totally different I prefer to keep things simple (QWERTY, @ and \ discoverable) and convenient (-MM-DD HH:MM:SS) - no need for messing up

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCom: Wrong DIR behavior on empy disks.

2011-07-30 Thread dos386
intentionally, as far as I remember for mimicking MS style EDR-DOS doesn't have this bug ;-) If MS COMMAND.COM for DOS didn't have a setting for 4-digit year Another one: all dates should be -MM-DD and times without the silly a and p -- ~~~ wow ~~~

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