Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 2:50 PM Eric Auer wrote: > > In FreeDOS, you have to load a LFN driver TSR to use it, but I think > most of command.com already is LFN-aware. IIRC, it depends on the version. Some people (you?) still stuck with older ("stable"?) 0.82pl3, which didn't support it. But t

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 2:10 PM wrote: > > A revival of the open source implementation of the IPX protocol would be > awesome. > It would make a lot of old dos games work and an IPX/IP gateway could be > a Linux server where the Linux server could handle security (anti virus squid > proxy a

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
Just the subject line made me immediately think of one deficiency I met with FreeDOS 1.3rc2. Installation program needs to allow the user to see where the new FreeDOS will be installed to, and to give the user choice of where to install to. I had a scary experience installing FreeDOS 1.3rc2. I

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread Jerome Shidel
What you suggest is/was contrary to the stated design goals for the normal operation of the installer. But... The installer does show and permit changing the target drive and directory along with many other options. However, you must put (or launch) the installer in advanced mode to be able

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
Just the subject line made me immediately think of one deficiency I met with FreeDOS 1.3rc2. Installation program needs to allow the user to see where the new FreeDOS will be installed to, and to give the user choice of where to install to. I had a scary experience installing FreeDOS 1.3rc2.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread michael
> I expect the GUI part and the machine part to communicate > over a network, so I hope the GUI is much less hardware > specific. Yet you say ReactOS is no option even there? > You seem to be closely watching the ReactOS progress. > Eric > The Tyco QSP-2 does not use a network like one would typi

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
I think I see what happened here. Back when Eric originally posted that here was a new version, I built it and posted it here. Today, I assumed (mistakenly) the author had made no changes in the mean time, so I downloaded his current source and packaged it with the binary I built a week (or wha

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread Mateusz Viste
On 23/03/2020 21:47, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user wrote: I noticed that, but the driver itself reports it is 3.34. In the source code I have seen "3.35", though: VERSIONSTR equ <'3.35'> DRIVER_VER equ 300h+35 have two 3.34 versions: one from 2015 and one from 20

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread Eric Auer
> I noticed that, but the driver itself reports it is 3.34. Basically > we have two 3.34 versions: one from 2015 and one from 2020. The new > 2020 version should have been bumped to 3.35, but it was kept at 3.34 > for some reason. Yay, clarity! lol > > It seems the 3.35 version mentioned in read

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
I noticed that, but the driver itself reports it is 3.34. Basically we have two 3.34 versions: one from 2015 and one from 2020. The new 2020 version should have been bumped to 3.35, but it was kept at 3.34 for some reason. Yay, clarity! lol It seems the 3.35 version mentioned in readme.txt hasn

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread Mateusz Viste
On 23/03/2020 21:30, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user wrote: Also, the packaged version of HIMEMX is done and can be found here . Hopefully I didn't miss anything! There is a version mismatch between the lsm (3.34) and the actual driver (3.3

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Thank you! This explains why my searching got me nowhere lol Also, the packaged version of HIMEMX is done and can be found [here](http://mercurycoding.com/downloads/DOS/HIMEMX.zip). Hopefully I didn't miss anything! Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Michael, I see what a SMD pick and place machine does, yes :-) So basically there are two apps, one for DOS and one for Windows, and you would prefer them to run on some still supported DOS and Windows (or Wine). What are the issues with this at the moment? I do not expect you to have Q-Soft

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Mercury, > Where would one find the most recent UHDD sources? They can be found in > ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/cdrom/uide/drivers-2019-03-31.zip which alas is a VERY generic name to google for... The zip contains: readme.txt, uhdd.asm and uhdd sys 2019-04

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread michael
Q-Soft originally created by Tyco is a real time system targeted at MS-DOS and a GUI system targeted at Windows 98SE/Windows Millenium. PPM owns Q-Soft now and has a Windows 7 replacement and a completely reworked pick and place machine. If you know what surface mount electronics are you are we

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Michael, long mail ahead ;-) Please do not mix long file names and FAT32: The former can even be used on FAT12 floppy. In FreeDOS, you have to load a LFN driver TSR to use it, but I think most of command.com already is LFN-aware. You may have to set some shell options in your startup files (c

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Where would one find the most recent UHDD sources? Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, March 23, 2020 2:33 PM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: > Hi Mercury, > >> "Creating packages for FreeDOS software that are not packaged

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread michael
Hello: I seem to recall that long filename support could use some work and out of the box Freedos doesn't support them. As far as memory management, any improvements in that area are highly welcome as that is probably the most important foundational improvement that could be made. FAT32 suppor

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Cool, thanks for the info! Not that I'm promising anything given my schedule, but maybe I'll be able to throw something together in my limited spare time. Shouldn't be too hard to get the others together since I already built HIMEMX from Japheth's new sources. Sent with [ProtonMail](https://pro

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Mercury, > "Creating packages for FreeDOS software that are not packaged yet." > > ... any "top requests" as it were? If you ask me: UHDD (only UIDE and UDVD2 listed yet?) and the new HIMEMX version by Japheth, as discussed here recently :-) HIMEMX should get some tests in particular by us

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Point #2 on the wishlist states: "Creating packages for FreeDOS software that are not packaged yet." Do we have a list of this software, partial or otherwise? Or any "top requests" as it were? Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Mond

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist and feature requests

2020-03-23 Thread Eric Auer
Hi everybody, it seems that https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/feature-requests/ has not been updated for a while: A few wishes seem to no longer apply or would be easy to cover with current distros. On the other hand, the wishlist still is a classic ;-) > http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.ph

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-27 Thread Don Flowers
It's all good (but will offer prayers at your request) - I have an uncle who is a lovable curmudgeon and I consider you in the same category. ;^o On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, Don, > > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Don Flowers wrote: > > > > I did not contact Jack be

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-27 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, Don, On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Don Flowers wrote: > > I did not contact Jack because I was discouraged from doing so. Luke 6:27 = "But to you who hear I say, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you." Ephesians 4:31

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-27 Thread Don Flowers
I did not contact Jack because I was discouraged from doing so. Adapter card is not applicable to my laptop, so Intel AHCI.SYS driver remains as the only working solution. On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Carl spitzer wrote: > On Mon, 2015-05-18 at 13:11 +0200, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > Okay, I

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-27 Thread Carl spitzer
On Mon, 2015-05-18 at 13:11 +0200, Mateusz Viste wrote: > Okay, I understand. > > Have you wrote about this to Jack? He might be still interested in > GCDROM feedback, and it could be an interesting case for him perhaps. > > However, the problem is larger I think anyway - today you are unable t

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-24 Thread Dale E Sterner
For a whish list It would be nice to add a version of xcopy that also copies hidden and system file. Also it would be nice to able to read Chinese made UDF cds on dos. Why do they use UDF on a read only cd; its suppose to be for R/W cd's.. cheers DS On Sat, 16 May 2015 19:37:26 +0200 Mateusz V

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-20 Thread Don Flowers
>whatever your reason is: forget it. DONE! I spent all day yesterday setting up XFDOS and even though my time with it was somewhat limited, I found XFDOS much easier to set up thant OpenGEM. It is the best GUI I have seen yet. I want this to be a priority for the primary GUI for FreeDOS. On Wed, M

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-19 Thread Mateusz Viste
I don't understand why you guys are responding to this :) The guy landed in my killfile many messages ago already, and the only thing that reminds me of him are responses from others. Please adjust your filters (or set up a ml ban, for these of you who are able to do so). Mateusz On 20/05/201

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-19 Thread Jim Hall
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: > On 5/19/2015 1:00 PM, Dario Roncone wrote: >> Tom F*** Y**! >> > You seriously need to adjust your attitude pal, there is no place for > this in here...=-O > Agreed. I just checked into the discussion, and was disappointed to see this. --

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-19 Thread Ralf Quint
On 5/19/2015 1:00 PM, Dario Roncone wrote: > Tom F*** Y**! > You seriously need to adjust your attitude pal, there is no place for this in here...=-O Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com -

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-19 Thread Dario Roncone
Tom Fuck You! 2015-05-19 20:22 GMT+02:00, Don Flowers : > What a killjoy! Tom it was a wish list after all & from my personal > experience on FreeDOS 1.0 with the unstable kernel where crashes were few > and far between in standard mode, it seems possible if not practical. > > C'est la vie! FreeDO

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-19 Thread Don Flowers
What a killjoy! Tom it was a wish list after all & from my personal experience on FreeDOS 1.0 with the unstable kernel where crashes were few and far between in standard mode, it seems possible if not practical. C'est la vie! FreeDOS is not my life, just something to obsess about, ironically speak

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-19 Thread Tom Ehlert
> My reason for wanting to use Windows 3.1 in  FreeDOS is for some > very specific apps (yes among them are a couple of bible programs) > and just having access to some utilities such as Winimage Winzip, > etc. That said, since 1993 I have always had Compaq DOS/Windows 3.1 > on at least one of my P

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-19 Thread Don Flowers
While recommending the Dillodos to another member, I discovered Georg Pothast's XFDOS GUI. Maybe that could be added to the next distribution? I will be getting familiar with it and report back (specifically is there a way to add my most used program (Seedmaster for DOS) onto the Desktop - if so th

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-19 Thread Don Flowers
Just one more "wish list" item, If someone could rework the RPM 2.37 Advanced Boot Manager to work with drives above 8gb and then port that into RPM 2.44 that would be awesome. On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Karen Lewellen > wrote: > >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > > Granted, I am not using a browser directly on my computer, but this > of mouse because I cannot. it is because no one has done a dos build of Lynx > in a grand while. Juan Manuel Guerrero did a DJGPP build (not necessarily heavily

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
My reason for wanting to use Windows 3.1 in FreeDOS is for some very specific apps (yes among them are a couple of bible programs) and just having access to some utilities such as Winimage Winzip, etc. That said, since 1993 I have always had Compaq DOS/Windows 3.1 on at least one of my PCs so, I c

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 5:45 AM, Don Flowers wrote: > > Sorry Mateusz,- I assumed this was well-known. > I have an Acer Aspire E5-571 laptop which has a quirky BIOS - the IDE > emulation option is specific to the hard drive only and not the CD/DVD > drive. I had though that the GCDROM drive w

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
My USB method is between the various Computers and also between Kubuntu and FreeDOS. I was not aware of the data corruption risk from unplugging the device, although I should have known Thanks for the tip. On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 8:24 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 4:45 AM

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 4:42 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > >> Ability to run Windows 3.1 in 386 enhanced mode. > > has been discussed multiple times. conclusion: forget it Okay, but let's be clear here: 1). It's proprietary, so it's not redistributable. 2). It's old, so most people don't have (no

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 4:45 AM, Don Flowers wrote: > > The wiki article is good as far as it goes, I collected all the pieces of > the networking puzzle mentioned in the article, but can't seem to assemble > them correctly. My currebn method of file transfer is via USB, and I am > experienci

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Karen Lewellen
got it, thanks. On Mon, 18 May 2015, Don Flowers wrote: > Try these links > https://code.google.com/p/nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/downloads/detail?name=DILLODOS-302b.zip&can=2&q= > > http://freedos.10956.n7.nabble.com/New-release-of-the-Dillo-web-browser-for-DOS-td19097.html > > On Mon

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
Try these links https://code.google.com/p/nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/downloads/detail?name=DILLODOS-302b.zip&can=2&q= http://freedos.10956.n7.nabble.com/New-release-of-the-Dillo-web-browser-for-DOS-td19097.html On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi Don, > no on

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi Don, no on that browser where Might I find it? I think I looked at the freedos edition and it did not suit compared to what my ssh telnet options present. Now if I could find a wireless d-link card sigh. I do not understand what web security has to do with Dos, or browsers that pose no threa

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
Karen, I also use the D-Link card (PCMCIA) in my home and it is an outstanding card for DOS/FreeDOS, I get the desire to maintain a pure DOS machine (I have one desktop and two laptops that are DOS only). Have you tried DIllodos (the lasted build not the one in the FreeDOS repo)? Using that, I can

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Karen Lewellen
But that is what I seem to be missing about freedos. I run DOS only, and have no interest in having 8 different operating systems on my main desktop to get the job done. I have a d-link Ethernet card. The card is very good with a ton of drivers, including the one I use for dos. I have a package

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Dario Roncone
?! 2015-05-18 17:41 GMT+02:00, Dario Roncone : > Great1! > > 2015-05-18 15:33 GMT+02:00, Don Flowers : >> AHCI >> >> >> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Don Flowers wrote: >> >>> Re: DOS AHCI driver - My driver is AHCI.SYS. I load it then UIDE >>> followed >>> by SHCDX86.COM. This is the only co

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Dario Roncone
Great1! 2015-05-18 15:33 GMT+02:00, Don Flowers : > AHCI > > > On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Don Flowers wrote: > >> Re: DOS AHCI driver - My driver is AHCI.SYS. I load it then UIDE >> followed >> by SHCDX86.COM. This is the only configuration that works. BIOS has no >> option besides ACHCI,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
AHCI On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Don Flowers wrote: > Re: DOS AHCI driver - My driver is AHCI.SYS. I load it then UIDE followed > by SHCDX86.COM. This is the only configuration that works. BIOS has no > option besides ACHCI, > > > On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > >> >>

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
Re: DOS AHCI driver - My driver is AHCI.SYS. I load it then UIDE followed by SHCDX86.COM. This is the only configuration that works. BIOS has no option besides ACHCI, On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi Mateusz, > > as far as I know, UIDE now supports harddisk and CDROM/DV

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Mateusz, as far as I know, UIDE now supports harddisk and CDROM/DVD/BD with IDE and SATA controllers, but not in AHCI mode*. Also, I am not aware of any other DOS AHCI driver. What you can do is using the BIOS as driver: This is normal for harddisks, but only works for CD/DVD when you boot fro

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist - soundcards

2015-05-18 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, just a semi-automatic reply for this classic topic ;-) >> Is there any way to make some kind of driver that would sit between >> the application and the actual soundcard (in my case a realtek) and >> forward what the app is trying to send to the soundblaster to the >> realtek the right way? >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Mateusz Viste
Okay, I understand. Have you wrote about this to Jack? He might be still interested in GCDROM feedback, and it could be an interesting case for him perhaps. However, the problem is larger I think anyway - today you are unable to set your CD controller to legacy IDE mode, but tomorrow it might j

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
Sorry Mateusz,- I assumed this was well-known. I have an Acer Aspire E5-571 laptop which has a quirky BIOS - the IDE emulation option is specific to the hard drive only and not the CD/DVD drive. I had though that the GCDROM drive was supposed to enable a SATA drive, but it didn't and I actually ga

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Mateusz Viste
Sorry, I don't think I have followed this AHCI/SATA issue - do you have any reference? An URL to a past mailing list message, or a bug report on sourceforge? Will add it to the wishlist, I just need some reference to attach it to, since it doesn't sound self-explanatory as you worded it. Mateu

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Tom Ehlert
> Ability to run Windows 3.1 in 386 enhanced mode. has been discussed multiple times. conclusion: forget it Tom -- One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitorin

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
For the wish list has the AHCI/SATA issue been mentioned? I have an Acer which will not access CDROM using GCDROM or any thing else in the FreeDOS repo, but works only with the intel SATA driver first followed by UIDE. On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 5:45 AM, Don Flowers wrote: > The wiki article is go

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
The wiki article is good as far as it goes, I collected all the pieces of the networking puzzle mentioned in the article, but can't seem to assemble them correctly. My currebn method of file transfer is via USB, and I am experiencing quite a bit of data corruption. I have 3 desktops (one full time

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Mateusz Viste
About networking -- have you looked at the wiki article? http://www.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Networking_FreeDOS It contains already quite a lot of informations, on many aspects of the DOS networking world. Mateusz On 18/05/2015 10:52, Don Flowers wrote: > I have a HP Elite 8000 with 12gb

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
I have a HP Elite 8000 with 12gb RAM, I use XOSL to boot Kubuntu 14.04, Windows 7, Compaq DOS 5.0, MS-DOS 7.10 and FreeDOS. When running Compaq DOS and/or MS-DOS 7.10, I use the native HIMEM and Windows 3.1 runs fine in enhanced mode; on FreeDOS even standard mode seems buggy, so it is not necessar

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 2:16 AM, Guillem wrote: > > I've been thinking of dualbooting my Windows PC with FreeDOS, Why exactly? Although it's not a totally horrible idea, it's very tedious and a bit technical. Not worth risking anything important. As I told one guy recently, make sure you bac

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hi Guillem, On 18/05/2015 08:16, Guillem wrote: > (...) the only things that are preventing me from doing that right now are > the fact that USB serial controllers don’t work all the way (...) So "Better/wider" USB support. Already on the list. > Is there any way to make some kind of driver tha

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-17 Thread Guillem
-- >> From: Eric Auer >> To: "Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS." >> >> Sent: Sun, 17 May 2015 14:01 >> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist >> >> >> Dario, >> >>> Intel core DUO2 T6570@2,1Ghz 2,1Ghz R

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-17 Thread Dario Roncone
> From: Eric Auer > To: "Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS." > > Sent: Sun, 17 May 2015 14:01 > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist > > > Dario, > >> Intel core DUO2 T6570@2,1Ghz 2,1Ghz RAM 2GB SO-DIMM S-ATA2 HDD 320Gb ? >> &

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-17 Thread James E Lang
Me thinks Dario speaks with tongue planted firmly in cheek. Ho ho ho, LOLROF, :-D -- Jim -Original Message- From: Eric Auer To: "Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS." Sent: Sun, 17 May 2015 14:01 Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist Dario, > In

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-17 Thread Eric Auer
Dario, > Intel core DUO2 T6570@2,1Ghz 2,1Ghz RAM 2GB SO-DIMM S-ATA2 HDD 320Gb ? > > Windows 7 Ultimate vers. 6.1.7601Satellite Pro Series.. Toshiba. > > It´s great! Sorry! well, what are you trying to tell us with all those VERY short mails, that you add to much longer other mails? Pl

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-17 Thread Dario Roncone
Intel core DUO2 T6570@2,1Ghz 2,1Ghz RAM 2GB SO-DIMM S-ATA2 HDD 320Gb ? Windows 7 Ultimate vers. 6.1.7601Satellite Pro Series.. Toshiba. It´s great! Sorry! 2015-05-17 20:40 GMT+02:00, Dario Roncone : > Why this... ? > > 2015-05-17 18:38 GMT+02:00, Micheal Muniko : >> Ability to run Windo

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-17 Thread Dario Roncone
Why this... ? 2015-05-17 18:38 GMT+02:00, Micheal Muniko : > Ability to run Windows 3.1 in 386 enhanced mode. > > -- > One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud > Widest out-of-the-box monito

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-17 Thread Dario Roncone
What is it ? +1 enhanced mode FOR ? What.. c64? 2015-05-17 19:29 GMT+02:00, Don Flowers : > +1 for Windows 3.1 enhanced mode! > > > On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Micheal Muniko > wrote: > >> Ability to run Windows 3.1 in 386 enhanced mode. >> >> >> --

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-17 Thread Don Flowers
+1 for Windows 3.1 enhanced mode! On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Micheal Muniko wrote: > Ability to run Windows 3.1 in 386 enhanced mode. > > > -- > One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-17 Thread Micheal Muniko
Ability to run Windows 3.1 in 386 enhanced mode. -- One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and re

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-17 Thread Dario Roncone
Shit!! 2015-05-17 11:35 GMT+02:00, Dario Roncone : > WiFi? > > 2015-05-17 11:16 GMT+02:00, Dario Roncone : >> Nooo Thanks! >> The usb mass-stoarge driver works for me. There are no problems. And >> with savepart.exe >> you can Backup your HardDiskDrive With the OS, the configuration of >> you Oper

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-17 Thread Dario Roncone
WiFi? 2015-05-17 11:16 GMT+02:00, Dario Roncone : > Nooo Thanks! > The usb mass-stoarge driver works for me. There are no problems. And > with savepart.exe > you can Backup your HardDiskDrive With the OS, the configuration of > you OperatingSystem and your programms. > > 2015-05-17 9:24 GMT+02:00,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-17 Thread Dario Roncone
Nooo Thanks! The usb mass-stoarge driver works for me. There are no problems. And with savepart.exe you can Backup your HardDiskDrive With the OS, the configuration of you OperatingSystem and your programms. 2015-05-17 9:24 GMT+02:00, Mateusz Viste : > On 17/05/2015 09:05, Don Flowers wrote: >> I

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-17 Thread Mateusz Viste
On 17/05/2015 09:05, Don Flowers wrote: > I would hope that the FCBParseFname bug fix will be implemented in the > next kernel. You are referring to a specific FreeDOS bug I believe, so its place is probably better suited on the FreeDOS bugtracker (is it there?) http://sourceforge.net/p/freedos

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-17 Thread Don Flowers
I would hope that the FCBParseFname bug fix will be implemented in the next kernel. On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 12:50 AM, Dario Roncone wrote: > www.dario-roncone.com > I must disable the picture.. > > 2015-05-17 6:45 GMT+02:00, Dario Roncone : > > There is a Extended CommandShellExtension For DOS,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-16 Thread Mateusz Viste
Thanks for the clarification! So what you are saying is that you miss: - easier/better supported USB support, at least for mass storage devices - packet drivers for wifi cards Both these points were already in the list on the wiki, but I made it more specific right now. cheers, Mateusz On

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-16 Thread Dario Roncone
www.dario-roncone.com I must disable the picture.. 2015-05-17 6:45 GMT+02:00, Dario Roncone : > There is a Extended CommandShellExtension For DOS, Windows > Novelll.It´´s called 4DOS.com ? It can be usefull. (batchFiles.. > > 2015-05-17 6:38 GMT+02:00, Dario Roncone : >> YES that´s corect (-: >>

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-16 Thread Dario Roncone
There is a Extended CommandShellExtension For DOS, Windows Novelll.It´´s called 4DOS.com ? It can be usefull. (batchFiles.. 2015-05-17 6:38 GMT+02:00, Dario Roncone : > YES that´s corect (-: > > 2015-05-17 6:29 GMT+02:00, Dario Roncone : >> that´s nice >> >> 2015-05-17 5:25 GMT+02:00, Karen L

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-16 Thread Dario Roncone
YES that´s corect (-: 2015-05-17 6:29 GMT+02:00, Dario Roncone : > that´s nice > > 2015-05-17 5:25 GMT+02:00, Karen Lewellen : >> Hi, >> clearly mixing terms, distracted when i wrote..anniversary of my dad's >> death today. >> I was thinking of two separate features. >> Native networking allow

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-16 Thread Dario Roncone
that´s nice 2015-05-17 5:25 GMT+02:00, Karen Lewellen : > Hi, > clearly mixing terms, distracted when i wrote..anniversary of my dad's > death today. > I was thinking of two separate features. > Native networking allows the use of USB drives and the like without > drivers for them. > I have

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-16 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi, clearly mixing terms, distracted when i wrote..anniversary of my dad's death today. I was thinking of two separate features. Native networking allows the use of USB drives and the like without drivers for them. I have this working fine in ms dos using a USB driver I shared here. still it

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-16 Thread Mateusz Viste
On 16/05/2015 21:12, Karen Lewellen wrote: > I would love to have native networking so one can run wireless and or > Ethernet cards. I do understand some support exists, but last thread > indicated that it is a bit dated. Hi Karen, I'm not sure I understand what you are meaning exactly by 'nati

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-16 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi, sorry if this has been mentioned. I would love to have native networking so one can run wireless and or Ethernet cards. I do understand some support exists, but last thread indicated that it is a bit dated. would personally let me put freedos on a laptop for road use without compromising m

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-16 Thread Mateusz Viste
On 16/05/2015 20:24, Bret Johnson wrote: > As an "extension" to the GPT item, I would like to see both the kernel > and utilities support sector sizes other than 512 bytes (at least up to > 4k, anyway, which is the "standard" for new hard drive technologies). > This would also help with CD/DVD supp

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-16 Thread Bret Johnson
As an "extension" to the GPT item, I would like to see both the kernel and utilities support sector sizes other than 512 bytes (at least up to 4k, anyway, which is the "standard" for new hard drive technologies). This would also help with CD/DVD support, which use a 2k sector size. It is relat

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-16 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hi all, Yesterday a post on the freedos devel list gave birth to a 'wishlist' of things that would be needed in FreeDOS. I repost this list here, since I am curious what other DOS users think. If you see something missing, that is both within a reasonable technical scope and represents a tangi