Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 3.1 - Pending kernel patches

2009-04-18 Thread Christian Masloch
If you're waiting for further improvements to 2038 before you release 2038, then you're doing this wrong. [...] I'd strongly recommend making 2038 available, and putting the few pending improvements in 2039. The problem is that Eric holds back at least three necessary patches, of which two

[Freedos-user] Wireless Networking in FreeDOS Wiki

2009-04-18 Thread Ulrich Hansen
written some suggestion for Wavelan (wlan) under dos and arachne browser. Dos drivers , text, utilities for wifi can also found at : www.perotti.ic.cz/wavelan/ Cheers Iw2evk roberto __ Hinweis von ESET NOD32 Antivirus, Signaturdatenbank-Version 4018 (20090418

Re: [Freedos-user] New Network Howto in FreeDOS Wiki

2009-04-18 Thread Ulrich Hansen
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Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-04-18 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Eric, what I meant is: see how many people writes to us telling that the MS-DOS-style MENUing in CONFIG.SYS does not work in FreeDOS, so I guess we would be flooded with messages like: I wrote with LFNs to a disk, and Windows no longer recognises the filenames, and has the FILE4~1.TXT form

Re: [Freedos-user] Compressed folders?

2009-04-18 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Besides the idea is completely other (and not bad at all, if you ask me). Appart from realtime compression, I think you save a lot from the variable-sectors-per-cluster approach... (Just the reason why a file of 1 byte of size may get compressed on a 1:32 ratio ;) ). Aitor 2009/4/12 Eric Auer

Re: [Freedos-user] New problems with Windows 3.1...

2009-04-18 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Eric, was the windows (partial) support ever ported to the stable kernel? (maybe that's why). Aitor 2009/4/12 Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de: Hi, Not workgroup. If I don't load emm386.exe, freedos version, I get an error that I have an unsupported dos version. If I try loading windows 3.1

Re: [Freedos-user] Abandonware site...

2009-04-18 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2009/4/13 Michael Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com: know of.  Technically, if the author of a proprietary program doesn't care about it anymore, sharing it isn't a legal problem. That is plain wrong. Many old games are back-to-life thanks to mobile phones, and it just evidences that

Re: [Freedos-user] Abandonware site...

2009-04-18 Thread Michael Robinson
But just to say the last word about this thread: please avoid warez, sources and links to any other illegal activities. Thanks. Aitor Downloading commercial software that you own a copy of for personal use is not illegal. Downloading old commercial software that isn't sold anymore which