Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

On 2/1/2017 9:21 AM, Ulrich Hansen wrote: > I also had time to update my VirtualBox images of FreeDOS. So if > anybody liked these images in the past: Here are the new ones: :-) > > https://www.lazybrowndog.net/freedos/virtualbox/ And to add to my last email, the supposedly non-network image

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

On 2/3/2017 5:02 AM, Ulrich Hansen wrote: > >>> 2017-02-03 Ralf Quint: >> >>>> Well, that works only with VMware, but unfortunately not with >>>> VirtualBox, AFAIK. >> >>> Right. >> >> As with drivers for other things, it would

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

On 2/3/2017 12:59 AM, Eduardo Casino wrote: > I started a VirtualBox version a couple of years ago, but I lost > interest in it. Maybe one day... Well, despite being "from Oracle" these, days, it is the best "freely available" hypervisor out there. The VMware stuff is all for pay these days, and

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

On 2/2/2017 1:24 AM, Ulrich Hansen wrote: > Hmm. You’ve got a point. The thing is: FTPSRV was for some years the > fastest way of getting files in and out of the FreeDOS guest. So I > considered it something most people would want, also in the „normal“ > image without additional networking

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1,2 runs very slow

On 1/20/2017 1:24 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > Hi Ira, > > if FDAPM APMDOS slows down your FreeDOS (on which hardware? > or in which environment, if not on bare physical hardware?) > then you can try FDAPM ADV:REG instead, as APMDOS defaults > to ADV:MAX which might be "overdoing" the energy savings in

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos 1.2 LSM files without CR

On 1/19/2017 2:40 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: > Eric, You and Tom are correct. But, so is Rugxulo. Consistency is king... > Is it a problem? > Potentially, yes, as someone might try to open up an LSM file after install with a real DOS program that does NOT be able to handle LF-only line endings.

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos 1.2 LSM files without CR

On 1/19/2017 1:16 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > Rugxulo, Tom, > > DOS files should always use DOS linebreaks, > even if some DOS apps can deal with Unix ones. +1 It's just too bad that a lot of people are seeing FreeDOS just as another (low end) Linux these days... Ralf --- This email has been

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos 1.2 LSM files without CR

On 1/19/2017 3:51 PM, dmccunney wrote: > How many things available as part of FreeDOS *do* have problems with > LF only EOL markers in text files? There are several older compiler which will choke big time, so is likely a lot of shareware stuff like AsEasyAs or older DOS text editors, dBASE,

Re: [Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

On 8/18/2016 6:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Tom Ehlert wrote on Mon, 15 Aug 2016 16:00:55 +0200: > >> an amazing amount of effort to get a german keyboard driver > Not really once you know that you don't need the .kl file. > According to > http://help.fdos.org/de/hhstndrd/base/keyb.htm > you have

Re: [Freedos-user] Ynt: Ynt: Urgent FreeDos Keyboard Layout Hardware Help

On 9/10/2016 1:57 PM, Salih Yuhnis wrote: Hi Eric, We will try your config as you specified and return to you if it will solve the problem. Again for the problem is no error in loading img file with keyb.exe as it shows everything is ok with keyb.exe load same in virtualbox but keyboard

Re: [Freedos-user] Ynt: Ynt: Ynt: Urgent FreeDos Keyboard Layout Hardware Help

On 9/10/2016 2:31 PM, Salih Yuhnis wrote: Hi Ralf, Yes Virtualbox and real machine is exactly loading same without generating any errors. In Virtualbox keyboard layout is working. In Real machine its not working. When we check in memory looks like a problem in real machine side. You

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user USB driv

On 11/8/2016 7:38 AM, Mike Powell wrote: > > For the uneducated, what is a "USB floppy drive"? A floppy drive connected via a USB port... Google it and you will find it, for example https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Floppy-Drive-FL-UDRV/dp/B00E9MD700 Ralf --- This email has been checked

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.2 font with 4k monitor

On 1/5/2017 11:28 AM, Gordon wrote: > Is there an easy way to double the font size? When running Freedos in > VMWare on a 4k monitor, the window is so small as to be almost unusable. > None of the VMWare display settings change the resolution of the window. > Even in full screen mode, the font

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.2 font with 4k monitor

On 1/5/2017 5:24 PM, Gordon wrote: > That's what I was wondering -- can you install a larger font to get > larger characters, or will the window still be the same size so you just > get less lines and characters per line? That font being used is still a matter of your host environment, and as far

Re: [Freedos-user] USB floppy cannot read medium on modern PC and Linux.

On 1/2/2017 12:18 PM, dmccunney wrote: > >> In particular, here's "Installing Windows 2000 on an SD Card": >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-hDOiI0-6s > I have Win10 and Ubuntu installed on an SSD on my desktop, and it > speeds things up a treat. > > I could install Win2K to SSD, but there's

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

On 3/24/2017 5:42 AM, Dennis Fenton wrote: I was just trying to simply copy it. I get an insufficient space message. That is to be expected. A disk image is exactly that, a sector by sector image of EVERY sector on the disk. That includes those of the boot sector (includes the BPB-BIOS

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

On 3/23/2017 9:47 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: It is possible to format a floppy a bit over size. Most drives will accommodate 2 to 4 extra tracks. Depending on the drive and the controller it's possible to alter the number of sectors per track, but all tracks must have the same number of

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

On 3/24/2017 4:36 PM, Dennis Fenton wrote: > I want the fat32 in order to see drives and files on my win98 computer if I > use Laplink. I was also hoping FreeDOS will do a better job of getting > Arachne online. It reports low memory with MS-DOS. I have run memmaker > several times. Using FAT32

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and Turbo C 2.01

On 3/19/2017 9:29 PM, Ira Minor wrote: I run Turbo C 2.01 on FreeDOS 1.2 and MS-DOS 7.1 with no problems of any kind. Do you run the command line compiler or are you using the IDE, as Abe was trying to do? I haven't really bothered with TC 2.01 as I own Borland C(++)3.1 and with that one,

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

On 4/24/2017 11:03 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > What is the difference between Lubuntu & Ubuntu. > What difference does the L make. The windows manager used... Ubuntu, as in the main distro, is using Gnome 3 as the default window manager (after they finally abandoned that stupid Unity carp),

Re: [Freedos-user] upgrade my PC from FD 1.1 to FD 1.2 RE: to Rugxulo AUG 12, 2017

On 8/14/2017 9:52 AM, dmccunney wrote: > On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 1:16 AM, Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> And as exFAT is a encumbered with software patents by Micro$oft, there >> won't be any support in FreeDOS (or any other Open Source OS) in the >&

Re: [Freedos-user] upgrade my PC from FD 1.1 to FD 1.2 RE: to Rugxulo AUG 12, 2017

On 8/13/2017 4:56 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > New cameras are using a new format that I can't read. > I can read FAT 16 & FAT 32. Web search said that > they are using FAT 64. FDISK doesn't even detect it. > SD chips go undetected with this new format. As Dennis already mentioned, newer cameras/SD

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation

On 7/12/2017 8:59 AM, David wrote: > Hi Ralf > > I've tried 2 ways; > 1) I downloaded the 'CDROM standard installer' and created a cd frok > that. I tried to install on machine that it didn't matter if it over > wrote the existing OS or bootloader but it produced errors in the > install process

Re: [Freedos-user] Error reading some CDs of known good disks…

On 8/17/2017 9:16 AM, Pierre LaMontagne wrote: > > Hi all! > > I'm having a problem reading Cds in FD (1.2, now) that I created > (burned) on my Win 7 PC. > > > > I don't understand why. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, but what > I'm doing wrong, I have no idea, hope someone can clue me as I'm

Re: [Freedos-user] Would someone help me with my subscription ? (follow-up)

On 6/20/2017 9:45 AM, Jose Antonio Senna wrote: > > So, my conclusion is that the confirmation page really > was a contrivance to keep out users of older browsers. > You don't seem to read the responses you get. The captcha dialog, without actually showing a captcha, is a bug/quirk on

Re: [Freedos-user] OT: Qemu questions

On 6/22/2017 12:39 PM, Santiago Almenara wrote: > Thanki you Ruxgulo, > > > "-m 64" is fairly low. I usually leave it default (unless needing > more), which is "-m 128". But even that is fairly low. Hey, you're > already on x64, give it 512 MB! ;-) > > > Why would I want more than

Re: [Freedos-user] Would someone help me with my subscription ?

On 6/11/2017 3:27 PM, Jose Antonio Senna wrote: >> Form security (reCAPTCHA) missing, please submit again > Nowhere on the original page there was a captcha field. > > This looks like another contrivance to keep out users of old browsers. > ( I am using Firefox 2.0.20 for Windows98) That

Re: [Freedos-user] Apropos and Whatis

On 6/13/2017 4:02 PM, Simon van Meygaarden wrote: > Greetings, Folks. > > Ralf > First time I hear about those programs, and they are not > something elementary to (Free)DOS, > Jiri > All this is essentially for people who already know what's > there or what should be there, not really for

Re: [Freedos-user] Would someone help me with my subscription ?

On 6/12/2017 7:05 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Actually, if you are having issues with the Captcha, create a support > ticket. > they should know it is presenting problems. > Karen Well, the problem with the ReCaptcha is that it is not a problem with the reCaptcha... I did not get those messages

Re: [Freedos-user] Apropos and Whatis

On 6/12/2017 3:14 PM, Simon van Meygaarden wrote: > Greetings, Folks. > > One of the things I really like about FreeDOS 1.2 is the incredible > Help browser: a perfect way to browse through the documentation, and, > in my opinion, much better then the man-pages in Linux. > In "How to use the

Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

From: Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> On 4/10/2017 6:36 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 00:56:17 -0500, Rugxulo wrote: >> It would be interesting to see some benchmark numbers for that (for >> various specific tools, 8086, 386, etc). > Just for the fun

Re: [Freedos-user] Corel dos ebay thing

From: Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> On 4/24/2017 11:03 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > What is the difference between Lubuntu & Ubuntu. > What difference does the L make. The windows manager used... Ubuntu, as in the main distro, is using Gnome 3 as the default window manager (af

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

From: Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> On 3/24/2017 4:36 PM, Dennis Fenton wrote: > I want the fat32 in order to see drives and files on my win98 computer if I use Laplink. I was also hoping FreeDOS will do a better job of getting Arachne online. It reports low memory with MS-DOS. I

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

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Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

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Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and Turbo C 2.01

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Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS versions of BACKUP & RESTORE program

From: Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> On 4/9/2017 12:51 PM, J||rg Jenderek wrote: > Hello, > i am looking for FreeDOS versions BACKUP & RESTORE program, but i do not > found these programs. > > After hours of searching i found only 2 html documents. > > The first

Re: [Freedos-user] Ynt: Y

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Re: [Freedos-user] Freedo

From: Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> On 11/8/2016 7:38 AM, Mike Powell wrote: > > For the uneducated, what is a "USB floppy drive"? A floppy drive connected via a USB port... Google it and you will find it, for example https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Floppy-Drive

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS

From: Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> On 8/1/2016 2:14 PM, TJ Edmister wrote: > On Mon, 01 Aug 2016 05:24:30 -0400, dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> More to the point, who *needed* it? >> >> MNG is PNG with support for animation. PNG

Re: [Freedos-user] How to

From: Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> On 8/18/2016 6:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Tom Ehlert wrote on Mon, 15 Aug 2016 16:00:55 +0200: > >> an amazing amount of effort to get a german keyboard driver > Not really once you know that you don't need the .kl file.

Re: [Freedos-user] USB fl

From: Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> On 1/2/2017 12:18 PM, dmccunney wrote: > >> In particular, here's "Installing Windows 2000 on an SD Card": >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-hDOiI0-6s > I have Win10 and Ubuntu installed on an SSD on my de

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

From: Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> On 2/2/2017 1:24 AM, Ulrich Hansen wrote: > Hmm. YouAve got a point. The thing is: FTPSRV was for some years the > fastest way of getting files in and out of the FreeDOS guest. So I > considered it something most people would want, also

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

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Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

From: Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> On 2/1/2017 9:21 AM, Ulrich Hansen wrote: > I also had time to update my VirtualBox images of FreeDOS. So if > anybody liked these images in the past: Here are the new ones: :-) > > https://www.lazybrowndog.net/freedos/virtualbox/ And

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

From: Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> On 2/3/2017 12:59 AM, Eduardo Casino wrote: > I started a VirtualBox version a couple of years ago, but I lost > interest in it. Maybe one day... Well, despite being "from Oracle" these, days, it is the best "freel

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

From: Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> On 2/2/2017 10:17 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > By the way, it would be nice to include VMSMOUNT which lets > DOS mount VMWare shared directories as drives, similar to > the magic "directory as a drive" function in DOSEMU. Both > requi

Re: [Freedos-user] Error reading some CDs of known good disks… Re: Ralf Quint AUG 19,2017

On 8/19/2017 4:52 AM, Pierre LaMontagne wrote: > >     > >   > > First of all, Ralf, thanks for all the great help! I ended up using > CDBurnerXP first & it worked superbly!  :) > Glad to hear that! 8-) > >   > > - don't use Windows build-in CD burning tool. It simply s**ks. > >   > > Although I

Re: [Freedos-user] Some driver updates

On 11/17/2017 4:45 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > [..] > > Reading this thread sucks any joy from me. > > Why is this thread still alive? > > Jack doesn't like FreeDOS, he doesn't release his drivers so that > FreeDOS users can use them - and Jack's drivers are proprietary, so we > cannot include them in

Re: [Freedos-user] My experiences with Desmet

On 11/17/2017 11:36 PM, Random Liegh via Freedos-user wrote: > Hi, all > > I have the zips I posted set up in a freedos vm. > > My problem with being unable to compile outside of the desmet folder > were solved by setting the variable "dinc" to where I am keeping the > .h files (as well as adding

Re: [Freedos-user] Desmet C 3 archived and put on Github

On 11/9/2017 7:34 PM, Random Liegh via Freedos-user wrote: > Hi > > I think I have figured out what goes where, though I'm not sure. > > I've only done a quick "hello world" test, but it looks like it works > **if you stay in the same directory.** > > Doing "c88 -I " didn't seem to work. > >

Re: [Freedos-user] Some driver updates

On 11/3/2017 7:19 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > > just as a tiny side note: > > I am only aware of 2 persons THAT CONSISTENTLY SHOUT. > Jack and the american president. > +1 :-P Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Re: [Freedos-user] Some driver updates

On 11/4/2017 12:06 PM, userbeit...@abwesend.de wrote: > > I did install a couple of software too. What good is DOS without > programs, right? But even deselecting the compilers and the GUI it > didn't fit. I wanted to select only really relevant packages next, but > work called and I had to stop

Re: [Freedos-user] Some driver updates

On 11/4/2017 4:58 AM, userbeit...@abwesend.de wrote: > > I too have a couple of old 486 systems and recently also two 286 > laptops (yeah!) but I wasn't yet able to install FreeDOS on them. The > first reason being that my first project, a desktop 486, doesn't have > a CD-ROM drive and, natually,

Re: [Freedos-user] confirmation and compiler

On 11/7/2017 10:24 PM, Random Liegh via Freedos-user wrote: > Hello, I'm writing this to see if I'm here. > > While I'm here (if I'm here) I'd like to ask if anyone has used the > Desmet C compiler, and if it would be suitable for including in FreeDOS. > > Have you? > Would it? > > Here's a link

Re: [Freedos-user] confirmation and compiler

On 11/8/2017 6:07 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi again, > > On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 11/8/2017 10:26 AM, Jim Hall wrote: >> >>> Not sure why DeSmet wasn't well received long ago, but I think this is >>>

Re: [Freedos-user] confirmation and compiler

On 11/9/2017 5:10 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 11/8/2017 6:07 PM, Rugxulo wrote: >>> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> wrote: >&g

Re: [Freedos-user] confirmation and compiler

On 11/7/2017 11:54 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > On Tue, 07 Nov 2017 23:28:08 -0800, Ralf Quint wrote: >> And yes, I would like to see this included in FreeDOS, as it is the only >> C compiler that both produces 16 bit code and can even run on a >> minimalistic FreeDOS system w

Re: [Freedos-user] confirmation and compiler

On 11/8/2017 10:26 AM, Jim Hall wrote: > Not sure why DeSmet wasn't well received long ago, but I think this is > a Good Thing to see. I'd love to see DeSmet included in the next FreeDOS. Well, a lot of people here, in particular Arkady (who hasn't been around for quite some time, who didn't seem

Re: [Freedos-user] New FreeDOSers Monthly Reminder

On 11/1/2017 9:10 AM, Bill Gee wrote: > If it were truly bothersome, I would just make a filter to shunt the monthly > reminder off to a folder. > +1 Ralf ;-) --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Re: [Freedos-user] Some driver updates

On 11/4/2017 2:01 PM, userbeit...@abwesend.de wrote: > > Well, I don't remember the exact partitioning, but I think that 40 MB > for each DOS and the rest for Linux was what I could have done. And I > also repartitioned for a bigger FreeDOS, but then work came along. > > To take your car example:

Re: [Freedos-user] have servers made a big change recently

On 10/25/2017 1:22 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > I can reach my bank, amazon and ask.com. > It started about a month ago with google & > wikapedia then slowly spread to eveything > else. Slowly one by one web sites stopped responding. > Even Juno.com doesn't respond. > Juno doesn't have anything to

Re: [Freedos-user] Difficulty with serial communications

On 6/25/2018 4:34 AM, Schoenfelder, Tim M wrote: Hi Bob, Thank you for your reply. Sorry, the “>” is the DOS prompt. I pretty much assumed that much... Anyway, I checked my FreeDOS stuff this weekend and my diagnostic tool is unfortunately not among the stuff I was able to restore

Re: [Freedos-user] Difficulty with serial communications

On 6/25/2018 1:14 PM, Schoenfelder, Tim M wrote: Ralf, Anyway, I checked my FreeDOS stuff this weekend and my diagnostic tool is unfortunately not among the stuff I was able to restore previously. I do know that I have another computer where this is on, but that is in my storage and as I am

Re: [Freedos-user] XMODEM-compatible terminal software

On 7/2/2018 7:58 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > Which doesn't explain why the copywright > office didn't find anything for "Crosstalk" > which was after 1978. Which is nonsense to begin with, as there simply can't be any DOS software before 1981, the year the first MS/PC-DOS version came out. That

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

On 4/26/2018 1:34 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: Can I ask what country you live in. I hope that doesn't happen in the US. Well, his email address is kind of a clear indicator that he's living in Brazil... Ralf PS: It helps a lot in emails to a mailing list if one is actually putting something

Re: [Freedos-user] Running FreeDOS floppy from a BIOS chip

On 1/7/2018 10:29 AM, Ivan Ivanov wrote: doubt that any of those have any real purpose at least some of these hobby OS could be useful in real life (for not-hobby purposes) , e.g. KolibriOS - many kinds of personal computing including web browsing, Visopsys - disk partitioning, 9front -

Re: [Freedos-user] Running FreeDOS floppy from a BIOS chip

On 1/7/2018 3:33 AM, Jerome Shidel wrote: OSDev wiki has FreeDOS at #1! Ok, technically, Kolibri out ranks it at #0. But, we can say it is #1. http://wiki.osdev.org/Notable_Projects Well, great. Kind of... Haven't even heard of any of the others on that list and doubt that any of those

Re: [Freedos-user] Arduino Port of FreeDOS

On 1/13/2018 9:06 AM, Ercan Ersoy wrote: FreeDOS Arduino Port doesn't have to graphics. For managing shell, we can use only a UART on Arduino. We needn't 8k RAM for managing standard input, standard output and standard error. You don't need graphics, but even to manage a 80x25 text screen,

Re: [Freedos-user] Arduino Port of FreeDOS

On 1/13/2018 1:30 AM, Ercan Ersoy wrote: For FreeDOS Arduino Port needs major source code changes. Arduinos' microcontrollers (AVR and ARM) based on Harvard Architecture. For this reason, FreeDOS Arduino port can needs less resources. Sorry to be this blunt, but this is simply bollocks!

Re: [Freedos-user] Arduino Port of FreeDOS

On 1/12/2018 2:15 PM, Ercan Ersoy wrote: Hello, I'm Ercan Ersoy (creator of DOS Coreutils and FreeDOS TUI Shell) and this e-mail address that I use general purpose. I have an idea. FreeDOS is a operating system that has some advantages. But, FreeDOS only runs PC platform. I think, FreeDOS

Re: [Freedos-user] Difficulty with serial communications

On 6/21/2018 2:04 PM, Schoenfelder, Tim M wrote: I am having difficulty getting serial communications to work on FreeDOS 1.2 using new style PCs such as HPs, Dells, etc.  The software fails to communicate.  To test, I have attempted to use: ">echo hello > com1" to verify that serial

Re: [Freedos-user] Difficulty with serial communications

On 6/21/2018 3:45 PM, Schoenfelder, Tim M wrote: Good point, this appears to be the crux of my issue. Any suggestions/ideas as how to do this? Based on your reply, one would expect that a TSR or similar is required to handle this if the UEFI cannot be configured directly to do so. I did

Re: [Freedos-user] Difficulty with serial communications

On 6/21/2018 5:36 PM, Schoenfelder, Tim M wrote: I am currently away from my FreeDOS programming stuff, I could send you some diagnostic tool either tomorrow or over the weekend... Is it a known tool? To me, yes ;-) I have written it, but haven't used it in years, the last time to track

Re: [Freedos-user] 86box and FreeDOS 1.3

On 7/19/2018 10:49 PM, Random Liegh via Freedos-user wrote: To the best of my knowledge, it only emulates IBM compatible machines. Well, no, it emulates for example an Olivetti M-24, which isn't really an IBM compatible PC. Unfortunately, the list of provided ROMs isn't very descriptive to

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Networking with NetWare?

On 7/8/2018 3:07 AM, Bruce Sommerset wrote: Hello everyone. I'm a new user to FreeDOS. I have some questions that perhaps more experienced users might be able to help me with. I am trying to get two computers to communicate with one another (Basically a small network) I have been skeptical

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Networking with NetWare?

On 7/9/2018 8:56 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: Newer computers will not in general be able to use Crynwr packet drivers, but some (I believe many) motherboards support booting by PXE over the Ethernet. In that case, would it be possible to so boot FreeDOS and have Ehternet support from the

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos & old 486-33MHZ System

On 7/9/2018 9:37 PM, Thomas Fritsch wrote: im trying to optimize the use out of my old 486 for realtivly older things including Win 3.1 Software, am i best sticking to MS-DOS 6.22  or will freedos on such an old ram starved system  proove to run better? (20MB SIMM memory) FreeDOS doesn't

Re: [Freedos-user] Development Environment, Embedded +

On 3/9/2018 6:24 PM, Patrick wrote: I found a cross compiler, pre-compiled for 64bit Linux. I just need to figure out the best way to network between dos and linux to transfer the executable. FreeDos starts so fast I might try transferring to a qemu image via an iso image. Preparing an

Re: [Freedos-user] Development Environment, Embedded +

On 3/9/2018 6:00 AM, Patrick wrote: Hi Everyone I fooled around with FreeDos years ago. I have always loved the logo ! I didn't see any reason to move from Linux but now I see reasons to use both. IMHO, nowadays, they simply serve different purposes. As things have advanced in the 20+ years

Re: [Freedos-user] usb stick for bios upgrade

On 4/7/2018 3:07 PM, Rugxulo wrote: Hi, N.B. Keep in mind that traditional BIOS (CSM) is going away entirely in favor of UEFI. So, in future, you'll never have this problem again! Well, it's just a trade in, you will just get different problems. Just try to recover a PC (or worse, laptop)

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos on hp computers?

On 3/20/2018 2:38 AM, Jim Hall wrote: Yes, HP is one of the computer manufacturers that includes FreeDOS in their standard builds. If you go into their laptops and desktops, and search for FreeDOS, you'll get a list of devices that can be configured with FreeDOS as the default operating

Re: [Freedos-user] Development Environment, Embedded +

On 3/21/2018 5:42 AM, Rugxulo wrote: Hi, On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 2:05 PM, Zbigniew wrote: On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 09:20:39PM -0500, Patrick wrote: I am thinking about giving FeeBSD a try in the next few months. I am running away from systemd. Wait, whoa? BSD isn't

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos on hp computers?

On 3/21/2018 11:46 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: I've used ios (junked it), Android & Freedos. Freedos is not too far behind those two. Android is fine but is always being upgraded. I think I'm on my 10th tablet. They work for awhile but then soon need a upgrade - buy a new tablet time is about

Re: [Freedos-user] XMODEM-compatible terminal software

On 6/28/2018 8:24 PM, David McMackins wrote: I managed to get a copy of MS-DOS Kermit. Think that'll work? It's a long time since I had to use it, but I think for transferring stuff between such dissimilar systems, Kermit is the best choice... --- This email has been checked for viruses by

Re: [Freedos-user] MS-DOS 1.1 and 2.0 ...now open source?

On 9/30/2018 10:18 AM, geneb wrote: On Sat, 29 Sep 2018, Ralf Quint wrote: I couldn't care less about .NET, it's pretty much a non-portable, dead-end technology, just years behind the curve. A lot of former Java fanatics (for which .NET became a substitute once M$ could not get to terms

Re: [Freedos-user] MS-DOS 1.1 and 2.0 ...now open source?

On 9/30/2018 1:34 PM, geneb wrote: Visual Studio for Macintosh will handle the issue for MacOS, Xamarin will handle the issue for Linux and I don't know of anyone that uses a GUI on FreeBSD. :) Yes, I know ARM isn't an OS.  That's not the point.  The .NET Micro Framework specifically targets

Re: [Freedos-user] MS-DOS 1.1 and 2.0 ...now open source?

On 9/29/2018 6:14 AM, dmccunney wrote: IIRC, the FreeDOS kernel is written largely in C, so the ASM source isn't directly usable. It may be useful to go spelunking for the algorithms used and how corner cases were handled. It certainly can help to deal with issues that arise out of

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website

On 10/1/2018 10:14 AM, Cuvtixo D wrote: Brand new to this mailing list, but I wanted to respond to a conversation about Open source licences, and apologies to the authors, I lost track of who said what in the following: >>> (Speaking personally, I'd love to see *FreeDOS* re-licensed under >>>

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Internet Security Protocols and Graphical Interface

On 1/8/2019 12:13 PM, Thomas Vetere wrote: Hello FreeDOS community, I have an old IBM Thinkpad 600e that I am trying to refurbish for fun. With a Pentium 2 processor and 256 MB of RAM, I am considering using FreeDOS. I would like for this computer to be able to connect to the Internet via

Re: [Freedos-user] TCP/IP stack will not initialize

On 1/12/2019 6:08 AM, Steve Owens wrote: I reloaded everything with VBox 5.2 and it works like a charm. Thanks! Which means you should file a bug report with the folks at Virtual Box. Good luck! Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.

Re: [Freedos-user] ot: run time issues?

On 6/14/2019 10:02 AM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Hi Ralf, If the program you mean is in German, then I found that last night. I just posted about the several issues, I cannot tell  why the program fails, but suspect it is because my machine is too fast for that solution. Different question? I do

Re: [Freedos-user] ot: run time issues?

On 6/15/2019 6:54 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: Pascal uses do-loops to get time delays. As the computers get faster the do-loops get shorter and finally fail. I use a tp program downloaded from the web to prevent this. nonsense... --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus

Re: [Freedos-user] Find command and a drive

machine, and this happenes if there is no disk in the drive.  If there is a disk in the A: drive, find exits normally. Has anyone else experienced this? On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 2:33 PM Ralf Quint <mailto:freedos...@gmail.com>> wrote: Well, no, haven't used find like i

Re: [Freedos-user] Find command and a drive

On 6/25/2019 12:23 PM, Joseph Norton wrote: Hi listers: Using FreeDOS 1.3 RC1, whenever I use the find command, after it has finished its work, I get an error which says it can’t read from the A: drive. I am running from a virtual machine, and this happenes if there is no disk in the

Re: [Freedos-user] Find command and a drive

On 6/25/2019 2:16 PM, Joseph Norton wrote: I think I’ve observed this somewhere else, but, can’t remember right now. I’ll try to find other occurrences when I get a chance. Here is the contents of my set query, just in case: DOSDIR=C:\FREEDOS COMSPEC=C:\FREEDOS\BIN\COMMAND.COM LANG=EN

Re: [Freedos-user] ot: run time issues?

On 6/13/2019 5:38 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: okay, Runtime error 200 at 187b:0efb that is it exactly. Kare Ok, that means that you are running an unpatched Turbo-Pascal 7.0 program on a computer on which the clock frequency is to high. Sloppy programming as the fix for that came out shortly

Re: [Freedos-user] ot: run time issues?

On 6/13/2019 5:20 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: First, Bret would you write me off list? I have access to a   utility of  yours slow down, which I am wanting to use with a single program. That leads  me to my broader  question. If I can recall how to post at dos ain't dead might be an interesting

Re: [Freedos-user] ot: run time issues?

On 6/13/2019 6:27 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: and you feel this would impact a single program? Yes, it impact each single program that is written using that compiler with an unpatched runtime library linked in... I have no idea if anyone patched readit in this way, would be terrific if that 

Re: [Freedos-user] ot: run time issues?

On 6/19/2019 1:00 AM, Rugxulo wrote: Hi, I'm no expert, indeed The freeware TP 5.5 (circa 1989) doesn't have this problem (except maybe if you manually use Delay from CRT). So its default "runtime" is fine, AFAIK. The problem has nothing to do with calling Delay(), it is based on the

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