Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

On 11/8/2013 4:43 PM, Rugxulo wrote: Hi, On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Chris Evans aaxiomfin...@gmail.com wrote: Would this accomplished by loading a Unicode Japanese code page font file using mode? No because Unicode, esp. for CJK languages, would never fit into 256 or 512 bytes, which

Re: [Freedos-user] moslo and clock speed

On 12/3/2013 7:56 PM, Chris Evans wrote: Why is moslo lock up when i run moslo menu.exe? Setting the clock speed in dosemu.conf isnt reliable as that sometimes allows program to run. I need better solution to allow my borland pascal .exes to run on fast cpu If they are your Borland Pascal

Re: [Freedos-user] moslo and clock speed

On 12/3/2013 7:56 PM, Chris Evans wrote: Why is moslo lock up when i run moslo menu.exe? Setting the clock speed in dosemu.conf isnt reliable as that sometimes allows program to run. I need better solution to allow my borland pascal .exes to run on fast cpu In case you don't know about the

Re: [Freedos-user] moslo and clock speed

On 12/3/2013 9:16 PM, Chris Evans wrote: i was able to find rpcrt100.zip but the other isn't available I tried this route once before and ended up with broken .exes (don't remember details as it was years ago so i gave up and moved to linux and gcc) The only systems that I can't run my old

Re: [Freedos-user] moslo and clock speed

On 12/4/2013 12:33 AM, Chris Evans wrote: I just installed Robert Prins crt70 replacement and it seems to have worked, compiled one the programs it ran okay with default dosemu clock settings. That one as well as the earlier replacement from Pedt Scragg, both from the links to JR Stockton's

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos hangs

On 12/10/2013 6:41 AM, Robert Moler wrote: I wasn't being clear enough about what I've been trying to do. The XT machine has 2 GB of RAM. It is a 32 bit machine. An XT, as in PC XT can neither be a 32bit machine nor have 2GB of RAM. Using this term here is what is leading to confusion... I

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos hangs

On 12/10/2013 4:14 PM, Robert Moler wrote: The Bios on the Dell machine clearly offers USB as a boot option. I made a bootable USB stick with FreeDos on it using _*RUFUS*_ which was suggested by someone earlier. It did appear to have gotten most of the way through the cold boot process before

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos hangs

On 12/10/2013 5:40 PM, Robert Moler wrote: This box has what looks like it may have been a tag on top at the back. There's just some stuck paper there now as if something has been removed. On the back there is a bar code tag with D711D7 in the middle of it. That's one character short, the

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos won't load.

On 12/26/2013 9:37 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: Still, it seems that at least some series are shipped with FreeDOS: http://www.acerdirect.co.uk/Acer_Revo_Nettop_Celeron_887_4GB_750GB_Shared_No_Opt_WiFi__Free_Dos_DT.SMCEK.003/version.asp As Eric said, FreeDOS is probably only used as an easy way

Re: [Freedos-user] ANNOUNCEMENT!! MS-DOS source code is recently released!

On 3/25/2014 12:38 PM, dmccunney wrote: The question we won't know till we see it is the terms under which the source is released, and whether it may be used in derivative products. (In particular, is there anything in DOS 1.1 or 2.0 that might be incorporated into FreeDOS? I personally

Re: [Freedos-user] can freedos?

On 9/22/2014 3:23 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Mercy the things that come across my desk...even if I am not seeking them. a question only. I have no idea why the person is asking. Will freedos run on a 64 bit machine? Yes, of course. Unless you are referring with 64 bit machine to an Intel

Re: [Freedos-user] Fwd: Re: freedos 1.1 and xen

On 10/3/2014 5:00 AM, wch-t...@house-grp.net wrote: Solved. For whatever reason, the normal installation sequence did not work for me. However, if one chooses option #5 on the installation screen run freedos from the CD one is presented with an E prompt. From that, one can format the disk.

Re: [Freedos-user] Tex for DOS distribution

On 10/17/2014 7:41 PM, Marco Achury wrote: Looking at: http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/tex/ There are a lot of files. Is this a Tex distribution or just some spre utils? Where to look for Tex for DOS ? Not quite sure what you expect or if you already checked

Re: [Freedos-user] Tex for DOS distribution

On 10/17/2014 7:41 PM, Marco Achury wrote: Looking at: http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/tex/ There are a lot of files. Is this a Tex distribution or just some spre utils? Where to look for Tex for DOS ? Or here http://www.nomdo.dds.nl/tex.htm --- This email

Re: [Freedos-user] Resize partition without data loss

On 10/21/2014 11:39 AM, dmccunney wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote: Gparted will not do it properly. You will not lose data, but FreeDOS will not report the correct size of the new partition. I have found only one thing that works: Partition Resizer

Re: [Freedos-user] Tex for DOS distribution

On 10/31/2014 12:01 PM, Rugxulo wrote: Hi, sorry for late reply, On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 3:45 AM, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/17/2014 7:41 PM, Marco Achury wrote: Looking at: http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/tex/ There are a lot of files. Old

Re: [Freedos-user] Com1: corruption from PS2 mouse

On 11/20/2014 9:49 PM, Dinosaur wrote: An IRQ clash is possible if Cutemouse uses IRQ4 from Com1. IRQ4 is the default for COM1 (and COM3) ever since the IBM PC, likewise IRQ3 is assigned by default to COM2 and COM4. This is a BIOS/Industry standard ever this the original IBM PC, nothing

Re: [Freedos-user] For what architectures is FreeDOS designed?

On 11/23/2014 12:16 PM, Dennis Holierhoek wrote: But can it also run 8-bit programs? And 4-bit? Seriously? :-\ Or are you just trolling? Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com

Re: [Freedos-user] For what architectures is FreeDOS designed?

On 11/24/2014 1:26 AM, TJ Edmister wrote: On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:16:19 -0500, Dennis Holierhoek dennis...@hotmail.com wrote: But can it also run 8-bit programs? And 4-bit? In theory, you could run 8-bit object code if you had an NEC V20 or V30 CPU which is 8086 compatible while also

Re: [Freedos-user] For what architectures is FreeDOS designed?

On 11/24/2014 11:08 AM, Carl Spitzer wrote: Isn't the Z80 what the Space Shuttle and space Telescope used until the last decade. I seem to remember my old RS-4P was a Z80 chip. CWSIV Nope, the Space Shuttle's main computer was from IBM, based on a radiation-hardened version of a 32bit

Re: [Freedos-user] For what architectures is FreeDOS designed?

On 11/24/2014 5:13 PM, David Kerber wrote: On 11/24/2014 7:57 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: On 11/24/2014 11:08 AM, Carl Spitzer wrote: Isn't the Z80 what the Space Shuttle and space Telescope used until the last decade. I seem to remember my old RS-4P was a Z80 chip. CWSIV Nope, the Space Shuttle's

Re: [Freedos-user] For what architectures is FreeDOS designed?

On 11/25/2014 4:20 AM, Alain Mouette wrote: Em 24-11-2014 22:38, Ralf Quint escreveu: In theory, you could run 8-bit object code if you had an NEC V20 or V30 CPU which is 8086 compatible while also featuring an 8080 emulation mode. NEC also made a special version of their V50 CPU just

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

On 11/29/2014 6:18 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: I'm getting error overloaded or off line at your link. The link I tried was for registered users only. The sound drivers all downloaded without any problem but the main link to the program doesn't work here for some reason. On Sat, 29 Nov 2014

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

On 11/30/2014 2:00 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: I got it to download finally. It seems that it doesn't like Opera. I tried IE and it worked. I wonder why it hates Opera. Opera always worked before. Just tried it with Opera 26 and it worked just fine as well... Ralf --- This email has been

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

On 12/2/2014 4:57 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: Serial devices are always slow; I don't know how they get around it. SD cards are serial like SATA and they really are slow. The hard drive clock must be super fast to get those speeds. They also have to transfer handshakes serially. I wonder how its

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview 2.60 (digressions)

On 12/2/2014 10:30 PM, Rugxulo wrote: It was reported recently that SourceForge has changed the way they allow subscriptions to their email lists. So one guy with an old setup suddenly couldn't subscribe because his (old Opera) web browser couldn't validate certificates (or something weird

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

On 12/3/2014 8:36 AM, dmccunney wrote: a plugin. The HTML5 video keyword *does* require a codec to decode and stream the content, but the codec will be delivered with the browser and be part of the browser environment. You don't need a third-party program called from the browser. And this

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

On 12/3/2014 12:58 PM, dmccunney wrote: On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/2/2014 6:33 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: FAT16 is limited to 8 gigs but FAT32 goes much higher. I kinda remember Wikopedia saying 2T but could easily be wrong. Excuse me? FAT16

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

On 12/3/2014 1:01 PM, dmccunney wrote: On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/3/2014 8:36 AM, dmccunney wrote: a plugin. The HTML5 video keyword *does* require a codec to decode and stream the content, but the codec will be delivered with the browser

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

On 12/3/2014 1:04 PM, Dave Kerber wrote: -Original Message- From: Ralf Quint [mailto:freedos...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 3:41 PM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60 On 12/3/2014 5:23 AM, Dave Kerber wrote

Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS

On 12/14/2014 4:26 AM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros wrote: Hi, I was wondering whether one of the reasons why old computers fail is that the BIOS gets corrupted over time because it is stored in rewritable media. BIOS is for quite a wile in a FlashROM type of memory, which is only

Re: [Freedos-user] HTML5/Javascript/Flash (was: Re: Quickview ver 2.60)

On 12/16/2014 2:50 PM, Louis Santillan wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 2:32 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: Hardware is steadily smaller, faster, and cheaper. Have fun finding a new x86 machine these days that *isn't* 64 bit. ARM is still largely 32 bit, but that's changing

Re: [Freedos-user] HTML5/Javascript/Flash (was: Re: Quickview ver 2.60)

On 12/16/2014 3:56 PM, dmccunney wrote: I was talking about what you see if you go to purchase a desktop/laptop/netbook/what have you. IoT kit is not stuff end users will run to access the Internet and browse websites. Then why would you use DOS for those kind of tasks? It's the same thing.

Re: [Freedos-user] HTML5/Javascript/Flash (was: Re: Quickview ver 2.60)

On 12/16/2014 4:01 PM, dmccunney wrote: Even if all Intel based PCs are equipped with 64bit capable CPUs, they will just as happy run 32bit or even 16bit code just fine. Assuming OS support is there. The instruction set is the same. Various system calls may not be. If you want to run DOS

Re: [Freedos-user] [Bulk] Re: How to run Fractint in FreeDOS in VirtualBox?

On 2/2/2015 9:37 AM, Knute Myhrvold wrote: Ralf, I did: type FRACTINT at the command line... have tried that several times. Well, good old Albert Einstein is attributed to shave said It is insanity to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results Was I in the proper

Re: [Freedos-user] How to run Fractint in FreeDOS in VirtualBox?

On 2/2/2015 5:00 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: It sounds like you are trying to do it right. You must include the path on your command. Is it possible that you are missing a file - like a license file in you directory. It may be free now but was probably once shareware that died after a period if

Re: [Freedos-user] How to run Fractint in FreeDOS in VirtualBox?

On 2/2/2015 5:18 AM, Knute Myhrvold wrote: I want to run Fractint, an old DOS fractal image generater. I used to run it on Win95, 98, and NT, and it will run on some WinXPmachines, but not mine. So I have installed VirtualBox and finally successfully installed FreeDOS as a Guest in it... in

Re: [Freedos-user] How to run Fractint in FreeDOS in VirtualBox?

On 2/3/2015 11:51 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: What is VM short for.? Virtual Machine. A very common abbreviation these days... ;-) Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS repo inaccessible

On 1/16/2015 11:02 AM, Don Flowers wrote: Well, I cleared my history, deleted cookies and have the same result. Oddly, In FreeDOS, FDNPKG works and I just tried DilloDOS and I have access, so it must be a FireFox issue? Negative. Works here just fine,using Firefox 35.0 on Windows 8.1/64...

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS repo inaccessible

On 1/16/2015 5:36 PM, Don Flowers wrote: Could this be a linux issue? I installed a couple of different browsers (Chrome and Qupzilla on two different machines and I have the same result Not per se. Just for the record, I tried Opera 26 and the latest Chrome on my Windows 8.1 laptop as

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS program/beginner's problems

On 2/10/2015 5:34 PM, Rugxulo wrote: I perform Dosemu detection according to instruction and example in this old FreeDOS maillist thread: http://marc.info/?l=freedos-devm=88425176918117w=2 I know you sent similar e-mail about mixed environments in the past. Normally you wouldn't want to split

Re: [Freedos-user] dos editor very long files ignore eol character

On 2/17/2015 9:38 AM, John R. Sowden wrote: I am looking for the above. any thoughts? Well, not sure what exactly you mean by ignore eol character, but the SEE editor that is part of the DeSmet C can handle very large files in plain DOS (mainly limited by the drive space, as it handles

Re: [Freedos-user] dosbox

On 1/30/2015 7:43 AM, dmccunney wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Rinaldo Guelpa guelpa...@telkomsa.net wrote: Hello Friends, I wish to use the dosbox in an 2.5 gig computer to run some text based programs I am not into games. Which programs? Can someone help me please help. I wish

Re: [Freedos-user] dos USB driver.

On 2/14/2015 3:58 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Hi Folks, Since USB function comes up from time to time, I am sharing the below. This in no way diminishes the fine drivers provided by Brett. Instead, someone sent it to me, and as I had not found this one before I am sharing.

Re: [Freedos-user] dos USB driver.

On 2/14/2015 5:01 PM, Christopher Evans wrote: Do those come with Open source code ? I tried to write a USB driver for NX-DOS, it might be good idea to integrate these into the kernel. Did you see my previous reply? Apparently not... Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS program/beginner's problems

On 2/10/2015 3:38 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: Ralf Quint wrote: On 2/9/2015 7:57 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: Pointers and things around them are for me still a little incomprehensible ;) If you want to program in C, then there is no way around it. For almost everything, and in particular

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS program/beginner's problems

On 2/9/2015 7:57 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: Hi Eric, thanks for help, Eric Auer wrote: Hi Franta, struct dosemu_detect { char magic[8]; unsigned char ver[4]; }; static struct dosemu_detect far *p = (void far*) 0xF000FFE0; Note that

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS program/beginner's problems

On 2/10/2015 4:04 PM, Eric Auer wrote: Hi Franta, I got the impression that string declared as char mystring[]=$DOSEMU$; is in memory stored as null-terminated string. This does not help you: The OTHER string STARTS with $DOSEMU$, but is NOT null terminated, so both strings still differ.

Re: [Freedos-user] dos usb driver!

On 3/30/2015 12:23 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: Where did you get ms dos 7.1 as a stand alone package without Windows? I use PC dos 7.1 alone but have never seen a MS version. Because there is no such thing. Anyone claiming to run *MS*-DOS 7.1 is using a hacked version of Windows 9x. (- that's a

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

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] Infocom-style games for DOS

On 5/20/2015 12:59 PM, Dario Roncone wrote: Great Stuff! GNU OpenSource You really need to work on the way you are trying to express yourself. I don't understand one bi of your comments in regards to the Infocom game engine... Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

On 5/20/2015 1:08 PM, Dario Roncone wrote: Yes i know it... 8080 Intel 2x86 3x86 Dx/Sx intel MMX amdSSE SSE2. Doesn't look like it... Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

On 5/20/2015 12:22 PM, Dario Roncone wrote: Sorry! too Old hardware. ? Care to explain WHY? Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com -- One dashboard for

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

On 5/20/2015 12:46 PM, Dario Roncone wrote: Yes Software diden´t work! That's not an explanation. And it's DOS for crying out loud. There can't be any hardware too old to run a DOS program on... Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting any CD player to work

On 6/8/2015 7:27 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: For printers its usually easy to find the control commands but for cd units I've never seen them made available to the public. Is there a command list published anywhere for cds. Yes, it's called ATAPI and there exist a lot of different documents for

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

Well, seems the mystery about the openwatcom.org site is that they apparently moved the site(s) over to a server provided by Perforce, the company that has provided them with their version control system for years... Tried the site again a few minutes ago and it shows a short note about this

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting mpxplay and any CD player to work

On 6/2/2015 12:16 PM, John Hupp wrote: Are there tips/tricks to get mpxplay to work? What about a CD player that's known to work with FD 1.1? I'm using a default FD 1.1 setup and selecting the first menu item at boot. Just to cover all the bases, and probably unrelated to the direct

Re: [Freedos-user] Getting mpxplay and any CD player to work

On 6/2/2015 1:42 PM, John Hupp wrote: Hah! I did indeed forget to reconnect the cable during the various trials. But as you also note, it is unrelated to the software problems. I still get nothing with the cable connected. I just thought to mention it for those case you mentioned that

Re: [Freedos-user] Does BTTR accept new members?

On 6/12/2015 9:09 AM, Louis Santillan wrote: It took about 3 or 5 days for Robert to get to my request a couple years back. I send a request to reset my email address and password about two weeks ago and haven't heard back since... Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast

Re: [Freedos-user] mTCP - A better solution for moving files on the LAN

On 6/17/2015 3:32 PM, John Hupp wrote: In the thread [Networking: With MS Client, Error 5: Access has been denied], I was working hard trying to get the MS-DOS Network Client working with a Vista machine. It was a solution I had used in past years for moving files between the FreeDOS client

Re: [Freedos-user] XIDE Updated; UIDE Support TERMINATED!

On 6/14/2015 9:00 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: Hi Eric, If Jack Ellis has switched open-source UIDE to closed-source XIDE, what will be for FreeDOS 1.2 or 2.0? No one is forced to use XIDE, UIDE will do just fine (or so Jack says)... Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast

Re: [Freedos-user] Doing #include foo.h in Turbo C

On 5/24/2015 9:31 PM, David Griffith wrote: I'm well aware of the distinction between foo.h and foo.h. My problem is that with the Turbo C IDE, it just says that it can't find foo.h, even though foo.h is in the same directory as main.c. If I build using a Makefile, this isn't a problem.

Re: [Freedos-user] Doing #include foo.h in Turbo C

On 5/24/2015 5:33 PM, David Griffith wrote: It has been a long time since I've used the Turbo C 3.0 IDE and I'm stumped on something very basic. I'm trying to figure out how to get an existing project into the IDE. I've already figured out how to create a .PRJ file, but when I go to build

[Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

Tried for the last 2 days now and can't neither reach the www.openwatcom.org web site nor the nntp server at news.openwatcom.org... Does anyone know what is going on with that site? I just hope that this not the result of the spat with Jiri's Open-Watcom 2.0 fork... :-\ Ralf --- This email

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

On 5/23/2015 4:09 PM, dmccunney wrote: On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com wrote: Tried for the last 2 days now and can't neither reach the www.openwatcom.org web site nor the nntp server at news.openwatcom.org... Does anyone know what is going on with that site

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

On 5/23/2015 7:02 PM, Rugxulo wrote: Hi, On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com wrote: Tried for the last 2 days now and can't neither reach the www.openwatcom.org web site nor the nntp server at news.openwatcom.org... Does anyone know what is going

Re: [Freedos-user] Infocom-style games for DOS

On 5/21/2015 8:00 PM, David Griffith wrote: What do you mean by saving the game progress? All Z-machine implemenations allow you to save your progress. The steps/answers/instructions in the game to get to the point where it crashes... Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

On 5/26/2015 11:41 AM, perditi...@gmail.com wrote: I saw on another email, it is a known technical issue and being worked on. No estimate on resolution but confirmation not down on purpose. Well, I looked around and couldn't find anything. So thanks, will see what happens... Ralf ---

Re: [Freedos-user] [Fwd: Re: Unhandled exception 000E]

On 7/31/2015 6:14 PM, sunbeam...@juno.com wrote: Hate to be a pest but you seem to have the inside track on something interesting. I looked up PE files on wikopedia; it seems to be a decoder file used by windows to tell it how to use a DLL file. How do you know if a file is a PE file. Are

Re: [Freedos-user] opengem

On 8/17/2015 1:32 AM, jubalh wrote: What am I missing? How to install software on FreeDOS? In most cases, you do not need to install software on (Free)DOS. Most programs will just work if they are located within the PATH environment variable. And that seems to be the biggest (though actually

Re: [Freedos-user] opengem

On 8/19/2015 4:14 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: I believe I took a look at opengem but didn't get far. Opengem couldn't integrate with other software as X Window system can. Integrate in which way? I don't have a DOS system running GEM handy right now, but all it takes is a short cut for it and

Re: [Freedos-user] [Fwd: Re: Unhandled exception 000E]

On 8/1/2015 3:49 PM, sunbeam...@juno.com wrote: What does HXRT have to do with it. Is it a fix for programs that refuse to run without windows near by. I ask some our local computer experts and they've never heard of a PE file. You should consider editing Wikopedia; to make it easier for

Re: [Freedos-user] How to make the R-Alt key act like L-Alt?

On 7/15/2015 5:47 PM, John Hupp wrote: I'm just using the BIOS keyboard driver (not running KEYB) with a US layout keyboard. What I'm trying to do: In Edit, for instance, R-Alt + F does not open the File menu, and R-Alt + X does not exit the program. I want it to do those things just as

Re: [Freedos-user] trouble printing in clipper when using freedos

On 10/11/2015 5:27 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > Hi Marlon, > >> Hi, I boot freedos (which is installed in a partition of the hard drive). >> I type debug, then I type d 40:8 >> >> The first line looks like this: > ... 0040: [8 not displayed bytes] then ... > >> -78 03 00 00 00 00 C0 9E > This means

Re: [Freedos-user] trouble printing in clipper when using freedos

On 10/12/2015 8:16 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > I see a few possibilities: Port 378 is on the mainboard and the PCI > card does not have the printer port active, port 378 is on the PCI > card but the BIOS does not use it because there was no printer port > without that card or the PCI card printer

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/V

On 7/7/2015 10:41 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: Sorry if this is obvious -- what is FreeDOS/V ? cheers, Mateusz Well, as Sparky4 already mentioned, it is (supposed to be) for FreeDOS what DOS/V was for MS/PC-DOS: A double-byte aware Japanese localized version of FreeDOS...

Re: [Freedos-user] I could not access archive.org using Lynx

On 7/10/2015 9:38 PM, Jose Antonio Senna wrote: There was a recent message in this list containing the link to https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary Lynx 2.8.5 fails to access that site without any error message. Did anyone access it using a DOS browser ? No I haven't. And I

Re: [Freedos-user] [SOLVED] XMS on a 386SX

On 8/26/2015 12:59 AM, Rugxulo wrote: Hi, On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote: Rugxulo, Ralph, Thank you both for your inputs! Here's the endgame :) I already tried to test the RAM on this machine using both AleGr MEMTEST 2.00 and MEMTEST86+ 4.20 (from a

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99

On 9/1/2015 10:02 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > Now, of course I could implement some indexing mechanisms on top of > that, and end up designing a specialized 16 bit database engine that > would fit in the 640K limit of memory... You are making a totally wrong assumptionn that 16bit software means

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99

On 9/2/2015 9:12 AM, dmccunney wrote: > On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 1:37 AM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste.fr> wrote: >> On 02/09/2015 04:43, Ralf Quint wrote: >>> You are making a totally wrong assumptionn that 16bit software means you >>> are limited to 640KB

Re: [Freedos-user] trouble printing in clipper when using freedos

On 9/28/2015 9:31 AM, Marlon Ng wrote: > Sorry for the late response guys. Hope you'll be patient with me as I > am not as skilled as you are. > > "So if you have a program that works only with LPT1 (and not with a hard > coded base port address!) will use what ever address is put into >

Re: [Freedos-user] trouble printing in clipper when using freedos

On 9/28/2015 10:20 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > Hi Marlon / Kaye, > > to use DEBUG to change what is LPT1, you put the I/O port at > some memory location (378 for LPT1, 278 for LPT2, 3bc for LPT3) > which you can do for example like this: > > debug > d 40:08 l 6 > > This shows you the current settings,

Re: [Freedos-user] trouble printing in clipper when using freedos

On 9/19/2015 11:11 AM, Marlon Ng wrote: > Hi guys! First of all, what am I missing here? I don't get any of your > responses in my email. Should I not be receiving emails when someone > responds to my post? My apologies if this would make it a new thread, > I don't know how else to follow up

Re: [Freedos-user] trouble printing in clipper when using freedos

On 9/20/2015 10:21 AM, Marlon Ng wrote: > I forgot to mention. The pci parallel expansion is a 3-in-1. It has > one parallel, and two serial (I think). Could this be the reason why > the computer sees it as LPT3? If so, how do I change it to LPT1? I > can't see anything in BIOS that would

Re: [Freedos-user] trouble printing in clipper when using freedos

On 9/18/2015 5:15 AM, Marlon Ng wrote: > Hi guys. > > I have a desktop computer with a motherboard that has a built-in > parallel port. When I boot into FreeDOS and run an old Clipper > program, the program can print just fine, without editing any system > files. It just works. > > I have

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS MODE updates (and DOSEMU2) - known bugs, anybody?

On 12/17/2015 12:29 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > On 17/12/2015 20:05, Ralf Quint wrote: >> On what kind of system are you testing this? > I tested it on my "Toshiba T1100 Plus" portable computer. It's an > 8088-based computer with an onboard CGA clone. > > I ca

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS MODE updates (and DOSEMU2) - known bugs, anybody?

On 12/15/2015 10:46 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > Hi Eric, > > Nice to see you're still around fixing stuff :) > > There is one little inconvenience I experienced with MODE, that I > reported earlier this year while working on my Svarog86 distribution. > > It relates to MODE executing 'MODE MONO'

Re: [Freedos-user] UltraDMA warning corrected

On 1/13/2016 5:13 PM, dmccunney wrote: > Do you really think MS will *care*? That doesn't matter. We should keep this project as clean as possible, just as a precaution. Problem is that a lot of people these days don't even know how DOS worked 20 years ago and hence might be tempted to look and

Re: [Freedos-user] UltraDMA warning corrected

On 1/14/2016 4:20 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Linus Torvalds heavily studied and used Minix sources, which was a > UNIX (tm) clone. It was not free/libre at all, they were commercially > selling it with their text book about OSes. Sorry, but that is not correct. Minix was distributed by Tanenbaum (who

Re: [Freedos-user] Catch "rd" order before command.com processing

On 3/29/2016 9:41 AM, Hans-Christian Koch wrote: Hey Louis! Thanks for your quick answer which helped me alot! Actually I just copied deltree.com to my C: directory and put in my autoexec.bat alias rd=C:\deltree.com /y Now when I do “rd C:\directory\directory2” it deletes the specified

Re: [Freedos-user] USB

On 4/24/2016 7:25 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > I load my software on cf chips so I'm running pure dos > no windows. When you read the help section it implies > that 19200 exists but when you try the command > it comes back not allowed. Even windows 7 has a > 9600 limit. You can set it in the

Re: [Freedos-user] USB

On 4/23/2016 9:55 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > Your the one who pointed me to MSdos 7.1. > I've noticed a few annoying short coming > for msdos7.1 that FREEDOS doesn't have. > 1st it limits the rs232 output to 9600 baud. No, it doesn't. I used in fact a Windows 98SE machine booting without GUI for

Re: [Freedos-user] USB

On 4/23/2016 5:40 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > Its not only MSdos 7.1 but other dos's that limit the uart speed > to 9600 baud. The mode command doesn't go higher than 9600 baud. > I use the dos copy command to send the .prn files to a bluetooth printer. > At 9600 baud you can take a nice long

Re: [Freedos-user] USB

On 4/23/2016 6:53 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > The copy command is limited to what you set the mode command to. > FREEDOS lets you set the baud very high but other dos's and > even windows has 9600 baud as the upper limit, well below > the uarts top speed. > If I type copy filename.prn com1: in any

[Freedos-user] Some foo for thought

I think what the author mentions does apply in an even greater range to FreeDOS http://www.techrepublic.com/article/time-linux-fans-open-their-arms-to-closed-source/ Ralf --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Re: [Freedos-user] PNP ISA network card locks during early boot with PS/2 mouse connected

On 5/14/2016 4:09 PM, Eric Auer wrote: >> Bottom line is that PnP doesn't work (properly) for ISA cards... > Indeed, back in the time PnP was only a nice idea. You needed that > ICU software and it still was more hassle than non-PnP ISA cards > where you would just set the jumpers manually but at

Re: [Freedos-user] PNP ISA network card locks during early boot with PS/2 mouse connected

On 5/14/2016 10:11 AM, John Hupp wrote: > So I still don't see a firm conclusion to be drawn. Do some > motherboard BIOS's not know what to make of the Realtek card? Are > these Realtek cards poorly made? Or specially designed to be > configured under Windows (though that wouldn't explain

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website (rants)

On 7/15/2016 5:32 PM, Jose Antonio Senna wrote: >This said, I also admit browsing from DOS > is going to be less and less practical. > Lynx 2.8.5 supports HTTPS (and is the only > tried DOS browser which does), but I cannot > access Wikipedia with it, because the > algorithms they

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS and DOS browsers

On 8/1/2016 2:14 PM, TJ Edmister wrote: > On Mon, 01 Aug 2016 05:24:30 -0400, dmccunney > wrote: > >> More to the point, who *needed* it? >> >> MNG is PNG with support for animation. PNG was created to be a >> graphics format unencumbered by patents. > If GIF was

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/ Well,... On the side for the version supposedly without network, you

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