Eric shared his interesting tabs/websites about FreeDOS, and I wanted to
share some recent articles I've written about FreeDOS. I wrote these for a
friend's blog:

A gentle introduction to FreeDOS commands
https://www.both.org/?p=14054

Try the FED editor on FreeDOS
https://www.both.org/?p=14056

How FreeDOS got started
https://www.both.org/?p=14240
*This ran on June 29 as the "anniversary" story

A look back: FreeDOS Aloha 5
https://www.both.org/?p=14364
*I installed Alpha 5 and showed what was in it

Hands-on with FreeDOS Beta 1
https://www.both.org/?p=14397
*I installed Beta 1, including the kernel. Interesting look back to see how
far we've come!

Yes, FreeDOS runs Windows 3.11
https://www.both.org/?p=14420
*Cool demo of running Windows on the latest FreeDOS kernel, but I can't
save files

Transfer files to FreeDOS the easy way
https://www.both.org/?p=14441
*One method that I use to get files into/out of my FreeDOS qemu instance (a
virtual floppy solves almost all of my use cases)


*Also, someone on the FreeDOS Facebook group has been sharing their
progress in learning about FORTRAN 77 using the Open Watcom FORTRAN
compiler on FreeDOS. To encourage them, I wrote some sample FORTRAN
programs (or related tools) which I then turned into articles: *

Expand tabs in FORTRAN programs
https://www.both.org/?p=14224
*C program that expands a leading tab to 6 spaces, other tabs to 1 space

Find invalid characters in FORTRAN programs
https://www.both.org/?p=14329
*C program to uppercase a source file, and warn if any characters aren't in
the FORTRAN character set

Using LibreOffice to plot x,y data
https://www.both.org/?p=14462
*I wrote a FORTRAN program that emitted x,y data for the Mandelbrot Set,
which I then plotted using As Easy As on FreeDOS. (I shared a screenshot on
the Facebook group.) But my friend asked me to make the article about "open
source" somehow so I used LibreOffice instead. But this started out as a
FreeDOS/FORTRAN article.

*Coming soon, look for a few more FreeDOS & FORTRAN articles, including one
that uses Open Watcom FORTRAN in graphics mode to draw the Mandelbrot Set. *


And I wrote this op-ed for All Things Open, about how the age verification
law applies to Linux, BSD, and FreeDOS:
https://allthingsopen.org/articles/age-verification-law-open-source-ab-1043
*They're making some changes to that California law that I hope will be an
improvement for open source (it's still not great, but it's better)
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