Hi Re: Online Bible for DOS (Frank Finley)
Not sure I deserved the blunt response from Mr. Riebisch: >> >any longer. I tried uninstalling the MS-DOS installation and reinstalling There's no _un_installation in MS-DOS. >under FREEDOS but it still does not work. Sorry, but "does not work" is a useless error description. Please read http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html and try again after. >I wondered whether anyone else had encountered this problem ? Are there any >solutions ? Given that OLB is perhaps the only decent and free BIBLE for >DOS Quote from OLB web site: "We no longer offer any support for the DOS version. Program updates are not being offered and there is no further development being done." Robert Riebisch<< but I will admit error and send apologies for not explaining things more fully and accurately. However, Mr Riebisch should note that my intitial enquiry asked only whether anyone else had encountered a problem accessing OLB in Freedos. My following queries would be of most consequence if someone had in fact experienced a problem - so the following queries and comments were merely anticipatory. I had hoped but not explicitly asked that if someone was using OLB just fine in Freedos they would tell me this so that I might be encouraged to spend more time trying to get OLB to open the Bible modules in Freedos. I accept: >There's no _un_installation in MS-DOS. I meant, of course, "removed". My Freedos installation was from fdbasecd.iso from a repository listed at http://www.freedos.org/freedos/files/ I installed Freedos simply to give it a try. I wanted to breathe new life into an old 486 laptop and, only barely able to fumble my way through MS-DOS/Win95-98 software glitches and issues had decided against Linux. I decided that knowing only 'just enough' to get by in MS-DOS made Freedos a natural choice to play with. In MS-DOS the Online Bible for DOS (OLB) is accessed through a mini menu via a batch file named MM. The menu would load from the Freedos prompt but once displayed the option within the menu to open the AV bible installed (which would had opened from the MS-DOS prompt) would fail to open the AV (Authorised Version Bible). I have since reinstalled MS-DOS 6.22 and will continue with this OS until I am a little further forward with Freedos and can be clearer and more accurate in any future mail to the Freedos user list. However, I would still be very grateful to learn whether someone is running OLB in Freedos I know only too well the : >Quote from OLB web site: "We no longer offer any support for the DOS version. Program updates are not being offered and there is no further development being done." That was the point of my mail. I am not a software writer and maybe do not realise that it would be impossible for a Freedos software writer to investigate and make OLB run in Freedos. If there is a true incompatibility in the first place : ) My experience suggests there could be. All the best Fin _________________________________________________________________ MSN Hotmail is evolving - check out the new Windows Live Hotmail http://get.live.com/betas/mail_betas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
