On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Jack <[email protected]> wrote:
> You may not consider it reliable, and Dennis may have some odd > problem accessing it, but that website <http://ms-dos7.hit.bg> > did give me, on 5-Dec-2013, a working 2-diskette copy of V7.10 > which I was able to "install" on my system (up to the point of > writing IO.SYS and MS-DOS.SYS, which I did not do since I want > to continue with V6.22 MS-DOS). I again accessed the "exact" > URL shown above a moment ago, while writing this E-Mail, and I > again had no problem with it. Others can try doing the same. Do a ping, whois, traceroute, or nslookup on it. Tell me what you get. For instance, I get > tracert ms-dos7.hit.bg Tracing route to ms-dos7.hit.bg [195.24.39.97] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 30 ms 4 ms 4 ms web.hit.bg [195.24.39.97] 2 * * * Request timed out. 3 12 ms 11 ms 11 ms tenge-0-5-0-3.nycmnya-rtr2.nyc.rr.com [24.168.129.209] 4 14 ms 15 ms 16 ms bun101.nycmnytg-rtr001.nyc.rr.com [184.152.112.107] 5 14 ms 16 ms 15 ms tenge-0-3-0-nwrknjmd-rtr.nyc.rr.com [24.29.97.6] 6 16 ms 14 ms 15 ms ae-4-0.cr0.nyc30.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.78] 7 13 ms 43 ms 13 ms ae-1-0.pr0.nyc30.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.161] 8 * 15 ms 13 ms xe-4-2-0.edge4.frankfurt1.level3.net [4.68.63.121] 9 111 ms 100 ms 106 ms ae-31-51.ebr1.Newark1.Level3.net [4.69.156.30] 10 98 ms 99 ms 98 ms ae-2-2.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.132.97] 11 102 ms 98 ms 96 ms ae-62-62.csw1.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.148.34] 12 100 ms 100 ms 97 ms ae-61-61.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.134.65] 13 99 ms 98 ms 98 ms ae-42-42.ebr2.London1.Level3.net [4.69.137.69] 14 103 ms 98 ms 98 ms ae-21-21.ebr2.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.148.186] 15 98 ms 98 ms 97 ms ae-82-82.csw3.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.140.26] 16 105 ms 99 ms 100 ms ae-3-80.edge6.Frankfurt1.Level3.net [4.69.154.138] 17 97 ms 127 ms 97 ms 195.16.161.82 18 141 ms 136 ms 133 ms 195.24.36.122 19 * * * Request timed out. 20 * * * Request timed out. 21 * * * Request timed out. 22 * * * Request timed out. 23 * * * Request timed out. 24 * * * Request timed out. 25 * * * Request timed out. 26 * * * Request timed out. 27 * * * Request timed out. 28 * * * Request timed out. 29 * * * Request timed out. 30 * * * Request timed out. Trace complete. > The 2-diskette installation set for V7.10 MS-DOS, available on > that site, does work well, and it rather STRONGLY suggests its > "installer" was written by Microsoft. Like I said, it's also available from the last Internet.org crawl, if others have the same difficulty I did. > I shall not argue "legalities" with you, nor in fact do I know > any lawyers. My own divorce and jury-duty experiences in the > past have left me NOT WANTING to know any! Instead of making > such an "issue" of legalities, perhaps you should STOP at your > own statement above: "Honestly, just use whatever you want to > use, 'whatever works!'" No-argument here, so I will continue > to use my reliable and SMALL V6.22 MS-DOS. I hate "bugs" and > "bloat", of which V6.22 MS-DOS has neither! I don't think anyone here believes we shouldn't be guided by our own conscience in what we choose to download/use. What will be argued about is what the FreeDOS Project should link to on it's website. I'm quite certain Jim Hall would not want a link to the site. > And re: your comment that "You can't 'freely' download, modify > or redistribute any DOS besides FreeDOS", I can only say again > that the above website most-certainly DID work for me! Freely in this context is generally taken to include "legally". This isn't. You may not *care*, but that doesn't change the legality. ______ Dennis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
