On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 8:10 PM Vincent Asaro <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dennis - Thank you for all the info!
You're welcome. > I installed Linux Mint via USB on that machine, I just want to be sure FD > will "see" the ports, so to speak, but the FD page sez it's so, so it must be! Seeing USB ports and being able to use them are different things. Bear in mind that FreeDOS was intended to be a compatible open source alternative to MSDOS. USB did not *exist* when what FreeDOS was trying to be compatible with was still being developed and sold. An assortment of things folks would like in FreeDOS fall into the "It didn't exist in real DOS, and therefore doesn't in FreeDOS" bucket. USB is a FreeDOS work in progress. There is some support, but whether there is support for what you require is another matter. (Assuming you can install FreeDOS *from* USB, can you then write *to* something attached to USB, like a thumb drive? How will you get stuff you create *on* the HP off of it and to something else? And yes, networking will be another challenge.) > I found the code for EP on Archive.org, mimeo of typewritten doc (!) it's abt > 4 pages long and I have every intention of punching in every character > manually LoL It's one of my Holy Grails, just to use that program :) Have fun. EP was originally written for an 8 bit Atari microcomputer that did not use CP/M or DOS as the OS. It was ported to CP/M by other hands, and then to TRSDOS on the TRS-80 by yet other hands. Do not expect the source you found on archive.org in a scan of a typewritten document to be usable as is, even if you successfully transcribe it. Since you were able to install Linux Mint (and I assume it ran), you might be better served by installing DOSBox under Mint and using it to run old DOS apps. You would at least have USB support already extant. (I'd want more RAM on the HP machine, but 2GB should work. I have Lubuntu dual-booting on an Acer Aspire1 notebook with WinXP Home. The Acer has 1.5GB RAM. Lubuntu is not exactly speedy, but *does* run.) ______ Dennis _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
