If your goal is to be able to share files between a FreeDOS guest VM and a host system, you could use VBSF.EXE as an alternative.
It's a guest driver for DOS that allows you to mount a VirtualBox shared folder without having to set up a TCP/IP stack and an FTP server. I've only briefly used it so far, but it seems quite stable. Javispedro, the author of this software, has also been developing other cool VirtualBox-related software for DOS and Windows 3.x. You might want to check it out. See https://git.javispedro.com/cgit/vbados.git/about/ Maybe it's worth considering including some of these tools in the FreeDOS distribution? On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 12:14 PM Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 12:06 AM <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: > > > > > On Mar 15, 2023, at 10:22 PM, Michael Brutman <mbbrut...@brutman.com> > wrote: > > > [..] > > > The only questionable thing I noticed was somebody converted the user > documentation to a 293KB text file. That strips the formatting, diagrams > and screen shots that I have in the PDF. Can we not do that in the > future? Nobody is going to want to wade through a 293KB text file. > > > > I don’t recall the origin of the text version. It is also regarding the > 2015-07-05 release and most likely contains outdated information. I will > delete it from the GitLab Archive and it won’t be in any future interim > builds or OS releases. > > > > I do recall that it was included because PDF documents are not easily > viewed under DOS. I don’t think we even provide a PDF viewer at present. We > do provide a couple web browsers. I hope you will consider providing an > additional version of the documentation in HTML format with future versions. > > Yes, that much is pretty obvious. DOS and "portable" document formats > (PDF) do not mix well. > > Although we do have older Ghostscript builds (of varying quality, not > all equal in features). RayeR never did publicly finalize his MuPDF > (gfx) build. My cross-build of MuTool is old but kinda works (IIRC). > Georg's 2014 FLTK build of MuPDF is still on SourceForge. I guess > someone used the PDFTOTXT.EXE (?) found in FlWriter? Or was it XPDF? > Maybe I'm thinking of PDFTOHTML.EXE? > > I honestly don't recall some of the details. Either way, a text file > as a supplement to a complex PDF could still be useful. But I'm > guessing it's sadly implied that most people also have fancier OSes to > read PDFs from. (I haven't checked lately.) > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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