Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 02:56:10 -0700 From: John Musielewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Fat32 in DOS
> >http://www.tssc.de/index.htm#http://www.tssc.de/products/cwdos/dos_pointe html > > Just a time limit. All other features appear to work fine. It works great. Its been seeing all the 16 bit cards I throw at it plus it i.d.ed the controller properly. I was using IBM PC DOS pcmcia and it had problems. > > Basically, nice because they took the entire mess of tiny drivers in prior > versions of DOS PCMCIA enablers and drivers and packed it up into just a > handful. It loads everything into XMS. Saved me quite a bit of memory. > > Saw my 2GB Toshiba PCMCIA HD right away, so that was nice vs. having to me > with the configuration of older versions. > > I'm still playing around with all of them to see which is the best for me, t > I'm leaning towards UNATA because it's very small and can be unloaded from e > command line, while being the easiest to use. > > I don't know of USB DOS support - heard FreeDOS was attempting to incorpor e > it in, but it's a work in progress with nothing ready to use yet AFIK. Su ose > you'll just have to download the demo and try. Hmmm..say you wanted a usb port. Wouldn't it just be seen as com1 on the libretto if your docking ports are disabled and you would access it as com1? Or is usb seen differantly? > > Haven't tried loading anything into extended memory yet, just playing with > them. But for sure, the older versions could be as they had a file that g > loaded in config.sys to allow the rest to load high. > I disabled to much in high memory so too much got loaded in conventional. I have to play with it a little and find the minimym high memory it needs for I/O > --- > > In the end, it's too bad the rest of the world left DOS behind for many ye s > when they migrated to GUI OSs. It really makes a lot of perfectly good > equipment obsolete for no better reason, but thankfully, movements like Fr DOS > are incorporating the latest features in a small, svelte OS. Do you use freedos? Is it any good compared to Dr-DOS? > > Hmmm... maybe I'll have to see if I can get my Libretto to run WP and Arac e > under dos when I get the time.... > I've used Arachne. Its ok but I wish it supported 128 bit encrytination for secure web use. It wouldn't hurt if it supported Java too. Its great having another person on this list interested in dos!! John ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
