[Freedos-user] Runs on dos?

2014-08-05 Thread kurt godel
Even as far back as XP, the dos emulator(NTVDM) would not allow certain low level operations, and would abort; oddly, the XP will allow the interrupts for mousing, but reject others. Odd because with some imagination, even the inocuouse int33 for mouse can vector malware. --

[Freedos-user] hpa

2014-05-15 Thread kurt godel
I too have always used xp on fat! As for ide to sata adapter, the sata machine is too cramped to fit it. As for "wipe", is that a dos app? Are you sure it could remove the HPA partition? I have already used a bootable cd with active killdisk to wipe the drive, but, ostensibly, regular wipers canno

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2014-05-15 Thread kurt godel
Have an old 80 gig hard drive with an HPA(host protected access) partition, which is wasting space; tried to use linux function 'hdparm' on it using an ide/usb adapter, but recieved message "bad or missing sense data", exactly what I get with flash drives and sd cards. Threw the drive in an old

[Freedos-user] boot from usb

2014-03-17 Thread kurt godel
I have used unetbootin to put freedos on the stick; works well. the problem is with the flash drives themselves Older drives were simple, with no HPA(host protected access) partitions. Most of the current crop of these drives have this garbage on them, and what's worse, it seems to bee mask pr

[Freedos-user] USB boot and hanging.

2013-12-10 Thread kurt godel
I too have had blinking-cursor-hang;PloP boot manager will often, but not always succeed in mounting/loading a usb. I suspect that the main problem with the usb stick is that it often contains an HPA partition. If the usb truly behaved as a hard drive, you could eliminate the HPA. When using 'hdpar

[Freedos-user] install from folder.

2013-06-29 Thread kurt godel
Ruxolo, Tried mint forum; in two weeks 25 views,no replies. No mint after 12 fits on cd(want mint because of mate-gnome desktop). The 12 has gnome three/awful.. Did manage to boot from external dvd using PLoP, choosing 'plopkexec' option. I'm just going crazy to see if there is a way to make a

[Freedos-user] shorter subject line.

2013-06-26 Thread kurt godel
Forgive the boobing of the subject line; and to make myself clearer: I am not trying to install linux in windows/dos; puppy linux does that exquisiitley. Imagine you have an old w98 install cd. You could install from the disk, but it is more efficient to *copy* the files from the install cd to a

[Freedos-user] I have a machine from '04, and to my dismay, the boot order is greyed out and cannot be altered. This means I cannot boot from my external dvd drive or flash drive. Neither can I swap t

2013-06-25 Thread kurt godel
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[Freedos-user] xfdos2

2013-06-04 Thread kurt godel
Georg, your response was most illuminating; so, I inserted this line at the top of dillio.bat: del c:\fdos\temp\w32dhcp.tmp ; then, as usual, after reboot, the packet driver had to be reloaded. opening dillo, it worked properly; then closed dillo, reopened it, and it still worked, indicating

[Freedos-user] xfdos3

2013-06-04 Thread kurt godel
Actually, the packet reloader script should *not* be in dillo.bat, since it would 0ccur every time the browser was reopened; the packet reloader should be invoked in a bat which opens xfdos. Rich. -- How ServiceNow helps I

[Freedos-user] xfdos.

2013-06-02 Thread kurt godel
The good news: this is one neat production; especially for it's small size. I really appreciate it's built in abilty,with drivers to set up the NIC card. The bad news: although my usb mouse works perfectly with xfdos overall, the fun starts in dillio. Sometimes it works, but sometimes(especially a

[Freedos-user] vol redirect.

2013-03-10 Thread kurt godel
Thank you Eric for making my life easier; I can read a.txt into an array, and if array[0]==NULL, I know which letter is the first invalid one; again, TNX. -- Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The For

[Freedos-user] Bug in "vol"

2013-03-09 Thread kurt godel
If I do: shsucdx >a.txt , it creates the 'a.txt' and redirects the output into a.txt; but if I do this: vol h: >a.txt, it creates the a.txt, but the file is empty; what is more, the output o f'vol' goes to the screen, so is not being redirected. I tried this with msdos with the same result. If

[Freedos-user] booboo

2013-02-22 Thread kurt godel
Sent this to devel instead of user; I had answered my own question: the command: find . | cpio --create --format='newc' > /path/to/newinitrd works so long as it is executed from the directory containing the files to be wriiten to the new initrd; otherwise, it looks all over for cpio archives; at

[Freedos-user] usb in dos

2013-02-20 Thread kurt godel
Trying to make a micro-pupplet to furnish usb functionality in dos; in this regard, had to edit an initrd.gz which began at 1.9 MB. Working in mint 14, used "extract here" in gui to get "initrd" from 'initrd.gz". The initrd was 2.7 MB;discarding that, put the initrd.gz into: /mnt/casper, to get /mn

[Freedos-user] where?

2013-02-18 Thread kurt godel
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[Freedos-user] fedora 18.

2013-02-09 Thread kurt godel
re; fedora 18, they did monkey with the installer, and one telltale is that the'18 iso cannot be booted with grub4dos, which boots most iso's. -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall befo

[Freedos-user] editors.

2013-02-01 Thread kurt godel
I wish geany could run in dos;best,simplest,cleanest IDE, I know. Automatically detects,asm,basic,c,c++. -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for fr

[Freedos-user] VFD3

2013-01-17 Thread kurt godel
Cognitive disonance, I guess. Figured out how to use the open/create button(gui version). Can indeed create a v-disk from scratch, or open an img and modify the contents. Best of all the fdread utility works perfectly at making an img from a virtual floppy, as I can't seem to make the windows ve

[Freedos-user] vfd(2)

2013-01-15 Thread kurt godel
Bernd and Dennis, This all started when I tried to use a USB floppy with an '07 amd64 dell; I *used* to just use "fdread" from Feinman's createcd133, which flawlessly created an .img from a real floppy in the drive. I can actually boot this machine from a bootable floppy, yet the fdread utili

[Freedos-user] VFD

2013-01-15 Thread kurt godel
If anyone out there is familiar with vfd(virtual floppy disk), I create the floppy, and associate it with the 'send to' item in the right click, but when I try to send a file into the virtual floppy, I get the box: "please insert a disk into drive: x" This happens whether I name the drive A,B, o

[Freedos-user] xp,100 mb II

2012-12-29 Thread kurt godel
The experience was quite limited Had two old dell's with pentium, one a pentium two, ans a newer('07) dell with amd duo-core; installation took the same amount of time; bootup on the p4 was almost as fast as on the amd; bootup on the p2 was more than a minute; elementary usage(file copies,editor,et

[Freedos-user] old machines

2012-12-28 Thread kurt godel
XP2 will run in as little as 100 mb. -- Master HTML5, CSS3, ASP.NET, MVC, AJAX, Knockout.js, Web API and much more. Get web development skills now with LearnDevNow - 350+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft M

[Freedos-user] freedos-98

2012-12-19 Thread kurt godel
The grub4dos approach is the best, since you can boot anything with it; if that doesn't appeal to you, I would say install the 98 first, as it was designed to commandeer the entire works; the freedos stuff can be copied to the c drive *after an initial installation/backup of the freedos, which is s

[Freedos-user] XP NTVDM

2012-11-27 Thread kurt godel
Believe it or not, the xp ntvdm allows the int33 for mouse calls; I wrote a lite gui which mimics dos, but in upper and lower bilateral windows, and lets you select the entries with the mouse. The thing is written in C(djgpp), but makes extensive use of dos batchfiles. As touchy as xp ntvdm can

[Freedos-user] Bruce3

2012-11-25 Thread kurt godel
Whoa!!, The magicdisk appears to be a hack; from some of it's online description, probably from Asia, judging by grammatical errors. It does'nt work right: when you click on the shortcut, it only puts a virtual cd in the task panel, and keeps trying to access the internet. Fortunately, I always

[Freedos-user] Bruce2

2012-11-25 Thread kurt godel
I just found that ImgBurn 2.4.2.0 can create/ burn img's, after you've edited the files by the aforementioned method; and MagicDisk 2.7.106 is said to do the same. They are both windows setups. I will try them. -- Monitor y

[Freedos-user] Bruce

2012-11-25 Thread kurt godel
Bruce, et al, I have reinstalled XP hundreds of times, and I always preformat the XP's partition(usually c) with fat32; this forces the XP install to give the option to install XP on fat32, which I always choose. it may be that some windows apps *must* run in ntfs, but I've never used one. As

[Freedos-user] been.

2012-04-22 Thread kurt godel
>>where *have* you been?. There's this kid. Doesn't say much. In fact as time goes by, the family sees that he doesn't say anything. Figuring something is wrong they take him to one specialist after another; same result; doesn't speak. Finally, in desperation, they mortgage the house and take him

[Freedos-user] edit partition through usb 3

2012-04-20 Thread kurt godel
Amazing; never knew this capability existed in XP: 1. )right-click 'my computer'; 2.) click 'storage; 3.) click 'disk management'. shows 'drive 0(C drive) and drive 1(usb hdd); Under 'actions', you can delete/create new/format, works perfectly. I wonder if is is still in vista-7-8? Tnx all, richard

[Freedos-user] edit partitions 2

2012-04-19 Thread kurt godel
Actually, i'm using the external hdd on a dual boot, and of course the dos/xp side doesn't even see the ext. The thing is, even the ubuntu won't allow any read write from/to linux. So, I would like to delete the ext and replace with fat. I do have a ubcd live cd with pated magic/gparted, but I don'

[Freedos-user] edit partitions through usb.

2012-04-18 Thread kurt godel
I just got an external hdd enclosure; had a hard drive from a machine with a blown mobo, and put it in the enclosure. Problem is it still has an ext3/ext4 linux on it, eating up 25 GB. I can read write to the dos partition with it's logical drives, but using the ext is a no-no. My question is ca

[Freedos-user] int33h again.

2012-02-17 Thread kurt godel
ay of the UNION regs gambit, whereas you are showing a direct asm patch. I am afraid I will screw up the regs structure. Also, I am not familiar with the mask byte, since evidentily the 'int86' function takes care of a

[Freedos-user] int 33 problem.

2012-02-12 Thread kurt godel
Am writing a C program which makes use of int33h; using union regs/int86.Trouble is there is a subfunction to initialize the mouse, but I see none to terminate it. The problem is that when the C program terminates, the mouse stays on, at least for a time(like a tsr). Once in a great while, I tap th

[Freedos-user] strangehalf bug.

2012-01-29 Thread kurt godel
Fellas, tnx; I didn't realize dircmd had been set that way; indeed, the behaviour occurs in a directory with enough entries to cause paging. Also, the space or lack of it in the 'dir' does not affect it at all. However there is still a bit of a mystery: even with the 'P' enabled, booting from optio

[Freedos-user] strangebug 1.1

2012-01-28 Thread kurt godel
Created a directory "dthin"; changed the batfile to this, and it ran perfectly!. The name "djgpp" is making something stumble; can you beat that? Seriously, some thing in the scanning process must have a subtle(?) flaw in it. Richard.

[Freedos-user] freedos bug.

2012-01-28 Thread kurt godel
Sorry, hit the wrong key; made this batfile in freedos 1.1: cd \ cd tag dir >dmyy.txt cd \ cd djgpp cd bin copy c:\tag\dmyy.txt c:\djgpp\bin\dmy.txt Ran perfect; then changed it: cd \ cd djgpp dir>dmyy.txt cd \ cd djgpp cd bin copy c:\djgpp\dmyy.txt c:\djgpp\bin\dmy.txt With no change but the

[Freedos-user] bizzare bug in freedos 1.1

2012-01-28 Thread kurt godel
This has to be one of the strangest ever: I made this batfile: cd \ cd ta -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Stu

[Freedos-user] usbdos.

2012-01-25 Thread kurt godel
>what type of usb controllers. the usbhosts utility reports all uhci but one, a single ehci; the mobo is an MSI ms-7393,circa '04ish. I'm sure it.s the machine, because duse does the same thing, ant the old potthast free version does it too. The duse is even nastier, since rebooting won't cle

[Freedos-user] the int thing.

2012-01-24 Thread kurt godel
Beautiful; thanks guys, and by the way Bret I tried unsucessfuly to use your usbdos on an msi mobo with only uusb(no ps2 holes); any which way, it's impossible!!.Richard. -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevN

[Freedos-user] int notation.

2012-01-24 Thread kurt godel
Here's a quick question: I have used software interrupts, mostly with int86/union regs; say int 34 for the mouse, with another integer loaded into a register to select within that int. Recently I have seen ints such as: intxx.yy; is this something new, or I just don't get out much? Is the 'yy' just

[Freedos-user] dillos lack of dowloads

2011-11-19 Thread kurt godel
Internet protocol stuff was never my strong suit, but after installing a driver(broadcom) and starting the dos port of dillo, I realized I could not download. It says dpid not right sees only http. Question: in,say, firefox you can save a page, but I believe if it is not an html specimen it is

[Freedos-user] graphics in dos.

2011-07-05 Thread kurt godel
Maybe someone would know; was playing with old fashioned 16 bit graphics, compiling with djgpp. The djgpp info warns that both bios and vga approach go outside of protected mode, so that mangling of the system is possible. Such programs don't even run in NTVDM dos emulator, but work in ,say, freedo

[Freedos-user] byggy usb keyboard.

2011-04-18 Thread kurt godel
It isn't only freedos that can be buggy, at least on this count; I have two spare computers with cheap mobos. One an MSI mobo, the other an INTEL. The MSI mobo does not have a PS2 hole, so must use usb keyboard; slow and not properly responsive. Point is, it does this even with Windows 98. With

[Freedos-user] sata II

2010-10-20 Thread kurt godel
Come to think of it, when I made a jumbo rescue disk including freedos, I did have to use the sata type drivers for the optical(CD), but not for the hard drive;freedos could not see the sata in that case. Richard Klein. --

[Freedos-user] sata

2010-10-20 Thread kurt godel
For what it is worth, I have been using a dell 521 for four years and whether xp dosbox or really dos, the sata hard and optical drives work; I don't know how much speed difference there might actually be, since I never used explicit sata(non bios) drivers. Richard Klein. -

[Freedos-user] dir formats.

2010-05-22 Thread kurt godel
Eric, I'm at the library, but briefly, the "weird" format is like 16-bit dos, except for the last few lines, which in dos or cmd list 'x files' then 'y 'directories. The format I get has all the items, whether file or dir, listed together as files. In other words, if I dir an empty dir I should

[Freedos-user] dir formats.

2010-05-17 Thread kurt godel
Maybe someone here knows; the command line dir format in XP NTVDM is long file name, or NT style. The older non lfn or dos format(8+3) is another way; but they both list the number of files and the number of directories separately. Now when I compile a c program and either use 'system()' to d

[Freedos-user] HOBO,half a GUI.

2010-04-02 Thread kurt godel
If anyone had downloaded hobo from: www.dosoid.bravehost.com I just found a nasty little bug in the scroller; I have just fixed it in both the exe,"hub.exe", and the source file in "x.txt". My bad. Richard wb2...@gmail.com. --

[Freedos-user] filenames-hosting.

2010-03-01 Thread kurt godel
To dos 386 and usul; 386, I'm not sure what you mean, but the bravehost allows exe uploads, and does not take a folder; though I did not try the png trick; I doubt it will work, and here's why: Usul says misname it as hobo.zip.thing, or hobo.thing; I tried that stuff ages ago; Gmail reads inside

[Freedos-user] GUI III.

2010-02-24 Thread kurt godel
Phooey, I forgot to mention that to use hobo, you must have a low level mouse driver installed, the best of which is cutemouse. Some times it is default (freedos,boxdos), sometimes, notably using the dos on a bootdisk, you must remember to manually exe the mouse driver. Richard Klein wb2...@gmai

[Freedos-user] GUI's for dos II

2010-02-24 Thread kurt godel
Mateusz, I put it on my little freebie site: www.dosoid.bravehost.com. Unfortunately, the free version does not allow upload of any folders, let alone zips; for this reason, the one and only folder required, "hdr", must be created by the user. The good news is that it contains two files, one an

[Freedos-user] GUIs for dos.

2010-02-22 Thread kurt godel
If anyone is interested, I have written a "toy" GUI for dos(freedos, msdos,'boxdos'); I call it hobo, half a GUI; imagine a line right to left. On the left end is dos. On the right end is windows/kde/gnome. The right end has bloat, the left end does not. So, I preserved the text graphics mode

[Freedos-user] xcopy,c++,system().

2009-12-04 Thread kurt godel
Maybe someone knows why if I do "system("c.bat");" from a c++ program, and 'c.bat' does a 'copy' command, it works right, and control returns to the c++ program; but if the bat does an 'xcopy' command, the command executes properly, but does not return to the c++ program, and in fact hangs. I then

[Freedos-user] Malware 5.5.

2009-10-01 Thread kurt godel
Aitor, thanks, but I already tried that with Pat; the gmail catches it even with the rename!. kurtwb2...@gmail.com. -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need

[Freedos-user] Malware5.

2009-09-17 Thread kurt godel
I just tried sending two versions to Pat, one the suspect tarball, the other an 'rar' type file; the gmail accepted the rar but rejected the tarball, saying; "this file contains an executable and is not allowed"; both the rar and the tarball contain executables? they both have them encapsulated in

[Freedos-user] Malware IIII

2009-09-14 Thread kurt godel
Took the suggestion and uploaded the file to virustotal.com, and guess what? *eleven redlines, including dos.benediction!!!* This has a rather grim statistical aspect? I would attach the results, but the page does not allow attachments, and I have no home page to put it on.--kurt. -

[Freedos-user] Malware III

2009-09-11 Thread kurt godel
To everyone interested: I have again downloaded: ndn_2_31_3836_bin_lnx.tgz; I got it from: http://ndn.muxe.com , which was furnished to me by rugxulo. I have still not decompressed it, because I have just moved, and I don't have all my equipment here. I usually disect dangerously interesting things

[Freedos-user] Malware II

2009-09-10 Thread kurt godel
Mateuze, I didn't even get to the point of decompressing the tarball; it was one of three files, the other two being the exe's. I used clamwin, which only does "static scans", not on-the-fly; I have not yet seen clamwin get falsed, and it has caught some real stinkers. I also use bughunter, another

[Freedos-user] Malware.

2009-09-09 Thread kurt godel
Be advised: while scanning the tarball version of NDN the other night, I caught malware named "dos.benediction". The two exe's with it did not show malware, but I deleted the whole thing. kurtwb2...@gmail.com. -- Let Crysta

[Freedos-user] dummy pointers.

2009-08-11 Thread Kurt Godel
Eric, the gmail on w2000 at the library is acting buggy, don't know if .txt attachment made it out. The answer to your query is in the attachment. kurt. re: "..what uninitialized pointers, etc..."' Eric, you might have misconstrued what I was refering to; I had come across the foll

[Freedos-user] dummy pointers.

2009-08-11 Thread kurt godel
Eric, the response to your query (what dummy pointers?...) is maybe a bit geeky for tis page, so I'm including it as a '.txt' attachment; if passersby wish to wiew it they can. -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting

[Freedos-user] page fault;dummt pointers,etc.

2009-08-10 Thread kurt godel
Eric, I am doing this from the public library(time limited) and your question was unexpected; I will get back to you tommorrow or the next day. For now, I can say that the function is called 'mousestatus' and makes use of int86 and union regs; with this function, there are three arguments, but it i

[Freedos-user] final on dos extenders;

2009-08-05 Thread kurt godel
Japheth and all, this is belated, as I just moved, and still don't have internet at the house; concerning the page fault error and the tip from the djgpp faq, it was right on the money! I was using a function which had unused arguments,nevertheless specified; so I had declared three dummy pointers,

[Freedos-user] dos extender saga.

2009-07-12 Thread kurt godel
Japheth wrote:< If your program runs in a Windows DOS-Box, but causes a page fault in DOS or DOSEMU, then there's a good chance that it erroneously uses a NULL pointer for memory access. This is a pretty common error, and AFAIR there is a switch for cwsdpmi

[Freedos-user] DPMI,et al.

2009-07-10 Thread kurt godel
Eric, the program I wrote, which drew the page fault, uses the int86 in four of the eight functions. the program is a mouse event handler, and "micro-gui". I already had included 'dos.h', but I did not realize ther was a 'dpmi.h'! I'll have to pry into that header to try to see what exactly it can

[Freedos-user] HX,DJGPP.

2009-07-10 Thread kurt godel
Christian wrote: >to use djgpp, simply run hdpmi32; there is a way to remove the cwsdpmi and insert hdpmi32 in the djgpp header. Christian, I already tried running hdpmi32 first, even using the '-r' switch, which makes it go tsr, and still got the page fault error from the djgpp program; as for the

[Freedos-user] update: dos extenders=HX.

2009-07-07 Thread kurt godel
Decided to try the minimum functionality of HX; the 'stubit.exe' failed, complaining that the djgpp executable being processed was not PE; I believe that a dj exe always has an 'MZ' stub, and I will verify that. Does this mean that stubit only *checks* the validity of a PE stub and does not make th

[Freedos-user] Fwd: Update on dos extenders viz djgpp.

2009-07-05 Thread kurt godel
-- Forwarded message -- From: kurt godel Date: Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:54 AM Subject: Update on dos extenders viz djgpp. To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Have just tried WDOSX, which is now royalty free, even for commercial applications; this refers to exe's 'ex

[Freedos-user] WDOS clear.

2009-07-05 Thread kurt godel
Ok, this time, really clear: the download of wdosx is free for personal use; any file you process with it, is also royalty free, even for commercial use; I believe the distribution of wdos itself would still require a volume license. --kurt. -

[Freedos-user] Update on dos extenders viz djgpp.

2009-07-05 Thread kurt godel
Have just tried WDOSX, which is now royalty free, even for commercial applications; this refers to exe's 'extended' by wdos. The wdos actually prepends a stub to the exe,as well as an extender exe, so that the result is standalone with no outside files. As stated, any exe that you extend in this wa

[Freedos-user] buggy djgpp with freedos.

2009-07-04 Thread kurt godel
Maybe someone can figure this one: installed freedos base on an old dell(ten years);installed djgpp with rhide; acted very buggy and refused to compile even a hello world; rebooted with 'himem' option, and now it compiles and executes. However, I then tried a larger program with eight functions, an

[Freedos-user] freedos on dosemu.

2009-06-24 Thread kurt godel
Of course, if freedos is on dosemu on linux, you may still have the beauty of dos but not the blazing speed; there are search algorithims, etc, that can take *hours* on bloatware, but minutes in dos. The answer is to keep the dos offline; not so strange. I dual boot linux and windows, and go to the

[Freedos-user] puppy.

2009-06-22 Thread kurt godel
Bonnie,I have several dell machines; the newer one,a dimension 521 came not only with a reinstall cd(would never get a windoze without one), but also a resource cd; the resource cd,among other things, has the driver/ diagnostics for the nic(network) card. This means that if you have reinstalled the

[Freedos-user] getting puppy to work.

2009-06-21 Thread kurt godel
Bonnie, I don't know if you are using a dial up modem, but I have cable company online, and the latest puppy for sure, is *instantly* ready to work, whether live cd or installed puppy; I have never used a dial up modem. --kurt. ---

[Freedos-user] Linux in fat partition.

2009-06-21 Thread kurt godel
There is a linux that runs in a fat partition: puppy; it runs in a linux filesystem which is inside a fat, and I have used it on a ten year old dell with pentium three and 128 meg ram. By the way, it's small size makes it an excellent live cd-linux on the old machines, and it sports an excellent we

[Freedos-user] makefiles galore.

2009-06-19 Thread kurt godel
First, I'll apologize for not using the '>snippet' approach; I have some mild disabilities and "word processing" tasks irq me for some strange reason. I will try to be concise; as for "potential customer", if something is worth doing, it is worth doing right, for love or money. This comes into play

[Freedos-user] Fwd: makefiles galore.

2009-06-18 Thread kurt godel
-- Forwarded message -- From: kurt godel Date: Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 7:09 AM Subject: makefiles galore. To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net First, I'll apologize for not using the '>snippet' approach; I have some mild disabilities and "word processing

[Freedos-user] more makefiles.

2009-06-17 Thread kurt godel
Yes, I prettymuch get that, but for instance that djgpp hack someone mentioned; it has a file named 'makefile', but in what directory should it be placed? I mean, there are *several* files in these distros named 'makefile', so without messing around with the path, if I explicitly use make -f makefi

[Freedos-user] HX is not a compiler.

2009-06-17 Thread kurt godel
I know HX is not a compiler; I meant having two c++ compilers, like mingw and djgpp at the same time. They can have naming conflicts.--kurt. -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplifie

[Freedos-user] make-me crazy.

2009-06-17 Thread kurt godel
Ahhh, it's amazing; not one tutorial specifically for the dos version of 'make'; even what there is, not too specific. To wit: indeed, some thing you are trying to install,say , HX, GEM, etc., they do include makefiles, but they don't tell you where to put the makefile. So, you keep trying to use t

[Freedos-user] make,make install in dos?

2009-06-16 Thread kurt godel
Ok, I give up; I knew that linux has 'make' and 'make install' all over the place, but, until this afternoon, I never knew that dos has it. While attempting to install some parts of HX and GEM to djgpp, I was struck by this: "use 'make' to configure the includes(headers) and libraries, and use 'mak

[Freedos-user] HX EXTENDER and djgpp.

2009-06-16 Thread kurt godel
Before I even try messing with hx extender, does anyone know if it will work out-of-the-box with djgpp, which I am used to, and I don't trust having two compilers of the same language present simultaneously. Also, since HX has it's own dpmi, would I have to remove the cwsdpmi from the djgpp/bin?--k

[Freedos-user] The GPL license.

2009-06-14 Thread kurt godel
This is a general question, not(?) completely off topic. I have never quite understood the GPL type license in the following sense: I write my own c++ software; I compile it using an open source deal like djgpp; if I then distribute the compiled exe, am I legally obliged to also distribute(i.e. my)

[Freedos-user] Hardware interupts.

2009-05-14 Thread kurt godel
This is old hat to most of you,but: Say I'm running a c++ program, compiled with djgpp; it makes a 32-console type executable. Now, if I want to break into the running c++ with, say, a mouse click, or a tap of a key, how do I service the interupt? Even from real-dos mode, I don't understand how to

[Freedos-user] Basic sound access in DOS.

2009-05-11 Thread kurt godel
My two computers(one old, one newish) both have decent sound capabilities with in and out jacks; I wish to use this to implement audio frequency shift keying(AFSK), in which I need to send and recieve tones. Is there a way, using only dos, to access the i/o jacks? --kurt< wb2...@gmail.com>. ---

[Freedos-user] Files to make cd bootable.

2009-05-03 Thread kurt godel
This might seem a bit off topic, but it's of general interest: In XP, you can make an ISO image of a folder; if you then burn that ISO image to the cd, using a true ISO burner, it is not bootable, it is lacking the files that would make it so. There are schemes to combine a floppy .img file with d

[Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 sata drivers;

2009-05-01 Thread kurt godel
Not to be a nag, but will v1.1 have on-board support for sata drives? This would be so convenient.--kurt, . -- Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity fea

[Freedos-user] Deleting/overwriting......

2009-04-10 Thread kurt godel
I had forgotten the '/y' switch, which suppresses the prompt, enabling scripted(unattended) overwriting. Still, if I overwrite with a larger file, does this obliterate the overwritten file, eliminating the possibility of retrieval? kurt--. ---

[Freedos-user] deleting/overwriting files from bat file;

2009-04-09 Thread kurt godel
If I want to delete/overwrite files from a script(batch), then either way, it will interogate me:"are you sure?y/n"; but I want the script to run unattended; is there a way to make it fully 'hands free'?, possibly with a redirection away from the keyboard, or some such thing? PS: when deleting a fi

[Freedos-user] dos,hx,dpmi,etc.

2009-02-05 Thread kurt godel
I am somewhat confused. Freedos runs on fat32; does this mean that freedos can run any 32 bit console app? In fact, how much ram can freedos access? I have usually tended to also include djgpp in a freedos install; djgpp includes cwsdpmi,etc., and provides an environment that can run 32 bit apps. I

[Freedos-user] arachne- spoke too soon!

2008-12-20 Thread kurt godel
Ok, this is the thing: the arachne gets me to the web, say, google; I can move around and such, but if I try to download something, its a no-go. Or if something is downloading, there is no indication of where it is going. Even worse, and strangely, if I goto yahoo, the screen already says: 'my mail

[Freedos-user] Arachne works!

2008-12-20 Thread kurt godel
Ok, downloaded the driver, did it's autoexec, did Arachne; soooweet! On the air! The arachnoid even incorporates the driver into the autoexec. Just one more dumb question: how to enable cookies in the arachne browser? I get to google ok, but if I then click on 'gmail' it seems to hang, with the bar

[Freedos-user] Arachne-can't make it work.

2008-12-20 Thread kurt godel
Tried from ubcd(the older, not windows)using three different booters, including freedos with arachne; as far as I can tell, they all have the broadcom type drivers onboard(?), which I selected from a long menu. The arachne would not work. I then downloaded the latest arachne, and, booting from a st

[Freedos-user] Fast-re findpart.

2008-12-11 Thread kurt godel
Wow; regards findpart;usage, etc. found out from the author: first do: , then do: .kurt, . -- SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join

[Freedos-user] Sector read-writes.

2008-12-11 Thread kurt godel
Was following this thread. Dowloaded findpart; according to the readme, "type findpart followed by the name of the utility,say, getsect or putsect, to get the usage. It worked with getsect, but with putsect, it said "bad disk #". Also worked with some, not all of the other utilities. Now I wonder i

[Freedos-user] Read and write sectors.

2008-12-10 Thread kurt godel
Among my collection of 'hexeditors' are two or three specifically for editing of harddisk sectors, both physical and logical; one is for windows and at least one other is for dos. I don't have the name for the dos one in front of me right now, but it came from the site called 'starman'. The one whi

[Freedos-user] SHSU.....

2008-12-08 Thread kurt godel
Anybody, I am assuming that the series 'shu...' are all classed as 'secondary drivers'; in which case, what would be the 'primary' drivers that work with them? I imagine they are not named in a series like SHU. eric,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. -

[Freedos-user] clarify dualboot 4.

2008-11-28 Thread kurt godel
Eric, Tried what you said. Put echo tags at beginning and end of fdconfig.sys; even put them in the bat. Both showed in the bat, but the fdconfig never executed, not in 'c' , not in 'd' any which way, so long as fdos was not initially installed in 'c'. It is obvious that fdconfig does execute if fd

[Freedos-user] clarify dualboot 3.

2008-11-28 Thread kurt godel
Eric, I again tried putting the fdconfig.sys in drive 'c', first with the c-oriented version; then with the d-oriented version. Also tried editing the autoexec.bat in 'd' drive to : "cfg=c:\fdconfig.sys"; everytime I execute autoexec.bat in 'd', exactly the same thing happens; "action taken apmdos"

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