[Freedos-user] Modem Installation on FreeDOS
I am interested in installing an external modem in FreeDOS so that I can fax documents or make phone calls. Does FreeDOS come with any software that can allow for modem installations? Arthur -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Modem Installation on FreeDOS
Hi! I am interested in installing an external modem in FreeDOS so that I can fax documents or make phone calls. Does FreeDOS come with any software that can allow for modem installations? If the modem is connected via serial port (RS232) then you can use any DOS modem stuff with any version of DOS, www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/net/dosppp/ and http://ladsoft.tripod.com/lsppp/ are examples of such dial-up DOS networking software. If your modem is connected by USB, you will first need some sort of USB driver support e.g. the Bret John or Georg Potthast drivers. As for faxing and phone calls, real classical serial port modems follow a common command language and wikipedia could help you to get started with reading more about that. If there are also tools for user-friendly faxing for DOS, or tools which help you to dial numbers from your address book to make a phone call, then that software will work equally well with all DOS versions including FreeDOS, so you can just check what the DOS corners of www have ready for you :-) Eric http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_command_set -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Announce: vmsmount, a driver for mounting VMware's shared folders in DOS
On 10/13/2011 9:18 PM, Ralf A. Quint wrote: At 03:02 PM 10/13/2011, Eduardo Casino wrote: 2011/10/10 Ralf A. Quintfree...@gmx.net: At 01:38 PM 10/9/2011, Eduardo Casino wrote: Would you be so kind of testing it in one of your 286? It should fail with ERROR: Not running on top of VMWARE. http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmsmount/files/Test/ Will do. Unfortunately, the best machine to test it on, an IBM PS/2 Model 50Z is at the very bottom of a stack in my closet, have to pull it out later. I have two 286 clones easier accessible but realized last night that I did not get the matching EGA/Monochrome monitors out of my storage... Hi Ralf, I've just tested it inside fake86, a 8086 PC emulator (http://fake86.rubbermallet.org) and it produces an exception. I've then re-compiled using just 8086 instructions for main.c and kitten.c and leaving the pentium optimizations for the rest of the files and it works. And size is only increased by 6 bytes :) I'll fix it for the next release. Thanks, I got the IBM yanked out but then life happened and I haven't been able to get back to my workbench yet, will see that I can do this later tonight... Ralf I'll do my part and try it too - I have real 8088 class machines all over the place. ;-0 Mike -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] sys.com not executable on Windows 7 64bit
also, not to overstate the obvious, you could burn a cd-rw and boot from that. if anything messes up, you could just re-write the cd-rw. and, the enterprise version of windows 7 has a windows-xp-compatibility mode. eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com From: Bret Johnson bretj...@juno.com To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 7:53 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] sys.com not executable on Windows 7 64bit The USB drivers make a flash drive look like a removable hard drive, not a floppy drive (though the drivers will also work with a USB floppy drive). You can't start with a floppy image. If the BIOS will correctly boot from an external USB hard drive or flash drive, you can simply use the standard DOS tools and the disk should be directly bootable. You don't need to use a multi-stage process that involves booting another program, creating a RAMDISK and copying a floppy image, and booting from it (which is the way a lot of *nix-based software works). You can copy and delete and move files all you want to directly on the disk, without needing to manipulate an image. The problem you'll run into is that not all BIOS's work like they're supposed to, and won't boot correctly. Some will and some won't. Also, even if a flash drive comes formatted as a super-floppy (no MBR), you can re-partition it (with FDISK or Ranish Partition Manager or some other DOS utility) so that it does have an MBR if that's what you want. The drivers should work correctly whether it has an MBR or not. -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Announce: vmsmount, a driver for mounting VMware's shared folders in DOS
Eduardo, bug ro feature ? I don't see any files with long filenames. Shouldn't they be visible with their short filenames filena~1.exe Tom -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Announce: vmsmount, a driver for mounting VMware's shared folders in DOS
2011/10/14 Tom Ehlert t...@drivesnapshot.de: bug ro feature ? I don't see any files with long filenames. Shouldn't they be visible with their short filenames filena~1.exe Misfeature, I'm afraid. From the readme.txt: Does not support long names (long names and/or with illegal characters are ignored) I've added it to my to-do list with a maybe because this would complicate things a lot. The hgfs server has no support for short file names, so I would have to: 1. Provide a persistent way of associate long and short filenames (maybe a .longnames file in the host) and add a locking mechanism so concurrent modifications from two or more virtual machines do not cause troubles. 2. Even with that, if the filesystem is modified by the host or by a virtual machine running, say, linux or windows, you'll have a problem. 3. Increase complexity of path searches as the driver would have to check if each and every path component is a shortened name 4. Others I haven't think of yet Best, Eduardo. -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Announce: vmsmount, a driver for mounting VMware's shared folders in DOS
2011/10/14 Eduardo Casino eduardo.cas...@gmail.com: 1. Provide a persistent way of associate long and short filenames (maybe a .longnames file in the host) and add a locking mechanism so concurrent modifications from two or more virtual machines do not cause troubles. It seems that WIndows 7 uses a hashing algorithm to generate short file names on the fly when they are not supported by the filesystem. Samba uses a similar approach. I don't know, I could give it a try if there is a strong demand for it... But this will increase complexity A LOT. -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] sys.com not executable on Windows 7 64bit
Hi, On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Wayne Graves wrgra...@yahoo.com wrote: I can boot anything and I have a system in the corner that has 12 TB of disk on it which I can build anything on. I just want to know how to get a bootable USB up with freedos running and maybe this will do it, thanks. Like I said, UNetBootIn should work: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives UNetbootin can also be used to load various system utilities, including: FreeDOS, which can run BIOS flash and other legacy DOS utilities. P.S. But don't expect FDISK to handle 12 TB. The MBR and FAT32 are both limited (I think) to 2 TB. So some things may not work (understatement). But perhaps if you ignore the latter chunk it'll be okay, who knows. GPT (UEFI?) is supposed to fix this eventually, but that's killing the crucial BIOS which FreeDOS needs so badly. And I don't think any of us realistically expect them to bother too hard with BIOS compatibility. :-( -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Announce: vmsmount, a driver for mounting VMware's shared folders in DOS
Hi, On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Eduardo Casino eduardo.cas...@gmail.com wrote: It seems that WIndows 7 uses a hashing algorithm to generate short file names on the fly when they are not supported by the filesystem. Samba uses a similar approach. I don't know, I could give it a try if there is a strong demand for it... But this will increase complexity A LOT. Then don't bother. I think we're used to using SFNs by now. ;-) Seriously, complexity and bugs aren't worth extra features. Simplicity and stability are better! (Just MHO.) -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Modem Installation on FreeDOS
Eric, I think you mean Bret Johnson ... right? In any case I used his USB DOS drivers, and it picked up my modem, but only recognizes it as an Unknown Device. I think that if I can get around that particular obstacle, my modem can work. I would have to test it, of course, to make sure. :) Arthur -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
