Re: [Freedos-user] a question about bios utilities?
Hi Karen, One of the 8 gazillion things that makes this dell to dos laptop project I have been working on such an adventure is the windows hardware limitations. in this case, a built in modem that is hardwired in the bios to respond only to windows. You probably have a winmodem, but the win in this case is not about only windows: The modem is more like a simple soundcard. Classic modems allowed you to send and receive the actual data that you wanted to transfer. In winmodems, you only get the raw sounds from and to your phone line, so they have to be analyzed in software to get data. Software also has to shape the whistling of your modem to express the actual data that you want to send. This means that you need more CPU work to transfer data and more complex device drivers. On the plus side, dumb soundcard modems are in a way similar to each other, so if somebody would make a DOS driver, it can be extended to support several modems. Yet a classic modem typically spoke a standard command language, so you often did not even need model specific DOS drivers for those at all, just Hayes or Voice modem command set aware DOS software... Regards, Eric -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] usb in dos
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 /mnt/casper/initrd.gz. Then, at the commandline: gzip -dc /mnt/casper/initrd.gz | cpio -id; With absolutely no modifications I repacked it with: find . | cpio --quiet --dereference -o -H newc | gzip -9 ~/new-initrd.gz. To my astonishment the new 'round trip' initrd.gz was more tham thirty megabytes!! Am I missing somethimg, or is my mint/cpio/gzip broken? -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] uHex v1.01
Hello there, I released uHex v1.01 today. For those of you who missed the initial announcement, here's a short description of what uHex is: uHex is a simple and fast hex editor for DOS. It has been written with care to work fast even on an 8086 CPU, providing support for large files (up to 2 GiB) while using minimal amounts of memory. Now, what's new in v1.01? The version upgrade might look minor, but in fact it's a big step for uHex. Changelog below: - uHex became a hex editor now (not just a viewer anymore), - added the 'jump to offset' function (ALT+j), - added the 'find' function (ALT+f), - added an embedded help (ALT+h or F1). uHex is available for download on its homepage: http://www.viste-family.net/mateusz/software/uhex/ cheers, Mateusz Viste -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
