Re: [Freedos-devel] Thinking about FreeDOS 2.0

2022-03-03 Thread Gregory Pietsch
We're still working on that telepathic user interface and all those things we've dreamed Microsoft put into MS-DOS. I'm still working on everything I have sent in, but it would be nice if I got some direction on things that can be improved. Gregory On 3/3/2022 5:28 PM, Deposite Pirate wrote:

Re: [Freedos-devel] Thinking about FreeDOS 2.0

2022-03-03 Thread Deposite Pirate
On Thu, 3 Mar 2022 00:13:32 -0600 Jim Hall wrote: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 4:16 PM Jim Hall wrote: > [..] > > I'm sure we'll want to discuss "1.4" or "2.0" or whatever version > > comes after 1.3. (I can start a new conversation next week to talk > > about that.) > > > Now that FreeDOS 1.3

Re: [Freedos-devel] Thinking about FreeDOS 2.0

2022-03-03 Thread Jerome Shidel
> On Mar 3, 2022, at 10:42 AM, Adam Peart wrote: > > Personally in the test stream I would like an updated LiveCD, and a way of > updating the files for an already installed FreeDos. For an existing > installed version, I don't like the idea of having to re-install everything > every time

Re: [Freedos-devel] Thinking about FreeDOS 2.0

2022-03-03 Thread Adam Peart
Personally in the test stream I would like an updated LiveCD, and a way of updating the files for an already installed FreeDos. For an existing installed version, I don't like the idea of having to re-install everything every time there's updates. I would prefer just updating all the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Thinking about FreeDOS 2.0

2022-03-03 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi Jim, I think there is still so much to do on FreeDOS itself that you should work a little slower with updates and new version numbers. Some examples:   a) have a look at the bug list, e.g. xdel (reported by you), edit (reported by me has several bugs), fdisk (reported by me: sizes for a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Thinking about FreeDOS 2.0

2022-03-03 Thread tom ehlert
> At present the built in DVD drive (on the HP laptop) is not > working with FreeDOS (will try to spend more time to solve this > problem) - have yet to try an external USB DVD blue-ray (but this > will be a while before I try). I have no CD only drives at all. there is a good chance that

Re: [Freedos-devel] Thinking about FreeDOS 2.0

2022-03-03 Thread Jerome Shidel
> On Mar 3, 2022, at 5:33 AM, richardkolacz...@hotmail.com wrote: > [..] > So with your plans on more frequent releases - (USB only wise) - where does > it leave me? Although, your using a USB stick. Your using it as your HD. So, I’d consider that installed and not Live. You would probably

Re: [Freedos-devel] Thinking about FreeDOS 2.0

2022-03-03 Thread richardkolacz...@hotmail.com
I may be misunderstanding the situation but in my case I created a USB BOOT stick using the full USB version (RC5). It may be a while before I switch to 1.3 (no hurry for me since I am preoccupied trying to get things to work, which is "slowly" going OK) - converting from a very "messy"

Re: [Freedos-devel] Thinking about FreeDOS 2.0

2022-03-03 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi, > On Mar 3, 2022, at 1:13 AM, Jim Hall wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 4:16 PM Jim Hall wrote: > [..] >> I'm sure we'll want to discuss "1.4" or "2.0" or whatever version >> comes after 1.3. (I can start a new conversation next week to talk >> about that.) > > > Now that FreeDOS 1.3