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Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Interim Build T2508
On Aug 1, 2025, at 8:26 AM, Fritz Mueller via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
Hi,
just one question, as I do not
Hi,
just one question, as I do not understand it: The monthly versions are builds to test new software. Is this correct? So, why not modifying fdnpkg.cfg to get the latest versions automatical (too) to enable tests? I just got some RSS feeds that there are new programs available - and I have to mo
replacements work on the server.
Willi
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
From: "Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel"
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Cc: jer...@shidel.net
Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Repos
Hi Willi,
On Jun 23, 2025, at 6:31 AM, Fritz Muell
Hi Jerome,
german uses only the special characters: äÄ, öÖ,üÜ and ß, these are even part of CP 437.
So I think adding german should work.
You can find the characters äöü at https://fd.lod.bz/repository/latest/html/de/index.html.
I am sure ÄÖÜ will work too.
So it is enough to simply copy
Tom,
I am not sure if understand the trial system of FDT250x:
The kernel will be online for one month till the next version e.g. FDT2507. So if someone reports a bigger problem with the kernel it will disappear within one month.
I know bugs that are 20 and more years old.
As nobody worries abou
Is there really no one who can say which version should be used in the future FDTlive CDs?
Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
From: "Fritz Mueller via Freedos-devel"
To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
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Subject: [Freedos-devel] GNU tar or t
Hi,
I almost forgot about it:
At https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/unix/tar/ you can find two versions of tar:
tar 1.12 and
tar 321
While working on other problems in FDT I noticed that the only tar used on the computer is:
tar.exe 3.21 delta from Tim V. Shapore
Hi,
thanks for the update, but my main problem is still not fixed.
I can move a 1GB file to a subfolder, (works extremely fast, in about 1 or two seconds!) but when I do so with a 2 GB fil (created with zerofill, copy zero0001.fil + zero0002.fil 2GB.FIL) or bigger I get an error message:
[Ins
I think Tom is correct.
one zerofile has a size of 1.073.741.824 files. Copying two of these files creates a file 2GB with 2.147.483.649 Bytes (instead of 2.147.483.648 Bytes!
I am sure there is a reason for this (CRLF or whatever).
Additional I copied one zerofile with a smaller 0,9 GB zerofile
eDOS developers."
Cc: "tom ehlert"
Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Re: release MOVE 3.4 WAS: Re: XCOPY 1.7 Stack Overflow
Hallo Herr Fritz Mueller via Freedos-devel,
am Donnerstag, 27. März 2025 um 17:51 schrieben Sie:
> thanks, I already tested it, also works fine. so only the co
thanks, I already tested it, also works fine. so only the copy command is over
for the moment, but I will have to test if it is already fixed or not (i
already reported anywhere at git that 3 files with 1,6 gb and copy a +b +c 4
gb creates a 4gb file where the rest of file c is written to the b
Hi Jerome,
as you said, this file is out of date (1.0.8a). Version 1.1.0 will hopefully be published in a few months.
I just had a look at the file and noticed that there are some malformed characters inside, I assume they came from a wrong codepage setting, they should represent ä ö ü ß.
I j
Hi Jerome,
here some first results with vmware:
a) Installation in VMware works, it is no longer possible to set a bios boot delay in VMware.
b) Booting in VMware with Options 1 and 2 also works again! No idea why!
c) Network seems to be connected.
d) fdnpkg checkupdates seems to work but is r
Hi,
while writing on the german FD help I wanted to add some examples for swsubst and found a problem where I am not sure if I am handling it wrong or if it is a bug.
swsubst is divided into two commands: subst and join. "/u drive" is for subst, "/j drive" for join.
The subst command:
s
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From: "tom ehlert via Freedos-devel"
To: "Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers."
Cc: "tom ehlert"
Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] ZEROFILL R2.01 Released (was ZEROFILL R2.00 Releas ed)
Hallo Herr Fritz Mueller via Freedos-devel,
am Sonntag, 9. Fe
Hi Eric, hi all,
I am happy to inform you that Nikkho published version 2.0.5 of ZEROFILL.
It fixed a lot of minor bugs, among others it was unable to write more than 2 GB with FD and
if you delete the zerofile files it shows that they are deleted (in older versions you could not
see that it
I know that this is not what you wish, but with the live cd you get doszip (dz) - and with this tool you can search for text within a file.
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2025 at 2:56 PM
From: "Bruno Ribeiro via Freedos-devel"
To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: "Bruno Ribeiro"
Subject:
Not sure if it is the same problem, but live CD reports:
Bring archiver\7zip package online. Failed, extraction error. dir says that R: has 1,150,976 Bytes free. Means: Is the ramdrive space simply too small for everything?
Willi
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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>And if you have a virtual machine emulating a printer port, that opens it up to USB or network connected printers too.
Thanks for this hint: Vmware supports lpt (I think i read DOSBOX-X also does). You simply have to create to add a parallel port and a new folder / file in Win within vmware. A
Hi,
I am still working on the german FD help. One problem that I have is how to handle
the "print" command that is delivered with FDT24xx and newer.
There is no /? to give more information. The only thing I found, was:
This PRINT here only takes /1 /2 /3 as "/D:lpt1" etc equivalent
options or
Hi Paul,
here is my second secret:
Read:
https://www.bootablecd.de/FreeDOS-Internet-version/help110/en/hhstndrd/util/vmsmount.htm
section examples:
The trick is
bios.bootdelay = "5000" in the vmx file.
. You will find it there - and - if you run a few searches in internet.
As each vmwa
Hi Paul,
there is a way to increase the speed of your bug reports:
The secret is:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/imdisk-toolkit/
With this tool you can mount almost all virtual images as a drive letter in Windows and unmount it again. Works very simple, you simply have to click on th
I just ran FD 1.4 RC1 with the new command.com 0.86 and the jemm in virtualbox, booted all three options more than 10 times, executed "reboot" - and at least at this trial there were no crashes.
Please do not worry about the package!
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
From: "Paul
The updated version of english help is now available at:
https://www.bootablecd.de/FreeDOS-Internet-version/help110/en/index.htm
I modified "whatis and apropos" a little and mentioned that pkginfo works in the background.
At help / htmlhelp I added some examples, e.g. "help format" opens a
New version updates, it is up to you to decide if it should be in RC2 (or at least downloadable via fdnpkg)
7zdec: 24.09, https://github.com/dajhorn/retro7zip/releases/ (see below)
amb: 2025-01-10, https://ambook.sourceforge.net/
Jemm: 5.85, https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/Jemm/releases
Some minor things I noticed in FDT2501 (1.4 RC1), some of them will have
to wait for the next kernel:
a) At doszip (dz) "Tools - View Doszip" does not work.
You can simply make this work by modifying:
"Tools - Add tools - [TOOLS] - 2 View &DOSZIP.TXT,%view% %dosdir%\doc\doszip\doszip.txt"
(corr
Would it be enough for a first step to create an Excel sheet with all programs in Gitlab, section FreeDOS base?
https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base
Something like:
command / external website? / programmer / still active yes/no? / known bugs? (maybe short, e.g. https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos
Could someone give a short summary what happened?
As I have problems to understand spoken US-English slang this would be great.
Thx.
Willi
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A first quick test with vmware, as virtualbox seems to be still a little be buggy:
a) german country.sys now works (just for information, thx!!!)
b) fdnpkg checkupdates reports a message:
loading http://www.ibiblio.org... /repositories/1.4/emulator:
repository download failed.
c) when I instal
Hi, not really a wishlist, but if you are a good programmer, there is a real challenge for you:
Simply have a look at:
https://gitlab.com/groups/FreeDOS/-/issues or:
https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/bugs/
there are a lot of bug reports that should be checked and/or fixed. Several com
>What about 4DOS, should we ship it as well?
By the way, one of the last maintainer of 4DOS was Lucho (Luchezar Georgiev).
Does anybody know how I can reach him? The mail address at "romdsk" has gone.
Klaus Meinhard told me that he also "lost" him.
Reason: Maybe some of you remember chkdsk from
it worked fine with fdnpkg.
Willi
Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2024 at 9:55 PM
From: "Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel"
To: "FreeDOS Developers"
Cc: jer...@shidel.net
Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4
On Nov 16, 2024, at 1:08 PM, Fritz Mueller via Freedos-de
Hi Jeremy,
this is a quick response only, I will try to update it tomorrow in case that there are more questions:
country.sys: I am not very familiar with Github and Gitlab, but line 193 and 194 at https://github.com/FDOS/country/blob/master/country.asm seem to be correct.
It is the update fo
OK,
here are some things that I noticed:
fdauto.bat:
in about line 44, I already found it in FDT2408 (maybe earlier too):
":NoCodePagerem keyboard settings" (followed by)
MKEYB GR
I found NO such goto label. Only "NoCodePage". Assume it is a typo (rem keyboard settings)
MKEYB GR:
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2024 at 5:12 PM
From: "Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel"
To: "Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers."
Cc: "Paul Dufresne"
Subject: [Freedos-devel] Ré : upcoming 1.4
> One more question, will the kernel and other files with bugs that are known fo
Hi Jerome, hi all,
thx for this great job! I always admire these FDT versions!
Every month you update several commands / files!
Some minor important hints for the next FDT (you already know most of them):
a) bladeenc 0.94.1 is installed, but "fnpkgk checkupdates" finds 0.94.1a and downlo
The actual country.sys version delivered with FDT24xx has a bug at german settings which is already fixed with the .asm version on the github site by rr
for THREE years, but NOT YET published:
__de_437 dw 12, 49,437,0,0
dd _de_437
actual FDT24xx version uses:
__de_437 dw 12, 49,858,0,
OK, so should I give the help another sort order (according to the new folders) when they are fixed in the next time?
The main problem are only the hyperlinks within the single files, but this is doable.
Willi
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2024 at 1:55 AM
From: "Jerome Shidel via Freedos-dev
I just tested wbat after a very long time. It does not only support A-Z but also arrow up/down left/right, mouse, can create OK buttons etc, even a X close button, so it
is not SO out of date.
If you want to test it, you can try my absolutely outdated games CD (I noticed that a lot of things d
I am not sure if I understand you correct. You want a very very simple start menu for several programs - maybe without colours?
What about this very simple solution? It is only a batch file with checking errorlevels. Simply type "A - Z". No mouse support.
The blue colour is only because config.s
Hi,
I just noticed that FDT24xx seems to have problems with the latest virtualbox versions 7.1.
Although network is installed it does not work. I get an error message that network is not installed.
The network cards are identical.
I just jumped back to vbox 7.0.20 - and it suddenly worked again
n and questions for FreeDOS developers."
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Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Packages on the FreeDOS distribution
Hi Willi,
I’m not at my computer right now. Just want to provide you with some notes/additional information.
On Sep 23, 2024, at 8:09 AM, F
Hi Jim,
The following tools are superfluous:
a) FDTUI: have a look at it and you will agree (I proposed it several times)
b) ClamAV FreeDOS Antivirus: It needs more than 128 MB to work, command line is very complex for users, virus definitions are very big and absolutely out of date. The UI "fda
This is only a list of what Bosch Calculator for Android does:
Distance convertions:
Please do not forget Millimeter, centimeter, Meter, Kilometer
Yard, foot, zoll (inch?)
Miles to Kilometer
Speed:
km/h, mph, m/s, kn
Wind Strength:
km/h, Bft,
Pressure:
bar, Pa, kPa, mWs, inWC, atm
Hi Paul,
I found out why rcal exits without an error message "file not found".
There is a file rcal.com (79Bytes) at C:\freedos\links that seems not to work.
rcal.exe (18.382Bytes) is at c:\util\rcal - if you start it there, it works. In English.
I am also a little astonished that Mateusz cr
Hi Jeremy, hi Bernd,
is there a decision done what will happen with the "label" problem (the labels are written to two different positions)
see: https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/issue-reporting/-/issues/31 as this problems runs through some more commands if I remember right?
Fritz / Willi
Thank you very much! A first test showed me that it works fine. It also supports FAT32 and 4 GB files.
While testing I noticed another tool that has problems with FAT32.
MOVE seems to support files only up to 2 GB. With higher values it reports:
"Insufficient disk space in destination path
Hi,
I just noticed, that vbados 0.66 is at FD Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/net/vbados . According to the FD site it is under GNU General Public License, version 2
According to the main website: https://git.javispedro.com/cgit/vbados.git/about/ the actual version is 0.67. Means, it could be
I ran tests of row4t on a installed FDT2406 HD in english on Virtualbox for Win and QEMU for Win (with QEmu Manager 7).
I works fine on both vms. I can move the mouse, can enter a value 1 - 7 for selecting the hole or select the number with the mouse, can click "n - new" "q - quit" or click on the
Hi Eric,
I used the original version delivered with FDT2405. It supports 1 GB FAT16 and 0 GB FAT32 (=not at all).
With the binary version that was offered by Ringding from his google drive, see:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XRexqJvbKvNwRNPlAhvIEF1Toee_Cbtt/view
zoo works fine on FAT
>The trick is to send a completely new mail to
>freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net - this will
>create a new thread. If you only reply to some
>existing thread, mail software can recognize it
>as part of the old thread, even if you change
>the subject.
T
hen let's try if this works:
The old
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