Re: [Freedos-devel] How to upload a new package to ibiblio.org?

2007-03-09 Thread Jim Hall
I'll email you off-list with another address you can use. On 3/10/07, Robert Riebisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Hall wrote: You can email the to me, and I can help upload it for you. Only a few I already mailed two zipped files to you, but got back: Illegal attachment. Robert

[Freedos-devel] Fwd: Virus in the FreeDOS distributive on the ibiblio.

2007-03-04 Thread Jim Hall
Hi guys. I don't have an antivirus program to double-check this with. So I'm putting out a call to the developers to help verify this virus report. Does anyone else find this virus with your AV software? Or is this another false-positive? -jh On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 20:26 +0300, Сергей wrote:

Re: [Freedos-devel] Insight debugger 1.20

2007-02-08 Thread Jim Hall
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 13:07 +0100, Robert Riebisch wrote: Jim Hall wrote: Hi Oleg. I can put this on ibiblio for you, if you like. Email me off-list, and we'll figure out how you can get it to me. Oleg already agreed, that I give Insight a new home at http://www.bttr-software.de

Re: [Freedos-devel] Insight debugger 1.20

2007-02-07 Thread Jim Hall
Hi Oleg. I can put this on ibiblio for you, if you like. Email me off-list, and we'll figure out how you can get it to me. On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 15:14 +0300, Oleg O.Chukaev wrote: Insight debugger 1.20 is ready for release. Major changes: English documentation. Some bugs fixed. Short

[Freedos-devel] (OT) trying to reach Eric

2007-01-11 Thread Jim Hall
Eric: I cannot email you anymore. My emails bounce with a greylist error. Email me off-list to tell me how I can reach you. -jh - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel

Re: [Freedos-devel] Edlin 2.9A is on SourceForge!

2006-11-27 Thread Jim Hall
On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 17:16 -0500, Gregory Pietsch wrote: Although it's personally been a difficult month for me, I have triumphed once again with a new version of FreeDOS Edlin, the one project without which the entire FreeDOS project would be plunged into darkness. Version 2.9A reflects

Re: [Freedos-devel] Edlin 2.9A is on SourceForge!

2006-11-27 Thread Jim Hall
On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 16:40 -0500, Gregory Pietsch wrote: Jim Hall wrote: On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 17:16 -0500, Gregory Pietsch wrote: Although it's personally been a difficult month for me, I have triumphed once again with a new version of FreeDOS Edlin, the one project without which

Re: [Freedos-devel] Blocek v1.1

2006-11-19 Thread Jim Hall
://www.laaca-mirror.ic.cz/blocek.rar source: http://www.laaca.borec.cz/soubory/wokna32.rar or http://www.laaca-mirror.ic.cz/wokna32.rar Původní zpráva Od: Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Předmět: Re: [Freedos-devel] Blocek v1.1 Datum: 19.11.2006 16:09:57

[Freedos-devel] 4DOS released as open source software

2006-11-13 Thread Jim Hall
If you are like me, you have used (or are using) the 4DOS command shell. 4DOS was my favorite DOS app. Back in the day, my DOS development system was guaranteed to have at least one C compiler, a cool editor for writing code, and a copy of 4DOS to make the command line easier to use. I still run

Re: [Freedos-devel] DEBUG V99b

2006-11-03 Thread Jim Hall
I sent the following to Japheth about a week ago: Have you contacted Paul Vojta vojta/@/math.berkeley.edu about your improvements to DEBUG? Paul does respond to email (I emailed him about a week ago, about something else) and I would prefer that Paul be kept in the loop on changes to a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update proposal

2006-11-02 Thread Jim Hall
updates to FreeDOS 1.0 may not make FreeDOS 2.0. Aitor 2006/10/29, Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: E! I'd rather not go back to beta9 SP2 etc naming scheme. The next FreeDOS should _not_ be a FreeDOS 1.0 SP1. The next FreeDOS is indeed an incremental improvement with no major changes

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update proposal

2006-11-02 Thread Jim Hall
: It looks good, but I just wonder how to name the second bug-fix release after the third release after FreeDOS 1.0, in that case you are forced to something like 1.3.2... Aitor 2006/11/2, Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Using 2-digit subversions (1.01) looks too similar to 1.0.1 kind of naming

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS bugzilla update

2006-10-30 Thread Jim Hall
Guys, I fixed the problem with the FreeDOS Bugzilla where you were forced to constantly login to make any updates. Silly me, when we moved the www.freedos.org site to freedos.sourceforge.net, I also changed the Bugzilla entry page (http://www.freedos.org/freedos/bugs/) to use

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update proposal

2006-10-29 Thread Jim Hall
E! I'd rather not go back to beta9 SP2 etc naming scheme. The next FreeDOS should _not_ be a FreeDOS 1.0 SP1. The next FreeDOS is indeed an incremental improvement with no major changes (i.e. updated packages, etc) then FreeDOS 1.1 would be acceptable. A larger jump in functionality

Re: [Freedos-devel] New FreeDOS Edlin 2.9 on SourceForge!

2006-10-18 Thread Jim Hall
Gregory Pietsch wrote: There's a new version of FreeDOS Edlin, and it's on SourceForge! I've been trying to get to Jim Hall for days to mirror this information on FreeDOS's homepage, but I haven't been able to reach him. Gregory Pietsch Hi. I posted this earlier today. (2006-10-18

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS web site problems

2006-10-17 Thread Jim Hall
In case you haven't noticed, we seem to be having a problem with www.freedos.org. This is hosted at SourceForge, so I'm in the process of opening a ticket with them. The site at freedos.sourceforge.net is working fine though, so please use that until www.freedos.org is working. Thanks, -jh

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS web site problems

2006-10-17 Thread Jim Hall
Jim Hall wrote: In case you haven't noticed, we seem to be having a problem with www.freedos.org. This is hosted at SourceForge, so I'm in the process of opening a ticket with them. The site at freedos.sourceforge.net is working fine though, so please use that until www.freedos.org

Re: [Freedos-devel] Turbo C on FreeDOS

2006-09-18 Thread Jim Hall
Frederic Logghe wrote: Since several years, I'm using Turbo C on MS-DOS. Last week, my PC crashed and I'm now planning to use FreeDOS. I just wonder if anyone has positive experiences running Turbo C on FreeDOS? Yup, I used to use TC1.01 on FreeDOS, ran completely fine. Then I located my

[Freedos-devel] Update on bugzilla

2006-09-18 Thread Jim Hall
Just wanted to send an update on the FreeDOS bugzilla, for those of you who use it. You're probably already aware of the problem of sending email. That's why I put the warning in the big yellow box at http://www.freedos.org/freedos/bugs/. One of the admins of SourceForge gave me a hint that

Re: [Freedos-devel] Inst. 1.0

2006-09-13 Thread Jim Hall
Serghey Suvorov wrote: Hi Jim, to your notice: the full variant (without wattcp) of 1.0 can be installed in MS VirtPC. The xBase presence is agreeable especially . There are little comings which take an interest in this best language. Best regards, Serghey Thanks for the feedback!

Re: [Freedos-devel] [anounce] defrag 1.2

2006-09-10 Thread Jim Hall
Imre Leber wrote: -Original Message- From: Florian Xaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 9, 2006 09:45 PM To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] [anounce] defrag 1.2 Hi, I tried Full Optimization and Unfragment Files only.

Re: [Freedos-devel] [anounce] defrag 1.2

2006-09-10 Thread Jim Hall
Imre: Is DFRAG121.ZIP an official 1.2.1 release, something that I should mirror on ibiblio? Or is this just an interim release, sort of try this and see if this fixes your problem, and if it does I'll make it a full release kind of thing? Actually I was going to announce it

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS web site

2006-09-07 Thread Jim Hall
We're still getting hit pretty hard on the web site, although traffic seems to be dropping. We're down to about 50MB/hour. To help bandwidth issues, I've updated the stylesheets to be very light on the images - the FreeDOS fish logo and the (mandatory) SF.net logo button remain, but other

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS

2006-09-06 Thread Jim Hall
Imre Leber wrote: Actually i am kind of convinced that in spite of everything going for reactos, the only thing truely missing from that project is Jim Hall. That's probably the reason why it doesn't seem to be moving anywhere fast. Imre ?? -- This email message has been encrypted

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS

2006-09-06 Thread Jim Hall
JH ?? Imre mean, that FreeDOS powered by your leadership, :) and this is missing in ReactOS. :-) -- This email message has been encrypted using the ROT-26 cipher. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to

Re: [Freedos-devel] Surprise!

2006-09-04 Thread Jim Hall
Blair Campbell wrote: Here I am, I've spent about 5 hours slowly downloading the full version, getting just a few K per second, and right before it gets done, you go and replace it. I'm sorry, but I made it quite clear in the announcemet that the full ISOs were NOT ready yet. I

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 in the news

2006-09-04 Thread Jim Hall
Just in case anyone is interested in the press coverage this is getting: Heise Online was the first to post an article about us: http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/77674 I also sent out something of a press announcement to a variety of news outlets, and I've contacted

Re: [Freedos-devel] Surprise!

2006-09-03 Thread Jim Hall
Blair Campbell wrote: Hey folks. If you check out the website, you may be in for a surprise. w00t1 This is a very important day. I want to send out my thanks to everyone who has worked on the FreeDOS Project, to help bring us to the 1.0 release. That includes both current members

Re: [Freedos-devel] Surprise!

2006-09-03 Thread Jim Hall
FYI: I have updated the FreeDOS web site with the 1.0 announcement. A few pages have changed: - the front page has been rearranged, and should now be friendlier to new users. Let me know if the navigation is confusing; I tried to make it so new users would know where to go, but still useful

Re: [Freedos-devel] MOVE 3.3A

2006-08-31 Thread Jim Hall
Blair Campbell wrote: Can someone please send this to me or tell me where this is uploaded (if it is uploaded) within the next hour or I won't have time to include it in 1.0. I asked Diego to email it to me off-list, but I haven't seen it yet. -jh -- This email message has been

Re: [Freedos-devel] MOVE 3.3A

2006-08-31 Thread Jim Hall
I asked Diego to email it to me off-list, but I haven't seen it yet. -jh I sent to you source and binaries yesterday. Ah, my freedos.org mailbox sometimes rejects large attachments. I'll email you again off-list with an email address you can use to send it to me. -jh -- This

Re: [Freedos-devel] MOVE 3.3A

2006-08-31 Thread Jim Hall
Move 3.3a source and binaries are now available on ibiblio (thanks Diego!) -jh -- This email message has been encrypted using the ROT-26 cipher. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security?

Re: [Freedos-devel] [anounce] defrag 1.2

2006-08-31 Thread Jim Hall
Imre Leber wrote: Hi, I am hereby releasing a new version of defrag, defrag version 1.2. This solves the bug found by Fritz Mueller, regarding disk corruption in the root directory. Version 1.1 should hereby no longer be used, as it corrupts disk data. You can find it at:

Re: [Freedos-devel] New MOVE release

2006-08-29 Thread Jim Hall
Diego Rodriguez wrote: Hi! I want to announce that there is a new version of MOVE (3.3a) that fixes the following problems: * FreeDOS truename function doesn't remove trailing backslashes. * FreeDOS cannot set attributes of a directory without clearing the directory bit. Previous MOVE

Re: [Freedos-devel] announce: mem 1.11 - prettier output, NLS, NOEMS

2006-08-28 Thread Jim Hall
Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 27-Авг-2006 17:53 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Hall) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: I do have latest (second) edition of mem110.zip with conversion LF to CRLF (latest file marked 2006/08/25). If you wish, I may resend it to you. JH

Re: [Freedos-devel] announce: mem 1.11 - prettier output, NLS, NOEMS

2006-08-27 Thread Jim Hall
Eric Auer wrote: Hi all, uploaded to http://www.freedos.org/mem/ you can now find mem111.zip :-)... Unfortunately I lost parts of the mem 1.10 sources in the course of creating 1.11, so if you still have a copy, we could upload that to freedos.org again. I have recreated the lost part

Re: [Freedos-devel] announce: mem 1.11 - prettier output, NLS, NOEMS

2006-08-27 Thread Jim Hall
Eric Auer wrote: Another point which is indeed bad style is that I have split mem.c into mem.c and mem2.c - you can merge them again with very little editing, but it would have been a lot better to split the file properly / cleanly. For now, mem.c simply ends with a line #include mem2.c, and

Re: [Freedos-devel] announce: mem 1.11 - prettier output, NLS, NOEMS

2006-08-27 Thread Jim Hall
Jim Hall wrote: Eric Auer wrote: Hi all, uploaded to http://www.freedos.org/mem/ you can now find mem111.zip :-)... Unfortunately I lost parts of the mem 1.10 sources in the course of creating 1.11, so if you still have a copy, we could upload that to freedos.org again. I have

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos package spec problem: sources, binary, docs

2006-08-27 Thread Jim Hall
I think you are referring to this mini-HOWTO: http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?n=FdDocEn.Distribution Yes, I agree that the source package should contain everything short of the generated binaries. If there are dupe files, let them be overwritten. This mini-HOWTO needs to be

[Freedos-devel] To Aitor

2006-08-27 Thread Jim Hall
PS: Jim, I don't know if you read my message from private mail: I was just trying to ask you if you could allow or invite me to write to you private messages from this account of mine (gmail). I say this as I know your university seemed to have an ellaborate way of granting access to you ;-)

Re: [Freedos-devel] announce: mem 1.11 - prettier output, NLS, NOEMS

2006-08-27 Thread Jim Hall
I do have latest (second) edition of mem110.zip with conversion LF to CRLF (latest file marked 2006/08/25). If you wish, I may resend it to you. Email it to me off-list. I'll reply to you (off-list) with my work (UofM) email address to use. My freedos.org account may fill up if you

Re: [Freedos-devel] Freedos-devel Digest, Vol 3, Issue 55

2006-08-24 Thread Jim Hall
(Prot3anThr3ad) wrote: [Additional Comments] unsubscribe Hi. To unsubscribe from Freedos-devel, get a password reminder, or change your subscription options enter your subscription email address, visit this page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel The

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel 2037 actually available

2006-08-20 Thread Jim Hall
Blair Campbell wrote: Ok, I took the time to upload proper kernel pacakges to www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/kernel/ as kernel2037-binary.zip and kernel2037-source.zip Enjoy PS: They contain Eric's QB 4.0 compatibility fix. Thanks, Blair! The fdkernel.lsm file

Re: [Freedos-devel] MS-DOS image

2006-08-18 Thread Jim Hall
I feel it's important to get 1.0 out there to draw a line in the sand, that we're at least 1.0 quality. We can do what MS-DOS could do. Maybe we have a few bugs, but (and maybe this is a sad fact) what 1.0 software doesn't have bugs? People expect it. But marking a 1.0 release means you can

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 relase, was MS-DOS image

2006-08-18 Thread Jim Hall
Michael Devore wrote: At 01:08 PM 8/18/2006 -0500, you wrote: I feel it's important to get 1.0 out there to draw a line in the sand, that we're at least 1.0 quality. We can do what MS-DOS could do. Maybe we have a few bugs, but (and maybe this is a sad fact) what 1.0 software doesn't have

Re: [Freedos-devel] What message is delivered by the decision to blacklist Johnson Lam permenantly

2006-08-16 Thread Jim Hall
back on the list. -jh Blair Campbell wrote: Hi. Johnson was warned repeatedly and was told many times what people didn't like about what he was doing. And Jim Hall gave him a warning to take such discussions off list. When Johnson failed to take the timely advice, and only then, he

Re: [Freedos-devel] What message is delivered by the decision to blacklist Johnson Lam permenantly

2006-08-16 Thread Jim Hall
Eric Auer wrote: [...] Okay, wow, that was a novel-length email reply, and a bit more than was probably needed. Guys, let's calm down on this point. In short, I welcome Johnson (and any developer) back to the lists if he avoids trolling. I think he understands that now. Let's let this

Re: [Freedos-devel] redirector

2006-08-11 Thread Jim Hall
If it's related to the redirector, it may also date back to Jim Tabor, who made the effort to add CDROM network redirector support to the DOS-C kernel. IIRC, after Jim was kernel maintainer, it was John Price, then Bart Oldeman. But Bart is also part of the DOSEmu peeps, so he may have

Re: [Freedos-devel] A20 handling competition, was Updated 1.0 Testing CD

2006-08-10 Thread Jim Hall
... http://www.devoresoftware.com/goof/beanfront.jpg http://www.devoresoftware.com/goof/beanback.jpg Dude, you are having waay too much with your label maker. :-) -- I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I didn't vote for him.

Re: [Freedos-devel] defrag

2006-08-08 Thread Jim Hall
Imre Leber wrote: -Original Message- From: Florian Xaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 8, 2006 12:36 PM To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] defrag I want to test it - could you please post a URL, where I can download it?

Re: [Freedos-devel] website

2006-08-02 Thread Jim Hall
Imre Leber wrote: Is the website supposed to remain looking like it is. It doesn't look very nice :-( Imre I'll be updating some content on the front page around the time we release FreeDOS 1.0, but otherwise I was finished with the design. What don't you like about the site? It's

Re: [Freedos-devel] DeSmet C compiler available under GPL

2006-08-01 Thread Jim Hall
Blair Campbell wrote: Isn't glibc licensed under the Lesser GPL (LGPL) for this very reason? But a commercial app still cannot _statically_ link to it in that case; only dynamically. Specifically, the GNU LGPL says this in its preamble: For example, [..] If you link other code

Re: [Freedos-devel] DeSmet C compiler available under GPL

2006-08-01 Thread Jim Hall
Alain M. wrote: Mark Bailey escreveu: Isn't glibc licensed under the Lesser GPL (LGPL) for this very reason? There is nowhere to be seen any licence for glibc, not even in it's site. But even in LGPL it is a problem: you have to use the systems's version and it brings many

Re: [Freedos-devel] Mailer problems

2006-07-30 Thread Jim Hall
... 1. users shouldn't use 8-bit characters in letters. This is not fix, this is bad workaround. 2. SF should turn on 8-bit compatibility (I suggest, this is question of only one line in config files). 3. Readers should use bugless servers and clients. I think, (2) and (3) are right

Re: [Freedos-devel] Notes on rules: was EMM386 new release 2.20, new HIMEM 3.20

2006-07-30 Thread Jim Hall
Michael Devore wrote: [...] Heh, she. Has anyone seen a female within a mile/kilometer/furlong of FreeDOS development? Too bad about the lack of them, though. We could use a few. My wife is sitting a few feet away from me as I write this. Does that count? :-) -- I'm sorry my

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.11 minor update, VDS fix

2006-07-20 Thread Jim Hall
Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 20-Июл-2006 12:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Japheth) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: Do you think, that distance allows/mean more rude behavior?! :) :( J No, it means using Bugzilla for bug reports - if anything at all. :) Strange.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Attitude of coding.

2006-07-20 Thread Jim Hall
All: Please don't make any further replies to this thread on the list. This is nothing but a troll. Earlier, I had given Johnson a warning off-list to stop his trolling, but he chose to ignore that warning. I have removed him from the list. -jh -- I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 Testing distribution soon available

2006-07-18 Thread Jim Hall
I feel very strongly that we must not have timeouts on the options when you first boot. Eric gives a good example - it happened to me. I was at work when I was testing the new CDROM (on Parallels on my iMac) and happened to get a phone call. When I looked back at my session, I had gotten an

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.11 minor update, VDS fix

2006-07-18 Thread Jim Hall
And there remains issue with nested comments. MD No issue; no nesting. Ergo, I'm not changing it. In reply, rather than MD quoting boring old pre-ISO C compiler options, please instead trace support MD back to the far more enriching Magna Carta. King John of England's

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0 Testing distribution soon available

2006-07-17 Thread Jim Hall
I'm experimenting with fdfullws.iso at the moment. It looks good so far, but I'm not done with the install yet. There is some menu cleanup that we could do before 1.0 ... I'll do some more experimenting and see if I can suggest something. One thing I would recommend is that we not have a

Re: [Freedos-devel] [OT] Is the skin legal?

2006-07-17 Thread Jim Hall
Florian Xaver wrote: Hi, somebody sent me a skin for oZone, which looks like the skin of Windows Vista. I would like to include it into the package. Would it be legal? IANAL, but as long as you don't re-use copyrighted content (i.e. this person didn't actually use graphics taken from

Re: [Freedos-devel] EMM386 2.11 minor update, VDS fix

2006-07-15 Thread Jim Hall
I also mirrored this release on ibiblio, and updated the LSM on the web site. :-) Blair Campbell wrote: Just in time :-) (15 min left here) On 7/14/06, Michael Devore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386/ are the files emmx211.zip, EMM386

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Release: EMM386 2.10, HIMEM 3.13

2006-07-09 Thread Jim Hall
Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 9-Июл-2006 14:55 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aitor Santamarэa) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: AS alternatively can someone else send those (source+binary) to me? Done. I gather that Aitor was able to upload the files to ibiblio as they are

Re: [Freedos-devel] emm 2.10

2006-07-09 Thread Jim Hall
Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 1. emm386.lsm file isn't updated (old version). Fixed on www.freedos.org -jh -- I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I didn't vote for him. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to

Re: [Freedos-devel] emm 2.10

2006-07-09 Thread Jim Hall
No, sorry I have not received your off-list emails. -jh Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! Jim, do you receive at last my private letters? I again receive messages, that may letters delayed: The original message was received at Sat, 8 Jul 2006 22:52:27 +0400 (MSD) from localhost

Re: [Freedos-devel] Things about the upcoming distro

2006-07-05 Thread Jim Hall
Blair Campbell wrote: Just to let you know, due to lack of bugfixes in the graphical installer, it cannot be included with 1.0, otherwise people would blame us for releasing buggy software. The text installer works pretty much everywhere and is much more stable. Unless anyone releases a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Things about the upcoming distro

2006-07-05 Thread Jim Hall
? -jh Blair Campbell wrote: well, if you know PASCAL, it might be possible to modify the graphical installer, but otherwise, I would recommend a rewrite. The current gui installer requires a slightly older than latest version of FreePASCAL. On 7/5/06, Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

[Freedos-devel] New installer (was: Things about the upcoming distro)

2006-07-05 Thread Jim Hall
Nope, I'm looking for a C library that helps draw the graphical elements (windows, buttons, ...) like to build a graphical application. It needs to be lightweight - this is going to fit on a boot disk. Embedded apps like cash register displays, etc use something like this. Along the lines of

Re: [Freedos-devel] New installer

2006-07-05 Thread Jim Hall
I'm not married to the idea of a GUI installer. I'm just as happy to update the text installer, but it has to look nice (again, this is the first experience people have with FreeDOS.) So, I'll expand my call for recommendations to include TUI toolkits. -jh Eric Auer wrote: Hi Jim, I

Re: [Freedos-devel] arachne.lsm update...

2006-07-03 Thread Jim Hall
Thanks. I updated the Software List. Florian Xaver wrote: Hi! Begin3 Title: Arachne WWW Browser and e-mail client Version: 1.90 Entered-date: 2006-04-13 Description: Web browser and e-mail client for DOS. Keywords: web, browser, arachne, e-mail, internet Author:

Re: [Freedos-devel] [anounce] defrag beta 0.9

2006-07-03 Thread Jim Hall
Imre Leber wrote: Hi, I am hereby posting a long overdue version of defrag. It has fixes regarding the interface. The command line interface now actually works and there is now the status bar is updated in move file fragments together mode. Further more there is now a check on FAT32 and

Re: [Freedos-devel] [announce] chkdsk 0.9

2006-07-03 Thread Jim Hall
Imre Leber wrote: Hi, I am hereby releasing a new version of chkdsk. This version now has a status indicator in surface scan mode and does not stop the checking when a suspicious media descriptor was found. You can find it at: http://users.telenet.be/imre/FreeDOS/chkdsk09.zip This

Re: [Freedos-devel] Horrible Joke on FreeDOS.org??

2006-06-30 Thread Jim Hall
Michael Devore wrote: No, I'm sorry, this explanation doesn't quite do it to me. You are the sole owner of the FreeDOS name. You can declare version 1.0, or 2.0.5 or 3.gizmo.woofdaddy at any time -- 1.0 release status doesn't and never did need a committee. Just do it, give everybody on

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.0

2006-06-30 Thread Jim Hall
Blair Campbell wrote: I think that 1.0 pre1 is good to start with, as we want to be able to work out distribution bugs before a final release (we don't want to repeat SR2). I'd rather we went for 1.0 instead of 1.0 pre1. I agree we should verify the distribution, but I'd rather we not

Re: [Freedos-devel] Horrible Joke on FreeDOS.org??

2006-06-29 Thread Jim Hall
Blair Campbell wrote: Why is there a horrible joke on www.freedos.org?? FreeDOS is definitely NOT dead, and it IS close to 1.0. In short, not dead. Man, I did a really stupid thing with the web site. I've gotten so much email on this that it's a lesson I won't soon forget. The truth

[Freedos-devel] Why 1.0 (was: Horrible Joke)

2006-06-29 Thread Jim Hall
Jim Hall wrote: [...] It's as though we're afraid of the 1.0 label, sort of asymptotically approaching 1.0 but never really getting there. A lot of people probably wonder why is '1.0' so important? I feel we need to get 1.0 out there to draw a line in the sand, that we're at least

Re: [Freedos-devel] powerbatch GPL

2006-06-21 Thread Jim Hall
Hi. I finally got around to mirroring this on the FreeDOS archive at ibiblio. It's at: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/ Marcus Furlong wrote: (02 June) Hi, After looking for a GPL alternative to Norton's batch enhancer and not finding one (if there is

Re: [Freedos-devel] freecom/cmd echo.c,1.5,1.6

2006-06-14 Thread Jim Hall
Specifically, the // was introduced in the C99 spec: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_programming_language#C99 Blair Campbell wrote: Well, the latest C standard says that // is a valid C source code comment, so... On 6/13/06, Aitor Santamaría [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A slight commenr,

[Freedos-devel] Fwd: SourceForge.net: CVS service offering changes

2006-05-12 Thread Jim Hall
I'm sure many of you are members of SourceForge, so you probably already got this email. But I thought I'd fwd this to the list anyway to make sure everyone knew about the CVS change on SourceForge: SourceForge.net Team wrote: Greetings, You are receiving this mail because you are a

[Freedos-devel] Openwatcom on ibiblio

2006-05-08 Thread Jim Hall
Someone posted a openwatcom-complete.tar.bz2 file on ibiblio at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/. This wasn't the right location for it, so I've relocated it to http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/c/openwatcom/ and renamed the file to

[Freedos-devel] Site outage on 20 May

2006-04-27 Thread Jim Hall
On Saturday, 20 May, the data center that hosts the www.freedos.org web site will be doing maintenance and upgrades on their UPS that requires turning off all power for 4 hours. Between 8AM and noon (US/Central, GMT-0600) on 20 May 2006, the www.freedos.org web site will be unavailable. -jh

Re: [Freedos-devel] dumb question (OT)

2006-03-14 Thread Jim Hall
Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 14-Мар-2006 19:10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Riebisch) wrote to freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net: name in man' pages? For example: sed(1), dirent(3), etc. RR That's a section number. 1 = Commands, 2 = System calls, ... see RR

[Freedos-devel] Possible web server outtage this Friday

2006-03-13 Thread Jim Hall
FYI: the datacenter where the www.freedos.org server is hosted will be doing some maintenance on Friday morning, 17 March. This will last until noon (GMT-0600, or US/Central). The web site may be unavailable during that time. -jh -- I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I didn't vote for

[Freedos-devel] Looking for mirror webmaster

2006-02-03 Thread Jim Hall
Is the webmaster who runs the http://freedos.gds.tuwien.ac.at/ web site on this list? Hi. I noticed that your FreeDOS mirror site doesn't display the styles correctly. Looks like you probably mirrored the FreeDOS web site using a web crawler, rather than using the

[Freedos-devel] test email (please ignore)

2006-01-30 Thread Jim Hall
This is a test, please ignore. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web.

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Bugzilla

2006-01-29 Thread Jim Hall
data was converted successfully. Please check out the new Bugzilla, and if you have any issues, please email them to me (off-list). I'll make time over the next few days to respond to any problems that get reported. -jh Jim Hall wrote: Hi everyone. Things aren't looking so great, and I

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS website

2006-01-26 Thread Jim Hall
David O'Shea wrote: Hi all, How come all the URLs on the FreeDOS website are of the form http://www.freedos.org/freedos/something? I assume it was not always this way because fdos\doc\mem\bugs.txt refers to http://www.freedos.org/bugs; which doesn't seem to exist anymore. It would be nice if

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Bugzilla

2006-01-25 Thread Jim Hall
- probably Saturday. I'll disable Bugzilla put up a web page just before I do the final database dump, and will update links and post a news item when the move is complete. -jh Jim Hall wrote: Owen Rudge wrote: Hi Jim, Well, just to reiterate my offer from last year, if you need hosting

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Bugzilla

2006-01-20 Thread Jim Hall
Jim Hall wrote: Hi, all. I have a problem with the web site hosting. Unfortunately, the person who is currently hosting the www.freedos.org web site can be difficult to work with - and lately, VERY difficult. I'm somewhat concerned that if things continue to sour with this guy, he might

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Bugzilla

2006-01-20 Thread Jim Hall
Owen Rudge wrote: Hi Jim, Well, just to reiterate my offer from last year, if you need hosting for Bugzilla or anything else, let me know and it can be sorted out. My servers are not going to disappear any time soon. :-) Owen, you so rock. Hmm.. maybe this can become our Option #2, if

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Bugzilla

2006-01-20 Thread Jim Hall
Rather than wait for that to happen, Could you give some numbers about that hosting? Disk space, amount of transfered data, sw requirements, and whatever. I would like to study a solution around here... That's one of the areas in which things have been difficult - stats. The guy who

Re: [Freedos-devel] FAT patents and freedos?

2006-01-11 Thread Jim Hall
Markus Laire wrote: Slashdot has an article Microsoft FAT Patent Upheld http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/11/0555252tid=155tid=109 The discussion also links to the page FAT File System Technology License http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/tech/fat.asp Does anyone know if this is a

Re: [Freedos-devel] FAT patents and freedos?

2006-01-11 Thread Jim Hall
I started looking more into the patents in question, and I'm not really concerned with respect to FreeDOS. The 3 patents listed on http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/tech/fat.asp are: * U.S. Patent #5,579,517 Common name space for long and short filenames * U.S. Patent #5,758,352 Common

[Freedos-devel] Hungary mirror site

2005-11-29 Thread Jim Hall
Hi. I'm not sure who owns the mirror site at http://mirrors.pmmf.hu/freedos/ but it appears to be down. I've removed this site from our mirror list. I don't seem to have a contact email address for this mirror site. If you are the webmaster, please email me off-list to get re-added.

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS web site mirrors

2005-11-27 Thread Jim Hall
Hi from Italy. www.freedos.org looks blank, empty I'm very embarrassed by that. Sorry. Just before I signed off last night (after sending my note) I tweaked the get-index script on www.freedos.org, which constructs the front page every hour. It was a minor change, so I didn't test it.

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS web site mirrors

2005-11-26 Thread Jim Hall
Webmasters will want to do a refresh of their FreeDOS.org web site mirror. I just made a change to the css that will make your front page look weird _unless_ you refresh. I've also removed the FreeDOS News Bits section with a FreeDOS Pressroom section. All the News Bits files have been

Re: [Freedos-devel] Official KITTEN

2005-11-18 Thread Jim Hall
Will do. (Expect it this weekend.) Alain wrote: Please send me that version prior to inserting into ibiblio so that I can test if it has the same strange behaviour in XDEL. -- I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I didn't vote for him.

Re: [Freedos-devel] [OT] FreeDOS at SF

2005-11-15 Thread Jim Hall
Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: Hi there, I have incidentally visited the [EMAIL PROTECTED] page, and I've seen their new redesign, I don't know since when it's there, but wow! It definitely needed it, and it's cute now, at least to my eyes. I noticed SF was down earlier this morning, when

Re: [Freedos-devel] DRDOS Inc, FreeDOS, and GPL (was Re:FreeDOS on SourceForge)

2005-10-25 Thread Jim Hall
Bart Oldeman wrote: Hi Jim, I think you confused SourceForge with SlashDot, although both sites are owned by the same company. D'oh! That was a big typo - I had just finished doing a bunch of stuff on the SourceForge site, so that was still floating in my head when I wrote my email. Yes,

Re: [Freedos-devel] DRDOS Inc, FreeDOS, and GPL (was Re:FreeDOS on SourceForge)

2005-10-25 Thread Jim Hall
Bart Oldeman wrote: ... But there are really two seperate issues here: 1) is the thing mentioned in the yellow box on www.freedos.org about SYS and FDXXMS. Well at least they mention it now (I can sleep well as co-copyright holder of SYS I guess): http://www.drdos.com/products/drdos81.htm

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