Re: [Freedos-devel] USB HID drivers, 64-bit multitasking DOS?,

2014-12-13 Thread Jim Michaels
s a SMART utility (maybe I just didn't look hard enough). ----- Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@renewalcomputerservices.com http://RenewalComputerServices.com http://JesusnJim.com (computer repair info, programming) From: Rugxulo To: Technical discussion and questi

[Freedos-devel] USB HID drivers, 64-bit multitasking DOS?,

2014-12-05 Thread Jim Michaels
r users)? the OS should do that. you can query the cpu package temperature. why not have the ability to query TCASE as well? this would solve the problem of laptop cpu overheating as well. cooling management with these higher-wattage procs like the Intel Extreme series, or the Xeon procs lead me

Re: [Freedos-devel] [Freedos-user] networking library for c++14

2014-07-26 Thread Jim Michaels
nteresting...   ----- Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@renewalcomputerservices.com http://RenewalComputerServices.com http://JesusnJim.com (computer repair info, programming) From: Thomas Mueller To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Jim Micha

[Freedos-devel] networking library for c++14

2014-07-24 Thread Jim Michaels
https://isocpp.org/std/status   according to this, c++ is supposed to get a networking library. it might be from boost, but I don't know. ----- Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@renewalcomputerservices.com http://RenewalComputerServices.com http://JesusnJim.com (computer r

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS JetDirect driver

2014-07-20 Thread Jim Michaels
On 7/19/2014 4:20 AM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Jim Michaels wrote: >> - Original Message - >> >>> From: Steve Nickolas >>> To: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. >>> >>> Cc:

[Freedos-devel] major paradigm shift - light processors from HP and memristors

2014-07-19 Thread Jim Michaels
istor.html http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-06-11/with-the-machine-hp-may-have-invented-a-new-kind-of-computer http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Innovation-HP-Labs/The-Machine-HP-Labs-launches-a-bold-new-research-initiative-to/ba-p/165648#.U7SGevldU3I http://www.hpl.hp.com/news/ ----- Jim

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS JetDirect driver (was: Getting started)

2014-07-19 Thread Jim Michaels
Rugxulo wrote: > >> Hi, Jim, >> >> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Jim Michaels > wrote: >>> >>> a windows version of DJGPP is in the wings, based on cygwin I think. > there's an alpha you can compile with cygwin. >> >> This

[Freedos-devel] about pth and pthreads

2014-07-19 Thread Jim Michaels
is already? I think I did (sorry if I did, hope this helps if I didn't). no docs in it.   ----- Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@renewalcomputerservices.com http://RenewalComputerServices.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has software) --- IEC Units: Computer RAM &am

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS JetDirect driver (was: Getting started)

2014-07-18 Thread Jim Michaels
:18 PM > Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS JetDirect driver (was: Getting started) > > Hi, > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Jim Michaels wrote: >> >> seg:ofs=(seg*16)+ofs=(seg<<4)+ofs (note that it is not bit or, it is > addition). translation of such an add

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Roadmap: (Was Getting started

2014-07-18 Thread Jim Michaels
I would like to add a book to that list: PC Intern system programming by tisher, ,abacus books, it's an encyclopedia pf dos programming know-how and it looks wonderful. - Original Message - > From: Michael B. Brutman > To: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. >

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS JetDirect driver

2014-07-18 Thread Jim Michaels
I don't know if you knew this, but you can telnet to the printer ip and port, HP is 9100. then send it data, and disconnect. I now have code that can be integrated with mtcp I think. I have not compiled it yet. https://www.dropbox.com/s/mjh2qxdsw23ld55/netprint.cpp - Original Message

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS JetDirect driver

2014-07-17 Thread Jim Michaels
for the network stufff, I was thinking of opening a socket and just dumping the printer data from stdin or from a file depnding on commandline options. it' s the easiest way to go. sockets is probably about 10-20 lines of code I think. google sockets example (or look in the source code of the tel

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS JetDirect driver (was: Getting started)

2014-07-10 Thread Jim Michaels
amp;client=firefox-a&channel=sb epson fx control codes http://logix4u.net/parallel-port/43-how-to-read-parallel-serial-port-address-from-bios Interfacing the Standard Parallel Port well, that's enough food for thought for whoever is getting started. that's enough info to get th

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting started

2014-07-09 Thread Jim Michaels
threading? cool! I want see the API! c++ std::thread? pthreads? something else? via software interrupt? (hmm, that's something I would have to mull around in my head) just read this from int13h extended spec for EDD-3: "The BIOS is a single threaded, master device". was hoping UEFI might provi

Re: [Freedos-devel] "download freedos" link broken

2014-07-09 Thread Jim Michaels
reedos.org/download/ and there you have to use >one of the ACTUAL download links to download for example >the ISO image of FreeDOS. Maybe the "main download button" >should NOT be visible on the download page itself, as it >indeed creates the impression of a do-nothing lin

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting started

2014-07-07 Thread Jim Michaels
my hp because it is HP PCL 5/6 you can dump text and formfeeds straight into it, though because font sizes etc have not been set, text size is rather large and duplexer is not taken advantage of. also, my officejet printer is a network printer and uses HP SLP or HPLIP or the port 9100 thing, it

[Freedos-devel] "download freedos" link broken

2014-07-07 Thread Jim Michaels
freedos.org download page http://www.freedos.org/download/    link seems to be broken. I click on it, but it doesn't work in firefox 30.0 ----- Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@renewalcomputerservices.com http://RenewalComputerServices.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site

Re: [Freedos-devel] Can hpa be cleared through USB port?

2014-07-02 Thread Jim Michaels
disk partitioning program most likely, like partition commander or acronis disk director.   - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@renewalcomputerservices.com http://RenewalComputerServices.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has software) --- IEC Units: Computer RAM &

Re: [Freedos-devel] [Freedos-user] Load file sys driver in dconfig.sys?

2014-07-02 Thread Jim Michaels
 IT doesn't use dos that I know of. I used to work in IT. I think you will find out that freedos is for - embedded systems developers - people who want to run their old DOS programs. - probably some other uses I am not covering, like POS I do research like anybody else. but I am not skilled in

[Freedos-devel] where location of floppy boot image in 1.1 iso file?

2014-07-02 Thread Jim Michaels
where is the location of the floppy boot image in the iso file? I need the boot sector specifically to make bootable cdroms using freedos ripcord which uses SYSLINUX/ISOLINUX to boot the disk image file I make. or is it available via FTP, and if so, where? thanks.   - Jim Michaels

[Freedos-devel] VMiX - not all free(?), but muiltitasking, was wrong

2014-06-28 Thread Jim Michaels
remember reading that GPL licensed stuff can be charged for, but I am unsure the full pricing & licensing model of this program.   ----- Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@renewalcomputerservices.com http://RenewalComputerServices.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has soft

[Freedos-devel] VMiX version 3.x is GPL'd

2014-06-24 Thread Jim Michaels
ftp://ftp.sysdev.org/pub/VMiX/   - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@renewalcomputerservices.com http://RenewalComputerServices.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has software) --- IEC Units: Computer RAM & SSD measurements, microsoft disk size measurements (note:

[Freedos-devel] dos task switchers

2014-06-24 Thread Jim Michaels
http://www.oldlinux.org/Linux.old/docs/interrupts/int-html/cat-011.htm   dos tack switchers found this web page and though tit would be of interest. - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@renewalcomputerservices.com http://RenewalComputerServices.com http://JesusnJim.com (my

Re: [Freedos-devel] BtrFS filesystem in FreeDOS

2014-06-18 Thread Jim Michaels
Q:what opttions were used to get DOSLFN to work with what version of FREEDOS? Q:were there any other required drivers to be im place? Q:what did config.sys and autoexec.bat look like? Jim Michaels > > From: Rugxulo >To: freedos-devel@lists.source

[Freedos-devel] how to code fore UEFI

2014-06-14 Thread Jim Michaels
UEFI Programming - First Steps UEFI Programming - First Steps UEFI Programming - First Steps vid, 2009-03-31 Revision: 1.0 View on x86asm.net Preview by Yahoo     - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@renewalcomputerservices.com http://RenewalComputerServices.com http

[Freedos-devel] wildcard filepath match function?

2014-06-13 Thread Jim Michaels
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff469270.aspx rather than having to implement such a routine, is there one I can just call, and is it standard for DOS?   - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@renewalcomputerservices.com http://RenewalComputerServices.com http://JesusnJim.com

Re: [Freedos-devel] [Freedos-user] Load file sys driver in dconfig.sys?

2014-05-14 Thread Jim Michaels
NTFS, however, is supported through http://www.tuxera.com   ntfs-3g and is available for linux, mac and made for *nix. there are DOS NTFS tools: NTFS for Windows 9x & ME - read & write NTFS Avira NTFS4DOS Personal NTFS-3G + Ntfsprogs | Tuxera NTFS-3G + Ntfsprogs | Tuxera NTFS-3G is a stable,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do not use any code from ms-dos release!

2014-05-14 Thread Jim Michaels
 by cpu do you mean Intel thread or AMD core? or are you talking HPC servers that have multiple CPUs each with multiple cores each with multiple threads? I am still trying to figure out what a NUMA node is... I should google it sometime, found it in my environment vars in windows. I still thin

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do not use any code from ms-dos release!

2014-05-14 Thread Jim Michaels
in UEFI, CSM module handles MBR+BIOS. so get the priorities correct in your BIOS settings. if you are booting windows, you wil want UEFI first, and next failover to CSM. there are maybe a couple of places to set this, dig around inside. go spelunking. > > From: T

Re: [Freedos-devel] Nano-X supposedly ported to DOS, API similar both to X and Windows GDI, small memory footprint

2014-04-19 Thread Jim Michaels
opengem is broken as in doesn't work except for one particular version, either it was 5 or 6, 5 I think it was. it has a limited number of applications, and it can run dos programs in sort of a shell. nothing compatible with any windows programs you find on the market today of course, because

Re: [Freedos-devel] Weird behaviour of "legacy USB" trackball

2014-04-19 Thread Jim Michaels
 I seem to remember being told that with the interrupt chip on x86, one of those interrupts or the mask was flaky/trigger happy. > > From: Christoph Nuscheler >To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 2:59 AM >Subject: [Freedos-d

Re: [Freedos-devel] Weird behaviour of "legacy USB" trackball

2014-04-19 Thread Jim Michaels
I suspect something is dropping a byte or something is too sluggish to snap to attention when data is available on the serial line. is this a polling driver, or interrupt-driven? how are the interrupt masks? > > From: Christoph Nuscheler >To: freedos-devel@lists

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do not use any code from ms-dos release!

2014-04-19 Thread Jim Michaels
wow! well, I enjoy multitasking. I want to make all the efficient use of the cpu cycles as I can. I prefer not to let it sit idling and just using up power (though I still do rather than go through the boot process again and lose my environment every time). if I didn't have to reboot or turn th

[Freedos-devel] site page change request

2014-04-19 Thread Jim Michaels
needs for that, me being one of them. floppies are not dead. also, you can make a bootable cd with any cd burning software using a rawrite-compatible floppy image (.img). thanks.   - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@renewalcomputerservices.com http://RenewalComputerServices.com

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos.img - spoke too soon

2014-02-05 Thread Jim Michaels
FAT32 to 32GB and was never fixed even in me, 2k, XP, vista, 7, 8, 8.1), not the normal MS-DOS FAT16/FAT12. >____ > From: Charles Belhumeur >To: Jim Michaels ; Technical discussion and questions for >FreeDOS developers. >Sent: Monday, Feb

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos.img - spoke too soon

2014-02-03 Thread Jim Michaels
 if you are complaining at me, that's OK. I can handle it. my purpose in creating a distribution was to basically incorporate my DOS software toolset. I can always drop my dos versions of stuff if people are just plain opposed to it - things for me are hard enough as it is with not being able

Re: [Freedos-devel] 4, 096 byte sectors and DOSLFN, UIDE...question

2014-01-23 Thread Jim Michaels
I had a situation once where I hibernated with a particular drive installed in the computer. I thought I would just remove the drive since it was powered off. it had precious data on it. when I powered up, got the dialog box about "Could not write $MFT" (that's the filesystem), and from there on

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos.img - spoke too soon

2014-01-23 Thread Jim Michaels
openwatcom left me underwhelmed, it doesn't even have a fully working string class. sad. :-(   ----- Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@renewalcomputerservices.com http://RenewalComputerServices.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has software) --- IEC Units: Computer RAM

[Freedos-devel] freedos.img - spoke too soon

2014-01-17 Thread Jim Michaels
ld someone help? I could not find such a disk image on the freedos 1.1 iso. I thought I found it before, but I guess I was wrong.   help appreciated - thanks folks... ----- Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@renewalcomputerservices.com http://RenewalComputerServices.com http://Je

[Freedos-devel] about the freedos virtualbox file freedos.img

2014-01-17 Thread Jim Michaels
ox .vmdk hard disk image format @ECHO usage: vboxraw2vmdk filein.img fileout.vmdk GOTO end :end enjoy... :-D   - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@renewalcomputerservices.com http://RenewalComputerServices.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has software) --- IEC U

Re: [Freedos-devel] 4, 096 byte sectors and DOSLFN, UIDE...question

2014-01-17 Thread Jim Michaels
 ohh - what utility is that? is that the kernel or...? is someone saying the kernel already does this? if so, cool! still would like to see the filesystem support the full 32GiB. I don't like bumping into limitations - usually goes ouch that hurt now what do I do would also like to see lon

Re: [Freedos-devel] 4, 096 byte sectors and DOSLFN, UIDE...question

2014-01-17 Thread Jim Michaels
ahh yes, 64-bit exFAT. licensed by MS. also, this fs is in 64GiB and larger thumb drives and cards if I am not mistaken.  xp has a not-installed-by-default driver/MS-OS-patch for this you can download for those of you who need it. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=1CBE3

Re: [Freedos-devel] 4, 096 byte sectors and DOSLFN, UIDE...question

2014-01-17 Thread Jim Michaels
g. > > >From: Bertho Grandpied >To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Sent: Thursday, January 2, 2014 3:40 AM >Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] 4, 096 byte sectors and DOSLFN, UIDE...question > > > >On Wed, 1 Jan 2014 23:01:35 -080

Re: [Freedos-devel] 4, 096 byte sectors and DOSLFN, UIDE... question

2014-01-17 Thread Jim Michaels
h new features. > > From: Charles Belhumeur >To: Jim Michaels ; Technical discussion and questions for >FreeDOS developers. >Sent: Thursday, January 2, 2014 1:03 AM >Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] 4, 096 byte sectors and DOSLFN, UIDE... question >

Re: [Freedos-devel] 4, 096 byte sectors and DOSLFN, UIDE... question

2014-01-01 Thread Jim Michaels
 hi... is there a chance it could work with any sector size, so that it doesn't have to be modified when things change again latrer? that could be extremely useful, since worm drives have 512, 1024 byte sectors, Advanced Format drives have 4096 byte sectors, and drive manufacturers are likely

Re: [Freedos-devel] need freedos 1.1 or 1.2 floppy image

2013-10-02 Thread Jim Michaels
I found the 1.1 boot floppy image within the 1.1 cd iso and used that. never mind.what I said was invalid. Jim Michaels > > From: Tom Ehlert >To: Jim Michaels ; Technical discussion and questions for >FreeDOS developers. >Sent: Wednesday,

[Freedos-devel] need freedos 1.1 or 1.2 floppy image

2013-10-02 Thread Jim Michaels
m and it needs to be bootable and not an installer. or maybe it can be made available on the freedos ripcord page? thanks. http://www.fdos.org/bootdisks/   ----- Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@renewalcomputerservices.com http://RenewalComputerServices.com http://JesusnJim.com (my per

[Freedos-devel] mode doesn't support 132 columns?

2013-09-29 Thread Jim Michaels
garding this. help and updates appreciated, thanks.   ----- Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@renewalcomputerservices.com http://RenewalComputerServices.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has software) --- IEC Units: Computer RAM & SSD measurements, microsoft disk size m

[Freedos-devel] ISA par+ser cards, new, jdr.com

2013-09-23 Thread Jim Michaels
http://www.jdr.com/product_p/mct-2s1p-3.htm http://www.jdr.com/product_p/mct-2s-5.htm16550's   ----- Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@renewalcomputerservices.com http://RenewalComputerServices.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has software) --- IEC Units: Computer RAM

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos ftp server?

2013-09-21 Thread Jim Michaels
ur dns resolver. > >Ftp is a messy protocol, and IPv6 does not make it cleaner :P > >Mateusz > > > >Jim Hall wrote: >>On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Jim Michaels >>wrote: >>> I get consistent timeouts trying to use filezilla to anon ftp >>

[Freedos-devel] ISA floppy controller was on ebay

2013-09-21 Thread Jim Michaels
http://www.ebay.com/itm/KW-557B-KOUWELL-CONTOLLER-ISA-CARD-2-FDD-SERIAL-PARALE-/350233432520?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item518b8a11c8   ----- Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@renewalcomputerservices.com http://RenewalComputerServices.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site,

[Freedos-devel] ISA floppy cards might be available, new

2013-09-21 Thread Jim Michaels
http://www.koutech.com/proddetail.asp?linenumber=71 they have all sorts of interesting stuff. still looking for a floppy controller for PCIe.   - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@renewalcomputerservices.com http://RenewalComputerServices.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos ftp server?

2013-09-16 Thread Jim Michaels
I get consistent timeouts trying to use filezilla to anon ftp ftp.ibiblio.org however, it works over the web for some odd reason. perhaps they have gone http only? server misconfig probably. i notified them about it.   - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j

[Freedos-devel] freedos ftp server?

2013-09-14 Thread Jim Michaels
how to use initdisk, it provides a menu of 0..5 items to choose from + Enter. it says to choose form the menu, but there is no ,menu. what do those options mean? I also noticed that it gives error messages about my 2 and 4TB disks with NTFS. - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j

[Freedos-devel] read section 8.7.2, appendix D

2013-08-26 Thread Jim Michaels
things to the CPU that limit the CPU to one logical proc, and that's why it's deprecated in newer OS's. interesting treatise. ----- Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@renewalcomputerservices.com http://RenewalComputerServices.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal sit

[Freedos-devel] HTML5 parsing lib,

2013-08-17 Thread Jim Michaels
earn how to use the tools.   - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@renewalcomputerservices.com http://RenewalComputerServices.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has software) --- IEC Units: Computer RAM & SSD measurements, microsoft disk size measurements (note: they will say GB or MB or

Re: [Freedos-devel] ps2 to 5-pin din adapter, kb's, vm's

2013-06-12 Thread Jim Michaels
I find I make fewer mistakes hitting the enter key because of pinky-reach when the \| is under the enter key. so I was working with unicomp to see if I could come up with a keyboard which had that. ISO layout (\| to right of ') doesn't work best for me, a bit oops-prone. they are on vacation ri

[Freedos-devel] ps2 to 5-pin din adapter, kb's, vm's

2013-06-02 Thread Jim Michaels
/programming/vm virtual machines (if you have any recommendations, let me know what it is, the URL, and what OSs it runs on) - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@renewalcomputerservices.com http://RenewalComputerServices.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has software

[Freedos-devel] 5-pin DIN (AT) keyboards

2013-06-02 Thread Jim Michaels
x27;t prone to oopses.   ----- Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@renewalcomputerservices.com http://RenewalComputerServices.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has software) --- IEC Units: Computer RAM & SSD measurements, microsoft disk size measurements (note: they will say

[Freedos-devel] asking ms to bring command.com to 64-bit win (for dos development)

2013-05-19 Thread Jim Michaels
http://mymfe.microsoft.com/Windows%207/Feedback.aspx?formID=195   this is the windows 7 feedback form. you can ask microsoft to bring back command.com and 16-bit dos support to 64-bit windows. - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@renewalcomputerservices.com http

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS limits! and FDNPKG v0.93a released

2013-05-10 Thread Jim Michaels
xp support will be phased out next year (2014). there is support in windows 7 "xp mode" (via a virtual machine called microsoft virtual pc) for win7ult. works on 64 and 32-bit. emulates 32-bit xp, which is the only version that has command.com so it can run djgpp. I need to test and see if my 64-

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS limits! and FDNPKG v0.93a released

2013-05-10 Thread Jim Michaels
that's not quite accurate. it's slowly being phased out. fedora is the first linux to have wayland. it uses a single window. >____ > From: Jim Michaels >To: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. > >Sent: Frid

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS limits! and FDNPKG v0.93a released

2013-05-10 Thread Jim Michaels
did you know X was tabled in favor of something new? Wayland. also, read here for info on competitors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System#Competitors > > From: Rugxulo >To: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. > >Sent: Monday, M

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS limits! and FDNPKG v0.93a released

2013-04-22 Thread Jim Michaels
 UEFI has plans to remove the BIOS+MBR API at some point when they consider it unneeded. > > From: Eric Auer >To: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. > >Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 12:31 PM >Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS limits

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS limits! and FDNPKG v0.93a released

2013-04-22 Thread Jim Michaels
cmd shell yet (x64 has no command.com so having a working compiler is critical for me on my windows box), but these are the kinds of things I would like to see in an OS. - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@renewalcomputerservices.com http://RenewalComputerServices.com http://JesusnJim.c

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS limits! and FDNPKG v0.93a released

2013-04-22 Thread Jim Michaels
is this my df or someone else's?   ----- Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@renewalcomputerservices.com http://RenewalComputerServices.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has software) --- IEC Units: Computer RAM & SSD measurements, microsoft disk size measurements (n

Re: [Freedos-devel] my account has been compromised, please watch out for false content!

2012-10-02 Thread Jim Michaels
here is a password generator if it will help. you may want to write the password down or print it out. http://pwdgen-jm.sourceforge.net/ this happened to me too, most likely because of a really poor password. 12 character passwords are supposed to be sufficient, using random chars. some chars

Re: [Freedos-devel] Minimalist linux.

2012-06-24 Thread Jim Michaels
you mean like this? http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page https://www.osdisc.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi/products/livecd/systemrescuecd/lcd_0x.html > > From: Bernd Blaauw >To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Sent: Wednesday, May 2, 2012 12:26 PM >Subject: Re: [Freed

[Freedos-devel] for those who use windows to develop freedos apps (like me)

2012-05-27 Thread Jim Michaels
name of a commercial DOS spreadsheet a long time ago I used heavily in college 20 years ago.   - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@jimscomputerrepairandwebdesign.com http://JimsComputerRepairandWebDesign.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has software) --- Computer memory

[Freedos-devel] Fw: where's the big 1.1 ISO?

2012-04-28 Thread Jim Michaels
- Forwarded Message - >From: Jim Michaels >To: Mark Brown >Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 12:12 AM >Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] where's the big 1.1 ISO? > > >http://pastebin.com/L1kJKckm >http://pastebin.com/q6H3pXsM >http://pastebin.com/7ssYs7jm >

[Freedos-devel] Fw: where's the big 1.1 ISO?

2012-04-28 Thread Jim Michaels
- Forwarded Message - >From: Jim Michaels >To: Mark Brown >Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 2:21 PM >Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] where's the big 1.1 ISO? > > >http://pastebin.com/32uuBBWd >this is a replacement link for install3.bat >for some reaso

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOSCALC - Suggestion for a new FreeDOS utility

2012-04-27 Thread Jim Michaels
if this is a conversion utility, why not call it convert?   > > From: Rugxulo >To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 5:33 PM >Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] DOSCALC - Suggestion for a new FreeDOS utility > >Hi, > >On Sat, Apr 7,

[Freedos-devel] bug in mode

2012-04-26 Thread Jim Michaels
S=132 LINES=50 command.com's dir/w does not support it. I use this in my install batch file.   ----- Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@jimscomputerrepairandwebdesign.com http://JimsComputerRepairandWebDesign.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has software) --- Compu

Re: [Freedos-devel] where's the big 1.1 ISO?

2012-04-14 Thread Jim Michaels
is to put the files in a proper structure on the iso.   ----- Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@jimscomputerrepairandwebdesign.com http://JimsComputerRepairandWebDesign.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has software) --- Computer memory measurements, SSD measurements, micr

[Freedos-devel] doslfn41 and freedos

2012-04-07 Thread Jim Michaels
cdrom.  if anyone has had success, I would like to know.   - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@jimscomputerrepairandwebdesign.com http://JimsComputerRepairandWebDesign.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has software) --- Computer memory measurements, SSD measurements

[Freedos-devel] where's the big 1.1 ISO?

2012-04-07 Thread Jim Michaels
say - where's the big ISO?  I only see a base 39MB fdos 1.1 ISO for download.  where's the rest?   ----- Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@jimscomputerrepairandwebdesign.com http://JimsComputerRepairandWebDesign.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has software) --

Re: [Freedos-devel] Insight requested on drive letter assignation in DOS

2012-04-07 Thread Jim Michaels
512-byte boot sectors.  I wonder how long that's going to last given that 4k-sector drives are popping up more and more. > > From: Rugxulo >To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 2:31 PM >Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Insight

Re: [Freedos-devel] Insight requested on drive letter assignation in DOS

2012-04-06 Thread Jim Michaels
' \\.\PhysicalDrive0 match exactly, 1 matches too, etc. Jim Michaels > > From: Bernd Blaauw >To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 1:32 PM >Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Insight requested on drive letter

Re: [Freedos-devel] [Freedos-user] writing a loadable block driver for 4k-sector drive (Questions)

2012-03-05 Thread Jim Michaels
works, you could leave the remaining space for other OS's (?) we do have 4TB disks.  the price is $369 USD for now during the hard drive shortage.  they are probably 4k sectors I would venture a guess...  ----- Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@jimscomputerrepairandwebdesig

Re: [Freedos-devel] resources, including JAVA JVM for DOS

2012-03-05 Thread Jim Michaels
rces, including JAVA JVM for DOS > >Hi, > >On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Jim Michaels wrote: >> - PC Blue library has msdos stuff http://cd.textfiles.com/pcblue/ > >Looks like old stuff (figForth? quite ancient). The descriptions are >quite bare, so I don't know

[Freedos-devel] resources, including JAVA JVM for DOS

2012-03-04 Thread Jim Michaels
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ledos/   ----- Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@jimscomputerrepairandwebdesign.com http://JimsComputerRepairandWebDesign.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has software) --- Computer memory measurements, SSD measurements, microsoft disk size measure

[Freedos-devel] teac usb floppy drive

2012-01-16 Thread Jim Michaels
https://shop.teac.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=38 http://teac.com teac also has other kinds of floppy drives.   ----- Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@jimscomputerrepairandwebdesign.com http://JimsComputerRepairandWebDesign.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has soft

[Freedos-devel] new C11 ISO C standard will have threads

2012-01-15 Thread Jim Michaels
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/ISO-updates-C-standard-1400814.html new C11 ISO C standard will have threads   - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@jimscomputerrepairandwebdesign.com http://JimsComputerRepairandWebDesign.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has

[Freedos-devel] dosfsck, chkdsk, whatever and doslfn41

2012-01-08 Thread Jim Michaels
fixing a filesystem is an important thing... does anyone know if any or all of the filesystem repair programs work with doslfn? or does doslfn basically not matter?   - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@jimscomputerrepairandwebdesign.com http

[Freedos-devel] commercial uses/products for DOS/freedos that I know of

2011-12-22 Thread Jim Michaels
ber 13, 2011 9:37 AM >Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] hey! new freedos box! > >Op 13-12-2011 7:34, Jim Michaels schreef: >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=16736%204020&IsNodeId=1&name=%24400%20-%20%24500# >> - > >Inter

Re: [Freedos-devel] hey! new freedos box!

2011-12-22 Thread Jim Michaels
p;y=19 interesting variety of machines. >____ > From: Jim Michaels >To: freedos development >Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 10:34 PM >Subject: [Freedos-devel] hey! new freedos box! > > >http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Sub

[Freedos-devel] hey! new freedos box!

2011-12-12 Thread Jim Michaels
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=16736%204020&IsNodeId=1&name=%24400%20-%20%24500#   --------- Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@jimscomputerrepairandwebdesign.com http://JimsComputerRepairandWebDesign.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site,

Re: [Freedos-devel] pretty soon no more floppy controllers, only usb floppies

2011-11-12 Thread Jim Michaels
sourceforge.net >Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 10:52 AM >Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] pretty soon no more floppy controllers, only usb >floppies > >Op 31-10-2011 6:10, Jim Michaels schreef: >> this is practically identical to the batch file I am using now (minus >> the unne

[Freedos-devel] dosbox dos emulator

2011-11-11 Thread Jim Michaels
http://www.dosbox.com/ emulates instruction by instruction - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@jimscomputerrepairandwebdesign.com http://JimsComputerRepairandWebDesign.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has software) --- Computer memory/disk size measurements: [KB KiB

Re: [Freedos-devel] hopes of an OS/2 clone

2011-11-06 Thread Jim Michaels
devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 10:48 AM >Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] hopes of an OS/2 clone > >Op 31-10-2011 5:50, Jim Michaels schreef: >> by the way, if I had a cd-bootable OS/2 kind of OS, that would be really >> cool!!! > >Isn't t

Re: [Freedos-devel] pretty soon no more floppy controllers, only usb floppies

2011-10-30 Thread Jim Michaels
only usb >floppies > >Op 30-10-2011 22:55, Jim Michaels schreef: >> I know someone has answered this question before, but how do I make >> bootable freedos cd images I have mkisofs...? >> I think it had something to do with a hard disk image and ISOLINUX and a >>

[Freedos-devel] hopes of an OS/2 clone

2011-10-30 Thread Jim Michaels
know to do this...  Surprisingly, I was able to do this with efs4 in ubuntu 11.10.  could not do this with earlier versions.   ----- Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@jimscomputerrepairandwebdesign.com http://JimsComputerRepairandWebDesign.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal sit

Re: [Freedos-devel] pretty soon no more floppy controllers, only usb floppies

2011-10-30 Thread Jim Michaels
gh to impossible though, after freedos is loaded. SHSUCDX and eltorito drivers no longer work as usual!   ----- Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@jimscomputerrepairandwebdesign.com http://JimsComputerRepairandWebDesign.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has sof

Re: [Freedos-devel] pretty soon no more floppy controllers, only usb floppies

2011-10-29 Thread Jim Michaels
9:30 AM >Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] pretty soon no more floppy controllers, only usb >floppies > >Op 11-10-2011 22:54, Jim Michaels schreef: > >> the world is going to usb floppies. >> the best usb floppy is nippon labs. only it can actually format. > >Good

Re: [Freedos-devel] mTCP-2011-10-01 is available

2011-10-26 Thread Jim Michaels
what is SNTP?  I have heard of SMTP and SNMP, but not of SNTP.  new protocol? > >From: Michael B. Brutman >To: freedos-u...@lists.sourceforge.net; freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Sent: Saturday, October 1, 2011 1:50 PM >Subject: [Freedos-devel] mTCP-2011-1

Re: [Freedos-devel] 1.1 distribution on ftp area?

2011-10-26 Thread Jim Michaels
 are bootable floppy images planned? (I hope) > >From: Bernd Blaauw >To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 9:32 AM >Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] 1.1 distribution on ftp area? > >Op 25-10-2011 8:41, Jim M

[Freedos-devel] 1.1 distribution on ftp area?

2011-10-24 Thread Jim Michaels
  the directories are not the same. apparently the mirrors are not being updated? if these are no longer the official ftp mirrors, what are they?   ----- Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@jimscomputerrepairandwebdesign.com http://JimsComputerRepairandWebDesign.com http://JesusnJim.co

[Freedos-devel] pretty soon no more floppy controllers, only usb floppies

2011-10-11 Thread Jim Michaels
x Front+4 x Back), 6 SATA3, 6 Core CPU ASRock X58 Extreme 3 LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard ASRock 890FX Deluxe4 AM3 AMD 890FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard   - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@jimscomputerrepairandwebdesign.com http

[Freedos-devel] GPT FAQ

2011-10-02 Thread Jim Michaels
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463525.aspx may require a windows live login to access this content. answers some interesting and useful questions regarding GPT.   - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@jimscomputerrepairandwebdesign.com http

Re: [Freedos-devel] Freedos and lack of drivers

2011-09-17 Thread Jim Michaels
you are right, I am wrong. I've been wrong before. somehow I thought someone had said the project was on sourceforge.  (sf.net)  many projects on sf.net also have their own regular web sites. > >From: Ralf A. Quint >To: Jim Michaels ;

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