Re: [Freedos-devel] Testing evaluating the 1.1 release

2011-07-16 Thread Michael B. Brutman
On 7/15/2011 11:33 AM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: Op 15-7-2011 5:08, Michael B. Brutman schreef: - How do I use the new installer that Jim has been working on? It's in the new ISO that I plan to upload by Sunday evening. Still need to work out some things to make it a smoother experience. The initial

[Freedos-devel] Updates to software list

2011-07-16 Thread Jim Hall
Based on discussions with Bernd as we prepare for FreeDOS 1.1, I've done some cleanup on the Software List. The major edits: * COUNTRY: edited to reflect that it is part of KERNEL * DOSFSCK: moved Util - Base * DEVLOAD: moved Util - Base * EMM386: deleted (replaced by JEMM386) * FDSHIELD: moved

Re: [Freedos-devel] Updates to software list

2011-07-16 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 16-7-2011 19:44, Jim Hall schreef: * XMGR: added to Base (removed FDXMS, FDXMS286) I'd keep FDXMS286 if possible, it's the only XMS-driver for 286 machines. Please have a look and let me know if I need to update anything else.http://www.freedos.org/software/ UTIL: you could delete UDMA,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Updates to software list

2011-07-16 Thread Jim Hall
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: Op 16-7-2011 19:44, Jim Hall schreef: * XMGR: added to Base (removed FDXMS, FDXMS286) I'd keep FDXMS286 if possible, it's the only XMS-driver for 286 machines. Ok, I restored FDXMS286 back on the software list (Base).

Re: [Freedos-devel] Testing evaluating the 1.1 release

2011-07-16 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 16-7-2011 16:30, Michael B. Brutman schreef: Good - I await the next revision. I'm trying to do my part here by testing it .. great, thanks. On all of my machines (DOS, Windows and Unix) I try to keep the optional packages separate from the core OS functions. So DOS will live in /DOS

[Freedos-devel] provox dos screen reader

2011-07-16 Thread Travis Siegel
The provox screen reader for dos which I would like to have added to the freedos ftp site is currently located at: http://www.thesiegelsnest.us/provox/provox7.zip I don't (currently) have access to my other computer where I modified the documentation, and created a .lsm file. I will have this

Re: [Freedos-devel] Testing evaluating the 1.1 release

2011-07-16 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On 7/16/11, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: Op 16-7-2011 16:30, Michael B. Brutman schreef: Does this mean that they will be put on the CD later, or that the user has to find a different way to get them on the machine? I think that every packet driver known to man probably fits

Re: [Freedos-devel] provox dos screen reader

2011-07-16 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On 7/16/11, Travis Siegel tsie...@softcon.com wrote: The provox screen reader for dos which I would like to have added to the freedos ftp site is currently located at: http://www.thesiegelsnest.us/provox/provox7.zip Looks good so far. So, If there are any other folks on list who use

Re: [Freedos-devel] Updates to software list

2011-07-16 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On 7/16/11, Jim Hall jh...@freedos.org wrote: Based on discussions with Bernd as we prepare for FreeDOS 1.1, I've done some cleanup on the Software List. The major edits: * DOSFSCK: moved Util - Base While I agree this is better, it's still nice to have CHKDSK for 16-bit cpus (since

Re: [Freedos-devel] Updates to software list

2011-07-16 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On 7/16/11, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: Anyone got experience with the watcom port of FreeCOM yet? Or too experimental / work-in-progress? Bart said it works pretty well, but it's only in SVN (and I don't have a client installed on this machine), so you'll have to grab and build

Re: [Freedos-devel] Updates to software list

2011-07-16 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On 7/16/11, Jim Hall jh...@freedos.org wrote: Mirroring to Ibiblio has to improve still, might want to doublecheck that. Kernel, SHSUCDX and Edlin (what's a binary?) are easy examples of being outdated. Yes, this seems to have been (mostly) ignored while I was away from FreeDOS. Some