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

2014-12-13 Thread Jim Michaels
utility (maybe I just didn't look hard enough). - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@renewalcomputerservices.com http:#x2F;#x2F;RenewalComputerServices.com http:#x2F;#x2F;JesusnJim.com (computer repair info, programming) From: Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com To: Technical discussion

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

2014-12-05 Thread Jim Michaels
? 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 in this direction. - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@renewalcomputerservices.com http:#x2F;#x2F

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

2014-07-26 Thread Jim Michaels
...   - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@renewalcomputerservices.com http:#x2F;#x2F;RenewalComputerServices.com http:#x2F;#x2F;JesusnJim.com (computer repair info, programming) From: Thomas Mueller mueller6...@twc.com To: freedos-devel

[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:#x2F;#x2F;RenewalComputerServices.com http:#x2F;#x2F;JesusnJim.com

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 jmich...@yahoo.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Steve Nickolas To: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Sent: Friday, July 18

[Freedos-devel] about pth and pthreads

2014-07-19 Thread Jim Michaels
? 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 SSD measurements

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

2014-07-19 Thread Jim Michaels
2014, Rugxulo wrote: Hi, Jim, On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com 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 is so wrong that I don't even know where to begin. DJGPP

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

2014-07-19 Thread Jim Michaels
://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 Michaels jmich

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 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 mbbrut...@brutman.com To: Technical discussion and questions for

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

2014-07-18 Thread Jim Michaels
: Monday, July 14, 2014 9:18 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS JetDirect driver (was: Getting started) Hi, On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com wrote: seg:ofs=(seg*16)+ofs=(seg4)+ofs (note that it is not bit or, it is addition). translation of such an address

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

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

2014-07-10 Thread Jim Michaels
the Standard Parallel Port well, that's enough food for thought for whoever is getting started. that's enough info to get the project rolling. I wish I had my DOS dev environment working! Jim Michaels From: Mateusz Viste To: freedos-devel

Re: [Freedos-devel] download freedos link broken

2014-07-09 Thread Jim Michaels
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 link there. Regards, Eric PS: Please make your email signature shorter! Jim Michaels jmich

[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, has

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,

[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

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

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 SSD

[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

[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] wildcard filepath match function?

2014-06-14 Thread Jim Michaels
is at 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

[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

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,

[Freedos-devel] site page change request

2014-04-19 Thread Jim Michaels
? there are 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] 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

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 christoph.nusche...@t-online.de To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014

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] 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] freedos.img - spoke too soon

2014-01-23 Thread Jim Michaels
at 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 SSD

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] 4, 096 byte sectors and DOSLFN, UIDE... question

2014-01-17 Thread Jim Michaels
features. From: Charles Belhumeur chbelhumeur2...@gmail.com To: Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com; Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, January 2, 2014 1:03 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] 4

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

2014-01-17 Thread Jim Michaels
y31415926...@yahoo.fr 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 -0800 (PST) Jim Michaels wrote :   ?hi... is there a chance it could work with any sector

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.

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

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

2014-01-17 Thread Jim Michaels
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 Units: Computer RAM SSD measurements, microsoft disk size measurements (note

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

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

2013-10-02 Thread Jim Michaels
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 personal

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 t...@drivesnapshot.de To: Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com; Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers

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

2013-09-29 Thread Jim Michaels
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 measurements (note

[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_0hash=item518b8a11c8   - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@renewalcomputerservices.com http://RenewalComputerServices.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos ftp server?

2013-09-21 Thread Jim Michaels
is a messy protocol, and IPv6 does not make it cleaner :P Mateusz Jim Hall jh...@freedos.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com wrote: I get consistent timeouts trying to use filezilla to anon ftp ftp.ibiblio.org however, it works over the web for some odd

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?

2013-09-15 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 site, has software

[Freedos-devel] HTML5 parsing lib,

2013-08-17 Thread Jim Michaels
. not sure, but you MIGHT need to enable virtual type of stuff on your cmos setup (BIOS) too. there is a dd for windows. but you have to be very careful with it and floppy disk imaging utility all by a guy in Australia, he has a web site. you have to learn how to use the tools.   - Jim

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

2013-06-02 Thread Jim Michaels
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 GB or MB

[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

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 rugx...@gmail.com To: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers.

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 jmich...@yahoo.com To: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. freedos-devel

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

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

[Freedos-devel] bug in mode

2012-04-27 Thread Jim Michaels
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) --- Computer memory

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

2012-04-14 Thread Jim Michaels
for 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, microsoft

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 rugx...@gmail.com To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 2:31 PM Subject: Re:

[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) --- Computer

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

2012-03-05 Thread Jim Michaels
, including JAVA JVM for DOS Hi, On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com 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 how much is useful. (FreeDOS

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

2012-03-05 Thread Jim Michaels
, 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...@jimscomputerrepairandwebdesign.com http

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

2012-03-04 Thread Jim Michaels
://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 measurements

[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

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

2011-12-22 Thread Jim Michaels
. From: Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com To: freedos development freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 10:34 PM Subject: [Freedos-devel] hey! new freedos box! http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENEN=16736%204020IsNodeId=1name=%24400

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

2011-12-22 Thread Jim Michaels
, 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=ENEN=16736%204020IsNodeId=1name=%24400%20-%20%24500# - Interesting to see it publicly advertised. Usually FreeDOS

[Freedos-devel] hey! new freedos box!

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

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

2011-10-30 Thread Jim Michaels
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 software

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

2011-10-30 Thread Jim Michaels
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 site, has software

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

2011-10-30 Thread Jim Michaels
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 VM, if I am not mistaken. I have no specifics

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 mbbrut...@brutman.com To: freedos-u...@lists.sourceforge.net; freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Saturday, October 1, 2011 1:50 PM Subject:

[Freedos-devel] 1.1 distribution on ftp area?

2011-10-25 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.com (my

[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

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

2011-09-17 Thread Jim Michaels
I am getting timeouts on that server. both web server and ftp server are dead. Status:    Waiting to retry... Status:    Resolving address of ftp.sysdev.org Status:    Connecting to :21... Status:    Connection attempt failed with ETIMEDOUT - Connection attempt timed out. Error:    Could not

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 free...@gmx.net To: Jim Michaels jmich

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

2011-09-15 Thread Jim Michaels
I may have made a mistake about seeing some pthreads in one compiler...  found out native threads are threads given by the OS. so never mind. From: Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent

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

2011-09-15 Thread Jim Michaels
the intel processor manuals are at: http://www.intel.com/design/corei7ee/documentation.htm programming 3a section 7.6 is of specific interest, as it contains stuff about multicore and multithreaded programming for IA-32 procs. From: Travis Siegel

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

2011-09-10 Thread Jim Michaels
I could see multithreading support in 7-zip. but then again files aren't usually very big in DOS.  I don't know if OpenWATCOM or DJGPP has support for POSIX threads. C++ is getting a makeover by the way, it is getting native STL support for threads if I understand correctly.  I should

Re: [Freedos-devel] potential issues with freedos in virtual environments

2011-09-05 Thread Jim Michaels
I can tell you that the packet drivers I was directed to, crynwyr, are SO OLD.  no development has been done on DOS packet drivers since then, apparently.  solution?  get the drivers from realtek (the email I sent to this list earlier), and get a cheap ethernet NIC that is realtek 8139-based. 

[Freedos-devel] Realtek 8139 NIC drivers for DOS

2011-08-08 Thread Jim Michaels
DOS drivers, here ya go! this might be a link you could put in the freedos manual or web site somewhere. I am probably behind a lot of other people here, but I haven't seen this notice yet since the 8139 cards came out. Enjoy, folks   - Jim

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos 1.1. :F loppy distro

2011-08-08 Thread Jim Michaels
.   - 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] [MB MiB] [GB GiB] [TB TiB] [10^3B

[Freedos-devel] IPcalypse - off in the distance?

2011-08-08 Thread Jim Michaels
about coming up with something for home users.   - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@jimscomputerrepairandwebdesign.com http://JimsComputerRepairandWebDesign.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has software) --- Computer memory

Re: [Freedos-devel] New FreeDOS 1.1 test ISO (#3) released

2011-07-27 Thread Jim Michaels
is there a way you can selectively choose what parts you want to install?  like select all but uncheck arachne, lynx, and bobcat? could you add cURL for DOS?   - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@jimscomputerrepairandwebdesign.com http

Re: [Freedos-devel] New FreeDOS 1.1 test ISO (#3) released

2011-07-27 Thread Jim Michaels
and cdrtools for dos?   - 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

Re: [Freedos-devel] .BAT tricks (%RANDOM%, ANSI escapes in %PROMPT%)

2011-07-26 Thread Jim Michaels
I seem to remember a DOS driver called NNANSI.SYS some time ago which gave the console ANSI escape sequences.   - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@jimscomputerrepairandwebdesign.com http://JimsComputerRepairandWebDesign.com http

Re: [Freedos-devel] {Spam?} Re: .BAT tricks (%RANDOM%, ANSI escapes in %PROMPT%)

2011-07-26 Thread Jim Michaels
pushed. My prompt looks like this, but then I have a 132 column window: Tue 07/26/2011  0:37:21.96|C:\Documents and Settings\Jim Michaels| If you want to see what Windows' are, simply do prompt /? - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j

[Freedos-devel] BIOS function support is going away for good

2011-07-21 Thread Jim Michaels
problems down the road and I like to solve them up front. - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@jimscomputerrepairandwebdesign.com http://JimsComputerRepairandWebDesign.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has software) --- Computer

Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp

2011-07-08 Thread Jim Michaels
.   - 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] [MB MiB] [GB GiB] [TB TiB] [10^3B=1,000B=1KB][2^10B=1,024B=1KiB] [10

Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp

2011-07-08 Thread Jim Michaels
they are available here. http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/index.html From: Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, July 6, 2011 4:02 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp Op 3-7-2011 4:26, Michael B. Brutman

Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp

2011-07-08 Thread Jim Michaels
cURL has no problem with ftp:// it handles LOTS of protocols From: Michael B. Brutman mbbrut...@brutman.com To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, July 6, 2011 4:32 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp On 7/6/2011 6:02 PM, Bernd

Re: [Freedos-devel] mTCP FTP URIs (was: watcom tcp

2011-07-08 Thread Jim Michaels
have you tried putting the URL in double quotes? that *may* prevent the program from treating ftp://blah as 3 maybe 2 arguments (ftp: / /blah or ftp: //blah).  I should think it would be 3. also, if this is djgpp, you need to turn off globbing because / ? * . [ ] is speclal (this is or almost

Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp

2011-07-05 Thread Jim Michaels
DOS version of cURL can be obtained from http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/index.html From: Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Saturday, July 2, 2011 5:42 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp Op 3-7-2011 1:54,

Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp

2011-07-05 Thread Jim Michaels
how on earth shall I expect to build a bootable ISO image with mkisofs?   From: Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2011 1:23 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] watcom tcp Hi, On 7/2/11, Bernd Blaauw

[Freedos-devel] UEFI adopter membership is free, UEFI news

2011-06-20 Thread Jim Michaels
it)   - 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] [MB MiB] [GB GiB] [TB TiB] [10^3B=1,000B=1KB][2^10B=1,024B=1KiB] [10^6B

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.1 (again)

2011-06-13 Thread Jim Michaels
this is greatly appreciated, having a stable up-to-date release of 7-zip!  thanks! From: Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 3:13 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.1 (again) Hi again, On

[Freedos-devel] UEFI

2011-06-11 Thread Jim Michaels
be wrong, it's been a while since I checked the spec, and I am sure it's been updated since then.  I wouldn't think they would totally drop BIOS functionality.   - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@jimscomputerrepairandwebdesign.com http

Re: [Freedos-devel] IPv6

2011-06-10 Thread Jim Michaels
To: Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com Sent: Thursday, June 9, 2011 7:44 AM Subject: IPv6 Jim, Interesting thought!  But is this something lots of people need to refer to lots of times?  Don't most of us -- even most of us web designers -- just need it to work and stay relatively invisible behind

[Freedos-devel] issue with wattcp and IPV6?

2011-06-09 Thread Jim Michaels
has anyone tested wattcp with IPV6?  is FreeDOS IPV6 ready?   - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@jimscomputerrepairandwebdesign.com http://JimsComputerRepairandWebDesign.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has software

Re: [Freedos-devel] bug in edit

2011-06-01 Thread Jim Michaels
0.7d is what I am using.  it seems to work much better when - the files are fully extracted - the files are not readonly (I was copying off of cd), especially the .cfg file I should think. so it's my problem. when copying files off of a cd, the readonly attribute is automatically set on the

Re: [Freedos-devel] problem with 7303h?

2011-03-20 Thread Jim Michaels
...@yahoo.com To: Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com Sent: Fri, March 18, 2011 11:52:17 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] problem with 7303h? Hi Jim, Translating from assembly to C is not quite as straightforward as one might expect (or desire). A good place to start is section 18 of DJ's FAQs. I believe

[Freedos-devel] problem with 7303h?

2011-03-15 Thread Jim Michaels
should think I would have gotten it by now with all the things I have tried. - Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com j...@jimscomputerrepairandwebdesign.com http://JimsComputerRepairandWebDesign.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has software) http://DoLifeComputers.JesusnJim.com

Re: [Freedos-devel] problem with 7303h?

2011-03-15 Thread Jim Michaels
; iTotal *= pds-total_number_of_clusters_on_the_drive; } } } free(pds); From: Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com To: freedos development freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tue, March 15, 2011 11:33:25 AM

Re: [Freedos-devel] pointers to CWSDPMI (was: freedos emulation under 64-bit...)

2011-03-07 Thread Jim Michaels
 I was duly informed by the djgpp forum that even though you add cwsdstub.exe to your executable stub after EXE2COFFing it, you still need to include cwsdpmi.exe (the DPMI server) for it to properly execute everywhere.  most of the directions are included in csdpmi.doc. XP includes a DPMI

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