Re: [Freedos-devel] Question about USBDOS license

On 30.11.2023 20:22, Bret Johnson via Freedos-devel wrote: They can voluntarily contribute if they want, but nothing is required. Hi Bret, I would have another question regarding USBDOS' license: what about manufacturers that sell computers with FreeDOS preinstalled to avoid the Windows

[Freedos-devel] Regarding Edlin in Chinese

Hi all, French and Turkish translation contributor to FreeDOS here. While browsing the archive of freedos-devel, I stumbled upon the thread about Edlin in Chinese and wanted to bring a few pages to your attention. Firstly, you may see that some people are asking for CJK (Chinese, Japanese,

Re: [Freedos-devel] mkey keyboard

On 3.01.2022 17:18, tom ehlert wrote: Hi, >> But I still think about adding turkish layouts in mkeyb. > why? obviously thraex has had a turkish keyboard driver > for the last 30 years. what is the problem ou are trying to solve? > > and thraex hasn't complained himself, so

Re: [Freedos-devel] mkey keyboard

On 31.12.2021 21:02, tom ehlert wrote: > > However I react supercritically when people that never contributed > anything suggest that I contribute some work. Hi Tom, I'm a newbie around here, I don't know much of the history of this mailing-list. Also, I didn't contribute much, and

Re: [Freedos-devel] Installer NLS Questions

izizi/freedos.img -cdrom /home/tizizi/DEV0LIVE.iso -sandbox on,obsolete=deny,elevateprivileges=deny,spawn=deny,resourcecontrol=deny -msg timestamp=on 2021-12-31T13:52:11.070315Z qemu-system-i386: Display 'sdl' is not available. when I use Jim's invocation, of which I barely understood less

Re: [Freedos-devel] Thank you Jerome

On 30.12.2021 03:11, Wilhelm Spiegl wrote: > Hi to all, > > I think it is time to say THANK YOU very very much to Jerome at this point. I had the exact same idea and thought about posting such a message when 1.3 was going to be released but you were faster Willi :-) Jerome has been dealing

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fwd: FDTUI and Minibox

On 21.12.2021 20:28, Jim Hall wrote: > Hi everyone! > > Ercan sent this announcement and question to me, and I wanted to share > it with the freedos-devel list: > > > -- Forwarded message - > (...) Some commands of Minibox doesn't working with CWSDPMI. > But, it works on

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC5

On 10.12.2021 14:55, Jerome Shidel wrote: >> >> Ouch. PGM.BAT works just fine, I was looking for PGME.BAT, my bad. > > No problem.  > > When PGME is installed using it’s installer, it mentions the batch > loader PGM. But when installed via FreeDOS package, there isn’t a good > way to make

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC5

On 9.12.2021 18:35, Jerome Shidel wrote: > >> * When launching PGME, I couldn't find the PGME.BAT file. So I can't >> start FDIMPLES for instance. > > There is no such file as PGME.BAT. Ouch. PGM.BAT works just fine, I was looking for PGME.BAT, my bad. >> * Speaking of FDIMPLES, it doesn't

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC5

On 9.12.2021 01:15, Jerome Shidel wrote: > Hello FreeDOS Community, > > The wait for 1.3-RC5 is over. It has arrived! Yay! Thank you! I gave it a quick try in VirtualBox after choosing French and Turkish in the installer and here are some remarks: * Blocek needs to be updated to 1.62r2,

Re: [Freedos-devel] List of blocking issues for FreeDOS 1.3

On 16.08.2021 00:27, Jim Hall wrote: > Hi everyone > > Based on our email list discussion from a few weeks ago, I've captured > the "blocking issues" for FreeDOS 1.3 in a new wiki page: > > http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Releases/1.3/Issues > > > **Please review this page and let me

[Freedos-devel] Problems with the CRYNWR.BAT file in fdos\drivers\crynwr\

Hi, After creating a VM with VirtualBox 6.1.22_Ubuntu r144080 under Ubuntu 20.04, I did a full install of FreeDOS 1.3 RC4 from the Live CD. Then, with FDIMPLES I installed all networking programs with, amongst them, the Crynwr drivers. I found the CRYNWR.BAT file that is in the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Devel-Philosophy [was: blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3]

On 30.07.2021 13:31, Jerome Shidel wrote: > As a reminder…  > > If you want to contribute new or updated translations, please > visit https://github.com/shidel/fd-nls >  and be sure and check out > the https://github.com/shidel/fd-nls/blob/master/report.txt >

Re: [Freedos-devel] What are the blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3?

On 29.07.2021 17:44, Bret Johnson wrote: > While it should be relatively easy to write this output in another Indeed, looks like fairly doable :) > language, the options themselves are mnemonic to make it easier to > remember them (which is why I have some words capitalized in the >

Re: [Freedos-devel] What are the blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3?

On 28.07.2021 07:58, Bret Johnson wrote: > I saw Wilhelm's earlier comment and started thinking about some of its > implications: >   > i) NLS support: Is there anybody who can tell me if all DOS commands > support [J(a)|Nein] or [O(ui)|N(on)] etc. instead of [Y(es)|N(o)]? If > not, they should

Re: [Freedos-devel] What are the blocking bugs/issues for FreeDOS 1.3?

On 26.07.2021 01:29, Jim Hall wrote: > And: With the updates we have, are we ready to release this as > "FreeDOS 1.3" or do we need a "FreeDOS 1.4 RC5"? As a translator and somewhat a tester, IMHO a RC5 would be necessary. For example, when one chooses the French or Turkish (and possibly

Re: [Freedos-devel] Bloček Update

On 14.02.2021 18:36, thraex wrote: > > On 14.02.2021 17:47, Jerome Shidel wrote: > >> I’m hoping one of you are familiar with the program and would like to >> provide an updated package for it.  >> >> https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/f

Re: [Freedos-devel] Bloček Update

On 14.02.2021 17:47, Jerome Shidel wrote: > (also posted to freedos-user) > > Hi All, Hey Jerome, > I downloaded the latest version and attempted to use it in DOSBox. > However, running its executable it simply hesitated and returned to the > command prompt. As someone who doesn’t use the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Translations (was: Re: Missing FDOS utilities)

On 19.05.2020 18:12, Eric Auer wrote: > Which leads to the question why Mateusz abandoned it in 2016. > Either it was too much work or there were too few fresh text > translations coming in per period of time to maintain it? Sorry for my late reply, I was in a spree finishing HTML Help

Re: [Freedos-devel] Missing FDOS utilities

On 20.05.2020 00:13, Jerome Shidel wrote: > But, eventually FDIMPLES will support multiple online software repos. So... That would be great IMHO, so that like Debian GNU/Linux we can separate free and non free programs. One repo for FreeDOS, another one for additional things that are not

[Freedos-devel] All the HTML Help files translated in French

Hello everybody, It took time, but I finished translating HTML Help files in French. You can find an archive containing them in this gopher hole: . It would be great if you could take a look and point out any mistakes I (could have) made. Please don't

Re: [Freedos-devel] Missing FDOS utilities

On 18.05.2020 23:28, Jerome Shidel wrote: >> Hehe, I have bad news for you Jerome. I reviewed French translations and >> I (or rather, the spellchecker and the Grammalecte tool) caught several >> mistakes in choice, edlin, fc, fdnpkg, find, freecom_err, freecom_lng, >> help, htmlhelp, md5sum,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Translations (was: Re: Missing FDOS utilities)

On 19.05.2020 02:52, Eric Auer wrote: > Of course it would also be nice to have a central point for the > translators: Somebody would have to collect all translatable code > bits from the individual packages (NOT normalizing it into single > file formats if you ask me) and put them in a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Translations (was: Re: Missing FDOS utilities)

On 19.05.2020 02:07, perditi...@gmail.com wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2020, 3:58 PM thraex <mailto:thr...@numericable.fr>> wrote: > > I understand both sides, from a translator perspective, having a single I can only talk about the translator's perspective as I can't code (

Re: [Freedos-devel] Missing FDOS utilities

On 18.05.2020 15:17, Jerome Shidel wrote: > First, http://freedoslocal.sourceforge.net is no longer maintained.  Indeed, that's a resource I miss sorely as a translator :( > Occasionally, individuals have sent me translations for packages other > than the ones I develop. With no good place to

Re: [Freedos-devel] Turkish Encoding in FreeDOS

On 31.10.2019 20:38, Eric Auer wrote: > I have not checked whether FreeCOM translations got > updated after 2003. Maybe a nice project for language > loving FreeDOS users on this mailing list? :-) Yes they were, the French translation was updated, a Turkish translation and several others were

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

2.01.2019 02:30 tarihinde Jerome Shidel yazdı: > > Sorry, I didn’t notice. Displaying the found translations is a new feature in > the build environment. I know there are a couple missin from the German > translations. So, I figured it might be nice that you were shown during that > phase.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

29.12.2018 18:18 tarihinde Jerome Shidel yazdı: >> Finally, if there is other stuff that can be translated for FreeDOS, >> feel free to yell at me. > > :-) Well, you should have yelled :-P Looking at all this scrolling text, I noticed that CuteMouse wasn't translated in Turkish (it wasn't

Re: [Freedos-devel] Do FreeDOS in the Cloud

Jerome Shidel wrote: > Hi everybody. Hello Jerome, > If you want to see 1.3 built in the cloud on DigitalOcean, check out > the https://youtu.be/XZoWCFJDdqY Looking at all this scrolling text (after the make clean translate all command), I noticed that some packages (edict, fdtui and others)

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3 list of packages

On 11.11.2018 02:32 Jim Hall wrote: > Thanks, that's very helpful! > > I'll update USBDOS to be green. :-) It's pretty clear the current requirements make this application non free (see below), so shouldn't it be marked as red instead? > On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 12:30 PM Bret Johnson wrote:

[Freedos-devel] Regarding translations for FreeDOS

Hello everyone, For some reason the private e-mails I send end up in the antispam box of the recipients, so I'm sending to the list instead. I just wanted to remind that for French and Turkish all the packages have been translated on so please don't forget

[Freedos-devel] Starting FreeDOS 1.3

12-07-2018 02:01 tarihinde Jerome Shidel yazdı: >> Doom, Hexen, Heretic! :) > > Those old commercial games would be great. But, unfortunately very few were > ever released to open source or even a public license. So, we can not include > most of those games. > > But, if you know of any,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Starting FreeDOS 1.3

10-07-2018 23:46 tarihinde Jerome Shidel yazdı: >> On Jul 10, 2018, at 3:06 PM, Jim Hall > > wrote: >> >> Hi everyone >> >> I'd like to start work on FreeDOS 1.3! >> > More good games would nice. :-) Doom, Hexen, Heretic! :) > If anyone is interested in doing some

[Freedos-devel] Translations for FreeCOM 0.84-pre4

Hi all, I've read the announcement about the updated FreeCOM prerelease but couldn't find the Turkish translations in the tarball of freecom-com084pre4 (in the strings directory). Also, the French translation contained in the tarball seems to be fairly old, whereas a newer and updated version is

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 RC2 - Turkish Character Layout

Jerome Shidel wrote: > >> On Dec 10, 2016, at 2:10 PM, Ercan Ersoy wrote: >> >> I'm using Oracle VirtualBox 5.1.10. I installed FreeDOS 1.2 RC2 on >> virtual machine. I selected Turkish language in setup. In setup and >> after install, Turkish characters isn't applied by FreeDOS. >> > > (...)

Re: [Freedos-devel] How to rework some French translations and contribute a Turkish translation?

Hi, I worked a little bit on the French installer and translated it in Turkish. Mateusz's utf8tocp tool was really helpful to get the French file into utf8 :) I uploaded a tarball at , you can find these files both in UTF8 and in

Re: [Freedos-devel] How to rework some French translations and contribute a Turkish translation?

Hello, I translated a few files into French and sent them to Mateusz (fdnpkg.fr, fdpkg.fr, move.fr and xcopy.fr). After looking to these files, several questions and remarks spring to my mind: - I think providing a link to http://freedoslocal.sourceforge.net/ from freedos.org would be a good