Re: [Freedos-devel] The confusing fdisk releases

2021-06-16 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
  I am not sure if bug 304 is already fixed, it was still in 1.3.4. So I report it again. hi tom, fdisk supports 2 tb in size, it is no problem to create a partition smaller than one TB, but it is not possible to create a partition bigger than 1 TB because too less digits for entering the value

[Freedos-devel] fdisk, format and scandisk

2021-06-13 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi,I just wanted to give some feedback too.does anybody really worry about the bug tracker?a) bug 304, hi tom, fdisk supports 2 tb in size, it is no problem to create a 999 gb partition, but it is not possible to create a 1001 gb partition because too less digits for entering the value are

Re: [Freedos-devel]   NLS and Translations

2021-05-24 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
question about nls, do they all have to be written in the correct codepage used by the language / country set in freedos?some time ago i checked and noticed that this is not the fact. they are made in different ways, some with windows, some with linux, the result was that special characters

[Freedos-devel] Blocek

2021-07-02 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi to everyone, I just wanted to inform you that Blocek (text editor) from the actual DOS repository is out of date. The actual version is 1.62, available athttp://laaca.sweb.cz/ . I just work on the german translation.   The more important reason why I write this is, that this new version

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDISK issue

2021-07-12 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
jeweils einer primären Partition mit fdisk ALLE Festplatten auf AKTIV setzen kann, ohne daß sich FreeDOS daran stört. Das war mir neu. Es startet einfach von der ersten Festplatte im System.   Gruß   Willi       Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2021 at 12:16 AM From: "Wilhelm Spiegl" To: fre

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDISK issue

2021-07-10 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Now it becomes absolutely confusing: format d: /u says: Full formatting (wiping all data) Zapping / checking 443889 sectors and after a standard message   [Error 36]   I repeated with format d: /u /d: FAT1x size: 217, using FAT16 Disk size 217MBytes, FAT16 [debug] enabled accessing flags

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDISK issue

2021-07-10 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Sorry for disturbing once again. The vhd formatted by Windows 10 (FAT) Nr. 2 does not give out an error message when booting without fdconfig / fdautoexec.bat.   Willi   Beer will follow now!     Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2021 at 12:02 AM From: "Wilhelm Spiegl" To: fre

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDISK issue

2021-07-10 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
one more problem with fdisk 1.3.4:   I just tried to create a ca. 230 MB big partition on a second HD in virtualbox. I ran fdisk 1.3.4 from the first virtual HD (C:) and executed it for the second HD via fdisk position 5, change HD, created one primary partition, everything seems to work fine.

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Cleanup on FreeDOS Ibiblio

2021-05-01 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
hi jim,i think you should feel free to rename filenames to a unique system e.g. program_-mm--dd -at least within a single command. creating subdirectories is nice but not absolutely necessary if the user knows that the latest version is always on the bottom.If you use version numbers they

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Cleanup on FreeDOS Ibiblio

2021-05-01 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
01.05.21, 22:18 schrieb Jim Hall : On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 2:13 PM Wilhelm Spiegl wrote: > >hi jim, > >i think you should feel free to rename filenames to a unique >system e.g. program_-mm--dd -at least within a single >command. creating subdirectories is nice

Re: [Freedos-devel]   Cleanup on FreeDOS Ibiblio

2021-04-09 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
mkeyb 0.44 is still missing. it can be found at repository and fixes the bug that z and y are at the wrong position at german keyboard layout when using virtual box.--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet.Am 08.04.21, 23:53 schrieb Jim Hall :

Re: [Freedos-devel] FDISK issue

2021-07-13 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
et Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] FDISK issue from Wilhelm Spiegl: [-- Attachment #1 --] [-- Type: text/html, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 8.2K --] Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Hallo Eric, ich verstehe es einfach nicht: Erst erhalte ich unter Qemu und Virtualbox stndig diese Fehler beim Ausfhren

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Does FreeDOS (or something) sometime automatically break up an hard disk in 2GB sub-disks?

2021-09-23 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
i didnt test it but nevertheless it is a little strange for me. fdisk does not create one fat 32 partition but 24 fat16 (really?) partions without asking, one primary and 23 logical/ extended? were they all formatted? or only c: ? Did you explicitely enter "no fat32"? Which rc did you use? What

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: FreeDOS 1.3-RC5 questions and bug-testing

2021-12-19 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi Ralph,a stupid question,athttps://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/backup/there are two htm files that say that you have created a backup and a restore prog for FreeDOS.My question: Are the two files available for the FD users? I have ner seen them.ThxWilli--Diese

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Bare Metal installation of FreeDOS

2021-12-27 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
rufus makes usb sticks bootable with freedos command.com and kernel, or when installing linux with syslinux or something like this. so you should see c: when booting from usb, but i assume with an older kernel. nothing else. if there is a big img file on the stick, it will not start all

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Thank you Jerome

2021-12-30 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi to all,one of the most important things that users notice first of all, especial when using other languages than english, is a good looking installation process. This has nothing to do with the phantastic job that Jerome does.What i talk about are bad translations or ugly line breaks

[Freedos-devel] mkey keyboard

2021-12-31 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi,this remembers me to something I wanted to post in the near time.first of all a happy new year and health to everyone in this group.now my wish: (Tom, keep calm)mkeyb supports a lot of keyboard layouts e.g. "gr" for german etc.FreeDOS uses the set lang= xy variable for many country related

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: mkey keyboard

2021-12-31 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
first of all i really think about paying money, if yes, you hear from me.as a second, yes, i never learned programming because my parents were not rich.As a second, I am rather engaged in Freedos. If you have a closer look to the english and german help files you will find out that i

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: mkey keyboard

2022-01-03 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
December 31, 2021 at 11:36 PM > From: "Ralf Quint" > To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] mkey keyboard > On 12/31/2021 9:19 AM, Wilhelm Spiegl wrote: > mkeyb supports a lot of keyboard layouts e.g. "gr" for german

Re: [Freedos-devel] mkey keyboard

2022-01-03 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
evel] mkey keyboard On 12/31/2021 9:19 AM, Wilhelm Spiegl wrote: mkeyb supports a lot of keyboard layouts e.g. "gr" for german etc. FreeDOS uses the set lang= xy variable for many country related things. but the gr etc. in mkeyb xy differ from this variable that is used for nls, help etc.

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Testing FreeDOS 1.3 RC5 (Games)

2021-12-23 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi,could you add the final compatibility spreadsheet, e.g. alphabetically and sorted by vms, add to the installation cd as a simple .txt file? something like these games do not work at virtualbox:a, b, c, etc.this would be the first place where i would look for it.thanks and merry christmas,

[Freedos-devel] Thank you Jerome

2021-12-29 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi to all,I think it is time to say THANK YOU very very much to Jerome at this point.As I see it now, Jerome did a great part of what he actually does was made by M$ by a lot of people in the 80/90s.He made it as a one person company. With support of less people.Creating a server for FD apps,

Re: [Freedos-devel] dir /od

2022-01-03 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
If you run Windows install imdisk. This supports a lot of virtual machines, even the diskette versions used by FD and is simple to handle via context menu (Explorer, right mouse click, mount / unmount) - and in some cases it also supports r/w (read-write). Of course vhd is supported by Windows

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: mkey keyboard

2022-01-03 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
there are three different keyboard drivers that all work in FDOS. keyb supports tr and tr440 (assume this is tr2), mkeyb does not support turkish at all and xkeyb supports tr only. it is your choice which of the three keyboard you want to use in your environment. --Diese Nachricht wurde von

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re:  Re: FreeDOS 1.3-RC5 questions and bug-testing

2021-12-22 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi Ralf,it is interesting for me that many Ralfs / Ralphs insist on the correct writing of first name. You are not the first one.We are waiting for more than 20 years for a FREE backup/restore FreeDOS solution now, and this although members of the group still offer such solutions under DOS (

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: 1.3-RC5

2021-11-15 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
freedos is waiting 26 years now - and even I know a lot of things that still have to be done. Do not worry about a few days. Take a break if necessary.Willi, retired 3 weeks ago.--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet.Am 15.11.21, 22:12 schrieb

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.3-RC5

2021-12-09 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi Tom, I regret that you had a bad day today.   The reason: thraex and I are translators of this (a little buggy) OS. I know several of them, among others I reported that in fdisk it is not possible to enter partition sizes bigger than 999 GB for FAT32 partitions because the possible number of

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

2021-07-27 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi Thraex, I agree with you. A RC5 would also be helpful for me to see if everything works correct. With some of NLS files at Github I have absolutely no idea why it should make sense to translate them at all. So I will not translate them for the moment.   From my side there is a more basic

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

2021-07-28 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
I think I will change YJN etc. back to english keyboard --> Y etc for one simple reason: It is absolutely confusing to get different options depending on the command you execute. Sometimes this one, sometimes that one. And I do not want to test all tools what they really support, as in most

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Thinking about FreeDOS 2.0

2022-03-05 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
clamav seems not to work. if it should work i did not find out how. freedos av which is also available at ibiblio works with restrictions and a very old 20 mb database from clamav, an actual one has in about 170 mb and did not work.yes, i am in contact with Mateusz, but there are some more

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Thinking about FreeDOS 2.0

2022-03-09 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
please check with a file cd. If i remember right a music cd has no file system that you can open with a standard tool like dir.--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet.Am 09.03.22, 02:42 schrieb "richardkolacz...@hotmail.com" : Tom - thanks

[Freedos-devel] freedos 1.3 at german magazine heise

2022-02-25 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
sorry, german text onlyhttps://www.heise.de/news/Betriebssystem-Oldtimer-FreeDOS-1-3-mit-neuen-Programmen-und-Features-6515775.html--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet. ___ Freedos-devel mailing list

Re: [Freedos-devel] Thinking about FreeDOS 2.0

2022-03-03 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi Jim, I think there is still so much to do on FreeDOS itself that you should work a little slower with updates and new version numbers. Some examples:   a) have a look at the bug list, e.g. xdel (reported by you), edit (reported by me has several bugs), fdisk (reported by me: sizes for a

[Freedos-devel] "FreeDOS Next" help files

2022-04-02 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi everyone, there is a corresponding question from me. I tried to reach Jim several times, but till now I got no satisfying response, so I put the question here:   In FreeDOS help there are a lot of outdated commands. See: http://home.mnet-online.de/willybilly/fdhelp-109/en/index.htm (my

Re: [Freedos-devel]   Questions about FreeDOS Help

2022-04-04 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
at internet there is only the browser-built-in-> "go back" option to go back. If you start anywhere in the middle via an> Internet hyperlink you have no chance to find the rest. So I would add> at least a go back hyperlink (amb-solution) at the bottom of each side.>this refers to internet

[Freedos-devel] setup.de and setup.en

2022-01-06 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
  Hi Jerome, hi Berki, sorry for nerving once again.   I wasted this day to update setup.de and setup.en, means: "Apostrophes" are in each text line now. I could not remove all those /c32 /s- as wanted as sometimes they are really necessary.   But I think apostrophes in each vecho line will

Re: [Freedos-devel] LiveCD boot from floppy

2022-01-19 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
, January 19, 2022 at 3:04 PM From: "Jerome Shidel" To: "Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers." Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] LiveCD boot from floppy   Hi Willi     On Jan 19, 2022, at 7:39 AM, Wilhelm Spiegl wrote:    Hi to all, did you e

Re: [Freedos-devel] LiveCD boot from floppy

2022-01-19 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi to all, did you ever try to boot from the diskette with an inserted CD or from the diskette itself? As it is a live version the CD offers "Use FD in live environment mode",  "Install to harddisk",  "Boot from HD" and "Boot from diskette". When you choose "Boot from diskette" at this position

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: How to access all drives on USB stick

2022-04-25 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi, I could try to explain you how fdisk, sys and format work together, but as i would need some time to write all this - and maybe you are not interested in this a little bit more complex system, i would say, lets start from the windows side.plug i the stick under windows, open explorer with

Re: [Freedos-devel] Thinking about FreeDOS test releases

2022-05-17 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi, I just wanted "to add my mustard" (=denglish, =german english) to make this FD update discussion a little useful for end users (for improved files) by adding the "to-do-list" and "plans for the future" that I found at the FD base section while working on help 1.1.0 (will surely not be

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Another implementation of GRAFTABL

2022-07-12 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi, I just looked at my website http://home.mnet-online.de/willybilly/fdhelp-108a-internet/en/hhstndrd/base/graftabl.htmand noticed that the documentation for graftabl from 2007 is extremely short, strictly speaking: there is none.As I never learned what graftabl is really good for, could you

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re:  Re: Another implementation of GRAFTABL

2022-07-12 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet.Am 12.07.22, 22:42 schrieb Wilhelm Spiegl : Hi, I just looked at my website http://home.mnet-online.de/willybilly/fdhelp-108a-internet/en/hhstndrd/base/graftabl.htm and noticed that the documentation for graftabl from 2007 is extremely short, strictly

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Make fdpkg.sh to work with gitlab zip files

2022-09-05 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi Paul,did you or Jim or somebody else think about Google summer of code for FreeDOS, e.g. 2023 as this summer is almost over? Just a (bad) idea.https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/Willi--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet.Am 05.09.22, 19:17

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Interim Build T2210

2022-10-04 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
formation see: https://sites.google.com/site/blairdude/fdav   Willi             Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2022 at 4:59 PM From: "Wilhelm Spiegl" To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Interim Build T2210 Hi, a simple idea how to save 27 M

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Interim Build T2210

2022-10-02 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi, a simple idea how to save 27 MB of files:   I just tested the latest FD2210, c:\util\clamav, alltogether: 27.039.846 Bytes. There is a main.cvd (21.253.696 Byte) and a daily.cvd (2.517.688) together with some .exe files and some "xy.1" files with ending "1". So far ok.   Clamconf.exe

Re: [Freedos-devel]   I need win32nasmbase.zip

2022-10-14 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
did you try wayback? the site seems to be there--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet.Am 14.10.22, 22:42 schrieb "Samuel V. via Freedos-devel" : Do you have a copy of http://rs1.szif.hu/~tomcat/win32/ ? I need

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fw: Aw:  I need win32nasmbase.zip

2022-10-15 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
"Samuel V." Subject: [Freedos-devel] Fw: Aw:  I need win32nasmbase.zip   http://web.archive.org/web/2831021746if_/http://www.phoenix.gb.net:80/x86/win32NASM.zip   Almost nothing is there, the file win32NASM.zip can only be downloaded up to 12% apparently.   - Forwarde

Re: [Freedos-devel] Interim FreeDOS Build T2208

2022-08-01 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
More than 55 of the NLS updates are from me - and NO real updates. I simply checked the original NLS versions and added an UTF-8 file to the german cp850/858 file as it was already done in French and Turkish. I am not sure if my and Berkis UTF-8 files should be in this FreeDOS version, they are

Re: [Freedos-devel]   Interim Build T2211

2022-11-01 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
did you remove or fix antivirus as i reported in this version, maybe also newer virus definition?I found nothing about this in changelog.Willi--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet.Am 01.11.22, 12:41 schrieb Jerome Shidel : Interim Build T2211 is

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Where to start and continue?

2023-01-10 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
I am sure that you can find older people that still have old laptops with ide hds for giving away. If not, "Amazon is your friend" as a former colleague said and thought.In most cases only the BIOS battery is empty. CR2032.Willi--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Usability testing for documentation

2022-11-29 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
newbie01 and 02 from help 1.1.0, already sent months ago--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet.Am 29.11.22, 00:23 schrieb Jim Hall : > > On 11/28/2022 2:52 PM Jim Hall wrote: > > > > > > Does anyone have documentation they would like to

Re: [Freedos-devel] Google Summer of Code?

2023-01-27 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
While this discussion is miles away from my original proposal, I understand that my proposal with GSoC is buried. Thanks for this interesting discussion. Your mouse-pusher.   Willi     Sent: Friday, January 27, 2023 at 4:15 PM From: "tom ehlert" To: "Technical discussion and questions for

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: UEFI, virtual BIOS and virtual hardware - was: Goo gle Summer of Code?

2023-01-29 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
any reason you don't download VirtualBox for your platform, select> proper devices (there is even a Soundblaster16 emulated), install DOS> on it and go.>Ever tried? I have and I wrote up the result.>The main reason is that it's extremely hard to get any communicationsbetween the host and the

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Google Summer of Code?

2023-01-22 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi,the proposal was from me. Maybe some of you know that I work on the text for a new help version.To do so, I use different sources, depending on what I can get. Sometimes documentation is very good, sometimes there is none, sometimes even command/? gives no information and I have to guess, read

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re:  Re: Google Summer of Code?

2023-01-22 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
fdisk, chkdsk, dosfsck, defrag and scandisk (not in distribution, empty gui).I have no problems to send you screenshots.fdisk, : https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base/fdisk/-/issueswilli--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet.Am 22.01.23, 17:56 schrieb

Re: [Freedos-devel]   Interim Build T2211

2022-11-03 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Developers" Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel]   Interim Build T2211 > On Nov 1, 2022, at 1:23 PM, Wilhelm Spiegl wrote: > > did you remove or fix antivirus as i reported in this version, maybe also newer virus definition? > I found nothing about this in changelog. > >

Re: [Freedos-devel] Open Watcom v2 DOS installer is abysmally slow in FreeDOS

2023-03-10 Thread wilhelm . spiegl
Hi Eric, first I tried to install the exe within a 700 MB ramdrive created with rdisk. Extracting it needed in about 47 minutes instead of 58 minutes. Then I zipped the folder with all 4.018 files with FD zip within a few minutes (ca.4min). Then I run the FD unzip command over the original

Re: [Freedos-devel] Booting and FDAPM

2023-03-17 Thread wilhelm . spiegl
I ran a test with idlehalt=0 / -1 / 1 and put fdapm to rem in virtualbox Fast speed with 0 and 1! idlehalt=-1 gave slow speed. After this I removed idlehalt and activated fdapm again - and then ran fdapm off : fast speed. Willi Am 2023-03-17 15:34, schrieb jer...@shidel.net: > On Mar

Re: [Freedos-devel] Bug or Not

2023-03-20 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi, I did not check the whole video, but there was a message: "Environment full?"   Possible solution: edit fdconfig.sys, goto the last lines and search for: "/E:1024". Change 1024 to 2048 (maybe a little more higher).   Did it help?   Thx for response   Willi     Sent: Monday, March

Re: [Freedos-devel] Open Watcom v2 DOS installer is abysmally slow in FreeDOS

2023-03-16 Thread wilhelm . spiegl
Hi Rugxulo, I am not sure if the issue can be closed. The problem from my side is: Is "lh fdapm apmdos" too hard for the fd live CD? Would a more soft version of power saving be enough? Willi Am 2023-03-16 12:25, schrieb Rugxulo: > Hi, > > On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 4:2

Re: [Freedos-devel] Open Watcom v2 DOS installer is abysmally slow in FreeDOS

2023-03-13 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi all, after several tests I found the reason for this strange behaviour. It disappeared when I booted from a virtual diskette without fdconfig / fdauto.bat and executed watcom.exe. Same from HD. Then I added fdconfig again - it was still fast. Finally I found out that line (in about 62)

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: mode.com

2023-03-21 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi Ralf,thank you for this information, it confirms me a little, but I am not sure what to do.Adding both with a hint, but this would be embarrassing to me and the rest of the group.Or should I simply take out the whole errorcode sequence?Willi--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android

Re: [Freedos-devel] mode.com

2023-03-18 Thread wilhelm . spiegl
Hi all, sometimes trying to write FD help makes me crazy. Mode is a typical example. At https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base/mode/-/blob/master/DOC/MODE/MODE.TXT there is a big explanation what the original mode.com from 1995 can do for me. But the last change was in 2015 - and as it looks like a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Open Watcom v2 DOS installer is abysmally slow in FreeDOS

2023-03-09 Thread wilhelm . spiegl
I am no programmer, but I can test things like this for clarification: I downloaded open-watcom-2_0-c-dos.exe (an extracting .exe) at: https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2/releases/tag/Current-build 140 MB size. First I extracted it with Windows, it contains 4,018 files, and has a size of

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Minor problems FreeDOS 1.3 (Spanish translation)

2023-04-08 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
un blocco di memoria superiore (UMB) mem/nls/mem.sv.UTF-8:2.10:Största fria övre minnesblock mem/nls/mem.tr.UTF-8:2.10:En büyük boş üst bellek bloku To me it looks like the mem program itself will need changing to allow for the extra length strings. Andrew > > &g

Re: [Freedos-devel] Minor problems FreeDOS 1.3 (Spanish translation)

2023-04-11 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
OK, I found some time to test today. I tested mem 1_10, 1_11, 1_11a and 1_12.   The garbled text was only in 1.11a. My editor recognises it as UTF-8 and when I run it, it shows the bad characters. When interpreting the text as CP858 it shows the characters of Aitors screenshot. 1.12 (latest)

Re: [Freedos-devel]   Minor problems FreeDOS 1.3 (Spanish translation)

2023-04-06 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi Aitor,I do not know who made the spanish translation, maybe Andrew Bird as I just noticed on the site, it is only one year old, creating a cp xxx and the unicode version was an idea of Berki, he started in about 3 years ago with this.I assume the translator started with Win cp 1252 or

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Virtual Woes

2023-03-28 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
from my side "edit" is a good candidate to watch. In last time I had several freezes with it, and if you have a look at the different bug report sides... freezes, crashes etc.@jerome, do these problems appear when you are doing nothing with the machine? Should we make a list with start option

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Virtual Woes

2023-03-28 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
    On Mar 28, 2023, at 5:45 AM, Wilhelm Spiegl wrote:    from my side "edit" is a good candidate to watch. In last time I had several freezes with it, and if you have a look at the different bug report sides... freezes, crashes etc.   It is possible that those are probl

[Freedos-devel] keyb kl

2023-02-06 Thread wilhelm . spiegl
Hi, J just try to change my email accounts to mnet as mail.com is no longer usable (when clicking on a mail they start with a video etc.). My problem is once again the FD help 1.1.0 (under construction). The documentation of keyb says that it is possible to work with keyboard.sys and

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS T2306

2023-06-05 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi Jerome, two things:   a) while working on updating FD help I found fdrc, freedos resident calculator. While testing it, I came so far that I was able to start it with "CTRL -" and got the UI, but I am too stupid to understand what I have to do to achieve simple results, e.g. 22+4 = 26 or

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS T2306

2023-06-07 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
eeDOS Developers" Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS T2306 Hi Willi,   On Jun 5, 2023, at 10:06 AM, Wilhelm Spiegl <wilhelm.spi...@mail.com> wrote: [..]  b) I had the hope that the english test version of help 1.1.0 would be in FDT2306 for testing, but nothing happened. I h

[Freedos-devel] Please ignore my last post

2023-06-07 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
It was private. Sorry for that.   Although it came from a single person mail.com sent the mail via "reply" to the whole group.   Willi ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Freedos-devel] useful HTMLHELP bug findings and proposals

2023-06-16 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
leverage to my proposal which is currently stalled due to internal disagreements in the Unicode Technical Committee.   Thanks, Vacek Nules   Wilhelm Spiegl <wilhelm.spi...@mail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2023. jún. 16., Pén 21:50): Hi Bernd, hi all,   thank you very very much for this upd

Re: [Freedos-devel] useful HTMLHELP bug findings and proposals

2023-06-16 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi Bernd, hi all,   thank you very very much for this update where I am waiting for more than 15 years now. You know that I work on the help htm site of this project. As it turns out, we are now close  to write the whole help in UTF-8 with htmlhelp AND amb in most European and American

Re: [Freedos-devel] useful HTMLHELP bug findings and proposals

2023-06-17 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
for a contemporary operating system.   Thanks, Vacek   Wilhelm Spiegl <wilhelm.spi...@mail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2023. jún. 16., Pén 21:50): Hi Bernd, hi all,   thank you very very much for this update where I am waiting for more than 15 years now. You know that I work on the help

Re: [Freedos-devel] Interim Build Delayed

2023-09-01 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi Jerome, hi Bernd,   I just checked too, as anyhow it is also my baby (I tested a lot). Fdisk.lng is the replacement for fdisk.en, fdisk.de + other languages in one file. Reason: Space reduction in comparison to old versions, but a space waster on a diskette. It is not needed on a diskette as

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Phishing attack - warning!

2023-11-02 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi all, I only wanted to tell you that I had a "FreeDOS" phishing attack yesterday.   The mail I got arrived at my n...@mnet-online.de account, with subject:   Re: [Freedos-devel] mode.com sender: m...@planet.com.pk Text:   Hi There, Please see the documentation contained in the url

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Phishing attack - warning!

2023-11-03 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
ourceforge.net Cc: "Ralf Quint" Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Phishing attack - warning! On 11/2/2023 2:38 AM, Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel wrote: Hi all, I only wanted to tell you that I had a "FreeDOS" phishing attack yesterday.   The mail I got arriv

[Freedos-devel] Wcd 6.05 is online

2023-09-28 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi Jerome, hi all,I just wanted to tell that wcd has a minor update to 6.05. As the DOS version seems not to support NLS the changelog is close to zero, but the file has a new size.Willy--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet.Am 29.09.23, 00:01

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Interim Build T2310 - no free space on CD

2023-10-03 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi Jim, hi Jerome, hi everyone else,   About the theme "the installation CD has no longer free space":   It would be interesting to find out which clientele downloads the FreeDOS CD the most. I could imagine that games are particularly interesting for newbies, whereas programming tools are

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Phishing attack - warning!

2023-11-09 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi Ralf, yes you are right. I noticed all this before (except the link itself because Android devices use no mouse and the link is not shown in that app). Nevertheless - at the end curiosity won. And I am not the first one and will not be the last one where this happens. Since I retired I got

[Freedos-devel] Second call for htmlhelp

2023-07-08 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi, meanwhile FDT2307 is published with Bernds new htmlhelp.exe. It includes the actual unfinished english version 1.1.0 of help, other languages are in version 1.0.8. With mail at: https://www.mail-archive.com/freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg14794.html I asked you to help me at the

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Second call for htmlhelp

2023-07-09 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
urrent AMB viewer implements it: https://amb.osdn.io/phpamb.php?fname=archiwum/format-20201216.amb=ama.ama Grüße, Bernd > Am 09.07.2023 um 12:32 schrieb Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel : > > Hi, this is a little modified copy of my mail to Jim. > > Hi Jim,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Second call for htmlhelp

2023-07-09 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi, this is a little modified copy of my mail to Jim.   Hi Jim, you are right, FreeDOS supports several tags, see: https://www.bootablecd.de/FreeDOS-Internet-version/help110/en/hhstndrd/authors/tags.htm   But please please keep away from doing this. There are a lot of reasons for this: a)

[Freedos-devel] tree 3.7.2/3.7.1

2023-08-02 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi all,   I just worked on checking tree 3.7.2 - it is a little bit tricky. The source code of 3.7.2 seems to be identical with 3.7.1, but the .exe is identical with 3.7.0. I found information about 3.7.1 at archive.org, see:

Re: [Freedos-devel] tree 3.7.2/3.7.1

2023-08-03 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
; wrote:   I will look into it.   Jeremy   On Wed, Aug 2, 2023, 12:07 PM Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: Hi all,   I just worked on checking tree 3.7.2 - it is a little bit tricky. The source code of 3.7.2 seems to be identical

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Virtual get-together?

2023-07-30 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
No problem, beergarden at "deergarden", german, Hirschgarten was fine.--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet.Am 30.07.23, 20:16 schrieb Jim Hall via Freedos-devel : > On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 11:03 AM Gregory Pietsch via Freedos-devel > wrote:

Re: [Freedos-devel] Question about edlin

2024-01-22 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
It would be great when edlin could support the 20 NLS files that are shipped with it some day. At least 1.24 till 1.29 of the NLS files are not supported. And I do not speak about Chinese.   Willi     Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 at 6:23 PM From: "Gregory Pietsch via Freedos-devel" To: 

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Question about edlin

2024-01-22 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
gesendet.Am 22.01.24, 21:13 schrieb Gregory Pietsch : I haven't shipped the NLS stuff since version 2.20 or so because I thought Jerome was handling that. -- Gregory On 01/22/2024 2:11 PM EST Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel wrote

Re: [Freedos-devel] Xcopy 1.5

2024-02-17 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi Jim, thanks for your response. Xcopy is not the only thing, maybe you remember tree 3.72 in this forum?   Independent from this here is an update of my actual list of tools / programs where you / the group should have your focus on. I simply copied them out of my actual list, I can / do not

[Freedos-devel] NewDOS source code has been published!

2024-02-17 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi Jim,   I forgot to mention that there is another great new thing: NewDOS and its source code is free since 2024-02-06! NewDOS itself is freeware since 2018.   You can grab it here: https://www.newdos.de/home/download.htm   NewDOS from André Olejko is no complete OS but a collection of

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: NewDOS source code has been published!

2024-02-18 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
edos-devel : Hi Willi, On Feb 17, 2024, at 9:38 AM, Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: Hi Jim,   I forgot to mention that there is a

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: FreeDOS Interim Build T2402

2024-02-01 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
I have a still not yet completed libre office excel file with a lot of clickable hyperlinks to the different sites where I found the updates. If you need it, no problemWilli--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet.Am 01.02.24, 16:24 schrieb Eric Auer

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Updated HTML Help

2024-02-04 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
go to www.bootablecd.de, click on freedos-hilfe and you can download it.--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet.Am 04.02.24, 18:52 schrieb Jim Hall via Freedos-devel : One question I have is: is there a zip file where I can download all of HTML

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: FreeDOS on Book8088

2024-01-30 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi Jim,I only wanted to let you know that the discussion went to bttr forum. Will be interesting to see if my 512 mb image works or not on this machine.Willi--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet.Am 30.01.24, 21:11 schrieb Jim Hall via Freedos-devel

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: FreeDOS package data fork, sort of

2024-02-03 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
The excel file is a result of my tests that I made while creating the new help version.I simply often looked if there is a new version with bug fixes available and sent the links to Jerome. The list is miles away from being complete. Till now I did not use it for other purposes that cause

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: FreePascal near to far pointer conversion

2023-11-13 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi,I want to excuse myself.The reason for this message was a little more complex. I know that many files are reported to be bad.Here is the story:Maybe you remember that I reported about a phishing attack and that Ralf Q. Laughed about me.The reason was a hyperlink where the text hides the

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: FreeDOS wiki updates + questions

2024-03-20 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
I tried to update the section "examples" in fd help 1.1.0, some with the help of the programmers. Maybe it helps you too. It would be a win-win situation, if you find mistakes there, simply inform me.www.bootablecd.de. section freedos hilfe (help)Willi--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem