[Freedos-user] defrag abhores windows

2013-03-22 Thread John Sowden
I just downloaded defrag.exe, a Freedos 32bit defrag program for DOS. Unfortunately, I received the immediate notice in RED that it will not run under windows, a reasonable declaration. Unfortunately, neither of the two computers that I ran defrag on was running Windows: 1) On computer #1,

Re: [Freedos-user] speaking of these drivers, external hard drives? U SB parameters

2013-03-22 Thread Bret Johnson
I wish to use an external usb hard drive for backup purposes. OK, but with my current drivers it will probably be very slow. You may want to try some other drivers if you care about speed (at least for now). While the driver loads, and seems? to find the device, I cannot well understand the

Re: [Freedos-user] speaking of these drivers, external hard drives? U SB parameters

2013-03-22 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi Bret, I am not a speed junkie, and the drive will only be connected when I am doing an xcopy style backup. I am in dos 7.1, with my own hard drives as fat 32. I know already though that the external drive is not formatted for dos. Let me run this trick over the weekend and see what I

[Freedos-user] VESA svga driver

2013-03-22 Thread Chris Evans
Anyone know where i can get a generic SVGA VESA driver for freedos? I try univbe but it says I need a S3 chip.. -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics

Re: [Freedos-user] VESA svga driver

2013-03-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Anyone know where i can get a generic SVGA VESA driver for freedos? I try univbe but it says I need a S3 chip.. VBE is usually something which is built into your VGA BIOS, installed on your graphics hardware. Only for really old cards, it is useful to load UNIVBE or similar as DOS TSR.

Re: [Freedos-user] VESA svga driver

2013-03-22 Thread José Antonio
Also useful: http://www.freepascal.org/contrib/contribs.html (iexplore unable to shown it, use firefox) ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/contrib/units/vesavbe.zip http://venomsoftware.de/various.php - Original Message - From: Chris Evans aaxiomfin...@gmail.com To:

[Freedos-user] 7zip

2013-03-22 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi, I'd like to use 7zip to compress successive versions of the book I'm writing. For files containing long, identical sections as in this case, 7zip produces archives *10 times* smaller than InfoZip. However, the DOS 7zip I'm using seems to have these limitations: - compresses sub-folders, but

Re: [Freedos-user] 7zip

2013-03-22 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros fav...@mpcnet.com.br wrote: I'd like to use 7zip to compress successive versions of the book I'm writing. For files containing long, identical sections as in this case, 7zip produces archives *10 times* smaller than

Re: [Freedos-user] dos networking and wireless?

2013-03-22 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi Ulrich, Have you double checked if the links you share on the page below are still functional? While the configuration installation file for the cisco aironet line works, the link to the dos utilities for it seems to have moved? Thanks for what you can share, Karen On Tue, 15 Jan 2013,

Re: [Freedos-user] 7zip

2013-03-22 Thread dmccunney
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros fav...@mpcnet.com.br wrote: I'd like to use 7zip to compress successive versions of the book I'm writing. For files containing long, identical sections as in

Re: [Freedos-user] 7zip

2013-03-22 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 7:31 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: I know there have been a few recent alphas of 7-Zip for Windows, but I don't think Igor ever finalized them yet. Lemme check ... latest seems to be 9.30 alpha from late last October. Latest p7zip was still 9.20.1