Re: [Freedos-user] TCP/IP stack will not initialize

2019-01-11 Thread Steve Owens
Thanks for the help - sounds like VBox 5.2 is the way to go. On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 6:32 AM Ken Yap wrote: > > I've loaded FreeDOS within VirtualBox according to the online > > instructions. It works but I can't get networking to run as per the > > instructions. A screen capture of the

Re: [Freedos-user] TCP/IP stack will not initialize

2019-01-11 Thread Jerome Shidel
> On Jan 11, 2019, at 6:39 AM, Rugxulo > wrote: > > Hi, > > If you've successfully used networking in FreeDOS recently, and nothing has > changed on your end, it may be a new bug (regression) in VirtualBox's newest > 6.x series. But I haven't had the time to confirm

Re: [Freedos-user] Preloading text files in C

2019-01-11 Thread Ken Yap
> Now I am near a solution, something like this: Well, this isn't a C language user group so I'll be brief. Here's the outline of how I would do it. Read entire file into memory Add a terminating NUL (because sometimes text files don't have an ending NL) Walk through the buffer char by char,

Re: [Freedos-user] TCP/IP stack will not initialize

2019-01-11 Thread Ken Yap
> I've loaded FreeDOS within VirtualBox according to the online > instructions. It works but I can't get networking to run as per the > instructions. A screen capture of the problem follows. > It looks like the packet driver for PCNTPK ver. 2.0 is at one location > (segment 02B7) but is looked

Re: [Freedos-user] TCP/IP stack will not initialize

2019-01-11 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, If you've successfully used networking in FreeDOS recently, and nothing has changed on your end, it may be a new bug (regression) in VirtualBox's newest 6.x series. But I haven't had the time to confirm it myself. You may wish to read their forums or check the bug tracker. Not sure when they