Re: [Freedos-user] FDNET missing from FreeDOS 1.3-RC4

2021-10-13 Thread Jim Hall
> On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 10:44 AM Brandon Taylor > wrote: > > > > I've just installed FreeDOS 1.3-RC4 on a virtual machine, and, > > upon running FDIMPLES, discovered that FDNET is nowhere to be > > found. What's the issue here? On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 10:58 AM Jim Hall wrote: > > I had asked

Re: [Freedos-user] MKEYB related stuff

2021-10-13 Thread Mateusz Viste
On 13/10/2021 21:41, E. Auer wrote: I would not call KSSF experimental, I would just call it rarely used, because most users do have XMS drivers loaded :-) The kswap documentation starts with exactly these words: "This technique is an experimental implementation (...)" Then, the documentation

Re: [Freedos-user] MKEYB related stuff

2021-10-13 Thread E. Auer
Hi! While this has nothing to do with MKEYB, Tom is absolutely right about command.com: The more common version of FreeCOM uses XMS to swap, which is faster and available on almost every computer of 2021 FreeDOS fans. But there also is the alternate KSSF style swapping without XMS, which

Re: [Freedos-user] MKEYB related stuff

2021-10-13 Thread Mateusz Viste
On 13/10/2021 11:49, tom ehlert wrote: I'm 100% certain that MSDOS didn't generate € characters in any codepage. this should end the story of €'s. As explained by others numerous times, the display-talks-to-keyb mechanism is much wider than the one euro symbol. 1'st: 'problems' is the

Re: [Freedos-user] MKEYB related stuff

2021-10-13 Thread tom ehlert
Hallo Herr Mateusz Viste, am Mittwoch, 13. Oktober 2021 um 09:15 schrieben Sie: > On 12/10/2021 22:49, E. Auer wrote: >> So at the risk of repeating the obvious: While it is possible to >> construct some problems to justify your desired powerful solution, >> this feels extremely over-designed

Re: [Freedos-user] MKEYB related stuff

2021-10-13 Thread Mateusz Viste
On 12/10/2021 22:49, E. Auer wrote: So at the risk of repeating the obvious: While it is possible to construct some problems to justify your desired powerful solution, this feels extremely over-designed from my view as Non-US DOS user. As far as I understand, this is not about designing some