Re: [Freedos-user] **NO** Problem with XMGR, **NOR** with UIDE!!

2011-06-11 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 11-6-2011 3:38, Jack schreef: I am getting VERY TIRED of responding to FALSE problems about my drivers!! Troubleshooting configurations (hardware + software) can be quite difficult indeed, resulting in blaming specific drivers. For example I tried a bootable USB flash disk yesterday which

Re: [Freedos-user] Licensing issues

2011-06-07 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 7-6-2011 20:05, Willi Wasser schreef: I really didn't expect to trigger so much controversy with my initial questions. And i found it interesting to learn that companies like HP and DELL still offer DOS. But if one takes a closer look, it becomes soon clear, that DOS for them is more

Re: [Freedos-user] UEFI versus BIOS - was: Licensing issues

2011-06-07 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 8-6-2011 1:22, Eric Auer schreef: Not really - www.coreboot.org/SeaBIOS you can simply load an UEFI payload which implements the classic PC BIOS interface. Actually it seems that modern BIOSes already do this and just do not talk much about also supporting UEFI, maybe because Windows still

Re: [Freedos-user] Licensing issues

2011-06-07 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 7-6-2011 23:46, Rugxulo schreef: VirtualBox may?? support USB booting (or at least reading) nowadays, but I've never bothered. My idea is indeed to find a boot environment for USB flash media, and test the following: * is USB seen as A: or C: * can I boot it directly * can I boot DOS through

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS and PDF

2011-06-05 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 6-6-2011 0:38, jasse...@itelefonica.com.br schreef: ... Still not looked at that DOS PDF reader that was posted a while ago, but it could be a good addition. ... Where and when was it posted ? at Robert Riebisch's BTTR forums:

Re: [Freedos-user] mTCP 2011-05-20 Version

2011-06-01 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 1-6-2011 18:25, mbbrut...@brutman.com schreef: Well, relatively free. A certain group of people are aghast that I used GPL v3 - apparently that is not free enough for them. I'm getting a good laugh out of that conversation though. I've read that discussion and liked it, in my opinion

Re: [Freedos-user] mTCP source code released

2011-05-28 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 27-5-2011 23:49, Michael B. Brutman schreef: I released mTCP as open source today: http://code.google.com/p/mtcp/ hi Michael, congratulations on possibly having the first GPL3 DOS program ^^ I seem to recall you needing permission from your employer to do this so thanks go out to them as

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem with UIDE

2011-05-19 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 19-5-2011 2:28, Alain Mouette schreef: I managed to make a Boot CD that works almost in all machines. The only one that is not working is Virtual PC 2007. it locks uppun execution of JEMM386 from a CD image. XMGR is used because it is required by UIDE. Technically UIDE doesn't require XMS

Re: [Freedos-user] tdsk.exe to create 40MB of disk space

2011-05-18 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 18-5-2011 19:12, Preethi S. schreef: Hi, I need to create 40 MB disk space using tdsk.exe. I can able to create lesser space than this. Is there any way to accomplish this or is there any other tool? Any help is appreciated. In what situation do you want to create space? If working

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem with UIDE

2011-05-17 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 17-5-2011 17:45, Alain Mouette schreef: I am using UIDE and XMGR from 10-May-11, I made my config from your example (whole file attached), jemm386 is 572 dated 13mar2008 (complete config at the end): device=a:\dos\xmgr.sys /B device=a:\dos\jemm386.exe I=TEST NOEMS device=a:\dos\xmgr.sys

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem with UIDE

2011-05-17 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 17-5-2011 19:40, Alain Mouette schreef: I boot normaly, single-stepping, loading all *except IEDE*, than I do: SET COMSPEC=C:\COMMAND.COM (it's the same) C: DEVLOAD A:\DOS\UIDE.SYS /D:CDROM it loads, and I can access drive C:, but if I access A: it locks just the same, with

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem with UIDE

2011-05-17 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 17-5-2011 20:41, Alain Mouette schreef: Alain, can I privately send you a complete disk image sometime tomorrow by email? Would be 1.44MB, maybe slightly smaller if compressing first. It would replace your own floppy image directly, you can still use your own method of ISO generating.

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem with UIDE

2011-05-17 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 17-5-2011 20:41, Alain Mouette schreef: Well, so it is a BIOS bug, and that is the end of research in this direction... Either syslinux (that seems to be better but for which I need help) or RDISK+SUBST (that I know, but may be a bit clumsy) ok, made a very basic ISO generation batchfile,

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE driver help

2011-05-12 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 12-5-2011 16:13, James Collins schreef: I want to be able to use my cd/dvd drive on my MacBook pro laptop. I have the drivers for UIDE. I have read the readme file, but it is very technical. I could use some help loading the drivers. Do I have to edit my config.sys file? Do I put the

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA DOS Drivers

2010-10-10 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 10-10-2010 13:34, Lee Eric schreef: Is there any SATA driver available on DOS can access SATA hard drivers? http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/driver.html has listed some SATA drivers, see if that works out for you. Bernd

Re: [Freedos-user] Permission? and metakern

2010-06-27 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 27-6-2010 19:01, Garrison Ricketson schreef: I guess you'll have implicit permission by default (until someone objects) as those posts and their contents have been made public. As for MetaKern, it works with a small loader to which you append 1 or more bootsector files (usually obtained by

Re: [Freedos-user] Eric Auer's A Fantasy of a future...

2010-04-14 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 14-4-2010 9:38, Michael C. Robinson schreef: I went by nute on the ReactOS forums. Look and you can see how dicey things got. Ah I remember reading those threads you started, with asking over and over again whenever a new/next release would come out. They're releasing more often than

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE question

2010-02-26 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 26-2-2010 22:17, Geraldo Netto schreef: Hi maybeway36, Uide is different from lbacache/cdrcache Uide enables ultra dma[1] modes for harddisks while lbacache/cdrcache do cache for harddisks/cdrom Geraldo, by default UIDE includes caching for diskettes, harddisks on controllers and

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS installed, but partition not bootable

2010-01-26 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 26-1-2010 22:58, Alain Mouette schreef: The boot sector is installed with the command: SYS C: but BE CAREFULL!! that c: is the FreeDOS partition... Alain Chris escreveu: active, and has both fdconfig.sys in the root directory and kernal.sys in the \fdos dir, so it looks to me

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos - Modern sata dvd dual layer not found

2009-12-27 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 27-12-2009 19:44, jcd...@free.fr schreef: No CD-ROM drive to use; GCDROM not loaded. Any idea. Note : After booting with freedos bootable cd, I can access to the cd-rom drive( elterito is loaded in memory ). Could you try the UIDE cd-rom driver please? it's the most recent work of

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos - Modern sata dvd dual layer not found

2009-12-27 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 27-12-2009 23:42, jcd...@free.fr schreef: Hello. As I said to eric auer Done as suggested. But some problem still here. Then I give up as well. I assume your drive is internal, and connected to SATA like your subject mentions. Does it run in IDE compatibility mode or in AHCI?

Re: [Freedos-user] fdfullcd ISO, KINGSTON data traveler...sound drivers?

2009-11-23 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Any idea which program gave the error95 message? I think it might be the FORMAT or Fdisk program doing so, which means we'll need to figure out how far your installation process got. What you can do is manually run the FDISK program, create a primary FAT16 (or FAT32) partition (instead of

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about ripcord

2009-11-07 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 7-11-2009 0:44, Joe Emenaker schreef: Sure, it wouldn't work every time. And it would fail for anything which was run through and exe-compressor. But it would sure beat strings myprog.exe | more, which is what I have to do right now. how we love UPX (and use it extensively) :) some

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 distribution...

2009-11-01 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 1-11-2009 10:38, Michael Robinson schreef: The newest kernel 2039 seems to fix a lot of problems. Is there ongoing kernel development? What has to be updated still before Freedos 1.1 comes out? I occasionally see stuff get added to http://www.freedos.org, but the 1.1 release seems to be

Re: [Freedos-user] Trouble with netbooting freedos...

2009-10-18 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 18-10-2009 19:12, Michael Robinson schreef: I know about prodos.exe, it requires Windows to extract the drivers from it and the drivers you extract are probably Windows drivers. should be a DOS Ndis driver in that, as well as packet driver. Ofcourse also windows ndis drivers. Intel's

Re: [Freedos-user] upgrading

2009-10-01 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 1-10-2009 19:14, david lowe schreef: A while back I asked 'upgrading', I had a list of Windows-compatible utilities that needed DOS equivalents. I'm not asking about Win-compatible games, they may be a lost cause. I need a driver for a USB flash drive, probably one for a broadband

Re: [Freedos-user] Upgrading FreeDOS Kernel

2009-09-29 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 29-9-2009 18:19, Santiago Almenara schreef: Maybe, the answer is easier than I think, my problem is that I want to upgrade the FreeDOS kernel. I have downloaded the zip file (ke2039_86f32.zip http://sourceforge.net/projects/freedos/files/Kernel/2039/ke2039_86f32.zip/download) but I can

Re: [Freedos-user] Disk checking and defragmentation

2009-08-29 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 29-8-2009 3:21, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros schreef: [Eric] Please explain what you mean by strange... You should also be able to drop bad items with CHKDSK / DOSFSCK. By strange I mean: (1) Their names were full of illegal characters. (2) They could not be deleted

Re: [Freedos-user] Concerns about topics on this mailing list...

2009-08-22 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 22-8-2009 5:34, Michael Robinson schreef: DOS predates more than 4 gigabytes of memory on a single computer, yet there has been a LOT of discussion on having Freedos be able to handle that much memory. And Windows (9x) predates FreeDOS largely, your point being? For the times we're in

Re: [Freedos-user] Over 4-GB for FreeDOS, Etc.

2009-08-16 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 14-8-2009 23:37, Jack schreef: Oh, REALLY?? I have been running the DeepBurner program to shoot my CD/RW masters for over two years now. It DOES simultaneous input/output with the disk staying-ahead of the CD/RW and always having the next block of data ready to be written out. It is a

Re: [Freedos-user] Whatever happened to freedos-32?

2009-08-14 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 14-8-2009 13:13, MegaBrutal schreef: Who ever needs a 64-bit version of DOS, especially if you need to emulate an entire processor while achieving it? 32-bit is just fine. I don't know why would anyone switch to 64-bit for DOS, since people don't even use the advantages out. Of course,

Re: [Freedos-user] Over 4-GB for FreeDOS, Etc.

2009-08-14 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 14-8-2009 20:17, Jack schreef: Re: using memory over 4-GB in DOS, the best way to AVOID many new I am assuming here that, to keep things simple and still-useful for programs that cannot or will-not be upgraded, the XMS drivers will all behave same-as-before for current XMS commands. User

Re: [Freedos-user] Over 4-GB for FreeDOS, Etc.

2009-08-14 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 14-8-2009 21:18, Jack schreef: This would work. But, if we are to cook up a new scheme to handle memory beyond 4-GB, why limit it only for RAMdisk usage? If the XMS drivers/handlers support such large memory, EVERYBODY could use it! yes, as long as older programs don't use it by

Re: [Freedos-user] cdrom

2009-06-24 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Menuhin Saitov schreef: Hi, i have installed successfully freedos on Compaq lte 5100 I took the hardisk and connecetd with usb-ide adaptor and with qmeu installed the system on it, not sure if the system neede it fat 16 partition but know it works. My issue is to set the cdrom drive.

Re: [Freedos-user] What do you need from Windows world...

2009-06-19 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Michael Robinson schreef: I haven't gotten the positive response I had hoped for trying to drum up some interest in a Windows 9x replacement. Some have talked about possibly enhacing HX extender and cloning Windows 3.x first, which makes a lot of sense. Some have only talked that it

Re: [Freedos-user] A windows 9x replacement...

2009-06-15 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Michael Robinson schreef: There are many Windows programs that only work in dos based Windows. There is such a thing as a dos based Windows program, try to run it at the dos prompt ( any version ) and you'll get a this requires Microsoft Windows error. Many of these same programs either

Re: [Freedos-user] A windows 9x replacement...

2009-06-13 Thread Bernd Blaauw
guest schreef: I know about ReactOS, ReactOS is garbage right now. It will probably be garbage for 2-3 more years. Calling a project garbage is quite severe. If it's unusable for you or your goals, just indicate so but don't dismiss other people's efforts into getting something nice off

Re: [Freedos-user] New kernel install floppy won't boot

2009-06-13 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Ray Davison schreef: The boot process identifies all the HDD partitions then: Incorrect DOS version Bad or missing Command Interpreter: command.com /P /E:256 Enter . Suggestions? Ray How was the bootdisk created? Are you sure it contains both the kernel.sys and command.com from

Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

2009-06-07 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Jack schreef: If you update FreeDOS, in accordance with the update list noted by Eric Auer, do consider adding the UIDE or UIDEJR driver, also XMGR and RDISK if desired. They are avail- able from http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/driver.html, also from other Internet sources. We'll surely

Re: [Freedos-user] Batch File Commands

2009-05-25 Thread Bernd Blaauw
is invalid - an issue with FreeDOS 1.0 for example once installed :) ; FreeDOS 1.1 Final distro by Blair Campbell [blaird...@gmail.com], ; last update 2009-05-18 by Bernd Blaauw [bbla...@home.nl] ; config.sys loads system drivers. Please edit to suit your needs. ;!SWITCHES=/E !SWITCHES=/N menucolor=7,0

Re: [Freedos-user] Command prompt returns without commands executing

2009-04-26 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Blair Campbell schreef: the data from XMS... There might be some code which decides about whether restore-from-XMS is needed and which is too optimistic. But maybe I am totally wrong about that whole swap/overwrite topic... From what I can tell it always swaps back from XMS and there is

Re: [Freedos-user] was: Windows 3.1 - Pending kernel patches 2037/2038

2009-04-25 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Jim Hall schreef: The problem is: how will you (Eric) know that the patches will work? How long do you intend to hold back the 2038 version before deciding it is good enough? I'd agree with Jim here, release, then ask feedback. People might lack the skill to comment on individual patches,

Re: [Freedos-user] Abandonware site...

2009-04-19 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Michael Robinson schreef: Downloading commercial software that you own a copy of for personal use is not illegal. Downloading old commercial software that isn't I'm not even sure this is allowed. A lot of software was distributed on physical media, of which you were allowed to make a

Re: [Freedos-user] Abandonware site...

2009-04-19 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Michael Robinson schreef: Speaking of abandonware, all the Nintendo games for the original 8 bit system fit that description now. Should anyone distribute what is the definition of abandonware anyway? and why would it be legal if it did fit the description? to my knowledge Nintendo is

Re: [Freedos-user] License or Sale? WAS Abandonware site...

2009-04-19 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Fuzzy Zabriskie schreef: I'm confused. When I buy a 'software license' am I buying the software or the right to use the software? If I have a license to use specific software on a hardware platform (say a Windows OS), and my install media is damaged, do I have use of the license I've

Re: [Freedos-user] was: Windows 3.1 - Pending kernel patches 2037/2038

2009-04-14 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Christian Masloch schreef: Since disassembling MS-DOS is considered legal by UDOS and RBIL authors (and these sources are considered legal by all members of the FreeDOS project) I think there's no problem using some DLL examination tool. Regards, Christian I hope you have heared

Re: [Freedos-user] XGCDROM and CD/DVD Recording

2009-03-16 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Blair Campbell schreef: No you're not :-). First, I compiled the latest version of cdrtools (the current one is way outdated), which is cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD 2.01.01a58. Then, I discovered that some linux distributions forked cdrtools because of licencing issues, so I decided to try their

Re: [Freedos-user] virtual floppy disk,etc..

2008-07-25 Thread Bernd Blaauw
You might want to try get the floppy driver from http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/ Bernd - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem installing FreeDOS together with Win98SE using metakern

2008-06-15 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Anton Shepelev schreef: Hello all, I tried to install FreeDOS 1.0 on the same partition (C:) as Win98SE using metakern, but ran into the following problem. Here's what I did: 0. Installed FreeDOS on C: 1. With Win98SE active, I booted from win98 cd and typed: sys

Re: [Freedos-user] [Xen-devel] Unable to boot FreeDOS 1.0

2008-03-23 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Geraldo Netto schreef: Hi Guys, Hello Geraldo, It seems command.com is missing could you try any iso from this site? http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/ The FreeDOS 1.0 ISO is confirmed to be working under normal PC BIOS when booting from CDROM.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.0 (was Network sharing)

2008-01-26 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Ron Spruell schreef: Jim I understand what you mean by a virtual machine because I know what virtual memory is as per Microsoft but for me making a virtual would be just as hard as making Free Dos run. I would much rather be able to run FreeDos A virtual machine as ment here is often also

Re: [Freedos-user] Ethernet card - how to install in Freedos

2008-01-26 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Eric Auer schreef: To find out which packet driver you need, you can use PCISLEEP (if it is not part of your FreeDOS install, just search the web) to get a list of PCI / AGP / PCIe / onboard-PCI devices in your PC. Look at the devices in the network category. You can search the web for the

Re: [Freedos-user] announcements

2007-10-20 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Florian Xaver schreef: Jemm v5.67 released: http://www.japheth.de cool, I'll see what's new. Experimental Freedos 2038 kernel files already were compatible with the fastboot option of JEMMEX. Updated UDMA drivers! Main change seems to be a merged UDMA/UDVD drivers into one driver called

Re: [Freedos-user] Eric, it was not nice....

2007-09-13 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Christian Simonyi schreef: Eric, it was not nice to tread down our conversation Sophism, does not help; either me or anyone. I better leave from here Eric has a habit of bringing public discussions to smaller private email, nevermind that :) You're most welcome to stay on the FreeDOS

Re: [Freedos-user] UDMA Driver Update.

2007-09-07 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Jack schreef: Sorry, I was unaware that this board does not like carat characters for URL addresses. To download the 7-Sep-2007 XMGR, UDMA, and UDVD drivers, use the following URL: http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/drivers.html no problem, thanks for the update/bugfix Jack.

Re: [Freedos-user] PRINT command

2007-08-20 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Chris Ruhl schreef: Any way I can pass this on to the PRINT side of the project?? Anybody have any suggestions?? Again, can't re-code the application. No idea, never expected anyone to actually use PRINT application anymore, maybe you're unique :) Does MS print program work on FreeDOS?

Re: [Freedos-user] Clarifications.

2007-08-11 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Jack schreef: In his play Henry VI, Shakespeare once noted The first thing we do is kill all the lawyers! Still true after 400 years. Almost would think he was living in the USA with its claim culture :) I am not a lawyer, and I have no wish to be one. Anybody is free to use the

Re: [Freedos-user] Announce: New DMA driver

2007-08-10 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Norbert Remmel schreef: Hi all, Jack has announced a new DMA driver for DOS. He also released the sources and removed FreeDOS restrictions. Download location: http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/drivers.html Great, nice to see Jack has set aside some old disputes and has kept on working on DOS

Re: [Freedos-user] Looking for a lightweight TCP/IP stack

2007-08-10 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Steffen Grunewald schreef: Hi, we're looking for a very lightweight TCP/IP stack on top of FreeDOS. We only need basic DHCP functionality (to tell the client its own IP, and the one of the server) and TFTP to transfer a single file in both directions. The goal is to enhance BIOS flash floppy

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDos on extended partition?

2007-08-06 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Alex Horvath schreef: Hi, I have a new Windows Vista laptop. I would like to install FreeDos on a second partition and dual boot. I created a small extended partition and formatted it as FAT using Partition Magic. I then boot to the FreeDos CD and start the install process. However,

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDos on extended partition?

2007-08-06 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Alex Horvath schreef: Sorry for all the newbie posts - FreeDos did install but when I boot all I get is a _ character and no response to keyboard input. If I boot from the FreeDos CD I can the FreeDos files on C:. Anything I can check? Let's see, a very basic installation has the

Re: [Freedos-user] PXE booting FreeDOS?

2007-08-05 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Jim Hall schreef: A user emailed me to ask (in short) how to boot FreeDOS using PXE? The target PC only has a network card and memory ... no hard drive, no floppy, no USB, no CD-ROM. What does he want out of his machine? You'll need some kind of server, running TFTP software. For Windows I

Re: [Freedos-user] collision between freedos emm386 and memdisk

2007-07-16 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Alain M. schreef: We (many people in this list) espent months testing himem and emm386 from Michael Devore. Are those two just a bugfix from *that* well tested version or is it descendent from somewhere else? Based on EMM386 from FreeDOS indeed. Japheth is just adding different stuff

Re: [Freedos-user] collision between emm386 and memdisk

2007-07-15 Thread Bernd Blaauw
m4mach schreef: hi all I have a problem running FreeDOS with himem/emm386 on a custom size floppy image (8640 kB) I use memdisk to emulate the floppy. Is a (compressed?) version of your floppy image available? don't need the full contents (might be proprietary parts), just the FreeDOS

Re: [Freedos-user] Internet Extender

2007-05-14 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Roberto Mariottini schreef: Hi, I've found this little software called the Internet Extender: http://www-acc.scu.edu/~jsarich/ieweb/main.htm It's a software that transforms any DOS machine in an internet NAT gateway, thus making more computers use the same modem/internet connection. Oh,

Re: [Freedos-user] Internet Extender

2007-05-14 Thread Bernd Blaauw
tom ehlert schreef: I'm missing an *auto-installed* network driver (packet or NDIS), where you could load email/Arachne/... on top auto-installation scripts for this is quite horrible. I know Eric had some PCI tool, but that couldn't be automated and required a tempfile to be written and

Re: [Freedos-user] On to FreeDOS 2.0...

2007-05-13 Thread Bernd Blaauw
While FreeDOS isn't something like Gentoo (or Linux at all), I'd love to have some kind of build system so we ensure the 8086 compatibility. Right now all programs have to be compiled by their own makefiles (and compilers, linkers etc), and I got no idea on how to make it like a batch job,

Re: [Freedos-user] The my deltrash utility...

2007-05-13 Thread Bernd Blaauw
?? ?? schreef: Hello all! Please vote for adding the my utility, named deltrash, to the FreeDOS 2.0 distrivutive. Previously thank! There's no FreeDOS 2.0 anytime soon yet (though most likely a lot faster than the time between initial start and the 1.0 release), nor is

Re: [Freedos-user] Doubt on batch stuff

2007-04-25 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Geraldo Netto schreef: for i in $( cat $1 ); do nslookup $i nslookup_log.txt done it catches the content of a file passed($1) and does nslookup for each entry of the file and i would like to know how to rewrite it for command, by now i have this: @echo off for %%p in ( entries

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing windows 98 within dos

2007-04-23 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Alex Nu schreef: I'm new to the list, and I just saw a similar question before. So I guess, I'll just add the following: I don't care if windows 98 replaces freedos while installing. Actually, I installed freedos, so that I can install windows98. SETUP /NM /IS ( NoMachine checking ,

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos on vmware

2007-03-23 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Eric Auer schreef: Hi Russell, dosemu is probably the answer to most of your questions :-). Get the new unstable version from the site, most Linux distros only include older versions. I've had DOS networking running on VmWare Workstation, both the SMB (MS Network Client) and HTTP/FTP

Re: [Freedos-user] About the VMWARE suggestion.

2007-03-16 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Robert Riebisch schreef: And the QEMU Windows port can be used on a DOS host with the help of Japheth's HX DOS extender. Robert Riebisch most interesting. I've got no idea which emulators exist nowadays, beyond Bochs, DosEmu, Xdosemu, VDMsound, Dosbox, Vmware, VirtualPC and Qemu. Of

Re: [Freedos-user] Screen Shot of FreeDOS boot problem -- illegal instruction

2007-03-12 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Japheth schreef: Generally, since the emulators apparently aren't fully reliable, it might be a good idea to first boot FD without Himem/Emm386 and then advance step by step. In case of troubleshooting, it's smart to start in Safe Mode (F5) or SingleStepping (F8) modes and see which line

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Resident Calculator

2007-02-19 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Oleg O. Chukaev schreef: FreeDOS, like most DOSes, does not have its own resident calculator. TSR calculator is a very useful tool for DOS users and programmers. Therefore, I wrote the FreeDOS Resident Calculator (FDRC) -- TSR calculator with 32-bit arithmetical/logical operations, reverse

Re: [Freedos-user] Rtspkt.com - Load High Or Not?

2006-10-29 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Lester schreef: http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/5744/10292006022842hu7.png Can this be considered confirmation that it's ok to load it high? Arachne runs the MEM /C command, and MEM is a DOS program in its distribution. example: MEM /C /N memory.txt EMM386 is a possible issue with

Re: [Freedos-user] Microsoft Network Client

2006-10-26 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Norbert Remmel schreef: Hi all, any ideas how to properly set up Microsoft Network Client 3.0 under QEMU or BOCHS? Could you try some Realtek 8019/8029/8039 drivers? If I remember correctly, I used a realtek packet driver one time in bochs or qemu, despite their claims of using a standard

Re: [Freedos-user] installing freedos on secondary drive

2006-10-26 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Safest is to disconnect the first harddisk, then install FreeDOS from CD to the 2nd harddisk, that will be C:. If your Linux and Windows partitions don't use FAT, C: will be 2nd drive anyway - Using Tomcat but need to do

Re: [Freedos-user] Rtspkt Driver File Size

2006-10-21 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Lester V schreef: I have two files of different size: rtspkt.com - 9 KB rtspkt.com - 33 KB The smaller one was downloaded somewhere from Hewlett Packard website and the larger one from here: http://sonic.net/support/nic_drivers/nway/RTSPKT/ The large file probably has debugging code,

Re: [Freedos-user] Floppy Distro?

2006-10-17 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Stegozor schreef: Could some have a look at news:alt.os.free-dos and reply to the most recent message (at this time, ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) preferably with a very soon ? ;) As soon as kernel sources have been uploaded to Sourceforge I guess, as the CD uses a 80386 kernel, not a 8086

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ?

2006-09-24 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Eric schreef: On Sunday 24 September 2006 12:01, you wrote: I ended up now exactly where I expected to encounter the problem: 1) Downloaded VMware Workstation (one of all the propositions) 2) Downloaded fdbasecd.iso 3) Started to create a new VM (thought 1GB should be enough for a DOS

Re: [Freedos-user] Newsgroup/Announcement - what do you think?

2006-09-09 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Japheth schreef: What does with support of new hardware mean? These programs require at least a 80386 cpu (could this be regarded as new?) and the Himem.sys driver has some A20 gate switching variants implemented, but besides that they are pretty hardware independant (and ignorant)

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem with FD-KEYB 2.0 final

2006-08-30 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Diego Rodriguez schreef: Hi! When I try to LoadHigh FD-KEYB 2.0 final from my AUTOEXEC.BAT I get the following error: FreeCOM: XMSSwap-In: Memory allocation error Cannot terminate permanent FreeCOM instance System halted ... reboot or power off now I'm using FreeCOM version 0.84pre2

Re: [Freedos-user] Updated 1.0 Testing CD

2006-08-03 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Japheth schreef: If the major problems that affected people are fixed in this distribution, I will release this ISO and the other ISOs (probably with a few more minor changes) as 1.0. Cheers to everyone for getting this far! Thanks for the new version! The good thing is: I got a

Re: [Freedos-user] error reading from drive A:

2006-08-03 Thread Bernd Blaauw
George Frothingham schreef: I have noted that FD will not read a diskette formatted by MAXELL immediately after booting. Once it reads a good diskette it will then read the MAXELL. Checking the boot sector of MAXELL disks I found that the code for valid boot record is not present. Diskettes by

Re: [Freedos-user] Memory management for FreeDOS

2006-07-24 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Norbert Remmel schreef: In my opinion, we have two people that have made great effords in the field of DOS memory management, Michael and Jack, both developing an independant piece of code only because none of them wants to talk to each other. And then we have the rest of the FreeDOS

Re: [Freedos-user] Tough-to-capture screenshots

2006-07-04 Thread Bernd Blaauw
John Hupp schreef: I'm guessing that one of you developers will size this little challenge up in short order. Emulators might do the trick. Some host platform, install emulator on it, install DOS + your program manager inside the emulator. Bernd -- Efficiency is intelligent lazyness

Re: [Freedos-user] CauseWay DOS extender

2006-06-09 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Escorter schreef: ...But is it safe to link DOS4GW programs with CauseWay? I didn't modified any code in the SW sources. Is CW fully DOS4GW compatible? Causeway developer Michael Devore can be found on this mailinglist, I think he's done a pretty good job with Dos4GW compatibility. Check

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Problems Loading SHSURDRV.EXE

2006-05-16 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Lester Vedrox schreef: Both older ram disk drivers (tdsk.exe and xmsdsk.exe) were loaded from Config.sys that's why I initially put shsurdrv there. The following works fine but is it really the best way to load it? - Autoexec.bat - C:\FDOS\BIN\SHSURDRV.EXE 8192K /V /Q SHCDX33A

Re: [Freedos-user] How To Convert File US.KEY to US.KL

2006-05-09 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Lester Vedrox schreef: How to convert file US.KEY to US.KL? *.key files are available in kpdos23s.zip here: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/kblayout/ After unzipping: kpdos23s\source\keydos\us.key

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: XCDROM bug still there

2006-01-30 Thread Bernd Blaauw
TechFan schreef: I just tried this on a Compaq Evo D500 2.0GHz, no SATA, probably ATA66. . .same symptoms. most secure steps to make sure it's only the XCDROM driver and not FreeDOS components, is to try a Win98 bootdisk and copy XCDROM to it. After all MS-DOS has become the defacto

[Freedos-user] Eric Auer unreachable?

2006-01-30 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Eric, some mailserver thinks you're spamming. Please fix, can't send you any mails. Bernd -- Efficiency is intelligent lazyness --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download

Re: [Freedos-user] Eric Auer unreachable?

2006-01-30 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Eric Auer schreef: Hi, I think if you cannot send mail TO me, then my mail server has your mail server on some blacklist. It would not make sense if your mail server would refuse to send mail TO spammers... looks resolved then. First mail refused, 2nd seems to have arrived. Was my parents'

Re: [Freedos-user] Two CD drives PCDOS

2006-01-24 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Carl Spitzer schreef: SHSUCDX /D:CDROM,,1,1 /D:CDRW,,2,1 or DEVICE=C:\DOS\XCDROM.SYS with XDMA under certain conditions. in the config.sys file. The hardware is a Gigabit PII with an IBM and WD hard disks. How do I test whether XDMA is needed. both are necessary: a config.sys cdrom driver

Re: [Freedos-user] Upper memory

2006-01-18 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Caleb9849 (sent by Nabble.com) schreef: ARG! Can someone please help me with this? I'm trying to run an old DOS Star Trek Game of mine. By DOS standards, it's pretty resource-heavy and requires upper memory. So I added the lines into my fdconfig.sys to load up emm386.exe (with the noems

Re: [Freedos-user] Problems installing FreeDOS Beta9 Service Release #2 On my 486

2006-01-17 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Magnus Wild schreef: Has anyone managed to install the SR2 from the diskset, and if so, did you have any problems? Would be great if you could help med get this working.. nobody has succeeded, as textinst.exe is missing from the diskettes. I'm working on fixing this. Next version won't have

Re: [Freedos-user] Special question about CDROM access in FreeDOS

2006-01-12 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Andre Tertling schreef: If there is a CDROM present (that means loading of XCDROM and SHSUCDX were successful) but there is no disk in the drive, processing of my batch file stops with an error message and the usual Abort, Retry, Fail?. If I pick Fail here, complete havoc occurs (I didn't have

Re: [Freedos-user] re: FDOS boot

2006-01-07 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Johnson Lam schreef: Then use no switch, it works fine without additional parameter. it's pretty safe to invoke XCDROM 4 times, 1 for each possible location. Only drawback is multiple channel scanning, which is fast when XDMA is loaded, and otherwise takes a few seconds.

Re: [Freedos-user] How to display Japanese

2006-01-03 Thread Bernd Blaauw
paul abbey schreef: god where am i i have nothing to do with jaopanes if thiswas a phon wrong # either you're drunk :), or didn't realize you subscribed to a mailinglist, which means you receive a copy of each mail sent to the mailinglist. http://www.freedos.org/freedos/lists/ contains more

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS utility to insert keystrokes in the keyboard buffer?

2005-12-28 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Jim Lemon schreef: Andrew Greenberg wrote: 4DOS has a nifty command called keystack which allows you to insert key strokes into the keyboard buffer. This is handy for controlling DOS programs which you can't script from the command line. Does FreeDOS have anything like this? Or does anyone

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.08/Nomyso 2.0 Available

2005-12-03 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Michael Devore schreef: At 11:02 PM 11/28/2005 -0800, Blair Campbell wrote: I would personally really appreciate the ASM in FreeDOS HELP being a test case, as this assembler won't even compile with Arrow Assembler or the Watcom Assembler (which both use older MASM/TASM syntax, afaik). Another

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