Re: [Freedos-user] USB support/IPod

2010-04-08 Thread Blair Campbell
  support that they might find an IPod hooked to a modern PC... I might be wrong, but iPod and certain cameras are in some way special. Otherwise it would be easy: Almost all other MP3 and MP4 players and many cameras or even cardreaders simply look like USB sticks for drivers, which means

Re: [Freedos-user] cd burning?

2010-03-30 Thread Blair Campbell
Yesdoscdroast is  still around, but it too is command line.  I prefer command line actually works better from a speech standpoint since one does not use a mouse with a screen reader. The guy who puts together doscdroast could not confirm how audio cds are burned which is why I decided to

Re: [Freedos-user] cd burning?

2010-03-29 Thread Blair Campbell
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.net wrote: or DVD either for that matter? I have come across a few for creating iso images, even backups, but am wondering if others have ideas.  Hearts desire would let me create real audio cds for play in a stand alone

[Freedos-user] Clamav 0.95.3

2010-02-22 Thread Blair Campbell
The DOS port of ClamAV 0.95.3 is now available on ibiblio. Check it out at http://sites.google.com/site/blairdude/clamav . Also available is an updated FDAV built with ClamAV 0.95.3. It is available at http://sites.google.com/site/blairdude/fdav . This seems to be mostly a bugfix release

Re: [Freedos-user] Executing a Linux Command from Inside DOS?

2009-10-14 Thread Blair Campbell
Chris: Guess I didn't include enough details of the question. I run Ubuntu 8.04 and then Dosemu 1.4.0.0. My printer, a HP Officejet K80xi works fine in linux for both text and graphical files (I just enter lpr filename and either file prints fine with no further input on my part). After I

Re: [Freedos-user] dos extender saga.

2009-07-12 Thread Blair Campbell
Japheth, I tried what you said: ran hdpmi32 -r-m, then the exe, and it worked; then tried cwsdpmi -x then the exe, that also worked. Remaining question: how do I build-in the '-x' switch at compile time? The sandman site does It likely isn't desirable to have cwsdpmi -x always enabled because

[Freedos-user] Updated ClamAV and FDAV

2009-07-07 Thread Blair Campbell
It's a little late but I've updated my port of ClamAV to 0.95.2 and updated FDAV to 0.2.1 to use the updated clamav engine. They are available from the usual spots ( http://blairdude.googlepages.com/clamav , http://blairdude.googlepages.com/fdav ). Nothing is new except for the changes to

Re: [Freedos-user] Could the MDADEBUG TSR be used to find this FreeCOM bug?

2009-07-04 Thread Blair Campbell
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Shane Baggsshan...@hotmail.com wrote: I've posted before about the four machines I'm running FreeDOS on -- One is exceptionally well behaved with FreeDOS 1.0 and another is exceptionally quirky.  In particular, I've been experiencing the FreeCOM bug where the

Re: [Freedos-user] Fwd: Announcement: New DOS USB Drivers

2009-07-03 Thread Blair Campbell
Re-phrasing: all I have seen hav EHCI, but over randomly U/OHCI. Do you agree with this? I understood that one of the two types was mainly Intel/VIA only Alain -- ___

[Freedos-user] Fwd: Announcement: New DOS USB Drivers

2009-07-02 Thread Blair Campbell
Anyone these days using UHCI? -- Forwarded message -- From: Bret Johnson bretj...@juno.com Date: Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:49 AM Subject: Announcement: New DOS USB Drivers To: bretj...@juno.com Good day to you. My name is Bret Johnson, and I write DOS TSR programs.  I am sending

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

2009-06-13 Thread Blair Campbell
I know about ReactOS, ReactOS is garbage right now.  It will probably be garbage for 2-3 more years. Realistically, writing a Windows 9x replacement for FreeDOS would take years, probably more than 2 or 3 because developers are hard to find and it's a huge project, probably (correct me if I'm

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

2009-04-25 Thread Blair Campbell
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 no other memory block that I

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

2009-04-19 Thread Blair Campbell
Downloading commercial software that you own a copy of for personal use is not illegal.  Downloading old commercial software that isn't sold anymore which the author doesn't care about is not illegal. To be illegal, the owner of the intellectual property has to raise suit and why would they

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

2009-04-19 Thread Blair Campbell
On a side note, I could care less whether or not people use illegal copies of software on FreeDOS; that's a personal choice.  But don't try to force your opinion on other people. You mean the way you are trying to force your opinion on everyone? No I am not. I am saying everyone, make up

Re: [Freedos-user] What about changing our packaging style for v1.1?

2009-04-16 Thread Blair Campbell
No way... It would mean rewritting CATS/Kitten/Foxcubs for any existing application, for a really not so great profit... NLS files aren't that big anyway (few KiB...), and it's a great functionality to be able to switch from one language to another just by typing SET LANG=xx. :-) Actually

Re: [Freedos-user] New problems with Windows 3.1...

2009-04-09 Thread Blair Campbell
If I don't load emm386.exe, freedos version, I get an error that I have an unsupported dos version. Load the microsoft version that comes with windows, himem too. If I try loading windows 3.1 in standard mode, I get an error that there isn't enough extended memory. Uge!

Re: [Freedos-user] HTGET for DOS?

2009-04-07 Thread Blair Campbell
HTGET was included in freedos 1.0 IIRC so you might find the source with the distribution somewhere On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste-family.net wrote: Hi there! I recently discovered a cool file retriever for DOS called HTGET, written many years ago by Ken Yap.

Re: [Freedos-user] HTGET for DOS?

2009-04-07 Thread Blair Campbell
don't have sources. Maybe 1.05 is included in the watt-32 package. I would check there. -jh On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste-family.net wrote: Hi Blair! On Tuesday 07 April 2009 09:13, Blair Campbell wrote: HTGET was included in freedos 1.0 IIRC so you might

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing programs on FreeDOS v1.1

2009-04-05 Thread Blair Campbell
It appears that any binary package installed on FreeDOS goes to /BIN. Besides that, there's no clear directive about how to install 3rd party apps. It should be %DOSDIR%\bin I would propose the following rules: - Any DOS replacement stuff (move, tree, format...) goes to \BIN\ - Any system

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

2009-04-02 Thread Blair Campbell
There is no physical SCSI bus in that machine. The disk wodim found must be the virtual device created by aspi.sys. Yes; cdrecord and wodim cannot use ATAPI devices directly in DOS; that's why they Regards,  JAS

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 status???

2009-04-02 Thread Blair Campbell
There is a problem here: There are 2 pirates programs there: pkzip and arj. Can this be removed arj is open-source (http://arj.sourceforge.net/) and pkzip afaik can be redistributed (but not the source). --

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-31 Thread Blair Campbell
And this means that basically implementing FAT12/16/32 in order to store and retrieve files, while using the old 8.3 filename scheme, in FreeDOS is perfectly fine, you just can't implement long file names and Extended Attributs as covered by those patents. What about the way UMSDOS used to do

Re: [Freedos-user] MS compatible CLIENT

2009-03-31 Thread Blair Campbell
2) MS compatible client need to fully support LFN read and write, but I'm not sure the DOSLFN write action is safe or not Why isn't DOSLFN safe? I've used it plenty without issues. 3) You can leave out UNC support otherwise printer will not work, but this will consume lot of memory 4)

Re: [Freedos-user] Networking

2009-03-30 Thread Blair Campbell
1) Run the file crynwr.bat inside the directory FDOS If you've already installed the network driver in autoexec.bat, just skip that. 2)As suggested by Eric Auer configure the file WATTCP.cfg file as follows: my_ip = dhcp netmask = 255.255.255.0 gateway = 0.0.0.0 domain_list =

Re: [Freedos-user] LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-29 Thread Blair Campbell
Also according to http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.Compatibility it also seams doslfn is not the answer and needs bugchecking by a third developer. Even kernel support would have some of those issues, it seems only not very fast and risk to crosslink files

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

2009-03-24 Thread Blair Campbell
Would you please inform whether you used XGCDROM as driver, the recording program you used, any command line options and where that recording program can be found ? I first loaded xgcdrom as usual, then loaded aspi.sys after (http://www.wolfgang-brinkmann.de/bcdw/aspi.sys), and used wodim to

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

2009-03-22 Thread Blair Campbell
does ASPI.SYS by Oak require a ATAPI driver to be loaded first? Yes. Load xgcdrom or something first, then load aspi.sys. Using devload worked fine for me. I hope to get the real system workable but no idea why it hangs. Wish I knew if the GCDROM/ASPI.SYS combination actually worked, as

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

2009-03-22 Thread Blair Campbell
does ASPI.SYS by Oak require a ATAPI driver to be loaded first? No. Programs like cdrecord and readcd can work without an ATAPI driver. No they can't if you're using an ATAPI drive. ASPI.SYS won't load if an ATAPI driver isn't loaded already. ASPI.SYS provides an ASPI-over-ATAPI interface; it

Re: [Freedos-user] I want to port drivewire to freedos...

2009-03-20 Thread Blair Campbell
Thanks for the pointers.  The 4th step is to get it working with ncurses and djgpp.  Where do I get the 32 bit dos compatible DJGPP compiler from???  A gem interface is clearly a stage 2 problem. GCC is available for DJGPP. I recommend getting DJGPP with GCC/G++ and various other packages as

Re: [Freedos-user] I want to port drivewire to freedos...

2009-03-19 Thread Blair Campbell
Now then, the Linux version depends on specific Linux only C libraries.  I need to know what the equivalent libraries are under Freedos and as necessary I will need to recode if the dos equivalent library is different. O.K. It looks like it depends at least on pthreads, curses, termios, and

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

2009-03-17 Thread Blair Campbell
I do hope you can make a working copy, I've never succeed burning any CD/DVD under DOS. Why don't you give it a test? :-) -- Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with

Re: [Freedos-user] burning CD

2009-03-17 Thread Blair Campbell
 Did you install aspi.sys over xcdrom.sys ? Would you please show the proper lines in your config.sys ? DEVICE=path\to\aspi.sys should work after you have loaded xcdrom they way you normally do. you could also use devload to load it. No parameters are necessary.

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

2009-03-15 Thread Blair Campbell
At the end of recording wodim spit out an error message about not closing the session or something, so I pressed Ctrl-C twice and it ended the wodim execution.  I then manually ejected the DVD and So after further testing, cdrecord (original) also does this, but if I wait long enough,

Re: [Freedos-user] Dialog ported to dos...

2009-03-09 Thread Blair Campbell
Is it possible, using DIALOGRC var, use colors with dialog under freedos? No; just setting TERM=djgpp should work. If TERM is unset, it defaults to unknown, which I have compiled to 'link' to djgpp-m (monochrome) Thanks! On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 1:41 AM, Blair Campbell blaird...@gmail.com

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos live cd

2009-03-09 Thread Blair Campbell
Hi I have the latest free dos live cd and I was trying to run this old dos game I have with the live cd. But every time I try to go to c: drive by putting in cd C: I get a message that c drive is not accessible. I would appreciate any input. If the C drive is NTFS or anything other than

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos live cd

2009-03-09 Thread Blair Campbell
it on the livecd itself -- From: Blair Campbell blaird...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 8:15 PM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] freedos live cd Hi I have the latest free dos live cd and I was trying

Re: [Freedos-user] Commands under djgpp bash

2009-03-04 Thread Blair Campbell
I'm trying to use some commands under djgpp bash, but the system report: Not enough memory Are you using the 32-bit port? ex: dmi.exe There are some way to run this command under bash? -- Fabrício Ceolin ulevel.com Diretor Executivo

Re: [Freedos-user] Cannot find CD

2009-03-03 Thread Blair Campbell
Google says rugxulo.googlepages.com and there a link points to the 7zip: http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/xgcdrm24.7z Would this driver work for recording? on any drive? I think using aspi.sys you can use cdrecord with it. Maybe I will test it if I can get FreeDOS to boot on my laptop (1.0 CD

Re: [Freedos-user] Dialog 1.1 for DOS

2009-02-28 Thread Blair Campbell
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Fabrício Ceolin ceo...@ulevel.com wrote: Hi, How can I get modified cells from dialog using --form under dos? ex: dialog --title aaa --form choice 50 78 100 Form1 1 0 1 30 55 256 Form2 2 0 MG9310077 2 30 55 256 If you are trying to do complex scripts

Re: [Freedos-user] variable for boot device?

2009-02-08 Thread Blair Campbell
Well, I could introduce a ramdisk but I don't really like to. You have to. SET /E uses a temporary file for the output of the command, just as pipes do. Yes; in a single-tasking environment, it is difficult to avoid using a temporary file for pipes, but you could also write a utility to read

Re: [Freedos-user] Loading old DOS programs under FreeDOS

2009-01-22 Thread Blair Campbell
Here is the exact error text from the Word 5.5 for MS-DOS load under FreeDOS on a FAT16 partition: Illegal Instruction occurred Illegal Instruction occurred CS=0530 IP=3006 SS=394A SP=FFDD DS= ES=0317 EAXX=0100 EBX=0530 ECX=0F00 EDX=0020 ESI=05A8 EDI=0002

Re: [Freedos-user] Poll FreeDOS and NTFS

2009-01-14 Thread Blair Campbell
True true... I wonder how bad it would be if Ubuntu and Debian made this the default anyway. Instead of a script, I just installed Debian and dosemu and haven't had to change sysctl.conf at all. -- This SF.net email is

Re: [Freedos-user] Running Fractint under Freedos

2009-01-10 Thread Blair Campbell
Last but not least, making a partition for DOS can be hard because Vista will probably take all your space. Luckily, Linux installers can shrink Windows partitions Actually, I find it kinda cool that vista includes a partition-shrinker that you can run right in the OS. Just right click on

[Freedos-user] irc netsplit?

2009-01-05 Thread Blair Campbell
I can see the bots on tokai.i7c.org, but some other people on irc.i7c.org Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya --

Re: [Freedos-user] NTFS4DOS

2009-01-05 Thread Blair Campbell
NTFS4DOS has one problem...it isn'T a TSR you can start it at commandline or autoexec.bat and it will start a second layer of command.com. This will eat memory of 640k but should work with most programs. Could it be loaded as the shell so it only stats a first instance of command.com?

Re: [Freedos-user] Arachne works!

2008-12-21 Thread Blair Campbell
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 7:38 PM, kurt godel wb2...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, downloaded the driver, did it's autoexec, did Arachne; soooweet! On the air! The arachnoid even incorporates the driver into the autoexec. Just one more dumb question: how to enable cookies in the arachne browser? I get

[Freedos-user] LZMA-Utils 4.32.7 Port

2008-12-10 Thread Blair Campbell
Hi. I just added a port of lzma-utils 4.32.7 to ibiblio. It creates and extracts .lzma files which I have encountered a few times and the files are in http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/file as lzmax.zip (binaries) and lzmas.zip (source). It's very similary to gzip and

[Freedos-user] ClamAV port updated.

2008-12-09 Thread Blair Campbell
The port of ClamAV (clamconf, clamscan, freshclam, and sigtool) has been updated from 0.92 to 0.94.2. From my testing, clamscan seems to work well. I still haven't tested freshclam because I don't have a DOS computer on the internet. People who are able to test should let me know if it works or

Re: [Freedos-user] image (.img) mount / manipulation software?

2008-12-07 Thread Blair Campbell
Doesn't the SHSU ram driver set include an image mounter? And shsucdx can mount .iso images IIRC. Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Michael Reichenbach

Re: [Freedos-user] Slow Packet Driver (e100bpkt - Crynwr)

2008-04-10 Thread Blair Campbell
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Spiro Gulgas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is one of the 3 things that i can't get working fully! (others are Audio and USB) My Packet Driver: *Besides being falsely Autodetected by Crynwr* Is Downloading slower then the internet speed. Here's my Info:

Re: [Freedos-user] Burning cd on dos

2008-03-04 Thread Blair Campbell
http://bootcd.narod.ru/cdrtools-2.01-msdos-bin.zip That website has a download for a file called aspi.sys. Try downloading this and installing it in config.sys. Thsi is a very slow demo.. http://www.goldenhawk.com/download_body.htm Someone have a suggestion for a valid program?

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't even get started!

2008-02-25 Thread Blair Campbell
I think there should be a direct link to the ISO right from the download page. On Mon, Jul 9, 2007 at 8:25 AM, someone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 17:22 -0700, chris evans wrote: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/fdfullcd.iso

Re: [Freedos-user] LFN

2008-02-14 Thread Blair Campbell
try dir /lfn On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Ray Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Boot screen says: DOSLFN 0.40c Kernel is 20 Sept 07 Neither NC or VC 4.05 or DIR display LFNs. What am I missing? Ray - This

Re: [Freedos-user] Fresh ClamAV/DJGPP Port

2008-02-01 Thread Blair Campbell
Ok so I've uploaded new versions to the same location and this should fix the problem it had with removing temporary directories. Please re-test. And remember that clamscan needs 20M of memory/swap space to run. www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system On Jan 27, 2008 8:24

Re: [Freedos-user] Icon for cdrom is in GUI,but nothing happens.

2008-01-29 Thread Blair Campbell
I think what he means is that he installed OpenGEM with FreeDOS and it won't view the files on his cdrom drive. That would be a question for the OpenGEM list. On Jan 29, 2008 9:57 AM, Ron Spruell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested to see this answer since I had no idea that FreeDos was

Re: [Freedos-user] Fresh ClamAV/DJGPP Port

2008-01-27 Thread Blair Campbell
I installed successfully clamav (I used the package of Mateusz Viste) I've got an internet connection working on my dos freedos box. I tried to use freshcla.exe but it fires up an error : Can't parse the config file /dev/env/DOSDIR/bin/clamd.conf I ran the command in c:\fdos\bin\ Another

Re: [Freedos-user] ClamAV CTorrent

2008-01-27 Thread Blair Campbell
Your packages aren't really FreeDOS compliant, as they haven't /appinfo and /packages directories... Nice work anyway ;-) /packages isn't necessary because fdpkg IIRC will create the directory anyway. Having the directory in the package is only needed if some post-install or pre-remove

Re: [Freedos-user] Fresh ClamAV/DJGPP Port

2008-01-27 Thread Blair Campbell
freshclam.exe On Jan 27, 2008 11:01 AM, Fabien Meghazi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you try it with DOSLFN loaded? Also, is DOSDIR set to c:\fdos? DOSLFN is always loaded on my box. yes, DOSDIR is set to c:\fdos In YOUR archive, does the freshclam executable is called FRESHCLA.EXE or

Re: [Freedos-user] Fresh ClamAV/DJGPP Port

2008-01-27 Thread Blair Campbell
Try using --config-file=c:/fdos/bin/freshcla[m].conf and --datadir=c:/fdos/bin On Jan 27, 2008 11:02 AM, Blair Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: freshclam.exe On Jan 27, 2008 11:01 AM, Fabien Meghazi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you try it with DOSLFN loaded? Also, is DOSDIR set to c:\fdos

Re: [Freedos-user] Fresh ClamAV/DJGPP Port

2008-01-27 Thread Blair Campbell
I'm sure there must be one compiled with DJGPP... On Jan 27, 2008 12:54 PM, Mateusz Viste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 27 January 2008, Fabien Meghazi wrote: freshclam.exe I think I'm going to try with your package instead of Mateusz Viste's one. That will not help you, as my

[Freedos-user] Fresh ClamAV/DJGPP Port

2008-01-26 Thread Blair Campbell
I have just uploaded to ibiblio: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/clamavs.zip (source) http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/clamavx.zip (binary) which contains a DOS port of ClamAV 0.92. Unlike previous ports, this one contains four

[Freedos-user] ctorrent-ng Port Now Available

2008-01-26 Thread Blair Campbell
Now available are: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/torrents.zip (source) http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/torrentx.zip (binary) which are untested DJGPP ports of ctorrent-ng. IOW, users MAY be able to use this to utilize

Re: [Freedos-user] doslfn and 4dos

2008-01-19 Thread Blair Campbell
On 1/19/08, Florian Xaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you win95lfn=yes in your 4dos.ini ?? Shouldn't this really be default with a test to see if lfns are supported? LG Flo 2008/1/19, Fabien Meghazi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I've got doslfn loaded in autoexec.bat. I can see long

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos update and 4dos

2008-01-18 Thread Blair Campbell
I am with Tom On 1/16/08, Tom Ehlert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) 4DOS in FreeDOS 1.1: Will it - the package - have the structure of directory as the other programs? Or not? (freecom is in the root-directory...) You are right - FreeCOM should be moved to the BIN directory. At the

Re: [Freedos-user] Running FreeDOS directly from CD-ROMwithoutinstalling on HD?

2007-12-27 Thread Blair Campbell
1) downloaded fdbasecd.iso 2) used MagicISO to add two files to its structure (it is the bios flash utility and new bios) 3) saved the fdbasecd.iso and burned it without any problems. I don't think that fdbasecd.iso has the LiveCD part. Download fdbasews.iso or any of the fdfull??.iso to

Re: [Freedos-user] Printing to a network printer....

2007-12-26 Thread Blair Campbell
To begins, there must be some software installed in the PATH: 1. WatTCP (http://www.bgnett.no/~giva/) 2. LPT2FILE (http://sac-ftp.externet.hu/utiltext15.html) Perhaps LPT2FILE could be modified to pipe the data to JD.EXE instead of to a file, so that direct printing would be possible. --

Re: [Freedos-user] FDAPM

2007-12-26 Thread Blair Campbell
FDPKG basically replaces FDPM On 7/7/07, Florian Xaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, how is the status of this package manager tool (http://fdpm.sourceforge.net/): It seems to work now? Btw: There should be a big link at FreeDOS homepage I think. I have seen the great package manager of

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDOS

2007-12-24 Thread Blair Campbell
My first guess is that you didn't choose wget for installation On 12/23/07, Rob Larkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 'Can't install FreeDOS. I tried to report this to Bugzilla but I'm not getting the confirmation email(s) when I try to set up an

Re: [Freedos-user] New program for FreeDOS FreeDOS Update

2007-11-30 Thread Blair Campbell
LSM stands for Linux Software Map. It has nothing to do with compression. It is simply a file that contains information about other files. On 11/30/07, Craig Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just found a great program to add to FreeDOS. It's called XXCOPY. It works a lot like xcopy. It is

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Updater

2007-11-30 Thread Blair Campbell
just adding my two cents, but there is already a directory on ibiblio with all of the 1.0 packages: www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/pkgs On 11/30/07, Florian Xaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you!! Very good idea! I will download the zip-files now... Bye

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2007-11-03 Thread Blair Campbell
Yes it is possible but it will require re-building of the ISO or inserting it into the ISO using something like MagicISO On 11/2/07, Badger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Can anyone tell me if it is possible to add a Dos program to the live CD so that I can run it from the cd ? I wish to

Re: [Freedos-user] Fwd: exFAT32

2007-10-22 Thread Blair Campbell
Didn't the Dr-DOS people already invent an extended FAT32 called somthing else? On 10/15/07, Bart Oldeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/16/07, Florian Xaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Found it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat32#exFAT. Would it be much work to add support of it at FreeDOS?

Re: [Freedos-user] Invalid Opcode at 214C 0583 0246 001E while booting FreeDOS

2007-03-29 Thread Blair Campbell
What's wrong with Virtual PC? I've used it, with success, plus, it's a free product right now. On 3/14/07, someone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 00:50 -0700, BrentMartin wrote: FreeDOS HIMEM64 3.26 [August 25 2006] (c) 1995, Till Gerken 2001-2006 tom ehlert HIMEM - Always

Re: [Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: XGREP version 1.03

2007-03-29 Thread Blair Campbell
I like BSD better - more freedom On 3/15/07, Robert Riebisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tom ehlert wrote: as the BSD license is more free then GPL 2 (or even later), just leave it as is. You say it. :-) Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/

Re: [Freedos-user] Microsoft C/C++

2007-02-07 Thread Blair Campbell
They're the same as in linux, except not widely supported. All applications built with DJGPP 2.04+ support them. On 1/30/07, Alain M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blair Campbell escreveu: What about Blair's RTL? and it also has LFN... And symlinks :-) What are symlinks in DOS? I know

Re: [Freedos-user] Microsoft C/C++

2007-01-30 Thread Blair Campbell
On 1/19/07, Alain M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arkady V.Belousov escreveu: For applications, RTL usually is inherent part, so comparing RTLs (which also compiled by compilers) together _is_ relevant. On the other side, given examples make bias point - you may now enough to bias

Re: [Freedos-user] Microsoft C/C++

2007-01-17 Thread Blair Campbell
DeSmet C is actually quite different than any of the other DOS compilers available. I would not recommend it if you are trying to compile existing source code, becuase its standard library lacks many of the extensions that DOS programmers (and even POSIX programmers) take for granted, like

Re: [Freedos-user] Unknown Config.sys entry

2007-01-17 Thread Blair Campbell
@ preceding a command simply prevents the command from being echoed on the commandline. Also, if echo off is issued before the said command, the @ prefix is unnecessary. On 1/16/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was studying a FreeDos bootable floppy relating to NTFS4dos.exe

Re: [Freedos-user] Connect to internet through Router (resend)

2006-12-20 Thread Blair Campbell
Wattcp isn't really a stack that one can install, really. Yes it can use a global configuration setup, but each application must be built with the wattcp library to be able to utilize this configuration. Applications built with other networking 'stacks' require different configuration, obviously

Re: [Freedos-user] Long filename support in FreeDOS

2006-12-16 Thread Blair Campbell
In FreeDOS 1.0, the COMMAND.COM replacement supports long filenames, and some of the other programs do as well, but many programs do not. So yes and no. On 12/16/06, Florian Xaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, it includes a driver called DOSLFN, which brings LFN support for FAT12/16/32. I

Re: [Freedos-user] virtual drive

2006-12-11 Thread Blair Campbell
Except on the FreeDOS kernel, SUBST fails to work properly. On 12/11/06, Arkady V.Belousov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! 11-Дек-2006 06:13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dima) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: d How to create writeable virtual drive? not ram. Subst allows assign to any

Re: [Freedos-user] virtual drive

2006-12-11 Thread Blair Campbell
But that's only for windows. On 12/11/06, Marcel Tschudin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a virtual floppy drive have a look here: http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html#top On 12/12/06, Arkady V.Belousov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! 11-Дек-2006 06:13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dima)

Re: [Freedos-user] Set Command

2006-11-27 Thread Blair Campbell
both are not correct, as the second one would need to be prefixed with SET to work correctly. On 11/27/06, Arkady V.Belousov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! 26-Ноя-2006 04:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lester) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: L Ok, and now, which syntax is correct: L PATH

Re: [Freedos-user] Set Command

2006-11-27 Thread Blair Campbell
Well I don't understand why PATH=blah blah would be accepted but HELLO=blah blah wouldn't work. On 11/27/06, Arkady V.Belousov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! 27-Ноя-2006 11:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Blair Campbell) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: BC both are not correct

Re: [Freedos-user] Set Command

2006-11-27 Thread Blair Campbell
] (Blair Campbell) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: BC Well I don't understand why PATH=blah blah would be accepted but BC HELLO=blah blah wouldn't work. L PATH %DOSDIR%\BIN L PATH=%DOSDIR%\BIN Both are accepted by MS-command.com and FreeCom. Which other criteria

Re: [Freedos-user] Set Command

2006-11-27 Thread Blair Campbell
On 11/27/06, Arkady V.Belousov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! 27-Ноя-2006 12:57 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Blair Campbell) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: Who says about HELLO=? We discuss PATH and PATH=. PS: As I understand, this is another bug/feature, like cd.. and echo.. BC

Re: [Freedos-user] Set Command

2006-11-27 Thread Blair Campbell
Any particular reason? On 11/27/06, Florian Xaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No. Bye Flo On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:57:21 +0100, Blair Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So who is for making HELLO=blah equal to SET HELLO=blah in FreeCOM? And according to POSIX, %PWD% is supposed to be set

Re: [Freedos-user] Set Command

2006-11-27 Thread Blair Campbell
Well, the source code's already been written, but I'd like a few more people's OK :-). On 11/27/06, Florian Xaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like the idea. Sounds very practical. Bye Flo On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:33:10 +0100, Blair Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any particular reason

Re: [Freedos-user] Set Command

2006-11-27 Thread Blair Campbell
On 11/27/06, Arkady V.Belousov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! 27-Ноя-2006 13:14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Blair Campbell) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: BC So who is for making HELLO=blah equal to SET HELLO=blah in FreeCOM? Where you see this? Lester was just ask

Re: [Freedos-user] use smb with freedos or nfs

2006-11-27 Thread Blair Campbell
There's also another one called XFS (not to be confused with the file-system) and probably some more. XFS IIRC was distributed with old versions of SuSE Linux. On 11/27/06, Sylvain Lavoie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I know no NFS drivers for DOS, but there Actually, there is such a

Re: [Freedos-user] setup failed

2006-11-26 Thread Blair Campbell
On 11/24/06, Fritz ULBRICH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have just received FREEDOS (CD ROM) and tried to install it on my Acer Aspire 1622, (Windows XP). There was no result. The setup failed by following reasons: quote: shsurdrv cannot be found, setup.bat requires FreeCom 0.84pre 2 or

Re: [Freedos-user] Set Command

2006-11-25 Thread Blair Campbell
Hi. All of the environment variables that you use above are used in FreeDOS apps, so depending on what you want out of FreeDOS you _do_ need those set lines. DOSDIR is used for fdpkg to install new packages, NLSDIR is used by kittenized apps to locate translated messages, HELPPATH is used by

Re: [Freedos-user] Set Command

2006-11-25 Thread Blair Campbell
Of course, just for the record, SET PATH=blah blah blah does exactly the same thing and works just as well. On 11/25/06, Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: L: ok and now, which syntax is correct: PATH %DOSDIR%\BIN or PATH=%DOSDIR%\BIN Blair: I can quote my previous response to

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos on USB memor stick (partially solved)

2006-10-16 Thread Blair Campbell
uhh, that's been done for a few months. look at [distro dir]/pkgs (like www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/pkgs) On 10/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone thought of breaking the freedos.iso image into zip archives and allowing users to

Re: [Freedos-user] Bolitare (Bolitaire) Error loading datafile

2006-09-26 Thread Blair Campbell
were you in the same directory as the executable? -- Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya - Take Surveys. Earn Cash.

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS PR question - what LOOKS fancy in DOS?

2006-09-21 Thread Blair Campbell
Hi. Definitely OpenGEM and MPXPlay; if Ozone is stable then that too. On 9/21/06, Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, now that FreeDOS 1.0 is out, people show up and want to write fancy articles about it, sometimes with pics or even (podcasts...) with filmed material... The problem

Re: [Freedos-user] Need help ... calling COMMAND.COM from C

2006-09-18 Thread Blair Campbell
That would be the edition. On 9/18/06, Arkady V.Belousov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! 18-Сен-2006 04:44 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marton) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: M With current you mean 1.0, or the latest build? 'cause I tried 1.0 without M luck... Trouble not in

Re: [Freedos-user] Need help ... calling COMMAND.COM from C

2006-09-16 Thread Blair Campbell
Hi. It almost sounds to me like the destination file isn't getting flushed to the disk. I would recommend doing the recirection internally in the C program, and then you have direct control of the file. A simple close(1); open(blah, O_WRONLY); /* system() stuff here: */ blah blah blah close(1);

Re: [Freedos-user] Need help ... calling COMMAND.COM from C

2006-09-16 Thread Blair Campbell
I did say that there were ways to save/restore the original stdout... I know that open(CON) is technically wrong, but at the same time it works in most cases. On 9/16/06, Arkady V.Belousov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! 16-Сен-2006 02:29 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Blair Campbell) wrote to freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Problems instaling 1.0

2006-09-14 Thread Blair Campbell
Just rename it to fdbootcd.iso. BTW, only UNZIP is used during the installation, not GZIP. On 9/14/06, Carlos Garces [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Auer escribió: This probably means that the new cdrom drivers are less reliable than the old ones. Use MEM /d /p to see which driver you have

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