Re: [Freedos-user] USB to RS-232 Adapters

2024-09-13 Thread Dan Schmidt via Freedos-user
Hmm(Scratching chin) Am I the only one on this thread thinking about getting a dirt cheap t5740 to try to run a FreeDos thin client? Does FreeDos run on Atom? On Sat, Sep 7, 2024 at 5:09 PM Louis Santillan via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > I agree with Eric. Som

Re: [Freedos-user] Lousy NTFS...

2024-07-28 Thread Dan Schmidt via Freedos-user
via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 at 15:44, Dan Schmidt via Freedos-user > wrote: > > > > FWIW, I didn't need the bitlocker key unless they set a pin. At least > with ntfs-3g. But, I suppose that is a subject for

Re: [Freedos-user] Lousy NTFS...

2024-07-26 Thread Dan Schmidt via Freedos-user
k an admin password. Sure could have used something like that fast last Friday. (And a magic wand) On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 12:05 PM Liam Proven via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 at 23:13, Dan Schmidt via Freedos-user > wrote: > > &g

Re: [Freedos-user] Lousy NTFS...

2024-07-25 Thread Dan Schmidt via Freedos-user
I was kinda hoping to take a "nostalgia tack" on this one. Two cents: Me, I came up with a Linux solution. Ntfs-3g, ntfs-fix, and some basic python. It booted and did the trick without typing anything, but it required disabling secure boot and changing to ahci. It was late, it was linux, it req

[Freedos-user] Lousy NTFS...

2024-07-24 Thread Dan Schmidt via Freedos-user
Maybe a bot off topic, but How many of you woke up to the CrowdStrike debacle Friday morning and, after making minced oaths, solemnly proclaimed "If we still had Fat32 and BIOS, I could fix this with FreeDos in 20 seconds flat!" ___ Freedos-user mail

Re: [Freedos-user] questions about installing FreeDOS on real hardware

2024-05-01 Thread Dan Schmidt via Freedos-user
I use a disk image, boot that from Grub and simply run/save stuff on a local Fat32 partition. I also boot Windows (rarely) which, ironically, wants to "fix" the fat partition that Linux and FreeDos are just fine with. (Which fix breaks things terribly) On Sun, Apr 28, 2024 at 3:58 AM Norby Droid

[Freedos-user] One use case for FreeDos

2024-01-27 Thread Dan Schmidt via Freedos-user
Now, that's an interesting use for a Dos/FreeDos retro computer: https://www.theverge.com/2014/5/14/5716232/george-r-r-martin-uses-dos-wordstar-to-write How many computers destined for the landfill still have perfectly good screens and keyboards? (Recalling those heavy, grey, indestructible PS2

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos, laptops, and the internet?

2023-06-03 Thread Dan Schmidt
https://github.com/AnttiTakala/SSH2DOS Unfortunately, it did not seem to work anymore last time I tried it. It may be possible to enable some legacy ciphers on the ssh server to make it work. Personally, I telnet to another PC and and ssh from there. On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 7:42 PM tauro via Fre

Re: [Freedos-user] New mTCP available

2022-07-16 Thread Dan Schmidt
Thanks all for your comments, I'm aware of the ssh2dos project and suggested noise.sys to help with security. I'm glad to hear Unicode in mTCP Telnet is on the table and would like to thank Mike for his continued work. (PC fished from trash + FreeDos + mTCP Telnet = quick, cheap terminal for lab

Re: [Freedos-user] New mTCP available

2022-07-15 Thread Dan Schmidt
Indeed good news, and would be swell if Brutman compiled an ssh client with his excellent library as well. :-) On Sat, Jul 9, 2022 at 3:49 AM Lukas Satin wrote: > Hi, perfect! Good news! > > So, in the future, I could modify this RLoader DOS game browser library to > include some IRC chat with

Re: [Freedos-user] From BTTR: FAT32 ramdisk, SvarCOM shell, Doszip commander

2022-06-15 Thread Dan Schmidt
Off topic and flagrant necromancy, yet I'll briefly note somebody (kind of) did. * (Disclaimer: "correct" loosely defined)* https://bestofcpp.com/repo/AnttiTakala-SSH2DOS P.S. Thanks Eric On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 5:45 PM Karen Lewellen wrote: > Seems like some fine efforts. > Speaking personal

Re: [Freedos-user] Video complains that DOS should not be mantained

2022-01-12 Thread Dan Schmidt
works great for me. > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 8:17 PM Dan Schmidt wrote: > >> Have you tried links -g ? >> >> On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 10:11 PM Louis Santillan >> wrote: >> >>> I haven’t had many crashes in Links2 in normal browsing. I have been >>

Re: [Freedos-user] Video complains that DOS should not be mantained

2022-01-10 Thread Dan Schmidt
Jan 6, 2022 at 7:17 AM Dan Schmidt wrote: > >> Links and Lynx both do TLS currently on DOS. Links will even do images, >> but it's prone to crash in gui mode. >> >> On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 2:09 AM Louis Santillan >> wrote: >> >>> Doesn'

Re: [Freedos-user] Video complains that DOS should not be mantained

2022-01-08 Thread Dan Schmidt
Jan 6, 2022 at 10:12 PM Louis Santillan wrote: > 2.25 is latest version > http://links.twibright.com/download/binaries/dos/ > > > On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 3:31 PM Jose Senna wrote: > >> Dan schmidt said: >> >> | Links and Lynx both do TLS currently on DOS. >

Re: [Freedos-user] Video complains that DOS should not be mantained

2022-01-06 Thread Dan Schmidt
Links and Lynx both do TLS currently on DOS. Links will even do images, but it's prone to crash in gui mode. On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 2:09 AM Louis Santillan wrote: > Doesn't Links2 do TLS? > > On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 3:45 PM Jim Hall wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 6:28 PM Jose Senna wrot

Re: [Freedos-user] ANN: lynx2.9.0dev.8

2021-08-02 Thread Dan Schmidt
Quick FYI: Dos lynx is still available. Tried it - still works. https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.msdos.djgpp/c/4GGhcKL_ZPQ/m/cTmonuz4BQAJ That FTP server doesn't seem to work, none of the mirrors seem to work, so I found it here: https://mirrors.fe.up.pt/pub/djgpp/current/v2tk/ Last I tried,

Re: [Freedos-user] Netgear LNE100TX

2021-07-26 Thread Dan Schmidt
Well, I can tell you this much isn't right: >My Ethernet Address Is FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF That driver doesn't like or can't find your card. On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 4:25 AM Richard Hoffman < richardhoffman2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have been having trouble setting up my ethernet card on my f

Re: [Freedos-user] networking/wifi

2021-03-20 Thread Dan Schmidt
Long time ago, I had an orinoco card that was 802.11b that was supposed to work with DOS. Could never get it to work, eventually threw it out in frustration. Some very good and interesting suggestions have been made. However, I believe the cheapest/easiest may be a simple wireless bridge. An ol

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos USB Pendrive

2020-03-07 Thread Dan Schmidt
I have had luck with the following: Insert the USB pendrive BEFORE boot. Use FDISK/FORMAT to properly format the usb. Shut down and remove the usb. Put files on usb, then insert the pendrive back in before boot. After boot, you should be able to access the file on usb. I'm not sure if this wor

Re: [Freedos-user] Only Get Black Screen with Blinking Cursor following Installation of FreeDOS to my Machine

2020-03-05 Thread Dan Schmidt
Try the utilities fdisk and format, I've not had any luck using Gparted to make anything FreeDos can reliably read. On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 3:25 PM Jen via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > I’m trying to install FreeDOS onto the SSD hard drive of my ThinkPad W520 > 4284‑W

[Freedos-user] Lynx Live

2019-12-01 Thread Dan Schmidt
In an effort to demonstrate Lynx (ie - a text web browser) on Dos as a viable, fast and fun option, I created a boot img to do so and squirreled it away in the forgotten tunnels of the gophernet where I hope it shall only be found by people who will not unduly pester me. gopher://sdf.org/1/users/h

Re: [Freedos-user] SSH - unsupported remote protocol version

2018-01-02 Thread Dan Schmidt
Drat! Somebody finally caught onto to my evil plan to covertly make Linux servers insecure! Foiled again! You will this one, Tom, but I'll be back!! Oh, I'LL BE BACK!! On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 9:03 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > > > We did talk at length about it almost exactly a year ago. The tldr

Re: [Freedos-user] SSH - unsupported remote protocol version

2018-01-02 Thread Dan Schmidt
We did talk at length about it almost exactly a year ago. The tldr version is that you would need ssh2d386 and you have to have access to modify the ssh config on the server to support older ciphers. All my attempts to get a decent C coder interested in updating the project have failed. https://

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of yo

2017-05-06 Thread Dan Schmidt
From: Dan Schmidt --===8759580214405937345== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a1140137c0b54bd054df6b1bf --001a1140137c0b54bd054df6b1bf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 That is a router, I can't guarantee it would work. (unless you put openwrt on it) Ho

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of yo

2017-05-06 Thread Dan Schmidt
From: Dan Schmidt --===2885374890722544653== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a113c05a850355e054de294d9 --001a113c05a850355e054de294d9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Is this thread still about wireless for Dos? If not, sorry for posting. If so, I bought a

Re: [Freedos-user] Creating a DOS bootable USB drive

2017-05-06 Thread Dan Schmidt
From: Dan Schmidt --===1609859276591360949== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a113bcaa218afcb054aeddd77 --001a113bcaa218afcb054aeddd77 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Unetbootin will work for disk or iso, however

Re: [Freedos-user] SSH2DOS - no connection with recent servers

2017-05-06 Thread Dan Schmidt
From: Dan Schmidt --===5744745932746269668== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f403045ebac61b89f70548629728 --f403045ebac61b89f70548629728 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I hope I am not committing the dreaded "

Re: [Freedos-user] SSH2DOS - no connection with recent servers

2017-05-06 Thread Dan Schmidt
From: Dan Schmidt --===5733539331453050794== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a114057c24860b105475c76bb --001a114057c24860b105475c76bb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I didn't try the 386 version, perhaps that

Re: [Freedos-user] SSH2DOS - no connection with recent servers

2017-05-06 Thread Dan Schmidt
From: Dan Schmidt --===0780098062071741077== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a1142b0eecdb1c005470cdeeb --001a1142b0eecdb1c005470cdeeb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I am unsure what it is that makes ssh2dos so

Re: [Freedos-user] SSH2DOS - no connection with recent servers

2017-05-06 Thread Dan Schmidt
From: Dan Schmidt --===5135558072373083799== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f403045fc1c842840405471fe722 --f403045fc1c842840405471fe722 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I am equally as stunned - I will remember this

Re: [Freedos-user] SSH2DOS - no connection with recent servers

2017-05-06 Thread Dan Schmidt
From: Dan Schmidt --===3214343721392351354== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=94eb2c1a162021ee2705470ce377 --94eb2c1a162021ee2705470ce377 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I forgot - you may need to regenerate your keys

Re: [Freedos-user] SSH2DOS - no connection with recent servers

2017-05-06 Thread Dan Schmidt
From: Dan Schmidt --===8947666473291029551== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a11c00ea612aad70546e511ab --001a11c00ea612aad70546e511ab Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable They deprecated that cipher - you can make it

[Freedos-user] Lynx DOS

2017-05-06 Thread Dan Schmidt
From: Dan Schmidt --===7049781051341746116== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a11c00ea612c01505469d6090 --001a11c00ea612c01505469d6090 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 FYI - I have found this new compile of Lynx to be very stable/compatible. If you have an

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS

2017-05-06 Thread DAN SCHMIDT
From: Dan Schmidt --===1367417055986599984== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=94eb2c05d174565b21053980b67a --94eb2c05d174565b21053980b67a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > Under plain DOS ? On what kind of machine ? Sry, didn't see your response.

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files)

2017-04-24 Thread Dan Schmidt
on my machine. (can be powered by usb) On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 3:39 PM, Ulrich Hansen wrote: > > > Am 24.04.2017 um 07:07 schrieb Dan Schmidt : > > > > Is this thread still about wireless for Dos? If not, sorry for posting. > > > > If so, I bought a wireless to et

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files)

2017-04-23 Thread Dan Schmidt
Is this thread still about wireless for Dos? If not, sorry for posting. If so, I bought a wireless to ethernet bridge - smaller than a deck of cards, runs on usb power - works great for my Dos machine. I tried a wifi card that supposedly supported dos - never could get it working, threw it away

Re: [Freedos-user] Creating a DOS bootable USB drive

2017-03-17 Thread Dan Schmidt
Unetbootin will work for disk or iso, however, I have come across usb that simply will not work for some strange reason. I have to wonder if anybody has ever had any success simply sys-ing the usb? On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 11:05 AM, Jerome Shidel wrote: > Some Windows users like using utilities l

Re: [Freedos-user] SSH2DOS - no connection with recent servers

2017-02-12 Thread Dan Schmidt
ould want to *run SSH* in DOS in VirtualBox" I did not mean to imply that running Dos on VirtualBox is at all strange. On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 9:35 PM, Dan Schmidt wrote: > I didn't try the 386 version, perhaps that will be more stable. Also, if > you type "reset" befor

Re: [Freedos-user] SSH2DOS - no connection with recent servers

2017-01-30 Thread Dan Schmidt
.2017 um 06:23 schrieb Karen Lewellen : > > To answer your question for myself, I never have this issue. No crashes, > and i can spend hours working on line. Further I have done more than my > share of downloads with sftpd386 as well. > > > > On Fri, 27 Jan 2017, Dan Schmidt wr

Re: [Freedos-user] SSH2DOS - no connection with recent servers

2017-01-27 Thread Dan Schmidt
penSSH 7.2 > Client is a fresh install of FreeDOS 1.2 where I installed ssh2dos with > "FDNPKG install ssh2dos" > > Thank you very, very much! > > Ulrich > > > > Am 27.01.2017 um 06:39 schrieb Dan Schmidt : > > I forgot - you may need to regenerate you

Re: [Freedos-user] SSH2DOS - no connection with recent servers

2017-01-26 Thread Dan Schmidt
I forgot - you may need to regenerate your keys with "ssh-keygen -A" after modifying the server. On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 10:38 PM, Dan Schmidt wrote: > I am unsure what it is that makes ssh2dos so unstable for me - nobody else > has this issue? > > I would like to answe

Re: [Freedos-user] SSH2DOS - no connection with recent servers

2017-01-26 Thread Dan Schmidt
I am unsure what it is that makes ssh2dos so unstable for me - nobody else has this issue? I would like to answer Ulrich on how he can modify his Ubuntu server, but first, a warning: These algorithms were disabled because they are obsolete and insecure. Using a token based login, such as google-a

Re: [Freedos-user] SSH2DOS - no connection with recent servers

2017-01-24 Thread Dan Schmidt
They deprecated that cipher - you can make it work, but it is vulnerable. Also, ssh2dos is very unstable in my experience. I wish somebody would write a decent ssh for dos. On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 1:21 AM, Ulrich Hansen wrote: > Update: > > The solution I found last night seems to work only for

[Freedos-user] Lynx DOS

2017-01-21 Thread Dan Schmidt
FYI - I have found this new compile of Lynx to be very stable/compatible. If you have an old computer and want to put it to good use, FreeDOS with lynx is an excellent option. It's a very fast way to read weather/news without ads. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.msdos.djgpp/JJ43_K

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS and DOS browsers

2016-08-07 Thread Dan Schmidt
for > > online commerce but not banking, and not recently. > >I, too, used this port of Lynx as my main browser, > inclusive for e-commerce, until 2014. During past > year access problems did increase a lot. > > Dan Schmidt said: > > > I use two that do SS

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTPS and DOS browsers

2016-07-26 Thread Dan Schmidt
>You talk as if you know for sure there is one. >Is this the case ? I use two that do SSL/TLS quite adequately: Links2 http://links.twibright.com/download.php lynx also does ssl, but this version takes some work to get going: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.msdos.djgpp/flY264GkHV

[Freedos-user] Lynx for Dos

2016-03-01 Thread Dan Schmidt
I was wondering if anybody else tried out the new lynx port: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.msdos.djgpp/flY264GkHV8 It's kind of a pain to get all the mods & CA cert, but SSL works properly with said CA cert providing warning of invalid site certificates. With "nopause" and a co