Re: [Freedos-user] Unexpected results from DIR command

2024-06-03 Thread Daniel Essin via Freedos-user
Look at python for dos - http://www.caddit.net/pythond/ If it has the os module, I'll bet you could do it. On Sun, Jun 2, 2024, at 11:19 PM, hms--- via Freedos-user wrote: > Hi > I am looking for files named Q and not directories named Q. In my case I > have thousands of assembler text files

Re: [Freedos-user] VICTORY! How I got networking operational in 86Box

2024-06-02 Thread Daniel Essin via Freedos-user
Excellect work! On Sun, Jun 2, 2024, at 5:35 PM, Brandon Taylor via Freedos-user wrote: > I've been agonizing over the question of why I can't connect an 86Box virtual > machine powered by FreeDOS to the Internet. But now, it seems, I have found a > fix, or at least a preliminary one. > >

Re: [Freedos-user] PCI parlallel port card....

2024-05-18 Thread Daniel Essin via Freedos-user
https://www.startech.com/en-us/cards-adapters/pci1pm On 5/18/2024 12:54 PM, Roderick Klein via Freedos-user wrote: Hello, Are there any PCI cards that live at IO adress 378 so they are compatible with DOS ? Thanks, Roderick ___ Freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] dos navigator

2024-05-08 Thread Daniel Essin via Freedos-user
Try it in a VM On 5/8/24 6:21 PM, Travis Siegel via Freedos-user wrote: I found my copy of PTS DOS Source, and was digging through them to see some of the differences between that and opendos, for which I also have the sources, and I ran across the dos navigator menuing system (at least I'm

Re: [Freedos-user] My curiosity

2023-07-26 Thread Daniel Essin via Freedos-user
Re: the Compaq, in the late 80's, with the bus expander and a multi-port serial card, we ran a 6-user Pick system application using wyse-60 terminals. Also ran a 10-user version on an AT. Tasks that could be completed in seconds now take minutes in Windows. This is a major cause of physician

Re: [Freedos-user] Basic freedos question before I try this?

2023-07-25 Thread Daniel Essin via Freedos-user
I have a box full of PCMCIA ethernet cards. If anyone could use one, I could search them out and post a list. Dan On 7/24/23 6:13 PM, Ralf Quint via Freedos-user wrote: On 7/24/2023 6:06 PM, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user wrote: Hi folks, Too many layers in the process for me to try the

Re: [Freedos-user] My curiosity

2023-07-25 Thread Daniel Essin via Freedos-user
That's great info! I glad to see so many getting use ouf of old hardware. I, myself, have a whole load of old hardware. You all have given me the stimulus to see what I can do with it. In particular I have a T40 and, perhaps more interesting, A Compaq Portable III. I even have, in a flip-top

[Freedos-user] My curiosity

2023-07-24 Thread Daniel Essin via Freedos-user
Hello, I'm following this list and find it very interesting. I found it when I was trying to prepare myself to help a friend whose business in built around a DOS app. It's clear that many/most/all? have access to other computers and OSes. This would be obvious if only because one needs

Re: [Freedos-user] Confusing details about SET and redirection inFreeCOM

2023-06-22 Thread Daniel Essin via Freedos-user
Maybe put in quotes? On Thu, Jun 22, 2023, at 10:07 AM, Bret Johnson wrote: >> Hi fellow users :-) >> >> I have been wondering which chars are special in SET >> in FreeCOM and whether they can be escaped or similar. > > I don't know specifically about FreeCOM, but I know in some versions of >

Re: [Freedos-user] TASM under an emulator?

2023-03-28 Thread Daniel Essin via Freedos-user
off topic but interesting? https://yeokhengmeng.com/2023/03/building-a-dos-chatgpt-client-in-2023/ On 3/23/2023 12:44 PM, Rugxulo wrote: Hi again, On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 12:53 PM Alvah Whealton wrote: Thanks for providing me with better direction. I'm already pursuing some of your

Re: [Freedos-user] Can you recommend a good single-board-computer for legacy OSs?

2023-03-02 Thread Daniel Essin via Freedos-user
There hasn't been much discussion of running dos in a virtual machine. I know it depends on why you want to run dos at all but a vm is an option that avoids the bios/uefi issues and the need for extra hardware. FreeDOS on VMWare Player | Agnoiologist

Re: [Freedos-user] Greetings

2023-03-01 Thread Daniel Essin via Freedos-user
https://archive.org/details/msdos_manual_622 https://archive.org/details/microsoft-programmers-reference-manual-msdos-2.0 https://archive.org/details/msdos_5_User_Guide_completehttps://archive.org/details/msdos_5_User_Guide_complete On

Re: [Freedos-user] Anyone want to write an article about FreeDOS?

2023-02-07 Thread Daniel Essin via Freedos-user
I think we're all here out of interest. i have a neighbor who "needs" yo run a dos app for his nusiness. He's the only one I know who "needs" to run dos. Everyone else does it out of interest who still has an ibm-pc or xt as their only computer? That said, if someone "wants" to write dos