Please illustrate me:
Define Stallmanitis
El 5/18/2016 a las 9:12 AM, Tom Ehlert escribió:
>>> Without DOSLFN, no support at all for long filenames?
>> Correct. Although, I hear the was another very buggy one that was
>> around before DOSLFN. I don’t know the name.
> THIS.IS.RIDICULOUS.
>
> one
Old knoppix distro live-cd has the option to boot knoppix linux or freedos,
On the isolinux prompt type "dos"
Sadly last time I tested they old pre1.0 freedos distro. I asked editor
to use an updated freedos image but they take everything from
debian repositories, and this is the Freedos
Looking at:
http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/tex/
There are a lot of files.
Is this a Tex distribution or just some spre utils?
Where to look for Tex for DOS ?
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Try last knoppix wich uses as default LXDE desktop
I run this system sucessfully on 300 mhz processor, 164 Mb ram.
Take a long time to startup but later has an usable speed,
runing from CD, installing on HD will have higher speed.
Marco Achury
www.achury.com.ve
El 07/10/2013 03:13 p.m., Louis
El 11/07/2013 12:42 p.m., Mateusz Viste escribió:
Hello,
Just for fun, I created a gopher repository with a few shareware games
from the 90's. I used it mainly to test the FDNPKG gopher support.
If you'd like to test it, you'd have to add such line in your FDNPKG.CFG
file:
REPO
Lynx web browser for DOS can convert html to formatted text.
El 04/06/2013 01:17 a.m., dos386 escribió:
Well, what program do you want written maybe I can help out with it
Ideas, if you want to deal with HTML:
1. HTML to text converter (with nice output) ... TOTALCOMMANDER has
a such HTML
El 16/05/2013 07:18 p.m., Marcos Favero Florence de Barros escribió:
Hi,
I got an old laptop with Windows 2000 Professional (NT). I will
now change the file system to FAT16, and install FreeDOS.
However, before erasing Windows, I'm wondering whether there are
files, such as drivers or some
El 24/04/2013 10:14 a.m., Rugxulo escribió:
Hi,
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:35 AM, basteon bast...@gmail.com wrote:
On 24 April 2013 03:52, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 6:46 PM, basteon bast...@gmail.com wrote:
here how I making freedos iso...
But it (still)
This is a hardware problem.
Allmost any screen have a control to adjust the image position.
The modern lcd screens have an auto adjust function on the controls menu
El 02/04/2013 07:56 a.m., Raymond WARICHET escribió:
Hi,
When booting FreeDOS, my display is offset by 1 char, the leftmost
Amazing work.
If you get abiword working on xwindows, you will get a modern looking
workstation able to open .doc, .docx and .odt files !!
Marco Achury
El 20/03/2013 02:44 p.m., Georg Potthast escribió:
I made a new version of the Dillo internet browser for DOS. It is based on
version
On DOS this is a normal limitation.
There a program Ontrack Disk Manager that help you to format big
partitions.
You can left 1 or 2 partitions for DOS (8 Gb each) and the remaining
disk you
can use it with another operating system.
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El 29/01/2013 11:11 a.m., bruce.bowman tds.net escribio':
Any improvements to the current editors would be nice, but the
following things don't strike me as particularly important:
-- external fonts
-- what language it was written in
-- built-in BASIC interpreter
-- calendar
My biggest
On linux you can use Abiword or LibreOffice in order to open WP documents.
El 30/12/2012 01:39 p.m., Carl Spitzer escribió:
On Sun, 2012-12-30 at 11:10 -0500, Karen Lewellen wrote:
I cannot say firmly if they can be crossed of course.
Still printer drivers for wordperfect are kept current,
Following this theme from another thread:
Word Star internal format is relativelly simple, in DOS era many
programs import WS data, and other programs as NortonCommander file
manager included WS viewer in order to quick see the text inside WS
document.
Check at:
From the same site:
This program includes GPL license, may be you can consider to include it
on FreeDOS distro or in the software list
http://www.wordstar.org/index.php/downloads/downloads-fileconverters?download=1:wsconen
El 31/12/2012 01:11 a.m., Marco Achury escribió:
Following this theme
I had Warcraft II Tides of Darkness, is a DOS program, I used to run
this program on a Win95 machine with 16 MB of RAM. Windows is required
in order to run scenary editor, but the game itself is a DOS program.
As long as I know Warcraft II battle net edition is a newer version,
but I have not
El 03/07/2012 03:45 p.m., Jeffrey escribió:
Hi,
The earlier version of edit was essentially a compiled batch file that
called qbasic with its editor personality. I was *delighted* to see
that finally changed.
Is there a way to do this from the command line without edit?
The reason is
I think official freedos release must be just 2 or 3 floppies, as
MSDOS was
Boot system + basic drivers and tools (and both, cdrom and floppy image
are required).
No package manager needed for this base system
Aditional to this, the community or any interested user can release
cdroms with
El 16/05/2012 12:03 p.m., Wolfgang Schechinger escribió:
Dear experts,
I have some floppy images I want to use with FreeDos that is running in a VM
(VirtualBox). The images work fine with e.g. Windows in such an environment.
However with the virtual FreeDos, disk changes are not
El 13/04/2012 10:03 a.m., Alex escribió:
Just to save me some time, instead of going through all the forums and
the documentation files (which would take forever), I ask this
question to you all: which of the (FreeDOS-based) languages support
Unicode?
More specifically, does anyone know if
El 13/04/2012 10:14 a.m., Mateusz Viste escribió:
I doubt you will find any DOS language that supports Unicode 'out of the box'.
However, there are Unicode-enabled DOS programs out there, so I'd say your
best shot is to take a look inside them.
Blocek is a unicode editor written in Pascal:
El 10/04/2012 10:07 a.m., Alex escribió:
Hi
This topic is not about DOS vs other operating systems, or the fact
that users tend to gradually abandon DOS. It's about the survivability
of DOS vis-a-vis hardware.
The starting point for my reasoning is: what will happen with the
future
El 07/04/2012 01:02 p.m., Ralf A. Quint escribió:
At 03:15 AM 4/7/2012, Alex wrote:
In the recent threads there have been many mentions to the fact that
FreeDOS is only 16bit (of course, that is what it is meant to be)
and that it is out of touch with the modern computing world.
Check
El 06/04/2012 01:25 p.m., Eric Auer escribió:
Hi!
Can someone please tell me what are the best GUIs available for FreeDOS?
Naturally, this is a double question, since GUIs fall into two categories:
1) Text-mode GUIs
2) Graphical GUIs
So, which GUI(s) would you recommend for each
El 06/04/2012 02:36 p.m., Eric Auer escribió:
Hi :-) A nice thread to ponder some free alternatives for
all those fine classic DOS programs from back then :-)
Rugxulo: What was DOS most famous for?
In office software: Lotus 1-2-3 *and clones), DBase 3 and 3.5,
El 02/04/2012 03:35 p.m., dmccunney escribió:
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Mark Brown eufdp...@yahoo.com wrote:
as usual, we all need more and better freeware,
and like the gnu flag says, free thinking...
maybe someday someone will invent an operating system
that promotes user programming
El 04/02/2012 09:45 a.m., Jim Hall escribió:
On Feb 1, 2012 12:46 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com
mailto:dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote:
Whether this works will depend upon your BIOS. The box I have FreeDOS
on will boot from a USB floppy drive, but *not* from a USB stick.
Dear Sirs
Is there any official or recommended C compiler for Freedos?
Would be great if such compiler come included on the distro so
the user can create their own programs.
I know djgpp and Watcom, are both compilers under active
development/maintenance?
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El 10/01/2012 02:51 a.m., nospam escribió:
You may also be able to use Nano-X / NXlib which I have ported to DOS:
http://code.google.com/p/nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/
The port of the Dillo browser is based on this.
Georg
El 05/01/2012 04:33 p.m., Robert Riebisch escribió:
Marco Achury wrote:
I thougth that my problem with download was caused by firefox, so I
tried ftp program from winXP command line and dont works, Filezilla the
same. I tried ftp.microsoft.com ftp://ftp.microsoft.com and some
other well
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El 03/01/2012 06:10 p.m., James Hall escribió:
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Marco Achury marcoach...@gmail.com wrote:
I cant connect ibiblio today, Appear that freedos release has colapsed the
servers :-)
Would be interesting to get downloads
hmmm no idea what is the problem. On http link I can get the directory
listing, I can read announce.txt but cant download the file.
El 04/01/2012 01:18 p.m., Ralf A. Quint escribió:
At 09:34 AM 1/4/2012, Marco Achury wrote:
I have discovered the wifi connection I am using have a locked ftp
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Cel: +58-(414)-3142282
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El 04/01/2012 01:18 p.m., Ralf A. Quint escribió:
At 09:34 AM 1/4/2012, Marco Achury wrote:
I have discovered the wifi connection I am using have a locked ftp port...
That won't cause any problems
The torrent worked for me, thanks a lot.
I think that torrent protocol is designed to look for a free port.
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El 04/01/2012 06:11 p.m., James Hall escribió:
And
I cant connect ibiblio today, Appear that freedos release has colapsed
the servers :-)
Would be interesting to get downloads statistics in order to know how
many people around the world is following freedos development...
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At http://www.rapideuphoria.com/ is announced as recent user contibution
a library by Tom Janes for graphic programming on Freedos
http://www.temporalphysics.org/sources/DOS_API.ZIP
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that on the web site.
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Marco Achury marcoach...@gmail.com wrote:
Here is a screenshot of freedos.org using dillo for Win32 and View mobile
site
http://tinypic.com/r/2q18ig0/5
El 21/11/2011 09:02 a.m., jhall escribió:
I guess I need to find some time
Long messages have appeared from people that want a multitasking DOS.
A more realistic goal to Freedos may be to expand the batch programming
language to be compatible with newer windows versions, but keeping retro
compatible with DOS batch programs.
Look this nice code that we cant run on
Would be great to keep the forum archive, at least for read-only so
people ca nsearch answers to old questions, this is an important
knowledge base.
El 13/09/2011 07:30 p.m., Michael B. Brutman escribió:
Here is the link to the announcement:
ReactOS ha one more problem, they must to avoid a lawsuit against
microsoft,
they must to know who is the contributor, they need to know that
contributor have
not access to microsoft's source code.
El 07/09/2011 05:19 p.m., Michael C. Robinson escribió:
Freedos has it's place. Unlike ReactOS,
This is an interested thread on usenet
Mensaje original
Asunto: Running (Free)DOS from ROM
Fecha: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 10:08:37 -0700 (PDT)
De: Ruud ruud.baltis...@gmail.com
Organización: http://groups.google.com
Grupos de noticias:
Visicalc (the first spreadsheet) is now free
to download for non-comercial use only.
http://www.danbricklin.com/history/vclicense.htm
Would be nice to include it on freedos software list.
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Really is a great marketing oportunity. There a lot of great linux
distros that never
have received the oportunity to be marketed by HP and Dell
What iso image they include on their machines? By sure 1.0
Would be great to have a new iso image with newer kernel, usb sotrage
support
and more
El 05/06/2011 09:56 a.m., Willi Wasser escribió:
You'd probably be amazed at how many embedded and industrial control systems
are based on DOS.
Indeed! If someone pointed me out precize brands and models of systems that
nowadays still use DOS i would really be amazed. (Are those systems just
Is available any new wordprocessor for DOS?
On this old talk recommend msword for DOS (free as free beer)
http://www.computing.net/answers/dos/free-word-processor/16280.html
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Sounds very interesting.
Look around for the TT font named GNU Unifont, contains a very big
subset of unicode
and is not vectorial, is based on bitmaps, looks ready for dot matrix
printing.
Your gliph file is freely available?
Best regards
Marco Achury
El 06/05/2011 03:30 a.m., Henrique
matrix, instead of an 8x16 one. Anyway, I'll e-mail the author.
Thank you for the info!
Best regards,
Henrique Peron
Em 6/5/2011 14:12, Marco Achury escreveu:
Sounds very interesting.
Look around for the TT font named GNU Unifont, contains a very big
subset of unicode
and is not vectorial
I found very interesting that all the required sizes are multiple of six,
so is wise that glyph designer to use a matrix with 6 pixels...
Only 9 pins high-res is exact multiple of eigth
A simple way is to reduce the character with is to look for 2 consecutive
columns with the same bits, and
If you inform manufacturer and model is easier to find help.
Many Epson printers use Esc/C control language, also I remember
was possible to make a hardware config with litltle switches.
El 04/05/2011 07:23 a.m., escape escribió:
Hello Henrique
I have an good-old dot-matrix printer, but
A serious bug keep frozen the development of Euphoria programming language
for DOS about one year. Now the bug appear to be solved and is needed
testing
and help to update the DOS branch with new features included on Win and
Linux.
cid:part1.04090108.07090704@gmail.comSee at:
I left my FreeDOS 1.0 CD and shutdown the computer
My mother (that can´t read english) turn on the computer and the
computer boot fro the cd.
The she seen an unkown menu press enter several times. Result, she
begins a FreeDOS install
on my computer first HD. Damaged my grub. Lucky appear that
The last alfa3 release for Euphoria 4.0 included DOS interpreter, even
was made a zip DOS download.
But remain some bug bugs that prevent the DOS interpreter to run under
Win98 and because the lack
of interest and no feedback from DOS users, the developers decided don't
include to drop DOS
I have found BGFAX very interesting.
Is a simple a ligth fax program you can control from command line and
return %errorlevel%
that inform you if the fax transmission was successfull or not. If the
author decides to release
the source will be great, but even if he never does it, you can use
If your fax modem is supported by DOS, there is a free fax software at:
http://www.bgfax.com/bgfax.htm
Originally shareware but last beta released as free ?? No source
released and
no clear about distribution terms, but at least free to download from
the web...
The author says would like to
There is a nice library function for Euphoria at:
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com/gendll03.zip
Enables to execute from DOS functions at DLL libraries,
also includes emulation for some very basic win32 API
functions (as memory allocation).
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Dear Sirs
The work for Euphoria 4.0 is very active. Now the language supports a
new platform: OS X.
Is needed help to test the DOS interpreter.
Last interpreter binary build updated near daily at:
http://jeremy.cowgar.com/eubins/
(DOS version on zip file)
The last function libraries at
This code runs well on FreeDOS
Using Euphoria language you can put the whole
environmental variables table on a sequence (array)
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