Re: [Freedos-user] Turkish F Keyboard Support

Saluton, On Oct 1, 2016 5:18 PM, "Henrique Peron" wrote: > > KEYB TR,,KEYBRD2.SYS (for the QWERTY turkish keyboard layout) > KEYB TR,,KEYBRD2.SYS /ID:440 (for the FGĞIOD turkish keyboard layout) > > Regards, > Henrique I was wondering if/when you would chime in (as the

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE.SYS

ELTORITO.SYS, but check > > www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/boot/syslinux/ > > as that may have useful information...? Original site for > the driver was http://www.nu2.nu/eltorito/ which is gone. > > PS: Rugxulo, Jim, please make eltorito.sys easier to

Re: [Freedos-user] Urgent FreeDos Keyboard Layout Hardware Help

Hi, On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > Unfortunately Turkish is not among the layouts built into the smaller MKEYB > driver > > PS: You may also want to use DISPLAY and MODE to load a > font optimized for codepage 857, as BIOS default is 437. > >> Example

Re: [Freedos-user] Urgent FreeDos Keyboard Layout Hardware Help

Hi, On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > have you checked whether there could be a problem with the > settings of your host operating system His details say kernel 2042, so maybe it's a regression?? Maybe he could try (older) 2041 instead?

Re: [Freedos-user] M2WAT

y expectation was that > REM was a true comment and not some pseudo NOP command that ignores > its arguments, allowing the redirection to continue to be processed by > the %SHELL%. I'll fix this up tonight and also test against my MS > DOS VM. Thanks for the fix suggestion as well Rugxu

Re: [Freedos-user] M2WAT

Hi, On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Ulrich Hansen wrote: > > Am 26.08.2016 um 08:28 schrieb Louis Santillan : > > Made my own dog food: > > > > Hi Louis, > Thanks for your work! It’s a nice idea to use a batch

Re: [Freedos-user] M2WAT

Hi, On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Ulrich Hansen wrote: > > What do you think of M2WAT? I use it quite often. It is Open Source, written > by cordata, a FreeDOS user, in a post to this list. I vaguely remember when he posted it, but I never had urgent need to use it. >

Re: [Freedos-user] intel PRO/1000 DOS packet driver

Hi, On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 5:47 AM, Ulrich Hansen wrote: > > I found that the intel DOS packet driver for the PRO/1000 network card isn’t > in the CRYNWR package. > > As it is Open Source since 2007 I felt free to package it into an FDNPKG > compatible zip-file. In the

Re: [Freedos-user] dma crosses 64k boundary error

Hi, On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Tom Ehlert wrote: >> >> I keep getting the error dma crosses 64k boundary when using tools >> like rawrite3 or hard drive manufacturers tools floppy creation >> software. I need to boot from Windows 98 bootdisk to get rid of it. > >

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos 1.2 archivers

Hi, On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos wrote: > > Thank you for the advice. I tried FDIMPLES, seem to show everything > installed, but for some reason p7zip is missing from its list. I don't really recommend p7zip for heavy use. For one thing, there is no

Re: [Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

Hi, On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > VER does not report a DOS version, only a > FreeCOM-0.84 version. I think I'm running 1.1, but only the core. There is no > bin > directory. Try "ver /r" or check the file date of "kernel.sys" (but neither is

Re: [Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

Hi, On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > But I have the same problem with it. Adding "keyb gr" to autoexec.bat does > not run it. It seems autoexec.bat isn't executed at all. Shouldn't it run > automatically once DOS is loaded? Normally (but not

Re: [Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

Hi, On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > >>> The KEYB layouts can be found here: >>> >>> http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=kpdos > >> That's the point where the circle starts (and ends). There are no plain >> keyboard layout files (.kl) in there, only

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 22 - EDIT CPU load

Hi, On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > But indeed, even with IDLEHALT, that doesn't seem to work with FD > EDIT. Nor does TDE, strangely enough, which uses DJGPP's > __dpmi_yield(). Even e3-16 is guilty (no surprise there, it's quite > s

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 22 - EDIT CPU load

Hi, On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 6:01 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > >> I just downloaded the bootable FD 1.2pre22 CD and booted a VM in >> VirtualBox. I see `FDAPM APMDOS` in autoexec.bat. No IDLEHALT in >> FDCONFIG.SYS. CPU also spikes to 100% when I run `edit autoexec.bat`. > > I

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 22

Hi, On Jul 19, 2016 8:55 PM, "Louis Santillan" wrote: > > DOSAPM (which also handles the `reboot` command > amongst others) isn't setup to handle this? What about IDLEHALT in FDCONFIG.SYS? -- What

Re: [Freedos-user] Which freedos on 486

Hi, On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 8:26 AM, Dimitris Zilaskos wrote: > > I have LBA configured in the BIOS for the hard drives, mostly because it > keeps BIOS boot and Windows 98 working. I was unable so far to find a > working combination with different non LBA modes. I will retry

Re: [Freedos-user] Which freedos on 486

Hi, On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 7:21 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos wrote: > > Thank you for following up. fdisk reports that C: drive is already active. I > did run mbrzap it completed successfully but there has been no change, > system gets stuck right after BIOS summary table. What

Re: [Freedos-user] Which freedos on 486

intainer anyways (not sure there is one, actively anyways). So here's an old floppy of mine, for comparison, yet another to try, if you really want a different alternative: https://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/BARE_DOS.ZIP?attredirects=0 https://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/bare_dos.txt?attredire

Re: [Freedos-user] Which freedos on 486

Hi, On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 8:02 AM, Dimitris Zilaskos wrote: > > Thanks for the followup. Hitting F8 reveals HIMEMX triggering this problem: > > Let me know what else I can try - I will recheck the floppies for starters > in case they went bad and check the rest of your

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website (rants)

Hi, On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 7:32 PM, Jose Antonio Senna wrote: > > This said, I also admit browsing from DOS > is going to be less and less practical. > Lynx 2.8.5 supports HTTPS (and is the only > tried DOS browser which does), I'm pretty sure Links2

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website

Hi, Dennis, I wish we wouldn't have to constantly state how obsolete DOS is and how it's horribly dead and useless. I doubt Jasenna is directly profiting from your "obvious" advice to upgrade. (Sigh.) On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 10:11 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > I browsed

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeBASIC status?

Hi, On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 10:22 AM, dos386 wrote: > >> I've never used QB64 but have heard some stuff about it. >> For one, it uses a C++ compiler as backend, no? > > http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=8785 (shots and > links are dead, unfortunately) >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Hi, On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Abe Mishler wrote: > > I'm interested in learning how games like DOOM (requires 3MB available) > were able to work. I know I know, read the source code. AFAIK, Doom was originally compiled with Watcom using a DOS extender (DOS4G

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Hi, On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > I think that even 597 kB of low DOS memory is plenty for old DOS programs. "597 kb should be enough for anyone." -- Eric Auer, 2016:-) In Abe's recent screenshot, he shows that he's now getting (thanks to

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Hi again, On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 12:34 AM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > But I agree, in theory, that JEMMEX shouldn't be preferred or > suggested without a good reason. But that's not my decision for FD 1.2 > (and I forget offhand what Jerome uses, I haven't downl

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Hi, On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Abe Mishler <a...@mishlerlabs.com> wrote: > >> On Jun 30, 2016, at 6:19 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> If JEMMEX is your only problem, then you have no problems. > > This idea has appeared before in

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeBASIC status?

Hi, I'm no expert, so I've only lightly dabbled. On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Abe Mishler wrote: > > I see it is back up now. Like I said before, the compiler has been around (even heavily developed) for 12 years! It's no toy but instead a mature tool at this point.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Hi, On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 6:17 AM, Abe Mishler <a...@mishlerlabs.com> wrote: > >> On 6/29/2016 1:03 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > On the page that you sent regarding QEMU Binaries for Windows, it says: > "QEMU for Windows is experimental software and might contai

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeBASIC status?

Hi, On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 6:52 AM, Abe Mishler wrote: > > Does anyone know the state of FreeBASIC? The site (http://freebasic.net) > has been down for at least 2 days now. Has the project been shuttered? I'm not in the loop and haven't heard anything privately, but I

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Hi, On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Abe Mishler <a...@mishlerlabs.com> wrote: > > On 6/28/2016 7:55 PM, Rugxulo wrote: >> >> I would recommend you (also) test under QEMU if you're that worried or >> want (potentially) better stability. >> > QEMU, while

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Hi, On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Abe Mishler wrote: > > Strange, right? And not just on one computer, but three separate ones; each > running different hardware and software (host OS). Although I would expect > that the underlying differences are abstracted away by

Re: [Freedos-user] a unique directory tree question?

Hi, Bret, (somewhat off-topic) On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 6:21 PM, Bret Johnson wrote: > The DELTREE utility should work OK, though it's a dangerous utility to use. > You can easily end up > accidentally deleting some things that you really wanted to keep. Backup backup

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Hi, On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Abe Mishler wrote: > > It's apparent that a well written book might help me come up > to speed on all of these memory modes and managers. I'm not an expert, but the simple answer is you don't need all of them. Pure XMS (and optional

Re: [Freedos-user] Games

Hi, On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 5:47 PM, wrote: > > BTW, I fear that VirtualBox does not have guest additions, AFAIK, you're correct, it does not support DOS. The FD wiki suggests to use FTPSRV instead: http://freedos.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/VirtualBox_-_Chapter_6

Re: [Freedos-user] Games - and DOS installation

Dennis, we've already had this pointless conversation several times over. I'm not sure why you keep rehashing it. On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 3:06 PM, dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The numbe

Re: [Freedos-user] Games

Kannegieser. Although I can't remember ever using it, and I can't find it on his homepage anymore. But it has sources, yet I don't know the license offhand either (don't see any obvious mentions, might have to email him for definitive answer). Take a look if curious: 1). https://sites.google.com/si

Re: [Freedos-user] Games

Hi, On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 3:44 AM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > Hi Rugxulo, some CWSDPMI nitpicking and some memory limits coming ;-) > >> So DR-DOS 7.03 forcibly needed its own (weird, hybrid, bundled VxD or >> whatever) EMM386, which had its own built-i

Re: [Freedos-user] Games - and DOS installation

Hi, Dennis, :-) I know this may shock you, but this is a DOS mailing list. You know, people here actively want to use "DOS" binaries on DOS-compatible OSes. I'm just saying, keep that in mind below. On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 12:11 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Sun, Jun

Re: [Freedos-user] Games

Hi, On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 4:00 AM, Brandon Taylor wrote: > > As much as I hate to concede, I must. I have found a critical passage on the FreeDOS website > which, in my eyes, discourages further experimentation: How did it discourage anybody? By giving them total

Re: [Freedos-user] Games

Hi, On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 1:47 PM, wrote: >> >>> Running FreeDOS on real hardware can be challenging. >> FreeDOS no, old DOS games yes. > > No offence, FreeDOS is of course a modern project. But DOS is an old > conpect for an operating system. But you have to be

Re: [Freedos-user] Games

Hi, On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 8:48 PM, Brandon Taylor wrote: > > And Eric -- I'm sorry for sounding like a total newbie, but how am I > supposed to create a bootable USB drive with a "full" version of > FreeDOS? I'm looking at the files from SourceForge and I can't make

Re: [Freedos-user] Games

Hi, On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 7:30 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > However, your listing seems to be incomplete - > no kernel or command.com are shown, but obviously you > must have them, otherwise you could not have made the listing :-) Just a hunch, but presumably they are "hidden"

Re: [Freedos-user] Open Source and/or Free Software?

Hi, Just coming back to this I hope this isn't too (accidentally) polemical. On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 8:25 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > > For the developers and communicants of the open source

Re: [Freedos-user] command / shell conflict

probably a memory corruption issue somewhere?? > On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Don Flowers <donr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > So /MSG seems to work, more testing needed to b

Re: [Freedos-user] Open Source and/or Free Software?

Hi, It's very hard to speak wisely here. Please keep in mind that I'm not strictly advocating against proprietary software (even though I think, sometimes, it has very limited appeal). On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 8:25 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 5:19

[Freedos-user] Open Source and/or Free Software?

Hi, Although licensing discussions are usually not productive in their own right ("shut up and code!"), and it's always a waste of time and words rehashing the same old issues, there are some helpful web pages that clarify (at least to me) various aspects of the computing world at large. In

Re: [Freedos-user] command / shell conflict

Hi, On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Don Flowers wrote: > > So /MSG seems to work, more testing needed to be sure, What does this switch > do, (besides help me of course)? http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/command.htm "/MSGStores all error messages in memory

Re: [Freedos-user] command / shell conflict

Hi, On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 8:57 AM, dosgeek57 wrote: > > I am a user of DataPerfect and the WordPerfect shell. The command is > shell.exe. Not familiar with it, unfortunately. But > When I load by the shell I get a command.com strings error, my > path is wiped out and

Re: [Freedos-user] Some food for thought

Hi, On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > On 22/05/2016 21:10, Ralf Quint wrote: >> I think what the author mentions does apply in an even greater range to >> FreeDOS >> >> http://www.techrepublic.com/article/time-linux-fans-open-their-arms-to-closed-source/ >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Package LSM Data Verification

Hi, On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 6:22 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > > Is DOSLFN going to be dropped? I don’t know. It is not up to me and my > opinion is not even relevant. > I have not been informed of any decision to do so. The problem is its > licensing is unclear. There

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Package LSM Data Verification

Hi, On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > > And, CURL is now back. It’s sources were located. I also updated it. > Hopefully, it is not broken. > > CURL - Listed as GPL, IT IS NOT GPL! It is less strict and is only > copyrighted public domain.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Missing Packages and XDEL

Hi, I have created "xdel/" under "util/file/", so your .ZIP (and the old one) can now be found here: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/file/xdel/ On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 7:51 PM, Alain Mouette <ala...@pobox.com> wrote: > > On

Re: [Freedos-user] Cobalt OS 1.2

Hi, I have not tested it, but On May 18, 2016 10:22 PM, "Corbin Davenport" wrote: > > A few months ago I posted here about my new FreeDOS > distribution aimed at beginner DOS users, named Cobalt. > > - VirtualBox is now fully supported. Right now Cobalt can detect > if it

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Package LSM Data Verification

Hi, On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 11:50 PM, dmccunney wrote: > > Going back to cases, what prompted this discussion was Rex Conn's open > source license for 4DOS, which indicated his source code couldn't be > used in a *commercial* product without contacting him. There was

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Package LSM Data Verification

Hi, On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 5:52 PM, dmccunney wrote: > > What we now face is a situation where work might *never* lapse into > the public domain. > > The US is currently Life + 70 years. Totally logical, you pinko commie swine! (extreme sarcasm) > Canada is still

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 17

Hi, thanks for the response! On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 11:17 PM, Kenneth Davis <jere...@fdos.org> wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I notice that there is seemingly one bug / regression > > Try http://www.fdos.org/k

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Package LSM Data Verification

Hi, Dennis, I almost hate to bring this type of stuff up. It's almost flamebait because nobody can agree. So it's a waste of time. Nevertheless On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 3:58 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 17

Hi again, On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: >> On May 15, 2016, at 4:19 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On May 11, 2016, at 11:11 PM, perditi...@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>> Kernel update is forthcoming

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Package LSM Data Verification

Hi, On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 1:34 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 8:06 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. > wrote: >> >> However, clause 3 for its license makes it NON-COMMERCIAL use only. >> >> (3) The Software, or any portion of it, may not

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 17

Hi, On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > > On May 11, 2016, at 11:11 PM, perditi...@gmail.com wrote: > [..] > > Kernel update is forthcoming. > I still need to run some tests and make 386+ builds, but updated > packages will be available at >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Package LSM Data Verification

Hi, On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 10:02 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: >> On May 14, 2016, at 9:45 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> BASE: >>> >>> No issues. >> >> Really? Did you double-check JEMM (

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Package LSM Data Verification

Hi again, On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 8:22 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > > It took some doing. But, I have gone through all both the packages proposed > for the FreeDOS 1.2 release. So, here are the changes that have been > implemented. Some of these are listed even though it

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

Hi, On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 8:50 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > > If Jack's drivers are left out of version 1.2 ; is there > something to replace them. https://www.kernel.org/ -- Mobile security can

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

Hi, On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > > So far, I have gone through all of the ARCHIVER and BASE packages and have > corrected their LSM data. > > In those groups, these packages have not been solved. > > Unknown license information and will

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

Hi, On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 4:14 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > Which other DOS apps have HDA? Not many! (But don't forget Judas Player's ALSA/HDA/GPL version.) Sound (or just low-level stuff overall) is probably the weakest link in DOS. Unfortunately, even with relatively good

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

Hi, On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 9:44 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > I think there is only one web browser, Dillo? Not sure about "official" repo or packages (as there's too many files to keep close track of, IMHO). > Are others available as add-ons: Lynx, Links-GUI, Arachne? I

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Missing Packages and XDEL

Hi, On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 6:44 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > > I could not find your fix at > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/, > where can I get the fixed version, just in case I need to release some > future fix… > > > I am not responsible

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

Hi, On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 5:52 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > > FreeDOS 1.2 needs your help verifying package information. This is one of the > main holdups for the > next OS release. Verifying this data is correct is essential. Especially the > the licensing

Re: [Freedos-user] Something to look forward to when Preview 17 is released.

Hi, On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 1:12 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > Now I wonder if FDI will run in DOSBox running under FreeBSD, NetBSD or Linux. Do you have DOSBox installed? If so, what does it not do that you still need? (Admittedly, that is not using the FreeDOS kernel.) You

[Freedos-user] 7zdecode 15.14 (was: Re: p7zip 15.09 (DJGPP))

Hi, again, On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Michael Kostylev has built a DJGPP version of p7zip 15.09, so I've > gone ahead and mirrored it to iBiblio for us. > > 1). > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS with Bootcamp on a Mac

Hi, On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 7:15 PM, Eric Gorr <mail...@ericgorr.net> wrote: > >> On Apr 9, 2016, at 9:40 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> You don't absolutely need an installer at all. >> >> fdisk, (reboot), format, sys, (download

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS with Bootcamp on a Mac

Hi, On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Eric Gorr wrote: > > I was just wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to install FreeDOS on > Mac and, > if it was possible, had instructions for how to do so. Have you tried bootable USB? > I have a MacPro Mid 2012 and am

Re: [Freedos-user] Drive Mapping SWSUBST

i, On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 11:58 AM, dosgeek57 wrote: > > I am working on a dedicated server. So far I have managed to successfully > install WordPerfect Office LAN, my LAN PowerMenu and LAN version of Lotus > 1-2-3 version 2.3. All programs are accessible to at least 2 client

Re: [Freedos-user] Unable to boot from FreeDOS boot disk.

Hi, On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 6:44 PM, Oren Balaban wrote: > > When attempting to boot from the FreeDOS boot disk, Hard disk?? > I encountered the error: > SYSTEM BOOT FAILURE! > Insert System Disk, then press ENTER. Sounds like you need to re-run SYS again (but be careful

Re: [Freedos-user] Booting FreeDOS on HP desktops?

Hi, On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 7:56 AM, Wayne Dernoncourt wrote: > > Does anyone have any advice about getting FreeDOS to boot on an HP desktop? > I get a message about "Init..." and then nothing happens. I've been trying > to get this > to work for a two or three months but I

Re: [Freedos-user] FDI Preview 15, update 2

Hi, On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 12:28 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > > I have tested under QEMU on Linux and have detected the issue and its cause. > > It appears to be that SHSURDRV is locking up the system in DOSBox and QEMU. > It does not seem to have this issue on the native

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot FreeDOS (Black screen/blinking cursor)

Hi, On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 6:11 AM, matthew berardi wrote: > > let's assume UEFI+GPT is the problem, how do I fix it? > > I do usually boot UEFI But I'm not sure that all so-called UEFI machines even offer CSM, so you may be out of luck.

Re: [Freedos-user] Catch "rd" order before command.com processing

Hi, On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Hans-Christian Koch wrote: > > Nevermind my answer. This may work directly from prompt but not from within > my program. I guess I need to do it in command.com. So can you recommend any > good documentation on how to compile freecom

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos booting from a USB stick

Hi, On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Thomsen Thomsen wrote: > > Hello. I managed to create a bootable USB key running FreeDos using Rufus > It works well and boots fine. I even managed to move files to the USB key. Good to know that it works for you (too). > I wanted

Re: [Freedos-user] qemu freedos and raspberry pi

Hi, On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Darryl Perry wrote: > > I'm having an issue while running freedos 1.1 in a qemu VM on the Raspberry > Pi B+ > > I run qemu like this: > > qemu-system-i386 \ > -localtime \ > /home/bbs/doors/qemu/freedos.img \ > -boot c \ > -hdc

Re: [Freedos-user] install

Hi, On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Péter Szőke wrote: > Dear Members, > > Is there any way to install the Freedos from USB stick/Pendrive to HDD. Why install to HDD? Why not just use a bootable USB as if it were your HDD? > I have a notebook without optical drive. >

Re: [Freedos-user] install

Hi again, On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 6:09 AM, Péter Szőke wrote: > > I will try answer to everyone. > > So, I have this model: Asus k501lx-dm045d A quick search finds this: https://www.asus.com/Notebooks/K501LX/ They are very reminiscent of Apple with that page. I don't

Re: [Freedos-user] Annual Inform

Hi, On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 5:34 AM, Rafael Angel Campos Vargas wrote: > > Annual inform: > > First, thanks to FreeDos team for the link where you will encounter previous > versions of FreeRay. > I thanks you a lot. > > This year package FreeRay2015 includes sixteen new

Re: [Freedos-user] Batch file compilers

Hi, On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 2:31 PM, Don Flowers wrote: > > Do we have access to any "Free" batch file compilers like BUILDER or like > Seaware's EBL program? It's usually not worth the cost to bother compiling a .BAT (otherwise just use a full programming language like Turbo

Re: [Freedos-user] Poor mouse pointer visibility in Edit

Hi again, (off-topic) On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 2:46 AM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > (bunch of crap inserted by Avast!) (Sigh.) Sorry about that. (Man, is that ugly.) I was typing the email and saw them pop up a small message box in the corner, which I closed (but

Re: [Freedos-user] Poor mouse pointer visibility in Edit

Hi, It's been years since I used SETEDIT. Although it was nice, there were many other (often DJGPP-compiled) editors. IIRC, it's the same editor core that was used in (DJGPP) RHIDE. Alas, both are basically abandoned (but RHIDE much moreso). Not sure of the details, but the last DJGPP build of

Re: [Freedos-user] Cobalt OS 1.1

Hi, On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Louis Santillan wrote: > > Try Jeremy's Partition Resizer FD Image [0][1]. You'll need an > zip/archive program that decompress gzip. > > [0] http://www.fdos.org/bootdisks/ > [1] http://www.fdos.org/bootdisks/autogen/FDPRSZR.144.gz > > On

Re: [Freedos-user] p7zip 15.09 (DJGPP)

Hi, On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > > What is p7zip? The POSIX port of 7-Zip (here compiled by DJGPP/G++). > I see 2 files listed. One small & one big. One is binary and one is sources. (You don't need sources unless you want to recompile it.) >

[Freedos-user] p7zip 15.09 (DJGPP)

Hi, Michael Kostylev has built a DJGPP version of p7zip 15.09, so I've gone ahead and mirrored it to iBiblio for us. 1). http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/file/7zip/15.09/ FYI, there is still no newer upstream p7zip version (e.g. 15.14) to correspond to latest

Re: [Freedos-user] Easy GUI desktop enviroment install

Hi, On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 5:15 AM, lee jones wrote: > > Firstly ages ago there was an emulator called tosbox which is an atari > ST emulator. I was never familiar with Atari computers, so my dabbling in emulators was very limited. > It runs in dos but has two intresting

Re: [Freedos-user] Easy GUI desktop enviroment install

Hi, On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 3:01 PM, G. Potthast wrote: > > Apart from the Google code site there is a Sourceforge site for XFDOS: > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/fltk-dos/files/ Ah, you beat me to it! I was just going to mention it. :-) BTW, didn't Google Code

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS installation using VirtualBox

Hi, On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 6:05 PM, francisco ramirez wrote: > > Today, I turned on the system and when I click on START in VirtualBox to > start the FreeDOS I get the following error message: > > Failed to open a session for the virtual machine FreeDOS. > > The

Re: [Freedos-user] Still having problems installing FreeDOS 1.1

Hi, On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 11:39 PM, francisco ramirez wrote: > > Attempted to install FreeDOS again. > At the very end of the installation process I get the following message in > the command window: > > JemmEx v5.75 [05/21/11]] > JemmEx loaded > Kernel: allocated

Re: [Freedos-user] XCOPY

Hi, On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 9:31 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > > I wonder will xwcopy copy system and hidden files as well. /K - Retain attributes. > If it does it could replace Ghost for making backup copies. Doubt it. IIRC, it is limited to max 65000 files (so

Re: [Freedos-user] UltraDMA warning corrected

Hi, On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Jim Hall wrote: > > I am not a lawyer, but over time I have received advice from lawyers. Jim, at risk of sounding very naive (or very stubborn), there's absolutely no reason to worry about things like this without some kind of official

Re: [Freedos-user] XCOPY

Hi, On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 4:47 AM, daniele wrote: > > is there any news about having FreeDOS Xcopy work with LFN-Support? > I'm using DOSLFN: > but when xcopying file names are kept short. There was a similar thread about two years ago where several of us gave some

Re: [Freedos-user] UltraDMA warning corrected

Hi, On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1/14/2016 4:20 PM, Rugxulo wrote: >> Linus Torvalds heavily studied and used Minix sources, which was a >> UNIX (tm) clone. It was not free/libre at all, they were commercially >> sell

Re: [Freedos-user] Does FreeDOS boot/work under UEFI?

Hi, On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > >> Will FreeDOS 1.1 boot under UEFI? If not, is there a software layer >> that can sit between UEFI and the OS to emulate a BIOS? > > If somebody has experience with this, it would be nice if they > could share step by

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on a compute stick

Hi, On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 4:52 AM, Xavier Dury wrote: > Thanks for all the feedback! :-) > > As I said before, DOSBox is not an option to me as I have already done it > before on my PC and my RPi > (there is nothing hard/challenging in installing DOSBox on windows or >

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