At 07:05 PM 3/27/2013, Jim Hall wrote:
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 2:11 AM, john s wolter
mailto:johnswol...@wolterworks.comjohnswol...@wolterworks.com wrote:
Okay, had anyone done a name search prior to production? MINiX3.org
might not be amused. Go was the last test of overlapping names.
At 03:36 AM 3/24/2013, giorgio.gilard...@libero.it wrote:
The best would be to have a DOS window running the DOS task
in full screen mode and be able to switch (and tranfer data) to other
applications commonly running in other W7 windows.
Please let me know if the above is possible with Free DOS
At 05:44 AM 2/22/2013, Alain Mouette wrote:
I have seen otherwise...
Specialy some old compilers or embedded.
+1
Standard nor not, it has been good programming practice since before
the days of DOS.
There is no excuse to being lazy as a programmer...
Ralf
At 11:18 AM 2/13/2013, sakura kinomoto wrote:
how to use nansi.sys to change colour scheme? I find some info in
web, but it is hard for newbie
I guess I put string in config.sys: device=c:\odin\nansi.sys; what
next step I need?
LMFGTFY: http://kb.iu.edu/data/aamm.html
(section Changing Colors)
At 06:21 PM 2/10/2013, Chris Evans wrote:
I just made a hex viewer and editor for DOS,
I still have to debug it, so if you find any bugs in it
let me know. I made this as I needed a small
hexeditor/viewer, and this fits the bill.
Well, just had a quick look at it and beside the 32KB filesize
At 05:33 PM 2/9/2013, john s wolter wrote:
BS,
Don't forget the FAT-16 limit of 514 or was that
504 MBytes. Â Somehow this issue keeps being
asked. Â Maybe we are not doing enough to explain it clearly.
There is no FAT-16 limit of 504MBytes.
There was such a limitation in the original/ealy
At 04:37 PM 2/6/2013, Robert Reeves wrote:
Install to the hard drive sounds fine, except that I don't want to
overwrite the Windows install that I need to return to.
Well, correct...
Create Drive C sounds like I'm going to wipe out the current drive
C: which is formatted to NTFS
That is
At 10:56 AM 1/30/2013, dmccunney wrote:
I'm actually more interested in what editors people *do* use under
FreeDOS, and why they use them than I am in some hypothetical new
product.
Well, I am using the same editor(s) that I have always/long time used
in MS-DOS/PC-DOS for +25 years...
For small
At 07:02 AM 1/29/2013, =?KOI8-R?B?5dfHxc7JyiDuxdbEwc7P1w==?= wrote:
Hi all, dear FreeDOS community members! I please answer all to my questions:
1. You want to have in the FreeDOS distribute more powerful text
editor as standard text editor?
Well, not the greatest fan of the FreeDOS EDIT, but in
At 08:51 AM 1/29/2013, Michael B. Brutman wrote:
- Editors do not need interpreted languages in them. (EMACs users,
please forgive me.)
EMACS? Like the operating system, that's just lacking a decent editor? :-}
(Doesn't EMACS stand for Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping? :-P
- An editor
At 01:28 PM 1/14/2013, john s wolter wrote:
Re: has become a way to get past Spam filters.
 It also attracts the attention of the reader.
 This could get the reader to open an EMail
assuming it was a reply to a message sent. Â It
is a form of social engineering.
Any spam filter that would
At 05:12 PM 1/9/2013, Louis Santillan wrote:
An interesting historical note, early versions of the FreeDOS kernel
(DOS-C kernel) were portable to the 68k architecture. See
(http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Villanihttp://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Villani).
Well, you noticed that in that
At 02:14 PM 1/3/2013, TuLithu wrote:
Last night I installed FreeDOS on my HP Pavilion g series laptop. Everything
seems to work fine, except I can't access my DVD ROM drive. I have spent
several hours reading the help files and examining the config.sys and
autoexec.bat files, but I can't figure
At 12:58 PM 12/20/2012, Louis Santillan wrote:
The Memory Model (Tiny vs. Small vs. Compact vs. Medium vs. Large,
.COM vs. .EXE) of the compiler could be causing the issue. Some
compilers used to default to Small. What compiler flags are you using?
Even in the TINY model, there is no reason to
At 06:38 AM 11/26/2012, Jim Hall wrote:
Hi. I think you are looking for more information about the FreeDOS
email lists.
I think our French friend tried to unsubscribe and doesn't understand
that he can do this in the very same place where he subscribed in the
first place... :-\
Ralf
At 07:28 PM 11/24/2012, bruce.bowman tds.net wrote:
This may be a FAQ.
I have an old DOS program that I wrote and still want to run, but it
uses VESA 3.0 SVGA graphics, which are not [fully] supported by
later versions of Windoze.* To make matters worse, the program
writes to disk during
At 06:38 PM 11/13/2012, Michael B. Brutman wrote:
I wanted to be able to dual boot my machine (a PCjr, 1983) to both
operating systems. DOS 3.3 uses an earlier variant of FAT16, which is
only good up to 32MB.
Well, that's because this was a true FAT16, with up to 65535
sectors of 512 bytes
At 10:56 AM 10/17/2012, Santiago Almenara wrote:
Hello!
I am looking for a good news reader for DOS
I need to subscribe in a news://news.foo.org; server.
PC-Pine should work for that just fine...
http://www.washington.edu/pine/overview/pcpine.html
Ralf
At 02:09 PM 10/5/2012, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Yes I do realize partition magic is still legal, but not so sure about its
availability free for dos, because its new owners state as of July 2011
they are no longer offering partition magic at all.
That doesn't matter at all. It's still copyrighted
At 08:49 PM 10/4/2012, Karen Lewellen wrote:
greetings all,
I realize I tend to wonder through the room and then find my corner again
smiles.
Anyway, I am wondering if any of you may be hiding a copy of partition
magic for dos?
You do realize that this is still copyrighted, commercial software
At 11:20 AM 9/20/2012, Johannes Schwartz wrote:
Hello can someone please delete my emailadress from that emaillist?
Thanks.
Why don't you do it yourself, just follow the link at the very bottom
of these messages to un-subscribe yourself
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At 10:10 AM 9/18/2012, Louis Santillan wrote:
There's only 13K upper mem free according to mem/c. I believe it is
in one block. And, iirc, all that most apps need is to be able to
swap a 4k page at a time. My guess is that jemmex doesn't implement
ems in a way that fps fbpro expects which is
At 01:29 PM 9/18/2012, Rugxulo wrote:
(I hate legalese, so I dislike bringing this up, but ...)
Again, this was purely marketing, not technical, as MS wanted to
exclusively bundle their DOS with Windows. With (very creaky) shims,
DR-DOS was said to be able to boot Win95 (and proved such in
At 02:25 PM 9/18/2012, Rugxulo wrote:
Again, this was purely marketing, not technical, as MS wanted to
exclusively bundle their DOS with Windows. With (very creaky) shims,
DR-DOS was said to be able to boot Win95 (and proved such in court),
Where and when was that? This lawsuit was never
At 03:26 PM 9/18/2012, C. Masloch wrote:
Again, this was purely marketing, not technical, as MS wanted to
exclusively bundle their DOS with Windows. With (very creaky) shims,
DR-DOS was said to be able to boot Win95 (and proved such in court),
Where and when was that? This lawsuit was
At 08:45 PM 9/17/2012, Karen Lewellen wrote:
You are too funny!
consult the rest of the thread.
For exactly what?
Ralf
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At 01:46 PM 9/16/2012, Ricardus Vincente wrote:
On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 22:39 +0200, Eric Auer wrote:
Thanks!
Wow. I imagined that it would be a little easier than this.
While I understand that FreeDOS is a modern DOS not meant just for
older hardware, I thought that one of the purposes for
At 03:55 PM 9/4/2012, Kenny Emond wrote:
Hey,
What type of printer interface/language does FreeDOS support?
Short answer: Any printer on a parallel or serial interface.
Does it support PCL ver3? For example, would I be able to use an
HP Deskjet 950c (
At 12:01 AM 8/6/2012, Geoffrey van Wyk wrote:
Dear All,
At a certain point during the installation of FreeDOS, one has to
choose which optional packages to install. The packages selected by
default are marked with Xs in their repective boxes. One then has to
place Xs in the boxes of the
At 10:18 AM 8/6/2012, Geoffrey van Wyk wrote:
I have been puzzled by ticking a checkbox in a GUI with the keyboard
as well, but never bothered to find out, because I could always use the mouse.
What's a Biebermouse? This is DOS! LOL
(btw, the space bar works for check boxes in Windows for
At 11:16 PM 7/14/2012, Rugxulo wrote:
On Jul 15, 2012 12:56 AM, Ralf A. Quint
mailto:free...@gmx.netfree...@gmx.net wrote:
See above. It would be really helpful for you if you hit the books
about BASIC (almost any one will do) to understand the differences
between the different data
At 08:22 PM 7/14/2012, Kenny Emond wrote:
Hey,
I'm not sure if I can post this here, but I seem to have hit a
small roadblock (but I don't know where it is). My main goal is to
have an easily accessible meter and feet converter. When I use
FBide to compile and run, it comes up with no
At 07:14 PM 6/15/2012, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros wrote:
If all goes well, technicians from the municipality will run the
network cables in the building for us. But we don't want them to
start drilling walls and roofs before we are sure the system is
robust.
I haven't touched DataPerfect
At 09:27 PM 6/6/2012, Rugxulo wrote:
BP 7.01 (see file times) should? already be patched for the runtime
200 error.
No, there was never an 'official' patch from Borland, for any version
of Borland Pascal 7...
No idea why you would have a runtime error. You mean running
BP7-compiled apps?
At 11:30 PM 5/24/2012, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
I don't suppose there is a way to tell FreeDOS to execute something more
slowly???
(Free)DOS runs as fast as the processor you're using allows it too.
And why shouldn't it? ;-)
For slowing down games and such, there are/were a bunch of
At 09:22 AM 5/23/2012, Jack wrote:
You are WRONG, Tom!!
Sorry, Jack, but he is not
Honestly Jack, please don't explode each time someone is making a
critical statement. There simply is no reason to get all personal about this...
UIDE has NEVER ignored if a diskette has change-line
At 12:31 PM 5/23/2012, Jack wrote:
As I just got through noting, in another post, why would the BIOS
data include diskette change-line flags if they were NOT intended
to be USED??
Until someone can positively REFUTE the data offered by the BIOS
Central data-table list, my opinion is that neither
At 02:45 PM 5/20/2012, Bertho Grandpied wrote:
Case in point : unless explicitly excluded, MS-not-so-Smart-Drive
will happily cache certain RAMdisks (not MS ramdrive) which is
counter-productive to say the least. This is very arguably a defect
of smartdrive, which I don't expect UIDE can
At 03:10 PM 5/20/2012, Wolfgang Schechinger wrote:
Der experts,
may I ask another question:
Is there a way to make FreeDos ignore that there is a floppy present
upon boot, i.e. force a boot from the harddrive? Again only a
problem when running it in a VM, I think, as on a hard PC, you may
set
At 05:10 PM 5/20/2012, Bertho Grandpied wrote:
From: Ralf A. Quint f...@gmx.net
At 02:45 PM 5/20/2012, Bertho Grandpied wrote:
Case in point : unless explicitly excluded, MS-not-so-Smart-Drive
will happily cache certain RAMdisks (not MS ramdrive)
What ramdisks would that be?
Your
At 02:45 AM 5/18/2012, Radoslav Tchipanov wrote:
Hi Ralf
This board D525MW has printer port - the board is in front of me.
My bad, I must have looked at a different Atom board... :-[
We use our proprietary software which controls external I/O board
trough printer port at address 378.
At 07:02 AM 5/17/2012, Radoslav Tchipanov wrote:
Hi
Has anybody run Freedos on Intel motherboard D525MW? I have problems
with the printer port and Video graphics display of it.
Well, this Atom board doesn't have a printer port (only USB) and
DOS by itself doesn't use any graphics, so you might
At 06:40 PM 5/17/2012, Kenny wrote:
So I've been hearing that DOS needs no drivers for a printer.
Again, all that DOS knows about a printer is that it is a (ASCII)
character based device on either parallel or serial port. No driver
needed for that functionality...
Well, it's not working for
At 09:04 AM 5/8/2012, Kenny Emond wrote:
I recently put FreeDOS on my laptop that has built in wireless. I
tried to see if the BIOS on the computer would let me know what the
packet driver name was or where, but it didn't. So I was wondering
how to find it or how to scan for what type of driver
At 06:35 AM 5/6/2012, Kenny Emond wrote:
Hey all,
I tried (using arachne) to put gmail as my pop3 email thing, but
for some reason it won't work. I even turned on the POP3 settings
in gmail, but arachne still won't pull from it. Any Ideas?
Well, there are two possible issues:
- for one,
At 01:13 PM 4/10/2012, Jack wrote:
Cannot answer on all subjects, but re: disk/CD/DVD drivers, I am NOT
overly optimistic! Intel/Microsoft want us all to buy into AHCI,
and they may have started ordering mainboard vendors to omit SATA/
IDE logic from their BIOS routines.
Do you have a source
At 01:12 PM 4/9/2012, Rugxulo wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Kenny Emond cheeseylem...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey,
I'm going to just not beat around the bush. I'll and ask it
straight out.
What the heck are Telnet, TCP and all those other programs that comes with
mTCP for?
At 01:05 PM 4/9/2012, Kenny Emond wrote:
Okay, Thanks everyone! I filled in the my_ip section with my ip
(according to dhcp.exe), but Arachne still points me to the
Roadrunner search, saying Why Am I Here? - You entered a web
address that was used to present site suggestions I tried a lot
At 06:46 PM 4/8/2012, Kenny Emond wrote:
Hey,
I was finnaly able to find a packet driver for my DOS computer
(ethernet connection), but for some reason Arachne shows the main
page, but when I try to go to a different page, it brings up a
roadrunner search thing.
That means that you do
At 02:06 AM 4/7/2012, Zbigniew wrote:
2012/3/11, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl:
Please let us know if/when you're able to pinpoint a culprit.
You might want to start with a MSDOS/Win9x bootdisk (www.bootdisk.com)
to eliminate FreeDOS components as the culprit, and to have a proven
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.
You do realize that it is kind of 'out of touch with the modern
At 04:19 AM 4/7/2012, Zbigniew wrote:
I was wondering what would it take to upgrade FreeDOS to 32bit,
whether it would be worth and whether we would have the human
resources.
32bit user programs tend to be available already in the form of
protected mode software, using one of the
At 11:39 AM 4/7/2012, Marco Achury wrote:
Check Kolibri OS, is very nice 32 bits, simple,
ligth, GUI, boot from floppy...
The sole thing is missing there is a DOS
emulator so we can run our beloved DOS
apps.
So what CAN you run on that, beside playing Minesweeper?
Ralf
At 12:06 PM 4/6/2012, Eric Auer wrote:
Harbour / xHarbour are free DBase Clipper (database scripting
language compiler?) clones, a bit bulky afair but portable :-)
See also their harbour-project.org web site :-)
First of all Harbour and xHarbour are pretty much two completely
different
At 12:48 PM 4/6/2012, Alex wrote:
Any idea why OpenGEM is the only GUI environment listed on the
FreeDOS website under the category GUIs? To be fair, I must say that
if you look hard withing the website you do find the reference to
other GUIs, such as the Icon GUI. So why OpenGEM is the only
At 01:27 PM 4/6/2012, Alex wrote:
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Ralf A. Quint free...@gmx.net wrote:
And what exactly do you mean by GUI as development tool. That's a
term that doesn't make any sense to me at least...
What I meant was simply a tool for developing GUI-based applications
At 02:59 PM 4/6/2012, Rugxulo wrote:
Also see Gautier's Transparent Language Popularity Index (updated
each month):
http://lang-index.sourceforge.net/
Sorry, but as far as programming for (Free)DOS is concerned, that
list is completely irrelevant...
Ralf
At 04:45 PM 4/6/2012, Alex wrote:
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote:
16-bit is dead, no machines are made purely 16-bit anymore. AMD64 long
mode doesn't (properly) support 16-bit at all, and popular compilers
like GCC never cared to support it. Also, people
At 05:05 PM 4/6/2012, Zbigniew wrote:
2012/4/6, Alex alxm...@gmail.com:
Just to be clear, which is the best Pascal version available to date
for FreeDOS?
Perhaps TP 3.0 - maximal effect taken out of minimum of code?
#v+
Turbo Pascal 3 for MS-DOS was released in September 1986. Being
version
At 08:32 PM 4/6/2012, Rugxulo wrote:
For more than half of those languages, there doesn't exist a (at
least serious) DOS implementation.
You rather have to use what is available, and that is fairly limited...
There is easily an implementation for more than half of those, but
often it's
At 04:55 PM 4/2/2012, Garry Ricketson wrote:
Ok, 1 more question, I also installed Freedos to a laptop, (Acer
aspire series 150), runs fine, but I can not get the
touch pad ,(mouse), or a USB mouse, to work. I tried CTMOUSE, but
it says it is not installed ? Do I need to download CTMOUSE , and
At 08:45 PM 4/2/2012, dmccunney wrote:
And don't forget Lua. It's very simple and quite powerful at the same
time. An excellent language indeed.
But it's specifically intended for embedding within other programs as
a script language. (There are an assortment of text editors (like
SciTE)
At 08:16 PM 3/26/2012, Jack wrote:
VERY funny off topic, overheard today, which I just HAVE to share --
What does a U.S. Age-20s Slept Thru High-School type, too old to say
The dog ate my homework!!, try to tell our apartment manager re: why
he cannot help with his girlfriend's 3-week late
At 04:00 PM 3/14/2012, Zbigniew wrote:
2012/3/13, Ralf A. Quint free...@gmx.net:
So far, this rather looks like a problem with 4DOS, not with JEMM as
I initially suspected... :?
Yes, you were right: I'm terribly sorry, but my former reports were
somewhat misleading. Just finished another
At 12:35 PM 3/13/2012, Zbigniew wrote:
After Eric's suggestion I made additional tests: still on original
MS-DOS 6.22; I used JEMMEX this time:
1. JEMMEX + 4DOS means problem, but...
2. ...JEMMEX + command.com didn't make any problem! Neither to the
game, nor to DX-Forth.
I'm always using X=TEST
At 04:47 AM 3/11/2012, Zbigniew wrote:
Yesterday I've found another related thing: while trying to test my
soundcard with several games, I discovered, that Civilization has
quite the same issue with FreeDOS: when ran under configuration
JEMMEX + 4DOS it works very slowly (I'm using Sempron 2 GHz
At 01:09 PM 3/10/2012, Zbigniew wrote:
If I correctly found the relevant sections of DX-Forth's kernel.asm
(it's included in the package), the word is defined the following way:
#v+
[..]
; runtime for deferred words - equiv to @ EXECUTE
dodef: pop bx
jmp [bx]
[..]
;
At 10:45 AM 2/19/2012, Eric Auer wrote:
Hi, forwarding something from Ken Geiger ken thecoposcompany.com:
I still use DataTree MUMPS (DTM) for some production. Do you know of
anyone else who is working in MUMPS who has an interest in freedos.
MUMPS is very powerful and efficient database
At 08:54 PM 2/17/2012, kurt godel wrote:
but I fear to do it since I've been using the int by way of the
UNION regs gambit, whereas you are showing a direct asm patch. I am
afraid I will screw up the regs structure.
What is there much to mess up, it's just a pseudo structure to a
more C like
At 09:12 AM 2/16/2012, Rugxulo wrote:
You'd think DOS (direct hardware access) would be an ideal environment
for defragging, and certainly DJGPP should be robust enough, in
theory, but I guess some people prefer to do it in the background of
Windows itself while running other stuff. Remember
At 10:32 AM 1/28/2012, kurt godel wrote:
This has to be one of the strangest ever:
I made this batfile:
cd \
cd ta
And?
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At 03:13 PM 1/24/2012, C. Masloch wrote:
I've been out of the loop on development for a while. Bret, do you,
incidentally, remember whether we came up with this one independently, or
how did it develop? I honestly would have to search through old mail again
to answer that myself.
The INT xx.yy
At 06:56 PM 1/14/2012, dos386 wrote:
[Freedos-kernel] FreeDOS 1.1 released
COOL :-)
http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/freeds11.png
Problems:
- What's the purpose of the menu item Pasquale (see top shot) ?
Are you such an idiot or are you just trying to play the troll here?
It should be
At 07:14 PM 1/14/2012, Michael Robinson wrote:
First off, I don't appreciate anyone calling anyone an idiot on this
email list.
Sorry but this was just one arrogant post of him too many!
He is one of the reasons, beside my past health issues, that I have
not participated in here for years.
At 07:15 PM 1/14/2012, dos386 wrote:
What's the purpose of the menu item Pasquale (see top shot) ?
Are you such an idiot or are you just trying to play the troll here?
It should be obvious to almost everyone that this is not an
active menu item
Idiot yourself. It is active. Just try to
At 07:18 PM 1/14/2012, dos386 wrote:
I can install and update FreeDOS manually (and I've been
having it for years), so the problems don't really hurt me,
but for potential new users, I'd prefer a well working distro.
How about you come up with a better working installer yourself then?
Ralf
At 12:30 AM 1/11/2012, Florian Xaver wrote:
El 11.01.2012, a las 03:38, Ralf A. Quint escribió:
I'd love to have you contribute to a GUI project. There have been
several. The one with the longest history is OpenGEM, but the web site
is now idle (http://gem.shaneland.co.uk/). The OpenGEM6
At 07:39 AM 1/11/2012, dmccunney wrote:
Please recall that DesqView, DesqViewX, GEM, and Windows through 9.X
were precisely GUIs strapped onto a DOS environment.
Just for the record, DesqView is not a GUI, but a text mode
multi-tasking/task-switching add-on for DOS and basically an
extension to
At 09:20 AM 1/11/2012, dmccunney wrote:
I ran DesqView, back in the day. It worked surprisingly well.
I recall one BBS sysop running four instances of a Wildcat BBS on a
25mhz AT under DV. He could have 4 nodes connected to four modems and
operating simultaneously on on machine.
It did indeed,
At 03:16 PM 1/10/2012, Jim Hall wrote:
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Koh Choon Lin 2choon...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
If someone is willing to start a free as in freedom graphical
interface for FreeDOS, I am ready to contribute resources and money to
the project.
I'd love to have you
At 05:49 PM 1/10/2012, Marco Achury wrote:
Looks like a better option, specially because is a current project
and is free.
... (see my reply to Jim)
I see the download lists and I dont undersand what is that we must
to download.
At 08:39 PM 1/10/2012, jhall wrote:
I encourage you to look around for what's there, and see if you can
move any of them forward. OpenGEM shows a lot of promise, but the
graphics are dated and could use a refresh. Since it's GNU GPL, I
imagine you could borrow from another GPL'd desktop
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, as there is an http download link
presented on the FreeDOS download page for your convenience as well. ;-)
That's btw the link I tested the other
At 01:58 PM 1/4/2012, James Hall wrote:
I have discovered the wifi connection I am using have a locked ftp port...
That won't cause any problems, as there is an http download link
presented on the FreeDOS download page for your convenience as well. ;-)
That's btw the link I tested the
At 05:09 PM 1/2/2012, Marco Achury wrote:
I cant connect ibiblio today, Appear that freedos release has
colapsed the servers :-)
Works just fine and snappy from California
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At 11:08 AM 12/27/2011, Koh Choon Lin wrote:
Hi
1. Would like to ask how much memory does FreeDOS support, e.g. 4 GiB?
2. Does it faces 640 KiB limitation as MS-DOS, e.g. Do I have to load
high drivers to save on conventional memory?
3. Does it support usage of a swap file/partition?
FreeDOS
At 11:49 AM 12/27/2011, Koh Choon Lin wrote:
Hi
2. Does it faces 640 KiB limitation as MS-DOS, e.g. Do I have to load
high drivers to save on conventional memory?
Thanks for all the fast replies. I think my question is misunderstood.
Load high is a MS-DOS technique to load drivers in the
At 05:03 PM 12/22/2011, dmccunney wrote:
I repeat, be careful of *what*? If you get as CD letter from them,
you take it down and apologize. You needn't hire a lawyer or engage
in a resource-requiring defense. Such letters are warning shots.
*They* would as soon not *take* you to court. That
At 03:48 PM 12/22/2011, James Hall wrote:
Mirroring abandonware drivers is a bit uncertain - unless the
license says we can redistribute them. I agree the original copyright
holder probably doesn't care; they've gone out of business.
It's highly unlikely that there is any license of any down the
At 08:41 PM 12/11/2011, David Griffith wrote:
Would someone take a look at this test code
and give me some advice? An unsigned long is four bytes under both Linux
and 16-bit DOS. Why then do my unsigned longs get chopped off when
running under DOS?
It seems that at least the Borland compiler
At 09:36 PM 12/11/2011, Ralf A. Quint wrote:
How can I get this code to do the Right Thing?
Actually just realized that it's pretty easy, you just need to
typecast properly all parts of the makeid macro:
#include stdio.h
#include string.h
typedef unsigned long zlong;
// all parts
At 09:55 PM 12/11/2011, David Griffith wrote:
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011, Ralf A. Quint wrote:
At 09:36 PM 12/11/2011, Ralf A. Quint wrote:
How can I get this code to do the Right Thing?
Actually just realized that it's pretty easy, you just need to
typecast properly all parts of the makeid
At 03:02 PM 10/13/2011, Eduardo Casino wrote:
2011/10/10 Ralf A. Quint free...@gmx.net:
At 01:38 PM 10/9/2011, Eduardo Casino wrote:
Would you be so kind of testing it in one of your 286? It should fail
with ERROR: Not running on top of VMWARE.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmsmount
At 10:51 PM 10/5/2011, bloger wrote:
÷ ÏÔ×ÅÔ ÎÁ ÓÏÏÂÝÅÎÉÅ ÔÏ×ÁÒÉÝÁ Michael B.
Brutman, ÄÁÔÉÒÏ×ÁÎÎÏÅ 5-Oct-2011 19:39: On
10/5/2011 7:27 PM, Alain Mouette wrote: I
had problems with networking in dos for a few
users, a short time ago. After a lot of
headache, I discovered that those were
At 11:53 AM 10/4/2011, Eric Auer wrote:
This is a bit of a problem, as without these I can't use the companion
CD-ROM drive (and I don't have an IDE controller capable of driving a
newer CD-ROM on hand.) SBCD gives me Invalid Opcode error messages,
like some of the other utilities did
At 09:41 PM 9/27/2011, Michael C. Robinson wrote:
Any idea why PPPoE is being pushed by phone companies?
Because they think it allows then to oversubscribe their
infrastructure, as they count on only a part of their users actually
being always on by setting an automatic reconnect...
the pox on
At 06:30 PM 9/26/2011, Arthur N. Dunning III wrote:
A: I am referring to the options presented to me when I used the FreeDOS
CD I made with the fbasecd.iso file I downloaded from the FreeDOS web
site. I tried to install FreeDOS on my USB drive, but I did so without
using the 'UNetbootin' software
At 12:48 PM 9/21/2011, Eric Auer wrote:
Hi :-)
Look this nice code that we cant run on Freedos
http://windowstipoftheday.blogspot.com/2005/03/ms-dos-calculator.html
To do calculations in FreeDOS, use the FreeCOM feature
to SET an environment variable from the output of any
program and use
At 08:56 AM 9/9/2011, dos386 wrote:
Eigenlijk komt zelfs erger. freedos.org is soms onbereikbaar, zelfs
met de www, zie geschoten:
http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/fdorgxms.png :-D
Beside that the number of regulars here in the forum who are able to
read/understand Dutch is fairly limited, there
At 11:07 AM 9/7/2011, James Collins wrote:
I am wondering how to set up my device in virtualbox to work with
freedos? I have looked in the settings for my guest os, freedos. I
see under ports a section on serial ports, and also a section on
USB. But I don't know which would relate to my
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