Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS in the news

2004-11-12 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sory for this extremely late answer, but what i meant was: when did the FreeDOS spec get changed? Imre Such a change would be news to me. To my knowledge the standard is still Borland C++ 3.10 and TASM, or Turbo C++ 1.01 and Arrowsoft ASM for a lower denominator that's

Re: [Freedos-user] NTFS4DOS and Python for DOS

2004-11-07 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Florian Xaver wrote: Another very good tool which should be included: PhytonD http://members.lycos.co.uk/bdeck/pythond.htm From the page: PythonD 2.2.1 Release 2.0 provides many powerful features for DOS, Windows and DJGPP users that make it an attractive platform for migration of old MSDOS

Re: [Freedos-user] RE: Freedos-user digest, Vol 1 #287 - 1 msg

2004-11-06 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Jondavey wrote: I was thinking today, something that confuses me is; when I want to edit a text file I would invoke/call a text editor but when I want to use DOS I envoke a DOS prompt. What program is the DOS prompt? and can I edit text at the command line without calling an editor?. COMMAND.COM,

Re: [Freedos-user] Some automagic SETVER for FreeDOS

2004-11-01 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Eric Auer wrote: Hi, I fount a SETVER with source codes, and Simtel writes that it is part of the FreeDOS project. So we already have SETVER? Why did nobody tell me? http://www.bookcase.com/library/software/msdos.util.system.html - SETVERB by David McIlwraith, written in ASM, 3k binary. IIRC, it

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Laptop resurrection

2004-10-09 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Ian McCall wrote: Well, in the end it was all remarkably easy. - Debian first via floppy then network install, ensured kernel contained vfat fs support, created three partitions (one for FreeDOS, one for Debian and a swap for Debian). Much downloading and unpacking then ensued... - Into

Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 98 compatibility

2004-08-13 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
16 BIT wrote: Does FreeDos work along with windows 98se? Forgive me if this is an ignorant question, but it is! I do not wish to remain ignorant! Thanks! I hadn't thought about that in those exact words. There is a dual boot procedure developed that would allow a person to actually select which

Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable FreeDOS

2004-08-03 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: Hmm, what's ODIN supposed to be? Saw a mention of it on the main page, gotta check it out. :) But hey Steve! I was trying to download FreeDOS beta9rc5 and found a version of ODIN 0.7 updated April 20, 2004. Here's the link:

Re: [Freedos-user] Good C compiler for FreeDOS?

2004-06-21 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Karim wrote: Hello I want to port a 8051 C compiler to FreeDOS/DOS. It`s the sdcc compiler, you can find the sources on sdcc.sourceforge.net. The code compiles on Linux, Unix, MacOSX, Windows ..but I didn`t find a DOS port, so I think it would be a benefit to have a working DOS version, because

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and computers network

2004-05-24 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello to all, I have just subscribed to this list dealing with FreeDOS and I have a question about it. Does FreeDOS have a feature allowing to use it on computers network ? My main operating system is currently Geos and its flag ship Ensemble (from Breadbox) and for our

Re: [Freedos-user] List of compatible systems needed

2004-03-27 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Mac Oglesby wrote: Hello... I use a Macintosh and tried Virtual PC (with Windows XP PRO), but it wouldn't run my QBASIC programs properly. Virtual PC costs over half the price of a new PC, so I thought I'd try a new PC. Will my QBASIC programs run under Freedos (I have the QBASIC