Re: [Freedos-user] Way or utility in Freedos to have two applications running

such as DESQview. > And TSR programs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminate-and-stay-resident_program>. -- andrew fabbro and...@fabbro.org ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Coding in BASIC for Freedos?

ANTY, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions as specified by the GNU GPL license; see the documentation for details. Please credit this data as "generated using David A. Wheeler's 'SLOCCount'." -- andrew fabbro and...@fabbro.org ___

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS Forums

On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 5:47 AM Linvel Risner via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > I don't imagine we have a forum, just an email list, right? > There are some forums listed here: https://www.freedos.org/forums/ -- andrew fabbro and..

Re: [Freedos-user] what cd rom drivers does freedos use?

to run MS-DOS 7.1. IIRC it was never intended to be a standalone product. I'm curious what the personal reasons are, or what 7.1 gives you that 6.22 (or FreeDOS) can't. -- andrew fabbro and...@fabbro.org ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lis

Re: [Freedos-user] One use case for FreeDos

On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 12:57 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > It's a different sort of thing, but a colleague shared his editor's > advice to write in a way that makes it difficult to go back and edit > what you've done, while you're writing it. The

Re: [Freedos-user] Is networking unsupported on QEMU? Pilot error suspected.

recated for some time, but > IIRC it should still work. I wonder if it can be relevant here. > Thanks Lukas! This didn't change the boot experience but also works. I'll dig into these options. -- andrew fabbro and...@fabbro.org ___ Freedos-use

Re: [Freedos-user] What DOS programs represent the 1980s and early 90s?

ere copied. Someone said once that they should have given Wordstar away for free and just sold documentation. -- andrew fabbro and...@fabbro.org ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] What DOS programs represent the 1980s and early 90s ?

BBSes was the huge chat (or "CB") rooms, where you'd be on talking with dozens/hundreds of people around the world. That was amazing in the early/mid 80s. GEnie would have thousands of concurrent users in the late 80s. On a different note, Sidekick and its TSR ilk are also

Re: [Freedos-user] Is networking unsupported on QEMU? Pilot error suspected.

TCP/IP-wise. I think I'll add something like "call C:\LOCAL.BAT" to :End in FDAUTO.BAT and then put my local startup customizations there to avoid changing the dist FDAUTO.BAT too much. Thanks much! -- andrew fabbro and...@fabbro.org __

[Freedos-user] Is networking unsupported on QEMU? Pilot error suspected.

/freedos-in-qemu-no-internet-connection-4175638386/ -- andrew fabbro and...@fabbro.org ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSBOX isn't for everyone...

c > > X11 server functions operated satisfactorily." > > That was valid around 20 years ago... :D try this with any present distro > Of course, you're comparing a 20-year-old distro with a 30-year-old "distro" of DOS :-) Yo

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSBOX isn't for everyone...

lized for some reason, or (c) you are a bit eccentric. -- andrew fabbro and...@fabbro.org ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Tcl for DOS

e) all by themselves... > sqlite (regardless of platform) also includes a CLI version which can process SQL commands from stdin or files, but you're right that its primary purpose is to as an embedded SQL engine, whereas dBASE and its ilk were more application platforms.

Re: [Freedos-user] Sharing your open source story (off-topic)

I missing something? > You may find it helpful to install the SEARCH program, which is available through FDIMPLES. Then you can type "search " and its location(s) will be listed. It's analogous to find(1) on Unix, or perhaps more accurately locate(1) on Lin

Re: [Freedos-user] Source code to Windows 9x and ME...

ring different vendors, etc. (5) And the big one...where's the money in releasing old source code? It takes lawyers, tech people, etc. and likely would cost a fair amount of money just to package it up. BTW, Microsoft has (or at least at one time had) various programs where universities had

Re: [Freedos-user] FDIMPLES Error -4 on Virtualbox

CLUDE=d:\mateusz\devel\ow19\BINW;%INCLUDE% All of the SET lines referenced d:\mateusz\devel\ow19. Of course, that path doesn't exist so the file sets variables that don't work. Shouldn't they reference c:\devel\ow, or am I misinterpreting something? Sorry for the newbie Qs :-) -- andr

Re: [Freedos-user] FDIMPLES Error -4 on Virtualbox

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 4:11 PM andrew fabbro wrote: > However, using FDIMPLES, I'm receiving a stream of "Error while > extracting" while trying to install things from the DEVEL tree. Strangely, > I installed the editor Elvis just fine and it works great...but trying to &g

[Freedos-user] FDIMPLES Error -4 on Virtualbox

at do I want to look at to use a larger font or more columns/rows on my "virtual monitor"? That was part of why I tried Virtualbox after VMware Player, besides portability to machines I don't have VMware licensed on. The underlying physical hardware is MacOS. Thanks! -- andrew fabbro and