Re: [Freedos-user] [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 and 2.0 roadmap discuss ion

So Bertho was volunteering or did I misunderstand his message? I've come to be a fan all kinds of virtualization, VMs, appliances The android-x86.org project re-compiles Android for x86 which I run on Windows 8.1 in a VirtualBox VM. It is fast enough. Most of Android works as it does on my

Re: [Freedos-user] I'm back!

years before replacement. . Cheers, John S. Wolter Wolter Works EMail: johnswol...@wolterworks.com LinkedIn: John S Wolter, johnswolter On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 10:51 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, May 20

[Freedos-user] IBM PC emulator written in Javascript

I don't know if anyone in the FreeDOS community has seen this. It is a bit slow reacting to my typed commands but has the look and feel of the IBM PC with MS-DOS. I hope it inspires some inventing. http://jsmachines.net/docs/pcjs/ Cheers, John S Wolter johnswol

Re: [Freedos-user] Desqview

I have a license and have used this. I see it as a wonder you've gotten this far. Cheers, John S Wolter LinkedIn: johnswolter http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnswolter johnswol...@wolterworks.com USA, Eastern Standard Time, -5 GMT, -4 GMT DST On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on Raspberry Pi

Okay, had anyone done a name search prior to production? MINiX3.org might not be amused. Go was the last test of overlapping names. Cheers, John S Wolter LinkedIn: johnswolter http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnswolter johnswol...@wolterworks.com USA, Eastern Standard

Re: [Freedos-user] Bios limitation at 8 gb, and new hdd

BS, Don't forget the FAT-16 limit of 514 or was that 504 MBytes. Somehow this issue keeps being asked. Maybe we are not doing enough to explain it clearly. Cheers, John S Wolter On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Bob Schwier schwepes2...@yahoo.com wrote: Hey neat. I used Ontrack Disk Manager

Re: [Freedos-user] editors.

for a discount coupon for the current Windows version. Cheers, John S Wolter LinkedIn: johnswolter http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnswolter johnswol...@wolterworks.com USA, Eastern Standard Time, -5 GMT, -4 GMT DST On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 9:25 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun

Re: [Freedos-user] EMail from forgotten printfil.com, an LPTx interception utility

Michael, Did you produce that image originally? If so and it is copyrighted you could ask for it to be removed. Cheers, John S Wolter On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Michael B. Brutman mbbrut...@brutman.comwrote: Hilarious ... That picture with the cute little old printer on it was lifted

Re: [Freedos-user] EMail from forgotten printfil.com, an LPTx interception utility

Michael, That PC Jr printer is out of the last century. Cheers, John S Wolter On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Michael B. Brutman mbbrut...@brutman.comwrote: Hilarious ... That picture with the cute little old printer on it was lifted from one of my web pages: http://www.brutman.com

Re: [Freedos-user] EMail from forgotten printfil.com, an LPTx interception utility

Michael, Well, then I advise you to ask for that credit. They may do that without hesitation. Cheers, On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Michael B. Brutman mbbrut...@brutman.comwrote: On 2/1/2013 1:10 PM, john s wolter wrote: Michael, Did you produce that image originally? If so

Re: [Freedos-user] New standard FreeDOS text editor - what itshould be (voting)?

, John S Wolter On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros fav...@mpcnet.com.br wrote: I'm actually more interested in what editors people *do* use under FreeDOS Editors fascinate me. Below are some of my favorites. And, yes, I do *edit* fairly large files, up to 15 MB

[Freedos-user] EMail from forgotten printfil.com, an LPTx interception utility

I received an EMail from printfil.com, an LPTx interception utility. It might be used with a PC emulator on a Windows. It has a number of interesting features. Cheers, John S Wolter -- Everyone hates slow websites. So

Re: [Freedos-user] [Spam] Backspace

have a major Hissy-Fit with them. Cheers John S Wolter On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Thomas D. Dean tomd...@speakeasy.orgwrote: On 01/13/13 22:21, Thomas D. Dean wrote: scan ascii key 0 8 backspace 0 27 del -- two codes 0 126

Re: [Freedos-user] Backspace

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. It is a form of social engineering. Cheers John S Wolter On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Thomas D. Dean tomd

Re: [Freedos-user] Long-term survival of FreeDOS

/bustran.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8086 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_architecture https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdatasheets.chipdb.org%2FIntel%2Fx86%2F808x%2Fdatashts%2F8088%2F231456-006.pdf Now you can program your own emulator. Cheers John S Wolter

Re: [Freedos-user] Long-term survival of FreeDOS

/IBM_9020 Get there or be square. Cheers John S Wolter -- Master Java SE, Java EE, Eclipse, Spring, Hibernate, JavaScript, jQuery and much more. Keep your Java skills current with LearnJavaNow - 200+ hours of step-by-step video

Re: [Freedos-user] Re (2): FreeDOS bootable CD image sought

://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Meyer http://www.amazon.com/Touch-Class-Learning-Program-Contracts/dp/3540921443 http://www.ebay.com/sch/sis.html?_nkw=Touch-Class-Bertrand-Meyer-NEW-BOOK- http://bertrandmeyer.com/ That should get you started. Cheers John S Wolter

Re: [Freedos-user] Try gparted on a live CD.

the website for a long list of packages supported. You can learn about these in the large manual and other supporting documentation Cheers John S Wolter LinkedIn: johnswolter http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnswolter - Mailto:johnswol...@wolterworks.com - Desk: 734-408-1263 - USA

Re: [Freedos-user] hard drive question?

. As I understand it, the original Clipper compiler was built using Microsoft C 5.1. Many add-on libraries used that same compiler and its libraries. Somewhere within that combination, partition size limits were imposed on the run-time program. Cheers John S Wolter

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition magic anyone?

by typing 'wizard' once it completes booting to the command line shell. I keep a copy in my brief case for when I make visits to customers. Cheers John S Wolter LinkedIn: johnswolter http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnswolter - Mailto:johnswol...@wolterworks.com - Desk: 734-408-1263

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject) - dos printer network in vmware

a printer via SMB sharing using the VM virtual network inside the hosting computer. Then use the same NET USE assignment Cheers John S Wolter - Mailto:johnswol...@wolterworks.com - USA, Eastern Standard Time, -5 GMT, -4 GMT DST On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Eric Auer

Re: [Freedos-user] Redoing Clipper DB compiled app

https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Cheers John S Wolter LinkedIn: johnswolter http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnswolter - Mailto:johnswol...@wolterworks.com - Desk: 734-408-1263 - USA, Eastern Standard Time, -5 GMT, -4 GMT DST

Re: [Freedos-user] Serial port or USB/PCMCIA modem support

/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Cheers John S Wolter LinkedIn: johnswolter http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnswolter - Mailto:johnswol...@wolterworks.com - Desk: 734-408-1263 - USA, Eastern Standard Time, -5 GMT, -4 GMT DST

[Freedos-user] Redoing Clipper DB compiled app

John S Wolter LinkedIn: johnswolter http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnswolter - Mailto:johnswol...@wolterworks.com - Desk: 734-408-1263 - USA, Eastern Standard Time, -5 GMT, -4 GMT DST -- Live Security

Re: [Freedos-user] Redoing Clipper DB compiled app

://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Cheers John S Wolter LinkedIn: johnswolter http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnswolter - Mailto:johnswol...@wolterworks.com - Desk: 734-408-1263 - USA, Eastern Standard Time, -5 GMT, -4 GMT DST

Re: [Freedos-user] Redoing Clipper DB compiled app

list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Cheers John S Wolter LinkedIn: johnswolter http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnswolter - Mailto:johnswol...@wolterworks.com - Desk: 734-408-1263 - USA, Eastern Standard

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos in VirtualBox not a sure thing

applications. If you are trying to use both the MS-Client and mTCP or WATTCP programs at the same time on the same adapter then you need to add another adapter. Each of those programs assumes that they own the adapter and will fight each other in fun ways. Mike -- Cheers John S Wolter

[Freedos-user] FreeDos in VirtualBox not a sure thing

with 8 GB of RAMM. If there is a list of well-known issues, I would like to see if an altered configuration would help performance. I have taken a few minutes to install DOSBox which seemed fairly snappy. I have yet to try the customer's program. I'll be giving that a try. Cheers John S Wolter

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos in VirtualBox not a sure thing

(); } bios_clk_ptr = MK_FP(0,0x46c); void delay_a_tick() { long ticks = *bios_clk_ptr; while(*bios_clk_ptr == ticks) _asm hlt; } -Original Message- From: john s wolter johnswol...@wolterworks.com To: freedos-user freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wed, Aug 15, 2012 5:47 pm

[Freedos-user] Heads-up about FreeDOS Wikipedia.org page

I've visited the FreeDOS Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeDOSpage that appears somewhat out of date, I think. I don't know whose working the documentation effort but they may want to put some time into updating that resource. I have read the article and found it very useful. I use

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS inside Windows XP, virtual diskettes, and using Windows printers?

I need to have FreeDOS inside Windows XP, virtual A B diskettes, and divert LPT1 to Windows printers. I'm setting this up for a non-geek user's Laptop to run a 1985 DOS program. Here's what I need... 1. FreeDOS inside Windows XP because that's what they run 2. Divert LPT1 to Windows printers

[Freedos-user] Processor overheating under DOS

-supply? Is the p-s fan working? Is there a CPU fan and is it working? Is the p-s broken? Do you have a volt meter? If so check the p-s outputs. Is it grounding on the chassis? Is it arching to ground when the p-s warms up? John S Wolter

Re: [Freedos-user] Processor overheating under DOS

code. John S. Wolter -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev

Re: [Freedos-user] Some fix for Windows XP FreeDOS printing delays

used a dozen third party libraries. If I were to change something it would take days to test and qualify it. Cheers -- John S. Wolter President Wolter Works Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Desk 1-734-665-1263 Cell: 1-734-904-8433

Re: [Freedos-user] Some fix for Windows XP FreeDOS printing delays

in Windows then it might be useful to recommend some redirect int 17 printing to a buffer in RAM, save it to a file and then, when the app is done, print that file using any command, for example COPY FILE.TXT LPT1 tool in this mailing list :-). Anybody remembers a nice one? Eric -- John S

Re: [Freedos-user] Some fix for Windows XP FreeDOS printing delays

] wrote: There could be an alternative: make a TSR that reads the screen and detects some special finished text in this screen, then opens and closes the LPT1 file... Its a bit complicated, but I have seen/done worse ... Alain john s wolter escreveu: Alain, That's fascinating. I'll have

Re: [Freedos-user] Some fix for Windows XP FreeDOS printing delays

redirect int 17 printing to a buffer in RAM, save it to a file and then, when the app is done, print that file using any command, for example COPY FILE.TXT LPT1 tool in this mailing list :-). Anybody remembers a nice one? Eric -- John S. Wolter President Wolter Works Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Freedos-user] Some fix for Windows XP FreeDOS printing delays

, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Alain M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is a good idea, it is much simpler than reading the screen... Now all you need to do is a TSR with file access, it probably can be done inside int28 ALain john s wolter escreveu: I was thinking it would be useful to have an escape

Re: [Freedos-user] Some fix for Windows XP FreeDOS printing delays

and write to it normaly. You will see that when you *close de file* the spool is flushed. This is no trick, it was well documented at the time, and it is implemented for basic compatibiliy. Alain john s wolter escreveu: I found not only myself but millions, according to Google, of others

[Freedos-user] Some fix for Windows XP FreeDOS printing delays

] PrintBufTime=10 this will reset the wait to 10 seconds Hope this is of some use. -- John S. Wolter President Wolter Works Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Desk 1-734-665-1263 Cell: 1-734-904-8433 - This SF.Net email is sponsored

[Freedos-user] Sourceforge link to obsolete document

at SourceForgehttps://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=12983group_id=1 ... Here's the copied link to SourceForge https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=12983group_id=1 I imagine you will have to locate a different SourceForge page to link onto the FreeDOS page. -- John S. Wolter

Re: [Freedos-user] [Xen-devel] Unable to boot FreeDOS 1.0

. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- John S. Wolter President Wolter

[Freedos-user] please do never send files to a mailing list

elsewhere to get these features? -- John S. Wolter President Wolter Works Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Desk 1-734-665-1263 Cell: 1-734-904-8433 - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio

Re: [Freedos-user] trying to installa freedos on a VM

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Re: [Freedos-user] trying to installa freedos on a VM

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Re: [Freedos-user] Can't even get started!

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Re: [Freedos-user] looking for epson or escp printer users

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Re: [Freedos-user] looking for epson or escp printer users

on real printers, but it looked okay in ghostscript GV ;-). As for the ESC/P part, I tested by writing a minimal simulation of such a printer, with PNG output. So if that is broken, so is GRAPHICS. -- John S. Wolter President Wolter Works Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Desk 1-734-665-1263 Cell: 1

Re: [Freedos-user] File Access denied

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Re: [Freedos-user] Dos help on FreeDos

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Re: [Freedos-user] Partition layout

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