Re: [Freedos-user] New FreeDOSers Monthly Reminder

2022-08-01 Thread peter
From: John Price > We have only a few rules for posting to the FreeDOS mailing lists: > ... The rules are straightforward but a revision of terminology might help. Scope and topic are distinct concepts. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scope#Noun sense 1.

[Freedos-user] Re (3): Off topic: Linux Journals

2022-07-24 Thread peter
P.s. From: pe...@easthope.ca Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2022 14:06:01 -0700 > ... good topic. A good topic because, for all software, preservation of documentation is a challenge. That includes documentation for FreeDOS. Without documentation, the most beautiful software will be used to only a

[Freedos-user] Re (2): Re (2): Off topic: Linux Journals

2022-07-24 Thread peter
From: Jim Hall Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2022 16:54:43 -0500 > ... someone posted a (complete?) collection of Linux > Journal to Archive.org: ... archive.org is a good first step. Does it keep everything indefinitely? Does it weed pages not receiving enough attention? Gutenberg and WikiSource

[Freedos-user] Re (2): Off topic: Linux Journals

2022-07-24 Thread peter
Somewhat off scope but on a good topic. Ideally the journals should be preserved in Project Gutenberg or WikiSource or similar. https://gutenberg.org https://en.wikisource.org/ Regards,... P. ___ Freedos-user mailing list

[Freedos-user] Re (2): Assembly Language and BASIC

2022-07-08 Thread peter
Apology for the mis-directed message about land use. ... P. -- mobile: +1 778 951 5147 VoIP: +1 604 670 0140 48.7693 N 123.3053 W ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net

[Freedos-user] Re (2): Assembly Language and BASIC

2022-07-08 Thread peter
P.s. Spoke to M. Sketch around noon today. He mentioned two factors relevant to the GIGARHS project. (1) Obligation to neighbouring landowners to conserve or preserve the natural character. (2) Obligation to not compromise ground water supply of neighbours by exploiting too much or by

[Freedos-user] Documents; was Re (2): Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

2022-03-31 Thread peter
From: "Bret Johnson" Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 16:29:55 GMT > A text editor is really designed for editing things like batch files > and source code ... A document for human consumption can also be expressed by a text in a formal language. A familiar and specific case is a document expressed

[Freedos-user] Re (2): Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

2022-03-31 Thread peter
From: John Vella Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 11:35:56 +0100 > Ooh, that's good to know. I'll have to check how many lines per chapter. Another possibility: install DOS Oberon; there use ET. Off hand I can't tell you the file size limit. In use have not encountered a limit. Regarsds,

[Freedos-user] Re (2): Installing FreeDOS 1.3.

2022-02-21 Thread peter
Jerome, > While it should get FreeDOS booting, I don=E2=80=99t think it will = > provide enough flexibility for what you want. Afraid of that! =8~/ > ... it is free > just not open source. It has very strict =E2=80=9Ccan distribute if you = > change absolutely nothing=E2=80=9D license. No

[Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS 1.3.

2022-02-21 Thread peter
From: Jerome Shidel - 2022-02-21 00:14:37 > It installs to the First drive whose partition is compatible to DOS > and enumerated by the kernel as drive C:. > > Unless, you run it in advanced mode. Then other hard disks could be > targeted for install. Thanks Jerome. Will try to remember for

[Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS 1.3.

2022-02-20 Thread peter
to install to /dev/sdd2 for example. (2) Why won't the installed system boot. Isn't the intention to have a working system? Thx,... Peter E. -- mobile: +1 778 951 5147 VoIP: +1 604 670 0140 48.7693 N 123.3053 W ___ Freedos-user

[Freedos-user] Target partition for installation and information displayed by the installer.

2012-11-22 Thread Peter Easthope
target part and reference to both C: and D: in this display is a bug, isn't it? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight

Re: [Freedos-user] Target partition for installation and information displayed by the installer.

2012-11-22 Thread Peter Easthope
) is happy to assign C: to a drive that's not counted as harddisk but as a huge removable drive. Possibly. In any case, target ambiguity is a bug. I will unplug the non-targetted drive. Thanks, ... Peter E

[Freedos-user] Fax receiving with Freedos?

2005-09-30 Thread Peter Bozzay
Hello, I'm new here, and in Freedos, too. Now I should build and use an old PC only to receive faxes with a serial faxmodem (without display). Is there some freeware application to do this with Freedos? Peter --- This SF.Net email