Re: [Freedos-user] Git for DOS?

2022-02-27 Thread Regan Russell
Hi Brandon, CVS runs on DOS I think... There is a CVS to SVN converter. There is a SVN to git converter. This might​​ work. But with this many moving parts it is unlikely. There was also SCCS and RCS but I've touched neither in like maybe 20 or 30 years. The other and possibly easier option

Re: [Freedos-user] What is the FreeDOS fish?

2021-02-07 Thread Regan Russell
I had always assumed that it was a whale because other operating systems are large and bloated and a whale would be irony. R From: Jim Hall Sent: Sunday, 7 February 2021 11:12 PM To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS. Subject: Re:

Re: [Freedos-user] Package discussion

2020-12-16 Thread Regan Russell
I want to make applications om everything including DOS with Watcom C/C++ but to be honest who has the time... From: Bryan Kilgallin Sent: Thursday, 17 December 2020 3:16 PM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Package discussion

Re: [Freedos-user] yt-dl in dos?

2020-12-15 Thread Regan Russell
yt-dl is built on a lot of other software... I think ffmeg and whole lot more It has a huge depnedancy list so my only suggestion is "good luck with that". R. From: andrea...@tiscali.it Sent: Wednesday, 16 December 2020 10:43 AM To:

Re: [Freedos-user] Run Linux & Linux binaries on DOS

2020-09-23 Thread Regan Russell
In the mid 1990s I copied the Tru64 shared libraries and some other things from one of the universities Tru64 machines onto an Alpha running Linux in my office. With a very small amount of hacking around and configuring I got Mozilla and maybe a few other things to run. Other than showing

Re: [Freedos-user] C: location

2020-04-02 Thread Regan Russell
might put it on iBooks or approach publishers. Can I talk to you about it? Maybe you could be a reviewer? Regan From: Felix G. Sent: Thursday, 2 April 2020 8:23 PM To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS. Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] C: location Hi, you

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

2019-09-26 Thread Regan Russell
There was a rumour that Microsoft lost the source code to Visual Source Safe. Oh the irony. I know our admin claimed it corrupted itself many times. Source code getting lost, I'd buy that. From: R Moog Sent: Friday, 27 September 2019 12:01 AM To: Discussion

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

2019-09-26 Thread Regan Russell
When I worked for a very large American tech giant in Japan we had one machine which had a VPN that was only used for accessing source code in Redmond. I was trying to figure out why a patch to Windows Server was calling release multiple times (and thus blue screening) on our device driver on a

Re: [Freedos-user] Issue installing FreeDOS on Raspberry Pi 3

2019-09-25 Thread Regan Russell
> Actually Current CP/M-86 and MP/M were CP/M versions that were > multi-user and networkable (though no Internet existed those days, > fortunately)... I very vaguely remember those days. I almost did a Novell Netware certificate. You could make a living with DBASE-II or Turbo Pascal or C with

Re: [Freedos-user] Simple guide for networking FreeDOS 1.2 in a VirtualBox VM ?

2016-12-25 Thread regan
ature? Regan William Dudley wrote > Is there a simple guide for networking FreeDOS 1.2 in a VirtualBox VM ? > > 1.2 is too new for there to be anything in the mailing list archives on > this. > > I never got networking going in the previous FreeDOS release. Getting > files &g