[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2013-11-10 Thread Mark Brown
i have a dell optiplex gx280. first i found it doesn't support 2 floppys, only 1. fine. now, however, 1.44 mb diskettes format fine with ms-dos 6.22, but freedos trying to format them says: # Boot sector unreadable, disk not yet formatted Treating int 13.8 drive type 0x0 as 1440k Using drive

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2013-09-16 Thread Tom Ehlert
Hi Mateusz, is there a place you can download all of freedos in one big piece, but including all the up-to-date everything? As Bojan already pointed out, such place already exists. It's here: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/repos/ this would be

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2013-09-15 Thread Mark Brown
i, for one, would like to see a freedos ftp site where 1) only the latest version of everything is posted and   2) where the whole thing could be downloaded as one file. let's face it, the freedos project suffers from substantial fragmentation, and substantial disorganization. if someone

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2013-09-15 Thread Bojan Popovic
Hi, Is this what you are looking for? http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/repos/ Cheers, Bojan. On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 02:13:56 -0700 (PDT) Mark Brown eufdp...@yahoo.com wrote: i, for one, would like to see a freedos ftp site where 1) only the latest

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2013-09-15 Thread Mark Brown
is there a place you can download all of freedos in one big piece, but including all the up-to-date everything? it would surely be convenient.   eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2013-09-15 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hi, As Bojan already pointed out, such place already exists. It's here: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/repos/ This is the FDNPKG repository (FDNPKG being the FreeDOS online update/package manager tool). It can be used offline, too, simply get the

Re: [Freedos-user] shorter subject line.

2013-06-28 Thread Rugxulo
Hi again, On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 1:39 PM, kurt godel wb2...@gmail.com wrote: I am not trying to install linux in windows/dos; puppy linux does that exquisiitley. EDIT: I've not used this particular piece of it, but the DOS SHSUCD package has SHSUDVHD which emulates a DVD-ROM using multiple

[Freedos-user] shorter subject line.

2013-06-26 Thread kurt godel
Forgive the boobing of the subject line; and to make myself clearer: I am not trying to install linux in windows/dos; puppy linux does that exquisiitley. Imagine you have an old w98 install cd. You could install from the disk, but it is more efficient to *copy* the files from the install cd to a

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2013-03-23 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi Dennis, That's what I thought might be the case. Your source files are basically 7 bit ASCII. I'd call your use case something to be handled by a Revision Control System. We normally think of them as used for program code, but they can be used for manuscripts as well. Take a look at

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2013-03-23 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mar 23, 2013 4:37 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros fav...@mpcnet.com.br wrote: That's what I thought might be the case. Your source files are basically 7 bit ASCII. I'd call your use case something to be handled by a Revision Control System. We normally think of them as

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2013-03-23 Thread dmccunney
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros fav...@mpcnet.com.br wrote: That's what I thought might be the case. Your source files are basically 7 bit ASCII. I'd call your use case something to be handled by a Revision Control System. We normally think of them as

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2012-09-21 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 20-9-2012 0:53, George Brooks schreef: device=c:\net\yuknd.dos I'm not entirely up to date with this subject nor the mail thread, but usually MS Client NDIS drivers are loaded in a slightly different way. You'd have to install MS Client and supply the drivers when MS Client asks for it.

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

2012-09-20 Thread john s wolter
Eric, You probably already know this technique inside the Windows standard SMB on top of NETBIOS over TCP/IP. I've used network sharing to provide an LPT1 printer to the a DOS program. It was a Windows XP Home Edition with service pack 3, sp3, installed. This was outside any VM player's

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2012-09-19 Thread George Brooks
I'm experimenting with FreeDOS in an effort to find a solution for access to a legacy DOS application.  The environment is an HP laptop (6730s) running Win7 32-bit, VMWare Player v5 and FreeDOS 1.1.  All proceeds smoothly until I try to gain access to a printer share via MSClient.  (This is

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

2012-09-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Not sure why you want to print via network, but if you want to use network in VMWare, you can use a DOS driver for any virtual network card of VMWare. No need to use a driver for the actual network hardware of Windows... You can also try other virtual computers such as Bochs, VirtualBox and

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2012-09-19 Thread Alain Mouette
I can do it this way: 1) configure VMware as Bridge PCnet NIC 2) use the drivers from netbootdisk.com for the driver inside VMware. the guy there is making an excelent job of collecting new drivers It just works... Alain Em 19-09-2012 19:53, George Brooks escreveu: I'm experimenting with

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2012-08-05 Thread Mark Brown
how do you set up the c: drive, format, and sys the drive under vmware workstation 8? very short replies are fine.   eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2012-08-05 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 5-8-2012 11:57, Mark Brown schreef: how do you set up the c: drive, format, and sys the drive under vmware workstation 8? very short replies are fine. 0) use a FreeDOS bootdisk(-image) or installation CD. 1) run FDISK (and create active primary FAT/FAT32 partition) 2) reboot so BIOS/kernel

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2012-06-18 Thread dmccunney
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros fav...@mpcnet.com.br wrote: Aha! So that's why one of my favorite text editors won't run in some machines; it' the same error message, and it uses the Borland interface too. Which editor? An assortment use the Borland

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2012-06-17 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi Ulrich, But why not use just one username for all of your client machines and have the advantage that no stranger could login and mess with your database? You would configure the user yourself in the SYSTEM.INI (configure once, copy onto all other clients) and once you ran NET.EXE on one

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2012-06-16 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Tom Ehlert: could you be more specific about 1) where is the database located (not geografically, but what machine) 2) what's the 'servers' operating system ? The database is in a Pentium machine running FreeDOS and MS-Client with a Realtek RTL8139 network adapter card. I'm at home now, so I

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2012-06-16 Thread C. Masloch
if the answer to 2) is 'FreeDOS' then either SHARE.EXE is not running or SHARE.EXE is buggy. the latter is quite likely as it was never really tested against network access. I think SHARE.COM must be running because the two-computer test network works perfectly -- as long as the two users

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2012-05-03 Thread Henry Lee
Greetings All, I just went through the FreeDOS install howto and eventually got everything to work, but I ran into an issue. One of the steps of the howto says to edit autoexec.bat changing the line REM LH PCNTPK INT=0x60 to LH PCNTPK INT=0x60. This didn't work for me. Somehow the packet driver

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2012-03-29 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi Eric, another chance would obviously be making fdapm aware :-) Do you mean, authors making their programs FDAPM aware? Of course this would be ideal. Do you know what makes fdapm unaware of the programs that you mention, while dpakbd (?) is aware of their idleness? Sorry, as I'm just a

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2012-02-06 Thread Mark Brown
.. From: Jim Hall jh...@freedos.org To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Saturday, February 4, 2012 9:15 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject) On Feb 1, 2012 12:46 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2012-02-06 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 6-2-2012 15:58, Mark Brown schreef: PLoP bootloader (www.plop.at http://www.plop.at) boots USB on hardware (with USB) that doesn't support it... And so it does, in most cases. However automation is desireable, and licensing is to be considered (free for personal non-commercial use, if I

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2012-02-04 Thread Jim Hall
On Feb 1, 2012 12:46 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: Whether this works will depend upon your BIOS. The box I have FreeDOS on will boot from a USB floppy drive, but *not* from a USB stick. BIOS limitation. I can't see a USB stick from FreeDOS either, because no driver is

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2012-02-04 Thread Marco Achury
El 04/02/2012 09:45 a.m., Jim Hall escribió: On Feb 1, 2012 12:46 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com mailto:dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: Whether this works will depend upon your BIOS. The box I have FreeDOS on will boot from a USB floppy drive, but *not* from a USB stick.

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2012-02-04 Thread dmccunney
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Jim Hall jh...@freedos.org wrote: On Feb 1, 2012 12:46 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: Whether this works will depend upon your BIOS.  The box I have FreeDOS on will boot from a USB floppy drive, but *not* from a USB stick. BIOS limitation.  I

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2012-02-01 Thread Manjunath ML
Hi, I am trying to use a USB memory disk along with FreeDOS. I am a running a CAM software and need a facility to transfer drawings from other computers to the PC used to run the CAM software and USB Memory disk is the simplest way. Can anyone let m know if this is possible and how. Thanks

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2012-02-01 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 1-2-2012 17:56, Manjunath ML schreef: I am trying to use a USB memory disk along with FreeDOS. I am a running a CAM software and need a facility to transfer drawings from other computers to the PC used to run the CAM software and USB Memory disk is the simplest way. Can anyone let m know

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2012-02-01 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: Op 1-2-2012 17:56, Manjunath ML schreef: I am trying to use a USB memory disk along with FreeDOS. I am a running a CAM software and need a facility to transfer drawings from other computers to the PC used to run the CAM

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2012-02-01 Thread Mark Brown
.. From: dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 1:45 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject) On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: Op 1-2-2012 17:56, Manjunath ML schreef

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2012-02-01 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 1-2-2012 19:45, dmccunney schreef: Whether this works will depend upon your BIOS. The box I have FreeDOS on will boot from a USB floppy drive, but *not* from a USB stick. BIOS limitation. I can't see a USB stick from FreeDOS either, because no driver is available that can do it. (I've

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2012-01-24 Thread Brad Woosley
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[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2011-11-18 Thread Garrison Ricketson
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Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2011-11-18 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, For me it just redirects to some Russian site trying to sell male enhancement pills. So yeah, it's spam. Honestly, I don't think Garrison is a spammer, he's posted on-topic here before. Who knows, maybe he got a virus, or somebody is spoofing him (remember the fake Aitor?). On Fri, Nov

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2011-09-18 Thread Diego Rodriguez
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[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2011-08-04 Thread James Hahn
Does anybody have any experience setting up a file server using Freedos? I am just wondering if it is a workable idea. Thanks, Jim -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2011-08-04 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 4-8-2011 23:24, James Hahn schreef: Does anybody have any experience setting up a file server using Freedos? I am just wondering if it is a workable idea. Thanks, http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/ has a FTP server, don't know what you're intending to do. http://www.georgpotthast.de/sioux/

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2011-08-04 Thread James Hahn
I am actually running FreeNAS right now. I really like it but I am not happy with the filesystem it uses. If the server dies, I can't pop one of the hard drives into a windows box to pull the files off. DOS is reliable, and will run forever. I have always loved DOS and thought it would be a

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2011-06-10 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi Bret, Google up TSRCOM35 and download it. It's a package that's been around for a LONG time, and has two programs called MARK and RELEASE that are specifically designed to remove a TSR from memory. Problem solved. Thanks! Marcos Campinas, Brazil

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2011-02-17 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
dos...@gmail.com: RTFM. Me: What is RTFM? Lisandro_Damián_Nicanor_Pérez_Meyer: Read The Fine Manual ;-) I do not ask questions before reading the relevant manuals. As an engineer, this is second nature to me. However, manuals can on occasion be complicated, even if well-written, for those who

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2010-05-24 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi, This is just to report how things evolved with regard to disk partitioning and formatting. I certainly learned how to do it. Thanks again to several list members who helped! However, the story did not end there. Disks would not work as expected, and corrupted files kept appearing. After

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2010-05-18 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi Mateusz and Liam, Thanks! (Mateusz) Simple: FAT16 doesn't support partitions bigger than 2GiB. So, you have to choose: - either you are sticking to FAT32 - or you use only 2GiB partitions (for eg. 2 or 3 partitions on the drive, with each one having 2GiB max.) (Liam) You do know that

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2010-05-18 Thread Liam Proven
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros fav...@mpcnet.com.br wrote: Hi Mateusz and Liam, Thanks! :¬) No problem. (Liam) You do know that the maximum legal size for a FAT16 partition is 2GB? Yes, I realize that each FAT16 partition can only be 2 GB. I was

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2009-12-28 Thread Alain Mouette
dos386 escreveu: Desi-III requires EMS memory. It requires EMS __AND__ is low memory hoggy, a pity that such a nice programm is compiled that a crappy way :-( We have to remember that at the time, this was very advanced and prety dificult to make. It is probably older then real 32 bit

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2009-12-28 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Eric, What I would like to know: How fast is the refresh if you remove idlehalt but keep fdapm? Does it make a difference whether you use APMDOS or ADV:REG option in that case? Refresh times below are for the same drawing tested in previous emails. It would not make sense to test

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2009-12-27 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi, Eric, I kind of missed the start of the thread - about which software are we talking? Why does it take several seconds to refresh the screen? While the mouse is moving? While it is not moving? Both? Included at the end of this message is my original post

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2009-12-27 Thread dos386
and AUTOEXEC.BAT now contains: lh C:\FDOS\BIN\KEYB.EXE br,850 IIRC I already had suggested to empty it (except CTMOUSE) ;-) everything from FreeDOS also works under the MS kernel, and Desi-III is equally fast. IIRC I had already suggested EDR-DOS or (DR-DOS) kernel. Also the FAT=16 FreeDOS

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2009-10-19 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi Jeremy, Eric, Christian, David, Thanks for the valuable information. I'll start with CD-ROMs because they are the simplest alternative, and later I'll also look into compact flash cards and SD card adapters, which seem to be the most reliable of all. Regards, Marcos Florence Sao Paulo,

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2009-03-31 Thread Jim Hall
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Fox Muldar muldar...@gmail.com wrote: Mailing list please? -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2009-03-30 Thread Fox Muldar
Mailing list please? -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2009-01-05 Thread Jim Hall
Hi. At the bottom of every email is a link back to the mail lists page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user If you go to this page, you should be able to unsubscribe yourself from the mailing list. (I've just asked the system to send an unsubscribe confirmation email to

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2008-10-27 Thread Kurt Godel
So how would I set up a dual boot system with both FreeDos and W98; I presume they would be in separate partitions? Or what about FreeDos on a 'logical' drive in W98?    kurt  [EMAIL PROTECTED]. - This SF.Net email

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2008-10-27 Thread David C. Kerber
, 2008 12:14 PM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Freedos-user] (no subject) So how would I set up a dual boot system with both FreeDos and W98; I presume they would be in separate partitions? Or what about FreeDos on a 'logical' drive in W98?kurt [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2008-07-30 Thread pcdos2k
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:06:44 +0200 (MEST) From: Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay won't be developed Note: The drivers are inside MPXPLAY, but as it is open source, you can use the MPXPLAY sources to make VSB (virtual

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2007-11-03 Thread Blair Campbell
Yes it is possible but it will require re-building of the ISO or inserting it into the ISO using something like MagicISO On 11/2/07, Badger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Can anyone tell me if it is possible to add a Dos program to the live CD so that I can run it from the cd ? I wish to

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2007-11-02 Thread Badger
Hello all, Can anyone tell me if it is possible to add a Dos program to the live CD so that I can run it from the cd ? I wish to use a Ham Radio Program called Baycom with the old hardware which went with it. It will work with FreeDos as I have used it when installed to Hard drive on a old PC

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2007-09-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Chris, I believe there is a tool from Arkady for this in the cutemouse package. Eric - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005.

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2007-05-27 Thread duparc
Amari canes homini lupi The US did not call Bin Laden and say, Hey Osama, talk a couple of impressionable muslims with a lack of respect for human life into hijacking and crashing multiple 7x7's into occupied office buildings. Nor did Britain consort with radicals so that the London

Re: [Freedos-user] no subject

2006-10-09 Thread tomleem
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Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2006-05-26 Thread Jim Hall
My first thought was that this person was trying to subscribe to the list. But since you can only post to the list IF YOU ARE A MEMBER of the list, I realized this was a silly thought. :-) Maybe this person is testing that they are (still) subscribed to the list by sending a test email.

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2006-05-26 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 26-Май-2006 07:35 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Hall) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: JH list. But since you can only post to the list IF YOU ARE A MEMBER of 2Jim: Jim, one my letter to freedos-devel waits your approval, because I not member of a group. What wrong?

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2006-05-26 Thread Jim Hall
... 2Jim: Jim, one my letter to freedos-devel waits your approval, because I not member of a group. What wrong? I haven't done list approval in a long time, because there are so many spam emails that show up every day (all requiring approval because they are not on the list) and it's

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2006-05-26 Thread Blair Campbell
2Blair: I wait your answer, how to upload archives to you. Every time I e-mail you, it bounces -- Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2006-05-25 Thread chris evans
Whats that for? --chris http://nxdos.sourceforge.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- All the advantages of Linux Managed Hosting--Without the Cost and Risk! Fully trained technicians. The highest number of Red Hat

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2006-05-25 Thread Escorter
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[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2005-08-02 Thread Jose Antonio Senna
Eric wrote: PPS: Acrobat/DOS can do PDF 1.1-almost1.2? Indeed old. But most current are 1.4 / 1.5? I do not think so. My up-to-1.3 acroread/Linux displays all files so far. Probably some companies thinking it is new so everybody must use it to force all others to use it as well, without thinking

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2004-08-03 Thread John Price
I have a machine that was using FreeDOS and the on board serial port as a terminal. The on board serial port died, and I need to put a serial PCI card in the machine (there are only PCI slots). Has anyone used a PCI serial card with FreeDOS with success? I have no experience with using PCI

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2004-07-24 Thread Oneiroid
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