Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS program/beginner's problems

2015-02-10 Thread Rugxulo
Hi again, On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik fra...@hanzlici.cz wrote: I'm trying to write a small program that will distinguish whether running under dosemu/FreeDOS or not, and accordingly do other things. I'm

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS program/beginner's problems

2015-02-10 Thread Ralf Quint
On 2/10/2015 5:34 PM, Rugxulo wrote: I perform Dosemu detection according to instruction and example in this old FreeDOS maillist thread: http://marc.info/?l=freedos-devm=88425176918117w=2 I know you sent similar e-mail about mixed environments in the past. Normally you wouldn't want to split

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS program/beginner's problems

2015-02-10 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik fra...@hanzlici.cz wrote: I'm trying to write a small program that will distinguish whether running under dosemu/FreeDOS or not, and accordingly do other things. I'm not under Linux right now, so I can't double check, but just FYI, here's

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS program/beginner's problems

2015-02-10 Thread Ralf Quint
On 2/10/2015 3:38 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: Ralf Quint wrote: On 2/9/2015 7:57 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: Pointers and things around them are for me still a little incomprehensible ;) If you want to program in C, then there is no way around it. For almost everything, and in particular

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS program/beginner's problems

2015-02-10 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Ralf Quint wrote: On 2/9/2015 7:57 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: Hi Eric, thanks for help, Eric Auer wrote: Hi Franta, struct dosemu_detect { char magic[8]; unsigned char ver[4]; }; static struct dosemu_detect far *p = (void far*)

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS program/beginner's problems

2015-02-10 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Franta, I got the impression that string declared as char mystring[]=$DOSEMU$; is in memory stored as null-terminated string. This does not help you: The OTHER string STARTS with $DOSEMU$, but is NOT null terminated, so both strings still differ. Unless you explicitly say you only

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS program/beginner's problems

2015-02-10 Thread Ralf Quint
On 2/10/2015 4:04 PM, Eric Auer wrote: Hi Franta, I got the impression that string declared as char mystring[]=$DOSEMU$; is in memory stored as null-terminated string. This does not help you: The OTHER string STARTS with $DOSEMU$, but is NOT null terminated, so both strings still differ.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS NIC Card problem

2015-02-10 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 9:27 PM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote: I have an HP Elite 8000 with an Intel 82567LM-3 Pro 1000 ethernet card. After loading the sequence of drivers (LSL, E1000odi IPXodi and odipkt) I am able to acquire an address and ping successfully. But when I try to

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS program/beginner's problems

2015-02-10 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Eric Auer wrote: Hi Franta, I got the impression that string declared as char mystring[]=$DOSEMU$; is in memory stored as null-terminated string. This does not help you: The OTHER string STARTS with $DOSEMU$, but is NOT null terminated, so both strings still differ. Unless you

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS NIC Card problem

2015-02-09 Thread Don Flowers
I have an HP Elite 8000 with an Intel 82567LM-3 Pro 1000 ethernet card. After loading the sequence of drivers (LSL, E1000odi IPXodi and odipkt) I am able to acquire an address and ping successfully. But when I try to FDNPKG install a FreeDOS pkg, I get the following error: PKT-ERROR: Unsupported

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS program/beginner's problems

2015-02-09 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Hi Eric, thanks for help, Eric Auer wrote: Hi Franta, struct dosemu_detect { char magic[8]; unsigned char ver[4]; }; static struct dosemu_detect far *p = (void far*) 0xF000FFE0; Note that the way how you create far pointers can differ

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS program/beginner's problems

2015-02-09 Thread Ralf Quint
On 2/9/2015 7:57 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: Hi Eric, thanks for help, Eric Auer wrote: Hi Franta, struct dosemu_detect { char magic[8]; unsigned char ver[4]; }; static struct dosemu_detect far *p = (void far*) 0xF000FFE0; Note that

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS program/beginner's problems

2015-02-08 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Hi all, I'm trying to write a small program that will distinguish whether running under dosemu/FreeDOS or not, and accordingly do other things. I ran into problems which I can not solve, so please, if someone here will be able to help. I'm using Open Watcom C 1.9 compiler on FreeDOS 1.1. And it

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS program/beginner's problems

2015-02-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Franta, struct dosemu_detect { char magic[8]; unsigned char ver[4]; }; static struct dosemu_detect far *p = (void far*) 0xF000FFE0; Note that the way how you create far pointers can differ between compilers. In particular, with any 32 bit

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS install aborted into VirtualBox - Help please

2015-02-01 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Knute, Can you help, please?... I finally installed FreeDOS into VirtualBox, except at the very end of the install instead of the window where the instructions say Now we boot FreeDOS in our virtual machine (select 1)... instead of that the DOS window says Bad or missing Command

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS SVN 2041 and/or SVN 2042 (FcbParsename)

2015-02-01 Thread Don Flowers
aah - that is what was wrong! I didn't have either of those (openwatcom and NASM) I think I can get there now. Thanks! On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 9:59 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote: How would I go about

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS install aborted into VirtualBox - Help please

2015-01-31 Thread Knute Myhrvold
Can you help, please?... I finally installed FreeDOS into VirtualBox, except at the very end of the install instead of the window where the instructions say Now we boot FreeDOS in our virtual machine (select 1)... instead of that the DOS window says Bad or missing Command Interpreter:

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS SVN 2041 and/or SVN 2042 (FcbParsename)

2015-01-31 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote: How would I go about compiling a FAT 16 kernel with the same patch - or do Messrs. Rugxulo or Davis have one already compiled. I am working on my own rendition of Carbon OS and need it for a lab experiment. Thank you.

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS SVN 2041 and/or SVN 2042 (FcbParsename)

2015-01-30 Thread Don Flowers
How would I go about compiling a FAT 16 kernel with the same patch - or do Messrs. Rugxulo or Davis have one already compiled. I am working on my own rendition of Carbon OS and need it for a lab experiment. Thank you. Donald Flowers

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 2.0 GUI

2015-01-21 Thread Georg Potthast
Tom wrote: I don't think I ever got to use or try out FLTK, don't know what I'd do with it given FreeDOS's severe limitations on my modern hardware This applies to FreeDOS in general. However, FreeDOS works for me on all PCs I have available here in the family or in the office. Some have Windows

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 2.0 GUI

2015-01-20 Thread Christopher Evans
features than a single person could implement and can be used as an alternative to GTK. My XFDOS distro is based on FLTK for DOS. Georg Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 09:09:40 +0100 From: Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 2.0 GUI? To: Discussion and general

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 2.0 GUI?

2015-01-20 Thread Thomas Mueller
There is a free XServer and Client for DOS: Nano-X which I ported to DOS: https://code.google.com/p/nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/ Since programming on the X11 level is not common today, you rather use GTK or Qt, I also ported the FLTK GUI to DOS. This GUI has far more features than

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 2.0 GUI

2015-01-19 Thread Georg Potthast
a single person could implement and can be used as an alternative to GTK. My XFDOS distro is based on FLTK for DOS. Georg Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 09:09:40 +0100 From: Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 2.0 GUI? To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 2.0 GUI?

2015-01-19 Thread Don Flowers
It would be interesting to see a command interpreter like freecom/command.com with some basic GUI elements added to it. A menu bar with mouse support, clock, scroll bar perhaps... Does something like this exist? I have been testing an ansi enhancer called ansiplus. I have a Compaq Armada 1700

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 2.0 GUI?

2015-01-19 Thread TJ Edmister
It would be interesting to see a command interpreter like freecom/command.com with some basic GUI elements added to it. A menu bar with mouse support, clock, scroll bar perhaps... Does something like this exist? I saw something similar on an Atari 800XL with a variant of SpartaDOS. At the

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 2.0 GUI?

2015-01-19 Thread Bret Johnson
It would be interesting to see a command interpreter like freecom/command.com with some basic GUI elements added to it. A menu bar with mouse support, clock, scroll bar perhaps... Does something like this exist? There are some separate DOS utilities that provide most of these functions,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 2.0 GUI?

2015-01-18 Thread Christopher Evans
I should get my vp2os3 dos menu shell recompiled and working again. It kinda looks like win95 in text mode. -- -Chris Evans Computer Consultant, Systems Administrator, Programmer, PC technician Digitalatoll Solutions Group (Tawhaki Software) Cell. : 916-612-6904 |

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS 2.0 GUI?

2015-01-18 Thread Don Flowers
Is anyone working on a functional GUI for FreeDOS? I currently use Windows 3.1 as I do consider it to be a gui and not an operating system and it is about 90 percent functional. It would be nice to have a completely open source OS though.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 2.0 GUI?

2015-01-18 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Don, Is anyone working on a functional GUI for FreeDOS? I currently use Windows 3.1 as I do consider it to be a gui and not an operating system and it is about 90 percent functional. It would be nice to have a completely open source OS though. Windows is much more than a GUI. There are

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 2.0 GUI?

2015-01-18 Thread Don Flowers
Hi Eric, Windows is much more than a GUI. There are also 1000s of programs which need Windows (even Windows 3) to function. If you would make a new GUI for DOS, it would not allow you to keep using all those Windows programs. I have no problem running W31, for those programs that I still own

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 2.0 GUI?

2015-01-18 Thread Jim Hall
Is anyone working on a functional GUI for FreeDOS? I currently use Windows 3.1 as I do consider it to be a gui and not an operating system and it is about 90 percent functional. It would be nice to have a completely open source OS though. [...] There are several free open source GUIs for

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS repo inaccessible

2015-01-17 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hi list, As I wrote before, the issue that some of you encounter IS an issue on ibiblio's side. Sometimes, they decide to allow HTTP directory listings, and sometimes not. This is not anything new, since I have observed this behaviour for many months now. There is no point in fiddling with

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS repo inaccessible

2015-01-17 Thread Jim Hall
Thanks Mateusz! I'll open a support ticket with ibiblio with this information. They may not be aware of the problem. On Jan 17, 2015 2:21 AM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote: Hi list, As I wrote before, the issue that some of you encounter IS an issue on ibiblio's side. Sometimes, they

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS repo inaccessible

2015-01-16 Thread Jim Hall
You might want to check it again. It seems to be working here. I suspect I ibiblio was having a minor problem or undergoing maintenance. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/repos/ On Thursday, January 15, 2015, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All~

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS repo inaccessible

2015-01-16 Thread Mateusz Viste
Actually, I suspect ibiblio to perform some load balancing on their servers, so when connecting to ibiblio, we don't land on the same server every time. Apparently, they disabled directories indexing on some of their servers, but not others... I do get this forbidden error from time to time

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS repo inaccessible

2015-01-16 Thread Don Flowers
I found another way in via this link: ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repos/ (paste into your browser address bar) On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote: Actually, I suspect ibiblio to perform some load balancing on their servers, so when

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS repo inaccessible

2015-01-16 Thread Ralf Quint
On 1/16/2015 11:02 AM, Don Flowers wrote: Well, I cleared my history, deleted cookies and have the same result. Oddly, In FreeDOS, FDNPKG works and I just tried DilloDOS and I have access, so it must be a FireFox issue? Negative. Works here just fine,using Firefox 35.0 on Windows 8.1/64...

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS repo inaccessible

2015-01-16 Thread Jim Hall
Interesting that ftp.ibiblio.org works for you, but not www.ibiblio.org. These are both the same server, just different DNS entries. I'm guessing some cache problem is causing this - whether that's at ibiblio's end (load balancer) or your end (Firefox) I'm not sure. $ host www.ibiblio.org

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS repo inaccessible

2015-01-16 Thread Don Flowers
Could this be a linux issue? I installed a couple of different browsers (Chrome and Qupzilla on two different machines and I have the same result On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote: that is curious On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Jim Hall jh...@freedos.org

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS repo inaccessible

2015-01-16 Thread Ralf Quint
On 1/16/2015 5:36 PM, Don Flowers wrote: Could this be a linux issue? I installed a couple of different browsers (Chrome and Qupzilla on two different machines and I have the same result Not per se. Just for the record, I tried Opera 26 and the latest Chrome on my Windows 8.1 laptop as

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS repo inaccessible

2015-01-16 Thread Jim Hall
On 1/16/2015 5:36 PM, Don Flowers wrote: Could this be a linux issue? I installed a couple of different browsers (Chrome and Qupzilla on two different machines and I have the same result Unlikely to be a Linux issue, as I run Linux on my laptop and didn't have access issues.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS repo inaccessible

2015-01-16 Thread Christopher Evans
wondering if I should mirror that on my servers? -- -Chris Evans Computer Consultant, Systems Administrator, Programmer, PC technician Digitalatoll Solutions Group (Tawhaki Software) Cell. : 916-612-6904 | http://www.tawhakisoft.slyip.net/ http://www.tawhakisoft.com/ Office: 916-382-9395 |

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS repo inaccessible

2015-01-16 Thread Jim Hall
I wonder if this is a home network problem, since the issue was Every computer in the house (non networked) gives the .. error. I'd take a laptop to a coffeeshop and test if you can access ibiblio from there. -- New Year.

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS repo inaccessible

2015-01-15 Thread Don Flowers
Hi All~ I am having difficulty accessing the FreeDOS ibiblio.org repo. Every computer in the house (non networked) gives the following error Forbidden You don't have permission to access /pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/repos/ on this server. --

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS repo inaccessible

2015-01-15 Thread Carl Spitzer
comes up 404 for me in California. Whats up?? CWSIV On Thu, 2015-01-15 at 15:06 -0500, Don Flowers wrote: Hi All~ I am having difficulty accessing the FreeDOS ibiblio.org repo. Every computer in the house (non networked) gives the following error Forbidden You don't have permission to

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS repo inaccessible

2015-01-15 Thread Louis Santillan
Works for me in CA On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 7:53 PM, Carl Spitzer cw...@safe-mail.net wrote: comes up 404 for me in California. Whats up?? CWSIV On Thu, 2015-01-15 at 15:06 -0500, Don Flowers wrote: Hi All~ I am having difficulty accessing the FreeDOS ibiblio.org repo. Every computer

[Freedos-user] freedos invalid cdrom

2015-01-10 Thread renatogallo
I am trying to upgrade the bios on my laptop but everytime I try to burn the image it cannot find my sata cdrom. Is there anyone out there that can give me a working iso with sata drives and explain where I have to put the bios.exe inside the iso ?

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

2015-01-08 Thread john s wolter
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] [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.2 and 2.0 roadmap discussion

2015-01-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Tom, others, Now the new multi-TB hard drives have 4096-byte physical sectors, at least some of them try to act as if sector size were 512 bytes. virtually ALL disks act as having 512 byte sectors, even if they have internally 4096 byte ('advanced format'). ... only recently 4kn

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

2015-01-08 Thread Tom Ehlert
Now the new multi-TB hard drives have 4096-byte physical sectors, at least some of them try to act as if sector size were 512 bytes. virtually ALL disks act as having 512 byte sectors, even if they have internally 4096 byte ('advanced format'). search for '4K native' drives, and you will see

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

2015-01-07 Thread Bret Johnson
Now the new multi-TB hard drives have 4096-byte physical sectors, at least some of them try to act as if sector size were 512 bytes. They can only do that if they are less than 2 TB. If bigger than that, they require GPT and don't even try to emulate 512-byte sectors. The emulation also

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

2015-01-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Bertho Grandpied: Regarding the next FreeDOS 1.2 and possible later 1.x releases, I'd like to see the kernel upgraded to supporting large sector sizes, rather than hear fantasies about '32 bit FreeDOS' ! As far as the 16-bitty-FreeDOS kernel is concerned, it's been clearly stated that

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website changes

2014-12-19 Thread Corbin Davenport
It looks much better, but the layout seems to be a bit odd on mobile (see http://imgur.com/oi2voVx). I have some free time later today, I could make a snippet of CSS to make it a bit more responsive/fluid for smaller screens. Sent using CloudMagic On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:04 PM, Jim Hall

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website changes

2014-12-19 Thread Jim Hall
Oops. I may have dropped the css section that uses a smaller logo on small/mobile screens. That prevents the artifacts you see here. I'll put that back over the break. Thanks for pointing that out. Also over the break, I'll make the Welcome section easier to read, especially on mobile. On Dec 19,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS website changes

2014-12-19 Thread Jim Hall
FYI, if you want to send me files, send them to me off list. On Dec 19, 2014 7:31 AM, Jim Hall jh...@freedos.org wrote: Oops. I may have dropped the css section that uses a smaller logo on small/mobile screens. That prevents the artifacts you see here. I'll put that back over the break. Thanks

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS website changes

2014-12-18 Thread Jim Hall
Hi all! Just a quick note to let everyone know about some changes to the FreeDOS website. I've been working on improving the FreeDOS website, and tonight I started making the first user-visible changes. Up until now, the changes have been pretty minor, and probably invisible to most folks (some

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS article for freiesMagazin

2014-11-09 Thread dos386
it's better this way https://mistranslate.google.com Unfortunately the thing sometimes negates statements, reverses the causality, or performs other funny tweaks. Especially useful for crucial legal texts :-) PS: Thanks to Christian

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS article for freiesMagazin

2014-11-06 Thread Christian Imhorst
Hi all, maybe you like to know that I wrote an article about FreeDOS Totgesagte leben länger for the current issue of freiesMagazin: http://www.freiesmagazin.de/20141102-novemberausgabe-erschienen freiesMagazin.de is a free - under CC-BY-SA-4.0 international license - online magazine for

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS article for freiesMagazin

2014-11-06 Thread Jim Hall
-- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS article for freiesMagazin

2014-11-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Christian Imhorst christian.imho...@gmail.com wrote: maybe you like to know that I wrote an article about FreeDOS Totgesagte leben länger for the current issue of freiesMagazin: http://www.freiesmagazin.de/20141102-novemberausgabe-erschienen Cool. Nice

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-10-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 8:57 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Dale E Sterner sunbeam...@juno.com wrote: Just heard about LaTeX here and being curious, just want to understand - It's worth learning about, but DOS is the wrong place to do it.

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-10-05 Thread Dale E Sterner
thanks for the reply cheers DS On Sat, 4 Oct 2014 21:57:26 -0400 dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Dale E Sterner sunbeam...@juno.com wrote: Just heard about LaTeX here and being curious, just want to understand - learn more about it. I use DOS

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-10-04 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Dale E Sterner sunbeam...@juno.com wrote: Thanks for the links update - very useful. Especially ghost 5 for dos. Maybe that's exactly what you want, but I highly doubt it. GhostScript hasn't been directly supported on DOS in years and years. I don't know

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-10-04 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, (I'm late replying again!) On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Krys Garnett krys.garn...@gmail.com wrote: I'm resurrecting an old desktop for a distraction free environment So? Any updates you can tell us? How has it been going? and I'm wondering whether it is easier or more useful to use

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-10-04 Thread Dale E Sterner
Just heard about LaTeX here and being curious, just want to understand - learn more about it. I use DOS Wordperfect 6.2 for most everything, just wonder if LaTeX can do more. Looks like its a script language like HTML that has to be compiled to a PS file then converted to pdf by ghost. cheers DS.

[Freedos-user] freedos 1.1 and xen

2014-09-30 Thread wch-t...@house-grp.net
Hello, I have a host machine (Dom0) running OpenSUSE xen kernel version 3.11.10-21.1. I am using the xl tool stack to the extent I can. I have installed freedos as a guest. I am encountering errors such as Error reading from drive C: DOS area: write-protection violation attempted (A)bort,

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-09-25 Thread Dale E Sterner
Is there a DOS-english version of LaTeX left to download from anywhere. cheers DS On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:25:58 -0400 dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Dale E Sterner sunbeam...@juno.com wrote: Tried your provided link. The links on that page,

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-09-23 Thread Dale E Sterner
Thanks for the links update - very useful. Especially ghost 5 for dos. cheers DS On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:25:58 -0400 dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Dale E Sterner sunbeam...@juno.com wrote: Tried your provided link. The links on that page, no

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos packages

2014-09-23 Thread sparky4
okies~ wait the update package is made already? -- View this message in context: http://freedos.10956.n7.nabble.com/freedos-packages-tp21137p21149.html Sent from the FreeDOS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-09-22 Thread Angel M Alganza
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 09:48:28PM +0100, Krys Garnett wrote: [...] It's primarily for academic writing, so decent support for footnotes, endnotes and tables is [...] Nothing beats LaTeX for academic and scientific writing! http://freedos.gds.tuwien.ac.at/freedos/news/technote/106.html

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-09-22 Thread Dale E Sterner
Tried your provided link. The links on that page, no longer seem to be valid. cheers DS On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:24:04 +0200 Angel M Alganza a...@ugr.es writes: On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 09:48:28PM +0100, Krys Garnett wrote: [...] It's primarily for academic writing, so decent support for

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-09-22 Thread dmccunney
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Dale E Sterner sunbeam...@juno.com wrote: Tried your provided link. The links on that page, no longer seem to be valid. The first one, to dante.de, is broken for the English language page, which doesn't seem to exist now. The German site is up at

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-09-22 Thread Louis Santillan
Simtel is mirrored at Archive.org [0][1]. [0] https://archive.org/details/simtelnet_bu_mirror_2013_04 [1] http://ia601702.us.archive.org/zipview.php?zip=/18/items/simtelnet_bu_mirror_2013_04/simtelnet.bu.mirror.2013.04.zip On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 2:25 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com

Re: [Freedos-user] [Freedos-devel] MouseKeys (was Getting Started)

2014-09-20 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Eddie Anderson and my previous post: Thomas Mueller wrote: Many motherboards nowadays have a single PS/2 port than can be used for a mouse or keyboard but not both simultaneously. Interesting. I did not know that. I know that from frequenting tigerdirect.com , also motherboard

[Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-09-14 Thread Krys Garnett
Hi, I'm resurrecting an old desktop for a distraction free environment and I'm wondering whether it is easier or more useful to use Freedos or MS DOS 6.22, which I have the original 3.5 disks for. The system is a Tandon 386SX, 8mb RAM, 512mb HD, 3.5 and 5.25 floppy drives, no USB, no CD-ROM, but

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-09-14 Thread Zbigniew
2014-09-14 22:48 GMT+02:00, Krys Garnett krys.garn...@gmail.com: Hi, I'm resurrecting an old desktop for a distraction free environment and I'm wondering whether it is easier or more useful to use Freedos or MS DOS 6.22, which I have the original 3.5 disks for. The system is a Tandon 386SX,

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-09-14 Thread John R. Sowden
On 09/14/2014 01:48 PM, Krys Garnett wrote: Hi, I'm resurrecting an old desktop for a distraction free environment and I'm wondering whether it is easier or more useful to use Freedos or MS DOS 6.22, which I have the original 3.5 disks for. The system is a Tandon 386SX, 8mb RAM, 512mb HD,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Install HOWTO does not take you to HOWTO

2014-08-01 Thread Jim Hall
Oops. Thanks for pointing that out. We moved the wiki to www.freedos.org/wiki and I did not remember to update this link. I'll do this tomorrow when I'm home from vacation. On Jul 29, 2014 2:54 PM, Jaroslav Beran jaroslav.be...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, FreeDOS Install HOWTO link on main page

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS Install HOWTO does not take you to HOWTO

2014-07-29 Thread Jaroslav Beran
Hello, FreeDOS Install HOWTO link on main page http://www.freedos.org/ does not take you to HOWTO. Jarda -- Infragistics Professional Build stunning WinForms apps today! Reboot your WinForms applications with our

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos on 86Duino

2014-07-22 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, sorry for late reply, On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 5:09 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Dinosaur j...@tubejoiners.com wrote: I have searched without success to see if I can enable some sort of Boot.log file which records all the boot steps and

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos on 86Duino

2014-07-22 Thread dmccunney
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: The closest thing I can recall is a TSR called PERUSE that captures stuff written to video memory, and can capture the messages various things wrote during the boot process. Records during bootup itself? As in BIOS messages?

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wiki updated

2014-07-13 Thread dos386
Hi The FreeDOS wiki has now been moved! The wiki now lives at http://www.freedos.org/wiki YES, it's there ... there is only one edit for this year (2014-Jan-18) and only 5 edits during 2013: www.freedos.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:RecentChangesdays=1000hidebots=0 Could I have edit

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS featured on Ars Technica

2014-07-03 Thread Michael B. Brutman
A little more notoriety ... http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/07/dos-boot-ars-spends-a-day-working-in-freedos/ I don't regularly check Ars Technica. I was alerted by the sound of my PCjr happily beeping away at an increased rate; the PCjr is running the mTCP web server as an

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS featured on Ars Technica

2014-07-03 Thread Jim Hall
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Michael B. Brutman mbbrut...@brutman.com wrote: A little more notoriety ... http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/07/dos-boot-ars-spends-a-day-working-in-freedos/ I don't regularly check Ars Technica. I was alerted by the sound of my PCjr

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS is 20 years old!

2014-06-30 Thread Jim Hall
In a June 29, 1994 post https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.msdos.apps/oQmT4ETcSzU/O1HR8PE2u-EJ to USENET, we announced a public domain DOS which later became the FreeDOS Project: Announcing the first effort to produce a PD-DOS. I have written up a 'manifest' describing the goals of such a

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS is 20 years old!

2014-06-30 Thread Dennis Holierhoek
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[Freedos-user] FreeDOS wiki updated

2014-06-16 Thread Jim Hall
Hi all If you have an account on SourceForge, you probably know that SourceForge is shutting down the hosted mediawiki service on June 19. We use the hosted mediawiki for our FreeDOS wiki, so I needed to move the FreeDOS wiki files elsewhere before this Thursday. The FreeDOS wiki has now been

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos on 86Duino

2014-06-15 Thread dmccunney
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Dinosaur j...@tubejoiners.com wrote: I have searched without success to see if I can enable some sort of Boot.log file which records all the boot steps and results. Is there such a thing ? The closest thing I can recall is a TSR called PERUSE that captures

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos on 86Duino

2014-05-17 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Dinosaur j...@tubejoiners.com wrote: Hi All Long time user of FreeDos on CFC in Industrial environment. Long time user of FreeBasic in the same environment. Retired and experimenting with a new device. Yes, I recognize your nickname from FreeBASIC's

[Freedos-user] FreeDos on 86Duino

2014-05-16 Thread Dinosaur
Hi All Long time user of FreeDos on CFC in Industrial environment. Long time user of FreeBasic in the same environment. Retired and experimenting with a new device. Have recently purchased an 86Duino in the form of EduCake. Basically an x86 with breadboard on top. Fairly new product using a

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS store

2014-03-26 Thread Jim Hall
On Mar 26, 2014 10:08 PM, Chris Evans aaxiomfin...@gmail.com wrote: regarding the freedos store on zazzle is it better than cafepress.com? i choose cafepress for my 8bit ascii chart mouse pad, becuase they have good item editor and also give flash sale coupons . We used to have a store on Cafe

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS links page

2014-03-08 Thread dos386
Hi I just visited every link on the FreeDOS Links page, and fixed/removed these Thanks ... drdos.org is still commented out despite it works again ... it just redirects elsewhere (and is sometimes lazy). -- Subversion

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos repository is down

2014-02-21 Thread dmccunney
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 8:54 AM, sparky4 spar...@cock.li wrote: i cannot connect to ibiblio.org ! Works fine here. Looks like the problem may be on your end. What does a traceroute on 152.19.134.40 return? __ Dennis

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos repository is down

2014-02-21 Thread Jim Hall
On Feb 21, 2014 7:54 AM, sparky4 spar...@cock.li wrote: i cannot connect to ibiblio.org ! -- I am able to connect to http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/ as of 8:15am US/Central time. Perhaps this was a momentary outage, or they were doing maintenance?

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS links page

2014-01-21 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, just for clarity, On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Jim Hall jh...@freedos.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 10:23 AM, dos386 dos...@gmail.com wrote: 3. http://www.freedos.org/links/ many links are DEAD or have issues : - RAR for MS-DOS (better link to UNRAR DGJPP port?) I left the

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS links page

2014-01-14 Thread Jim Hall
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 10:23 AM, dos386 dos...@gmail.com wrote: [...] 1. for years until now I've been having issues with http://users.ohiohills.com/fmacall/ ... worx or not depending from what location or using what proxy I access it Interesting site, but I don't have this listed on the

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos boot on UEFI System

2014-01-12 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, You'll probably have to run FreeDOS under some kind of emulator or hypervisor, e.g. VirtualBox, atop your native host OS (Windows?). https://www.virtualbox.org/ On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Giovanni giovanni.ne...@yahoo.com wrote: I have a notebook Asus X501A. It's a UEFI System, I

[Freedos-user] Freedos boot on UEFI System

2014-01-11 Thread Giovanni
Hello, I have a notebook Asus X501A. It's a UEFI System, I have download a iso image FreeDos 1.1 but it's not ready for UEFI System, there is only isolinux directory but not efi. Is there a way for boot FreeDos on UEFI system? I'm not searching signed boot (on my system is disabled) from pure

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos won't load.

2013-12-26 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: You probably have FreeDOS on your Acer Revo because Acer wanted to sell a complete PC so you can see that everything works. And they probably did not want to spend money for Windows or effort to fine-tune Linux for the Revo.

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos won't load.

2013-12-26 Thread Mateusz Viste
Still, it seems that at least some series are shipped with FreeDOS: http://www.acerdirect.co.uk/Acer_Revo_Nettop_Celeron_887_4GB_750GB_Shared_No_Opt_WiFi__Free_Dos_DT.SMCEK.003/version.asp As Eric said, FreeDOS is probably only used as an easy way of checking that the machine works (or boots,

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