Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

2015-06-06 Thread Ralf Quint
Well, seems the mystery about the openwatcom.org site is that they apparently moved the site(s) over to a server provided by Perforce, the company that has provided them with their version control system for years... Tried the site again a few minutes ago and it shows a short note about this

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

2015-05-26 Thread perditionc
I saw on another email, it is a known technical issue and being worked on. No estimate on resolution but confirmation not down on purpose. Jeremy -- One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

2015-05-26 Thread Ralf Quint
On 5/26/2015 11:41 AM, perditi...@gmail.com wrote: I saw on another email, it is a known technical issue and being worked on. No estimate on resolution but confirmation not down on purpose. Well, I looked around and couldn't find anything. So thanks, will see what happens... Ralf ---

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

2015-05-25 Thread Dale E Sterner
Don't under estimate the usefulness of DOS. When I was still working, the engineers tried to use windows to collect data fron sensors. After many tries they gave up and switched to DOS, which did a very nice job of it. One thing Freedos might do is make some changes so that it can compete with QNX

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

2015-05-24 Thread dmccunney
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 1:27 AM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 11:21 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com wrote: The big question is if OpenWatcom continues to be a viable option to be used

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

2015-05-24 Thread Arthur N. Dunning III
Speaking for myself, I'm hardly qualified to say whether Windows or Linux are reliable. I will only say that I prefer using Linux instead of Windows, particularly due to these Windows viruses I've been hearing about. As for FreeDOS, I will only say it allows me to use the New Deal Office Suite

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

2015-05-24 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 3:48 AM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 1:27 AM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: Dennis, once again, you're on the wrong mailing list if you're going to constantly harp on how obsolete and useless DOS is. Please learn to read.

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

2015-05-24 Thread Micheal Muniko
I've tried the DOS host. So far it doesn't work right. It can't read makefiles correctly and VI crashes when loading a file from command line. There are some more bugs but these are the ones that bother me personally. I've reported both bugs but I've haven't seen a reply yet.

[Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

2015-05-23 Thread Ralf Quint
Tried for the last 2 days now and can't neither reach the www.openwatcom.org web site nor the nntp server at news.openwatcom.org... Does anyone know what is going on with that site? I just hope that this not the result of the spat with Jiri's Open-Watcom 2.0 fork... :-\ Ralf --- This email

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

2015-05-23 Thread dmccunney
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com wrote: Tried for the last 2 days now and can't neither reach the www.openwatcom.org web site nor the nntp server at news.openwatcom.org... Does anyone know what is going on with that site? Seems to have been down for a while.

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

2015-05-23 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com wrote: Tried for the last 2 days now and can't neither reach the www.openwatcom.org web site nor the nntp server at news.openwatcom.org... Does anyone know what is going on with that site? No idea, but I thought I had

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

2015-05-23 Thread Ralf Quint
On 5/23/2015 4:09 PM, dmccunney wrote: On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com wrote: Tried for the last 2 days now and can't neither reach the www.openwatcom.org web site nor the nntp server at news.openwatcom.org... Does anyone know what is going on with that site?

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

2015-05-23 Thread Ralf Quint
On 5/23/2015 7:02 PM, Rugxulo wrote: Hi, On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com wrote: Tried for the last 2 days now and can't neither reach the www.openwatcom.org web site nor the nntp server at news.openwatcom.org... Does anyone know what is going on with that

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

2015-05-23 Thread dmccunney
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/23/2015 7:02 PM, Rugxulo wrote: Like Dennis said, there's an OW fork available on SourceForge, which does have 2.0-pre binaries (even for DOS), that was updated last month. That's the problem, going by all the

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

2015-05-23 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/23/2015 7:02 PM, Rugxulo wrote: But what's the problem? It's not like 1.9 disappeared. It's still mirrored in various places (not to mention iBiblio): Well, the source repository, with the latest daily/weekly

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

2015-05-23 Thread dmccunney
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/23/2015 8:12 PM, dmccunney wrote: The question is why Jiri forked the code, and how much he *cares* whether it works in FreeDOS. The changelog for his version lists a couple of things related to DOS. Hopeful.

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenWatcom unavailable!?!?!?!

2015-05-23 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 11:21 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com wrote: The big question is if OpenWatcom continues to be a viable option to be used with FreeDOS. If the official site would be down for good and