Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.3 RC2...

2020-03-23 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 5:46 PM Eric Auer wrote: > > what are the pros and cons of Links2, Dillo, Dillo Plus? Links2 is much newer, so presumably (main version, not "lite") has better SSL and graphics mode support. Probably much faster, too. ___

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.3 RC2...

2020-03-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi :-) Rugxulo: what are the pros and cons of Links2, Dillo, Dillo Plus? > DOSLFN [TSR] is probably your best bet (although there are other > alternatives). But LFNs don't work by default (except for DJGPP > stuff), so not everything supports it. Michael and others: For which tools would

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.3 RC2...

2020-03-22 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 6:44 AM wrote: > > I found a free packet driver and I'm testing both gopherus and Dillo. Very > nice programs. FreeDOS includes some others, but I forget the full list. There's quite a lot out there in the wild (maybe too much for us few volunteers!). If only

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.3 RC2...

2020-03-22 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 7:41 AM Eric Auer wrote: > > > One request, MS-DOS 6.22 has a tool called MSD. I like that the tool > > shows resources and memory and other useful debugging information. > > If someone can clone that clone that tool I'd be very appreciative. > >

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.3 RC2...

2020-03-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Michael, > One request, MS-DOS 6.22 has a tool called MSD. I like that the tool > shows resources and memory and other useful debugging information. > If someone can clone that clone that tool I'd be very appreciative. I think MSD had very mixed features, which specifically do you want?

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3 RC2 is available for download

2019-12-10 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jerome, > Instead of copying the ISO, they could just copy the package > directories directly to the HDD. True, but not everybody who lacks optical drives has the infrastructure to extract files from ISOs or diskimages installed. Of course some readme / howto would help :-) > But off the

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3 RC2 is available for download

2019-12-10 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi Eric, > Hi Jerome, thanks for your answers! :-) > It would be cool if it included the drivers for that > and a readme. Only so much fits on a floppy. With the basic tools required to partition and format, run the installer and perform some essential recovery tasks. It is getting kind of

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3 RC2 is available for download

2019-12-10 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jerome, thanks for your answers! Of course it would be cool if a live USB image would be automatically treated correctly by virtual computers, but I do not know how much or little a VMDK is needed. Pity that boot BIOS bugs are so different that one needs at least two boot style images to

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3 RC2 is available for download

2019-12-09 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi Eric, Some good questions in there. I know you already know most of the things I cover in this message. But, I felt I should simplify a lot of the details and go over it for those who may not know some of this stuff. > On Dec 9, 2019, at 7:42 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi! > > Thanks

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3 RC2 is available for download

2019-12-09 Thread David Griffith
My reply is at the bottom. Please put your reply there too. On Mon, 9 Dec 2019, Jim Hall wrote: We are still moving toward the FreeDOS 1.3 release.  FreeDOS 1.3 Release Candidate 2 is now available for download. Please help us test this new version! A big feature in FreeDOS 1.3 will be

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3 RC2 is available for download

2019-12-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Thanks for the announcements... I have some questions :-) If legacy avoids syslinux / memdisk, which computers can boot from CD but can not use syslinux / memdisk? And which computers can use syslinux / memdisk but can not boot from el torito (did you mean boot floppy image?) bootable CD?