[Freedos-user] Do FreeDOS need a password program?

2005-03-16 Thread Fox
Hi all, How many of you are using (or wish using) a password program preventing strangers to run FreeDOS on your machine? I ask that, because personally I am using such program, and if there is more people having that need, it would be good to think about adding an utility like that into

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Question

2005-03-16 Thread Wesley Parish
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 01:34, Eric Auer wrote: Hi Theresa, snip FreeDos is legal, isn't it? FreeDOS is completely free and legal, written by volunteers all over the world. Even some of the GUIs are completely free and legal, while others are not free. The above should tell you that many people

RE: Re: [Freedos-user] XMS Manager on '286 (FreeDOS not ONLY for old PC)

2005-03-16 Thread AITOR SANTAMARIA MERINO
Sorry, I understood that you meant that there's no point in installing FreeDOS in a new machine, and I mentioned a possible situation. Aitor - Mensaje Original - Remitente: GNU_man [EMAIL PROTECTED] Destinatario: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Fecha: Martes, Marzo 15, 2005

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS not ONLY for old PC

2005-03-16 Thread Fox
On Wednesday 16 March 2005 09:53, AITOR SANTAMARIA MERINO wrote: Sorry, I understood that you meant that there's no point in installing FreeDOS in a new machine, and I mentioned a possible situation. There are even some DOS applications which needs a MORE powerful machine than a typical

Re: [Freedos-user] Do FreeDOS need a password program?

2005-03-16 Thread Christopher Evans
What type of password program is this to work like, or say from config.sys or autoexec.bat? There is http://bbx.flnet.org/nxdos/password.zip which just returns NZ error level for good password entry and designed to run from autoexec.bat and you can have it run reboot if errorlevel is 0. Fox

Re: [Freedos-user] Do FreeDOS need a password program?

2005-03-16 Thread Fox
On Wednesday 16 March 2005 10:31, Christopher Evans wrote: What type of password program is this to work like, or say from config.sys or autoexec.bat? There isn't any other way I think.. (optionally we can use a password program located in the MBR, but that isn't 'clean' I think... and it's

[Freedos-user] Re: FD-DOC wiki

2005-03-16 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I noticed that http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php has the questions from the normal FAQ system, but not the answers, copied over to the Wiki FAQ system copy. That will make people believe that there are many open questions, which causes either frustration if you want to get the answer

WordPerfect file format Was Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Question

2005-03-16 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Wesley Parish wrote: ... In relation to that, does anyone know where I can find the specifications of the native WordPerfect file format? And suchlike? I know O'Reilly's had something of the sort, and there might have been something similar published somewhere else - but I don't know where to

RES: [Freedos-user] FD-DOC wiki, was: Question

2005-03-16 Thread Carlos AB
Ok, It will be done. I'll point people to right direction (bugzilla) when it comes to bugs. Thanks. Carlos - -Mensagem original- - De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:freedos-user- - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Em nome de Michael Devore - Enviada em: terça-feira, 15 de março de 2005 22:43 - Para:

RES: [Freedos-user] Re: FD-DOC wiki

2005-03-16 Thread Carlos AB
Do you think it is a good thing to change from faqtrak to wiki ? The original specs idea, will be done. Carlos - -Mensagem original- - De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:freedos-user- - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Em nome de Eric Auer - Enviada em: quarta-feira, 16 de março de 2005 08:23 - Para:

Re: [Freedos-user] XMS Manager on '286 (FreeDOS not ONLY for old PC)

2005-03-16 Thread Charlie Wilkes
--- GNU_man [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reason I like using such a slow PC is that you can actually see the difference in performance between good code and sloppy code. On a more modern machine than my 286, a routine written in interpreted QBasic would appear to run no slower than my

Re: [Freedos-user] Do FreeDOS need a password program?

2005-03-16 Thread Christopher Evans
Well, I would be okay with the idea of donating the password program w/ source to the FreeDOS distro if you like, let me know. I supposed it should be reviewed to be sure of its function properly under FreeDOS. I would not prefer the MBR or even boot sector way of installing such

Re: WordPerfect file format Was Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Question

2005-03-16 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, A bit going too far offtopic, but *very* interesting (for me) at the same time. Any chance for the Lotus WordPro format? (LWP). After the plain and nice format of the Lotus AmiPro files (SAM), WordPro seems to have some sort of binary compressed format, that I have seen documented nowhere,