Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos-user Digest, Vol 375, Issue 1, networking software
Am 18.07.2010 00:01, schrieb Mr Sensible: One of my projects on the back-burner is TcpLink that works the same way LapLink does, but over a TCP/IP network, needs DOS packet drivers to run, and uses WATTCP32 library. I have it successfully broadcasting its presence over the network but haven't really done anything further. I think this could be really useful. It is often a problem to exchange data between new computers and old machines, because interfaces like USB, LPT or serial port, a floppy drive or a CD/DVD drive don't exist on both of them. A program with an easy GUI like laplink that works over a crossover cable would be a real progress in my opinion. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos-user Digest, Vol 375, Issue 1, networking software
On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 12:52 +0200, Ulrich Hansen wrote: Am 18.07.2010 00:01, schrieb Mr Sensible: One of my projects on the back-burner is TcpLink that works the same way LapLink does, but over a TCP/IP network, needs DOS packet drivers to run, and uses WATTCP32 library. I have it successfully broadcasting its presence over the network but haven't really done anything further. I think this could be really useful. It is often a problem to exchange data between new computers and old machines, because interfaces like USB, LPT or serial port, a floppy drive or a CD/DVD drive don't exist on both of them. A program with an easy GUI like laplink that works over a crossover cable would be a real progress in my opinion. Well at least you've shown interest. Once I get my current set of projects out of the way I'll see what else I can do about this. Most likely, it'll be a DOS extender program - are there anyone out there still using 8086 hardware?! -- http://www.munted.org.uk One very high maintenance cat living here. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] ANSiMat - a graphical viewer of ANSI files.
Hi there! Just wanted to announce that today I finished my latest project - ANSiMat. How is that related to FreeDOS? Well, ANSiMat is a DOS application :) ANSiMat is a graphical viewer of ANSI files (if you don't know what ANSI files are about, then don't waste your time here - ANSiMat will be worthless to you anyway). It can also be used to convert ANSI files into regular (BMP) graphic files. ANSiMat is available not only for DOS, but also for Linux and Windows. ANSiMat supports modem emulation speed, therefore it can be used to display ANSI animations. ANSiMat is an opensource project, released under the GNU/GPL license. Here is the homepage of ANSiMat: gopher://gopher.viste-family.net/1/projects/ansimat/ And here I posted a little gallery, which demonstrate what ANSiMat can achieve: gopher://gopher.viste-family.net/1/projects/ansimat/ansigallery/ Best regards, Mateusz Viste -- You'll find my public OpenPGP key at http://www.viste-family.net/mateusz/pub_key signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] How to Disk-Controller Firmware From FreeDOS?
Of all the crazy things in the world... I've got a Silicon Mechanics storage unit, with nineteen 2TB WD drives that need to have their firmware updated, and I've got the update: yup, an MSDOS executable file. The storage unit, itself, runs a modified version of Linux, with the 2.6.27 kernel, from Open-E. I thought about booting the SM unit from FreeDOS on a USB thumb drive, but the 3ware RAID card is in the way :( So, I burned the FreeDOS/1.0 image onto a CDROM on a spare cluster node (after first pulling the node's hard drive and replacing it with one of the storage unit's RAID drives) -- worked fine. However, I found that FreeDOS/1.0 doesn't support USB (other than as boot devices) :( How to access and run the disk-firmware update executable? I thought about patching the FreeDOS/1.0 image (that is, including the firmware-update executable so that it will be available after booting), but I have no idea how to do it. Advice? Suggestions? Instructions? I'm listening... -- JONATHAN B. HOREN Systems Administrator UAF Life Science Informatics Center for Research Services (907) 474-2742 jbho...@alaska.edu http://biotech.inbre.alaska.edu -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] How to Disk-Controller Firmware From FreeDOS?
inserting the file you want in the image is an option, if it fits... The normal way is to create a floppy with a CD driver, test it, use it a boot image and write the files as normal CD content. After boot the cd driver will have been loaded and the CD content will be available as D: (or whatever x:) Alain Em 19-07-2010 18:01, Jonathan B. Horen escreveu: Of all the crazy things in the world... I've got a Silicon Mechanics storage unit, with nineteen 2TB WD drives that need to have their firmware updated, and I've got the update: yup, an MSDOS executable file. The storage unit, itself, runs a modified version of Linux, with the 2.6.27 kernel, from Open-E. I thought about booting the SM unit from FreeDOS on a USB thumb drive, but the 3ware RAID card is in the way :( So, I burned the FreeDOS/1.0 image onto a CDROM on a spare cluster node (after first pulling the node's hard drive and replacing it with one of the storage unit's RAID drives) -- worked fine. However, I found that FreeDOS/1.0 doesn't support USB (other than as boot devices) :( How to access and run the disk-firmware update executable? I thought about patching the FreeDOS/1.0 image (that is, including the firmware-update executable so that it will be available after booting), but I have no idea how to do it. Advice? Suggestions? Instructions? I'm listening... -- JONATHAN B. HOREN Systems Administrator UAF Life Science Informatics Center for Research Services (907) 474-2742 jbho...@alaska.edu mailto:jbho...@alaska.edu http://biotech.inbre.alaska.edu -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
