Re: [Freedos-user] 4th-Grade English.

2011-10-27 Thread Mark Littlejohn
The way this post has degenerated I think demonstrates exactly what the original poster was trying to say. Somehow the replies became fixed on his comment about use of language. I think what he was really trying to get at is the lack of being able to support a point of view from a logically

Re: [Freedos-user] 4th-Grade English.

2011-10-27 Thread Jack
Mark, The way this post has degenerated I think demonstrates exactly what the original poster was trying to say ... Logic and analysis should be able to be demonstrated regardless of the language abilities of the poster. My error, to have titled this thread 4th-Grade English, which did get

[Freedos-user] *** HEAR YE, HEAR YE *** (FREEDOS 1.1 NEEDS A HELP-FILE CORRECTION.)

2011-10-27 Thread Mark Brown
THE HELP-COMMAND SCREEN FILE HAS IMPROVED WELL. BUT IT STILL NEEDS ONE THING: UNDER THE TOPIC SHELL AND SHELLHIGH, THE SWITCHES /F and /MSG NEED TO BE DOCUMENTED, SO PEOPLE DON'T HAVE TO FIDDLE WITH THE SWITCHES TO SEE HOW THEY WORK. (as of now they're undocumented in the whole helpfile.)  

Re: [Freedos-user] *** HEAR YE, HEAR YE *** (FREEDOS 1.1 NEEDS A HELP-FILE CORRECTION.)

2011-10-27 Thread Tom Ehlert
Hi, THE HELP-COMMAND SCREEN FILE HAS IMPROVED WELL. BUT IT STILL NEEDS ONE THING: UNDER THE TOPIC SHELL AND SHELLHIGH, THE SWITCHES /F and /MSG NEED TO BE DOCUMENTED, SO PEOPLE DON'T HAVE TO FIDDLE WITH THE SWITCHES TO SEE HOW THEY WORK. both are related to the non-XMS-swapping

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Security

2011-10-27 Thread Single Stage to Orbit
On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 21:49 -0500, Michael B. Brutman wrote: So what is it that you are trying to do? If you are just going to have a DOS machine in your house to play network Doom, then don't worry, you don't have security problems. If you are going to do something else network related

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Security

2011-10-27 Thread Ulrich Hansen
There is already a SSH project at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sshdos/ ssh2dos is working great for me. I really like to login into Debian with a DOS client... Am 27.10.2011 um 18:22 schrieb Single Stage to Orbit: On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 21:49 -0500, Michael B. Brutman wrote: So what

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Security

2011-10-27 Thread Jim Hall
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Ulrich Hansen uhan...@mainz-online.de wrote: There is already a SSH project at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sshdos/ ssh2dos is working great for me. I really like to login into Debian with a DOS client... Can we expect mSSH in the works any time soon?

[Freedos-user] Failure of Print-Screen (Screenshot) in Freedos Depending on How Full Screen was Entered

2011-10-27 Thread Robert J. Thompson
For your information (no longer a problem) Assume I am on Ubuntu Desktop. Then use terminal command sudo dosemu. A small (approx. 2 by 4) window appears. I usually go to full screen in 2 ways: (1) click in the box in upper right, corner; or (2). use the CTRL-ALT-F key combination. The

Re: [Freedos-user] Failure of Print-Screen (Screenshot) in Freedos Depending on How Full Screen was Entered

2011-10-27 Thread Jim Hall
[...] When I exit Dosemu to Ubuntu having used Method (2). I have a 2' black band down left side of screen, No band appears when I used Method (1). I have a NEC Accusync LCD 223WXM monitor with a nVidia G72 (GeForce 7300 LE) graphics card. Seems like some monitor parameter is not being reset

Re: [Freedos-user] Failure of Print-Screen (Screenshot) in Freedos Depending on How Full Screen was Entered

2011-10-27 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Assume I am on Ubuntu Desktop. Then use terminal command sudo dosemu. Dosemu needs not and should not be run as root, it works fine in X :-) small (approx. 2 by 4) window appears. I usually go to full screen in 2 ways: (1) click in the box in upper right, corner; or (2). use the

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS, Arachne, and VirtualBox

2011-10-27 Thread Louis Lev
Hello all, I am a FreeDOS newbie, and hope to get Arachne up and running with my Ulrich Hansen VBox image-- no luck so far! I am able to ping and wget with success, but Arachne doesn't seem to recognize the dhcp. My Wattcp.cfg: my_ip = dhcp IP = dhcp netmask = 255.255.255.0 gateway =