Re: [Freedos-user] Re: COPY user-unfriendly feature

2004-11-28 Thread Erwin Veermans
> Hi Jose, > you just re-discovered major FreeCOM bug 1704: > http://www.freedos.org/bugs/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1704 > > First noticed in September 2003, but it looks as if it has > never felt serious enough to fix :-( No, this indeed never has been fixed. I just checked current CVS-FreeCOM an

[Freedos-user] Re: COPY user-unfriendly feature

2004-11-28 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jose, you just re-discovered major FreeCOM bug 1704: http://www.freedos.org/bugs/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1704 First noticed in September 2003, but it looks as if it has never felt serious enough to fix :-( Topic: You can overwrite a file by a non-existing file, the dest file is destroyed bef

[Freedos-user] COPY user-unfriendly feature

2004-11-28 Thread Jose Antonio Senna
Concerning COPY command in FreeCOM (noticed in latest versions;may do so or not in former versions): If one issues "copy filename.ext d:" and filename.ext does not exist in current directory but already exists in destination directory, FreeCOM responds with "D:\FILENAME.EXT Already exists.Overwrit

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: which Freedos with XP?

2004-11-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 28-Ноя-2004 16:35 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> TS> The Beta 9 Freedos says it can't be run with nt/2000/xp. So which >> TS> build of freedos can I use? >> What mean "can't be run with"? Which troubles you have? BB> Arkady, the Beta9 had a bad batchfile

Re: [Freedos-user] Looking for a program that switch all file names to capital letters

2004-11-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 28-Ноя-2004 22:37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karim) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: K> I`m looking for a program that rewrite all file names with capital letters. DOS (any DOS) always stores (short) names in capital letters. Long names (which available for DOS programs under Windows GUI or with hel

[Freedos-user] Looking for a program that switch all file names to capital letters

2004-11-28 Thread Karim
Hello I`m looking for a program that rewrite all file names with capital letters. I`ve try to run the pas2pic (pas2pic.tk) compiler on freedos. I got an error because the compiler cannot find a unit (which is in the same dir). As I assume FreeDOS shows all letters in capital letters even I

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: which Freedos with XP?

2004-11-28 Thread Steve Nickolas
Trent Slade wrote: On 28 Nov 2004 at 16:35, Bernd Blaauw wrote: Arkady V.Belousov schreef: TS> The Beta 9 Freedos says it can't be run with nt/2000/xp. So which TS> build of freedos can I use? What mean "can't be run with"? Which troubles you have? Arkady, the Beta9 had a bad batchfile which

Re: [Freedos-user] boot problem solved, thanks a lot creators of fdos

2004-11-28 Thread Karim
I logged into freedos over the installation cd, and made it bootable with sys c: THX for your help On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 23:41:58 +0100, "Karim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hello > > I don`t know if this is a bug, but I could`t make a bootdisk during the > freedos installation. There is indee

[Freedos-user] Re: Re: which Freedos with XP?

2004-11-28 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Trent, FreeDOS cannot easily use NTFS drives. You can load NTFS4DOS (free for private use), but this creates a new shell and is is - maybe - not compatible to EMM386. Maybe the complex driver will even trouble your sound player. Similar for USB: There are free closed source drivers for USB in D

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: which Freedos with XP?

2004-11-28 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Arkady V.Belousov schreef: TS> The Beta 9 Freedos says it can't be run with nt/2000/xp. So which TS> build of freedos can I use? What mean "can't be run with"? Which troubles you have? Arkady, the Beta9 had a bad batchfile which did not detect NT/2K/XP entirely correctly. The next FreeDOS, r

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: which Freedos with XP?

2004-11-28 Thread Jim Hall
Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Салям! 28-Ноя-2004 22:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trent Slade) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: TS> The Beta 9 Freedos says it can't be run with nt/2000/xp. So which TS> build of freedos can I use? What mean "can't be run with"? Which troubles you have? Really, the warning on th

[Freedos-user] Re: my first post and first freedos night -> installation fails

2004-11-28 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, about installing FreeDOS on a 386 w/o CD-ROM: You do not have to install from floppy, but your harddisk is a bit small... Anyway. If you have Linux on the PC already, or if you have FileMaven (free file manager with transfer-files-over-link-cable function) or if you have a server (for using SS

[Freedos-user] test, ignore this letter

2004-11-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
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Re: [Freedos-user] Re: which Freedos with XP?

2004-11-28 Thread Trent Slade
On 28 Nov 2004 at 16:35, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > Arkady V.Belousov schreef: > > TS> The Beta 9 Freedos says it can't be run with nt/2000/xp. So which > > TS> build of freedos can I use? > > > > What mean "can't be run with"? Which troubles you have? > > > > Arkady, the Beta9 had a bad batch

[Freedos-user] Re: which Freedos with XP?

2004-11-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Салям! 28-Ноя-2004 22:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trent Slade) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: TS> The Beta 9 Freedos says it can't be run with nt/2000/xp. So which TS> build of freedos can I use? What mean "can't be run with"? Which troubles you have? ---

Re: [Freedos-user] creating a 1.44 bootdisk during fdos installation doesn`t work

2004-11-28 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Karim schreef: Hello I don`t know if this is a bug, but I could`t make a bootdisk during the freedos installation. There is indeed a choice to make one and it asked me to put a (non)empty disk into the floppy drive, but after that nothing happens. There is very fast (some milliseconds) message,

[Freedos-user] Changing to different mail format.

2004-11-28 Thread Jondavey
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[Freedos-user] creating a 1.44 bootdisk during fdos installation doesn`t work

2004-11-28 Thread Karim
Hello I don`t know if this is a bug, but I could`t make a bootdisk during the freedos installation. There is indeed a choice to make one and it asked me to put a (non)empty disk into the floppy drive, but after that nothing happens. There is very fast (some milliseconds) message, to fast to read