RE: [Freedos-user] Boot to FreeDOS?

Hello Sorry if this has been asked before. I could not find definitive answers in the FAQs. 1. I have an old DOS program that used to run under Windows-98. It is the Giebler MIDI converter series of programs. 2. Under Windows XP this garners a runtime error 200 (doesn't matter

[Freedos-user] long live hotmail :(

Anyone else seeing massive virus outbreaks? I never imagined being able to use 40% of a 250MB hotmail emailbox (add 3% each hour), but MS manages to not filter these (75KB attachment). Even the delete junkmail button times out with 1400 emails. Ouch! Bernd

[Freedos-user] GRAFX2 paint goes open source

Hi all, Arachne user iw2evk from Italy sent interesting news about DOS graphics: The paint program GRAFX2 is now open source! It has been freeware before. You can get GRAFX2 at http://ouragan.msi.unilim.fr/~maritaud/sunset/grafx2.html which describes the program as Amiga / oldskool oriented.

Re: [Freedos-user] long live hotmail :(

I assume you mean you are receiving lots of emails with viruses attached, which is not really a virus outbreak, but merely spam which is normal. Or do you mean the actual Hotmail system has been hit by a virus? Something has to send mails with the attachment.. Anyway, looks like a purge

Re: [Freedos-user] long live hotmail :(

At 08:38 PM 11/24/2005 +0100, you wrote: Anyone else seeing massive virus outbreaks? I never imagined being able to use 40% of a 250MB hotmail emailbox (add 3% each hour), but MS manages to not filter these (75KB attachment). Even the delete junkmail button times out with 1400 emails. Pretty

Re: [Freedos-user] LPTLink

--- Blair Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blair, I have tried a number of things. LPTlink seems to work in a Win98 command shell, but not under FreeDOS or MS-DOS 7.1. It doesn't crash the system Does it transfer the files correctly in Win98? Do the MD5SUMs check out? No, it

Re: [Freedos-user] LPTLink

No, it doesn't work. If I launch the client on a pc that has a viable null modem connection to another pc Hmm. I didn't know that it would work with a null modem cable. I was under the impression that it was ONLY for laplink cables. But I could be wrong. lptlink. It also caused lptlink

Re: [Freedos-user] LPTLink

instead of specifying the port. After looking at the source code, it seems as if the port is hard-coded into the program. But then again, The source code comments are also in portugese (or possibly spanish), which makes understanding a bit more difficult. Could anyone help me to translate

Re: [Freedos-user] LPTLink

--- Blair Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm. I didn't know that it would work with a null modem cable. I was under the impression that it was ONLY for laplink cables. But I could be wrong. I think we are using different terms for the same thing. Try this for syntax: use the

Re: [Freedos-user] LPTLink

think. Maybe you can get an old computer at a junk store. Radio Shack has the cables. I have plenty of old computers (386, 2 486s), but no laplink cables. Are these cables that Radio Shack has LPT cables? I thought that null modem cables connected to a serial port, but afaik, LPTLink is

[Freedos-user] navigator link-dos navigator

Hello all, I am using dos-navigator on freeDos beta9. I am unable to use the 'navigator link' utility. 1. Two machines are connected using com1 of each with a shielded cable and proper connections , explained in the help of DN.