Hi!
Below question from user. Please, answer directly for him (note: @ in
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From: Carl Kopin carlkopin hotmail.com
Subject: Bootable disk
I bought new computer recently. It does not have a floppy disk drive but can
handle several other removable disks and memory
Hello,
XCDROM V1.6 is available for download at:
http://johnson.tmfc.net/freedos (click XCDROM driver)
- XCDROM now has-stand alone UltraDMA capability and no longer
requires XDMA/XDMAJR! [Note: That means you can run XCDROM on those PC
have no ATA hard disk (SATA only) and have a ATA CD-ROM
Hi there,
I am currently writing a small dos tool that boots from a FreeDOS floppy
disk. During the initialization phase, I have to check if there is a
CDROM inserted with a particular file. But this has proven to be difficult!
If there is a CDROM present (that means loading of XCDROM and
After initially rejecting patents on
the Windows file system, the Patent and
Trademark Office rules them valid.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6025447.html
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Andre Tertling schreef:
If there is a CDROM present (that means loading of XCDROM and SHSUCDX
were successful) but there is no disk in the drive, processing of my
batch file stops with an error message and the usual Abort, Retry,
Fail?. If I pick Fail here, complete havoc occurs (I didn't have
I Agree, things like this will only make the FreeDOS crew rebell with new
FS, MS are doing them selfs no favours at all with this move.
But its been on the brew for along time, maybe they will not do much about
it now.
Hi,
I can't understand the crying about the FAT patent. In the whole world
Hi,
I want to know If localized FreeDOS versions are available? I, for my person, search a german FreeDOS.
Thanks for an answer.
Hi Erwin,
thanks for that suggestion. Despite the fact that I've been a long time
reader of batch.ger on FIDONET, this invaluable set of tools escaped my
memory. And when I come to think of it, it's even worse: I am using WBAT
right now but didn't think of Horst's other tools at all. Maybe
Andre Tertling wrote:
If I read the patents in question right, they are not exactly FAT
patents but rather LFN for FAT patents. The primary reason for the
patents is to cut a nice slice from the memory stick/card market for M$.
FAT has one large benefit: Because it is so simple, it is easy to
Almost a month behind its smaller sister, OpenGEM Complete 5 is out now.
You can download it from http://gem.shaneland.co.uk
This is a massive update from OpenGEM Complete 4, with a completely new
user interface, 3D boxes, and drive auto-detection.
To install it over an existing version of
--- Christian Voß [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I can't understand the crying about the FAT patent.
In the whole world of
file systems are enough candidates to replace the
Grandma of file systems.
And most of them are free. I.e. HFS and HFS+ (the
file systems of MacOS) are
GPL and is
Great driver!
I've found a bug, though. When using a certain CD-RW I use to transfer
files from my Windows XP computer to my DOS Linux computer, not all of
the files are visible in the root directory. This does not occur when
using another freely available driver such as VIDE-CDD.SYS. I
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