Re: [Freedos-user] FRISK Software stops development of F-ProtAntivirus for DOS

2006-07-04 Thread Robert Riebisch
Johnson Lam wrote: Clam have no official for DOS (DOS version port by Blair Campbell, have some minor problems), and without a nice UI like F-PROT. You forget to mention F-Prot's resident shield or reliability. ClamAV is far from perfect and so it is NOT a replacement for F-Prot. Robert

Re: [Freedos-user] FRISK Software stops development of F-ProtAntivirus for DOS

2006-07-04 Thread Johnson Lam
On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 10:24:06 +0200, you wrote: Hi Robert, You forget to mention F-Prot's resident shield or reliability. ClamAV is far from perfect and so it is NOT a replacement for F-Prot. Oh! I forgot, thanks for reminding me, it's been a long time. I use F-PROT because SCAN become slow

Re: [Freedos-user] FRISK Software stops development ofF-ProtAntivirus for DOS

2006-07-04 Thread BIAF
Just to add to the issue regarding virus checkers. If you looking something that's pretty up to date all the time for dos. Try AVG, when you install it under windows 98 It knows there's dos still there and adds like a dos scan option, point being, you can then ask it to create a few floppies

[Freedos-user] F-Prot resident shield? (Was FRISK Software stops development ...)

2006-07-04 Thread John Hupp
Can F-Prot load a TSR that provides a resident shield? I have always assumed that F-Prot only operates as a scanner, whether in interactive or command-line mode. I looked at READ_ME.TXT and COMMAND.TXT again now, and I find no mention of a resident mode. But I would be happy to find that it

Re: [Freedos-user] F-Prot resident shield? (Was FRISK Software stopsdevelopment ...)

2006-07-04 Thread Robert Riebisch
John Hupp wrote: Can F-Prot load a TSR that provides a resident shield? I have always No. Sorry, my mistake. :-( Frisk Software stopped VIRSTOP development with F-Prot version 3.0. Last (non-free) VIRSTOP seems to be ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/anti-virus/free/286/fp-228b.zip Robert Riebisch --

[Freedos-user] Tough-to-capture screenshots

2006-07-04 Thread John Hupp
I'm evaluating a freeware program manager called Access and wanted to capture some screenshots, but so far it has defied everything I've tried: VideoThief, Screen Thief, SuperClip and Windows 98's built-in utility. (Except that VideoThief will capture about the top 2/3 of the screen.) In Win

Re: [Freedos-user] Tough-to-capture screenshots

2006-07-04 Thread Bernd Blaauw
John Hupp schreef: I'm guessing that one of you developers will size this little challenge up in short order. Emulators might do the trick. Some host platform, install emulator on it, install DOS + your program manager inside the emulator. Bernd -- Efficiency is intelligent lazyness

Re: [Freedos-user] Tough-to-capture screenshots

2006-07-04 Thread John Hupp
Thanks, Bernd! That did the trick. DosBox was somewhat unstable while running the program, but I got what I wanted out of it. - Original Message - From: Bernd Blaauw To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 3:38 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user]

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.0 in the news...

2006-07-04 Thread Ray Davison
Gerry Hickman wrote: Hi, Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't WfW a different operating system with it's own bootsector and startup files? You've then got the HIMEM, EMM386 and IFSHLP to worry about. Isn't it a bit like saying why can't I start OS/2 from within CP/M? No, it is just a