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

2006-07-06 Thread Ray Davison
Gerry Hickman wrote: > > OK, let's agree it's just a shell for a minute; why would anyone want to > start it from within FreeDOS? First, do you actually except that you cannot boot any Win 3x, including 3.11. You have to boot something else first and then run Win 3x as an app. People who wer

[Freedos-user] Little drivers

2006-07-06 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 14:55:32 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: Eric, Sorry to disturb you when you're watching world cup. >In short, a nice extra for people who want to use little XMS >and little DOS memory but still want to have a cache. Note >that disks are so fast today that caching a fast disk on a >s

Re: [Freedos-user] Novice FD User is looking for an USB driver

2006-07-06 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 11:28:49 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: Hi Edward, >As I now understand DOS does not recognize the USB >ports on this new fangled laptop. Where can I obtain >a driver file to add to FreeDOS that will let me use >the USB ports under FreeDOS? Then I can use connector Try my USB Drive

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

2006-07-06 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Jim, What you say makes perfect sense, some comments below. >> You mean you booted into MS-DOS 6.22 and then started WfW from within >> DOS 6.22? If so, I have to ask why?? No one has answered this part yet, especially why. > That's actually how Windows 1.x-3.x worked ... Yes, if you means

[Freedos-user] Any PCMCIA Parallel Port Adapters known to work with FreeDOS?

2006-07-06 Thread Mark Bailey
Hello, all: Has anyone successfully used any of the PCMCIA parallel port adapters with the provided DOS drivers under FreeDOS? I would like to if any are known to work with FreeDOS. Mark Bailey Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly wit

[Freedos-user] Novice FD User is looking for an USB driver

2006-07-06 Thread Edward Long
I am the fellow that posted a message several days ago entitled "Complete Novice Needs Help". Thanks to Mark Bailey I now have FreeDOS on my laptop. As soon as I can write up the steps I employed I will share them. Now for the bad news: As I now understand DOS does not recognize the USB ports o

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

2006-07-06 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 4-Июл-2006 19:30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerry Hickman) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: GH> Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't WfW a different operating system GH> with it's own bootsector and startup files? No. Win3 is an advanced _shell_, which works in protected mode on 3

Re: [Freedos-user] Glad to know FreeDOS move fast again!

2006-07-06 Thread Eric Auer
Hi all, I would like to comment on the new QDMA cache feature, after Johnson gave me some background information... On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Johnson Lam wrote: > visit my homepage (http://johnson.tmfc.net) and have a look. > > The latest driver not only do UltraDMA, also can REPLACE the bulky > SMARTD

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

2006-07-06 Thread Wesley Parish
On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 09:16, Jim Hall wrote: > Gerry Hickman wrote: > > Hi Ray, > > > >>> with it's own bootsector and startup files? You've then got the HIMEM, > >>> EMM386 and IFSHLP to worry about. > >> > >> No, it is just a shell. > > > > What do you mean by "just a shell"? > > > >> I don't use i

Re: [Freedos-user] Russian by UTF-8 in FreeDOS?

2006-07-06 Thread Bart Oldeman
Hi, On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Henrique Peron wrote: > DISPLAY CON=(,,3) > MODE CON CODEPAGE PREPARE=((858,852) C:\FDOS\BIN\EGA.CPX) > MODE CON CODEPAGE PREPARE=((,,808) C:\FDOS\BIN\EGA3.CPX) > > Then, you'll type MODE CON CODEPAGE SELECT=858 for french or 852 for polish > or 808 for russian. UTF-8 is