Re: [Freedos-user] On to FreeDOS 2.0...

2007-05-13 Thread Joris van Rantwijk
On 13 mei 2007, at 09:38, Florian Xaver wrote: *No more 386- support I don't like this. Wow, not so fast! The purpose of FreeDOS is to reproduce a MSDOS system on x86 CPUs... Go read Jim's manifesto ;-) Wasn't it the purpose of FreeDOS 1.0? What changed with 8086 code? I think nothing.

Re: [Freedos-user] On to FreeDOS 2.0...

2007-05-13 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Sunday 13 May 2007 09:38, Florian Xaver wrote: why not? There could be a choice of standard configuration and enhanced configuration. HX Extender should be a must :-) Also FDAPM XDMA should be included in the enhanced config.sys. Yes, if you are talking about an enhanced conf, then I will

Re: [Freedos-user] On to FreeDOS 2.0...

2007-05-13 Thread Derek Newhall
Hopefully I don't rant too much... I rarely post on the list at all but I think that there has been a trend recently to add features to FreeDOS but skip over the fact that it's supposed to reproduce DOS as faithfully as possible. I wasn't all that happy with FD 1.0 and still use my custom install

Re: [Freedos-user] On to FreeDOS 2.0...

2007-05-13 Thread Bernd Blaauw
While FreeDOS isn't something like Gentoo (or Linux at all), I'd love to have some kind of build system so we ensure the 8086 compatibility. Right now all programs have to be compiled by their own makefiles (and compilers, linkers etc), and I got no idea on how to make it like a batch job,

Re: [Freedos-user] Calculator for DOS

2007-05-13 Thread Jim Hall
Is this the right address? I can't find the server at mateusz.viste.free.fr. On 5/6/07, Mateusz Viste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Little annoucement: I started a small project few days ago. FoxCalc is a calculator with a text user interface and mouse support. It is not a TSR, just a

[Freedos-user] announce: dosfsck 2.11b file system checker

2007-05-13 Thread Eric Auer
Hi everybody, I uploaded a new version of the DOS port of dosfsck 2.11 (based on Linux dosfstools 2.11), 2.11.dos2 on my page: http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/dosdosfsck-2.11b.zip Summary of the changes: Dosfsck will now print memory usage info in -v mode. Usage is

[Freedos-user] announce: updated volinfxl disk usage info tool

2007-05-13 Thread Eric Auer
Hi again, as small extra update, I uploaded a dusted up version of my good old Pascal volinfxl tool to my page: http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/volinfxl-disk-usage-info.zip Changes: Volinfxl no longer requires a floating point unit, so it should work on really ancient

[Freedos-user] The my deltrash utility...

2007-05-13 Thread Снисаренко Сергей Бердичев
Hello all! Please vote for adding the my utility, named deltrash, to the FreeDOS 2.0 distrivutive. Previously thank! - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express

Re: [Freedos-user] The my deltrash utility...

2007-05-13 Thread Bernd Blaauw
?? ?? schreef: Hello all! Please vote for adding the my utility, named deltrash, to the FreeDOS 2.0 distrivutive. Previously thank! There's no FreeDOS 2.0 anytime soon yet (though most likely a lot faster than the time between initial start and the 1.0 release), nor is

Re: [Freedos-user] Calculator for DOS

2007-05-13 Thread Jim Hall
Fox I were chatting off-list - the servers were temporarily unavailable. I've mirrored this release on ibiblio, and posted a news item about it on the web site. On 5/13/07, Stegozor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/13/07, Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this the right address? I can't

Re: [Freedos-user] Calculator for DOS

2007-05-13 Thread Stegozor
On 5/13/07, Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this the right address? I can't find the server at mateusz.viste.free.fr. The URL works fine for me (just checked). I downloaded the calculator and it works quite fine under Windows Millennium too. Note there are minor differences between what

Re: [Freedos-user] On to FreeDOS 2.0...

2007-05-13 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Flox! Talking about FreeDOS 2.0, there will hopefully be 1.1 early this summer, as many packages have been updated since we released 1.0, and some issues in 1.0 should be fine tuned anyway :-). *Using 4DOS as standard command tool, and Bash or freecom as choice. I still think FreeCOM is

Re: [Freedos-user] Calculator for DOS

2007-05-13 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Sunday 13 May 2007 20:48, Stegozor wrote: Note there are minor differences between what you'll see on the screenshot and the application itself: square root has been replaced with 1/x and x^n with x^3. No, the buttons are exactly the same as you can see on the screenshot. You use probably