On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 19:14 -0800, Michael Robinson wrote:
> First off, I don't appreciate anyone calling anyone an idiot on this
> email list. Second, I haven't experimented with Freedos 1.1 myself, but
> I hope any difficulty others have working with it is dealt with both
> patiently and profes
I ended up using a combination the some menu items in FDCONFIG.SYS which in turn
launch batch scripts that use the CHOICE command. Works great. Thanks for
everyone's help.
--
Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnD
Op 26-1-2012 20:12, Michael schreef:
> I'm already somewhat familiar with syslinux, but the commands I use must run
> from FreeDos, does syslinux let me do that?
Only in the form of workarounds. The MEMDISK module allows to specify a
commandline, just as in GNU/Linux distributions. Syslinux cont
Bernd Blaauw home.nl> writes:
>
>
> As for the menu, I'd indeed suggest using a batchfile.
> Alternatively, maybe the Syslinux menu system is worthwile, you can see
> it in action in for example PartedMagic (LiveCD)
>
> Documentation at:
> http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Comboot/menu.
Op 26-1-2012 19:17, Michael schreef:
> Perfect. Thanks Jeffrey and Bret, for the suggestions and code.
> It looks like it should work for our environment.
> I'll go ahead and modify it and see how it goes.
Your situation might be a perfect occasion to experiment with the
'flashrom' tool (www.flas
Perfect. Thanks Jeffrey and Bret, for the suggestions and code.
It looks like it should work for our environment.
I'll go ahead and modify it and see how it goes.
--
Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDev
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Bret Johnson wrote:
> Anyway, here it is (kind of long). I can also send it as an e-mail
> attachment if anyone cares.
Probably a good idea in any case. It shows by default in GMail will
all line breaks stripped out.
For anyone viewing the list in GMail, clic
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:53:23 -0500
Bob Cochran wrote:
> ...I would like to build a better
> understanding of FreeDOS. What is it used for most commonly?
I use it for control of a desktop milling machine. Modern computers
don't have and can't use a parallel port in real time.
--
James
As an extension to what Jeffrey suggested, at one time I used a simple batch
file with some of my utilities, along with CHOICE and ANSI, to set up a menu of
commonly used applications. I don't use it any more, but following is the
latest version I was using. It allows up to 36 options (26 lett
I use it as my main OS, running on real hardware (no emulation),
typically on Pentiums 100-300 MHz, both desktops and portables.
I also have at home one machine with Linux Ubuntu and one with
Windows XP, but I only use them when necessary, typically to
open PowerPoint or Word files, which is prett
We use it to run burn-in and acceptance testing of machines that we resell. It
drives a series of pure dos apps that run for 3 days or so, exercising the
machine to its fullest. We can't do this in windows because windows doesn't
allow access to exercise the full range of installed memory, nor
On 01/26/2012 10:53 AM, Bob Cochran wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am pretty ignorant of how FreeDOS is used by the community as I am
> sure my previous posts show. I would like to build a better
> understanding of FreeDOS. What is it used for most commonly? I know it
> is an operating system, of course
On 01/26/2012 11:54 AM, Marco Achury wrote:
>
> Dear Sirs
>
> Is there any "official" or recommended C compiler for Freedos?
>
> Would be great if such compiler come included on the distro so
> the user can create their own programs.
>
> I know djgpp and Watcom, are both compilers under active
> de
13 matches
Mail list logo
