Re: [Freedos-user] New program - hexed.zip
I updated it so it use malloc(), it should load files that are as big as largest conventional ram avail in DOS now. No more 32K barrier... I am curious why textcolor() isnt working right in dosemu. http://digitalatoll.com/pub/DMSOFT/hexed.zip -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Newbie Q - How do I get a USB flash drive operating please?
whups sorry Dennis - my bad sentence structure. I never feel the need to defrag with Puppy, I use ext4 and ext3 formatted partitions with ext3 fs myself... I meant that when in Windoze - defrag, defrag, defrag... a habit I mistakenly transferred to my FreeDos install - and perhaps running DOSFSCK on my FAT32 sd-card will might make a difference. I was getting unusual behaviours that was otherwise not detected in tests I used from UBCD. Sorry to read of your browser woes - when my Firefox gets sluggish I switch to qupzilla (webkit Qt-based) in my Puppy installs - puts the fun right back into surfing. Cheers On Mon, Feb 11, 2013, at 04:47 PM, dmccunney wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Andrew Robins arob...@fastmail.fm wrote: Egads - you are very right to remind me there Dennis and Rugxulo - defragging is a bit of a reflex habit from my time as a disgruntled MS user, I never consider it in my (user-level) Puppy Linux. I'll give DOSFSCK a run, as I still query the format process on the SD-card. I don't believe you *can* do it in Puppy, though a variable will be the file system you install on. I have Puppy here on an old notebook along with Ubuntu. I installed both on Ext4 filesystems, which add the ability to use extents, and in my rough tests offered about a 25%-33% I/O boost. The notebook does UDMA 4 at best (BIOS limitation), and the main constraint is slow disk I/O. Puppy and bundled apps, chosen for small size, run well enough. Larger apps are problems. I don't even try to run a current Firefox on it. It takes 45 seconds just to load, and is perceptibly sluggish when up. To the extent that I browse from it (seldom), I use Opera or Midori. Puppy and Ubuntu mount each other's slices on boot, and I did some fiddling to share apps between them, with one copy of large things living on one side or the other but accessable from both. While Ext file systems are fairly fragmentation resistant, they *do* become fragmented, and being able to defrag is a design goal of Ext4. __ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] USB
I an loading usbuhci and usbdrive with LH. They both load low. All of the USB drivers will load themselves automatically into upper memory if it is available -- you do not need to (and, in fact, shouldn't) use LH. If, for some reason, you want them loaded into low memory even if upper memory is available, you can use the /LowMemory:Yes option. Also, USBUHCIL uses less memory than USBUHCI, so you should probably use USBUHCIL instead. They create eight drive letters, none of which show the plugged in device. Eight drive letters is the default for USBDRIVE, but you can change that with the /Drives:# option (where # is the maximum number of drive letters you want to allow at the same time). There are also the /Devices:# and /Disks:# options which control various aspects of how many devices you want plugged in at the same time. It's kind of complicated to discuss here -- read the documentation (USBINTRO.DOC). The current test device is a 1G thumb drive. Do the drivers have a max size? Not in a generic sense. The maximum size depends on the hardware, BIOS, and specific manufacturer/version of DOS. A 1G disk should work just fine in FreeDOS. I am using the included drivers. I have the drivers from the Johnson site which have the same date stamp but are much larger. I think the ones distributed with FreeDOS are compressed with UPX to make the files smaller, but should still run the same way. The original ones on my web site are not compressed. Your problem more than likely is that you have more than one USB host controller. If you simply install USBUHCIL (or USBUHCI) with no options, it only installs for the first USB host controller (Index 0). A UHCI host controller can only have two ports, so when you do this only two of the ports are enabled. Which two those are physically depends on the computer (they may be on the front, back, left, right, or not even appear on the outside of the computer at all -- they may have some internal device plugged into them, like a multi-media card reader, camera, fingerprint reader, etc.). Try plugging the thumb drive into a different USB port (which may or may not work, depending on your hardware configuration). Or, use USBHOSTS to figure out how many UHCI controllers you have, and then try installing USBUHCIL with different indexes (use the /Index:# option, where # is the 0-based index number) until you find the correct one. Your problem could be something else, too, but that is the most likely problem. -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] New program - hexed.zip
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:31 AM, Chris Evans aaxiomfin...@gmail.com wrote: I updated it so it use malloc(), it should load files that are as big as largest conventional ram avail in DOS now. No more 32K barrier... I am curious why textcolor() isnt working right in dosemu. http://digitalatoll.com/pub/DMSOFT/hexed.zip Hi Chris, I'm curious if you have chosen a free software license for your program? The zip file doesn't include one, and I cannot find any reference to one in your source code. -jh -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] New program - hexed.zip
I think I will choose gplv3 for it On Feb 11, 2013 10:27 AM, Jim Hall jh...@freedos.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:31 AM, Chris Evans aaxiomfin...@gmail.com wrote: I updated it so it use malloc(), it should load files that are as big as largest conventional ram avail in DOS now. No more 32K barrier... I am curious why textcolor() isnt working right in dosemu. http://digitalatoll.com/pub/DMSOFT/hexed.zip Hi Chris, I'm curious if you have chosen a free software license for your program? The zip file doesn't include one, and I cannot find any reference to one in your source code. -jh -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Newbie Q - How do I get a USB flash drive operating please?
Hi! If you are interested in Go, you may want to try AuGoS, of which also a native DOS version exists. The webpage: http://www.augos.com/go/augos.html Thanks too for the Chess links - my son and daughter are both just getting interested (though they prefer Go), and I'm afraid 'Battle Chess', with its animated combat scenes and relatively simple AI, is the big hit at the moment. Actually, I'm trying to be a bit of a connoisseur with the game choices - only picking the very best/highly regarded in various Dos Game forums and repository sites, and Rebel Chess you mentioned rates pretty highly in the Chess forums - I'll give your other suggestions a go too. -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] New program - hexed.zip
http://digitalatoll.com/pub/DMSOFT/hexed10a.zip I added the gpl notices to the program and included the gpl v3.txt file in the archive. it is ready to be downloaded now. I still have to correct the edit mode , for some reason is defaulting to 0 for the location and value... it confuse me. On 02/11/2013 10:44 AM, Jim Hall wrote: Great! When you've picked out a new license, I encourage you to make a new release of your program that includes that license file in it, even if you don't make any other changes. You might call that 1.0a for example. Once it has a free / open source software license, then we can opt to mirror it at the FreeDOS files archive, and I'll happily mention it on our website and on our twitter. Thanks! -jh On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Chris Evans aaxiomfin...@gmail.com wrote: I think I will choose gplv3 for it Hi Chris, I'm curious if you have chosen a free software license for your program? The zip file doesn't include one, and I cannot find any reference to one in your source code. -jh -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] How to install Ontrack Disk Manager without floppy?
Hi, On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 2:16 AM, sakura kinomoto like-a-m...@list.ru wrote: I wish to try Dinamic Drive Overlay, which can be used by Ontrack Disk manager (...any fdisk's, either in BasLinux or in FreeDos can not touch hdd after 8 gb...) (and floppy device is broken, so, I can not use floppy) So, can you tell me any hint? Dunno, never used OnTrack. I think installing ZipSlack (Slackware 11) atop your FAT partition would be easier. I just blindly assume Linux 2.4.x can handle bigger hard drives without using the BIOS. BasLinux (2.2.x) is probably way too old. And you can run this without floppy (as long as you can boot up DOS). http://mirrors1.kernel.org/slackware/slackware-11.0/zipslack/ -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] How to install Ontrack Disk Manager without floppy?
I haven't messed with Ontrack Disk Manager in many years, but the version I have is basically a DOS program. So, you just need to boot the computer into a DOS environment on a medium that has the Ontrack software (the old version I have has all the Ontrack stuff in a single 600kB directory named DM). Will your computer boot a CD? If so, then create a CD that boots DOS and write the Ontrack software to the CD while you are creating the CD. Boot the computer from the CD and then run the Ontrack software. I remember that you just follow the prompts as far as installing the Dynamic Drive Overlay to the hard drive. However, it has been many years, it may be that the Ontrack software won't run right without a working floppy drive, I'm really not sure. It is from the past when EVERY PC had a floppy drive. On 2/10/13, sakura kinomoto like-a-m...@list.ru wrote: I wish to try Dinamic Drive Overlay, which can be used by Ontrack Disk manager (...any fdisk's, either in BasLinux or in FreeDos can not touch hdd after 8 gb...) (and floppy device is broken, so, I can not use floppy) So, can you tell me any hint? -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] New program - hexed.zip
http://digitalatoll.com/pub/DMSOFT/hexed10a.zip I updated it it now has a find function, it will search for text string from current position -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] New program - hexed.zip
I updated it so it use malloc(), it should load files that are as big as largest conventional ram avail in DOS now. No more 32K barrier... NOT true. It will happily open a 10 MiB file (thanks God I didn't test it with my insane 21 GiB file :-D ), but show only 64 KiB and behave (version from yesterday) badly: http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/hexed.png scrolling is broken, editing too ... I am curious why textcolor() isnt working right in dosem Is the green really needed? // biosdisk(int cmd, int drive, int head, int track, int sector, int nsects, void *buffer); This is no longer useful. You need the INT $13 Extensions for LBA. And of course you need a _T_H_I_C_K_ warning before writing back to the disk. Some ideas: http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/filedit.txt -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] uHex - a hex editor for DOS released under GPL
uHex is a simple and fast hex viewer for DOS. It has been written with care to work fast even on an 8086 CPU, providing support for large files (up to 2 GiB) while using minimal amounts of memory. COOL :-) It's rather trivial but in my minimal test it worked. As you might know, there are already 1'000'000'000'000 hex viewers and editors around ... so the market is rather saturated, but most of them are rather unusable, so you could beat them all one day :-) Some ideas: http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/filedit.txt -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] uHex - a hex editor for DOS released under GPL
Hi, Yes, I know about the existence of zillions of other hex viewers/editors for - OTOH I am not trying to make big $$$ out of it :) I've never done a hex viewer - Now that's yet another item out of my life's todo list :) Also, I couldn't find one that would be simple, 8086-compatible and GPL. I will probably add two or three features to uHex in the futur, but it's supposed to stay trivial by design :) cheers Mateusz On 02/12/2013 07:48 AM, dos386 wrote: uHex is a simple and fast hex viewer for DOS. It has been written with care to work fast even on an 8086 CPU, providing support for large files (up to 2 GiB) while using minimal amounts of memory. COOL :-) It's rather trivial but in my minimal test it worked. As you might know, there are already 1'000'000'000'000 hex viewers and editors around ... so the market is rather saturated, but most of them are rather unusable, so you could beat them all one day :-) Some ideas: http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/filedit.txt -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
