Re: [Freedos-user] How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine

2014-08-05 Thread Ulrich
Am 04.08.2014 um 16:10 schrieb Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr: So no reason to be confused, the DOS PC as FTP server is a perfectly valid (and working) solution, just not fitting exactly in my (very personal) needs. The only thing I need to look for now is a user-friendly FTP client I

[Freedos-user] Runs on dos?

2014-08-05 Thread kurt godel
Even as far back as XP, the dos emulator(NTVDM) would not allow certain low level operations, and would abort; oddly, the XP will allow the interrupts for mousing, but reject others. Odd because with some imagination, even the inocuouse int33 for mouse can vector malware.

Re: [Freedos-user] How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine

2014-08-05 Thread Dale E Sterner
Enable usb in the bios then load Hamamatsu drivers into your config.sys. Its a driver found on the web. Works very well. Everyone uses it for DOS. It only works for flash memory and usb floppies. If you have RS232 available then you can use xtalk to move file between computers. The DOS On Mon, 04

Re: [Freedos-user] Runs on dos?

2014-08-05 Thread dmccunney
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 8:45 AM, kurt godel wb2...@gmail.com wrote: Even as far back as XP, the dos emulator(NTVDM) would not allow certain low level operations, and would abort; oddly, the XP will allow the interrupts for mousing, but reject others. Odd because with some imagination, even the

Re: [Freedos-user] How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine

2014-08-05 Thread Bret Johnson
My experience with USB sticks in FreeDOS is that the USB stick is treated like a fixed disk: must be in at boot time, and no changing USB sticks. That depends on which drivers you're using. The BIOS, and most DOS USB drivers, do indeed work that way. My drivers treat flash drives as a

Re: [Freedos-user] How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine

2014-08-05 Thread Mateusz Viste
On 08/05/2014 11:47 AM, Ulrich wrote: Does the FTP of NDN really work with plain FreeDOS? After reading the discussion here http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/mix_entry.php?id=3628 I have the impression it only works under Win32. Please correct me if I am wrong. I'm sorry to tell you that

Re: [Freedos-user] mTCP's FTP incompatible with FDAPM (was: How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine)

2014-08-05 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hi Mike, On 08/05/2014 06:08 AM, Michael B. Brutman wrote: How about sending a bug report? I make it so easy for people to tell me when something is not quite right, but I never get bug reports ... I have the same problem :) My guess it's that's purely because of human laziness. It's much

Re: [Freedos-user] How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine

2014-08-05 Thread Ulrich
Am 05.08.2014 um 21:22 schrieb Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr: On 08/05/2014 11:47 AM, Ulrich wrote: Does the FTP of NDN really work with plain FreeDOS? After reading the discussion here http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/mix_entry.php?id=3628 I have the impression it only works under Win32.

Re: [Freedos-user] mTCP's FTP and power management

2014-08-05 Thread Michael B. Brutman
Before we claim that mTCP is not compatible with FDAPM, what FDAPM options are you using? fdapm apmdos has worked for me before. My notes are in power.txt. Mike -- Infragistics Professional Build stunning WinForms

Re: [Freedos-user] How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine

2014-08-05 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Zbigniew zbigniew2...@gmail.com wrote: Switching among many startup configurations is something we can't avoid in DOS. I assume you mean CONFIG.SYS menus. The old old days where you needed to rename / copy separate files in order to multi-boot such setups

Re: [Freedos-user] How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine

2014-08-05 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Thomas Mueller mueller6...@twc.com wrote: First concern is making FreeDOS bootable, preferably with Syslinux. SYS.COM didn't work, even made the FAT32 file system unreadable. I need to save the first MB by dd from FreeBSD so as to be able to dd back

Re: [Freedos-user] How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine

2014-08-05 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote: How do you transfer files between your main computer and your FreeDOS-powered machine ? FYI Recently I did make an extremely minimal bootable 1.44 MB floppy .img. (.ZIP'd it is less than 400 kb.) It has almost

Re: [Freedos-user] mTCP's FTP and power management

2014-08-05 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hi, I use exactly that - fdapm apmdos. Sorry for the incompatibility claim :) Since you sponteanously mentionned power management issues, I (naively) assumed you already knew about this specific problem. I understand it is not necessarily the case. I will collect some more data then next time I

Re: [Freedos-user] How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine

2014-08-05 Thread Ulrich
Okay. I got Necromancer's Dos Navigator and its integrated graphical FTP Browser to work - at least for the LAN. (With a connection to two external FTP sites I still get Connection Error 10051) To try this I run two VirtualBox FreeDOS guests. Guest No. 1: I used a plain

[Freedos-user] Clarification

2014-08-05 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi, I myself just wrote: I once came across a FDAPM compatibility issue with something else: Bret's USB driver for keyboard. (I have reported the issue to Bret.) It has just occurred to me that this sounds as if I'm finding fault with Bret Johnson's work. So, to clarify matters: actually the

Re: [Freedos-user] How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine

2014-08-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Thomas Mueller mueller6...@twc.com wrote: First concern is making FreeDOS bootable, preferably with Syslinux. SYS.COM didn't work, even made the FAT32 file system unreadable. I need to save the first MB by dd from FreeBSD so as to be able to dd back in

Re: [Freedos-user] How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine

2014-08-05 Thread Christopher Evans
Depends how many library dependencies it has. And if it uses Linux/win32 specific calls. -- -chris Computer Consultant Repair Tech Digitalatoll Solutions Group (Tawhaki Software) http://digitalatoll.com/ http://tawakisoft.com/ Cell: 916-612-6904 Digitalatoll Social Network