Re: [Freedos-user] MS-DOS 7.1

2020-12-06 Thread Mateusz Viste
On 06/12/2020 22:31, Karen Lewellen wrote: Its terrific, have been using it exclusively for years. That's cool and all, but in what way exactly is it better than FreeDOS? That's a honest question. BTW, MS-DOS 2.0 appears to be libre (MIT) nowadays - that could also be a good fit to some,

Re: [Freedos-user]  Re: Freedos-user Digest, Vol 1877, Issue 3

2020-12-06 Thread Kai Ketelhut
00= Sound--Lic. Kai Olaf K e t e l h u t sicSent from my Android phone with GMX Mail. Please excuse my brevity.On 06/12/2020, 22:50 Daniel wrote: I use FreeDos mainly for programming but slow light gaming on an old 300 MHz k6 hp computer with 256mb ram  On

Re: [Freedos-user]  Re: modern ssl

2020-12-06 Thread Kai Ketelhut
00=--Lic. Kai Olaf K e t e l h u t sicSent from my Android phone with GMX Mail. Please excuse my brevity.On 07/12/2020, 00:23 Eric Auer wrote: Hi Jamie, Just guessing, have you tried links, lynx, w3c, dillo, curl, htget?

Re: [Freedos-user]  Re: Dillo Web Browser

2020-12-06 Thread Kai Ketelhut
.--Lic. Kai Olaf K e t e l h u t sicSent from my Android phone with GMX Mail. Please excuse my brevity.On 07/12/2020, 00:35 Thomas Mueller wrote: > Hello all, > I've installed Dillo web browser a few times and it's never even started.� I > corrected the path variable in

Re: [Freedos-user] Dillo Web Browser

2020-12-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
> Hello all, > I've installed Dillo web browser a few times and it's never even started.� > I > corrected the path variable in DILLO.BAT but no success. > Can someone let me know if there are certain "tricks" that need to be > performed before I can get it going? > Thanks, > Dean. My

Re: [Freedos-user] Dillo Web Browser

2020-12-06 Thread Johnpaul Humphrey
I have had success with dillo before in a VM. Could you give us more details? Does it give any information? Does it silently execute? Does it freeze? It sounds like it is frozen. On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 1:39 PM Dean Galloway wrote: > > Hello all, > > I've installed Dillo web browser a few times

Re: [Freedos-user] modern ssl

2020-12-06 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jamie, Just guessing, have you tried links, lynx, w3c, dillo, curl, htget? https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/group-net.html > found out that wget uses tls1 :/ Which version of wget? Regards, Eric

[Freedos-user] modern ssl

2020-12-06 Thread Jamie Le Tual
Tried grabbing something from an https url and found out that wget uses tls1 :/ Is there a more recent build that uses a version of tls that modern web servers will support? ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Freedos-user] What do you do with your FreeDos PC?

2020-12-06 Thread Andrew Robins
I haven't resurrected my FreeDOS projects for a while, but some time ago (years?!) I posted about my intent to work on a "FreeDOS 4 Kids" project, recycling old, Pentium-era laptops. I think I discussed the functionality of Ronald Blankendaal's (re DBGL) most excellent dos GUI "Access" for

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user Digest, Vol 1877, Issue 3

2020-12-06 Thread Daniel
I use FreeDos mainly for programming but slow light gaming on an old 300 MHz k6 hp computer with 256mb ram On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 15:09 wrote: > Send Freedos-user mailing list submissions to > freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web,

[Freedos-user] Dillo Web Browser

2020-12-06 Thread Dean Galloway
Hello all, I've installed Dillo web browser a few times and it's never even started.  I corrected the path variable in DILLO.BAT but no success. Can someone let me know if there are certain "tricks" that need to be performed before I can get it going? Thanks, Dean.

Re: [Freedos-user] MS-DOS 7.1

2020-12-06 Thread Karen Lewellen
Its terrific, have been using it exclusively for years. Karen ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] emacs 26

2020-12-06 Thread Jamie Le Tual
*slaps forehead* Thank you :) On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 at 15:39, Eric Auer wrote: > > > The delorie site seems to be down and I was looking for a copy of real > > emacs for dos. Does anyone have a copy of *em2602ab.zip* they can point > me > > to? > > A quick search for "mirror em2602ab.zip" reveals

Re: [Freedos-user]  Re: emacs 26

2020-12-06 Thread Kai Ketelhut
3.11--Lic. Kai Olaf K e t e l h u t sicSent from my Android phone with GMX Mail. Please excuse my brevity.On 06/12/2020, 21:38 Eric Auer wrote: > The delorie site seems to be down and I was looking for a copy of real > emacs for dos. Does anyone have a copy of *em2602ab.zip* they can

Re: [Freedos-user] emacs 26

2020-12-06 Thread Eric Auer
> The delorie site seems to be down and I was looking for a copy of real > emacs for dos. Does anyone have a copy of *em2602ab.zip* they can point me > to? A quick search for "mirror em2602ab.zip" reveals http://mirrors.fe.up.pt/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/ ;-)

[Freedos-user] emacs 26

2020-12-06 Thread Jamie Le Tual
The delorie site seems to be down and I was looking for a copy of real emacs for dos. Does anyone have a copy of *em2602ab.zip* they can point me to? ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Freedos-user]  Re: MS-DOS 7.1

2020-12-06 Thread Kai Ketelhut
xp 3.11--Lic. Kai Olaf K e t e l h u t sicSent from my Android phone with GMX Mail. Please excuse my brevity.On 06/12/2020, 21:09 Joao Silva wrote: Sorry, it wasn't my intent to advertise. GameTools can't find the INT to hook on because its running on a

Re: [Freedos-user] MS-DOS 7.1

2020-12-06 Thread Joao Silva
Sorry, it wasn't my intent to advertise. GameTools can't find the INT to hook on because its running on a VM environment. On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 8:00 PM Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi Joao, > > > Last night i was on my crusade to find a solution to my problem GameTools > > debugger breakpoints and

Re: [Freedos-user]  Re: What do you do with your FreeDos PC?

2020-12-06 Thread Kai Ketelhut
ty_ty by ty::ty with EE2 google glass for ml by windows 7 by 5 14 floppy by MIL-STD-810 in apendix of dos 1.0--Lic. Kai Olaf K e t e l h u t sicSent from my Android phone with GMX Mail. Please excuse my brevity.On 06/12/2020, 20:41 Jerome Shidel wrote: Hi Jamie! > On Dec 6, 2020,

Re: [Freedos-user] What do you do with your FreeDos PC?

2020-12-06 Thread Joao Silva
Hi! Well I haven't done anything with it yet, but it will be for games and some programs (a games is a program). Games, nice old games, cool games the bring some old memories and time well spent. On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 7:42 PM Jerome Shidel wrote: > Hi Jamie! > > > On Dec 6, 2020, at 2:30

Re: [Freedos-user] MS-DOS 7.1

2020-12-06 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Joao, > Last night i was on my crusade to find a solution to my problem GameTools > debugger breakpoints and found an ISO for MS-DOS 7.1 CD and Floppy version. Obviously the China DOS Union "distro" of MS DOS 7.10 is not a legal way to use MS DOS! Even when it is more "convenient" than

Re: [Freedos-user] What do you do with your FreeDos PC?

2020-12-06 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi Jamie! > On Dec 6, 2020, at 2:30 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi and welcome Jamie! > >> Interestingly enough 1.3rc reports the version as 7.10 > > That is the level of our MS DOS compatibility, in this > case Windows 98 style DOS with FAT32 support and, if you > load the right drivers,

[Freedos-user] MS-DOS 7.1

2020-12-06 Thread Joao Silva
Hello. Last night i was on my crusade to find a solution to my problem GameTools debugger breakpoints and found an ISO for MS-DOS 7.1 CD and Floppy version. I left the url down below. Link Thank you. ___

Re: [Freedos-user] What do you do with your FreeDos PC?

2020-12-06 Thread Eric Auer
Hi and welcome Jamie! > Interestingly enough 1.3rc reports the version as 7.10 That is the level of our MS DOS compatibility, in this case Windows 98 style DOS with FAT32 support and, if you load the right drivers, long file name support. If you request the OEM number with int 21 function

Re: [Freedos-user] What do you do with your FreeDos PC?

2020-12-06 Thread Jamie Le Tual
I'm new to this party as well. I'm using it to learn x86 assembler and DOS function calls. just wrote a program in assembler that outputs the version number as reported by dos, all in a slim 87 bytes. Interestingly enough 1.3rc reports the version as 7.10 Still in the midst of setting up a fully

Re: [Freedos-user] What do you do with your FreeDos PC?

2020-12-06 Thread Johnpaul Humphrey
I multiboot FreeDOS on my modern laptop alongside linux, Plan 9, and BSD. It is by far the fastest OS I have used. What do I do? I run Ability Office (No cost but non-free :( ), OpenGEM, and edit, or elvis when I am needing more power. I do a little programming. I also boot into DOS when I need a

Re: [Freedos-user] What do you do with your FreeDos PC?

2020-12-06 Thread Dean Galloway
I set my Freedos machine up as a GOPHER client. I know a lot of folks use virtual machines for Freedos, but I'm kind of partial to the physical device sitting in the corner. I've had limited success with web browsing and am yet to find an email client that supports IMAP. Never was much of