Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual get-together

2020-12-16 Thread Bryan Kilgallin
Thanks, Jim: I announced the virtual get-together here a few weeks beforehand, in several places: email list, website, Facebook, Twitter. Of those, I exclusively use the mailing-list! Did you need more than two weeks' heads-up? I wasn't aware of the previous meeting. Perhaps an e-mail

Re: [Freedos-user] Package discussion

2020-12-16 Thread Regan Russell
I want to make applications om everything including DOS with Watcom C/C++ but to be honest who has the time... From: Bryan Kilgallin Sent: Thursday, 17 December 2020 3:16 PM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Package discussion

Re: [Freedos-user] Package discussion

2020-12-16 Thread Bryan Kilgallin
Thanks, Ray: Take a survey.  How many want to make or modify DOS apps. I have trouble just following instructions! -- members.iinet.net.au/~kilgallin/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Freedos-user] Package discussion

2020-12-16 Thread Ray Davison
Jim Hall wrote: What do you think? I see two disks and an archive. My primary word processor and accounting programs are DOS. Yes I have "modern" versions for those functions, but I do not consider them to be improvements. It is extra work to chase stuff around a screen. So what you

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual get-together

2020-12-16 Thread Jim Hall
I announced the virtual get-together here a few weeks beforehand, in several places: email list, website, Facebook, Twitter. For example, the website still shows the announcement from "2020-11-28 4:47pm" to say the virtual get-together will be "Sunday, December 13 at 11am US/Central. Use your

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual get-together

2020-12-16 Thread Hollowone PL
Yep, would be great to give people heads-up to plan availability for the meeting. Thanks, /h1 On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 1:08 AM Jim Hall wrote: > Sorry we missed you. I think we'll make this a regular thing. So we'll do > another one in January. > > Maybe on a monthly schedule for now. Since

Re: [Freedos-user] yt-dl in dos?

2020-12-16 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 8:00 AM Joao Silva wrote: > > I think not, solution windows firefox addon downloadhelper should do the trick Assuming you are running Firefox or Chrome on a Windows or Linux system. Neither the browsers nor the extension run under FreeDOS. The OP wants to do this from

Re: [Freedos-user] yt-dl in dos?

2020-12-16 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 6:58 AM Thomas Mueller wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 6:46 PM wrote: > > > > You think is there any way to configure youtube-dl in Dos? > > > *Extremely* unlikely. It requires Python 2.6 or 2.7. The most recent > > version of Python built for DOS is a DJGPP port of

Re: [Freedos-user] yt-dl in dos?

2020-12-16 Thread Joao Silva
Hello. I think not, solution windows firefox addon downloadhelper should do the trick On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 11:46 PM wrote: > You think is there any way to configure youtube-dl in Dos? > I probe it in Linux, and in win xp - from dos terminal, text mode - and it > work fine and fast, without

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

2020-12-16 Thread Mateusz Viste
On 16/12/2020 12:39, C. Masloch wrote: Very nice! I'd guess it may be the path of least resistance to add an AMB output format to the existing Halibut compiler. That would be awesome, yes -- but I looked at the source code and it wasn't looking like a 5-minutes job, so I decided to go for the

Re: [Freedos-user] yt-dl in dos?

2020-12-16 Thread Thomas Mueller
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 6:46 PM wrote: > > You think is there any way to configure youtube-dl in Dos? > *Extremely* unlikely. It requires Python 2.6 or 2.7. The most recent > version of Python built for DOS is a DJGPP port of Python 2.4.2. > What do you expect to use under FreeDOS to

Re: [Freedos-user] AMB, Ancient Machine Book format and FreeDOS Help

2020-12-16 Thread C. Masloch
On at 2020-12-14 07:36 +0100, Mateusz Viste wrote: Hi Christian, Your docs seem very interesting! I didn't know about them. Having them available as AMB books would definitely be very cool. I am not very fond of HTML as a source-to-be-processed data, but the halibut thing appears very

Re: [Freedos-user] Package discussion

2020-12-16 Thread Bryan Kilgallin
Yes, ZB: I dare to estimate that more than 90% of DOS - or any other OS - users don't need any sources. Maybe even I should say: "more than 99%". Sources should be available separately - they are nothing but "placeholder" otherwise. I have no use for source-code of software that makes DOS

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user Digest, Vol 1886, Issue 1

2020-12-16 Thread Bryan Kilgallin
Dear Daniel: Have a base cd that has just the items needed to get FreeDos running and maybe a few extras.  Then a script for creating a cd/dvd/usb image. Here is the general plan for the script: You have a list of categories the user selects.  Clicking on catagory would select all sub items