Re: [Freedos-user] Print via USB - licensing

On 15 May 2021 at 13:56, Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi Bryan & Frank, > > > As you had suggested, on the FreeDOS PC, in C:\MSNET\ I entered "start". > > Then I could ping from that PC to my printer, Ubuntu PC and Ubuntu laptop. > > Cool! Thanks for creating the network zip :-) What is > in that start

Re: [Freedos-user] Print via USB

On 15 May 2021 at 10:40, Ralf Quint wrote: > > On 5/15/2021 4:56 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > >> I had worried that the DOS machine on my network, would > >> give easy access from the Internet for gremlins! > > Because DOS normally does not run any servers, there is > > not much which the gremlins

Re: [Freedos-user] Forwarding and commenting a FreeDOS 1.3rc3 critical review

OH! I guess I should've read the entire email, eh? lol Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, May 15, 2021 3:22 PM, Robert Riebisch wrote: > Hi Mercury, > > > > ... > > > MSD? > > > ... > > > > Microsoft System Diagnostics > > A pretty handy little

Re: [Freedos-user] Forwarding and commenting a FreeDOS 1.3rc3 critical review

Hi Mercury, >> ... >> MSD? >> ... > > Microsoft System Diagnostics > > A pretty handy little system evaluation tool Microsoft made back in the day. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Diagnostics Thanks, but I know MSD, as you can see in my posting you replied to now. ### 2) Here's a

Re: [Freedos-user] Forwarding and commenting a FreeDOS 1.3rc3 critical review

‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, May 15, 2021 2:04 PM, Robert Riebisch wrote: > ... > MSD? > ... Microsoft System Diagnostics A pretty handy little system evaluation tool Microsoft made back in the day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Diagnostics

Re: [Freedos-user] Forwarding and commenting a FreeDOS 1.3rc3 critical review

Hi Eric, >> Once I received source code for >> >> under "do whatever you want this it, but don't bug me". >> >> I think, it's a 1.75 WIP version, so I'm not sure, it works or even >> builds. (Requires TASM to

Re: [Freedos-user] Print via USB

On 5/15/2021 4:56 AM, Eric Auer wrote: I had worried that the DOS machine on my network, would give easy access from the Internet for gremlins! Because DOS normally does not run any servers, there is not much which the gremlins could access. So it depends on which servers you manually start

Re: [Freedos-user] Why do you use DOS

Hi Darrin, > How is EIDL (claims to mimic IDLE.COM ) different from > FDAPM (which is basically POWER.EXE)? Exactly in that way! (EIDL doesn't mimic MS POWER.EXE.) Quoting myself from : ### Recently I wanted to know,

Re: [Freedos-user] ibiblio.org

> On May 15, 2021, at 9:43 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > > You don't have an old computer then. What is old anymore? I remember a time that a 2 year old PC was ancient and slow. Using that as the unit of measure, this computer is down right pre-historic. :-) They may have updated their

Re: [Freedos-user] ibiblio.org

I copied a link, it was correct. They made a security upgrade, keeps the old stuff out. cheers DS On Thu, 13 May 2021 18:39:15 -0500 Jim Hall writes: > On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 3:20 PM Dale E Sterner > wrote: > > > > > > What happened to ibilbio.org web site. > > It won't let me in (unable

Re: [Freedos-user] ibiblio.org

You don't have an old computer then. cheers DS On Thu, 13 May 2021 19:15:54 -0400 Jerome Shidel writes: > Hi, > > > On May 13, 2021, at 4:20 PM, Dale E Sterner > wrote: > > > >  > > What happened to ibilbio.org web site. > > It won't let me in (unable to complete secure > > tranaction -

Re: [Freedos-user] Print via USB

Eric: As you had suggested, on the FreeDOS PC, in C:\MSNET\ I entered "start". Then I could ping from that PC to my printer, Ubuntu PC and Ubuntu laptop. Cool! Thanks for creating the network zip :-) What is in that start bat file and which packages with which licenses are required to make

Re: [Freedos-user] Print via USB

Hi Bryan & Frank, > As you had suggested, on the FreeDOS PC, in C:\MSNET\ I entered "start". > Then I could ping from that PC to my printer, Ubuntu PC and Ubuntu laptop. Cool! Thanks for creating the network zip :-) What is in that start bat file and which packages with which licenses are

Re: [Freedos-user] Print via USB

Thanks again, Frank: As I've already written, I myself have investigated the dark rabbit hole of MS-DOS networking for you: http://frantisek.rysanek.sweb.cz/FD_NET.zip Unzip the three directories to your DOS hard drive, take a look at the config.sys suggested, and see if you can get your DOS

Re: [Freedos-user] Print via USB

Thanks, Eric: Which changes have you applied to load the network things? Upon Frank's following package, I used Ubuntu's Archive Manager to extract the contents. Then I used a USB stick to transfer the directories to my FreeDOS PC. So in the latter's C: directory, are MSNET, MTCPAPPS, and