Hi all,
Uploaded to ibiblio there is the new FD-DISPLAY 0.13,
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/display/
SOURCE: DISP013S.ZIP
BINARY: DISP013X.ZIP
which has the following new features:
(1) Heavy source re-structure. Separation of hardware-specific
routines from DISPLA
Hi all,
I thereby announce DISPLAY 0.13b, a small patch over DISPLAY 0.13. Changes:
- The DR-FONT bug notified by John Elliot
- There was a bug with the CGA specific code
- The double-SELECT bug found by John Elliot is fixed too (it was a
variable announcing to hold words were they were bytes, sor
Hi Eddie,
2006/8/21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> This problem occurs when using SMARTDRV.EXE (with write caching
> enabled) from MSDOS 6.22 with FreeDOS. Replacing either avoids the
> problem.
Well, thanks indeed for the reports, perhaps you could tell us too if
you're using EMM38
Is the computer locked? If it isn't (i.e., you can type things, see
the cursor move and see the effects of the commands you type) then it
may be a problem with DISPLAY.
2006/8/26, Collin Donnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Thanks for the help, I was finally able to get FreeDOS
> installed on this
> com
Hi all,
I'd like to announce the final version of FD-KEYB 2.0, thereby ending
TAURUS project started long ago.
Changes:
- ADD: Beep support: after a wrong COMBI, or secondary buffer full
- ADD: Commands 162 (beep) and 164 (toggle beep on/off)
- BUG: Secondary buffer was habing problems with chara
/NOHI.
However note that it prevents if from using UMBs (XMS is never used).
Aitor
2006/8/30, Bernd Blaauw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Diego Rodriguez schreef:
> > Hi!
> >
> > When I try to LoadHigh FD-KEYB 2.0 final from my AUTOEXEC.BAT I get the
> > following error:
> >
> > FreeCOM: XMSSwap-In: Memo
Hello Johnson,
Thanks for your wishes!
In this case it wouldn't make too much sense to clone 100%, first
because MS-KEYBOARD.SYS is complex and contains code, and even if it
was just data for KEYB, I would have to update it with every new
country: this way each user can make their own keyboard.
T
Hi,
Memory in separate MCBs is not written to after being loaded. I'll try
to do some testings myself (it seems to work ok under NTVDM and
MS-DOS). The following variants occur to me:
- With/without EMM386
- Different versions of FreeCOM
- Use /B to avoid beeping at all
Testings are wellcome and a
Many thanks, Diego. It is, then, a known problem (ocurred in last
version too, but doesn't seem to arise under MS-DOS or NTVDM, so as
you say the problem may be in FreeCOM).
I would like to investigate into that too, although I just wanted to
clean up some missing bugs in KEYB itself before proceed
Hi,
2006/9/9, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> LH is used for one of the MODE lines, not good. DISPLAY
> still cannot load high if I have EMS 3.2 support on:
> This is because its header reserves space for 5 buffers
> outside XMS. If you ask me, it would be much better to
Well, I won't ask, but I
My shame, but I am still not working in a new DISPLAY at the moment.
Will keep it, though, for when I start with DISPLAY 0.14.
Aitor
2006/9/9, Arkady V.Belousov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi!
>
> 9-Сен-2006 18:22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to
> freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net:
>
> EA> DIS
Hello,
2006/9/23, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > I would like to get Ashton Tate's old Framework III running on my computer
> > with Windows XP. This seem to be possible by installing a virtual machine
> > and on this DOS. From what I could find out so far, there are two VM
> > freeware one
Well, I myself was looking for one, I got tired of using a floppy for
doing this, so I REALLY appreciate it ;-)
I'll test it and let everyone know.
Aitor
2006/10/18, Norbert Remmel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi,
>
> just have a look at
> http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vdk.html
>
> With this
Hi,
How about licensing? Is qxumbpci GPL/open source?
If it is closed source it may give you better performance, but you
risk that the program may be abandoned and no-one to be able to take
it back.
Aitor
2006/11/23, Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >Eric: Hi, sorry to bother you, but could you se
Hello, could you post your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS?
Thanks,
Aitor
2007/1/24, Joel Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi,
>
> First, thanks to all Freedos developers and contributors.
> Here is my question
>
> I previously used Freedos under Debian to
> run Instacalc, my much beloved DOS spreadsh
There used to be a floppy distribution, but I guess it hasn't been
updated for a while, so would be useless. As for wireless stuff, seems
to me a bit too sofisticated for DOS, but I don't know.
Aitor
2007/1/24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Is it still possible to install it without a
Hello,
2007/2/9, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Only load DISPLAY when you really need a font with characters
> which are not in your VGA BIOS font. For me myself, being able
> to show the Euro currency sign on the DOS screen is not worth
> 10 or more kilobytes of RAM ;-).
I am impressed, doe
Hello,
You can always select on-line an active codepage without commandline
(if the codepage has been previously prepared) with INT 2Fh/ AX=AD01h:
http://www.ctyme.com/intr/rb-5168.htm
Cheers,
Aitor
2007/3/4, HCL BA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello,
>
> CPIFNT is a small utility to override the BIO
As a last option, you could use the KEYCODE program to guess the
scancodes that your keyboard is emitting, and create a custom KL (or
KEYBOARD.SYS) file for KEYB (Henrique may help you with that).
But there should be an easier way...
Aitor
2007/3/14, Bonnie Dalzell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> thanks
Me too...
2007/3/14, BrentMartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>
> Please!
>
> I'm getting one of these messages every time I post something here.
>
>
> SobyLand does not accept mail from your address.
>
> The headers of the message sent from your address are show below:
>
>
> I do not want any more of t
Hello,
2007/3/15, Bonnie Dalzell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> i personally am not fond of m$ products which is why we have the macs, a
> linux box and my attachment to the amiga os. however i needed to try and
> get my legacy program running not take two weeks to try and learn about
> vmware.
I'm not p
Hello Bonnie,
I'm afraid this lays clearly on the side of xdosemu, so perhaps you
should post in xdosemu lists (just think that if you run freedos
standalone, "paste in the window" does not make sense).
Perhaps you come across a user with similar experiences, but you are
more likely to find an ans
Hello all:
Mybe I'm late in reporting this (I think Bernd mentioned that the
project is on-going), but it seems that the JPC (PC emulator in Java)
guys in Oxford have managed to put it publically in a plug-in where
you can run FreeDOS on-line!
You can try here:
http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/jpc/
n
True, I wasn't able to find the / or the : either. THe KEYB version
they are using is a bit old, and seems to crash, but anyway it's quite
nice.
Aitor
2007/3/26, Robert Riebisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Aitor Santamaría wrote:
>
> > You can try here:
> &g
Hello,
I think you've got enough answers, just one more to clarify things.
Windows98 as a pack will install MS-DOS 7.10, on top of which will
Windows 4.10 run.
If for the contrary your question is wether Windows 4.X will run on
top of FreeDOS, the answer is that I don't think so, or at least
you
Hello,
2007/5/13, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Even though volinfxl is written in Pascal, the UPXed
> exe file is smaller than 4 kilobytes now :-).
TurboPascal is well known for creating small size executables, as
appeared on a discussion on this list very long time ago (better than
many C co
Hello,
2007/5/23, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> PPS: You can UPX the SYS from 4.6 kB to 3.7 kB but then you MIGHT
> get silent failure to load when you try to use it in a UMB which
> has between 3.7 and 4.5 kB size. Converting NANSI to be internally
> EXE would be a solution if you need it "saf
Hello,
2007/5/30, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Hi!
>
> "Why isn't good documentation the norm? Programmers aren't
> rewarded for it."
>
> I agree on the latter - I usually TAKE time to have reasonable
> comments in my code because it is open source (so others can
> reuse it or help improving
Hello,
2007/6/4, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Hi Aitor,
>
> > I am afraid I disagree, Eric. We are just having badly or poorly
> > commented code BECAUSE we are creating Open Source. I believe it is
> > not as much the case for SMALL firms, but as for software written for
> > big firms, they
Hello, I don't know if it's just me, but the current font (at 17th of
june) looks a bit strange and harder to read...
Aitor
2007/6/8, Jim Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Thanks to all of the Arachne users (especially Udo!) and other web
> testers who helped with the new FreeDOS web design. The new
Oh, it's MSIE6 over WinXP over LCD screen (NO ClearType).
Aitor
2007/6/17, Aitor Santamaría <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello, I don't know if it's just me, but the current font (at 17th of
> june) looks a bit strange and harder to read...
>
> Aitor
>
&g
Hello Grant,
You're right. At current stage, the "modifier keys" operate some extra
magic on BIOS variables, and there are YET no commands in KEYB to
perform those changes. There will be in the future, but not a near
future.
Aitor
2007/6/9, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > you won't find t
With KEYB you can actually do this, there's a "basic" behaviour which
lets you remap, for cerain scancode, the character it produces. You
can in addition remap the scancode, too (e.g. for german).
Then you have strings, which provide further flexibility.
Do let me/us (Henrique) know if you need som
Am I too late to see the old one? I still see the fish (mozilla based,
the favicons never seemed to work very well with MSIE, with mozilla
based they allways work well, I ignore why).
Aitor
2007/6/15, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Hi Mateusz,
>
> > I saw that the FreeDOS website's icon has c
Hello,
As there's no NLSFUNC, you just create a new entry and re-compile.
As for the EURO, make sure that you choose a codepage that contains
the symbol (e.g. 858).
Aitor
2007/6/26, Mateusz Viste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any way to set up manually all configurations for the COUTRY
time already.
Aitor
2007/6/26, Aitor Santamaría <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello,
>
> As there's no NLSFUNC, you just create a new entry and re-compile.
> As for the EURO, make sure that you choose a codepage that contains
> the symbol (e.g. 858).
>
> Aitor
>
>
27, Mateusz Viste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Wednesday 27 June 2007 12:55, Aitor Santamaría wrote:
> > There IS NLSFUNC, but only for the UNSTABLE kernel, so I guess perhaps
> > hasn't been distributed in the official distributions.
>
> Okay, I have installed the unstabl
I ignore it, perhaps Eduardo (developer of NLSFUNC) has some tools for
creating/editing such files, or Eric or Henrique have some ideas?
Aitor
2007/6/27, Mateusz Viste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Wednesday 27 June 2007 19:54, Aitor Santamaría wrote:
> > Once with the unstable ker
Looks ok to me, in what sense is it buggy?
Aitor
2007/6/27, Tom Ehlert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> BTW:
> country=33 (spain) would be perfekt, it it wasn't buggy
> (1000's/decimal point swapped)
>
> /* Spain */ ,{
>33, /* = W1 W437 # Country ID & Codepage */
>850,
>
I've seen one bug right now, shouldn't Spain be "34"?
(Can't remember if the DOS country codes are the ones used in
telephony, but in such case, it's definitely 34).
Aitor
2007/6/27, Tom Ehlert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> BTW:
> country=33 (spain) would be perfekt, it it wasn't buggy
> (1000's/decimal
Hello Tom,
Actually they aren't.
The decimal separator is arguably ' (see below), but the thousand
separator is universally accepted (and known) as . in Spain (and NEVER
the ,).
As for the decimal separator, there's a typical controversy between
"official" and "widespread". The official symbol is
Hello Eric,
A quick one:
2007/6/28, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > 1 " seconds"
segundos
> > 2 " elapsed"
transcurrido
(or transcurridos if it's plural)
> > 3 "RUNTIME is free public domain software by Eric Auer 2007"
> > "Usage: RUNTIME your_program [your_options]"
> > "Shows how long y
Hello,
If I remember it correctly, it's because the messages are captured in
upper levels.
Fixes are forthcomming, I am preparing Edit 0.9a with a fix for that,
just give me some time (I'm on holidays).
Edit 0.9a expected by september.
Aitor
2007/8/8, Oleg O. Chukaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello
Looks good! It's nice to see a 3D version of the logo.
Just one thing: I've seen the main logo in the site and noticed that
its border, as much as it's mouth, is black.
In your picture, the background is also black, so it mixes with the border.
Could you please create another one over, say, white b
2007/8/31, Mateusz Viste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Friday 31 August 2007 17:31, Aitor Santamaría wrote:
> > Could you please create another one over, say, white background, where
> > the black border can be easily differenciated?
>
> Hi Aitor!
>
> It seems yo
Hello,
Congrats on the package system!! I think it is a great idea.
Just some comments:
(1) About the files to be put, I guess that the package system would
not, for the moment, try to download from a site outside ibiblio
itself, so the binary and source files could be simply unix links to
the ac
Hello,
I am going to give a bunch of ideas, I hope any of those is of some use.
2007/12/2, Jim Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > One more thing: I think the pkgs and spkgs for the update server
> > > should be assumed to be different than the zip files that we upload to
> > > ibiblio. A pkg and spk
Hello,
2007/12/2, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > put zip files on ibiblio that cannot be included on the FreeDOS
> > distribution because they are not free for all...
>
> You are right. The updater can make use of extra "nonfree"
> repositories outside ibiblio, while our ISOs gotta be free.
F
Hello,
2007/12/2, Jim Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> There is an important difference. What I put in the general archive on
> ibiblio is a mirror of other people's work. For most programs, they
> already have another primary location, and (license permitting) I'm
> just putting it on ibiblio so that
Hello,
2007/12/3, Jim Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On 12/2/07, Aitor Santamaría <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But programs that are in the "distributions" can be assumed to be
> re-zipped pkgs, especially so if we choose to rename them with FDP or
> PKG.
That is
Great!
2007/12/4, Jim Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I think we've covered the important points so far in our discussion.
> I've started to capture the thread in a new "changes to the software
> list" document, using as much copy/paste from this discussion as
> possible. That document can be the star
Hello,
2007/12/20, Lelio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Maybe you could say I=e000-efff but at your own risk.
> I do not understand...
You tell JEMM to use the e000-efff memory space, and you may run into
troubles if there is some hardware mapped at those addresses. Just try
and see.
> display: I know
Me too.
Aitor
2008/1/18, Blair Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I am with Tom
>
> On 1/16/08, Tom Ehlert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> 1) 4DOS in FreeDOS 1.1: Will it - the package - have the structure
> > >> of directory as the other programs? Or not? (freecom is in the
> > >> root-directory..
Hello,
2008/2/15, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> This will also be useful for some related projects: Writing some
> extension for the Blocek DOS Unicode editor to print unicode text
> as graphics, and writing a driver which lets you print text as
> graphics using the font you are using on the sc
Hello,
2008/5/20 Michael Reichenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> So why not handle it like FreeDOS = the kernel + important tools like
> gnu/linux is the kernel + important tools. All other stuff (packages and
> such) seam to overload this project.
The key word is "important". There seems to be no def
Hello,
I'll give you my opinion. Perhaps more than facing on features, I see
two foreseeable problems.
(1) If computers are ever to boot on a 64-bit world with EFI instead
of BIOS, I guess that there would be a kind of 16/32-bit API for
maping BIOS into EFI, otherwise that is key to FreeDOS (or I
Hello,
2008/6/3 Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Hi Robert,
>
> I remember some old "driver in protected mode" and cloaking
> related stuff from the old days but only few drivers did
> support it afair? So I would suggest that we just take our
> new open source drivers and turn those which reall
Hello,
2008/6/3 Michael Reichenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> iw2evk schrieb:
>> It's possible under freedos 1.0 put the drivers in XMS insted UMB?
>> Can be used cloaking.exe , and in wich modality?
>>
>> many thanks in advance.
>>
>> Roberto iw2evk
>
> Hey!
>
> I had some time ago a similar suggest
Hello,
2008/6/6 Michael Reichenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Is there a list with known incomparability's?
>
> Or some way to 'guess' what will be very likely to be incompatible?
>
> Or a tool for automatically testing all configurations until I can not
> reproduce the bug?
Automatically not. You b
Hello,
It is a well-known Turbo Pascal Library bug, you can either fix the
resulting program, or the TPL itself.
More details here:
http://www.brain.uni-freiburg.de/~klaus/pascal/runerr200/download.html
Regards,
Aitor
2008/6/18 Richard D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I'm new to Freedos, and tried it
Hello,
2008/8/29, Travis Siegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Speaking of freedos 1.1.
> I know freedos isn't intended to be dos *exactly* but it is intended
> to be a free dos replacement.
> This is fine for those using emulators under other operating systems,
> and those who can see their screens.
> Ho
Hi all,
I hereby announce FreeDOS EDIT 0.9a (the sucessor of EDIT 0.7d).
The big change about the 0.9 series is that it is now based on FreeDOS
DFlat+, which is a user interface development toolkit, that has
actually been excerpted (and continued) from EDIT. Thus, if you ever
happen to see anothe
Hello Michael,
More information about DFlat+ is at the freedos-devel list (not here),
I'll forward to you the mail privately.
I do not keep track of how it was prior to FreeDOS EDIT, but I am
afraid that the development and patching of D-FLAT inside EDIT turned
it too BorlandC dependent.
Current
Hello,
2008/9/21 Geraldo Netto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>> lh DISPLAY CON=(VGA,,1)
>>
>> Maybe vga,437,1 instead? LH makes no sense without emm386...
>
> actually i would use it with 850 cp which pt-br, it seems to 'run
> better' with no value
> ie: if i try to use display con=(vga,850,1) the screen
Hello,
As usual, Eric ported the conversation to private (is it just me who
does NOT like it?), and after a long thread, for those interested, the
results are:
(1) Several programs ceased to work properly whenever LH without a XMS
driver NOT being present and you try to load high (using UNSTABLE
Hello,
2008/9/25 Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> a 286 or newer processor). If EDIT or KEYB fail on your 80186, try
> EDIT 0.7d and MKEYB, which should work even on 8086. Or use no
> keyboard driver at all (if you use US keyboard layout). Let us know
> if you find other programs which do not work on 8
2008/9/28 Der kleine Beitrag eines Computeranwenders (Users)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Geraldo, the parameter here is to describe how your *hardware* is,
>> which is most likely to be 437.
>> If you put a 850 there, you are saying that your hardware already has
>> 850 encoded, and thus you wouldn't e
Hello,
2008/9/28 Der kleine Beitrag eines Computeranwenders (Users)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I'm a DOS user since the early 90's, I used DR DOS 5.0, later MS-DOS 7.00 and
> DR-DOS/OpenDOS 7 a lot, always together with 4DOS.
> I always removed DISPLAY.SYS, MODE CON ... and just left COUNTRY=49,850,
>
Hello,
2008/10/1 Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Hi!
>
>> 1) I have discover strange behaviour in the 'FreeDOS Edit 0.7d'. When I
>> type cyrillic 'п' (hex AF), then 'п' will disapper and 1-5 following
>> symbols will stay invisible.
>
> I have a suggested patch for that but you can use it for
Hello,
#define CHANGECOLOR (unsigned char) 19 /* prefix to change colors
(old: 174) */
#define RESETCOLOR (unsigned char) 23 /* reset colors to default
(old: 175) */
no need to make PR, but just have in mind that for users it is far
easier to use binaries rather than compiling themselves.
Ait
Hello,
2008/9/21 Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> prompt $p$g
>> set path=a:\dos
>> set NLSPATH=A:\DOS\NLS
>> set LANG=PT
>>
>> lh DISPLAY CON=(VGA,,1)
>
> Maybe vga,437,1 instead? LH makes no sense without emm386...
I don't see in what sense will notifying that his machine is codepage
437 help
Hello,
2008/9/28 Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Hi Aitor, Hans,
>
>> > a 286 or newer processor). If EDIT or KEYB fail on your 80186, try
>> > EDIT 0.7d and MKEYB, which should work even on 8086. Or use no
>> > keyboard driver at all (if you use US keyboard layout). Let us know
>> > if you fin
CTED]>:
> Hi Aitor,
>
> How difficult is it to change menu and controlkeys in Edir 0.9 to mimic
> M$ Edit in Portuguese?
>
> Alain
>
> Aitor Santamaría escreveu:
>> Hello,
>>
>> 2008/10/1 Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>> Hi!
>>>
Hello,
2008/10/4 Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> From his AUTOEXEC he does not seem to be using
>> codepage 437 at all, but 850
>
> As far as I understood, the number mentioned when
> you load DISPLAY is about the hardware codepage,
> not about the codepage loaded by DISPLAY...?
Yes
>> I would
In that aspect, FreeDOS should not behave different from MS-DOS, so
any info about MS-DOS will do.
Aitor
2008/10/17 Alexandru Fira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Please tell me, is Freedos vulnerable to DOS viruses ?
> Please point me to a site where I could find DOS viruses ! I would like to
> play w
Hello,
2008/10/17 Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
the BIOS will never return E0 as the char code
>
> AL is the ASCII value, AH is the scan code. And in my tests,
> the cursor keys returned "ASCII E0, scancode depending on key"
> so E0 can be returned. Special key combos such as right alt q
> (
Hello,
2009/2/4 Eric Auer :
>> FreeDOS KEYB 2.0 (pre4)
>> Critical error: cannot allocate memory.
>> DOS reported error: 8
>
> For DISPLAY, you would expect XMS to be used, but for KEYB?
That is MCB allocate, function 48h.
Used to allocate data in an independent MCB block, so that KEYB is
made in
Hello,
The KEYB binary is missing (I see the sources only):
KEYB200X.ZIP
I don't see DISPLAY either.
Aitor
2009/2/15 Geraldo Netto :
> Hi Guys,
>
> how are you doing there?
>
> News?
>
> i'm working on packages and until now i have:
>
> 7zipx.zip appe506s.zip
> asgn-14.z
But then it wouldn't be compatible with the LFN that came with
Windows9X and is used in the millions of USB devices or the like, nor
with the applications that are LFN-aware (unless you'd like to rewrite
the DOS LFN API descript.ion-based...
Aitor
2009/4/2 Eric Auer :
>
> Hi!
>
>>> So why cant
Hello,
I think that it's a good idea overall that one can decide the folder
where one can install the "big" programs, as could be to have a
OpenWatcom or FreePascal distribution, whereas the single-binary ones
(or equally smaller) should be merged into the freedos\bin directory.
2009/4/6 Eric Au
Hello,
I strongly suggest to look for a way to exclude with unzip the
extracting of the sources on a binary-only install mode.
Just another small pro: we have one more letter in the file names (for
those of us who care about the 8.3 format in the package names).
And just another idea (maybe for
Mateusz, it gives me a 404, did you manage to add it to the wiki, do
you have editor permissions already?
Aitor
2009/4/4 Mateusz Viste :
> Hi all!
>
> It has been a long time that the "poor translation management" was bothering
> me. There is no easy way to know what needs to be translated, and
Hello,
2009/4/9 Eric Auer :
>> MS DOS 6.22 has a tool that graphically shows a representation of
>> memory, I think it was called msd. Is there an equivalent for freedos?
>
> There are various tools for that, a nice one
> is Quarterdeck MFT Manifest which is now
> freeware. Unfortunately I cannot
Eric, what I meant is: see how many people writes to us telling that
the MS-DOS-style MENUing in CONFIG.SYS does not work in FreeDOS, so I
guess we would be flooded with messages like: "I wrote with LFNs to a
disk, and Windows no longer recognises the filenames, and has the
FILE4~1.TXT form instead
Besides the idea is completely other (and not bad at all, if you ask
me). Appart from realtime compression, I think you save a lot from the
variable-sectors-per-cluster approach... (Just the reason why a file
of 1 byte of size may get compressed on a 1:32 ratio ;) ).
Aitor
2009/4/12 Eric Auer :
>
Eric, was the "windows" (partial) support" ever ported to the stable
kernel? (maybe that's why).
Aitor
2009/4/12 Eric Auer :
>
> Hi,
>
>> Not workgroup.
>>
>> If I don't load emm386.exe, freedos version, I get an error that I
>> have an unsupported dos version.
>>
>> If I try loading windows 3.1
Hello,
2009/4/13 Michael Robinson :
> know of. Technically, if the author of a proprietary program
> doesn't care about it anymore, sharing it isn't a legal problem.
That is plain wrong. Many old games are back-to-life thanks to mobile
phones, and it just evidences that the authors keep the copy
Ok, I've seen it now, looks good!
I can give you editor permissions, I think it's just enough to tell me
your sourceforge username...
Aitor
2009/4/16 Mateusz Viste :
> On Thursday 16 April 2009 04:58 (CEST), Aitor Santamaría wrote:
>> Mateusz, it gives me a 404, did you mana
Hello,
2009/6/6 LM :
> I had to run the install CD twice to get FreeDOS installed on the hard drive.
> The first time, I tried to pick an image on bootup and the system locked up.
> Second time, I left it as default. I guess I'm not very familiar with the
> programs that installed with FreeD
Hello,
2009/6/13 dos386 :
>> Notable things:
>> edit
>
> buggy (some PC's)
>
Can you post any more information about those bugs?
If you refer to the "cursor blinking bug" that was supposed to appear
on 0.9a, so far I only know of a single PC of a single user where this
bug appears (apparently the
Hello,
2009/6/14 dos386 :
> Hi!
>
>> > buggy (some PC's)
>> Who what where?
>
> RTFB ... mouse cursor invisible on some PC's
"some"? Do you have evidences of it to happen in more than ONE PC
where it was discovered?
Aitor
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Hello Mike,
Thanks for writing and expressing your opinion.
In fact, I think you brought an interesting topic that is also of my
concern. When the freedos-user list was created, it was indeed created
as a list for those users that need not have knowledge about the
internals of FreeDOS itself in or
Hello!!
Apparently, the "downloads" link is broken, right?
I thought you would want to know about it..
Aitor
2009/4/28 maybeway36 :
> My newest project is Lindin, the LINux Dos INstaller (typical
> Linux-style ridiculous acronym.) It is a shell script using dialog (or
> zenity, a GUI equivalent
The kernel files are now mirrored to ibiblio:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/kernel/2038/kernel2038-fat16-binary.zip
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/kernel/2038/kernel2038-fat32-binary.zip
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/fi
Bonnie, I see in his page that the source code is provided, but would
you know what the license may be?
Also can someone give some feedback on how they are working for you?
Thanks!
Aitor
2009/7/1 Bonnie Dalzell :
> When I was doing some help type work tracking down documentation and
> sources u
Hi,
2009/7/4 Christian Masloch :
>> First non-bug: LFN-EN utilities don't work with my FAT32 partition
>> under FreeDOS.
>>
>> After examining the source code, it turns out that the logic was coded
>> in 1999 when
>> the only DOS that could handle FAT32 was MS-DOS. When run under
>> FreeDOS, the
Christian, don't get me wrong, I very much appreciate yours (and those
of many people) when it gets technical. I just don't know if plain
FreeDOS users end up getting a simple question when they are looking
for it.
Anyway, not many people answered, so perhaps my appreciation is wrong
and everything
Hi,
Well, at least while those fancy 64-bit processors start at 16-bit,
and have a 32-bit mode that can run tasks in the V86 mode, we are
safe.
I wonder, however, what will happen once Microsoft start releasing
Windows only in the x64 flavour (and drop the x86), and something
happens about our old
Hello guys,
It seems we have available a new open source BASIC tool
(interpreter?). I would like to know if any of you could give some
feedback on it, try it (maybe compare with other BASIC tools), as I am
not very familiar with BASIC tools nowadays.
I'll be looking for your comments.
UltraBas,
Geraldo, it is ages that kernel is compatible with FAT32... what do you mean?
Aitor
2009/8/25 Geraldo Netto :
> Hi,
>
> I hope it helps Eric
> http://www.daniel-baumann.ch/software/dosfstools/
> * 2009-07-27: releasing 3.0.5 - bugfix and cleanup for VFAT patent
> avoidance kernel patch
> * 2009
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