[Freedos-user] Dillo Web browser

2020-12-07 Thread Jose Senna
The only Web browsers for DOS with TLS support I know of are recent versions of Links. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

[Freedos-user] DOS/16M

2020-11-11 Thread Jose Senna
Randon Liegh said: >I'm not sure what DOS16/m is -it sounds like a DPMI server? If so, then it >provides 32-bit addressing >to dos programs. AFA I remember, DOS/16M is a DOS extender to allow use of DOS in protected mode. It predates DPMI specification and is geared towards the 16-bit

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS ethernet drivers

2021-01-20 Thread Jose Senna
Greg Gerke asked: > ...has anybody tried Lynx on FreeDOS ? I used it for quite a few years, but now Lynx is (almost) no good, because -No Javascript -Obsolete secure protocols -Incorrect renderizing of frames, tables -Few sites still provide pages suitable for text-mode

Re: [Freedos-user] What is the freedos fish ?

2021-02-07 Thread Jose Senna
> I had always assumed that it was a whale because other operating > systems are large and bloated and a whale would be irony. I also thought it was a whale, but because it is a threatened species... ___ Freedos-user mailing list

[Freedos-user] Command line

2021-03-04 Thread Jose Senna
Did anyone else look at this ? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00263-0 Command line is still (much) alive. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

[Freedos-user] Message delivered

2021-12-27 Thread Jose Senna
My message appeared on the list afer all. I shall thank Jim Hall and the others at Sourceforge who solved this problem. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

[Freedos-user] Video complains that DOS should not be mantained

2021-12-27 Thread Jose Senna
Liam Proven said: > There were DOS email and chat and FTP > clients; that stuff's fairly easy. Were is the right word. Most email servers nowadays require TLS, which is not available in DOS email clients. There are few remaining FTP servers, and I cannot tell how many also need TLS. I never used

[Freedos-user] MicroWeb

2021-12-31 Thread Jose Senna
Liam Proven said about MicroWeb: | Limitations | | HTTP only (no HTTPS support) | No CSS or Javascript | Very long pages may be truncated if | there is not enough RAM available Then DOSLynx http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/doslynx.htm is probably more useful.

[Freedos-user] State of play

2022-01-02 Thread Jose Senna
Paul Edwards said | In particular I want: | | 1. Something to display JPEGs | | ... | | 4. Something to read and write text email | | 5. Something to send/receive email to gmail. I am expecting this to be DOS-specific For 1) above, I recommend LXPic: http://hplx.pgdn.de It is small, fast even

[Freedos-user] Country code

2022-01-02 Thread Jose Senna
This has drifted quite apart from the original subject, I will post. Robert Riebisch said: | why I should talk to 4 different mail servers. I have one | mailbox with multiple addresses and that's fine. One reason is that if a mail server does not work well, as this did for most of past

[Freedos-user] State of play

2022-01-03 Thread Jose Senna
Paul Edwards asked: | I'd like to ask a more fundamental question - why does | video not require a driver to be installed, but audio does? | Is audio more complicated than video or something? Or | was it never properly standardized by IBM or someone? | I think it is because the PC always had

[Freedos-user] I never saw one

2022-03-09 Thread Jose Senna
Eric Auer said: > I would certainly prefer manual > partitioning over autocreated > FAT16 C: to ZZZ9: drives of which > only C: gets formatted anyway ;-) Is it possible to have a ZZZ9: drive in DOS (or other many letter ID) ? ___ Freedos-user

[Freedos-user] ECHO vs @ECHO

2022-02-25 Thread Jose Senna
Bret Johnson said: | In older versions of MS- and PC-DOS (prior to version 3.3), |and all versions of DR-DOS, the "@ECHO OFF" command does |not work at the beginning of batch files. I have not used any DOS for some months but, as far as I remember, @ECHO OFF worked with DR-DOS 5.

Re: [Freedos-user] Creating a minimal freeDOS bootable image that runs a simple text editor

2022-07-10 Thread Jose Senna
Jim Hall said: | Let's say you wanted to run FreeDOS EDIT every time FreeDOS boots up. | The full path to EDIT is C:\FREEDOS\BIN\EDIT.EXE, so you would create | a custom FDCONFIG.SYS that probably looked like this: | | FILES=20 | BUFFERS=20 | SHELL=C:\FREEDOS\BIN\EDIT.EXE | | For #2,

Re: [Freedos-user] Creating a minimal freeDOS bootable image that runs...

2022-07-12 Thread Jose Senna
Jim Hall said: > The /P switch in FreeCOM says that > COMMAND.COM is a permanent shell, > so it never exits (the EXIT command > does nothing). That /P ("permanent") > feature probably doesn't exist on > other applications, because they > don't need it. Then you mean the /P switch is

[Freedos-user] Tex et. al

2022-10-16 Thread Jose Senna
Jim Hall said: | It was cheaper to render the document on my | DOS PC in my room, and print to my Epson printer. Please, how did you render TeX format in the PC then ? ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS code page Unicode compatibility

2023-06-13 Thread Jose Senna
Vacek Nules said: > I'd like to ask the community's opinion and possible > endorsements to get the UTC to accept the [Forint] symbol Is the Forint still in use in Hungary ? Does Unicode still have vacant space in its character table? ___

[Freedos-user] How do I change screen resolution?

2023-08-06 Thread Jose Senna via Freedos-user
If this is of any help, you can set an 80x28 resolution in VGA by selecting an 8x14 pixel font, instead of the more common 8x16. Some even look better. It is also possible to set the screen mode to an SVGA or higher resolution, but not all modes support BIOS text functions, and you need these

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS or DOS based mail clients

2023-11-27 Thread Jose Senna via Freedos-user
This is not strictly a DOS remark; it applies to any e-mail but I think it can appear here. Eric Auer said: > PS: The older POP3 only allowed access to the inbox, > while IMAP also allows access to your other mail folders, > so I expect most mail providers to support IMAP now. I

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS based mail clients

2023-11-27 Thread Jose Senna via Freedos-user
Bret Johnson said: > The second difference is that IMAP is designed > to be used in a client-server configuration where > the e-mails stay stored on the server... But they also remain in the server if the POP3 client does not send the DELE command.

[Freedos-user] What cd-rom drivers does FreeDOS use ?

2024-02-01 Thread Jose Senna via Freedos-user
Karen Llewellen said: > The driver providing an issue is one called vide_cdd Would you please tell what is the issue ? ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Way or utility in Freedos to have two applications running

2024-04-11 Thread Jose Senna via Freedos-user
tsiegel said: > Actually, I did find one article that explains the multitasking versions > of dos quite clearly. > https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4363978/myth-dos-does-not-multitask > it doesn't cover all the versions of dos, but it does a good job of > hitting most of the major ones that

Re: [Freedos-user] Way or utility in Freedos to have two applications running

2024-04-14 Thread Jose Senna via Freedos-user
Liam Proven said: > Just use archive.org or archive.ph > or archive.is or any one of lots > of others. Yes, it is available from the Wayback machine. Thanks. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Freedos-user] Dial-up emulation

2024-04-25 Thread Jose Senna via Freedos-user
Robert Riebisch said: > This collection of **packet drivers** is still available at > . And packet drivers are typically for > Ethernet network cards, not modems. Thank you for pointing that most modems do not need device drivers. I had not used one for over 10 years.

[Freedos-user] How can I make FreeDOS display correctly the â

2024-04-25 Thread Jose Senna via Freedos-user
I also had this problem, For some reason, the ã is missing from codepage 850. I use codepage 860 instead, which is the "official" Portuguese codepage. Or you may use Windows-1252 codepage, if this is available. ___ Freedos-user mailing list

[Freedos-user] How to make FreeDOS display correctly the ã character

2024-04-26 Thread Jose Senna via Freedos-user
Frantisek Rysanek said: > If that's true, I would call this a > bug in the FreeDOS EGA.CPX ...? > Just fabulating, I haven't > analyzed this deeper. It is not a bug in FreeDOS, but a bug in codepage 850. ã is missing from it in every DOS I looked at.

Re: [Freedos-user] Dial-uo emulation ?

2024-04-24 Thread Jose Senna via Freedos-user
Brandon Taylor said: > Well, I did find a nice package in the > FreeDOS repository called LSPPP. Would that work better? It shall work if you have an internet service provider that supports a PPP connection. Anyway, you will still need a modem driver for DOS. There used to be many of

Re: [Freedos-user] Dial-up emulation

2024-04-24 Thread Jose Senna via Freedos-user
Tomas said: > network card =/= modem I never said nor implied they are the same. I said that, if an user has a machine with a network card, and a suitable DOS driver for the card is available, he/she may use it, instead of setting a dial-up connection.