Re: [Freedos-user] Large drives with 4k sectors presenting as 512b?

2011-04-10 Thread Michael B. Brutman
Jack, I love a good rant as much as anybody, but some context is needed. PCI was desperately needed by server class hardware. The ISA bus and the extensions to the ISA bus were failing for several reasons: - Inability to share interrupt lines - Three fragmented standards (ISA, VL, and EISA)

Re: [Freedos-user] Large drives with 4k sectors presenting as 512b?

2011-04-10 Thread Michael B. Brutman
Jack, There are so many inaccuracies and distortions in the reply that you sent, I'm going to assume you are just irritated or in a bad mood. The world moves on ... it doesn't make sense to support existing standards forever. You can have eternal support, or affordable prices, but not both.

[Freedos-user] New mTCP release (2011-04-06)

2011-04-06 Thread Michael B. Brutman
Things have been quiet on the list lately, so I feel compelled to generate some noise ... A new version of mTCP is available at http://www.brutman.com/mTCP . The notable changes are: - IRCjr now supports multiple sessions using virtual windows. - A high contrast screen mode for IRCjr; useful

Re: [Freedos-user] ntool help

2011-03-19 Thread Michael B. Brutman
My advice ... Your problem reports are confusing. You say that something is not working, but it had been working before. If that is the case, what are you changing? If you can't remember what you changed then it is time to slow down and take some notes. The general method for getting a

Re: [Freedos-user] redirecting mTCP dhcp

2011-03-14 Thread Michael B. Brutman
I'm not a Lynx user so forgive my ignorance .. but are you using the version supplied by Fred C. Macall? In the past he has been very good about supporting DosLynx for other people. The output from the mTCP DHCP client is probably not in a form directly usable by the WATTCP apps. You are

Re: [Freedos-user] How to enable networking in a FreeDOS client?

2011-03-13 Thread Michael B. Brutman
The mTCP DHCP client writes output to STDOUT and to the MTCPCFG file, which is pointed to by an environment variable. It's a simple matter of programming/scripting to convert the output from either one into something that looks like a static WATTCP configuration. I've tested my DHCP client

Re: [Freedos-user] Help: FreeDOS serial support

2011-03-12 Thread Michael B. Brutman
I had seen the original suggestion to use CTTY to redirect the console to a serial port but I had seen the original question on how to redirect DOS to use the serial port and I probably should have chipped in then, but now you know the limitations of CTTY. CTTY to a serial port only works

Re: [Freedos-user] network and usb floppy access on mac [was: Dhcp]

2011-01-15 Thread Michael B. Brutman
On 1/15/2011 10:23 AM, Ulrich Hansen wrote: The new ftpsrv app from mTCP works, but at least on my system seems to have problems with showing correct DOS paths. For instance it shows c:\ as c:/\. So f.i. creating new directories in filezilla doesn't work without manual correction. regards

Re: [Freedos-user] network and usb floppy access on mac [was: Dhcp]

2011-01-15 Thread Michael B. Brutman
this problem. Regards, Mike On 1/15/2011 4:33 PM, Ulrich Hansen wrote: Am 15.01.2011 18:10, schrieb Michael B. Brutman: On 1/15/2011 10:23 AM, Ulrich Hansen wrote: The new ftpsrv app from mTCP works, but at least on my system seems to have problems with showing correct DOS paths. For instance it shows

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS on an IBM PCjr?

2011-01-03 Thread Michael B. Brutman
Are there any FreeDOS users using a PCjr? I suspect that except for the weird memory hole that the video hardware creates and the use of NMI for keyboard handling, everything else should work pretty well. But I'd like to hear from somebody who knows. Regards, Mike

[Freedos-user] mTCP Updates (2011-01-02)

2011-01-03 Thread Michael B. Brutman
I have posted the latest and greatest code (again) at http://www.brutman.com/mTCP . This version has some minor bug fixes and a new FTP server application. Besides downloading it from the link above, for a limited time you can get it using FTP directly from the PCjr that I do my testing on.

Re: [Freedos-user] Watcom and DOS Interrupts

2010-12-21 Thread Michael B. Brutman
On 12/21/2010 8:54 AM, dos386 wrote: AFAIK the inline ASM is more painful in WATCOM than in Boreland C or CC386 compilers (I ever tested the latter one only). The are also pre-brewn int86() int386() and maybe more functions to fire the INT instruction but don't ask me how they exactly work.

[Freedos-user] mTCP 2010-11-27 Version

2010-11-27 Thread Michael B. Brutman
A new version of mTCP is available in the usual place: http://www.brutman.com/mTCP . If you are on an older clone machine and you have not been able to make the larger apps run correctly, then you want this version. The Watcom compiler runtime that I am using now was incorrectly flagging some

Re: [Freedos-user] mTCP 2010-10-20 Version posted

2010-10-22 Thread Michael B. Brutman
Geraldo Netto wrote: Hi Michael/All, Would be possible to release it as gpl or any other oss license? (i guess someone already asked for it, but anyway...) Kind Regards and Best Wishes, Geraldo Geraldo, It is in the works. My employer has to review the code and bless it first to protect

[Freedos-user] mTCP 2010-10-20 Version posted

2010-10-21 Thread Michael B. Brutman
I just posted the latest and greatest code at http://www.brutman.com/mTCP . This version supports IP fragments, which might help with some of the stranger network and gateway setups out there. Another neat feature that I should have done a while ago is command line editing for FTP, including

Re: [Freedos-user] mTCP 2010-09-16

2010-09-17 Thread Michael B. Brutman
Mateusz Viste wrote: I believe you wanted to say frame instead of packet and 64 instead of 60? As far as I know, an IP packet can transport no payload, which gives a 20-bytes packet in result. :-P The limitation is about the minimum size of the frame, which (on ethernet) is of 64 bytes, to

[Freedos-user] mTCP 2010-09-16

2010-09-16 Thread Michael B. Brutman
Hi, Just a quick note - I've posted a new version of mTCP at http://www.brutman.com/mTCP . The biggest change is a bug fix. Some packet drivers refuse to send packets less than 60 bytes in size while many older packet drivers don't care. Technically speaking, a packet less than 60 bytes in

Re: [Freedos-user] Little Sister

2010-09-06 Thread Michael B. Brutman
dos386 wrote: to me it's still unclear what it is supposed to do and whether it works in (Free-)DOS at all, considering the shots you posted ;- It is a LAN status monitor. It monitors the status of your LAN. ;-0 --

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