Re: [Freedos-user] display command

2014-05-02 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Dale E Sterner sunbeam...@juno.com wrote: Now why doesn't display work for vga. I don't know. :-)As a hopeless end user, I admit to not having used such things lately. Aitor Santamaria Merino is official maintainer for (FD) DISPLAY but presumably

Re: [Freedos-user] display command

2014-05-02 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: Or, as Bret Johnson suggested, read the (FD, HTML-) Help: http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/display.htm Oops, corrected the name here. (Bah, you're all the same!) :-P

Re: [Freedos-user] UPX or not UPX FreeDOS programs/TSRs?

2014-05-04 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 4:17 AM, Frantisek Hanzlik fra...@hanzlici.cz wrote: Thus, what is Your opinion on the use of UPX? I think it's good and works well. Sure, if you don't have any local restrictions (bandwidth limits, mail attachment limits, slow upload time, limited disk size, or

Re: [Freedos-user] Load file sys driver in dconfig.sys?

2014-05-04 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Ray Davison ray...@charter.net wrote: Is it possible to load an exe file system driver in dconfig.sys? Did you mean FDCONFIG.SYS? (IIRC, dconfig.sys is from DR-DOS.) I have a DOS HPFS driver that works OK, but I would like it to get a drive letter before

Re: [Freedos-user] Command Line Parsing

2014-05-15 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Jack Jackson j...@pebbleridge.com wrote: I've noticed a difference in command line parsing between FreeDOS and PC-DOS. The behavior difference I see with FreeDOS is if the first non-blank character after the executable is a left parenthesis, then FreeDOS

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos on 86Duino

2014-05-17 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Dinosaur j...@tubejoiners.com wrote: Hi All Long time user of FreeDos on CFC in Industrial environment. Long time user of FreeBasic in the same environment. Retired and experimenting with a new device. Yes, I recognize your nickname from FreeBASIC's

Re: [Freedos-user] Keyboard issue

2014-05-18 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, First of all, thank you for reporting this! On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Shane shan...@hotmail.com wrote: I downloaded the demo Vision Edit from the site below, and was able to patch the overlay VED.OVL after downloading bp7_tpl.zip from Alexei A. Frounze's site alexfru.chat.ru and

Re: [Freedos-user] Terribly slow versus RS232 interrupts

2014-05-28 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 10:44 AM, rauno.oll...@vaasalainen.com wrote: After a long pause (since late 90:eens) I started again with Autocad. R9 for DOS which I consider the best ever made in 2D/2.5D CAD. (that is mainly explained by excellent digitizer tablet use) Shortly... it

Re: [Freedos-user] Fwd: Re: FDAPM slow turbo c 2.01 down

2014-06-22 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: From Zbigniew, in reply to my off-list question: Hi! Short question, is this mail about FDAPM or is it about UIDE? Actually, I wrote it about UIDE, but... And does it help to use the ADV:REG option for FDAPM

Re: [Freedos-user] Software List » DEVEL - recommendation (Forth)

2014-06-25 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Zbigniew zbigniew2...@gmail.com wrote: Browsing the list, I can't see any Forth compilers! http://www.freedos.org/software/?cat=devel I'm not sure of the exact list of people who can import an .LSM into the FreeDOS Software List, but it's a very very small

Re: [Freedos-user] Software List » DEVEL - recommendation (Forth)

2014-06-25 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, Jim, On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Jim Hall jh...@freedos.org wrote: Yes, I prefer to keep the software list somewhat controlled. The software list should not grow too quickly, or it risks becoming bloated. But if it doesn't grow at all, it becomes stale. I would be happy to add a

Re: [Freedos-user] Sudoku on a 8086 (or anything newer)

2014-06-27 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote: Some days ago I was looking up on the web for some Sudoku games that would run under FreeDOS. And I found.. almost nothing (only one game to be precise, that had no mouse support, and of course it wasn't free/libre).

Re: [Freedos-user] EMODE - translation from Pascal to C - solved

2014-06-28 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Zbigniew zbigniew2...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-06-28 15:45 GMT+02:00, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr: About size - you should probably get it down a few KiB by compiling into a COM binary. From what I saw, you don't use any memory segments, just (plenty of)

Re: [Freedos-user] FDAPM slow turbo c 2.01 down

2014-06-29 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Zbigniew zbigniew2...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-06-29 15:25 GMT+02:00, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr: I am not sure it's related to the XMS manager you use. Unfortunately, it seems to be related. It's rather a matter of the amount of conventional memory

Re: [Freedos-user] EMODE - translation from Pascal to C - solved

2014-06-29 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 1:19 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: There are fundamental language differences to take into account. Niklaus Wirth created Pascal as a teaching tool, for teaching algorithm design. It was originally intended to be compiled on paper, with the

Re: [Freedos-user] EMODE - translation from Pascal to C - solved

2014-06-29 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Zbigniew zbigniew2...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-06-29 14:04 GMT+02:00, Tom Ehlert t...@drivesnapshot.de: Most probably because you use printf(). Most C programs use printf (or sprintf, etc.) a fair bit. Very rarely can you say, Well, I don't need it. It

Re: [Freedos-user] Sudoku on a 8086 (or anything newer)

2014-06-29 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 2:11 AM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote: On 06/28/2014 03:30 AM, Rugxulo wrote: About VGA - simply because I needed 256 colors to make sudoku86 look pleasent. But I do plan implementing CGA support soon (but it will be deadly ugly). CGA honestly doesn't

Re: [Freedos-user] Sudoku on a 8086 (or anything newer)

2014-06-29 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote: On 06/29/2014 10:53 PM, Rugxulo wrote: CGA honestly doesn't look too bad here. As for something that runs on technology that is 30 years old, yeah I guess it looks acceptable :) Even VGA (or SVGA or VESA) is ancient

Re: [Freedos-user] FDAPM slow turbo c 2.01 down

2014-06-30 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 7:05 PM, Zbigniew zbigniew2...@gmail.com wrote: No, no such exotic options, Well, I would maybe recommend I=TEST X=TEST. and using JEMM386 didn't help Again, I think it's better to LOAD and UNLOAD from cmdline (JEMM386) when needed to avoid such problems. -

Re: [Freedos-user] Sudoku on a 8086 (or anything newer)

2014-06-30 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote: Sure there could be lots of additional features (like in any software) - I was trying to focus on the most classic vision of Sudoku, and do it right, instead of going into hundreds of features that I wouldn't have

Re: [Freedos-user] FDAPM slow turbo c 2.01 down

2014-06-30 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Zbigniew zbigniew2...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-06-30 19:19 GMT+02:00, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com: IIRC, 4DOS can swap out (since it's quite large) to conserve conventional memory. You may have to change that setting (SWAPPING ?? I forget ...). I don't think

Re: [Freedos-user] EMODE - translation from Pascal to C - solved

2014-06-30 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 4:11 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 1:19 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: I think you're mistaking it for ALGOL 60. Because Pascal always had I

Re: [Freedos-user] Help Using FreeDOS1.1

2014-07-11 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:46 AM, panyong zlib...@icloud.com wrote: I installed FreeDOS1.1 on Parallels , and i want to install some software on the list http://www.freedos.org/software/ I don't have a Mac or Parallels. Does it even officially support DOS at all? (Wikipedia says

Re: [Freedos-user] Trying to install Freedos 1.1 reboots computer

2014-07-16 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Bill Haught wlhaughtpr...@att.net wrote: I need to reinstall Windows anyway, so I thought I'd try installing Freedos first since I have a USB flash drive that boots on two computers I have access to but not on my computer. I have already included my

Re: [Freedos-user] newbie help?

2014-07-16 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Dave Stevens g...@uniserve.com wrote: Quoting Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net: On 2014-07-12 12:03 (GMT-0700) Dave Stevens composed: I need to make a bootable DOS disk and don't see how. I have a computer that needs a BIOS update. But! the smallest

Re: [Freedos-user] Rufus error messages

2014-07-16 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Bill Haught wlhaughtpr...@att.net wrote: Here is my autoexec.bat file below. Note it has uide.sys and shsucdx already. I don't know if the options are correct for my system, though. The last time I messed with DOS was about 15-20 years ago when I didn't

Re: [Freedos-user] Rufus error messages

2014-07-16 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Bill Haught wlhaughtpr...@att.net wrote: I figured it out. USB Operation Mode at High Speed interferes with Freedos installation and USB flash drive booting. ACPI Suspend Type at S3 also interferes with Freedos installation. I haven't actually

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos on 86Duino

2014-07-22 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, sorry for late reply, On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 5:09 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Dinosaur j...@tubejoiners.com wrote: I have searched without success to see if I can enable some sort of Boot.log file which records all the boot steps and

Re: [Freedos-user] How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine

2014-08-01 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote: That's a question to those of you who happen to still keep an oldish hardware machine dedicated to DOS tasks... How do you transfer files between your main computer and your FreeDOS-powered machine ? For my P166, I

Re: [Freedos-user] How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine

2014-08-05 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Zbigniew zbigniew2...@gmail.com wrote: Switching among many startup configurations is something we can't avoid in DOS. I assume you mean CONFIG.SYS menus. The old old days where you needed to rename / copy separate files in order to multi-boot such setups

Re: [Freedos-user] How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine

2014-08-05 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Thomas Mueller mueller6...@twc.com wrote: First concern is making FreeDOS bootable, preferably with Syslinux. SYS.COM didn't work, even made the FAT32 file system unreadable. I need to save the first MB by dd from FreeBSD so as to be able to dd back

Re: [Freedos-user] How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine

2014-08-05 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote: How do you transfer files between your main computer and your FreeDOS-powered machine ? FYI Recently I did make an extremely minimal bootable 1.44 MB floppy .img. (.ZIP'd it is less than 400 kb.) It has almost

Re: [Freedos-user] How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine

2014-08-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote: The TCP/IP stack used by NDN is somewhat exotic (Sabretooth), I never used it before. Looking at the various changelogs of NDN and Sabretooth I noticed that these guys have put lots of effort into developing their FTP

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG ?

2014-08-10 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 8:57 PM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote: About fdnpkg freezing: how could I reproduce this problem exactly? Should it be enough to just install freedos 1.1 on virtualbox, without any special configuration, and boot the latest version of all_cd.iso on top

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG ?

2014-08-11 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 4:49 AM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote: About FDISK incompatibility: I am getting an error message Error Reading Hard Disk: Function number of drive not permitted. Is it what you end up with, too? If so, then it appears to be a problem only if you run FDISK

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG ?

2014-08-11 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Aug 11, 2014 9:44 AM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote: But have you booted from a floppy (1.4M image), or from an emulated floppy (as a CD) ? Just floppy, no CD anything. The problem seems to appear when one boots from a CD with floppy emulation, and fdisk being ran from the

Re: [Freedos-user] DOSMid - plays MIDI files on DOS via a MPU-401 interface

2014-08-11 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 6:16 AM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote: Hi DOSers, Today, I decided to release publicly my latest project: DOSMid. http://dosmid.sourceforge.net DOSMid is a MIDI player for (free)DOS. It's a real mode application designed to run on very modest

Re: [Freedos-user] How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine

2014-08-12 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 11:39 PM, Thomas Mueller mueller6...@twc.com wrote: I never used RUFUS or UNetBootIn, don't know if I could. Do you have a modern Windows, e.g. XP? And I just blindly assume UNetBootIn could work atop (your) Slackware 13. I was never able to install FreeDOS 1.1

Re: [Freedos-user] FTLK for dos package

2014-08-12 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 9:02 AM, sparky4 spar...@cock.li wrote: Why isn't there a package of this yet? i can make one if you want me too~ What would it include? The (DJGPP, C++) library and headers? Or am I misunderstanding here?

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG ?

2014-08-12 Thread Rugxulo
Hi again, On Aug 11, 2014 4:49 AM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote: About FDISK incompatibility: I am getting an error message Error Reading Hard Disk: Function number of drive not permitted. Is it what you end up with, too? If so, then it appears to be a problem only if you run FDISK

[Freedos-user] Wherefore art thou, packet driver? (was: Re: A little help here)

2014-08-21 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, N.B. The OP's subject line is too vague. You'd probably get more help with a more specific description of the problem. Some people don't have time to pore over all the various threads. Anyways, please keep reading below, I'll (weakly) respond inline. On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 3:50 AM, Mateusz

Re: [Freedos-user] VirtualBox and FTP

2014-08-28 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote: Might be that the DHCP implementation of VirtualBox is incompatible with the DHCP client embedded in Watt32... A PCAP capture might show more, although not sure if there is any point, since watt32 probably won't be

Re: [Freedos-user] VirtualBox and FTP

2014-08-31 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Michael Brutman mbbrut...@brutman.com wrote: It pains me to see this much effort going into what should be a small utility that takes the relevant mTCP obtained network parameters and writes them into the WATTCP file. There are 15 invocations of the

Re: [Freedos-user] 1.1 new install, no boot

2014-09-17 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Ray Davison ray...@charter.net wrote: Create boot floppy; Bad command or file name - I:\FreeDOS\3rdParty\extract FAT12 System transferred Floppy no-boot. I've not tried this myself. Though I think you can find Extract here:

Re: [Freedos-user] Carbon OS Progress

2014-09-17 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, I did actually download this but haven't gotten around to trying it yet. I'm not sure what niche this is trying to fill, but I certainly encourage all distro makers. There's just so much stuff out there, it's impossible to target and support it all in a single .iso file. And yes, your .iso is

Re: [Freedos-user] 1.1 new install, no boot

2014-09-17 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Ray Davison ray...@charter.net wrote: Rugxulo wrote: In other words, what specifically are you trying to do? What files do you need on there? What machines / environments are you trying to use? I use a floppy to boot a machine for maintenance

[Freedos-user] MetaDOS floppy distro (was: Re: How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine)

2014-09-27 Thread Rugxulo
scenario, but it can't be impossible to try, can it?? On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote: How do you transfer files between your main computer and your FreeDOS-powered machine ? FYI

Re: [Freedos-user] MetaDOS floppy distro (was: Re: How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine)

2014-10-01 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Christian Imhorst christian.imho...@gmail.com wrote: thank you very much for sharing METADOS. To me it looks very interesting and I like the idea of having a FreeDOS live distro, too. VMDK files are nice but I am using Qemu mainly. Therfore I was

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-10-04 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Dale E Sterner sunbeam...@juno.com wrote: Thanks for the links update - very useful. Especially ghost 5 for dos. Maybe that's exactly what you want, but I highly doubt it. GhostScript hasn't been directly supported on DOS in years and years. I don't know

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-10-04 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, (I'm late replying again!) On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Krys Garnett krys.garn...@gmail.com wrote: I'm resurrecting an old desktop for a distraction free environment So? Any updates you can tell us? How has it been going? and I'm wondering whether it is easier or more useful to use

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs. MS DOS 6.22 for legacy hardware

2014-10-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 8:57 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Dale E Sterner sunbeam...@juno.com wrote: Just heard about LaTeX here and being curious, just want to understand - It's worth learning about, but DOS is the wrong place to do it.

Re: [Freedos-user] current information on networking with a laptop?

2014-10-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Dale E Sterner sunbeam...@juno.com wrote: I run DOS by itself not under another OS. All the so called DOS drivers that I've tried require Windows to be present. Without Windows they don't work. I tried the mode command; the screen stays the same size and

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag

2014-10-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:25 AM, John R. Sowden jsow...@americansentry.net wrote: Problem is I cannot find a location to download [Defrag 1.3.2]. The freedos.org site does not have the current version where I can download it, and google is not my friend, in this case. You didn't look

Re: [Freedos-user] Fwd: lfn tools for dos - including FAT21, 16, 32, etc

2014-10-13 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 6:44 AM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: Jim Michaels recommends the following long file name tool project: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lfntools/?source=directory Maybe other FreeDOS users already have experiences with that project and can share them

Re: [Freedos-user] Tex for DOS distribution

2014-10-31 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, sorry for late reply, On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 3:45 AM, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/17/2014 7:41 PM, Marco Achury wrote: Looking at: http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/tex/ There are a lot of files. Old files, probably not even latest versions.

Re: [Freedos-user] Tex for DOS distribution

2014-10-31 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/31/2014 12:01 PM, Rugxulo wrote: On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 3:45 AM, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/17/2014 7:41 PM, Marco Achury wrote: Looking at: http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.simtel.net/pub

Re: [Freedos-user] Kernel Feature Request (RE: Online Bible Revisited)

2014-11-04 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote: Re: Online Bible Revisited: I am going to mark this thread solved. Mr. Rugxulo was kind of enough to recompile the 2041 svn kernel to take care of the FcbParseName bug. I didn't add anything except Eric's tiny patch

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS article for freiesMagazin

2014-11-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Christian Imhorst christian.imho...@gmail.com wrote: maybe you like to know that I wrote an article about FreeDOS Totgesagte leben länger for the current issue of freiesMagazin: http://www.freiesmagazin.de/20141102-novemberausgabe-erschienen Cool. Nice

Re: [Freedos-user] MetaDOS floppy distro (was: Re: How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine)

2014-11-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, Just for comparison On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/metados/ Just for comparison, both FreeBSD (qcow, vhd, vmdk) and Haiku (vmdk) have virtual hard disk images

Re: [Freedos-user] Official kernels and distribution

2014-11-17 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, I'm probably not the best person to answer these questions, but since nobody else responded On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Vidók Tibor tibor.vi...@gmail.com wrote: I've just installed FreeDOS to learn a DOS kernel architecture and the project activities. Actually what I cannot see

Re: [Freedos-user] MetaDOS floppy distro (was: Re: How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine)

2014-11-23 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: It seems that other recent OSes also come as emulator images. In particular, I'm thinking of ReactOS 0.3.17. So it's obviously not that unpopular an idea. It certainly makes it easier to test things out. https

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

2014-12-01 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 10:22 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Thomas Mueller mueller6...@twc.com wrote: from dmccunney: I can't run FreeDOS or any other DOS from hard drive because of GPT; only way is if I can install to a USB stick using

Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview 2.60 (digressions)

2014-12-02 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Jose Antonio Senna jasse...@vivointernetdiscada.com.br wrote: On the matter of browsers for DOS, Lynx, which I am using now, supports https and has done so for 10+ years. What is not available in any DOS browser is javascript. Much of javascript in web

Re: [Freedos-user] MetaDOS floppy distro (was: Re: How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine)

2014-12-05 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Louis Santillan lpsan...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: It seems the VirtualBox download (125 MB .ZIP) comes as a microscopic .vbox meta file and the main .vdi is roughly 300 MB. Yet it must be some

Re: [Freedos-user] HTML5/Javascript/Flash (was: Re: Quickview ver 2.60)

2014-12-15 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, sorry for late reply, On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Thomas Mueller mueller6...@twc.com wrote: from Rugxulo: Even the lighter-weight graphic web browsers for Linux/Unix support Javascript and HTTPS, Mozilla Firefox and Seamonkey, and maybe some others, also support HTML5, Light

Re: [Freedos-user] MetaDOS floppy distro - XFDOS - DOS4WIN64 Qemu environment

2014-12-15 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Georg Potthast mail...@georgpotthast.de wrote: So if you made software for DOS you do not want to abandon you could make a Win8 version with DOS4WIN64. Someone (not me!) has taken it upon themselves to make various emulator images for what they call QEMU

Re: [Freedos-user] MetaDOS floppy distro

2014-12-15 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, Since you mentioned QEMU on ARM in your more recent email, I figured I'd come back to this to give some minor comments. On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Georg Potthast mail...@georgpotthast.de wrote: I tried MetaDOS on my Samsung Android Tablet using Qemu based Limbo PC. Seems to work

Re: [Freedos-user] HTML5/Javascript/Flash (was: Re: Quickview ver 2.60)

2014-12-16 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 6:59 AM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: The point I'm trying to make is that it's pointless to pretend that all web browsers (and OSes and cpus) are created equal. Most aren't supported

Re: [Freedos-user] [Bulk] Re: How to run Fractint in FreeDOS in VirtualBox?

2015-02-02 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Knute Myhrvold knut...@att.net wrote: I did: type FRACTINT at the command line... have tried that several times. Was I in the proper Folder? I thought so... after typing dir fractint FreeDOS did display the many files there, including FRACTINT.EXE. I

Re: [Freedos-user] How to run Fractint in FreeDOS in VirtualBox?

2015-02-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 8:18 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: I allocated the 2GB slice for FreeDOS expecting to use FAT16, and FAT32 support was a happy fringe benefit. Even with a full FreeDOS installation including pretty much everything on the ISO, and an assortment of

Re: [Freedos-user] How to run Fractint in FreeDOS in VirtualBox?

2015-02-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Feb 7, 2015 12:11 AM, Thomas Mueller mueller6...@twc.com wrote: FreeDOS is rather difficult to run on my system, won't run at all with EMM386, and forget other DOSes. I know you've mentioned Linux and FreeBSD. Have you not tried FreeDOS under QEMU, VirtualBox, or Bochs?

Re: [Freedos-user] Different help pages

2015-01-18 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 7:29 AM, wch-tech house-grp.net wch-t...@house-grp.net wrote: I have been reading about various details about freedos and in the course of this work I noticed that there are at least two different sites which contain freedos help. The official one is version

Re: [Freedos-user] xcdrom.sys

2015-01-18 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 11:00 AM, wch-tech house-grp.net wch-t...@house-grp.net wrote: I was wondering if xcdrom.sys is in the freedos installation .iso. If so, what is the full path to it's location? If not, I am wondering: a) just curious, why not? Don't know, probably nobody

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS program/beginner's problems

2015-02-10 Thread Rugxulo
Hi again, On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik fra...@hanzlici.cz wrote: I'm trying to write a small program that will distinguish whether running under dosemu/FreeDOS or not, and accordingly do other things. I'm

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS program/beginner's problems

2015-02-10 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik fra...@hanzlici.cz wrote: I'm trying to write a small program that will distinguish whether running under dosemu/FreeDOS or not, and accordingly do other things. I'm not under Linux right now, so I can't double check, but just FYI, here's

Re: [Freedos-user] dos editor very long files ignore eol character

2015-02-17 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 3:32 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:38 PM, John R. Sowden jsow...@americansentry.net wrote: dos editor very long files ignore eol character I am looking for the above. What machines (cpu, RAM, OS [version + memory

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS program/beginner's problems

2015-02-14 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Feb 14, 2015 3:44 PM, John Sowden jsow...@americansentry.net wrote: This came up when I tried to exit DOS using the dosemu exit program and it crashed. What crashed? DOSEMU? Your app? Linux? What distro? BTW, I thought exitemu was the correct way to exit DOSEMU.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS SVN 2041 and/or SVN 2042 (FcbParsename)

2015-01-31 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote: How would I go about compiling a FAT 16 kernel with the same patch - or do Messrs. Rugxulo or Davis have one already compiled. I am working on my own rendition of Carbon OS and need it for a lab experiment. Thank you

Re: [Freedos-user] [Bulk] Re: FreeDOS install aborted into VirtualBox - Help please

2015-02-01 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 6:28 AM, Knute Myhrvold knut...@att.net wrote: I'm sorry, Eric... I probably haven't been much help because I'm just too DOS and PC ignorant to help much with specifics. Generally, I'll make 2 suggestions: Please make installation easier if at all possible, A bare

Re: [Freedos-user] HTML5/Javascript/Flash (was: Re: Quickview ver 2.60)

2015-01-13 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 6:01 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/16/2014 2:50 PM, Louis Santillan wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 2:32 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: Hardware is

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS program/beginner's problems

2015-02-13 Thread Rugxulo
Hi again, On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 7:47 PM, Ralf Quint freedos...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/10/2015 5:34 PM, Rugxulo wrote: But again, DOSEMU isn't widely deployed, so lots of people don't use it. It still works fairly well, just not popular. I'm not sure if that will ever improve. I don't want

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS program/beginner's problems

2015-02-13 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik fra...@hanzlici.cz wrote: Regarding to DOSEMU/SELinux interaction, it isn't too big problem tune it e.g. in SELinux permissive mode. su -c 'sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=0' su -c 'sesetbool -P mmap_low_allowed 1' (That's all I know from a

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS NIC Card problem

2015-02-10 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 9:27 PM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote: I have an HP Elite 8000 with an Intel 82567LM-3 Pro 1000 ethernet card. After loading the sequence of drivers (LSL, E1000odi IPXodi and odipkt) I am able to acquire an address and ping successfully. But when I try to

Re: [Freedos-user] Loading UIDE with devload

2015-01-04 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 6:52 AM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros fav...@mpcnet.com.br wrote: Hi Jack, others, You may just want to email him directly. Is it safe to load UIDE in FDAUTO.BAT with DEVLOAD.COM, instead of loading it in FDCONFIG.SYS as recommended in the instructions?

Re: [Freedos-user] Lynx latest versions

2015-01-03 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 5:35 AM, Thomas Mueller mueller6...@twc.com wrote: I suppose one who wants an updated Lynx for DOS 32-bit can build it him/herself from the source. Last time I tried building it, it was buggy and prone to crashes (at least under VirtualBox). But I didn't look very

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Edit maximum file size

2015-03-14 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Don Flowers donr...@gmail.com wrote: I had actually forgotten about setedit (and have probably forgotten how to use it as well). Is there a reason the edit category is not included in the fdnpkg install program or the all_cd iso? I don't mind relearning

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Edit maximum file size

2015-03-14 Thread Rugxulo
, well, they have menus, but otherwise aren't so similar. (AFAIK) SETEDIT was the basis for RHIDE. But neither of them have been updated in years. Actually, neither has TDE (still stuck to unreleased 5.2 beta with bugs, last I heard). (Rugxulo: Please mirror blocek 1.4b, small fix

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2015-03-16 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Thomas Mueller mueller6...@twc.com wrote: Using elvis 2.2, I was able to view and edit files in DR-DOS above 1.5 MB, but scrolling through a file of 3 MB was prohibitively slow; no such problem in Linux. I had bad memories of Elvis. Not that it was bad

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2015-03-16 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 9:19 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Thomas Mueller mueller6...@twc.com wrote: Maybe that was because DOS is not really made for large RAM. Editors I'm aware of that ran under DOS and edited really large files used

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Edit maximum file size

2015-03-15 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 6:20 AM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste.fr wrote: FDNPKG keeps all editors inside its util repository. elvis 2.2 - a clone of vi/ex, the standard UNIX editor. Supports nearly all vi/ex commands Not to nitpick, it's still a good editor (at least in features), but

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Edit maximum file size

2015-03-15 Thread Rugxulo
floppy0 /rugxulo/blah.img)!!! I've got (unreleased 0.2) MetaDOS floppy .img. I did make it 100% transparent to recompile the (patched) kernel and download OLB from Simtel mirror. Other than that, I haven't figured out install yet. There is only one program that I own that currently does not work

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2015-03-17 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 7:34 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: No, many compilers make it totally transparent to the end user. So you don't even have to write any non-portable code (usually). And this goes

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Error

2015-03-05 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 4:34 AM, f4tm...@web.de wrote: I simply took another PC, now it works. Got freedos on the hd. Only thing that would be neat is USB mouse support. Read about USBMOUSE and added dos=high device=himem.exe device=usbaspi.sys device=di1000dd.sys to FDCONFIG.SYS -

Re: [Freedos-user] Fwd: lfn tools for dos - including FAT21, 16, 32, etc

2015-03-07 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, (Sorry I'm late.) Thanks for your info about this! On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 12:10 AM, Shane shan...@hotmail.com wrote: Rugxulo: LFN-EN was compiled with Microsoft Visual C++ version 1.51. According to the documentation, it uses a copyrighted library to handle virtual memory, but this can

Re: [Freedos-user] Annual inform

2015-03-05 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Rafael Angel Campos Vargas rofoelcom...@hotmail.com wrote: San José, Costa Rica Annual inform: First, thanks to FreeDos team for the link http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/pascal/contrib/ where you will encounter previous

Re: [Freedos-user] dos usb driver!

2015-03-30 Thread Rugxulo
Guys, you absolutely can't be this stubborn or naive. I'm not trying to be a hardass here, but you have to avoid mistakes like this, or it'll cost ya. U.S. copyright law does not give us the right to copy things at will, esp. not commercial, proprietary software from one of the biggest companies

Re: [Freedos-user] dos usb driver!

2015-03-30 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, I have no idea if you can still buy full MS-DOS from MSDN subscriptions. But there is a small system floppy still available in Windows Explorer. (Other options, esp. downloading from questionable web sites, are NOT recommended.) EDIT: (quoting

Re: [Freedos-user] dos usb driver!

2015-03-30 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 4:33 PM, John R. Sowden jsow...@americansentry.net wrote: Regarding use of the usb driver, I have been using it for a couple of years, mainly to transport data from my office dos network to a linux computer. Have you tried mTCP's FTPSRV? The OS is MS-DOS 7.1

Re: [Freedos-user] dos usb driver!

2015-03-30 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 6:59 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: Win98 is a protected mode OS, and DOS serves as a real mode loader. Once Win98 is up and running, DOS is out of the loop, and Win98 *is* the OS. If DOS is out of the loop, then why are you still able to run DOS

Re: [Freedos-user] dos usb driver!

2015-03-31 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:09 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 8:37 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: If DOS is out of the loop, then why are you still able to run DOS files (.COM, .EXE, .BAT)?? Does Windows emulate it? Or is it really just

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