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 --

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos hard drive detection...

2010-06-21 Thread Michael C. Robinson
the disk. Sent from Johnson's iPhone On 21 Jun 2010, at 12:54 PM, Michael C. Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: I have a zip 250 atapi drive where I am wondering why Battletech 2 the Crescent Hawk's Revenge knows that this isn't a harddrive? Does anyone know a simple

[Freedos-user] Freedos hard drive detection...

2010-06-20 Thread Michael C. Robinson
I have a zip 250 atapi drive where I am wondering why Battletech 2 the Crescent Hawk's Revenge knows that this isn't a harddrive? Does anyone know a simple way around this issue? -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up

Re: [Freedos-user] Eric Auer's A Fantasy of a future...

2010-04-14 Thread Michael C. Robinson
ReactOS is neither a stable nor potentially even a promising project anymore depending on who you talk to. Sadly, I got kicked off of the forum boards and the IRC channel. I haven't been back since. I don't like when people say, ReactOS is cloning Windows under the GPL and this work doesn't

Re: [Freedos-user] Eric Auer's A Fantasy of a future...

2010-04-14 Thread Michael C. Robinson
On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 11:53 +0100, Liam Proven wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Michael C. Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: ReactOS is neither a stable nor potentially even a promising project anymore depending on who you talk to. Sadly, I got kicked off of the forum boards

Re: [Freedos-user] [Fwd: Re: cd burning?]

2010-04-06 Thread Michael C. Robinson
Well Karen, I don't know much about screen readers and DOS let alone screen readers and Linux or screen readers and Windows. I feel after reading your response, especially the laugh out loud part, that you were rude and not in line with the spirit of don't turn this mailing list into what is

[Freedos-user] PXE boot freedos...

2010-03-30 Thread Michael C. Robinson
I know how to boot freedos via etherboot. How do I load freedos via pxelinux? -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune

[Freedos-user] Who needs WIndows?

2010-02-24 Thread Michael Robinson
I have been interested in ReactOS, but as of today I gt my forum posting priviledges revoked for merely recommending that open source compilers and build tools be used instead of MSVC and the Windows SDK. The ReactOS community seems to be extremely abusive, so I no longer link to the ReactOS home

Re: [Freedos-user] Who needs WIndows?

2010-02-24 Thread Michael Robinson
I used to go by the name nute on the ReactOS forums. My site concerning Reactos is: http://web.robinson-west.com/reactos.php or: http://xerxes.robinson-west.com/reactos.php On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 20:33 -0800, dos386 wrote: Who needs WIndaube? I don't :-D I have been interested in

[Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 delayed???

2010-02-15 Thread Michael Robinson
What are the goals at this point for Freedos 1.1? When might it actually be released? Freedos 1.0 definitely has some bugs still that could be fixed. Updating Freedos 1.0 is haphazard at best, especially with limited networking support and movement towards a newer updating standard. What are

[Freedos-user] Strange apollo pro 133 chipset bios settings...

2009-11-12 Thread Michael Robinson
I have a VIA Apollo Pro 133 chipset motherboard with a PIII 450 on it. There are some memory timing parameters in the bios as well as some other parameters that include usb support, usb keyboard, usb mouse, assign irq for usb, assign irq for vga. Should I be assigning an IRQ for usb or vga?

[Freedos-user] Must be hardware problem...

2009-11-06 Thread Michael Robinson
My Intel D845PEBT2 P4 System networks no problem and ssh works on it. On my Tyan S1854 Pentium III board, ssh doesn't work no matter how I load freedos even when I load it without drivers. I suspected that maybe the sbinit.com program was installing a TSR to emulate a standard soundblaster that

[Freedos-user] Freedos and weird hardware...

2009-11-04 Thread Michael Robinson
Bear with me, I suppose in a dos environment that it is hard to support hardware device XYZ because in dos most hardware is controlled by application programs. Sound cards for example are activated often times by games. I have the PCI version of the soundblaster 16 and it works under freedos,

[Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 distribution...

2009-11-01 Thread Michael Robinson
The newest kernel 2039 seems to fix a lot of problems. Is there ongoing kernel development? What has to be updated still before Freedos 1.1 comes out? I occasionally see stuff get added to http://www.freedos.org, but the 1.1 release seems to be delayed. I see no reason why there couldn't be a

Re: [Freedos-user] Trouble with netbooting freedos...

2009-10-18 Thread Michael Robinson
I know about prodos.exe, it requires Windows to extract the drivers from it and the drivers you extract are probably Windows drivers. An update on the reset problem, updating to kernel 2039 and dropping emm386 updating himem as well seems to fix the problem. Another advantage of kernel 2039 is

[Freedos-user] Trouble with netbooting freedos...

2009-10-16 Thread Michael Robinson
I've been net booting freedos to play battle tech I no problem. Even with a ramdisk though, I can't get battle tech II to work. I picked up a packet driver for the D845PEBT2 built in nic, but whether it's wget or lynx, trying to execute the application simply causes the computer to reset. Uge!

[Freedos-user] Concerns about topics on this mailing list...

2009-08-21 Thread Michael Robinson
DOS predates more than 4 gigabytes of memory on a single computer, yet there has been a LOT of discussion on having Freedos be able to handle that much memory. There has also been a lot of discussion on making sound cards which lack dos drivers work in Freedos. My concern is, these features

[Freedos-user] Whatever happened to freedos-32?

2009-08-12 Thread Michael Robinson
There was an effort to create a 32 bit version of freedos with memory protection and possibly some other features. What is happening with this project? I'm just curious is all. -- Let Crystal Reports handle the

[Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1...

2009-07-28 Thread Michael Robinson
Anyone know where Freedos 1.1 stands at this point? I'd like to see it get released. I would also like to see a focus on supporting people who want to set up their own local update servers. Putting dos on the Internet has some major downsides. The fdupdate program seems to have an option to

[Freedos-user] printing to USB

2009-07-15 Thread Michael Potter
in Windows, then SHARE the printer. Then in DOS, one can do this: b) NET USE lpt1: \\windowspc\printershare What would be the equivalent of that in FreeDOS? -- Michael Potter -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS, Windows and higher resolutions

2009-07-10 Thread Michael Robinson
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 15:07 -0400, Santiago Almenara wrote: Hello! I've been using FreeDOS for a couple of months and it's working great. Right now, I am trying to install Windows for Workgroups 3.11. Is it possible to use it with higher resolutions? For instance 1024x768 16 millions

[Freedos-user] DOS and network security...

2009-06-21 Thread Michael Robinson
It's starting to dawn on me that although Freedos is an excellent choice for being able to run most old dos programs, it's a nightmare from a network security point of view. I suppose there's the option of running it on top of Linux and using Linux to control where dos can go on your network,

Re: [Freedos-user] Peace and Quiet!

2009-06-20 Thread Michael Robinson
I never intended to start a WAR over Arachne and coming up with a Windows replacement. I would like to see Arachne, because it's graphical and there are no filter plugins for it, moved from the Freedos ditribution to say an extras respository. I can't install procon:latte to Arachne, which

Re: [Freedos-user] What do you need from Windows world...

2009-06-19 Thread Michael Robinson
On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 10:29 +0200, Bernd Blaauw wrote: Michael Robinson schreef: I haven't gotten the positive response I had hoped for trying to drum up some interest in a Windows 9x replacement. Some have talked about possibly enhacing HX extender and cloning Windows 3.x first

[Freedos-user] Please remove Arachne from Freedos 1.1...

2009-06-19 Thread Michael Robinson
It isn't Firefox and so there isn't a filtering plugin for it that will block certain web sites. It is very low resolution by today's standards and php web pages aren't likely to work correctly with it. I've had problems downloading from ftp sites with Arachne with the download being corrupted.

Re: [Freedos-user] A windows 9x replacement...

2009-06-18 Thread Michael Robinson
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 05:21 -0800, dos386 wrote: No it is not and it is rude Try ReactOS forum. How long you will survive there before getting banned, if you are not yet. Have you been banned from the ReactOS forums? Too many people treat it like it's a mere hobby and tempers do flare on

[Freedos-user] What do you need from Windows world...

2009-06-18 Thread Michael Robinson
I haven't gotten the positive response I had hoped for trying to drum up some interest in a Windows 9x replacement. Some have talked about possibly enhacing HX extender and cloning Windows 3.x first, which makes a lot of sense. Maybe it doesn't make sense to replace dos based Windows. Maybe

Re: [Freedos-user] A windows 9x replacement...

2009-06-13 Thread Michael Robinson
being worked on, all it does is make people angry. Because you are unable to describe your problem in a way understandable to other people ;-) It's not that simple. Asking questions about when XYZ will work or what is being worked on raises people's ire because they can't give good

[Freedos-user] Strange procedure to get sound working...

2009-05-06 Thread Michael Robinson
I got a SB PCI 16 bit sound card I picked up working by installing first to windows 98. Unfortunately, there is no way to install in a dos only environment directly. Worse, I have to create a Windows directory tree with mywindows98/system/nameofpcidriver.??? For dos initialization of the

[Freedos-user] Improve sound card support...

2009-05-03 Thread Michael Robinson
It seems that the sound blaster ISA and sound blaster 16 PCI cards are the only ones that will work with freedos. Well, I have a soundmaker cadenza on my D845PEBT2 Intel mobo with a P4. It would be nice if there was a dos driver for this sound card, but as far as I know there is only a

Re: [Freedos-user] Improve sound card support...

2009-05-03 Thread Michael Robinson
On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 22:29 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: Hi! It seems that the sound blaster ISA and sound blaster 16 PCI cards are the only ones that will work with freedos. Well, This is not freedos specific. It depends on your games or other software that you use for sound output,

[Freedos-user] FATS don't match...

2009-05-03 Thread Michael Robinson
Has anyone else run chkdsk on their Freedos C drive and gotten this error? I have a 500 meg partition which is probably FAT16. I have used Windows 98 to defrag another partition that I allow freedos to access. Is the implementation of FAT in 98 and Freedos compatible? Using chkdsk, I tried a

Re: [Freedos-user] FDUPDATE and the 486...

2009-04-26 Thread Michael Robinson
On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 16:35 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: Hi, Has anyone gotten fdupdate to work with a 486? I lost the link to fdupdate v0.55 and the instructions on how to use it in fdupdate v0.54. If using a 486 is the problem because of a bug in the math coprocessor or something

Re: [Freedos-user] Abandonware site...

2009-04-26 Thread Michael Robinson
MS-DOS and Windows 3.x are clearly abandonware. If I want to use this abandonware, am I suddenly breaking the law? Not suddenly. It is and was breaking the law. Of course you can hope that MS is too busy hunting people who steal Vista, but you cannot just say that stealing MS DOS is

Re: [Freedos-user] Abandonware site...

2009-04-19 Thread Michael Robinson
Speaking of abandonware, all the Nintendo games for the original 8 bit system fit that description now. Should anyone distribute an emulator to run the old games on PC's? Should anyone distribute instructions on how to get a rom image of an old game so a person can play it on his/her PC?

Re: [Freedos-user] Abandonware site...

2009-04-19 Thread Michael Robinson
On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 22:59 -0700, Blair Campbell wrote: Downloading commercial software that you own a copy of for personal use is not illegal. Downloading old commercial software that isn't sold anymore which the author doesn't care about is not illegal. To be illegal, the owner of the

Re: [Freedos-user] Abandonware site...

2009-04-19 Thread Michael Robinson
Use without author's permission is not legal, selling without author's permission is not legal (unless your local law allows otherwise), and making a profit of something gets you in court quite fast indeed. Bernd The GPL is an exception, it gives you permission to use the software it

Re: [Freedos-user] Abandonware...

2009-04-19 Thread Michael Robinson
There is a need to elect leaders who will change the law concerning abandonware. Abandonware is any software program that is proprietary where the owner of the intellectual property decides either a not to license any more copies of it or b not to support it anymore. Typically, abandonware is

[Freedos-user] FDUPDATE and the 486...

2009-04-19 Thread Michael Robinson
Has anyone gotten fdupdate to work with a 486? I lost the link to fdupdate v0.55 and the instructions on how to use it in fdupdate v0.54. If using a 486 is the problem because of a bug in the math coprocessor or something similar, that would be nice to know. I've noticed that I get a C prompt

[Freedos-user] Vista thoughts...

2009-04-19 Thread Michael Robinson
I have never used Vista. I think the minimum hardware requirements are too high for me. Worse than that, I don't even like XP because it's a pain to deal with activation and an even greater pain to back it up. I've never figured out how to back up Windows XP. That said, I don't use XP very

Re: [Freedos-user] Abandonware site...

2009-04-18 Thread Michael Robinson
But just to say the last word about this thread: please avoid warez, sources and links to any other illegal activities. Thanks. Aitor Downloading commercial software that you own a copy of for personal use is not illegal. Downloading old commercial software that isn't sold anymore which

Re: [Freedos-user] Is Windows 3.1 worth it and wordprocessing?

2009-04-12 Thread Michael Robinson
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 09:38 +0200, Mateusz Viste wrote: On Sunday 12 April 2009 07:54 (CEST), Michael Robinson wrote: I'm not certain that I really want to try WordPerfect Suite 8 for Windows 95 on 98se. If you ask me, I am using WordPerfect 6.0 for DOS, which does the job just fine

Re: [Freedos-user] Abandonware site...

2009-04-12 Thread Michael Robinson
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 20:13 -0500, Jim Hall wrote: If you own a computer that had MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 on it at one point, but your install media are fried, try this abandonware site. http://vetusware.com I worry about the legality of downloading from this site, but

[Freedos-user] I lost the link to fdupdate 0.55 beta...

2009-04-12 Thread Michael Robinson
That's why I haven't been testing it on my 486 to see if it crashes or not. Since it's meant for freedos 1.1, how do I test it again? BTW: The archives for this list are really hard to search. -- This SF.net email is

[Freedos-user] Is Windows 3.1 worth it and wordprocessing?

2009-04-11 Thread Michael Robinson
I notice that I can run Windows 98 SE on my old 486 DX2 66 with 32 megs of ram. Windows 98 SE supports more recent programs than Windows 3.1 does. Gem is nice, but it can't support windows apps and it isn't meant to. I'm not certain that I really want to try WordPerfect Suite 8 for Windows

Re: [Freedos-user] Anyone know why 386 enhanced mode doesn't work Windows 3.1???

2009-04-10 Thread Michael Robinson
On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 10:34 +0200, Mateusz Viste wrote: On Friday 10 April 2009 10:24 (CEST), Michael Robinson wrote: I'm still getting the 2 near fnodes error with fdupdate. Do you tried the beta 0.55 version I sent you few days ago (the one using HTGET as a downloader)? Still crashing

[Freedos-user] Abandonware site...

2009-04-10 Thread Michael Robinson
If you own a computer that had MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 on it at one point, but your install media are fried, try this abandonware site. http://vetusware.com I worry about the legality of downloading from this site, but technically the software they are allowing people to download is

Re: [Freedos-user] Compressed folders?

2009-04-10 Thread Michael Horvath
Robert Riebisch wrote: Michael Horvath wrote: I know there used to be a DOS utility called DOUBLESPACE. Not sure if it works for FreeDOS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoubleSpace Note also that I have FreeDOS installed on a SD card in my PDA. Not sure these hard disk utilities

[Freedos-user] What is the trick to get Windows 3.1 to run on freedos???

2009-04-09 Thread Michael Robinson
I think I'm using the stable kernel instead of the unstable one. I get an error that says essentially unload the protected mode software and try again when windows tries to start. Are people taking out the smartdrive stuff or simply adding a menu entry and if someone wants windows loading

[Freedos-user] New problems with Windows 3.1...

2009-04-09 Thread Michael Robinson
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 in standard mode, I get an error that there isn't enough extended memory. Uge!

Re: [Freedos-user] New problems with Windows 3.1...

2009-04-09 Thread Michael Robinson
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 14:34 -0700, Blair Campbell wrote: If I don't load emm386.exe, freedos version, I get an error that I have an unsupported dos version. Load the microsoft version that comes with windows, himem too. If I try loading windows 3.1 in standard mode, I get an error

Re: [Freedos-user] New problems with Windows 3.1...

2009-04-09 Thread Michael Robinson
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 15:35 -0700, Blair Campbell wrote: If I don't load emm386.exe, freedos version, I get an error that I have an unsupported dos version. Load the microsoft version that comes with windows, himem too. If I try loading windows 3.1 in standard mode, I get an

[Freedos-user] Compressed folders?

2009-04-08 Thread Michael Horvath
Is there a way to compress folders so they take up less space? Ideally, I would like to be able to compress into a zip file, and still have the OS treat it as a regular folder. As long as other OSs can view/access the folder and its files, then any type of compression is OK. Thanks. -Mike

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing programs on FreeDOS v1.1

2009-04-05 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Well, I also thought about that. I am working on an DOS application I wanted to package into FreeDOS's format by default. My exe is using a file called cwsdpmi.exe but cwsdpmi.exe is actually a renamed hdpmi32.exe. Normally I would assume to cd to the folder where my app is inside and to start

Re: [Freedos-user] What about changing our packaging style for v1.1?

2009-04-04 Thread Michael Reichenbach
It looks like you want it more reliable... Sounds very reasonable. Actually more pros (more easy for you, faster) then cons (file size). As you have the most work with it, do it. -mr Mateusz Viste schrieb: Hi people! So far, we have always used packaging sources and binaries differently

Re: [Freedos-user] FDUPDATE crash

2009-04-04 Thread Michael Robinson
I was wrong about wget not crashing, it just took it a long time to crash running it on it's own. Is the kernel going to be reworked anytime soon to remove this fnode concept? --

Re: [Freedos-user] FDUPDATE crash

2009-04-03 Thread Michael Robinson
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 17:12 +0200, Mateusz Viste wrote: On Friday 03 April 2009 16:08, Michael Robinson wrote: When I run fdupdate, it crashes with a 2 near fnodes error. Hi, Please define the crash. When exactly is it happening? When FDUPDATE is starting itself, or when it run wget

Re: [Freedos-user] FDUPDATE crash

2009-04-03 Thread Michael Robinson
I'm not certain about what is crashing. Changing to curl makes no difference at all. This works on my Pentium 4, so I suspect there is something specific to my 486 that is causing the problem. I wish the crash message was more descriptive. A dump of the processor's registers and more than

Re: [Freedos-user] network drive

2009-04-02 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Christian Masloch schrieb: It's a client and not a network drive. So a network drive that shows you a directory of a network server would be no network client? You can perhaps always call it client. But network drive is only the right word if it works in background and you get an

Re: [Freedos-user] sshdos - was: network drive

2009-04-02 Thread Michael Reichenbach
There is - SSHDOS v0.95 November 25, 2003 and - SSH2DOS v0.2.1 from April 23, 2006 Why the more recent version has a lower version number? What are the differences? There is also patch ROM-DOS Sockets patch from August 25, 2008, what does it do? -mr Alain M. schrieb: Michael Reichenbach

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-31 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Hi Michael, indeed, MS LFN started with version 7 (Win9x)... What about FreeDOS kernel and LFN? Wouldn't it make sense also to add LFN to the FreeDOS kernel? Yes but: The DOSLFN license does not allow it so you would have to re-implement LFN from scratch

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-31 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Ralf A. Quint schrieb: From that view it's not possible for non-cooperates (individual hobbyist projects) to develop and publish software. You would always need a legal department which is telling it's ok to violate patents, if them are are accusing us we will accuse them with out collection

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-31 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Hi Michael, indeed, MS LFN started with version 7 (Win9x)... What about FreeDOS kernel and LFN? Wouldn't it make sense also to add LFN to the FreeDOS kernel? Yes but: The DOSLFN license does not allow it so you would have to re-implement LFN from scratch

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-31 Thread Michael Reichenbach
usul schrieb: I would expect this type of thinking to defeat the patent. So educate me why am I wrong. :) Well, the final verdict gives always the court. Unfortunately not always the logic wins. (I haven't said anything about bribemoney!) It also depends on the technical understanding of

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-31 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Ralf A. Quint schrieb: However, I just care about laws in my own country (and the national ones). As I live in Germany I see no reason to ensure to follow all US laws (no racism or whatever here, just the same way I do not ensure it for any other country where I do not life). It seams to me

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-31 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Ralf A. Quint schrieb: Not the programmer of DOSLFN would be sued, also probable not the hypothetical programmer for LFN in DOS-C. I think it's the distributor who would get sued and this is in this case the responsible person for the website. (Fortunally also other people are redistribution

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-31 Thread Michael Reichenbach
usul schrieb: By the way I must repeat the question who would be theoretically sued?. I would think the end users. For Example: Companies that distribute new PCs with FreeDos installed. someone that sold FreeDos on a bootable USB Someone that sold and built CD for open source. And why

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-31 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Jim Hall schrieb: On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Michael Reichenbach michael_reichenb...@freenet.de wrote: Eric Auer schrieb: Hi Michael, indeed, MS LFN started with version 7 (Win9x)... What about FreeDOS kernel and LFN? Wouldn't it make sense also to add LFN to the FreeDOS kernel

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-31 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Well, it would be theoretically possible to implement something like ext3 as most DOS applications use the filesystem API and not the disk directly, them wouldn't recognize. But this wouldn't be a good solution as there are still much more other patents we might have not considered yet. -mr

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-31 Thread Michael Reichenbach
David C. Kerber schrieb: -Original Message- From: Jim Hall [mailto:jh...@freedos.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:30 PM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility? ... If LFN

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS Wiki

2009-03-31 Thread Michael Reichenbach
The new and up to date and linked on freedos.org wiki seams to be http://apps.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=Main_Page. While when I google for freedos wiki I still find http://wiki.fdos.org/. Can the old wiki be linked on freedos.org? It still contains some informations.

Re: [Freedos-user] LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Blair Campbell schrieb: Also according to http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.Compatibility it also seams doslfn is not the answer and needs bugchecking by a third developer. Even kernel support would have some of those issues, it seems only not very fast

[Freedos-user] Microsoft employee recommends FreeDOS, ctmouse, shsucdx

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
FreeDOS - http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2005/02/02/365232.aspx ctmouse, shsucdx - http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2004/10/21/246136.aspx -- ___

Re: [Freedos-user] LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Christian Masloch schrieb: LFN for FAT and for NTFS are working stable in Linux. Could a FreeDOS developer grab this free knowledge from Linux and improve DOSLFN this way? FAT and FAT32 are already supported by DOSLFN, even some CD-ROM filesystems are. NTFS is not supported by any free

Re: [Freedos-user] FASM and DPMI

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
cleanzero schrieb: I was trying to using the flat assembler FASM on freedos, but it complains about missing DPMI services ? Is it possible in some way to use it ? http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.DPMI example: hdpmi32 -r

Re: [Freedos-user] network drive

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
This is an interesting topic... If you want you can setup a FTP server on DOS running as TSR in background. http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.Servers msclient is nice to mount a remote server into a DOS device letter, unfortunately it's indeed a memory hog and

Re: [Freedos-user] Networking

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
usul schrieb: Uli, I bought ORiNOCO Classic Gold PC Card. http://www.orinocowireless.com/products/wifi/client/goldpccard/index.html I know wireless is a risk but I checked in the documentation it had dos and linux drivers :) and I downloaded the ISO with all of that on it. Well, wlan is

Re: [Freedos-user] Networking

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
usul schrieb: But I can do that from another pc that i usually have next to me. but it would be nice to have a complete evironment. And I have forgotten to say... You are most likely much faster with browsing the web and mailing if you use a modern computer, modern multi tasking operating

Re: [Freedos-user] Networking

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
usul schrieb: But yeah I was thinking that I would cheat for some of the stuff for developing on FreeDos at first but later I would try and do everything I could inside. Cheat? Which kind of? Because you are not doing everything on pure DOS this makes your development more worse? That's s

Re: [Freedos-user] network drive

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Christian Groessler schrieb: Hi, If you want you can setup a FTP server on DOS running as TSR in background. http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.Servers ?? This is a completely different topic. No, since you asked for connecting to file server share in

Re: [Freedos-user] Networking

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Ok, now I got your point and must agree. :) -mr usul schrieb: mr, Because you are not doing everything on pure DOS this makes your development more worse? That's s strange mind. :) I'm strange I admit that but thats not whyI think it would be cheating, you are coming from the wrong

Re: [Freedos-user] network drive

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
, Michael Reichenbach michael_reichenb...@freenet.de wrote: Christian Groessler schrieb: Hi, If you want you can setup a FTP server on DOS running as TSR in background. http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.Servers ?? This is a completely different topic

Re: [Freedos-user] network drive

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Christian Groessler schrieb: Hmm, talking to a SMB server probably is quite involved (I've tried to debug some samba problems in the past and the probably in the last sentence is wrong). But how about a new, simple, protocol to transfer directory information and files between hosts? Nothing

[Freedos-user] aimed compatibility?

2009-03-29 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Which kind of compatibility does FreeDOS aim for? I mean compatible with which MS-DOS version? 6.22, 7.10, 8.00? -mr -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list

Re: [Freedos-user] LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-29 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Christian Masloch schrieb: Which kind of compatibility does FreeDOS aim for? I mean compatible with which MS-DOS version? 6.22, 7.10, 8.00? As far as I can tell, 8.00 is the same as 7.10 plus some restrictions (I used to have a PC with Windows Me). Yes, well 8.00 can load Win ME.

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos and vmware problem

2009-03-28 Thread Michael Reichenbach
alfio castorina schrieb: Hi, I want to install freedos on my Macbook Pro using VMWare Fusion. Problem is that after booting from the cd image and creating the C: partition after reboot I get the message invalid operating system. I suspect that is due that Freedos has not been installed yet and

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on NTFS as image with full read and write access / FreeDOS installer for Windows soon?

2009-03-27 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Hi Michael, I have created a wikipage which describes how you can install FreeDOS on NTFS with permanent and full read and write access. It's not directly installed on NTFS, but inside an raw image. There is no need to change the partition table or the bootsector. http

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos needs hardware testing tools...

2009-03-27 Thread Michael Robinson
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 11:04 +0100, Eric Auer wrote: Hi Michael, Something specific to my hardware on my 486 DX2 66 must be causing fdupdate to crash, but there seem to be no diagnosis tools to find ... First try to boot without loading (J)EMM386, a common cause of problems is a bad

Re: [Freedos-user] [BUG] FreeDOS not compatible with escape [NEW]

2009-03-26 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: Hi! Another thing will be a list of things to test... Well, things like xmstest, memtest, idecheck Those are not kernel related as far as I remember. Not related to kernel, but to hardware and base software. You can see if the change has broken something in a special

Re: [Freedos-user] [BUG] FreeDOS not compatible with escape [NEW]

2009-03-24 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Christian Masloch schrieb: Could you please test whether aborting some other application (no COMMAND.COM type program) works in FreeDOS? Yes, first he application will be terminated and then also the command interpreter which results in the same bug. Well this shouldn't happen (and won't be

Re: [Freedos-user] PocketDOS

2009-03-23 Thread Michael Horvath
Christian Masloch wrote: Of course DPMI doesn't work on PocketDOS, because it (by default) emulates a real mode 80286 processor only. (XMS and EMS services are provided by PocketDOS-specific drivers.) I downloaded the demo version (for x86 Windows) and it's really nice. It integrates the

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