Hi,
KEYB implements such a bigger secondary buffer whenever you use
STRINGS, as 16 characters is too few to decently support placing
strings. True that you need the overhead of the STRING subsystem if you
want this secondary buffer.
I'd study to allow you to use the secondary buffer
Hi,
A bit more of information is required. As you are talking about full
screen, it seems that you are not running [Free]DOS standalone, but
inside a virtualizer or emulator, which one? DOSEMU?
Aitor
seorge escribió:
I've downloaded a bunch of old dos-games (some of them from '80s) for my
Hi,
Robert Riebisch escribió:
could help me? Nobody has developed a better vesa driver for Windows
3.xx?
That would require the Windows 3.1 DDK from Microsoft which was/is not
free!
Oh, my! I wish there was ANY way to get a copy of this anyhow...
depending of price I could even pay.
Hi,
Arkady V.Belousov escribió:
Hi!
17-Окт-2005 10:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote to
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net:
ao (1) You'll need to use COUNTRY= setting with an unstable kernel version (in
ao the future stable one).
Correction: with any kernel version. Without
Hi,
Eric Auer escribió:
So my suggestion is: Review the needs, and think about a
new DEVICE variant CPUDEVICE[HIGH]=[minlevel],[maxlevel],[driver and args]
or similar, where you could do for example
CPUDEVICE=1,2,FDXMS286 ...
CPUDEVICE=3,,HIMEM ...
CPUDEVICE=3,,EMM386 ...
(the CPUDEVICE command
Bernd Blaauw escribió:
Arkady V.Belousov schreef:
MD HIMEM and EMM386 set up on a clean memory map. It certainly
isn't clean
MD after loading device drivers of varying allocations, the DOS
shell, and
MD various AUTOEXEC TSRs.
Yes. But I say about difference between config.sys and
Hi,
Eric Auer escribió:
Hi, I would suggest an extra column for the tables in the
post 1.0 TODO list: Level / State of the wish. Example
values:
[ http://wiki.fdos.org/Main/Post_1_0_Todo ]
I seem to like the idea of the categories , although I'd personally
review what anyone puts anywhere.
Hi,
Easy to find in the FreeDOS main page:
http://www.freedos.org/freedos/bugs/
Aitor
Nick Bright escribió:
Is there a bugzilla for FreeDOS? It seems rather inefficent for me to
post bugs to the mailing list. I can if that's how ya'll would prefer
it, but I thought I'd check before firing
You need to get a 8086 ZIP version, check with the InfoZIP page.
If the ODIN docs says it to support XT machines, then that's a bug :)
Aitor
Nick Bright escribió:
Just testing things about, I tried to zip a file, and received an error
about requiring an 80386. The ODIN readme.txt file
Hi Shane,
Quite OT, but I see serious quirks about Thunderbird that don't seem to
exist in Mozilla Mail. In particular, with 1.0.6, for example, at times
when browsing messages with the 'F' (next message) key, a new window
won't open anymore, Thunderbird would remain in memory even if you
Same happened to me last night too...
Glad to read this, I am becoming an anti-spam paranoid...
Aitor
Gerry Hickman escribió:
Hi,
Since this Saturday, my posts are not showing up on this list until I
re-post them about three times? There's no bounce message, they just
disappear...
In my opinion it is good that you have the option to buy a PC with or
without the operating system.
What really sicks me is that absurd idea of the preinstalled OS. I got
an Acer laptop, they (almost sure) charged me for the OS, but they
didn't give me the official WinXP Pro disk: it was
Hi,
Johnson Lam escribió:
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 03:17:48 +0200 (MEST), you wrote:
Hi,
XFDISK? I mean, XFDISK is open source. It only does not LOOK like
the old MS DOS user interface, but hey, that was crap anyway...
The correct procedure should be:
1) Contact Brian and ask him if he still
Hi,
Eric Auer escribió:
Could be used with software with restrictive licenses.
Okay, I get it. Read: Antivirus stuff and VIDE-CDD. What else?
By the way, Bernd just never got a reply from Acer about the
driver, but they never said that you cannot put it on CD either.
What is the license of
I have a machine where to reproduce this bug, or a similar one. It's a
286. Strangely enough, FreeDOS will boot from floppy and see C:, but
will refuse to boot from there (locks at InitDisk I think, I haven't
investigated into this).
The bad point is that I wasn't able to investigate into this,
Hi,
Eric Auer escribió:
Please test if your devices can still be loaded with the new DEVLOAD
version (DEVLOAD allows you to load devices from the prompt which
otherwise would be loaded with DEVICE= or DEVICEHIGH=, but note that
UMB support is limited, memory drivers like HIMEM / EMM386 should
Hi,
Jim Hall escribió:
Jim Hall wrote:
Not sure what to do about the LSMs for either SHSUCDX or XDMA...
Johnson Lam wrote:
Attached 2 LSM, not 100% sure about the format ...
Format looks good. I've edited the shsucdx LSM a little bit .. just to
make sure the distinction is clear
Hi,
Kenneth J. Davis escribió:
For applications which are best run from pure DOS, but the user has
only NTFS (and Windows), and the max data stored is known ahead of
time, a possible solution involves creating the file ahead of time (in
Windows) and then in DOS either using a special driver
Hi,
Mark Bailey escribió:
Or, you may be able to access a USB memory stick (aka thumb
drive). There are two basic ways of doing that. One is if
your BIOS provides the correct support, FreeDOS may detect the
USB stick and be able to use it. (Note that this sort of
works on my Dell D600
Hi,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
Hi all, as the editors on old PCs topic still has some
attention: My spin-off variant EDIT 0.7c works properly on
8086 / 8088 (PC-XT) computers, even with 84-key keyboard.
Hint hint ;-).
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/edit07c.zip
Aitor
Hi there,
Kristaps Kaupe escribi:
Tuesday 03 May 2005 21:43, Fox rakstja:
Hi there,
I want to announce that I wrote Fox-cubs v0.1.
It's a Pascal library (TPU unit) which supports using CATS/Kitten formatted
language files into Pascal programs. With Fox-cube the programmer get a new
Hi there,
Eric Auer escribió:
Hi Aitor, you are a little late...
Probably yes ;-)
Better late than never they say. Anyway, your history of DFLAT/EDIT is
very nice and clarifying.
Things started in 2003: I had sent
some AltGr handling patch to Joe early in 2003, but the patch turned
out to work
Michael Devore escribió:
At 07:52 PM 4/29/2005 +0200, Eric Auer wrote:
More problems ahead. I tested several programs with EMM386 2.0,
setting X=TEST VDS. Many failed. Most of them did work, however, when I
added EMM=20480 to the settings, to disable the EMS / XMS / VCPI memory
pool sharing. Some
Hi,
Eric Auer escribió:
The readme file now makes clear that EDIT 0.7a / 0.7b are a separate
version and that the newest official / Joe Cosentino version is 0.82,
which has some differences to 0.7b - Whenever one of the two is
better than the other, I encourage the users to motivate the maintainer
Hi,
Eric Auer escribió:
Hi Kristaps,
Well. I would like to see a password program (running from autoexec.bat) with
login/password database in crypted file which would set USER (logged in user)
and HOME (user's profile directory) environment variables on exit.
I gave a thought at this
Hi,
Jose Antonio Senna escribió:
MDGNU-ish type stuff suffers from the we despise everything related to
MDMicrosoft and Not Invented Here syndromes, and its relationship with DOS
MDis often uneasy. That said, DJGPP has never given me a problem when
MDtesting recent EMM386 versions.
I never
Hi,
A bit going too far offtopic, but *very* interesting (for me) at the
same time. Any chance for the Lotus WordPro format? (LWP). After the
plain and nice format of the Lotus AmiPro files (SAM), WordPro seems to
have some sort of binary compressed format, that I have seen documented
nowhere,
Hi,
A bit going too far offtopic, but *very* interesting (for me) at the
same time. Any chance for the Lotus WordPro format? (LWP). After the
plain and nice format of the Lotus AmiPro files (SAM), WordPro seems to
have some sort of binary compressed format, that I have seen documented
nowhere,
Hi there,
root escribió:
Oops - i forgot that Linux is going to label me as 'root' by default!
Anyway... I'm surprised that it is so uncommon to run FD on an old
PC. IMHO it seems ridiculous to install FreeDOS on your P4
side-by-side with Windows XP like so many other people do. I mean what
Hi,
Kenneth J. Davis escribió:
...
Anyway... I'm surprised that it is so uncommon to run FD on an old
PC. IMHO it seems ridiculous to install FreeDOS on your P4
side-by-side with Windows XP like so many other people do. I mean
what DOS software is going to run properly on a 3Ghz CPU? Besides,
Hi,
Kristaps Kaupe escribi:
I don't know if DOS6's HIMEM works on 286 machines. Someone told me DOS
7.10 (Win98) only runs on 386+ machines.
MS-DOS 5 and 6 HIMEM.SYS works on 286 machines, I have used it on my first PC
(286) long time ago.
In MS-DOS 7.10 (Win98) even kernel runs only on 386+
Hi,
Eric Auer escribió:
Hi, strange subject line, but:
Arkady, SYS C: is for transferring systemfiles from current drive ...
to C: and writing bootsector.
IIRC bootsector is not overwritten, unless you do /MBR (at least in MS's).
SYS does write the boot sector all the time - you
Hi there,
Sorry about the slight offtopic, but...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
I'm using a boot loader called GAG to multiboot all of my computers.
The laptop I'm using has FreeDOS, Windows XP, and Linux installed
now with the GAG boot loader in the MBR. C: is the FreeDOS
installation permanately
Hi,
Jose Antonio Senna escribió:
Logically,both are defensible. I prefer DRDOS behavior. Has somenone
tested this under MS-DOS ?
Probably syntax errors, ALL MS-DOS books instruct you to use the quotes:
IF %1=XYZ GOTO...
Aitor
---
This SF.Net
Hi Bernd,
Bernd Blaauw escribió:
Aitor Santamaría Merino schreef:
I am thinking of a great deal of possibilities with my IDE/ATA=USB
adapter provided that the target OS is capable of understanding
that it is being booted from such device... (I don't know if any of
the Windows would be able
Hi there,
Eric Auer escribió:
Hi all, Michael is right, if you I=..., then EMM386 should just do
what you tell it to do. He is also right that autodetection should
be careful, not overenthousiastic. Anyway, I like the suggestion
from Arkady:
Ok. Let make another question: how to make
There isn't any that I know, but I can try to help. Write to me in
private please.
Aitor - Spain
(Hola Óscar Rodolfo: escríbeme en privado si quieres que intente
ayudarte. Estaré un par de días fuera, en 2005 te contesto)
Oscar Rodolfo Garcia escribió:
I need support in spanish
Hi,
Arkady V.Belousov escribi:
Hi!
13--2004 17:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arne Eckmann) wrote to Arkady V.Belousov
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
AE I'm sorry to trouble you with this. FreeDOS really need to have an official
AE address to which unsuspecting people like I can address our anger,
AE disappointments,
(new attempt)
(NOTE: this is a copy of my infamous post, but this time WITHOUT the
attachment; I hope we all don't get it three times later)
(The attachment was a zip-ed BMP image (around 10KB) of Paintbrush over
Windows 3.1 over FreeDOS)
==
Hi,
From time to time I like testing
Hi,
Luchezar Georgiev escribi:
So this in fact is a mini-Windows... without windows ;-)
Well, a question of point of view. For me, this all is DOS, the DOS
extender of Microsoft, and Windows is what comes behind KRNL386.EXE.
After all, the same Windows application (KERNEL, USER, GDI) could
be
Hi,
Luchezar Georgiev escribi:
The next logical step will be releasing the source code :)
Needless to say 4DOS is compatible with the FreeDOS kernel.
I've used it for a long time under it and it's very stable.
I attach the license under which 4DOS is now distributed.
Does it allow its inclusion in
Hi,
Luchezar Georgiev escribi:
Best use is from a clean win98 installation. You might need to copy
additional VXD files to the 32BD directory (or a subdirectory) to
satisfy the registry requirements (netware drivers, for example).
So this in fact is a mini-Windows... without windows ;-)
Well, a
Hi all,
I announce version 0.11 of FD-DISPLAY, with several new features:
- It implements a new MODULE for the CGA hardware type (CGA adapters),
thus making unnecessary the existence of a GRAFTABL tool for the FreeDOS
project. This is yet untested (I have no CGA cards handy). Furthermore,
any
Eric Auer escribió:
Hi, I am proud to have finished the first version of my inofficial
FreeDOS 1.0 TODO list on:
Eric, so why you ask in private?
Can you please assume that the rest of us can be busy and maybe cannot
reply on the fly?
THANKS
Regarding the list itself it looks very well (too
Hi,
This mail explains my position on the recent 1.0 list issue. If the
FreeDOS version 1.0 concerns you, please read this.
When I declared my intention to create the TODO list, I explained my two
major concerns about it. First of all is that I wanted it as a
checklist, and second, that I just
Hi,
Carlos AB escribió:
Hi
I have a few questions and I hope someone can answer.
1) All programs have catalogs of messages to be translated to other
languages?
(I have interest to translate all catalogs to Brazilian-Portuguese)
No, this depends on the developer.
Also notice that there are some
Eric Auer escribió:
Programs which are translated in another way are:
- FreeCOM (you can download a translation toolkit version of it), the shell
- CuteMouse (you can compile various localized/translated versions of it
(KEYB and DISPLAY in a similar manner too, check sources).
Aitor
Hi all,
A minor update to KEYB, namely, KEYB2.0 pre2, is ready.
- Fixes a bug that prevented KEYB from correctly executing the Advanced
Power Management commands (suspend, turn off, etc)
- Fixes several other miscellaneous bugs that I was reported
- When you select a non-existing codepage, the
Hi,
I have uploaded version 1.10 of KC, the keyboard layout creator for KEYB
2.X.
In this version, a couple of minor bugs are fixed:
- Corrects illformed KL files when strings are used
- In case of program abort, any already opened file is closed
You can get it at ibiblio,
executable:
Hi all,
I'd like to announce FreeDOS APPEND 1.0, a very basic APPEND that I have
created.
With this, I could run WordStar Express in a mixed directory
installation, as I intended.
APPEND 1.0 is very basic. In particular, it is NOT implemented:
- APPEND /E
- FCB functions
- The function 11 of the
Hi,
(By the way, Eric, a problem with my ISP destroyed your original
message, could you send it to me in private?)
PS: I did not test IRCABI because the LSM tells that you would need
SLIP, while I have plain Ethernet / LAN. Do you think it would work
anyway?
I don't know about SLIP, but PLIP
Arkady V.Belousov escribi:
Hi!
3--2004 02:36 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mika Salakka) wrote to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
MS As I understand it, FreeDOS' support for FAT32 is limited, though, but I
MS could be dead wrong on that one, too.
FD suppors FAT32 completely.
FreeDOS *KERNEL* supports FAT32
My apologies, file was ok. I couldn't open it until finally EXPLORER.EXE
crashed and reopened (but didn't show something was going wrong anyway,
I tend to consider it as a trustworthy unzipping utility).
Aitor
Aitor Santamaría Merino escribió:
Hi,
Bernd Blaauw escribió:
Hi,
Anyone willing
Hi,
Bernd Blaauw escribió:
Hi,
Anyone willing to translate strings can have a look at
http://fdos.org/ripcord/beta9rc5/addon/strings.zip
I have been repeatedly trying to download this file (last time with
GetRight so that I ensure that file size is correct), and once
downloaded, I can't open.
Hi,
Jay Maus escribió:
Wow, I'm impressed by all the discussion this has sparked. It's good to see
an active dev community. So I think I'm nearly ready to start futzing around
with FreeDOS code, but it's still a little foreign to me: I'm used to 32-bit
Windows C++. In Visual Studio, no less. Are
Hi,
I'd like to announce my new FD-KEYB 2.0 (pre1), a complete rewrite of a
keyboard driver for FreeDOS
(I have been little by little incorporating some code into existing
stubs, but now I have managed to produce a version being all the code
new and coherent with each other (after 200b of
Hi,
This is to announce a revision of DISPLAY 0.10, namely DISPLAY 0.10b.
It just fixes a couple of bugs:
- a bug that assumed a space to lead the parameter
- a bug affecting the DISPLAY Installation check function (AD00h in int2Fh)
MODECON.EXE also disappears from the distribution: please always
Hi all,
I want to announce the availability of the KC (Key Compiler) tool, which
is a tool for compiling text source keyboard descriptors into
binary-type KeybCBs that will be used by KEYB2.
In the binary pack, you have
- the compiler,
- documentation about the KEY language, that is used to
Jim Hall escribió:
Practically speaking, of course, I doubt the owners of these old DOS
games will complain much. These days, no one sells DOS games.
Maybe, maybe not. I have just seen the revival of some of these old
games (such as Prince of Persia), for mobile phones. I don't know how
much
Hi Matthias,
Matthias Paul escribió:
[Resend]
On 2004-03-05, Henrique (BuSab) wrote:
On DISPLAY's side there's another thing that could be done: the fonts
can be set in a format called DR-FONTs, where they are compressed.
However, I don't know much about this format, and I don't know if
Hi,
Bernd Blaauw escribió:
OK, had a brief look
ZIP support is REALLY great! saves lots of space.
maybe Keyb or Display projects can borrow your code for this since
they have many files, bunt only a single one is used. zip them up :)
DISPLAY: Actually the file is opened by MODE, copied ino a
Looks great!
Just one thing in cas the font face can also be improved: some days ago
I seem to recall browsing a page on mozilla.org (not current cover) that
had a VERY NEAT and SMOOTH typeface, would be great that it could be
adopted too.
Regrettably I CAN'T remember which page was that,
Eric Auer escribió:
Hi, as far as I know, only Windows-aware programs generally
notice it at all if you have LFN support active.
Well, not always. I've seen several fancy editors, and ALL the programs
made in FreePascal can also notice this, because LFN is supported when
found automatically...
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