Re: [Freedos-user] Coding in BASIC for Freedos?

2024-03-15 Thread Jürgen Wondzinski via Freedos-user
nd samples. If you're interested, I could zip that stuff for you. Mit freundlichen Grüßen vom Obinger See Jürgen Wondzinski Visual FoxPro Technologieberater Microsoft "Most Valuable Professional" von 1996 bis 2009, "Servoy Valued Professional“ 2011 -Ursprüngliche Nachricht--

Re: [Freedos-user] Date check

2024-01-30 Thread Jürgen Wondzinski via Freedos-user
Hi Jerome, Perfect! Thanks for the pointer to that VSTR utility! wOOdy Von: Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user Gesendet: Dienstag, 30. Januar 2024 13:38 An: FreeDOS Users Cc: jer...@shidel.net Betreff: Re: [Freedos-user] Date check Hi, Sure. You can have date output the current date and save it

Re: [Freedos-user] Date check

2024-01-30 Thread Jürgen Wondzinski via Freedos-user
Hi Omar, Where do I get a SNTP connection on 120 offline Mini-PCs? Sometimes , life isn’t as easy as we wish :) wOOdy Von: Omar Yabar via Freedos-user Gesendet: Dienstag, 30. Januar 2024 13:43 An: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS. Cc: Omar Yabar Betreff: Re: [Freedos-user] Date

[Freedos-user] Date check

2024-01-30 Thread Jürgen Wondzinski via Freedos-user
Hi all, I'm currently facing some users which seem to have a bad BIOS battery and therefor aren't using the current date. Those users aren't even noticing that wrong date on their printed invoices of that day... Is there a simple way to check from Autoexec/FDAUTO for the year of the date,

Re: [Freedos-user] What DOS programs represent the 1980s and early 90s ?

2023-12-31 Thread Jürgen Wondzinski via Freedos-user
Speaking about BBS and CIS: At that dark medieval times around 1990, CompuServe was the "Master of all Bulletin Boards". In Germany, you needed to dialup into something called DATEX-P, which had just a handful of access nodes spread over Europe. In Germany we dialed into a node in Bern,

Re: [Freedos-user] What DOS programs represent the 1980s and early 90s?

2023-12-25 Thread Jürgen Wondzinski via Freedos-user
(with 128Gb total it was the biggest database worldwide managed in FoxPro tables) for later analysis. Could go on for hours here :=) With kind regards from Bavaria Jürgen Wondzinski Visual FoxPro<http://www.msdn.com/vfoxpro> Evangelist Microsoft "Most Valuable Profes

Re: [Freedos-user] Some USB-Stick problems

2023-10-26 Thread Jürgen Wondzinski via Freedos-user
ted! tried to understand the docs from the various USB drivers but got lost in between Jürgen Wondzinski Von meinem/meiner Galaxy gesendet Ursprüngliche Nachricht Von: Eric Auer via Freedos-user Datum: 26.10.23 23:26 (GMT+01:00) An: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Eric Auer B

[Freedos-user] Some USB-Stick problems

2023-10-26 Thread Jürgen Wondzinski via Freedos-user
Hi all, (this will get a longer story, sorry) I inherited a FoxPro/DOS application, which is in use in about 120 delivery trucks. They have a HP 1510 Thinclient with monitor, USB-keyboard and LPT-printer strapped on the passenger seat, powered by a 12V to 230V inverter. The app itself was

Re: [Freedos-user] Booting Windows 98 from FreeDOS

2023-09-25 Thread Jürgen Wondzinski via Freedos-user
, country, *.cpi and keyboard lines). Also that c:\windows\command path should probably point to the Freedos directory. Greetings from Bavaria, Germany Jürgen Wondzinski -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Michał Dec via Freedos-user Gesendet: Sonntag, 24. September 2023 22:50 An: Discussion

Re: [Freedos-user] ChkDsk / ScanDsk for Fat32

2023-09-25 Thread Jürgen Wondzinski via Freedos-user
eusz Viste Betreff: Re: [Freedos-user] ChkDsk / ScanDsk for Fat32 On 15/09/2023 19:42, Jürgen Wondzinski via Freedos-user wrote: > Is there a ChkDsk or ScanDsk etc available for FAT32? > The usual chkdsk92.exe doesn't support this. You might want to try D

[Freedos-user] ChkDsk / ScanDsk for Fat32

2023-09-15 Thread Jürgen Wondzinski via Freedos-user
for any pointers :=) With kind regards from Bavaria Jürgen Wondzinski ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Anyone want to write an article about FreeDOS?

2023-02-16 Thread Jürgen Wondzinski
Just to chime in: There's still software in use written in FoxPro/DOS from 1994 :) In fact, I'm just upgrading and enhancing such a package. It's running from an USB-Stick (with FreeDos of course), which is plugged into a smallsized HP ThinClient. That beast is used in Delivery-cars, which

Re: [Freedos-user] System hangs on boot.

2022-11-27 Thread Jürgen Wondzinski
regards from Bavaria Jürgen Wondzinski Visual FoxPro<http://www.msdn.com/vfoxpro> Evangelist Microsoft "Most Valuable Professional<http://mvp.microsoft.com/de-de/overview.aspx>" from 1996 to 2009, "Servoy Valued Professional<http://www.servoy.com/>“ 2011 My XING Pro