Hi Karen,
On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 10:18 PM Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> As many may recall I run msdos 7.1 instead of freedos for several personal
> reasons.
Do the volunteers (engineers?) who help you set up your systems
forcibly demand MS-DOS 7.1 exactly?
We've discussed this
Hi,
On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 4:30 AM Frantisek Rysanek via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> my first PC at home was a 386DX/40 in about 1991/1992
I'm American, but we're roughly the same age, and I started with a 486
SX/25 in 1994.
> All the school had at the time was Pascal with objects
I've become a
Hi,
On Mon, Jan 1, 2024 at 6:04 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 1, 2024 at 5:39 PM andrew fabbro via Freedos-user
> wrote:
> >
> > Whatever programs are most representative, they might have been
> > distributed as shareware. There's still "trial software" today but
> > not
Hi,
On Sun, Dec 24, 2023 at 10:34 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> I'm thinking about doing a video that shows how to do real work on DOS.
> I sometimes see comments on YouTube with people asking "could you really do
> *work* with DOS?"
> And the answer is of course you can, that
Hi,
On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 1:05 PM andrew fabbro via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> I'm a bit perplexed trying to get networking working for FreeDOS 1.3 on QEMU.
> My physical host is an M1 Mac (Apple Silicon).
Which version of QEMU? 8.2?
> FreeDOS installs and boots fine, but I get this message:
Hi,
On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 4:17 PM Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> Google intends removing all access to basic HTML, and is forcing the issue
> as of today.
Did they state a reason? Maintenance burden? Or just better security?
Because email was always plain text and pretty insecure.
"%COMSPEC% /c work.bat >file.txt" will succeed. Everyone knows that.
What I'm wondering is if the following (piping into a .BAT) is
considered acceptable or "standard" for DOS.
"prog1.exe | %COMSPEC% /c work.bat | %COMSPEC% /c fixups.bat >some.txt"
Does that work like I'd expect? (Seems to ...
Hi,
On Fri, Nov 3, 2023 at 12:31 PM Ralf Quint via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> In which way is "FreeDOS" limited to 2GB sized files? (Sorry, never
> bothered wit such large files on DOS (any DOS)? The file size entry in
> the FAT32 directory entry is a 4 byte integer. As a filesize can't be
>
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 2:55 PM Michał Dec via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> Do you know maybe where do these limits come from?
>
> I thought it should be 4GiB for both since this is the file size limit
> for FAT32.
IIRC, FAT16 in something like classic MS-DOS 6.22 supports max ~65000
files and 2
Hi,
I'm not very knowledgeable about systems programming or DPMI, but I
don't think you can (normally) access ports under ring 3 (e.g.
CWSDPMI). Try CWSDPR0.EXE (ring 0) or WDOSX (run "stubit") instead.
Who knows what this was tested under (Win9x? JEMM386?).
On Mon, Oct 2, 2023 at 7:14 PM Paul
Hi,
On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 1:13 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> I'm making a FreeDOS "2024" calendar, and looking for suggestions of
> what screenshots to include in it. Any ideas?
>
> Looking for suggestions of what screenshots you think would be great
> to have in the calendar.
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 3:33 PM Eric Auer via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> Assuming that you just want to have MORE text on your screen,
> without actually wanting to use graphics mode, you can select
> quite a few modes with MODE CON or with various VESA tools.
Here's an old thread about it:
*
Hi,
On Sat, Aug 5, 2023 at 3:18 PM Louis Santillan via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> I daily drive Fedora Linux myself. But curling DOS software zip files on it
> is not as useful as doing that directly on 386 Dell I have sitting 3 feet
> away when I want to run a bit of new software on it.
What
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 4:48 AM Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> Finally, the primary installer currently uses grep (requires 386+) to parse
> some of the package lists.
DJGPP grep? Why not Xgrep? It's not as overpowered, but it works well
and is 8086-friendly. (N.B. It can be
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 3:47 PM Daniel Essin via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> What are others using freedos for: business, curiosity, running retro
> games and apps for fun, to avoid total dependence on the evil empire, or
> something else?
Evil empire? "Which one??" ;-) What evil are we
Hi,
On Sat, Jul 22, 2023 at 2:44 AM John Vella via Freedos-user
wrote:
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> Thanks for the quick reply, Ralf. I have a work around, which did the trick.
> I just created four partitions, each less than 32gb on the stick, and freedos
> is happy with that.
Assuming your FreeDOS kernel has FAT32
Hi,
On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 3:56 PM Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> My goal is supporting the built in Ethernet infrastructure on the
> thinkpad.
> My understanding, perhaps incorrect, is that freedos has networking
> infrastructure in the system itself?
No, FreeDOS isn't
Hi,
On Fri, Apr 7, 2023 at 2:04 AM Jody Spurrell wrote:
>
> windows detects FD13BNS.iso as Trojan:Script/Wacatac.H!ml
> downloaded FreeDOS 1.3 BonusCD file FD13-BonusCD.zip
>
> file downloaded from
>
Hi,
On Sun, Apr 2, 2023 at 11:34 AM Brandon Taylor
wrote:
>
> Hello! It's me again. Over 6 years ago, I asked whether it was possible to
> get "Lure of the Temptress" running in FreeDOS
> (and yes, once again, I've played it in DOSBox). I eventually agreed to
> concede that it wasn't.
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 8:47 AM Liam Proven wrote:
>
> DR DOS does have some source code available, and includes TaskMaster,
> which can do full-screen multitasking of DOS sessions. This *does*
> work on bare modern hardware in my testing.
IIRC, DR-DOS 7.03 (circa 1999) had task swapping
Hi again,
On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 12:53 PM Alvah Whealton wrote:
>
> Thanks for providing me with better direction. I'm already pursuing some of
> your recommendations.
Just to reiterate, the official recommendation of FreeDOS is to use
OpenWatcom and NASM.
(OW's whelp.exe is their
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 9:00 PM Alvah Whealton wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 7:40 PM Rugxulo wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 4:33 PM Alvah Whealton wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm looking at TASM 5.0 for DOS and Windows, with a date of 1989.
>>
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 4:33 PM Alvah Whealton wrote:
>
> I'm looking at TASM 5.0 for DOS and Windows, with a date of 1989.
> I guess what I'm asking is if Assembler requires any considerations on an
> emulator that other software does not require.
But TASM 5.0 was released in 1996 (since
Which version?? I assume so, yes, but it's been released for several
OSes (not just DOS), e.g. OS/2 and Windows. (I usually run the
Win32/PE 5.3 version in DOS, there are several ways.)
* https://bytepointer.com/tasm/index.htm
On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 5:33 PM Alvah Whealton wrote:
>
> Can Turbo
Hi,
On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 11:22 AM Liam Proven wrote:
>
> On Sat, 18 Mar 2023 at 18:12, Aitor Santamaría wrote:
> >
> > To those that have used/experience with RUFUS: what is the concept behind
> > it?
>
> Simple answer:
>
> Rufus is a Windows tool for making bootable USB keys from ISO
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 12:06 AM wrote:
>
> > On Mar 15, 2023, at 10:22 PM, Michael Brutman wrote:
> > [..]
> > The only questionable thing I noticed was somebody converted the user
> > documentation to a 293KB text file. That strips the formatting, diagrams
> > and screen shots that I
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 3:54 PM Eric Auer wrote:
>
> > Hi Eric I have partition magic for dos this can create partition for
> > freedos?
>
> I guess it can, given that it is a partition editor :-)
>
> I do not know whether the DOS version can create LBA
> partitions or FAT32 partitions, so
Hi again,
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 6:30 PM Rugxulo wrote:
>
> FreeBASIC started in 2004 written in VBDOS (I think??) until it was
> able to compile itself. The whole PDS suite was mainly about
> supporting both DOS and OS/2 (until IBM and MS parted ways). Visual
> BASIC never had
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 3:31 PM Rugxulo wrote:
>
> > So as soon as I get the items loaded this higher memory and 32 dos extender
> > stuff remembered and djgpp or w/e up and running the better.
>
> I had an ancient GCC 2.95.3 archive (DJGPP 2.03p2), if you're curious
Hi again,
On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 1:03 PM usul wrote:
>
> Apparently I purged XP disks long ago. :( Laptop has Windows 10 is on it.
> And it is awful LOL. Even though most of the minimalist linux live I have
> tested also dogged a bit.
UMSDOS wasn't maintained after the 2.4 kernel series.
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 11:57 AM usul wrote:
>
> So I was digging through my old "stuff" and found some of my old cds and my
> Dell Latitude D520 laptop. And I got all nostalgic . I got my start with a
> 486 DX 8 mgs of Ram.
> I mostly did Visual Basic 3.0 programming to start after I
Hi,
On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 11:21 AM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> > In other words, you probably can't talk about "Turbo Pascal" proper,
> > only the dialect as used in either GPC or FPC or p2c. They don't want
> > you promoting or pointing people to proprietary software.
>
> Correct, you shouldn't write
Hi,
On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 9:49 PM Ralf Quint wrote:
>
> On 2/6/2023 5:40 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
> > Would you prefer an article on Pascal? I know you (also) are a fan of
> > it. An article from your experience there might be useful.
> No, kind of programming language ag
Hi,
On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 4:35 PM Ralf Quint wrote:
>
> On 2/6/2023 2:03 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
> > Do you not understand that I see a lot of similarities between the two
> > OSes? Certainly they share enough for various ports of useful tools to
> > be made. It doesn't mean
Hi,
On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 3:18 PM Ralf Quint wrote:
>
> On 2/5/2023 12:06 AM, Rugxulo wrote:
> > The Art of Unix Programming attempts to capture the engineering wisdom
> > and philosophy of the Unix community as it's applied today — not
> > merely as it has been
Hi,
On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 4:29 PM Rugxulo wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 3:01 PM Mart Zirnask wrote:
> >
> > I'm definitely more of an end user, but I like the simplicity of both
> > DOS and traditional Unix tools.
>
> * https://en.wikipedia.org/
Hi,
On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 3:01 PM Mart Zirnask wrote:
>
> If I manage to build the command line mode of Rob Pike's sam editor
> [1] for DOS, I could probably do a writeup on how to use it. Because
> of the so-called structural regular expressions [2, 3], it is a really
> interesting editor.
Hi,
On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 12:40 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> If anyone here is interested in writing articles about FreeDOS,
> Opensource.com is interested in running FreeDOS articles.
>
> Here's the list they shared, in case this inspires anyone to write an article:
>
> - apt
> - Chaos Engineering
Hi,
On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 10:25 AM Bret Johnson wrote:
>
> As a sidebar, a "normal" command line is limited to 126 characters total, but
> some command shells
> (notably 4DOS) extend that by using the CMDLINE environment variable. From
> what I can tell,
> the FreeDOS command shell doesn't
Hi,
On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 11:44 AM Bret Johnson wrote:
>
> If you're interested in learning something that will help you more in the
> "long term", you may
> want to experiment with something like SED (or AWK or ...) as a way to
> manipulate text files,
> or "whipping up" a custom executable
Hi,
On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 12:18 PM E. Auer wrote:
>
>
> Hi! If you use the FreeCOM version of command.com which
> ships with FreeDOS, you could be able to use some magic
> extensions such as that option for SET which stores the
> output of a command in an environment variable
Presumably
Hi,
On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 2:48 PM dmccunney wrote:
>
> I did have utilities back when that I could use to optimize the
> loading of TSRs. Most took memory when loading and initializing, but
> that memory cuold be freed and only a small portion thaat was the
> actual TSR needed to remain
Hi,
On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 6:01 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 5:48 PM wrote:
> >
> > If any of you remember Qedit, or its big brother TSE (the Semware Editor),
> > you may be interested to know that TSE if released as freeware.
> >
> > Note that, this is the version from 1997,
(Disclaimer: I've never personally used TeX but am still aware of it.)
Jim recently posted a News item mentioning classic EmTeX:
* https://ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/msdos/emtex
There's also an older DJGPP port here:
* https://www.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2apps/tex/
In particular,
Hi,
On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 2:16 PM Ralf Wissing wrote:
>
> Thank you everyone for your suggestions (especially Pegasus Mail for
> DOS)! I am currently experimenting a bit to get it running.
>
> I have also got a tip (and an binary) from an former coworker of me,
> FlMail by Georg Potthast. It
Hi again,
On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 7:46 PM Rugxulo wrote:
>
> What about a so-called "tracker"?
>
> * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_tracker
>
> Here's a few links that I found (off the top of my head):
I forgot about Dr. Track:
* http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/
Hi,
On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 11:45 AM Karen Lewellen
wrote:
>
> I use dos, google has removed access to YouTube for low graphics browsers.
> If you have an answer, care to share?
The YouTube link just shows "Sound Blaster Pro Intelligent Organ"
(Creative Technology, 1991).
What about a
Hi,
On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 9:38 AM Gabriele Barbone wrote:
>
> Hi dosbox-x can run on Windows XP SP3? I have a old pc
Not sure, I think?? they still provide XP-compatible versions
alongside newer Windows versions. BUT! It does run atop FreeDOS with
the included HX files. ;-)
(quoting the
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 10:20 PM Jerome Shidel wrote:
>
> > On Jul 13, 2022, at 2:29 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
> >
> >> FDAUTO.BAT
> >> ——
> >> set DOSDRV=C:
> >
> > If you're using FreeCOM and already in the root directory fr
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 6:09 AM Jerome Shidel wrote:
>
> FDCONFIG.SYS
>
> !LASTDRIVE=Z
You probably don't actually need that many drives, I'd suggest "G" or
"P" instead (to save RAM).
> FDAUTO.BAT
> ——
> set DOSDRV=C:
If you're using FreeCOM and already in the root directory
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 9:25 PM Ralf Quint wrote:
>
> And that version, just when the switch to Go32 was being made, should be
> a good starting point for a 16bit compiler, generating 16bit Borland
> Pascal compatible code. Not sure if there is enough info still around to
> make it even TPU
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 1:04 PM Ralf Quint wrote:
>
> GNU's GPC was just a crutch, a unwanted step-child, that didn't even get
> a fraction of the attention that it should have gotten early on.
GPC was written in C ... unlike FPC. This was way before GCC 4.8
(2013), when everything switched
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 7:04 AM Liam Proven wrote:
>
> On Fri, 8 Jul 2022 at 21:35, Rugxulo wrote:
> >
> > Everybody and their brother made Pascal derivatives: Ada, Modula-2,
> > Modula-3, etc. While Dr. Wirth was not directly involved, there was
> > also a ne
Hi,
On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 7:44 PM Ralf Quint wrote:
>
> On 7/8/2022 4:26 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
> >
> > Turbo Pascal debuted in 1983 with support for CP/M and DOS via .COM
> > files (max. 64k size). When they dropped CP/M and .COM support in TP 4
> > (1987), then
Hi,
On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 6:30 PM Ralf Quint wrote:
>
> With C(++), it's more like "let's throw everything in one big pot and
> then lets see what we actually need in our program". A huge advantage of
> Turbo/Borland Pascal, Delphi and FreePascal is that they are all capable
> of
Hi,
On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 11:37 AM Ralf Quint wrote:
>
> For Pascal, this is +95% wrong. The first widespread version of Pascal,
> UCSD Pascal, also sold for example under names like "Apple Pascal" (on
> Apple II/III) did introduce the concept of "units", which allowed not
> only for modular
Hi,
On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 3:11 PM Eric Stein wrote:
>
> So I get this message when I exit from a certain program: Error reading
> from device AUX: write fault.
>
> Aside from the strangeness of getting a write fault by reading
> something, does DOS even still have an AUX device? I think this
Hi,
On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 11:37 AM Ralf Quint wrote:
>
> For Pascal, this is +95% wrong. The first widespread version of Pascal,
> UCSD Pascal, also sold for example under names like "Apple Pascal" (on
> Apple II/III) did introduce the concept of "units", which allowed not
> only for modular
Hi,
On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 7:29 PM Daniel wrote:
>
> A little info for those who uses FreeBasic (or even Power Basic 3.5) in
> FreeDOS. In case noone knows this, it is possible to mix both Basic and
> Assembly language in the same source code using both PB and FB using the
> ‘ASM’ command.
Hi,
On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 5:53 PM Aitor Santamaría wrote:
>
> On Fri, 8 Jul 2022 at 00:00, Rugxulo wrote:
>>
>> I can send you my local copy (or show you how to get it) of the 3.2.2
>> cross-compiler (i8086-msdos) that works under latest HX pre-releases.
>&g
Hi,
On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 12:50 PM Aitor Santamaría wrote:
>
> I haven't been following much of what happens with the different assemblers
> these days, but my idea is
> that the same thing as with C or Pascal happens: as much as TASM or MASM are
> nice products, there
> are hardly open
Hi,
On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 12:59 PM Carlos Teixeira wrote:
>
> What i don't like about A86 is that allows you to do stuff that is actually
> "forbidden".
I believe A86 intends to be "mostly" compatible with old MASM v5, but
it does have some shortcuts and enhancements.
> For instance, from
Hi,
On Sun, Jul 3, 2022 at 9:39 AM Bret Johnson wrote:
>
> > Interestingly enough, I also bought a86/D86, and have found it to be
> > the best assembler/disassembler I've ever found for dos. I ran
> > across it after (mostly) trying to use debug for things, so it was a
> > welcome relief.
>
> I
Hi,
On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 12:32 PM Daniel wrote:
>
> Is anyone familiar with how DOS fonts work?
>
> There are some .com files that will change the original font with another and
> ya can create your own. I created a TI-99/4aA font to use.
>
> So how does it work? Is the hardware font
Hi,
On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 3:59 PM ZB wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 03:32:17PM -0500, Jim Hall wrote:
>
> > Yes, and it's included as part of FreeDOS 1.3. You'll find the install
> > package on the BonusCD. Here's the report .. scroll down to
> > "Development" and you'll find the "bcc"
Hi,
On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 2:33 AM Fabian Boucsein wrote:
>
> After installing the Watcom from the IBIBLIO FreeDOS archive what
> do i need to configure the compiler so that i can use it?
set WATCOM=%RAMDRIVE%:\watcom19
set INCLUDE=%WATCOM%\H
set EDPATH=%WATCOM%\EDDAT
set WIPFC=%WATCOM%\WIPFC
Hi,
On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 6:04 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> I write a lot about FreeDOS and programming for several tech websites,
> such as Opensource.com. Here are a few "year in review" articles I
> recently wrote for Opensource.com that may interest you:
>
> "5 tips for learning a new programming
Hi,
On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 7:59 AM Michał Dec wrote:
>
> Is there any other hex editor for FreeDOS, which works a lot better?
Try this:
* https://www.sac.sk/download/utilprog/hiew650.zip
This is the well-known "freeware" Hacker's View (HIEW) hex editor.
IIRC, its built-in disassembler can
Hi,
On Sun, Jan 9, 2022 at 3:25 PM Ray Davison wrote:
>
> I now have a coincidence. The 1.2 kernel has been renamed and moved,
> and The boot manager cannot boot the partition. Is there actually a
> cause involved here?
>
> I have pointed the BM to both Kernlxx.sys, command.com, and
Hi,
On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 7:32 PM Bryan Kilgallin wrote:
>
> > FreeDOS command has support for LFN dir since ~15 years.
> >
> > use
> >
> > DIR /LFN
> >
> > for this, or
> >
> >set DIRCMD=/LFN
> >
> > I had no idea about this. Doesn’t seem to be in the help, but, it does
> > work.
>
>
Hi,
On Sun, Jan 2, 2022 at 10:35 AM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> Alternatively, packages are just zip files. So you can just unzip every DJGPP
> package from the Bonus CD to C:\
> and that will do the same thing.
>
> On Sun, Jan 2, 2022, 10:05 AM Bruce Axtens wrote:
>>
>> Please can someone point me at
Hi,
On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 8:23 PM erpicht
wrote:
>
> As a refresher, NRO is the FreeDOS version of the Unix troff program. My
> question: does anyone know of any NRO macro sets?
> Most interesting to me would be ones that could generate a table of contents
> or place footnotes.
>
Hi,
On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 6:53 AM saito yutaka wrote:
>
> How to redirect STDOUT and STDERR to file.
> I want to redirect to file as follow.
>
> ---
> c:\>dir aaa > out.txt
> c:\> type out.txt
> Volume in drive C is FREEDOS2021
> Volume Serial Number is 3668-1A1E
> File not found.
> ---
>
>
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 8:06 PM dmccunney wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 7:20 PM Rugxulo wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 4:36 PM dmccunney wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 4:19 PM Eric Auer wrote:
> > >
> > > > Bocke adds this: (I thin
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 4:36 PM dmccunney wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 4:19 PM Eric Auer wrote:
>
> > Bocke adds this: (I think FTP is just broken in the major browsers now,
> > alas!)
>
> It is broken and will *not* be fixed.
I assume this is moreso due to unneeded extra maintenance
Hi,
On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 5:05 AM Jerome Shidel wrote:
>
> On Nov 11, 2021, at 12:12 AM, Darik Horn wrote:
>
> The UnRAR in FreeDOS is 32,086 bytes and already implements all of the things
> that you want for SCLICER, which is currently 28,188 bytes.
> (Compression, installation scripting,
Hi,
On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 4:44 AM saito yutaka wrote:
>
> I want to build FreeDOS kernel on FreeDOS.
>
> But I don't have any idea that what tools I need.
> And what steps should I need.
>
> For example which should I use compiler to build source?
> And what library should I need?
I built a
Directions unclear: message stuck in ceiling fan.
(It's fine.)
On Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 8:29 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> The SourceForge email list server seems to be down. Sending a test message to
> see if this works.
___
Freedos-user mailing list
h AWK, SED, and REXX (as already mentioned
in older emails). I ended up rebuilding some interpreters for these
languages, so here's my alternate builds (with vanilla sources since I
didn't change any code).
* https://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/MAWK-TC.ZIP?attredirects=0=1
(308 kb)
* https://sites.
Hi,
(wow, sorry, I'm horribly late in replying)
On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 12:27 PM Tomas By wrote:
>
> Am trying to use Latex (from DJGPP) in Freedos, and get errors
> seemingly having to do with long file names.
My memory isn't flawless, so corrections welcome, but
Most DJGPP .ZIPs
Hi,
On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 2:06 PM Joao Silva wrote:
>
> I do dare to ask a dumb question, after reading several post about FSF.
>
> Can anyone explain what is FSF, i'm just a simple tech guy!
Free Software Foundation, aka the ones who fund the GNU organization
(GPL, GCC, BinUtils [as, ld],
Hi,
On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 2:41 AM Eric Auer wrote:
>
> > Richard Stallman has not been convicted by a court. He is not in
> > prison. Let's not burn his house down over pathetic words.
>
> That is not the point.
To treat his behavior as a crime that mandatorily deserves punishment
implies that
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 12:04 AM dmccunney wrote:
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> Meanwhile, I'm beyond caring about Stallman or the state of the FSF.
> Both deserve whatever happens to them.
It might be more honest (only guessing here) to admit that "He
stresses me out, I can't deal with him, I don't understand him,
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 2:12 PM Ralf Quint wrote:
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> Someone who as a public person makes comments like this is just one of
the most despicable persons. There are no two ways about it.
> And if someone doesn't understand this issue at hand is part of the
problem...
His public or private
Hi,
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 9:06 AM TK Chia wrote:
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> > Honestly, he's been known as "very eccentric" for many years. I don't
> > think anybody is surprised. He has opinions and voices them (whether
> > unpopular or not). You know what they say about opinions, right?
> > Everyone has one.
>
>
Hi,
On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 2:40 PM tom ehlert wrote:
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> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/red-hat-withdraws-from-the-stallman-led-free-software-foundation/
>
> maybe it's time to show the FSF the middle finger, too?
>
> Tom
Why do you bring this drama here?? How does quasi-political
Hi,
On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 3:43 AM Deposite Pirate wrote:
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> I have a bunch of SATA mechanical hard drives with perfect health that I've
> swapped out for SSDs in various laptops.
> I installed a 160Gb one with a Silicon Image 3512a SATALink host controller
> in my IBM Aptiva E30-2137
> (ALi
Hi again,
On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 5:01 PM Rugxulo wrote:
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> On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 5:56 PM Jim Hall wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestion. I've had conversations with the FSF about
> > getting FreeDOS listed on their Free Non-GNU Distributions page. It's
Hi again,
On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 3:43 AM Rugxulo wrote:
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> On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 3:56 PM E. Auer wrote:
> >
> > Also, if anybody can help me to extract the
> > data from those CP/M floppies, I would be happy, too!
>
> I never used CP/M, so I know little about it
Hi,
On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 3:56 PM E. Auer wrote:
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> In addition, I have found a small number of floppy
> disks in CP/M format, which are very likely readable
> using some of the drives here, but I do not know HOW
> to read them, software wise. I cannot even use dd to
> make a diskimage,
Hi, sorry for late reply,
On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 1:45 PM dmccunney wrote:
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> Trying to get listed by the FSF is an exercise in futility.
I don't know if it's truly impossible, I never asked them. My silly
floppy disk image (with minimal networking) is probably not worth much
to them (nor
Hi,
On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 5:56 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. I've had conversations with the FSF about getting
> FreeDOS listed on their Free Non-GNU Distributions page. It's not going to
> happen.
>
> The last time I discussed this with the FSF, the FSF Licensing rep
Hi,
On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 10:54 AM dmccunney wrote:
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> On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 9:37 PM Rugxulo wrote:
> >
> > Make is a fairly useful util and a great idea, but it's also a
> > portability nightmare (isn't everything?). So it's hard to do anything
> > perfect
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 2:08 PM dmccunney wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 5:30 PM Rugxulo wrote:
> >
> > I don't think this particular BASIC is a compiler, only an
> > interpreter. (The very first BASIC was a compiler.)
>
> Doesn't matter. You ca
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 12:26 PM dmccunney wrote:
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> > DJGPP make is mainly just a port of GNU make, is it not?
>
> Well, as part of a port of the entire Gnu/Linux toolchain, including
> GCC. Things like Scons are displacing make in some contexts, but make
> isn't going away.
Make is a
Hi,
On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 11:26 PM dmccunney wrote:
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> On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 10:35 PM Rugxulo wrote:
>
> > So no, I haven't tried rebuilding this (yet?), and I'm no *nix fiend,
> > but I do think AWK is a cool tool, maybe cooler than GW-BASIC (don't
> > kill m
Hi, TK,
On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 9:37 AM TK Chia wrote:
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> Thank you for the information. Building on Spinellis's work, I managed
> to get the source files to build under JWasm and JWlink,
Thank you. I never understand when people prefer ancient MASM over modern JWasm.
> after some source
Hi,
On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 11:04 AM Jerome Shidel wrote:
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> > On May 25, 2020, at 10:12 AM, Eric Auer wrote:
> >
> > I guess you could save some disk space by merging some of the
> > tools into fewer, more versatile tools, due to cluster sizes?
>
> Sure, I “could do that”. But, I’m not going
Hi,
On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 6:26 AM Jerome Shidel wrote:
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> > On May 24, 2020, at 1:39 AM, Eric Auer wrote:
> >
> The extremely limited number of
> machines out there that can run FreeDOS and don’t have EGA or
> better graphics makes this a very low priority.
Didn't Mateusz lightly patch and
onventional memory for programs.
Older FreeCOM 0.82pl3 at least supported KSSF and VSPAWN, so you could
"call /s" if needing that extra 100 kb of conventional memory. I used
that on my old (2008-ish) BARE_DOS floppy image. It worked under
8086tinyplus [186-ish], at least. But I've not t
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