On 9/18/2024 10:11 AM, barry m via Freedos-user wrote:
I have downloaded the FD13cd zip and the 13FDfloppy zip
I tried to unpack the 1.44 mb file but got error message - not enough
space - need another 22.9 mb.
I tried to unpack the 720k file to the same 1.45 mb floppy - got same
message!
Help
On 9/7/2024 10:51 AM, Sean McCune via Freedos-user wrote:
On my Apsire I found that once I booted it up I could not plug a USB
stick into the machine and have FreeDOS recognize. But... if I
plugged the USB stick containing the bonus disk into the machine
_before_ powering it on, then the BIO
Yeah, that's one of the things were AVast (and other AV applications
too) has gotten really bad. Anything that even remotely looks like
"messing" directly with the hard drive is being flagged as potentially
malicious. Same goes for a lot of self-developed software, simply due to
the fact that t
On 8/5/2024 12:30 PM, Roderick Klein via Freedos-user wrote:
It's not the driver! It has been dissected on various cyber security
sites and confirmed by CrowdStrike that the problem is a a typo in a
configuration file for CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor update installer.
That causes a parsing error
On 8/5/2024 9:43 AM, Roderick Klein via Freedos-user wrote:
Op 5-8-2024 om 18:31 schreef Ralf Quint via Freedos-user:
On 7/25/2024 12:06 AM, Michał Dec via Freedos-user wrote:
I haven't mentioned Microsoft in my entire response. On the
contrary, I've mentioned updates which is e
On 7/25/2024 12:06 AM, Michał Dec via Freedos-user wrote:
I haven't mentioned Microsoft in my entire response. On the contrary,
I've mentioned updates which is exactly the attack vector used by
CrowdStrike.
Try to know actually what you are talking about. There is no "attack
vector used by
On 6/29/2024 3:37 PM, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user wrote:
Just wondering.
If using freedos exclusively, what tools would allow you to attend
this event?
Again, simply curious.
Best,
Karen
Was this supposed to be a trick question?
Ralf
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On 6/4/2024 11:34 PM, hms--- via Freedos-user wrote:
As per Tom's request, below is a short batch file to show the issue.
It appears that the DIR command prematurely terminates it's listing
without error if a directory bearing the same name is encountered.
As I understand it, the DIR command sho
On 5/19/2024 2:25 AM, Frantisek Rysanek via Freedos-user wrote:
Are there any PCI cards that live at IO adress 378 so they are
compatible with DOS ?
I'd argue that the devil's in "subtle detail", and forecast hard
cheese for you :-/
In order to decode the IOport window at 0x378 by a PCI card, t
On 5/18/2024 3:56 PM, tsiegel--- via Freedos-user wrote:
Does spinright still have a dos version of their software posted
anywhere? I seem to recall, that was a really good utility. I
unfortunately never had the money to purchase it, and I gave up on
Norton Utilities after paying 50 bucks mo
On 2/22/2024 7:43 PM, DAMON GRAY wrote:
Augh!! Ralf, that's so much not what I wanted to hear.
Don't kill the messenger! LOL
But, it is what it is. I was under the impression that FreeDos had
dealt with the USB peripheral issue.
Well, no. Just what exactly gave you that impression? No DOS is
On 2/22/2024 7:18 PM, DAMON GRAY via Freedos-user wrote:
Greetings all.
I have a working MS-DOS system running on 6.2.2 but it has gigantical
problems with the USB Mouse. I've attempted multiple USB DOS driver
solutions. Some work half the time. Others not so much.
I'm working on the assumpt
On 2/9/2024 11:25 AM, Thomas Cornelius Desi wrote:
Well, if it would work, changing the keyboard should be an easy task. / E bay
has c a couple of accessible AT Keyboards )
Thanks for considering the problem!
Well, a XT/PC keyboard will only work with an XT or PC, and an AT
keyboard will only
Are you guys trying to have DOS behave like macOS? 😛
Beside that any trickery with the keyboard controller would only work on
an AT keyboard, where the controller chip is actually on the motherboard
of the computer, and thus accessible with an I/O port, on XT/PC
keyboards the controller is in
On 11/3/2023 5:55 AM, Alain Mouette via Freedos-user wrote:
Hi, I would like to clarify some things:
FreeDOS is limited to 2Gb files, some special programs can use 4Gb
(full 32 bits sector number) but it is not the norm.
In which way is "FreeDOS" limited to 2GB sized files? (Sorry, never
bothe
On 11/1/2023 12:32 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
I am sorry if this question is very very silly.
My goal is to extract, not to create a 7zip file.
The file referenced by Eric, seems to have archiving tools, but not
extracting ones.
Unless I am missing something profoundly obvious?
Well, there is
On 10/31/2023 1:27 PM, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user wrote:
I do not have a freedos install cd.
I understand that 7 zip files require the 7zip program...which is why
I am seeking it somewhere.
are such files given names like
file.7zip?
the latter does not keep the three character extension r
On 10/2/2023 5:13 PM, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user wrote:
I discovered that if I comment out the two while (in vga.c):
void wait_vsync()
{
//while (inportb(0x3da) & 8);
//while (!(inportb(0x3da) & 8));
}
Then the game under dosbox run just like under VirtualBox.
I have tried all the a
On 9/14/2023 1:15 AM, Eric Auer via Freedos-user wrote:
Hi! Does anybody here know the user nicknamed Candyman?
There is a strange thread on BTTR started by that account,
maybe somebody could contact Candyman via another channel
and ask what has happened.
Regards, Eric
You do not take this se
On 8/15/2023 3:28 AM, Liam Proven via Freedos-user wrote:
On Fri, 11 Aug 2023 at 18:36, Ralf Quint via Freedos-user
wrote:
Well, Liam, you owe me a full cup of coffee (I might be able to salvage
the keyboard)...
:-D
(I saw the to/too typo the second I hit "send"...)
Well, th
On 8/10/2023 10:11 AM, Liam Proven via Freedos-user wrote:
On Thu, 10 Aug 2023 at 18:00, zerofive--- via Freedos-user
wrote:
Any idea on what should I do?
This seems to obvious to mention, but hey...
Turn the volume knob on your speakers down?
Well, Liam, you owe me a full cup of coffee (I m
On 8/6/2023 2:35 PM, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user wrote:
First…
There seems to be a general misunderstanding that DOS only supports
80x25 columns. While it is possible that an extremely lazy programmer
would hard code for that resolution, most did not. Even back in the
early days the displa
On 8/6/2023 1:37 PM, zerofive--- via Freedos-user wrote:
Hello! Just tested it.
It changes the resolution, but now I just don't see anything. I tried
doing Ctrl+C exiting it but to no avail :(
Any reason why could this happen?
Because you don't pay attention to the replies you get.
DOS is us
On 8/6/2023 5:39 AM, EdzUp via Freedos-user wrote:
Hi all, I could cobble together a Command line app to chuck the system
into VGA/SVGA resolutions :)
-Ed
EdzUp
And what would this going to be accomplishing?
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On 8/6/2023 2:51 AM, zerofive--- via Freedos-user wrote:
A VGA resolution (?), 640x480 resolution so the text doesn't look
messy when I am cURLing a website, for example, or when the --help
parameter is too long.
There seem to be a serious misconception on your end. FreeDOS, like any
DOS, works
On 8/5/2023 5:08 PM, zerofive--- via Freedos-user wrote:
This question may been asked a million times but I just can't figure
it out, and googling it gives no results (except telling me that I
need to use `mode` and some parameters but this just wouldn't give me
what I am trying to achieve)
But
On 8/5/2023 1:02 PM, Louis Santillan wrote:
And yes Ralf, if the servers or companies have strict security
standards requiring newer protocol versions, then curl will fail or
will eventually fail to communicate with them.
Well, he stated that an attempt to use http instead failed, so I
wouldn
On 8/5/2023 12:51 PM, Louis Santillan via Freedos-user wrote:
Don’t do anything that requires security (banking, personal info,
connecting to work) if you decide to use a 3rd party proxy. All of
these proxies can potentially see your credentials and sensitive
information. It would be best
On 8/5/2023 12:37 PM, Louis Santillan wrote:
zerofive, you did not provide us actual error messages. We can only
speculate.
At least with curl on Linux, you can bypass cert checks with “-k”. If
you still believe it’s certs and you have a known good certificate and
private key, you pass them
On 8/5/2023 12:34 PM, zerofive--- via Freedos-user wrote:
Then what do I do if I want to make a cURL request or WGet to a secure
HTTPS page?
Do I just use HTTP?
But then it will forcefully redirect to HTTPS connection...
What do I do?
Use a properly Internet enabled operating system.
Yes, I a
On 8/5/2023 5:35 AM, zerofive--- via Freedos-user wrote:
Hello everyone! I am new to FreeDOS.
When I try to use cURL or WGet, they sometimes error and refuse to use
secure HTTPS connection.
I figured it was from outdated certificates. Is there any way I can
update them, manually or automaticall
On 7/31/2023 2:06 PM, DAMON GRAY via Freedos-user wrote:
Greetings all. I'm new to this list, so I hope to not post anything
inappropriate or out of order.
I have an old Dell Optiplex 745 I'm trying to "FreeDos" and am having
a couple of issues.
I have yet to get the USB Laser mouse to work
On 7/24/2023 6:06 PM, Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user wrote:
Hi folks,
Too many layers in the process for me to try the install.
That and the thinkpad, which is a thinkpad 600x is not in condition
for the work it seems.
I do wonder though if the freedos networking options would have
functioned
On 7/23/2023 1:50 PM, Rugxulo via Freedos-user wrote:
The alleged 4 GB file size doesn't work on some OSes (FreeDOS, Windows
NT?), only on old Win9x. So you're only guaranteed 2 GB individual
file sizes, universally.
Wrong. You can use files of up to 4GB size on any Windows version that
supports
On 7/21/2023 2:01 PM, John Vella via Freedos-user wrote:
Hi,
I installed freedos on my IBM Thinkpad T43 and I installed a usb
driver, which works. Sort of.
I can access a 2gb usb stick, which is formatted to FAT32, and that's
great, but I want to use a different stick.
This is where the pr
On 7/21/2023 1:51 PM, Jay F. Shachter via Freedos-user wrote:
Esteemed Colleagues:
A little bit less formal might be more appropriate...
slice, Microsoft Windows was still able to boot, and then I recreated
the third primary slice, and I installed FreeDOS onto it. I had to
change its 8-bit cod
On 6/13/2023 11:08 AM, Jose Senna wrote:
Vacek Nules said:
I'd like to ask the community's opinion and possible
endorsements to get the UTC to accept the [Forint] symbol
Is the Forint still in use in Hungary ?
Yes, it is still the official currency of Hungary. They apparently
didn't swit
On 6/13/2023 1:42 AM, EdzUp wrote:
Hi,
To be fair this seems like a very good idea mainly because any
barriers to FreeDOS use and acceptance should be removed and this
seems like a reasonably easy thing to do as it already is there.
-Ed
Much less of a good idea (not referring to the issu
On 6/9/2023 4:57 PM, Jim Erickson wrote:
it can be found in C:\NET\NEWSNUZ\SNUZ.EXE it can be installed via
fdimples from the networking section. sorry about that!
Well, color me surprised. Before i posted my previous question what it
is, I did a Google search and came up empty. So I kind of w
On 6/9/2023 4:13 PM, Jim Hall wrote:
*General note: If you ask for help with a program, don't assume others
know what it is. Include a URL or some other indication of where to
find it.
+1
Ralf
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What the *&$#% is snuz?
On 6/9/2023 8:00 AM, Jim Erickson wrote:
i am attempting to get snuz running on my freedos 1.3 installation. i
have a wattcp.cfg and a snuz.rc configured. however when i run
snuz.exe i get "tcpopen failed" error. just wondering what exactly i
am doing wrong. will gladly s
On 6/7/2023 3:44 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
On Wed, 7 Jun 2023 at 10:28, wrote:
Being an English language and keyboard user, I neither use nor possess
knowledge on using various NLS support programs like KEYB.
Small but important point. The majority of English speakers are not
Americans and we d
On 5/3/2023 12:29 PM, Aitor Santamaría wrote:
Hello!
Although I am some years late, my thoughts on this thread. By the way,
a very interesting thread on localisation for a hard case (the need
for DBCS).
Well,..
These thoughts are provided from the simple logic, not knowing about
DOS/V. In
On 3/22/2023 2:31 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.
Why should it? The only thing is if you want to use the TASMX
On 3/21/2023 3:30 PM, Alvah Whealton wrote:
Can Turbo Assembler be run on FreeDos, when FreeDos is being run on an
emulator?
Why not?
I certainly have
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On 2/16/2023 5:59 AM, Jürgen Wondzinski wrote:
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
On 2/7/2023 3:40 AM, tom ehlert wrote:
The use of (n)curses for example is a typical Unix thing, that has
nothing to do with DOS and should not be shoehorned into a DOS
application...
add DEVICE=ANSI.SYS to your config.sys and you can easily 'port'
(=compile and fix C compiler discrepacies) your
On 2/6/2023 5:40 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
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
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 they have much in common, but I still see a
lot to learn from classic UNIX and the philosophy
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 written down in the past, but as a living
"special transmission, outside the scriptures" passed from g
On 1/15/2023 12:08 PM, Knedlik wrote:
I don’t think having USB mouse in BIOS is the problem… I believe my
configuration uses BIOS to boot by default.
Mouse support in the BIOS has nothing to do with booting via BIOS...
Ralf
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On 1/15/2023 11:26 AM, Knedlik wrote:
Hello!
I successfully ran FreeDOS on my Ryzen 5 3600X, RTX 2060, 32 gigs RAM from a
USB, except for the CDROM, which is obvious considering the missing CDROM
hardware.
Cutemouse tells me it’s loaded, but when I launch an app using a mouse, I can’t
move it.
On 11/23/2022 7:02 AM, Joao Silva wrote:
LOL!
It's not for me, out of my league... i don't mind to some work when i
know how to or simply to work it out.
I did scroll down fast and i didn't saw the price tag.
There is a price tag? 😉
Well, I went to DMP's web site and the EduCake (LOL), whic
On 11/22/2022 6:07 AM, Mart Zirnask wrote:
Hi, just something I noticed on Hacker News -- a tiny retro computer,
apparently with integrated Sound Blaster Pro-compatible audio. FreeDOS
installation instructions included:
https://github.com/eivindbohler/tinyllama
Seems like quite a bit of assembl
On 11/8/2022 11:57 AM, userbeit...@abwesend.de wrote:
How is any Linux feature possibly helping me with running an older,
non-LFN aware program on (Free)DOS?
It won't.
If FreeDOS were to learn the same alternative way of not using the
"tail" (~1, ~2 and so on) on short file names, at least we
On 11/8/2022 2:55 AM, userbeit...@abwesend.de wrote:
On Nov 8, 2022, 01:58, Ralf Quint wrote:
But I only use this feature sparingly, as there are a lot of older
software that can't handle them. And the mapping to some xyz~1.abc is
actually losing two significant characters of those 8 avai
On 11/7/2022 5:07 AM, Joseph Norton wrote:
Hi listers:
I’m just curious about how you all feel about the use of lfn in
FreeDOS (or any real DOS).
I notice that the lfn option is rem’d out in the fdauto.bat file by
default, so it would appear that, while support seems to be there, the
feeli
On 11/5/2022 10:34 PM, Bryan Kilgallin wrote:
Thanks, Ralf:
I much rather think that the confusion is that (Free)DOS is not
plug&play, so if you plug in the USB stick after FreeDOS is booted
up, it will very likely (though depending on the BIOS of the machine)
not recognize that there is a di
On 11/3/2022 11:21 AM, Travis Siegel wrote:
It was actually LFN of which I was thinking when I replied to the
initial email. I know dos *can* handle long file names, but it
doesn't do so by default, and requires drivers/TSRs to be loaded to
assist in this process.
Well, the issue that had T
On 11/3/2022 5:26 AM, Frantisek Rysanek wrote:
I'd like to second Tom's opinion.
If memory serves, MS DOS understands FAT32 since about version 7 or 8
(present in Windows 95/98) and Freedos since when I remember = could
be version 1 or so...
Did you perhaps confuse FAT32 for NTFS or ExFAT/FAT64?
On 10/21/2022 2:14 PM, Travis Siegel wrote:
I'm not a normal windows user obviously, but personally, I love when
windows apps have text interfaces,
Well, that is a rather personal preference. I am using for years now a
Windows freeware editor called PSPad. That handles all the text files in
On 10/20/2022 9:17 PM, dmccunney wrote:
I recall Qedit, and used it back in the day, though it was never my
primary editor.
It got renamed from Qedit to TSE due to a trademark issue. Qedit author Sammy
Mitchell was unaware there was another editor called WEDIT, provided
by Hewlett-Packard for t
On 10/21/2022 5:20 AM, Joseph Norton wrote:
Hi:
Basically, he mentioned that the reason he released it as freeware was
that he hadn’t made too much in profits for quite a while.
No too surprised. The market for DOS bases software is all but dead 30
years after the EOL of MS-DOS.
And offer
Make sure you have the CD/DVD-ROM driver and a MSCDEX equivalent loaded
on startup. This might be happening during the installer, but might be
missing out of config.sys and autoexec.bat in your installed version...
There's a script that gets called from FDAUTO that tries several drivers
-- why
On 9/18/2022 10:30 AM, Glenn Holmer via Freedos-user wrote:
I installed FreeDOS 1.3 on a machine about ten years old. It
successfully read the DVD during installation, but doesn't recognize it
afterward when booted.
How can I diagnose this?
Make sure you have the CD/DVD-ROM driver and a MSCDEX
On 9/15/2022 10:09 AM, Jerome Shidel wrote:
On Sep 15, 2022, at 11:58 AM, Ralf Quint wrote:
On 9/15/2022 2:44 AM, tom ehlert wrote:
It seems I have broken packages - got networking now but having a lot
of problems otherwise. Any easy way to square it all up again?
42
+1
Ralf
(and now
On 9/15/2022 2:44 AM, tom ehlert wrote:
It seems I have broken packages - got networking now but having a lot
of problems otherwise. Any easy way to square it all up again?
42
+1
Ralf
(and now, that doesn't make it 43 😂 )
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On 7/12/2022 7:21 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
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
On 7/11/2022 5:33 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
Which makes me wonder if it would be
possible to do such a "back port" from the sources of one of the earlier
versions of FPK,at least those that started to be self-compiling, before
the more widespread adaptations of Delphi'isms :?
I highly doubt it. F
On 7/11/2022 5:02 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
There are at least half a dozen generations. Given the ones that have
been adopted outside Wirth's institutions and used in many countries,
there are things that we could call Pascal, Pascal 3 (Modula-2),
Pascal 4 (Oberon), and several different successor
On 7/10/2022 11:49 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
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 they were
On 7/10/2022 2:46 PM, Nico via Freedos-user wrote:
hi,
I would like to create a minimal bootable image for a USB drive (or
other formats, maybe even floppies, but USB is the focus) that boots
into a single application (in my case, a custom minimal word
processor, although freeDOS EDIT is a dec
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 they were able to use separate "units" and DOS .EXEs for
larger code. (But TP 3 could still address 1 MB wit
On 7/8/2022 12:54 PM, Eric Stein wrote:
Regarding FreeDOS 1.3 release version:
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 devic
On 7/8/2022 12:32 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
The original Pascal was stabilized and "sent off" to standardization
in 1977. They didn't add any major features, so it's almost the same
as de facto J&W. The standard (ISO 7185) was published in 1982.
"Classic" Pascal had no modularity, everything was a singl
On 7/7/2022 2:58 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
DeSmet C and IA16-ELF (GCC) both work fairly well (but not necessarily
every memory model).
* http://desmet-c.com/
DeSmet C has only 2 memory models (small and large, the later from v3.x
onwards) and is also using its own object file format and thus linke
On 7/7/2022 8:54 PM, dmccunney wrote:
On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 8:30 PM Daniel wrote:
I am unfamiliar woththe C languages, but does it also allow one to mix both
assembly in with the C source code? Are there any other languages that allows
mixing of assembly in with the language code?
Not in
On 7/7/2022 9:59 AM, C. Masloch wrote:
On at 2022-07-07 09:39 -0700, Ralf Quint wrote:
Similar with NASM, where for some weird reasons, they made the
assembler case-sensitive, which I would consider utter nonsense (also
among my griefs with C(++)). And it really bites you if you are
trying to
On 7/2/2022 10:37 AM, Travis Siegel wrote:
Masm, Tasm, and others all have their own syntax which confuses me
more than helping.
Well, that is not quite correct. And it would be obvious if you did x86
assembler in the early '80s. MASM (and basically TASM (as in Borland
Turbo Assembler)) is
On 6/26/2022 1:19 PM, Louis Santillan wrote:
Unfortunately, they’re no longer $9. :(
Yeah, chances to get such a machine for $9 are pretty slim
Ralf
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On 6/17/2022 9:34 PM, dogwallop1...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all, brand spanking new to this mailing list, and I’m just setting
up FreeDOS in a VMWare machine.
I would very much like to get the networking setup so that I can
create shares to be able to exchange files with the host machine, but
f
On 6/15/2022 10:30 AM, 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 cached and the cache is
change
On 6/14/2022 3:18 PM, Zbigniew wrote:
Googling around gave no result. It seems it doesn't exist „ready for
use”, so just to make sure:
does DOS/BIOS offer any possibility to set active screen output
„window” — I mean something like BIOS int 10h/06-07 — but trapping
cursor inside?
What I mean is u
On 6/9/2022 8:55 AM, Roderick Klein wrote:
He Martin,
Small world. I have also been looking for websites on that topic.
I have also not been able to find any information for fixes for
Windows 3.1 Microsoft released.
I do not know if Microsoft released patched for Windows 3.1 and Y2k
compabil
On 4/26/2022 3:56 AM, Eduardo Casino wrote:
Very terse. Me gusta mucho. :-)
I'm sorry, I did not mean to be rude.
OK, so I think I was not technically wrong, VMware does not, *but*
there is a way round it?
It is correct that VMWare does not provide guest additions for DOS,
tha
On 3/18/2022 4:09 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 01:10, Everaldo Bernardo Cunha
wrote:
I would of to install GNU Cobol in the FreeDOS 1.3. Someone here can help me
that work??? I'm using the FreeDOS in a virtual machine DOSBOX-X, in the Debian
11.2 LXDE 64 bits ... I'll await f
On 3/14/2022 10:22 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 18:12, Ralf Quint wrote:
[2] Is there a version of GNU COBOL for DOS? I can't find any mention
of this on Google.
This is the real issue at hand here, and the reason why the OP should
rather contact the GNU COBOL
folks
On 3/14/2022 6:10 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 01:10, Everaldo Bernardo Cunha > wrote: >> >> I would of to install GNU Cobol
in the FreeDOS 1.3. Someone here >> can help me that work??? I'm using
the FreeDOS in a virtual >> machine DOSBOX-X, in the Debian 11.2 LXDE 64
bits ..
On 3/3/2022 9:43 PM, Travis Siegel wrote:
I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure linux does have locking in various
increments. File locking being the easiest, then access to portions
of said file. You may need to use various interfaces to accomplish
the tasks, but there are several programs I us
On 3/3/2022 3:36 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
I don't believe that solution supports multiple node access to the
same folder.
SMB (i.e. MSCLIENT and Samba) were designed for this use case.
What makes you think so? Concurrent access to files is something
already handled by SHARE even in non-networked
On 2/27/2022 3:25 PM, Sean Warner wrote:
I have enabled SMBv1 in Win 10 and enabled file and printer sharing.
Also in Win 10 Function Discovery Provider Host and Resource
Publication are both enabled and running.
That simply might not work. I have similar problems were for a while
still, I
On 2/18/2022 10:01 AM, Jim Hall wrote:
My thoughts:
I run FreeDOS in a virtual machine. That's probably the easiest way
for most people to run FreeDOS today. (Obviously everyone is
different, especially for those who prefer to run on actual hardware -
but I'm talking about "most people" here.)
On 2/17/2022 3:27 PM, Joseph Kelchner wrote:
Hello,
I’m wondering if Freedos could be used as my operating system on a
Windows 10 pro Hyper-V Virtual Machine?
Thanks!
Joe
Your question is rather ambiguous. If you are asking if you can run
FreeDOS in a guest OS in a Hyper-V host, then the
On 1/29/2022 8:37 PM, Louis Santillan wrote:
He claims "The DMC++ compiler is far and away the best C++ compiler on
DOS."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30127615
Well, he had a good head start on pretty much all the other major
players, both as a commercial C, then C++ compiler, sold t
On 12/30/2021 2:22 AM, JR wrote:
Hi there
I have a really basic question regarding the date format.
After decades, I decided I would like the date format to be -mm-dd
instead of mm-dd-yy
As this thread has drifted off into a completely different topic, here's
a bit humor to get back on the
On 12/31/2021 2:37 PM, tom ehlert wrote:
At that point, the system wants to create a page file that is larger (by
default) than the 2GB fixed file size limit of FAT16/32.
FAT has a limit of 4GB.
it's DOS that limits this unless you indicate at DosOpen that you understand
the difference between
On 12/31/2021 8:14 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 at 21:04, Deposite Pirate wrote:
Windows XP can indeed officially be installed and boot from FAT32.
https://kb.iu.edu/d/ajqm
AFAICS that page is inconclusive and merely says that XP supports
FAT16, 32 and NTFS, which was never in d
On 12/26/2021 12:29 PM, Louis Santillan wrote:
There seems to be some population of newer or obscure BIOSes that will
misreport IDE drives and BIOS booted HDD formatted USB drives as being
non fixed disks which FD FDISK requires to be able to interact with them.
This isn't "obscure" at all i
On 12/24/2021 11:06 AM, Travis Siegel wrote:
Someone really should tell these guys that dos is still widely used in
industrial processes today, wonder what they'd say about that. :)
That's part of the problem, those are university goons, they don't live
in the real world... >:)
Ralf ;-)
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On 12/24/2021 9:53 AM, Parodper wrote:
O 24/12/21 ás 18:30, Ralf Quint escribiu:
On 12/24/2021 4:48 AM, Bryan Kilgallin wrote:
The comment against open-source DOS is at the end of this
discussion. See after 26 minutes.
https://youtu.be/Opqgwn8TdlM
I really wonder how that would effect DOS
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