Re: [Freedos-user] FoxCalc: New version on-line.
On 5/15/07, Mateusz Viste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you think FreeDOS needs such a calc application? I know there is already FDRC, which is a resident calculator, but haven't a nice TUI like FoxCalc ;-P Well, FDRC uses Reverse Polish notation, it seems to be a rather developer oriented tool. As for Foxcalc I can say that in my view, a calculator application (I mean, for human beings) is always good. I use the calc utility of Windows fairly often so I see no reason why FreeDOS wouldn't have such a tool included. If possible, adding a scientific mode would be nice (sin, cos, tan, displaying say 100 as 1E06, brackets, basic stats (ie enter your data and see characteristic values like standard deviation, mean etc. when finished). I don't use these functions anymore, but there was a time when I really needed them. A backspace key to erase the most recently entered character might be useful, too. Also note that FoxCalc doesn't return any error message when you divide a number by zero or when you try to get the square root of a negative number. Another possible bug: try 9 999 999 999 999 999 * 9 999 999 999 999. Note the content of the calculator's screen. And then press x^2 until FoxCalc returns an error: it doesn't seem to check overflow. I got this error message on Windows Millennium's DOS window : ++ ¦¦ ¦ +--+ ¦ ¦ ¦Exiting due to signal SIGSEGV000 000 000 000 000 000 00 General Protection Fault at eip=00017e9a0 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 00 eax=0101 ebx=674ec804 ecx=0101 edx=01793d97 esi=01793e70 edi=30303030 ebp=01793d9c esp=01793b14 program=C:\WINDOWS\BUREAU\FOXCALC\FOXCALC.EXE cs: sel=00af base=86452000 limit=03fd9fff ¦ ds: sel=00b7 base=86452000 limit=03fd9fff M- AC ¦ es: sel=00b7 base=86452000 limit=03fd9fff ¦ fs: sel=00bf base= limit=0010 MR C¦ gs: sel=00bf base= limit=0010 ¦ ss: sel=00b7 base=86452000 limit=03fd9fff MC ¦ App stack: [01794000..01714000] Exceptn stack: [0002583c..000238fc] ¦ MOD0 . +/- ?¦ Call frame traceback EIPs:¦ 0x00017e9a ++ 0x30303030 Please give your opinions! Done :) FDCalc sounds nice and has less than 8 letters. PS: If the author of FDRC reads this message, please note that I didn't forgot the translation. You'll receive the file soon. Sorry for the delay. - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Calculator for DOS
On 5/13/07, Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this the right address? I can't find the server at mateusz.viste.free.fr. The URL works fine for me (just checked). I downloaded the calculator and it works quite fine under Windows Millennium too. Note there are minor differences between what you'll see on the screenshot and the application itself: square root has been replaced with 1/x and x^n with x^3. - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] weird happening
On 5/3/07, Bonnie Dalzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For reasons I will not trouble you with I had to reinstall Ubuntu Edgie (6.10) on both my laptop and desktop yesterday. So this morning I went to put Freedos-dosemu back on both computers. did the laptoo first using synaptic package manger. then went to do the desktop (this is maybe 3 minutes later) using synaptic package manager. Got an error saying: Could not mark all packages for installation or upgrade The following packages have unresolvable dependencies. Make sure that all required repositories are added and enabled in the preferences. dosemu-freedos: Depends: dosemu but it is not installable I have checked the repositories and they are all selected in synaptic. Any idea what is going on? I remember had problems with dosemu under Ubuntu 6.06. Finally I had compiled it from source and then it worked fine (dosemu 1.3.4). Dosemu 1.3.5 with Freedos 1.0 has been released very recently, you may want to try them (http://www.dosemu.org). Anyway, the mailing list of dosemu would probably be a better place for your question. If the problem is confirmed, you should also file a bug on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/ after having verified if it's not already filed to avoid duplicates. - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Microsoft C/C++
Norbert Remmel wrote: is there anyone out there who still owns an early Microsoft C compiler which can be run under plain DOS? If no one has an early Microsoft C compiler maybe http://www.desmet-c.com/ could help in some way. Good luck. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] formatting a USB drive
Eric Auer wrote: If you do indeed run DOS inside Linux, please do also tell which software you use for that - for example QEmu, Dosemu, Bochs, Dosbox, Wine...? Just FYI, Dosbox doesn't support Format command, it simply returns Illegal command: format The same is also true for Ver (version info), and probably others as well. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Questions on news:alt.os.free-dos
Hi all, I'm lurking news:alt.os.free-dos and wanted to report that there are two questions that might be interesting for FreeDOS coders. One is talking about problems with install language, another one about a possible kernel bug. None of these messages got a response until now (MessageIDs : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ). IMHO, it would be good if someone kept an eye on this newsgroup. At worst, use a secondary e-mail address to avoid spam ( filters of gmail are very efficient, I'd gladly send an invite if someone's interested). Oh, also, is there any progress for the floppy distro of FreeDOS ? Just curiosity. Regards. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Questions on news:alt.os.free-dos
Eric Auer wrote: Hi Stegozor, Hi Eric, wasnt there some gmane interface or something which would make the newsgroup available on www? Or maybe you could http://www.Gmane.org is a newsgroup interface/archive for the mailing list, however, gmane groups are not spread across USENET. They are hosted only on gmane. just forward the questions to the list or to me? Thanks! Google Groups is a nice webUSENET interface. Have a look at http://groups.google.com/group/alt.os.free-dos Look for Kernel Bug (the first message right now) and FreeDOS Install Language (third one). It would be very nice if somebody could throw those 3 distros together to create a 3 diskette distro with all updates (...) I totally agree! :) - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Connect to internet through Router
On 12/7/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Freedosoyds ;-) I want to connect my FreeDOS to the Internet. Do I need a TCP/IP stack? If so, how must I set-up it? Well, if this helps I recently managed to get connected with Arachne (http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc ). I created a boot diskette under Windows Millennium, booted with it, then launched the packet driver that was already on the hard disk, and then launched Arachne. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Two Archives Of FreeDOS List
On 10/18/06, Lester V [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stegozor: Give news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.freedos.general a try, you'll like this one as an archive ;) It looks great. Is NNTP archive complete? I have seen some posts here a Messages on gmane never expire. So, all messages since the mailing-list was subscribed to gmane are there, and even more if the previous messages were imported. You can download all messages and you'll have them on your hard drive and will be able to use your news clients search features. while back complaining that no one is using NNTP threads so I never bothered checking that out. Some people do not go on Usenet, but anyway gmane is not spread (yet) across Usenet, it's just a nntp interface for the mailing list. And, IMHO, those who avoid Usenet really do miss something interesting. http://www.gmane.org for more information about gmane. -- - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Floppy Distro?
Could some have a look at news:alt.os.free-dos and reply to the most recent message (at this time, ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) preferably with a very soon ? ;) - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Hangman v1.04
On 9/9/06, Mateusz Viste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just noticed that the FreeDOS 1.0 CD includes my Hangman game :) I released a new version of the game, where fixed some minor bugfixes, done some niceties, added many new words to the vocabulary files, added an *.LSM file to the package and (the most important) - released it under GNU/GPL licence with source-code available. Great ! I may seem a little bit greedy and impolite, but what about the other software mentioned on your site ? I couldn't find licensing information about them. Available at http://www.the.killer.webpark.pl/en/hangman.htm I wanted to give it a try in the DOS window of Windows Millenium, but it freezed my computer. I think that's because it was made for a stand alone dos, but it maybe a little check and warning message if the OS is not appropriate would be interesting. -- - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] [OT] Announcing FreeDOS on some newsgroups
On 9/9/06, Gerry Hickman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Markus, Hi, It's not dying, and it's not spam. These are misconceptions of people don't use newsgroups. Young people who are interested in low level open-source programming certainly do use newsgroups. Sure, but PHP forums are taking more and more people away from USENET. As for me, I don't think I'll be able to use web based forums instead of NNTP any time soon. Newsgroups are so convenient. The web does not have the advanced information. The web only has the Agreed. Check out the standards based C++ groups, then check out the PERL groups and their associated CPAN libraries, check out Apache, check out Linux, they are all better than what you can get on the web. People who update websites are just too slow, NNTP is fast. NNTP is the future. I agree. The problem is that many other people must agree as well. Maybe the day gmane will be spread across USENET (we'll have to wait for the final version of Reticule), more people will think like us. Really, I think http://www.gmane.org is wonderful. -- - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] [OT] Announcing FreeDOS on some newsgroups
On 9/12/06, Gerry Hickman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I first found FreeDOS on NNTP (hard to believe?) but I lost some because Google returns news:alt.os.free_dos instead of news:alt.os.free-dos which is much more active. Maybe a regularly posted FAQ on these two newsgroups (and also on news:comp.os.msdos.misc ) and making clear some basic points would be helpful. We just need to agree on a text and a volunteer to post it every month or so. I quickly notice deveryone was using the mailing list instead so I had no choice. You still have the choice: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.freedos.general , that's why I think that gmane is really *wonderful* :) Strange how the best technology is rarely the one that succeeds? PCM and MP3 vs iPod, CD-RW and UDF vs CD-R, DVD-RAM vs DVD-R, Betamax vs VHS, Bluray vs HD, Windows vs Linux and so on... The sex-appeal and efficiency seem to be two very different things... -- - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Announcing FreeDOS on some newsgroups
Jim Hall wrote: When is someone announcing Freedos 1.0 on news:alt.os.free-dos, news:comp.os.msdos.misc , news:comp.os.msdos.programmer and so on? I'd like to let this honour to the team, but if you're not willing to do it, I can do too :) I agree - the honor should go to Blair, since he put in all the work on putting together the distribution. Blair, if you wouldn't mind doing this, we'd all appreciate it. (If you don't want to, I can do it.) Still nothing on these newsgroups. That makes think to Grigory Perelman: he does all the work, but doesn't care about the honour :) But somebody should do it, the sooner the better. If there's still nothing this weekend I think I'll send the announcement. Ah, don't forget news:gmane.linux.msdos.general , the gmane group of dosemu mailing-list. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Announcing FreeDOS on some newsgroups
Hi, When is someone announcing Freedos 1.0 on news:alt.os.free-dos, news:comp.os.msdos and so on? I'd like to let this honour to the team, but if you're not willing to do it, I can do too :) On the IRC channel, tassi_office told lets ask blair to have to honor :). So, blair, go on ;) Anyway, congratulations for the 1.0 release to the team, and let's hope that Linux packages (for me: .deb for dosemu) won't take too much time before being available on repositories. -- - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Problems with FreeFDISK ?
On 8/10/06, Gerry Hickman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What you did sounds muddled to me. I often do weird things, you know :) I have a whole network of PCs that were all partitioned from within FreeDOS BETA and associated FDISK program. Obviously I check things like BIOS aupport, controller type, UDMA spec, LBA and cylinder boundaries before doing anything to any kind of hard drive. You do so because you can. My computer related knowledge is limited, unfortunately. Some people are born and die as newbies... All I can say is that my mother board is a Asus A7V333, the CPU an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (running at 1,2 Ghz, voluntary Bios setting), 384 Mb of RAM and the hard disk is a WDC WD200BB-00DEA0 (I did a mistake about the brand of the hard drive on the USENET thread). You appear to be saying you ran it under WinME's version of DOS? In Right. theory, FreeDOS is compatible with MS-DOS, but I'd never risk actually running FDISK like that. The rest of your environment is unclear (UMBs etc) I live dangerously, I know :) In fact, I replaced FreeFdisk just to see how it looked, but indeed it wasn't probably the best thing to do. The concept of ubuntu being able to recover the disk sounds odd too? It was definitely good news, but since Windows Me wasn't able to format, it surprised me. For another opinion, please see: http://tinyurl.com/zclvh (Google Groups). If it wasn't formatted, there could not have been much to recover? You I already had a backup of relevant data (address book and some Open Office documents), therefore erasing the disk wasn't a problem, I _wanted_ to format the disk. Seems that I misused the recovering word, sorry. In fact, as I thought that the disk was nearly dead, I was seeking for a way to make it usable again. can zap partitions and MBR at any time with FreeDOS FDISK. FreeDOS never told that there was a problem, it did what I asked quite nicely. The problem was that FORMAT was unable to do its job after FreeFDISK. I don't know what the problem exactly is (or was). I can't imagine what you were trying to achieve or why you decided to use Windows ME's startup disk? It was just a desperate attempt, because I couldn't format using the boot diskette. As you can now see the USENET thread (below), you'll see that I had supposed (and many other people taking part to this thread) that the disk was out of service. The links to the newsgroup posts are not working for me, not sure why? Well, in fact, it was a URI, very close to a Message-ID. Try this one : http://groups.google.com/group/alt.comp.hardware/msg/a15b10368e2a1b49 , click on the subject to view the entire thread. As the discussion is recent, you should find it on your news server. If you still have a blank hard drive and want to do more tests I'd Not anymore, as I finally switched to Ubuntu GNU/Linux (and I'm struggling without success to make dosemu work on it)... If it is really useful, I can do some more testing Let me summarize my story: after having partitioned the hard disk using FreeFdisk, I couldn't format some of these partitions. The workaround was to boot on a Ubuntu CD. As I related my experience on news:alt.comp.hardware, two contributors suggested that the partitioning could have been screwed, and one of them told that he had problems with FreeFDISK. That's why I posted a message here, hoping that the feedback might help the project in some way. suggest you boot into FreeDOS, use the /CLEARALL option to clear everything from the drive then try again. You'll find FreeDOS FDISK is the best FDISK ever released and has the most powerful command line. (be sure to test EMM386 very carefully if you use it, as this can lead to all kinds of crazy results, although recent versions may be OK, I don't know as I don't use it) I'll archive these lines. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] md5 sum of FreeDos ISO images pre 1.0
On 8/9/06, Zbigniew W.Kaminski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My results are shown belowe: MD5: eb672cd22d1872eb4385dbd2dd839bc2 *fdfullcd.iso 163244032 [2006-07-23/16:52:22] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop$ md5sum -b fdfullcd.iso eb672cd22d1872eb4385dbd2dd839bc2 *fdfullcd.iso This file seems OK :) I don't have fdfullws.iso, sorry. HTH. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Problems with FreeFDISK ?
Hi, A few days ago, I created a boot diskette created under Windows Millenium (virus free according to ClamWin), and replaced FDISK by FreeFDISK on that diskette. After that, I created several partitions using FreeDISK, but was unable to format some partitions on the disk using neither FORMAT, nor the install process of the Windows Me CD. Finally, I recovered the hard disk thanks to Ubuntu 6.06 CD that partitioned and installed like a charm. While I was suffering, I posted a message on news:alt.comp.hardware to know whether my disk was dying. Some contibutors suggested that the partitionning could be screwed, and one clearly stated that the problem might have been caused by FreeFDISK and that he had seen similar problems on 3 computers before. ( news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ). So, I thought that reporting my experience here could be useful. Let's hope that this is a false positive. You may find more information on the USENET thread: See news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and the replies. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
