[Freedos-user] New release of DOSUTILS
A new release of the DOSUTILS package is available and can be downloaded from here http://www.bttr-software.de/products/jhoffmann/ Three of the utilities the package consists of have been improved: RPN - a program that provides integer math to batch files e.g. for numeric loop counters or simple calculations. SELECT - a program that can serve as a directory browser or to display a scroll bar menu with any kind of content. FORM - a program that displays a freely definable form on the screen, accepts the user's input and stores the responses in one or more environment variables. In addition a new member joined the package FNTOOL - a tool to transform DOS filenames in many ways replacing commands like dirname or basename but more powerful than these two ones. These utilities (together with the other ones in the package) effectively increase the set of commands usable in batch procedures adding many features one might possibly miss when returning from UNIX shell scripting back to DOS batch programming and they might be particularly useful when writing installation or set-up procedures. Therefore especially the maker(s) of the new FreeDOS distribution CD might want to esplore the package to see whether some of these utilities are useful for that purpose. -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] batch programming language
Marco Achury marcoach...@gmail.com wrote on Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:29:19 -0430 A more realistic goal to Freedos may be to expand the batch programming language to be compatible with newer windows versions, but keeping retro compatible with DOS batch programs. Look this nice code that we cant run on Freedos http://windowstipoftheday.blogspot.com/2005/03/ms-dos-calculator.html Who says it can't be done in FreeDos or any other kind of classic DOS as opposed to the Dos emulations of modern Windows versions? (even though the code might have to be re-written) Many operations that traditional DOS batch language doesn't provide out of the box, can be performed by the help of some additional utilities. One possible source for such utilities is the package dosutils.zip which is available here: http://www.bttr-software.de/products/jhoffmann/ And if one doesn't insist in infix notation (mathematics using parantheses to indicate the precedence of operations) but is comfortable with reverse poish notation (as used by older HP calculators) then one doesn't even need a batch file at all, but can use the utility RPN right out of the box. ___ Schon gehört? WEB.DE hat einen genialen Phishing-Filter in die Toolbar eingebaut! http://produkte.web.de/go/toolbar -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] (various subjects)
Subject: network drivers On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:58:24 Bernd Blaauw wrote: However I'm not sure if complete stacks have to be installed before the shims work or not (as neither the Novell nor MS stacks are freely distributable) No. Well, actually i am not so familiar with the MS-stack but as far as Novell's ODI stack is involved i know, that the protocol driver (IPXODI and/or TCPIP) is not required if you only want to use the shim (e.g. ODIKPT). On the other hand, i personally didn't experience too great difficulties in finding true packet drivers for ethernet cards. (WLAN cards may be a diferent story) Subject: date fomat (slightly off topic) The utility TIMESTMP (i don't want to bother you again with the information where to find it :-) allows to freely define (almost) any format for date/time output (only 12 hour format with am/pm is not supported). Of course this doesn't really help with the output of DIR (therefore: slightly off topic) but may be useful in other cases. Subject: U.S. Medical Costs!! (very much off topic) On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 01:12:44 Bernd Blaauw wrote: you missed a 'good' opportunity to visit Europe :) Don't be too sure! In Germany, for instance, most people do have a health insurance, but if you belong to the few who don't (as you would if you came from outside the EU) than things may become difficult and expensive as well. ___ Schon gehört? WEB.DE hat einen genialen Phishing-Filter in die Toolbar eingebaut! http://produkte.web.de/go/toolbar -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos much more. Register early save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] New release of DOSUTILS package
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 22:43:00 Eric Auer wrote: For those who read mails but do not follow all URLs, and to already give some feedback and plug ads for similar tools, DOSUTILS contains: First of all thank you for your feed back. Though i think some additional comments could be useful :-) ASKECHO - prompt for user input Note that FreeCOM command.com has a special SET for this. That's true, however DOSUTILS can be used with ANY kind of DOS even with such less advanced versions like MS-DOS 6.22 which lack this feature :-) RPN - perform integer calculations If you need floating point: The 1024 byte(!) calc387.com will be fun for you. For example Rugxulo's Ruffidea distro contains a copy of the tool :-) True, RPN can't do floating point. And even though it can be used interactively, its main purpose is to do (more or less) simple calculations in batch procedures, like numeric loop counters, comparison of two numbers and the like. And i can hardly imagine that some will seriously attempt to implement a fast fourier transform as a batch procedure :-) so the lack of floating point may not hurt too much. PIPESET - store the output of other programs in environment variables In a limited way, yet another exotic SET feature of the FreeCOM command.com can help you to do similar things. Can you pipe into FreeCOM's SET command? And PIPESET can do even more, it can cut a specific item out of the data stream (e.g. the size of a specific file from the output of the DIR command) SELECT - user menu and directory browser Dosemu long ago came with a directory browser called LCD which is about 15kB and has no features apart from letting you go to a dir using the cursor keys when you call it... I admit i do not know LCD, i had WINDOWS standard file dialoge in mind when developing this utility. So if you need a comfortable way to interactively specify a file from within a batch procedure then SELECT may become your friend. FORM - a very versatile dialogue utility for batch procedures FAM - automated text modification Similar to SED? FAM is _very_ remotely similar to AWK (but it is a single command line tool, while AWK is actually a script prcessor which can also be used on the command line. In addition AWK is strongly based on regular expressions while FAM uses a totally different principle, actually it was a spin-off from PIPSET. FORM is a totally different beast. It is a comfortable user interface for batch procedures. It displays a form, whichs layout can be very flexibly configured and returns the user's input in one ore more environent variables. One possible application could be the user dialogue for a configuration procedure but it is not limited to that purpose. SCRDUMP - a utility to dump parts of the screen to a file With a hotkey as TSR, I assume? Nope. Again this utility is most useful within batch files (e.g. autoexec.bat). Typically it is called twice, once before and a second time right after the command whichs output is to be copied to a file INVOKE - invoke program and report the error code it returned (test and debugging aid) You can use %ERRORLEVEL% in FreeCOM command.com for that, Right, but again, not all incarnations of DOS properly support %ERRORLEVEL%. Furthemore, the latest version allows as a side effect to re-direct stderr, which is otherwise not so easily done. I know, that not everyone is a fan of written documentation, but in this case i strongly recommend to read the files DOSUTILS.TXT and FORM.TXT they tell much more details than could be mentioned here. ___ Schon gehört? WEB.DE hat einen genialen Phishing-Filter in die Toolbar eingebaut! http://produkte.web.de/go/toolbar -- EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] New release of DOSUTILS package
I just want to announce a new release of my DOSUTILS package. Besides some minor improvements to already existing utilities it features two aditional programs. One of them is a rather versatile forms program intended as user interface for batch procedures (e.g. configuration scripts) but it can also be used as (pseudo-)graphical front-end for traditional command-line controlled DOS commands. Please feel free to download and explore the package which can be downloaded from here: http://www.bttr-software.de/products/jhoffmann/ and of course i would appreciate many feed-backs. ___ Schon gehört? WEB.DE hat einen genialen Phishing-Filter in die Toolbar eingebaut! http://produkte.web.de/go/toolbar -- EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Licensing issues
I really didn't expect to trigger so much controversy with my initial questions. And i found it interesting to learn that companies like HP and DELL still offer DOS. But if one takes a closer look, it becomes soon clear, that DOS for them is more like the compact spare wheel of modern cars than a crucial part of the whole system. Even for those manufacturers one finds when google-ing for embedded DOS, the systems they still deliver with DOS are the lower ends of their product lines with LINUX making up the upper end. All this confirms my opinion that nowadays there ist not much money inside DOS anymore. This doesn't necessarily degrade DOS as an operating system but it should be taken into account whenever talking about licensing issues. Of course there was this well known Mr. Gates who, once upon a time made a fortune with DOS, everyone knows his story, but this is ages ago and can't be easily repeated. If one compared programming with making music, then the DOS programmer of today is more like the street-musician who plays his guitar near the entrance of a subway station than the big star who fills a stadium and sells millions of records. And sure, every street-musician dreams of becoming famous one day, but again, let's be serious ... ___ Schon gehört? WEB.DE hat einen genialen Phishing-Filter in die Toolbar eingebaut! http://produkte.web.de/go/toolbar -- EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Why I use FreeDOS
You'd probably be amazed at how many embedded and industrial control systems are based on DOS. Indeed! If someone pointed me out precize brands and models of systems that nowadays still use DOS i would really be amazed. (Are those systems just still around, or is there even real active development?) My personal experience is different. The last time i professionally came in touch with DOS was in late 1999. That's more than a decade ago. In the rapidly developing IT busyness this is almost an eternity. Is this phenomenon (if it really exists) perhaps limited to certain busynesses or certain parts of the world? It might be interesting to have some kind of survey. ___ Schon gehört? WEB.DE hat einen genialen Phishing-Filter in die Toolbar eingebaut! http://produkte.web.de/go/toolbar -- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Discover what all the cheering's about. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-dev2dev2 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Licensing issues
Some developers may not be too happy about the license choice, especially those who would like to grab your code and try to make money from it by making it part of an unfree software. Let's be serious! Is there still a market for any kind of DOS out there? Does it have any commercial value out there? Can you still make such an amount of money with it, that it's worth to struggle about licensing issues? For me it's a hobby. A little bit like those poeple who still operate steam railways nowadays. And it may be an attempt to show the world how else computers could be and that there is a difference between technical progress and the latest fashion. Many of my programs are such that i should have written them fifteen years ago but i didn't back then due to various reasons. I am really not afraid that someone else could get rich with my software, my experience is rather that nobody really cares. So what? ___ Schon gehört? WEB.DE hat einen genialen Phishing-Filter in die Toolbar eingebaut! http://produkte.web.de/go/toolbar -- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Data protection magic? Nope - It's vRanger. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-sfdev2dev ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Lynx issues
I wonder why I can't get Ntool to work? I think It would be easier to automate stuff if I got Ntool to work. Could you be more specific? Or just re-rerad the various posting refering to that subjects during the last days. ___ WEB.DE DSL Doppel-Flat ab 19,99 euro;/mtl.! Jetzt mit gratis Handy-Flat! http://produkte.web.de/go/DSL_Doppel_Flatrate/2 -- Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] ntool help
If NTOOL tells you bootp/dhcp failed it means exactly what it says. But this can have two different reasons. Either your packet driver is OK, but no dhcp server answered NTOOL's request. In this case there must be a problem with the dhcp server. Or your packet driver did not load properly, possibly because it is misconfigured or invoked with incorrect parameters. Watch carefully the messages the packet driver issues while loading. Sometimes it helps in debugging to load the packet driver manually as it is easier this way to read all the messages. Usually the packet driver reports the ehternet address of the card it found. Does it look reasonable? And mTCP's DHCP message failure to get dhcp address. check your cabling and packet driver settings means the very same thing. If you failed to load the packet driver completely, then NTOOL would tell you NO PACKET DRIVER FOUND while mTCP's DHCP would write Could not access packet driver. ___ Empfehlen Sie WEB.DE DSL Ihren Freunden und Bekannten und wir belohnen Sie mit bis zu 100,- Euro! https://freundschaftswerbung.web.de -- Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] ntool help
i just tried to run ntool and i got back an ip address of: MY_IP=0.0.0.0 NTOOL is a WATTCP application itself, one that is linked to a relatively recent version of the WATTCP library that does support dhcp properly. That means, it will try to get its ip parameters from dhcp if the WATTCP.CFG file it finds at program start tells it to do so by specifying MY_IP=DHCP or if it doesn't find a WATTCP.CFG file at all. In this case it will write something like Configuring through BOOTP/DHCP to the screen. If on the other hand it finds a WATTCP.CFG file that defines a static ip address, then it will simply accept this setting, assuming that you know what you are doing. Nevertheless NTOOL -g will output the actual ip parameters that are in effect in this moment. So if NTOOL just tells you MY_IP=0.0.0.0 without any message about using dhcp, then you probably have a WATTCP.CFG file somwhere which defined that address. Probably you just copied that file from somewhere and failed to adjust it to your personal needs. Try to find that file and make it invisible to the program, by re-naming it or by deleting it completely. If that helps, you could even try whether you need NTOOL (or any other external dhcp client) at all. Perhaps lynx just has the very same problem? If the lynx version you use, is also linked to a more recent version of WATTCP, then it could do this all by itself. It not, you could still use NTOOL. ___ Empfehlen Sie WEB.DE DSL Ihren Freunden und Bekannten und wir belohnen Sie mit bis zu 100,- Euro! https://freundschaftswerbung.web.de -- Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] ntool help
hello, I want to use ntool to redirect output of dhcp to wattcp.cfg. I am confused by the -g command line option. what does str mean? does anyone know what I would enter, using ntool to redirect output of dhcp to wattcp.cfh? The short answer is: NTOOL -gWATTCP.CFG Use one (or more) space characters enclosed in a pair of quotatation marks for str. This would give you something like: MY_IP=192.168.1.1 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 GATEWAY=192.168.1.254 NAMESERVER=192.76.23.54 which is exactly what you need as a (minimal) WATTCP.CFG file. If you need a more sohisticated WATTCP.CFG set-up, you could write a second file (say WATTCP0.CFG), that holds all those entries not provided by NTOOL. e.g. like this: TXBUFSIZE=8196 RXBUFSIZE=8196 PRINTER1NAME=LPT1 you would then add some lines like the following ones to your start-up batch file: NTOOL -g WATTCP.CFG TYPE WATTCP0.CFG WATTCP.CFG please observe the double chevrons in the second line, they cause the content of the second file to be appended to the first one. Otherwise you would just clobber it. Now, what is the purpose of str at all? The long answer is: It gives you more flexibility. If it is anything but a string that consists only of blanks, then str will be prepended to each line of NTOOL's output. If you try e.g. NTOOL -g SET (mind the space between the T and the closing quotation mark) then you would get something like this: SET MY_IP=192.168.1.1 SET NETMASK=255.255.255.0 SET GATEWAY=192.168.1.254 SET NAMESERVER=192.76.23.54 re-directing this into a batch file and then calling that (secondary) batchfile from the primary one like this: NTOOL -g SETSETPARM.BAT @CALL SETPARM.BAT will cause environment variables to be set with the respective values. These variables can then be further processed (used) in many ways. Or you try NTOOL -g ECHO IPCONFIG.BAT which would mimic the IPCONFIG commmand known from other TCP/IP implementations. The reason for the somewhat confusing character of str is that the routine within NTOOL that parses the command line only supports command line switches (like -g) that have either allways an argument or never. Optional arguments are not supported. Therefore the dummy string is required, even if you actually don't want to prepend anything. But i think, this is just an inconvenience, not a real problem. BTW, do you know the meaning of the acronym RTFM? :-) ___ Schon gehört? WEB.DE hat einen genialen Phishing-Filter in die Toolbar eingebaut! http://produkte.web.de/go/toolbar -- Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] How to enable networking in a FreeDOS client?
cordat...@aol.com wrote: An alternative is to use Mike Brutman's mTCP DHCP program. This is of course true, but there is another alternative . . . So to sum up: if your application program uses the right version of WATTCP then you don't need to do anything, run the program and it will tell you if DHCP fails. This option might not always be available. If you download legacy WATTCP applications from just somewhere on the net, you often have no choice, you must take them as they are. Many times you don't even know which version of WATTCP was linked to them and many of these programs, especially older versions do not support dhcp or even worse, their dhcp support is buggy. So, the above mentioned alternative to Mike Brutman's DHCP program is a program named NTOOL which i wrote. Even though it is essentially an incarnation of netcat, well known from UNIX/LINUX, i also added a sub-function ( NTOOL -g ) to inquire a dhcp server and output the results to stdout, because i once faced the very same problem. Re-directing this output to a file, could give you a (basic) WATTCP.CFG file which every WATTCP program will understand. NTOOL can be downloaded from here: http://www.bttr-software.de/products/jhoffmann/ ___ Empfehlen Sie WEB.DE DSL Ihren Freunden und Bekannten und wir belohnen Sie mit bis zu 100,- Euro! https://freundschaftswerbung.web.de -- Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] DHCP
The mTCP DHCP client is designed for the mTCP applications. You can use it and adapt it to do other things, but you will have to write some scripts or code to take the output from the DHCP client (a text file) and make it usable for whatever app you had in mind. You might as well consider the package NTOOL available here: http://www.bttr-software.de/products/jhoffmann/ It can also be used for simple file transfers. See the file NTOOL.TXT inside the archive for details. The other option is the DOS version of the Linux SAMBA smbclient. This works like a command line FTP client / shell, so you type commands to go to the files that you want and to upload and download them, all IN the smbclient shell. I once tryed it and it appeared to me rather bloated and it never really worked for me. Is there some obvious reason for that? (certain versions known to not work correctly or so) Jürgen ___ Empfehlen Sie WEB.DE DSL Ihren Freunden und Bekannten und wir belohnen Sie mit bis zu 50,- Euro! https://freundschaftswerbung.web.de -- Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Little Sister
A new version of the network monitoring program LANSTAT (aka little sister) is available and can be downloaded from here: http://www.bttr-software.de/products/jhoffmann/. It now also provides for logging, offers a considerably greater flexibility in the display layout and provides many minor improvements in various details. But not only the program was improved, the documentation file as well. It is now actually larger then the program itself, offering to those, who are not afraid of reading a more elaborate text, some (hopefully) useful ideas about the program's flexibility, the many ways to configure it and the various purposes it can be used for. In addition the DOSUTILS packages (available from the same site) got a new member: PRINTF an improved echo utility. ___ GRATIS! Movie-FLAT mit über 300 Videos. Jetzt freischalten unter http://movieflat.web.de -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Little Sister
You are getting closer, but you have still not really explained what it actually does. What does monitor mean? What protocols does it support? What network stacks? What network services? What kind of monitoring? What kind of display? What information is displayed? Does it update continuously? What statistics are gathered? How are they output, to where? Well, reading (e.g. the documentation) is often helpful :-) Strictly spoken, LANSTAT doesn't touch the LAN at all. Rather it invokes other programs using them as test agents, reads their output, classifies it as either good or bad and displays the collected results in a clearly arranged tabular manner on the screen. A typical example of such a test agent is the program ping and nearly any TCP/IP stack comes with such a utility. But any other program, which satifies certain requirements (which in-turn are further described in the documentation) can be used as well. The precize syntax for calling it and classifying its output is defined in a configuration file making LANSTAT very flexible. Therefore it is justified to say that the program can be used with virtually any network stack and any network protocol and many services. And yes, the information is updated continuously, no statistics are gathered, though i am thinking about adding a logging feature and the information is primarily output to the local screen, but optionally a html file can be generated, which in-turn can be made (globally) available by some kind of (external) HTTP server or directly via the LAN itself. ___ Neu: WEB.DE De-Mail - Einfach wie E-Mail, sicher wie ein Brief! Jetzt De-Mail-Adresse reservieren: https://produkte.web.de/go/demail02 -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Little Sister
Sorry folks, no exciting pictures of my little sister here ;-), i just want to direct your attention to my latest project: LANSTAT a LAN STATus monitor. Though it cannot compete with projects like Big Brother or Big Sister, my Little Sister has got some interesting features too. It runs under (MS-)DOS (but can be used under Windows as well), is rather compact in size, yet very flexibly configurable. Therefore it can be used with virtually any networking software available for DOS and can do even more that just ping a number of hosts. Please feel free to download the package from here: http://www.bttr-software.de/products/jhoffmann/ and try it yourself. ___ GRATIS für alle WEB.DE Nutzer: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://movieflat.web.de -- This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] networking software
Garrison Ricketson wrote: ... years back, like 15,or 16 years ago, I did connect my laptop, the early, Tandy, ...I dont remember the whole name,... As Ulrich Hansen already wrote, this might have been the program laplink and Norton Commander provided a similar function. Both programs are commercial products. Just for the sake of completeness: As far as i know, there also is a special packet driver, named plip, which provides networking functionality via the parallel interface. For a simple file transfer this might be overkill, but if more networking (or even TCP/IP) capabilities are desired then it might be worth considering. ___ Neu: GMX De-Mail - Einfach wie E-Mail, sicher wie ein Brief! Jetzt De-Mail-Adresse reservieren: http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/demail -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos users list,Networking software
Ulrich Hansen uhan...@mainz-online.de wrote: If someone else would like to help: Both laptops have a network card and an appropriate packet driver loaded. The LEDs on the network cards were on, so they found a network. wattcp.cfg was configured to the IP adresses 192.168.0.1 (laptop 1) and 192.168.0.2 (laptop 2). But pinging the other laptop didn't work - wattcp ping complained: Cannot resolve host's hardware address. Also the ping programs from mTCP and Datalight sockets didn't work. The crossover cable connection works without a problem if I boot Debian Linux on both of the laptops. Does anyone has an idea? Please note that WATTCP is _NOT_ a permanently loaded TCP/IP stack in the same sense as it might be familiar from operating systems like LINUX or WINDOWS. It's rather a library that is linked directly into each application using WATTCP. As a consequence of this no TCP/IP functionality is available while no such program is running. Therefore ping cannot work in the set-up you described. Start on one of the computers a program that uses the WATTCP library and that doesn't terminate immediately. This might be either a server program or a client that waits for some user input. Then ping that computer from the other one and you should get a response. In any case you would need a server (e.g. an FTP server) on one computer and a corresponding client program on the other one to transfer files. If it's just a simple file transfer, then a NETCAT program (which can be used in server _or_ client role) will do. Mike Brutman has such a program in his collection and i wrote a similar one, which i called NTOOL. It can be downloaded from here: http://www.bttr-software.de/products/jhoffmann/. Which one you eventually prefer will be a matter of personal taste. ___ Neu: GMX De-Mail - Einfach wie E-Mail, sicher wie ein Brief! Jetzt De-Mail-Adresse reservieren: http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/demail -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] New networking software for DOS
Another source for network-related free software for DOS can be found here: http://www.bttr-software.de/products/jhoffmann/ ___ Neu: WEB.DE De-Mail - Einfach wie E-Mail, sicher wie ein Brief! Jetzt De-Mail-Adresse reservieren: https://produkte.web.de/go/demail02 -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] updated DOSUTILS (agin)
Oops, i wasn't aware that my e-mail provider will silently send all mail as HTML attachment. So i now try it again, hoping that it will be sent as plain ascii this time. Here it comes . . . Hello everybody, I just want to announce that a new version of my DOSUTILS package is available. It is a collection of utilities which can help in writing batch procedures under true MS-DOS (or any other flavour of DOS) and can be downloaded from http://www.bttr-software.de/products/jhoffmann/ together with the following three other packages: - ETHTOOL a set of utilities for ethernet network analysis, - NTOOL an incarnation of netcat, also known as the swiss army knife of TCP/IP networking and - RMENU which is kind of a telnet server for (MS-)DOS. All these programs may or may not be useful to you, but you will only know that for shure, if you try them and see yourself. Needless to say, that i still apreciate feed-back. ___ NEU: WEB.DE DSL für 19,99 EUR/mtl. und ohne Mindest-Laufzeit! http://produkte.web.de/go/02/ -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] updated DOSUTILS
Hello everybody,I just want to announce that a new version of my DOSUTILS package is available. It is a collection of utilities which can help in writing batch procedures under true (MS-)DOS and can be downloaded from http://www.bttr-software.de/products/jhoffmann/ together with the following three other packages: - ETHTOOL a set of utilities for ethernet network analysis, - NTOOL an incarnation of netcat, also known as "the swiss army knife" of TCP/IP networking and - RMENU which is "kind of" a telnet server for (MS-)DOS.All these programs may or may not be useful to you, but you will only know that for shure, if you try them and see yourself. Needless to say, that i still apreciate feed-back.NEU: WEB.DE DSL fr 19,99 EUR/mtl. und ohne Mindest-Laufzeit!http://produkte.web.de/go/02/ -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Software download
Hello everybody, i wrote a couple of programs for (any kind of) DOS and Robert Riebisch was so kind to host them on his server. Now everybody is invited to explore theese programs to see whether some of them might be useful to him (or her). They can be found under the following URL: http://www.bttr-software.de/products/jhoffmann/ Of course i would appreciate some feed-back :-) ___ WEB.DE DSL: Internet, Telefon und Entertainment für nur 19,99 EUR/mtl.! http://produkte.web.de/go/02/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Software download
Hello everybody,i wrote a couple of programs for (any kind of) DOS and Robert Riebisch was so kind to host them on his server. Now everybody is invited to explore theese programs to see whether some of them might be useful to him (or her). They can be found under the following URL: http://www.bttr-software.de/products/jhoffmann/Of course i would appreciate some feed-back :-)WEB.DE DSL: Internet, Telefon und Entertainment fr nur 19,99 EUR/mtl.!http://produkte.web.de/go/02/ -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Hello!
Hello everybody. I just joined this list some days ago, but up to now didn't receive any messages. Is there really noboby out there, or have i misconfigured something? Greetings from Germany. Wiwa64 ___ Preisknaller: WEB.DE DSL Flatrate für nur 16,99 Euro/mtl.! http://produkte.web.de/go/02/ -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Hello!
Yes, eventually i received a Freedos-user Digest and i see, that there seems to be still a lot of activity here. I've never used FreeDOS before... Is it possible to log into a headless FreeDOS box from Linux? I'm considering setting up an electronic workbench PC with FreeDOS. Interesting :-) DOS is single tasking, so you cannot easily run a telnet or ssh server and let that start a login shell such as command.com from there. Well, some time ago, i wrote kind of a telnet server for (MS-)DOS. Of course it doesn't turn DOS into a multi-user system, but it can be used to log into a DOS-box via Telnet. Should someone be interested in trying it, just let me know. __ GRATIS für alle WEB.DE-Nutzer: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://movieflat.web.de -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
