n Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 2:38 PM Michał Dec wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm loading a bunch of drivers during startup, but I'd like to try and unload
> them after all the setup is done. What \
command is for unloading drivers? I know LH and DEVLOAD are for loading.
I don't offhand think there is such a
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 their midrange multi-user systems line.
On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 4:55 PM Rugxulo wrote:
> (Disclaimer: I've never personally used TeX but am still aware of it.)
I have used it a bit, but can't imagine doing it under DOS
TeX is another gift to the computing world from Donald A Knuth,
The primary usage I've seen for TeX is typesetting
On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 9:43 PM Karen Lewellen wrote:
>
> On the dectalk discussion, someone shared some sources for the dec
> version 4.2 or so that requires actual digital equipment corporation
> processor alpha architecture.
> apparently dec in 1996, was already working on 64 bit processors
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 the manner you are thinking of.
On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 7:17 PM Jim Hall wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 5:57 PM dmccunney wrote:
> >[..]
> > I haven't read through the entire thread, but I am curious about why
> > the person whose email request was referenced *wanted* a RAMdrive for
&g
On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 10:50 AM Eric Auer wrote:
>
> > RDRVSX32: FAT32 RAM drive for HimemSX (Announce)
> >
> > posted by jadoxa, Queensland, Australia, 13.03.2022, 13:58
> >
> > I had a request (via email) to create a RAM drive greater than 4GiB.
> > It sort of works (works on his and mine 8GiB
On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 1:47 PM Daniel wrote:
>
> In DOS I was able to press and hold a key and the key would repeat. Great
> for arrow and page keys. For some reason this stopped workin and I can only
> press a key once and holdin a key would do nothin.
>
> Does anyone know how to fix this?
On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 10:05 AM Martin Iturbide
wrote:
> I was wondering if you know some links, articles, hints about all the
> software and fixes that can be installed on Windows 3.1 .Like if someone did
> the exercise on how he will tune/pimp his own Windows 3.1 today.
I ran Windows for
On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 2:40 PM John Vella wrote:
> So, I've got the 486 computer working and am ready to install freedos and
> wordperfect.
>
> I'm thinking there are a couple of advantages to installing onto a virtualbox
> machine, then formatting the physical hard drive and copying the
On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 2:19 PM Louis Santillan wrote:
>
> See - https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/net/fdnet/-/blob/master/BIN/FDNET.BAT
*sigh* That's what I get for posting before I've had my second cup of coffee.
Quite right - "try" refers to a label in the batch file, not an
external command.
On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 12:18 PM Brandon Taylor
wrote:
>
> Now, from what I've read in previous posts, it sounds like others have had
> success by replacing "start" with "try," such that the line now reads "call
> %dosdir%\bin\fdnet.bat try",
Other [psts where?
Start is a command. implemented
On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 1:27 PM Liam Proven wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2022 at 05:54, dmccunney wrote:
> >
> > (Just for the record, I don't think it's *possible* to implement .NET
> > under DOS. It assumes a multitasking OS with 32 bit or better
> > architecture.)
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 1:24 PM Liam Proven wrote:
> > The main problem is that you will need the whole GCC tool chain for this to
> > work...
>
> I did not know that GNU COBOL compiled to C when I answered, but yes,
> I agree, ultimately this is the problem.
An approach like this is
On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 8:10 PM Everaldo Bernardo Cunha
wrote:
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> 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 future contact.
This sounds like
On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 8:41 PM Sean Warner wrote:
>
> Not sure if you saw my more recent post... I now have a version of FreeDOS
> 1.2 with the NIC and MS Client installed and working. I went with v1.2
> because after some googling I read that 1.2 is more stable than 1.3 for
> network sharing
On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 3:04 PM Deposite Pirate wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 19:21:36 +0100
> Liam Proven wrote:
> > AFAIK XP *must* be installed in an NTFS partition. It cannot be
> > installed on FAT. DOS can't boot from NTFS and can't read NTFS without
> > additional drivers. So I still don't
On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 5:47 PM Wengier W via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> I certainly hope to see more people using DOS/FreeDOS as the only (or
> primary) operating system. However, without things like full support for
> Internet and modern hardware (modern sound card, USB devices, etc) this
>
On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 7:50 AM Bryan Kilgallin wrote:
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> The comment against open-source DOS is at the end of this discussion.
> See after 26 minutes.
,<...>
The concern I see is "legacy" code. There are millions of lines of
legacy code in production. They were tested and debugged, and
On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 2:56 AM Ivan Ivanov wrote:
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> Laptops with FreeDOS / Linux instead of Windows - are really valuable!
To whom?
Dell offered systems through Walmart a while back that did not have
Windows per-installed. They dropped the offer. The systems without
Windows did not *sell*.
On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 8:01 PM richardkolacz...@hotmail.com
wrote:
>
> I am new to trying to setup FreeDOS as bare-metal configuration to use
> instead of Windows 10 for programs I am writing.
Why on Earth do you want to do *that*?
> I notice that HP computer company has FreeDOS 3.0 as an
On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 12:02 PM Ivan Ivanov wrote:
>
> Dennis, thank you for sharing. First of all, if you'd like to get a
> Vortex86 CPU-based PC, better to get those which are supported by the
> opensource coreboot BIOS, instead of the proprietary closed-source
> BIOS.
Thank you, and noted.
On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 7:54 AM saito yutaka wrote:
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> How to redirect STDOUT and STDERR to file.
> I want to redirect to file as follow.
This is not doable directly in COMMAND.COM or FreeCon from FreeDOS.
By default,file descriptor 1 is STDIN, file descriptor 2 is STDOUT,
and file descriptor
https://www.pcbway.com/project/shareproject/weeCee___Tiny_DOS_Gaming_PC.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USHvvSbYmJA
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On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 1:33 PM Rugxulo wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 8:06 PM dmccunney wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 7:20 PM Rugxulo wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 4:36 PM dmccunney
> > > wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 4:19 PM Er
On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 7:20 PM Rugxulo wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 4:36 PM dmccunney wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 4:19 PM Eric Auer wrote:
> >
> > > Bocke adds this: (I think FTP is just broken in the major browsers now,
> > > alas!)
> >
&
On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 4:19 PM Eric Auer wrote:
> Bocke adds this: (I think FTP is just broken in the major browsers now,
> alas!)
It is broken and will *not* be fixed.
FTP is deprecated and is going away. It is ancient, ill maintained,
and a yawning mass of security holes.
HTTP is going
On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 10:46 AM Thomas Desi wrote:
> Hi there,
>> If someone is looking for a nifty text editor which looks quite "un-dos"
>> with a GUI, Georg Potthast has one:
<...>
Also documented here: http://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?FLWriter
> Just in case someone is looking for
On Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 10:51 PM joseph turco wrote:
>
> i'm looking at installing freeDOS on an older (XP era) computer. I'm sorry
> for my ignorance, but i'm trying to figure out usb support. I read somewhere
> that USB drives are not read by the OS while it's already booted, but WILL
> read
On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 7:45 PM Bryan Kilgallin wrote:
>
> > Something like formatting a disk might not complete (eg hardware
> > error)
> "The command didn't complete.", or "The command hung.".
>
> "or it might complete unsuccessfully (disk is not usable)."
> "The command failed."
If the command
On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 5:52 PM Jim Hall wrote:
> On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 4:00 PM dmccunney wrote:
> > You don't host non open source software on Ibiblio.
> > I am principal maintainer for a site called TextEditors.org The focus
> > is what it says in the site name. I
On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 5:17 PM Thomas Desi wrote:
>
> Hi Dennis, I *love* your TextEditors.org site! Thanks for your work!
Thank you. I don't believe the site is high volume, but I don't care.
Every once in a while I get an email from someone thanking me because
TextEdiors provided info or a
On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 3:26 PM Jim Hall wrote:
> On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 10:59 AM Eric Auer wrote:
> >
> > Hi! Recently I have noticed that our ibiblio contains "DM21"
> I'm not sure why that was on Ibiblio. We can only include open source
> software on the Ibiblio site.
You don't host non open
On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 10:23 AM Eric Auer wrote:
> >> I have just connected my Brother HL-3150CDN laser printer to my Dell>>
> >> OptiPlex GX270.
> > I used the FreeDOS "print" command, unembellished.
>
> That is only needed for background printing. A more straightforward
> way is to send the
On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 8:58 AM Thomas Desi wrote:
>
> Hi John,
> thanks for your experience account and software list.
> I am intrigued - as »collecting« word processors/text editors in the "quest
> for the best« - I managed to find
> the following.
>
On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 4:30 AM Adam Nielsen via Freedos-user
wrote:
> > I do dare to ask a dumb question, after reading several post about FSF.
> >
> > Can anyone explain what is FSF, i'm just a simple tech guy!
>
> One thing they also do - perhaps the most important in my opinion - is
> that
Ultimately, this discussion is pointless.
1. Stallman has been known to be difficult for about as long as he's
been active. He's easy to work with - he's the smartest one in the
room, and just do things his way. No? Expect problems.
2. The FSF is increasingly *irrelevant*. Open Source has
On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 5:17 PM Karen Lewellen wrote:
>
> One thing I have never gotten confirmed is if Links supports cookies?
You might try looking here: http://links.twibright.com/ It's the home
page for development.
The source for the version andrea936 pointed to contains a file called
On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 9:09 PM wrote:
>
> I need to low level format a bunch of older 1440k floppies that are starting
> to lose their integrity. A low level format often works to revitalize them.
> But, I could not get the FreeDOS formatter to do anything but reformat the
> directory area.
On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 8:21 AM TK Chia wrote:
>
> > No recursion and no floating point will be blockers users need to keep
> > in mind, but being able to build for 8bit micros like the 8080, Z-80,
> > and 6502 is a definite plus..
>
> The Cowgol page (http://cowlark.com/cowgol/index.html) says
On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 2:38 AM wrote:
>
> Please forgive me if someone has already noted this, but yesterday I came
> across another programming language which targets DOS and ultimately may be
> able to be used to compile on DOS. Despite the odd name (COWGOL) is does seem
> to be a totally
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 6:48 PM Felix Miata wrote:
> dmccunney composed on 2021-03-11 17:43 (UTC-0500):
>
> > The RAM here is all DDR4, same speed, and the only difference is one
> > stick is 8GB. (I may add another 8GB sick at some point, but it won't
> > be soon.)
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 5:05 PM Felix Miata wrote:
> dmccunney composed on 2021-03-11 09:51 (UTC-0500):
>
> >> IME when RAM is not used in matched pairs in correct slots in a dual
> >> channel
> >> board, RAM speed (memtest86) is cut by nearly half. Di
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 6:28 PM Aitor Santamaría wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 23:57, Eric Auer wrote:
>>
>> If you are interested in alive dragons, visit a Komodo Dragon.
>> Those lizards do have some dragon-like properties, but they are
>> not dinosaurs either - too "modern" species for
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 5:31 PM Felix Miata wrote:
> dmccunney composed on 2021-03-10 16:56 (UTC-0500):
>
> >> dmccunney composed on 2021-03-09 17:35 (UTC-0500):
>
> >>> ...It has 20GB RAM
>
> >> What is that, a pair of 2GB and a pair of 8GB?
>
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 5:07 PM Jon Brase wrote:
> On 3/9/21 4:35 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> > As a general rule, consumer machines are I/O bound, not compute bound.
> > The CPU spends most of its time in an idle loop waiting for stuff to
> > be read from/written to disk.
>
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 3:00 PM Felix Miata wrote:
> dmccunney composed on 2021-03-09 17:35 (UTC-0500):
>
> > The current desktop uses a quad core Intel i5 CPU and 3.5 ghz, with an
> > automatic turbo mode to 3.9 ghz. It has 20GB RAM
> What is that, a pair of 2GB and
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 10:10 AM Liam Proven wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 at 23:37, dmccunney wrote:
> >
> > On my old XT clone, I had a replacement 10mhz motherboard with a NEC
> > v20 CPU. The V20 was compatible with the Intel 8088, but had better
> > microcode, for
On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 4:41 PM Liam Proven wrote:
> Installing a CPU upgrade in an old PC was rarely worth the hassle, but
> if you replaced a small hard disk (especially if compressed with
> DoubleSpace or something) with a big more modern one, and maxed out
> the RAM, the performance
On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 11:05 AM Jose Senna wrote:
>
> Did anyone else look at this ?
> https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00263-0
> Command line is still (much) alive.
Those who think it isn't need to get out more.
I had a Unix system at home before I got an XT clone running MSDOS.
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 10:47 AM Bonaventura de'Vidovich
wrote:
>
> Win 3.11 is a interface, in that case DOS is the real operative system.
> Win95 is an operative system (no comment). There is no DOS.
Er, no.
Win 3.1 was a multi-tasking, 16 bit, protected mode shell running on
top of DOS, and
On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 1:00 PM Bryan Kilgallin wrote:
>
> I have been editing the OpenGEM code. It's a dog's breakfast! First it
> assumes that I didn't put the OpenGEM directory where I did. Then it
> cross-references jumps between batch files in an opaque way. And the
> writes to screen do not
On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 11:13 AM Tomas By wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 17:09:10 +0100, dmccunney wrote:
> > What he is trying to install FreeDOS *on* using it would be nice to know.
>
> It's an `Aopen Digital Engine.'
Okay - a small form factor device intended for digital ki
n Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 10:44 AM Eric Auer wrote:
>
>
> Hi! Not sure what Serva is, but as you mention PXE,
I believe Serva is this:https://www.vercot.com/~serva/
What he is trying to install FreeDOS *on* using it would be nice to know.
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On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 8:00 AM Joao Silva wrote:
>
> I think not, solution windows firefox addon downloadhelper should do the trick
Assuming you are running Firefox or Chrome on a Windows or Linux
system. Neither the browsers nor the extension run under FreeDOS.
The OP wants to do this from
On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 6:58 AM Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 6:46 PM wrote:
>
> > > You think is there any way to configure youtube-dl in Dos?
>
> > *Extremely* unlikely. It requires Python 2.6 or 2.7. The most recent
> > version of Python built for DOS is a DJGPP port of
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 6:46 PM wrote:
>
> You think is there any way to configure youtube-dl in Dos?
*Extremely* unlikely. It requires Python 2.6 or 2.7. The most recent
version of Python built for DOS is a DJGPP port of Python 2.4.2.
What do you expect to use under FreeDOS to *view* the
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 12:58 PM Joao Silva wrote:
>
> Trying to install Freedos 1.3 rc fullusb on a eeepc 1201NL but got a problem,
> can't find hdd with windows 10 installed.
> Could be because of the ntfs fat?
Unlikely. FreeDOS won't be able to read an NTFS file system, but you
are
On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 3:19 PM Marv wrote:
>
> I know I'm late to the FreeDos party, but it would help me and maybe other
> newcomers to know what you guys do with your FreeDos PCs. I was thinking of
> utility type things that are easier or more quickly done in DOS, but I'm wide
> open to any
On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 10:15 AM Dale E Sterner wrote:
>
> I think you're an expert on DOS.
> Can you tell me if there is a way to get DOS to detect 2
> printers on 2 different ports?
> It can only see 1 printer, the second is ignored.
As already asked, how are the printers connected, and what
On Sat, Nov 7, 2020 at 5:39 PM wrote:
>
> Are you guys planning another Zoom meeting? Depending on the time and day, I
> might be able to join in also, but, I seem to have lost the original mail
> about it.
Please note that the previous gatherings have *not* been *Zoom*
meetings. Jim uses a
On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 3:30 PM Eric Auer wrote:
>
> > Yes! Please send them somewhere to be scanned and OCRed! Get in touch
> > with Al Kossow of the Computer History Museum in Sunnyvale CA. See
> > http://www.bitsavers.org/ and http://www.bitsavers.org/.
>
> Nah I do not want to get in
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 12:53 PM Jason Pittman
wrote:
>
> I know nothing about BusyBox, so I'm going to ask a dumb question. Does DSL
> allow you to, say, install apt (or another package manager), gcc, make, etc.,
> or does it only allow you to run the common linux commands shown on the
>
g things that *can't* be done with FreeDOS.
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> João
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 12:17 AM dmccunney wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 6:15 PM Joao Silva wrote:
>> >
>> > I have a eeepc laptop originally came with windows xp and i switched to
>>
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 6:15 PM Joao Silva wrote:
>
> I have a eeepc laptop originally came with windows xp and i switched to
> windows 10 N, but sadly is too slow... turtle mode.
Win10 needs 4GB RAM *minimum*. The sweet spot is 6GB. No surprise
performance was poor.
> I was thinking of
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 7:35 PM Jim Hall wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 6:06 PM Thomas Mueller wrote:
>>
>> [..]
>> I remember there was a DR-DOS 8 that used GPL parts from FreeDOS, but that
>> had to be withdrawn from the market due to legal challenges, using
>> open-source GPL parts in a
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 11:41 AM Louis Santillan wrote:
>
> The author freely admits running DOS & Linux side-by-side this way is
> a fragile coordination [0]. I doubt that redirection would work as
> one might desire. The recently updated ascii demo [1] shows calling
> various DOS and Linux
On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 12:34 PM ZB wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 12:15:04PM -0400, dmccunney wrote:
>
> > My old 32 bit desktop has a half height combo 3.5"/5.25" floppy drive.
> > It was originally seen as drives A: and B:, and which was seen as
> > which
On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 9:26 AM ZB wrote:
>
> completed lately my DOS machine with additional 1.2 MB 5,25" FDD for
> occasional use of my old diskettes. So I have 3,5" FDD as drive A: and
> 5,25" FDD as drive B: now.
>
> But there is a problem: I can only access the drive A: - never both drives
>
On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 2:02 PM ZB wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 06, 2020 at 07:52:05PM +0200, Mateusz Viste wrote:
>
> > And the Trumpet TSR itself does not appear to be free:
> > http://www.trumpet.com.au/index.php/products/tcpip-driver.html
>
> From what I see there it's paid only for >=10 units (so
On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 9:50 AM ZB wrote:
>
> If I'm correct, Dosemu uses "virtual x86 mode" of 386 and later processors.
> But Dosemu of course needs "host OS".
>
> I wonder does there exist any utility that offers "virtual x86 mode" and
> acts as "host" by itself? Suppose we have (quite modest
On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 10:10 AM ZB wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 03:56:26PM +0200, Mateusz Viste wrote:
>
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview
>
> Indeed I recall that name - but somehow never used it before. Does it do
> exactly what I've described? Like - for example - I could "split"
On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 5:47 AM tom ehlert wrote:
>
> UNIX System V certainly was connected to serial terminals (Televideo,
> VT100, ...)
>
> and it had the VI visual editor with definitively cursor movement
> across the screen, even when the terminal had no cursor keys.
I was a system
On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 1:35 AM Jon Brase wrote:
>
> > Not that convincing rationale considering rather modest overhead necessary.
>
> Recall that FreeDOS isn't just about having a FOSS alternative to MS-DOS for
> modern machines (where you're really better off just using Linux and DOSBox),
> or
On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 8:43 PM ZB wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 05:07:14PM -0400, dmccunney wrote:
>
> > One of the most popular was Chris Dunford's CED. The following from
> > the CED docs is relevant:
>
> Thanks, I'll try to examine it. Still my suggestion is t
On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 3:47 PM ZB wrote:
<...>
Recall that in the old days, DOS *COMMAND.COM* did not have command
line recall and edito\ing. To get it, you installed a TSR that added
it. There were a number of them.
One of the most popular was Chris Dunford's CED. The following from
the
On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 5:41 PM Jim Hall wrote:
...
> > In the early DOS days, VDE was a shareware product, along with editors
> > like Qedit. These days it's copyrighted freeware. Use it and pass it
> > along all you like, but you can't get the source.
> >
> > So VDE isn't something you might
On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 4:33 PM Jim Hall wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 11:39 AM ZB wrote:
> > > https://sites.google.com/site/vdeeditor/Home
> > >
> > > (see "Files Section")
> > >
> > > it seems it may be interesti
Trying to get listed by the FSF is an exercise in futility.
The FSF has long ago ceased being about technology. It's a religion,
and Richard Stallman is its prophet. (I've met him, and know people
who've known him for decades. He's an odd person. In Stallman's world,
all software is FOSS,
On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 11:39 AM ZB wrote:
>
> https://sites.google.com/site/vdeeditor/Home
>
> (see "Files Section")
>
> it seems it may be interesting to some
I'm the person who created and maintains that site.
VDE is a clone of the WordStar editor and uses the WordStar command set,
VDE's
On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 11:46 PM Karen Lewellen
wrote:
>
> It appears that the edition of info zip's zip and unzip programs are not
> current, from 2008 and 2009, according to my google.
> Unfortunately sourceforge no longer lets you download from there without
> JavaScript, these days.
> So my
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 4:19 PM Alvah Whealton wrote:
>
> Please forgive this post for straying from the topic of Freedos, itself. It
> relates to the subject of DOS emulation, as aspects of that subject are
> frequently addressed here.
And elaborating on my previous comments. there are native
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 4:19 PM Alvah Whealton wrote:
> Would someone be willing to do this old man a favor by taking the time to
> explain, at a conceptual level, what VDOS-PLUS is doing that DOSBOX does not
> do? I am not a coder.
The difference between vDOS Plus and DOSBox is mostly in
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 9:37 PM Rugxulo wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 12:26 PM dmccunney wrote:
> >
> > > DJGPP make is mainly just a port of GNU make, is it not?
> >
> > Well, as part of a port of the entire Gnu/Linux toolchain, including
> > GCC. Things li
On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 5:30 PM Rugxulo wrote:
> On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 11:26 PM dmccunney wrote:
> > On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 10:35 PM Rugxulo wrote:
> >
> > > So no, I haven't tried rebuilding this (yet?), and I'm no *nix fiend,
> > > but I do think AWK is
On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 10:50 AM TK Chia wrote:
> >> On a side note, you're using GNU Make and AWK (to cross-build?). I do
> >> wonder if DJGPP Make (or even other AWK implementations) would work
> >> for us here.
>
> DJGPP make is mainly just a port of GNU make, is it not?
Well, as part of a
On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 10:35 PM Rugxulo wrote:
> So no, I haven't tried rebuilding this (yet?), and I'm no *nix fiend,
> but I do think AWK is a cool tool, maybe cooler than GW-BASIC (don't
> kill me!).
AWK is a cool tool. But it's not a full programming language for
building stand alone
On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 3:28 PM Random Liegh via Freedos-user
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> The point about MS only open sourcing early and irrelevant versions is valid;
> but there's another explanation. Those are the versions they have clear legal
> rights to. On Hacker News someone was saying they wished MS
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 1:53 PM Mattia Limonta wrote:
> But... there are some issues with the serial ports. I am trying to figure out
> the issue, but I guess the serial port on the clone system is too fast for
> the metal analyzer hardware, and the software gets stuck on a "Configuring
>
On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 11:56 AM Johnpaul Humphrey wrote:
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> I want to disable the beep in certain freedos applications.> Most importantly
> COMMAND.COM
> So I think I have two options as far as freecom is concerned:
> 1. cut the wires, I want to avoid that if possible.
> 2. recompile freecom
On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 12:07 PM Jim Hall wrote:
> But I'll see if I can ask someone at Microsoft about it. My guess is
> that they provide the download because they don't care about it
> anymore, and no one thought to create a web page for it.
That's my guess. Copyright normally becomes an
Yes, my bad. Thanks for the correction
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Dennis
On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 3:52 AM Harald Arnesen wrote:
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> dmccunney [04.05.2020 03:52]:
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> > Have fun. EP was originally written for an 8 bit Atar
On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 8:10 PM Vincent Asaro wrote:
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> Dennis - Thank you for all the info!
You're welcome.
> I installed Linux Mint via USB on that machine, I just want to be sure FD
> will "see" the ports, so to speak, but the FD page sez it's so, so it must be!
Seeing USB ports and being
On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 4:28 PM Vincent Asaro wrote:
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> Eric,
>
> Thank you for the detailed response! I never played video games, actually,
> I'm just nostalgic for the text interface experience and I really want to use
> WordPerfect again but without installing a VM. As long as I can enter
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 1:49 PM Mattia Limonta wrote:
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> Good evening.
>
> I am a new user of the FreeDOS world, and I have a question. I would like to
> install FreeDOS 1.2 on an old PC that we have at work because we have to
> create a backup system for our 1987 IBM Personal System 2,
On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 8:24 PM Darrin M. Gorski wrote:
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> Wondering why FreeDOS COMMAND.COM doesn't exit with ERRORLEVEL like other
> command processors. main() in command.c ends with "return 0" where it should
> really be "return errorlevel".
Like what other command processors?
> This way
On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 11:33 AM Bret Johnson wrote:
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> I personally like DOS WordPerfect a lot -- version 6.2 is what I have and
> what I use to write the documentation for my DOS programs. I've never used
> WordStar myself.
It's a matter of personal preference. I learned WordStar in the
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 11:37 AM Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
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> Do you know if they are literally one single disk image simply split into
> pieces? If so, there are file joining programs to perform this function.
>
> Come to think of it, most un-archivers can reassemble the split
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 2:14 PM Cesar Gimenes wrote:
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> “An XT is the kind of computer that won't die all by itself. You have to
> kill it on purpose."
>
> I really liked it!
> it's a shame I don't have any machines from that time.
I have one. They do die by themselves. Mine had a component
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 7:17 AM Tom via Freedos-user
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> Hope you dont mind this but I was just wondering about hardware
> survival rates. I have a 486 from 92 that still works but most of my
> later machines have died before being 5y old. Id did have a 20 year old
> 286 that had to go
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