Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG - New version, new features

2013-06-20 Thread escape
On 19.06.13 23:07, Mateusz Viste wrote: I'm happy to announce the release of a new version of my FreeDOS package manager - FDNPKG v0.94. Big changes: this new version brings support for offline (on disk) repositories, and update features (FDNPKG is able to update itself now). Great! This

Re: [Freedos-user] Announce: New release of XFDOS graphical FreeDOSdistribution

2013-03-31 Thread escape
On 30.03.13 15:13, José Antonio wrote: Decompresing of .iso .txt OK but the CD generated fails. I have tried with k3b and another tool but both fails. You should use k3b's Burn Image function. Then it works as expected. Hard Disk version ok. Regards.

Re: [Freedos-user] hexed10g.zip

2013-02-18 Thread escape
On 18.02.13 04:01, Chris Evans wrote: doshexed - HexEd v1.0g new version released this one works on #linux and #freedos http://sourceforge.net/projects/doshexed/files/ Refused to work on openSUSE 12.2: ~bin/hexed HEXED v.1.1a (c) 2013 Christopher Robert Evans Segmentation fault

Re: [Freedos-user] New XFDOS FreeDOS distribution

2012-08-06 Thread escape
On 06.08.12 00:35, nospam wrote: yes, Robert also found that the ISO image will not run with VMware and VirtualPC. I had tested it with Bochs and that did work. I agree that you can use Bochs mainly for development because it is slow. I've tested image with VirtualBox and it runs just fine.

[Freedos-user] GRUB 2.00 Freedos support

2012-06-28 Thread escape
With release of the GNU GRUB version 2.00, Freedos is now supported among other boot protocols. Besides technical improvements it is important to know that Freedos is considered worth the efforts put in development, not only by subscribers of freedos-* lists, but also by developers from other

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem with VirtualBox

2012-05-23 Thread escape
I was about to post bugreport at VirtualBox bugtracker, but decided to double-check the issue first. On my system floppy images change are correctly recognized. VirtualBox 4.1.4-3.2.3 OSE OpenSUSE 12.1. On 16.05.12 19:33, Wolfgang Schechinger wrote: Dear experts, I have some floppy images I

Re: [Freedos-user] Long-term survival of FreeDOS

2012-04-13 Thread escape
On 12.04.12 20:38, dmccunney wrote: I just made a post amending my statement. Ok, but still it has nothing common with DOS itself. Because: I amend my statement: they'll boot DOS if you jump through an assortment of hoops to get them to do so. I got FreeDOS to boot alongside Win2K and two

Re: [Freedos-user] Long-term survival of FreeDOS

2012-04-12 Thread escape
On 11.04.12 22:23, dmccunney wrote: Current machines won't *boot* DOS, but will *run* it in a compatibility box, emulator or virtual machine. I'm think you're making a bit misleading statement. While there *are* current machines that won't boot DOS, 99% of the *current* machines can boot it.

[Freedos-user] FFmpeg and x264 for DOS

2012-01-09 Thread escape
I don't know if anyone aware of following link, but I was really amazed when I stumbled upon it. DOS not just not dead, it fights back! So here it is. FFmpeg and x264 video encoders port for DOS/DJGPP: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffmpeg-x264-dos/

Re: [Freedos-user] AST Research drivers

2011-12-25 Thread escape
You can try to contact total hardware resurrection project: http://th2r.no-ip.info/ As description says: The purposes are filling up the devices data base, adding not only documentations and photos but drivers too. On 17.12.11 02:27, Jeffrey wrote: Hi All, About a year and a half ago,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS boot problem

2011-11-19 Thread escape
Generally it really should work with C:\FDOSBOOT.BIN=FreeDOS The problem is you gave almost no information on what's going on. How had you created partition? How had you installed FreeDOS and what drive was selected during install? What happened after install? What happened after you added

Re: [Freedos-user] FTP Server testing needed

2011-09-29 Thread escape
Works with Filezilla/Linux, lukemftp, ncftp, but fails to retrieve directory listing in Midnight Commander, Krusader and Dolphin - upon connection shows empty filelist. Also I was unable to delete file TEST.TXT uploaded to /INCOMING, despite its rwxrwxrwx permissions, but I suspect this could be

Re: [Freedos-user] dos backups in the 21st century?

2011-09-01 Thread escape
On 30.08.11 16:16, Michael B. Brutman wrote: On a slightly related topic, I've been thinking about what to do on the smaller machines to increase the amount of working storage. With a strict programming API I can use temp files as backing storage, kind of like implementing bank switched

Re: [Freedos-user] dos backups in the 21st century?

2011-08-30 Thread escape
On 29.08.11 01:03, Michael B. Brutman wrote: On 8/25/2011 6:20 PM, Rugxulo wrote: Hi, On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:48 PM, escapeesc...@front.ru wrote: If you use dos alone and purely on your machine, but nevertheless have some *nix server access you can use rsync client for dos:

Re: [Freedos-user] dos backups in the 21st century?

2011-08-16 Thread escape
If you use dos alone and purely on your machine, but nevertheless have some *nix server access you can use rsync client for dos: http://www.2net.co.uk/rsync.html If it is the case, than probably this will be the best solution, as rsync is one of the most widely used tools for backups. BTW this

Re: [Freedos-user] Code pages in dot-matrix printers

2011-05-06 Thread escape
Hi, I have some sources for graphical printing onto Epson FX-80 compatible printers and and for converting fonts to/from binary representation for this program. While there is no distinctive license present, it seems like phrase these sources can be freely used and modified puts it into public

Re: [Freedos-user] Code pages in dot-matrix printers

2011-05-04 Thread escape
Hello Константин, Please calm down a bit and do not deliver your personal and highly subjective opinion as something common to everyone else. On 28.04.11 11:59, Садовой Константин wrote: Hello Henrique. Sorry, but I do not know about dot matrix printers - it a museum exponat only. This is a

Re: [Freedos-user] Code pages in dot-matrix printers

2011-05-04 Thread escape
Hello Henrique I have an good-old dot-matrix printer, but unfortunately without any manual. But I think it's not a big problem, as in-printer codepage can be printed. Still I bet, that in this case there is only two options possible: cp437 or some slight variation of cp866. I will send you

Re: [Freedos-user] New ukrainian keyboard layouts and codepages

2011-04-25 Thread escape
:). And it is always great to have more variants than less. On 25.04.11 12:00, Henrique Peron wrote: Hello Konstantyn, Escape - and all to whom it may concern, I have just prepared and revised all ukrainian keyboard layouts, which, as I have found on the web, are 5: 1) The one which

Re: [Freedos-user] Some about correst codepage 1125 (Ukrainian)...

2011-04-21 Thread escape
Hello Henrique, Yeah, DOS cyrillic encodings is hell of a mess (good article on topic, you may already know, is http://czyborra.com/charsets/cyrillic.html). The RUSCII.GIF is known as codepage number 1125 ie CP1125. And there is some uncertainty about code points FAh FBh. While some sources

Re: [Freedos-user] How to install kernel XXXX?

2011-04-12 Thread escape
with mkisofs in command line - On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:03, escape esc...@front.ru wrote: In fact there is appinfo directory with fdkernel.lsm packaged within those zips. So, I believe, there is a way to actually install it with fdupdate. But as for me, it is much more straightforward to just

Re: [Freedos-user] How to install kernel XXXX?

2011-04-10 Thread escape
the kernel.sys file. He could have said this in simple words. I'm just using the official live CD provided in the website. What ISO editor do you advise? TIA On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 20:50, escape esc...@front.ru wrote: Hello Unfortunately links on official FreeDOS site are broken. But you

Re: [Freedos-user] Large drives with 4k sectors presenting as 512b?

2011-04-10 Thread escape
Vote with your wallet. I'm personally not buying any 4k drives nor for myself nor for companies I'm working for. When you need more than 2Tb of space you always can add another 2Tb drive instead of replacing old drive with bigger (3Tb) one. On 10.04.11 10:10, Scott wrote: One of the key things

Re: [Freedos-user] Large drives with 4k sectors presenting as 512b?

2011-04-10 Thread escape
any better solution than to increase sector size. On 10.04.11 17:43, Michael B. Brutman wrote: On 4/10/2011 5:20 AM, escape wrote: Vote with your wallet. I'm personally not buying any 4k drives nor for myself nor for companies I'm working for. When you need more than 2Tb of space you always can

Re: [Freedos-user] Large drives with 4k sectors presenting as 512b?

2011-04-10 Thread escape
On 10.04.11 20:51, Michael B. Brutman wrote: I don't think I misread you. But the market is geared to the current problems, not the past problems. For some strange reason people like widescreen monitors even though most of our reading would benefit from portrait monitors. I'm agree with

Re: [Freedos-user] Large drives with 4k sectors presenting as 512b?

2011-04-10 Thread escape
On 11.04.11 00:55, Scott wrote: One estimate for 4K sector technology puts this at 100 bytes of ECC data needed for a 4K sector, versus 320 (40x8) for 8 512B sectors. Yes, that's about 5% (5,37% to be exact) you'll gain from 4k sectors. For 2Tb drive it will be equal to 100Gb of space. The

Re: [Freedos-user] How to install kernel XXXX?

2011-04-07 Thread escape
Hello Unfortunately links on official FreeDOS site are broken. But you still can download from ibiblio. You can find all available kernels at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/kernel/ . Direct links for 2038 is

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos Network LAN (Shared files)

2011-02-09 Thread escape
There is comprehensive guide to networking in FreeDOS at http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=Networking_FreeDOS In short - you need MS Client. Also tere is version of samba for dos: ftp://ru54.com/distrib/DOS/Samba4dos!/ On 09.02.11 13:44, Guan de dio wrote: Hi

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user Digest, Vol 415 FreeDos1.44Boot Floppy (Eric Auer)

2011-01-19 Thread escape
Hi Eric! Try to set mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed option to false in Thunderbird Config editor On 18.01.11 21:44, Eric Auer wrote: Now that we are talking about problematic quoting anyway: Thunderbird recently started trying to be TOO smart when I edit mails. Weeks ago, I could type the