[Freedos-user] Runs on dos?

2014-08-05 Thread kurt godel
Even as far back as XP, the dos emulator(NTVDM) would not allow certain low level operations, and would abort; oddly, the XP will allow the interrupts for mousing, but reject others. Odd because with some imagination, even the inocuouse int33 for mouse can vector malware.

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2014-05-15 Thread kurt godel
Have an old 80 gig hard drive with an HPA(host protected access) partition, which is wasting space; tried to use linux function 'hdparm' on it using an ide/usb adapter, but recieved message bad or missing sense data, exactly what I get with flash drives and sd cards. Threw the drive in an old

[Freedos-user] hpa

2014-05-15 Thread kurt godel
I too have always used xp on fat! As for ide to sata adapter, the sata machine is too cramped to fit it. As for wipe, is that a dos app? Are you sure it could remove the HPA partition? I have already used a bootable cd with active killdisk to wipe the drive, but, ostensibly, regular wipers cannot

[Freedos-user] boot from usb

2014-03-17 Thread kurt godel
I have used unetbootin to put freedos on the stick; works well. the problem is with the flash drives themselves Older drives were simple, with no HPA(host protected access) partitions. Most of the current crop of these drives have this garbage on them, and what's worse, it seems to bee mask

[Freedos-user] USB boot and hanging.

2013-12-10 Thread kurt godel
I too have had blinking-cursor-hang;PloP boot manager will often, but not always succeed in mounting/loading a usb. I suspect that the main problem with the usb stick is that it often contains an HPA partition. If the usb truly behaved as a hard drive, you could eliminate the HPA. When using

[Freedos-user] install from folder.

2013-06-29 Thread kurt godel
Ruxolo, Tried mint forum; in two weeks 25 views,no replies. No mint after 12 fits on cd(want mint because of mate-gnome desktop). The 12 has gnome three/awful.. Did manage to boot from external dvd using PLoP, choosing 'plopkexec' option. I'm just going crazy to see if there is a way to make

[Freedos-user] shorter subject line.

2013-06-26 Thread kurt godel
Forgive the boobing of the subject line; and to make myself clearer: I am not trying to install linux in windows/dos; puppy linux does that exquisiitley. Imagine you have an old w98 install cd. You could install from the disk, but it is more efficient to *copy* the files from the install cd to a

[Freedos-user] I have a machine from '04, and to my dismay, the boot order is greyed out and cannot be altered. This means I cannot boot from my external dvd drive or flash drive. Neither can I swap t

2013-06-25 Thread kurt godel
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[Freedos-user] xfdos3

2013-06-04 Thread kurt godel
Actually, the packet reloader script should *not* be in dillo.bat, since it would 0ccur every time the browser was reopened; the packet reloader should be invoked in a bat which opens xfdos. Rich. -- How ServiceNow helps

[Freedos-user] xfdos.

2013-06-02 Thread kurt godel
The good news: this is one neat production; especially for it's small size. I really appreciate it's built in abilty,with drivers to set up the NIC card. The bad news: although my usb mouse works perfectly with xfdos overall, the fun starts in dillio. Sometimes it works, but sometimes(especially

[Freedos-user] vol redirect.

2013-03-10 Thread kurt godel
Thank you Eric for making my life easier; I can read a.txt into an array, and if array[0]==NULL, I know which letter is the first invalid one; again, TNX. -- Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The

[Freedos-user] booboo

2013-02-22 Thread kurt godel
Sent this to devel instead of user; I had answered my own question: the command: find . | cpio --create --format='newc' /path/to/newinitrd works so long as it is executed from the directory containing the files to be wriiten to the new initrd; otherwise, it looks all over for cpio archives; at

[Freedos-user] usb in dos

2013-02-20 Thread kurt godel
Trying to make a micro-pupplet to furnish usb functionality in dos; in this regard, had to edit an initrd.gz which began at 1.9 MB. Working in mint 14, used extract here in gui to get initrd from 'initrd.gz. The initrd was 2.7 MB;discarding that, put the initrd.gz into: /mnt/casper, to get

[Freedos-user] where?

2013-02-18 Thread kurt godel
Exactly *where* is the string of characters for the path variable stored? For that matter, where are stdin/out/and err? -- The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel - in partnership with Geeknet, is your hub for all

[Freedos-user] fedora 18.

2013-02-09 Thread kurt godel
re; fedora 18, they did monkey with the installer, and one telltale is that the'18 iso cannot be booted with grub4dos, which boots most iso's. -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall

[Freedos-user] editors.

2013-02-01 Thread kurt godel
I wish geany could run in dos;best,simplest,cleanest IDE, I know. Automatically detects,asm,basic,c,c++. -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for

[Freedos-user] VFD3

2013-01-17 Thread kurt godel
Cognitive disonance, I guess. Figured out how to use the open/create button(gui version). Can indeed create a v-disk from scratch, or open an img and modify the contents. Best of all the fdread utility works perfectly at making an img from a virtual floppy, as I can't seem to make the windows

[Freedos-user] VFD

2013-01-15 Thread kurt godel
If anyone out there is familiar with vfd(virtual floppy disk), I create the floppy, and associate it with the 'send to' item in the right click, but when I try to send a file into the virtual floppy, I get the box: please insert a disk into drive: x This happens whether I name the drive A,B, or

[Freedos-user] vfd(2)

2013-01-15 Thread kurt godel
Bernd and Dennis, This all started when I tried to use a USB floppy with an '07 amd64 dell; I *used* to just use fdread from Feinman's createcd133, which flawlessly created an .img from a real floppy in the drive. I can actually boot this machine from a bootable floppy, yet the fdread

[Freedos-user] xp,100 mb II

2012-12-29 Thread kurt godel
The experience was quite limited Had two old dell's with pentium, one a pentium two, ans a newer('07) dell with amd duo-core; installation took the same amount of time; bootup on the p4 was almost as fast as on the amd; bootup on the p2 was more than a minute; elementary usage(file

[Freedos-user] old machines

2012-12-28 Thread kurt godel
XP2 will run in as little as 100 mb. -- Master HTML5, CSS3, ASP.NET, MVC, AJAX, Knockout.js, Web API and much more. Get web development skills now with LearnDevNow - 350+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft

[Freedos-user] freedos-98

2012-12-19 Thread kurt godel
The grub4dos approach is the best, since you can boot anything with it; if that doesn't appeal to you, I would say install the 98 first, as it was designed to commandeer the entire works; the freedos stuff can be copied to the c drive *after an initial installation/backup of the freedos, which is

[Freedos-user] XP NTVDM

2012-11-27 Thread kurt godel
Believe it or not, the xp ntvdm allows the int33 for mouse calls; I wrote a lite gui which mimics dos, but in upper and lower bilateral windows, and lets you select the entries with the mouse. The thing is written in C(djgpp), but makes extensive use of dos batchfiles. As touchy as xp ntvdm

[Freedos-user] Bruce

2012-11-25 Thread kurt godel
Bruce, et al, I have reinstalled XP hundreds of times, and I always preformat the XP's partition(usually c) with fat32; this forces the XP install to give the option to install XP on fat32, which I always choose. it may be that some windows apps *must* run in ntfs, but I've never used one. As

[Freedos-user] Bruce2

2012-11-25 Thread kurt godel
I just found that ImgBurn 2.4.2.0 can create/ burn img's, after you've edited the files by the aforementioned method; and MagicDisk 2.7.106 is said to do the same. They are both windows setups. I will try them. -- Monitor

[Freedos-user] Bruce3

2012-11-25 Thread kurt godel
Whoa!!, The magicdisk appears to be a hack; from some of it's online description, probably from Asia, judging by grammatical errors. It does'nt work right: when you click on the shortcut, it only puts a virtual cd in the task panel, and keeps trying to access the internet. Fortunately, I

[Freedos-user] been.

2012-04-22 Thread kurt godel
where *have* you been?. There's this kid. Doesn't say much. In fact as time goes by, the family sees that he doesn't say anything. Figuring something is wrong they take him to one specialist after another; same result; doesn't speak. Finally, in desperation, they mortgage the house and take him

[Freedos-user] edit partition through usb 3

2012-04-20 Thread kurt godel
Amazing; never knew this capability existed in XP: 1. )right-click 'my computer'; 2.) click 'storage; 3.) click 'disk management'. shows 'drive 0(C drive) and drive 1(usb hdd); Under 'actions', you can delete/create new/format, works perfectly. I wonder if is is still in vista-7-8? Tnx all,

[Freedos-user] edit partitions 2

2012-04-19 Thread kurt godel
Actually, i'm using the external hdd on a dual boot, and of course the dos/xp side doesn't even see the ext. The thing is, even the ubuntu won't allow any read write from/to linux. So, I would like to delete the ext and replace with fat. I do have a ubcd live cd with pated magic/gparted, but I

[Freedos-user] edit partitions through usb.

2012-04-18 Thread kurt godel
I just got an external hdd enclosure; had a hard drive from a machine with a blown mobo, and put it in the enclosure. Problem is it still has an ext3/ext4 linux on it, eating up 25 GB. I can read write to the dos partition with it's logical drives, but using the ext is a no-no. My question is

[Freedos-user] int33h again.

2012-02-17 Thread kurt godel
Thank you Tom. Actually, I also used the 'hidemouse' subfunction; I didn't know it would *terminate* the mouse function. I am surprised to learn of the multiple-calls-to-it aspect. The idea of setting cx=0 is interesting, but I fear to do it since I've been using the int by way of the UNION regs

[Freedos-user] int 33 problem.

2012-02-12 Thread kurt godel
Am writing a C program which makes use of int33h; using union regs/int86.Trouble is there is a subfunction to initialize the mouse, but I see none to terminate it. The problem is that when the C program terminates, the mouse stays on, at least for a time(like a tsr). Once in a great while, I tap

[Freedos-user] strangehalf bug.

2012-01-29 Thread kurt godel
Fellas, tnx; I didn't realize dircmd had been set that way; indeed, the behaviour occurs in a directory with enough entries to cause paging. Also, the space or lack of it in the 'dir' does not affect it at all. However there is still a bit of a mystery: even with the 'P' enabled, booting from

[Freedos-user] bizzare bug in freedos 1.1

2012-01-28 Thread kurt godel
This has to be one of the strangest ever: I made this batfile: cd \ cd ta -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual

[Freedos-user] freedos bug.

2012-01-28 Thread kurt godel
Sorry, hit the wrong key; made this batfile in freedos 1.1: cd \ cd tag dir dmyy.txt cd \ cd djgpp cd bin copy c:\tag\dmyy.txt c:\djgpp\bin\dmy.txt Ran perfect; then changed it: cd \ cd djgpp dirdmyy.txt cd \ cd djgpp cd bin copy c:\djgpp\dmyy.txt c:\djgpp\bin\dmy.txt With no change but the

[Freedos-user] strangebug 1.1

2012-01-28 Thread kurt godel
Created a directory dthin; changed the batfile to this, and it ran perfectly!. The name djgpp is making something stumble; can you beat that? Seriously, some thing in the scanning process must have a subtle(?) flaw in it. Richardwb2...@gmail.com.

[Freedos-user] int notation.

2012-01-24 Thread kurt godel
Here's a quick question: I have used software interrupts, mostly with int86/union regs; say int 34 for the mouse, with another integer loaded into a register to select within that int. Recently I have seen ints such as: intxx.yy; is this something new, or I just don't get out much? Is the 'yy'

[Freedos-user] the int thing.

2012-01-24 Thread kurt godel
Beautiful; thanks guys, and by the way Bret I tried unsucessfuly to use your usbdos on an msi mobo with only uusb(no ps2 holes); any which way, it's impossible!!.Richardwb2...@gmail.com. -- Keep Your Developer Skills

[Freedos-user] dillos lack of dowloads

2011-11-19 Thread kurt godel
Internet protocol stuff was never my strong suit, but after installing a driver(broadcom) and starting the dos port of dillo, I realized I could not download. It says dpid not right sees only http. Question: in,say, firefox you can save a page, but I believe if it is not an html specimen it is

[Freedos-user] graphics in dos.

2011-07-05 Thread kurt godel
Maybe someone would know; was playing with old fashioned 16 bit graphics, compiling with djgpp. The djgpp info warns that both bios and vga approach go outside of protected mode, so that mangling of the system is possible. Such programs don't even run in NTVDM dos emulator, but work in ,say,

[Freedos-user] byggy usb keyboard.

2011-04-18 Thread kurt godel
It isn't only freedos that can be buggy, at least on this count; I have two spare computers with cheap mobos. One an MSI mobo, the other an INTEL. The MSI mobo does not have a PS2 hole, so must use usb keyboard; slow and not properly responsive. Point is, it does this even with Windows 98.

[Freedos-user] sata

2010-10-20 Thread kurt godel
For what it is worth, I have been using a dell 521 for four years and whether xp dosbox or really dos, the sata hard and optical drives work; I don't know how much speed difference there might actually be, since I never used explicit sata(non bios) drivers. Richard Kleinwb2...@gmail.com.

[Freedos-user] sata II

2010-10-20 Thread kurt godel
Come to think of it, when I made a jumbo rescue disk including freedos, I did have to use the sata type drivers for the optical(CD), but not for the hard drive;freedos could not see the sata in that case. Richard Kleinwb2...@gmail.com.

[Freedos-user] dir formats.

2010-05-22 Thread kurt godel
Eric, I'm at the library, but briefly, the weird format is like 16-bit dos, except for the last few lines, which in dos or cmd list 'x files' then 'y 'directories. The format I get has all the items, whether file or dir, listed together as files. In other words, if I dir an empty dir I should

[Freedos-user] dir formats.

2010-05-17 Thread kurt godel
Maybe someone here knows; the command line dir format in XP NTVDM is long file name, or NT style. The older non lfn or dos format(8+3) is another way; but they both list the number of files and the number of directories separately. Now when I compile a c program and either use 'system()' to

[Freedos-user] HOBO,half a GUI.

2010-04-02 Thread kurt godel
If anyone had downloaded hobo from: www.dosoid.bravehost.com I just found a nasty little bug in the scroller; I have just fixed it in both the exe,hub.exe, and the source file in x.txt. My bad. Richard wb2...@gmail.com.

[Freedos-user] filenames-hosting.

2010-03-01 Thread kurt godel
To dos 386 and usul; 386, I'm not sure what you mean, but the bravehost allows exe uploads, and does not take a folder; though I did not try the png trick; I doubt it will work, and here's why: Usul says misname it as hobo.zip.thing, or hobo.thing; I tried that stuff ages ago; Gmail reads inside

[Freedos-user] GUI's for dos II

2010-02-24 Thread kurt godel
Mateusz, I put it on my little freebie site: www.dosoid.bravehost.com. Unfortunately, the free version does not allow upload of any folders, let alone zips; for this reason, the one and only folder required, hdr, must be created by the user. The good news is that it contains two files, one an

[Freedos-user] GUI III.

2010-02-24 Thread kurt godel
Phooey, I forgot to mention that to use hobo, you must have a low level mouse driver installed, the best of which is cutemouse. Some times it is default (freedos,boxdos), sometimes, notably using the dos on a bootdisk, you must remember to manually exe the mouse driver. Richard Klein

[Freedos-user] GUIs for dos.

2010-02-22 Thread kurt godel
If anyone is interested, I have written a toy GUI for dos(freedos, msdos,'boxdos'); I call it hobo, half a GUI; imagine a line right to left. On the left end is dos. On the right end is windows/kde/gnome. The right end has bloat, the left end does not. So, I preserved the text graphics mode

[Freedos-user] Malware 5.5.

2009-10-01 Thread kurt godel
Aitor, thanks, but I already tried that with Pat; the gmail catches it even with the rename!. kurtwb2...@gmail.com. -- Come build with us! The BlackBerryreg; Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you

[Freedos-user] Malware5.

2009-09-17 Thread kurt godel
I just tried sending two versions to Pat, one the suspect tarball, the other an 'rar' type file; the gmail accepted the rar but rejected the tarball, saying; this file contains an executable and is not allowed; both the rar and the tarball contain executables? they both have them encapsulated in

[Freedos-user] Malware IIII

2009-09-14 Thread kurt godel
Took the suggestion and uploaded the file to virustotal.com, and guess what? *eleven redlines, including dos.benediction!!!* This has a rather grim statistical aspect? I would attach the results, but the page does not allow attachments, and I have no home page to put it on.--kurtwb2...@gmail.com.

[Freedos-user] Malware III

2009-09-11 Thread kurt godel
To everyone interested: I have again downloaded: ndn_2_31_3836_bin_lnx.tgz; I got it from: http://ndn.muxe.com , which was furnished to me by rugxulo. I have still not decompressed it, because I have just moved, and I don't have all my equipment here. I usually disect dangerously interesting

[Freedos-user] Malware II

2009-09-10 Thread kurt godel
Mateuze, I didn't even get to the point of decompressing the tarball; it was one of three files, the other two being the exe's. I used clamwin, which only does static scans, not on-the-fly; I have not yet seen clamwin get falsed, and it has caught some real stinkers. I also use bughunter, another

[Freedos-user] Malware.

2009-09-09 Thread kurt godel
Be advised: while scanning the tarball version of NDN the other night, I caught malware named dos.benediction. The two exe's with it did not show malware, but I deleted the whole thing. kurtwb2...@gmail.com. -- Let Crystal

[Freedos-user] dummy pointers.

2009-08-11 Thread kurt godel
Eric, the response to your query (what dummy pointers?...) is maybe a bit geeky for tis page, so I'm including it as a '.txt' attachment; if passersby wish to wiew it they can. -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting

[Freedos-user] final on dos extenders;

2009-08-05 Thread kurt godel
Japheth and all, this is belated, as I just moved, and still don't have internet at the house; concerning the page fault error and the tip from the djgpp faq, it was right on the money! I was using a function which had unused arguments,nevertheless specified; so I had declared three dummy

[Freedos-user] dos extender saga.

2009-07-12 Thread kurt godel
Japheth wrote: If your program runs in a Windows DOS-Box, but causes a page fault in DOS or DOSEMU, then there's a good chance that it erroneously uses a NULL pointer for memory access. This is a pretty common error, and AFAIR there is a switch for cwsdpmi to disable the page 0 protection. You

[Freedos-user] HX,DJGPP.

2009-07-10 Thread kurt godel
Christian wrote: to use djgpp, simply run hdpmi32; there is a way to remove the cwsdpmi and insert hdpmi32 in the djgpp header. Christian, I already tried running hdpmi32 first, even using the '-r' switch, which makes it go tsr, and still got the page fault error from the djgpp program; as for the

[Freedos-user] DPMI,et al.

2009-07-10 Thread kurt godel
Eric, the program I wrote, which drew the page fault, uses the int86 in four of the eight functions. the program is a mouse event handler, and micro-gui. I already had included 'dos.h', but I did not realize ther was a 'dpmi.h'! I'll have to pry into that header to try to see what exactly it can

[Freedos-user] update: dos extenders=HX.

2009-07-07 Thread kurt godel
Decided to try the minimum functionality of HX; the 'stubit.exe' failed, complaining that the djgpp executable being processed was not PE; I believe that a dj exe always has an 'MZ' stub, and I will verify that. Does this mean that stubit only *checks* the validity of a PE stub and does not make

[Freedos-user] Update on dos extenders viz djgpp.

2009-07-05 Thread kurt godel
Have just tried WDOSX, which is now royalty free, even for commercial applications; this refers to exe's 'extended' by wdos. The wdos actually prepends a stub to the exe,as well as an extender exe, so that the result is standalone with no outside files. As stated, any exe that you extend in this

[Freedos-user] WDOS clear.

2009-07-05 Thread kurt godel
Ok, this time, really clear: the download of wdosx is free for personal use; any file you process with it, is also royalty free, even for commercial use; I believe the distribution of wdos itself would still require a volume license. --kurtwb2...@gmail.com.

[Freedos-user] Fwd: Update on dos extenders viz djgpp.

2009-07-05 Thread kurt godel
-- Forwarded message -- From: kurt godel wb2...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:54 AM Subject: Update on dos extenders viz djgpp. To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Have just tried WDOSX, which is now royalty free, even for commercial applications; this refers to exe's

[Freedos-user] buggy djgpp with freedos.

2009-07-04 Thread kurt godel
Maybe someone can figure this one: installed freedos base on an old dell(ten years);installed djgpp with rhide; acted very buggy and refused to compile even a hello world; rebooted with 'himem' option, and now it compiles and executes. However, I then tried a larger program with eight functions,

[Freedos-user] freedos on dosemu.

2009-06-24 Thread kurt godel
Of course, if freedos is on dosemu on linux, you may still have the beauty of dos but not the blazing speed; there are search algorithims, etc, that can take *hours* on bloatware, but minutes in dos. The answer is to keep the dos offline; not so strange. I dual boot linux and windows, and go to

[Freedos-user] puppy.

2009-06-22 Thread kurt godel
Bonnie,I have several dell machines; the newer one,a dimension 521 came not only with a reinstall cd(would never get a windoze without one), but also a resource cd; the resource cd,among other things, has the driver/ diagnostics for the nic(network) card. This means that if you have reinstalled

[Freedos-user] Linux in fat partition.

2009-06-21 Thread kurt godel
There is a linux that runs in a fat partition: puppy; it runs in a linux filesystem which is inside a fat, and I have used it on a ten year old dell with pentium three and 128 meg ram. By the way, it's small size makes it an excellent live cd-linux on the old machines, and it sports an excellent

[Freedos-user] getting puppy to work.

2009-06-21 Thread kurt godel
Bonnie, I don't know if you are using a dial up modem, but I have cable company online, and the latest puppy for sure, is *instantly* ready to work, whether live cd or installed puppy; I have never used a dial up modem. --kurtwb2...@gmail.com.

[Freedos-user] makefiles galore.

2009-06-19 Thread kurt godel
First, I'll apologize for not using the 'snippet' approach; I have some mild disabilities and word processing tasks irq me for some strange reason. I will try to be concise; as for potential customer, if something is worth doing, it is worth doing right, for love or money. This comes into play

[Freedos-user] Fwd: makefiles galore.

2009-06-18 Thread kurt godel
-- Forwarded message -- From: kurt godel wb2...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 7:09 AM Subject: makefiles galore. To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net First, I'll apologize for not using the 'snippet' approach; I have some mild disabilities and word processing tasks irq

[Freedos-user] make-me crazy.

2009-06-17 Thread kurt godel
Ahhh, it's amazing; not one tutorial specifically for the dos version of 'make'; even what there is, not too specific. To wit: indeed, some thing you are trying to install,say , HX, GEM, etc., they do include makefiles, but they don't tell you where to put the makefile. So, you keep trying to use

[Freedos-user] HX is not a compiler.

2009-06-17 Thread kurt godel
I know HX is not a compiler; I meant having two c++ compilers, like mingw and djgpp at the same time. They can have naming conflicts.--kurtwb2...@gmail.com. -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out

[Freedos-user] more makefiles.

2009-06-17 Thread kurt godel
Yes, I prettymuch get that, but for instance that djgpp hack someone mentioned; it has a file named 'makefile', but in what directory should it be placed? I mean, there are *several* files in these distros named 'makefile', so without messing around with the path, if I explicitly use make -f

[Freedos-user] HX EXTENDER and djgpp.

2009-06-16 Thread kurt godel
Before I even try messing with hx extender, does anyone know if it will work out-of-the-box with djgpp, which I am used to, and I don't trust having two compilers of the same language present simultaneously. Also, since HX has it's own dpmi, would I have to remove the cwsdpmi from the

[Freedos-user] make,make install in dos?

2009-06-16 Thread kurt godel
Ok, I give up; I knew that linux has 'make' and 'make install' all over the place, but, until this afternoon, I never knew that dos has it. While attempting to install some parts of HX and GEM to djgpp, I was struck by this: use 'make' to configure the includes(headers) and libraries, and use

[Freedos-user] The GPL license.

2009-06-14 Thread kurt godel
This is a general question, not(?) completely off topic. I have never quite understood the GPL type license in the following sense: I write my own c++ software; I compile it using an open source deal like djgpp; if I then distribute the compiled exe, am I legally obliged to also distribute(i.e.

[Freedos-user] Hardware interupts.

2009-05-14 Thread kurt godel
This is old hat to most of you,but: Say I'm running a c++ program, compiled with djgpp; it makes a 32-console type executable. Now, if I want to break into the running c++ with, say, a mouse click, or a tap of a key, how do I service the interupt? Even from real-dos mode, I don't understand how to

[Freedos-user] Basic sound access in DOS.

2009-05-11 Thread kurt godel
My two computers(one old, one newish) both have decent sound capabilities with in and out jacks; I wish to use this to implement audio frequency shift keying(AFSK), in which I need to send and recieve tones. Is there a way, using only dos, to access the i/o jacks? --kurt wb2...@gmail.com.

[Freedos-user] Files to make cd bootable.

2009-05-03 Thread kurt godel
This might seem a bit off topic, but it's of general interest: In XP, you can make an ISO image of a folder; if you then burn that ISO image to the cd, using a true ISO burner, it is not bootable, it is lacking the files that would make it so. There are schemes to combine a floppy .img file with

[Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 sata drivers;

2009-05-01 Thread kurt godel
Not to be a nag, but will v1.1 have on-board support for sata drives? This would be so convenient.--kurt, wb2...@gmail.com. -- Register Now Save for Velocity, the Web Performance Operations Conference from O'Reilly

[Freedos-user] Deleting/overwriting......

2009-04-10 Thread kurt godel
I had forgotten the '/y' switch, which suppresses the prompt, enabling scripted(unattended) overwriting. Still, if I overwrite with a larger file, does this obliterate the overwritten file, eliminating the possibility of retrieval? kurt--wb2...@gmail.com.

[Freedos-user] deleting/overwriting files from bat file;

2009-04-09 Thread kurt godel
If I want to delete/overwrite files from a script(batch), then either way, it will interogate me:are you sure?y/n; but I want the script to run unattended; is there a way to make it fully 'hands free'?, possibly with a redirection away from the keyboard, or some such thing? PS: when deleting a

[Freedos-user] Arachne works!

2008-12-20 Thread kurt godel
Ok, downloaded the driver, did it's autoexec, did Arachne; soooweet! On the air! The arachnoid even incorporates the driver into the autoexec. Just one more dumb question: how to enable cookies in the arachne browser? I get to google ok, but if I then click on 'gmail' it seems to hang, with the

[Freedos-user] arachne- spoke too soon!

2008-12-20 Thread kurt godel
Ok, this is the thing: the arachne gets me to the web, say, google; I can move around and such, but if I try to download something, its a no-go. Or if something is downloading, there is no indication of where it is going. Even worse, and strangely, if I goto yahoo, the screen already says: 'my

[Freedos-user] Read and write sectors.

2008-12-10 Thread kurt godel
Among my collection of 'hexeditors' are two or three specifically for editing of harddisk sectors, both physical and logical; one is for windows and at least one other is for dos. I don't have the name for the dos one in front of me right now, but it came from the site called 'starman'. The one

[Freedos-user] SHSU.....

2008-12-08 Thread kurt godel
Anybody, I am assuming that the series 'shu...' are all classed as 'secondary drivers'; in which case, what would be the 'primary' drivers that work with them? I imagine they are not named in a series like SHU. eric,[EMAIL PROTECTED].

[Freedos-user] clarify dualboot 3.

2008-11-28 Thread kurt godel
Eric, I again tried putting the fdconfig.sys in drive 'c', first with the c-oriented version; then with the d-oriented version. Also tried editing the autoexec.bat in 'd' drive to : cfg=c:\fdconfig.sys; everytime I execute autoexec.bat in 'd', exactly the same thing happens; action taken

[Freedos-user] clarify dualboot 4.

2008-11-28 Thread kurt godel
Eric, Tried what you said. Put echo tags at beginning and end of fdconfig.sys; even put them in the bat. Both showed in the bat, but the fdconfig never executed, not in 'c' , not in 'd' any which way, so long as fdos was not initially installed in 'c'. It is obvious that fdconfig does execute if

[Freedos-user] clarify 2 dual boot.

2008-11-26 Thread kurt godel
Eric, The case where everything works would be just a single,primary partition of the harddisk;there is nothing on the disk yet; then load from fdbase cd, selecting from it's install options drive 'c' of course. The first time you boot the fdos,the cdrom will come out on 'd' drive. Now, make the

[Freedos-user] freedos/98 dual boot.

2008-11-25 Thread kurt godel
Jim, I eventually got back to you, that I had *satisfactorily* done it, with 98 in 'c', freedos in 'd'; the trick for me was to master 'devload' and shsucdx. The only bugaboo left is that DOSUSB still cannot coexist with cd rom when fdos is in 'd', yet they do work together if fdos is in 'c'; this

[Freedos-user] clarify dualboot.

2008-11-25 Thread kurt godel
Eric, I should clarify: when Georg (of DOSUSB) said dos assigns the drive letter to dosusb, he was emphasising that *dos does the assigning* , that is, there is not much,if any, manual control over it. Also, to be specific, when DOSUSB works with the cdrom (in drive 'c')the whole thing is

[Freedos-user] format and sys.

2008-11-11 Thread kurt godel
Just found out that the '/s' in 'format C: /s' formats the drive and leaves space for the system files from the 'sys' command; but some say the sys com also transfers a copy of command.com, while other sources don't! I can tell you that 'format C:' does not place a copy of command.com, whereas

[Freedos-user] Format and sys c: vs format c: /s.

2008-11-11 Thread kurt godel
A quicky: I noticed several references to: do a format, then a sys c:; is this exactly the same as format c: /s? I have always used the latter and never saw a conflict message in terms of geometries,between the BIOS and fdisk; in fact, my fdisk is so old that it seems to lack many options(one

[Freedos-user] devload,dualboot,etc..

2008-11-10 Thread kurt godel
Eric, I tried again, with primary c partition and extended,logical d partition; installed w98 onto c, then installed fdos to d. Did the autoexec.bat in d to get devload, and did this: devload /a d:\fdos\bin\xcdrom.sys /d:thing. I was happy to see messages like name thing, driver staying resident,

[Freedos-user] Ok,mystery solved re:drivers.

2008-11-10 Thread kurt godel
Eric, I am thick-headed sometimes; finally figured out shsucdx uses the syntax of mscdex!! You had already told me this, it did not register. So, I did: shsucdx.com /d:thing /m:4 /e L:r and this did the trick! All that remains is to automate the process. PS, how come I was able to use thing in

[Freedos-user] one more time, dual boot 98 and fdos.

2008-11-04 Thread kurt godel
Here is what ultimately determines the feasibility: is 'SHCDX33A a file or a directory? if a file, is it exe or com? where is it to be found? where is it supposed to be loaded into? I say this because the bugaboo always seems to be that when you 'activate' the fdos from the 'c' drive being shared

[Freedos-user] Dumb question about 'xcopy'.

2008-11-03 Thread kurt godel
Here's a dumb question about the 'xcopy ' command: I have a source directory called 's', and a destination directory called 'd'; Both of them are in the same directory, say 'c'. If I do: cd d, then xcopy s /s /e, I get a cyclic error; but if I am more explicit and use(again from inside 'd'): xcopy

[Freedos-user] FreeDos and 98 dual boot.

2008-11-03 Thread kurt godel
Eric, I already tried your last two suggestions with these results: if I installed the w98 first, then when I installed the fdbase over it, only the FreeDos would boot from a turn on after that; I thought to activate the w98 from the command line(from FreeDos) but could not see how to do it. Then,

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