Re: [Freedos-user] LBA And FreeDOS.

2013-12-08 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 3:04 PM, TJ Edmister damag...@hyakushiki.net wrote: On Sat, 07 Dec 2013 23:29:14 -0500, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: BTW, NT 4.0 (1996?) didn't support either of those NT4 does support LFNs. Not in DOS apps, I meant, no Win9x-era int 21h, 71xxh, AFAIK. It

Re: [Freedos-user] LBA And FreeDOS.

2013-12-08 Thread Louis Santillan
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Re: [Freedos-user] LBA And FreeDOS.

2013-12-08 Thread TJ Edmister
On Sun, 08 Dec 2013 17:13:29 -0500, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: It supports FAT12/16 and NTFS out of the box, and with a patched system file it will support FAT32 also (same goes for NT3.51) Is the patch officially part of some service pack or is it third-party? I checked the site

Re: [Freedos-user] LBA And FreeDOS.

2013-12-07 Thread Karen Lewellen
Greetings jack, I certainly agree with your stance here. I have been using one ms dos 7.1 package since at least 2007 or so easily and effortlessly. I have helped others find it as well. I am not sure where the .bg country code is, but I could not connect to the site when I tried it before

Re: [Freedos-user] LBA And FreeDOS.

2013-12-07 Thread Jack
Karen, I certainly agree with your stance here. I have been using one ms-dos 7.1 package since at least 2007 or so, easily and effort- lessly. I have helped others find it as well. I am not sure where the .bg country code is, but I could not connect to the site when I tried it before

Re: [Freedos-user] LBA And FreeDOS.

2013-12-07 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:03 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Jack gykazequ...@earthlink.net wrote: You may not consider it reliable, and Dennis may have some odd problem accessing it, but that website http://ms-dos7.hit.bg did give me, on

Re: [Freedos-user] LBA And FreeDOS.

2013-12-07 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Jack gykazequ...@earthlink.net wrote: I certainly agree with your stance here. I have been using one ms-dos 7.1 package since at least 2007 or so, easily and effort- lessly. I have helped others find it as well. It might be easier to just tell them to

Re: [Freedos-user] LBA And FreeDOS.

2013-12-06 Thread Jack
It's really too bad, though, that MS won't make it official and release the MS-DOS source as public domain, or at least one of the various open-source licenses. Surely you JEST!, my friend [are joking]! Gates Co. are charter members of the U.S.A.'s All we want is MONEY! brotherhood!

Re: [Freedos-user] LBA And FreeDOS.

2013-12-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Jack gykazequ...@earthlink.net wrote: Note on the FreeDOS main page that there are comments about FreeDOS offering LBA large-disk capability (48-bit disk addressing, not 24- bit CHS), which MS-DOS did not have, and which the main page says was unavailable

Re: [Freedos-user] LBA And FreeDOS.

2013-12-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Jack gykazequ...@earthlink.net wrote: Wengier Wu's MS-DOS 7 variant has a licensing issue ... So what??, as I noted in my prior post. At least 18 years have gone by since Gates Co. declared DOS is dead!, and no lawyers I know of have EVER gone-after

Re: [Freedos-user] LBA And FreeDOS.

2013-12-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, (yet another inane response from me) On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Jack gykazequ...@earthlink.net wrote: It's really too bad, though, that MS won't make it official and release the MS-DOS source as public domain, or at least one of the various open-source licenses. How would that be