Re: [Freedos-user] defrag

2014-10-06 Thread John R. Sowden
On 10/06/2014 10:03 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros wrote: > Hi, > >> I understand that the only defrag program that runs on true DOS, >> meaning not DOS in MS Windows, and that supports FAT32, is the >> one written for FreeDOS. I also understand that the most >> current version is 1.3.2. > >

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag

2014-10-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:25 AM, John R. Sowden wrote: > > Problem is I cannot find a location to download [Defrag 1.3.2]. The > freedos.org > site does not have the current version where I can download it, and > google is not my friend, in this case. You didn't look in the right place (obv

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag

2014-10-06 Thread John R. Sowden
On 10/06/2014 06:29 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > Take a look here, that's the FDNPK online "Base" repository: > > ftp://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/repos/base/ > > Mateusz > > > > On 10/06/2014 03:25 PM, John R. Sowden wrote: >> I understand that the only defrag

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag

2014-10-06 Thread Mateusz Viste
Take a look here, that's the FDNPK online "Base" repository: ftp://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.1/repos/base/ Mateusz On 10/06/2014 03:25 PM, John R. Sowden wrote: > I understand that the only defrag program that runs on true DOS, meaning > not DOS in MS Win

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag program issue

2014-03-08 Thread dos386
> Granted that you can, it may simply be more trouble than it's worth. Agree. No point to brew 64 KiO clusters. -- Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hass

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag program issue

2014-03-08 Thread dmccunney
On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 12:27 PM, dos386 wrote: >> You can create a 4GB FAT16 partition using WinXP which >> uses 64KB clusters, but it probably isn't accessible from DOS. > > Did you test? EDR-DOS AFAIK does support 64 KiB clusters on FAT16, but > I never tested. No, I didn't. It may be *possibl

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag program issue

2014-03-08 Thread dos386
> You can create a 4GB FAT16 partition using WinXP which > uses 64KB clusters, but it probably isn't accessible from DOS. Did you test? EDR-DOS AFAIK does support 64 KiB clusters on FAT16, but I never tested. > See http://support.macro$oft.com/kb/310561 See drdos.org and drdosprojects.de (latter

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag program issue

2014-02-27 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Marcos Florence wrote: > 4GB FAT16 partitions would be a lot better, but for some reason > I couldn't make them. FDISK isn't always easy to use. FAT16 has a 2GB limit, imposed by the format. The smallest area of disk accessible by DOS is the cluster. FAT16 uses

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag program issue

2014-02-27 Thread Marcos Florence
Hi, A defrag supporting FAT32 would be nice indeed. I have been taking lots of digital photos recently, and they need large amounts of disk space. The only reason I have been unwilling to use FAT32 is that there is no way of defragmenting. Instead, I made several FAT16 partitions of 2GB each --

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag program issue

2014-02-26 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:37 PM, John R. Sowden wrote: >> > Thanks for the follow up. I can boot with a floppy using MS-DOS 6.2. But I don't think that version supports FAT32. (And I have no idea if defragging FAT is supported under Linux or FreeBSD.) > I think my version of the defrag pro

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag program issue

2014-02-26 Thread John R. Sowden
On 02/26/2014 04:16 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 7:53 AM, John R. Sowden > wrote: >> On 02/25/2014 03:00 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: >> >> When I run the defrag program on my dos machine, It does not allow me to >> do a full defrag. The options are limited (grayed out). > It cou

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag program issue

2014-02-26 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 7:53 AM, John R. Sowden wrote: > On 02/25/2014 03:00 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > > When I run the defrag program on my dos machine, It does not allow me to > do a full defrag. The options are limited (grayed out). It could be a bug in the program or (maybe?) an incompati

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag program issue

2014-02-25 Thread John R. Sowden
On 02/25/2014 03:00 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: When I run the defrag program on my dos machine, It does not allow me to do a full defrag. The options are limited (grayed out). On that machine, I am running freedos and for a command processor, 4dos. FAT32 was created by a windows o/s before I bought

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag program issue

2014-02-25 Thread Tom Ehlert
> When I run the defrag program on my dos machine, It does not allow me to > do a full defrag. The options are limited (grayed out). > On that machine, I am running freedos and for a command processor, > 4dos. FAT32 was created by a windows o/s before I bought it. I have > since removed windo

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag abhores windows

2013-03-27 Thread dos386
Actually you will have to disable all DPMI hosts completely, HDPMI=16384 will only switch the whining from Windaube to DPMI :-( -- Own the Future-Intel® Level Up Game Demo Contest 2013 Rise to greatness in Intel's independ

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag abhores windows

2013-03-27 Thread dos386
> a Freedos 32bit defrag program for DOS FreeDOS DEFRAG is NOT a 32-bit program, but it should support FAT28 (at your own risk). > DOS (7.0 for 32 bit file system Where did you get it? > How is defrag deciding that it is running under Windows > (when it really is not)? The detection indeed is

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag abhores windows

2013-03-22 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:35 AM, John Sowden wrote: > > I just downloaded defrag.exe, a Freedos 32bit defrag program for DOS. It's not 32-bit at all, AFAICT, only a 16-bit MZ DOS .exe compiled by Turbo C++ (though seems to have some support for building with OpenWatcom as well). Latest ver

Re: [Freedos-user] Defrag broken...

2007-03-09 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 15:37 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone is fixing the defrag that comes with freedos 1.0? > > I'm curious as I want to to try and fix it myself if noone else is. > > If anyone can help me understand what is wrong with it or connect with me > with effo

Re: [Freedos-user] Defrag broken...

2007-03-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, sorry, I assume I can only reply via the list as rfc-ignorant would still blacklist me...? > when these efforts fail, they discourage both of us from trying > to filter out spam at all. I run my own mail server and the > recommendation I have run into is to use the whois.rfc-ignorant > black

Re: [Freedos-user] Defrag broken...

2007-03-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > I'm wondering if anyone is fixing the defrag... I was going to answer that question, but Michael's email provider says that rfc-ignorant.org says that the domain .de is not giving enough WHOIS information unless you specify some "yes I do want that data" flags in the query. Oh yeah. I wond

Re: [Freedos-user] Defrag 1.21 Full Optimization Problems

2006-10-15 Thread Lester V
After FDOS folder was moved from drive C to drive D Defrag's full optimization works ok. There are only four files (and no folders) left on drive C: - kernel.sys - command.com - fdconfig.sys - fdauto.bat Drastic solution but very effective. I made drive D visible from WinXP so it can be def

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag for Fat32

2005-02-22 Thread Johnson Lam
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 01:47:29 -0800, you wrote: >http://www.sysinternals.com/files/defrag.zip >NTFS and FAT32 under NT 3.51 Under NT 3.51 that means you need WindowsNT ... >http://www.whitneyfamily.org/Hacks/Defrag/INTEL/Defrag.zip >Another one, claims to be more intelligent but quite slow. Also

Re: [Freedos-user] defrag for Fat32

2005-02-22 Thread Christopher Evans
http://www.sysinternals.com/files/defrag.zip NTFS and FAT32 under NT 3.51 http://www.whitneyfamily.org/Hacks/Defrag/INTEL/Defrag.zip Another one, claims to be more intelligent but quite slow. Florian Xaver wrote: Hi! There is no such program for (Free)DOS i think? Bye, Flo ---

Re: [Freedos-user] Defrag is very slowww

2004-05-10 Thread Yann Benigot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Because you have a beta version wich is not optimized yet. I am working on making it a lot faster and am also in the process of fixing all the bugs. For the mean time, please use microsoft defrag. Imre On a laptop with 4Mb of RAM,defrag is very slow then MS-Defra

RE: [Freedos-user] Defrag is very slowww

2004-05-10 Thread ileber
Because you have a beta version wich is not optimized yet. I am working on making it a lot faster and am also in the process of fixing all the bugs. For the mean time, please use microsoft defrag. Imre > > >On a laptop with 4Mb of RAM,defrag is very slow then MS-Defrag. >Why is it too slow? >