Re: [Freedos-user] *** HEAR YE, HEAR YE *** (FREEDOS 1.1 NEEDS A HELP-FILE CORRECTION.)

2011-10-28 Thread Michael B. Brutman
On 10/28/2011 1:03 PM, Mark Brown wrote: it's just that upper case letters are so much more intelligible, so much more understandable. time was they were used like that somewhere, like on the defense internet that was handed off to the people for freedom of speech in ~1974... Communicating only

Re: [Freedos-user] *** HEAR YE, HEAR YE *** (FREEDOS 1.1 NEEDS A HELP-FILE CORRECTION.)

2011-10-28 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 11:03 AM 10/28/2011, Mark Brown wrote: >it's just that upper case letters are so much more intelligible, >so much more understandable. time was they were used like that somewhere, >like on the defense internet that was handed off to the people for >freedom of speech in ~1974... > >get it, freedo

Re: [Freedos-user] *** HEAR YE, HEAR YE *** (FREEDOS 1.1 NEEDS A HELP-FILE CORRECTION.)

2011-10-28 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 28-10-2011 20:03, Mark Brown schreef: > and thanks to those fixing the high memory and xms drivers so they're solid > and stable: > no more tumbling numbers on my notebook. > and as regards "nobody uses them" below, > the 1.0 and/or 1.1 test_3 distribution(s) definitely did use them. > /F /MSG >

Re: [Freedos-user] *** HEAR YE, HEAR YE *** (FREEDOS 1.1 NEEDS A HELP-FILE CORRECTION.)

2011-10-28 Thread Mark Brown
.@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com > >From: Tom Ehlert >To: Mark Brown ; freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 11:48 AM >Subject: Re: [Freedo

Re: [Freedos-user] *** HEAR YE, HEAR YE *** (FREEDOS 1.1 NEEDS A HELP-FILE CORRECTION.)

2011-10-27 Thread Tom Ehlert
Hi, > THE HELP-COMMAND SCREEN FILE HAS IMPROVED WELL. > BUT IT STILL NEEDS ONE THING: > UNDER THE TOPIC "SHELL" AND "SHELLHIGH", > THE SWITCHES > /F and > /MSG > NEED TO BE DOCUMENTED, > SO PEOPLE DON'T HAVE TO FIDDLE WITH THE SWITCHES TO SEE HOW THEY WORK. both are related to the non-XMS-swappi

[Freedos-user] *** HEAR YE, HEAR YE *** (FREEDOS 1.1 NEEDS A HELP-FILE CORRECTION.)

2011-10-27 Thread Mark Brown
THE HELP-COMMAND SCREEN FILE HAS IMPROVED WELL. BUT IT STILL NEEDS ONE THING: UNDER THE TOPIC "SHELL" AND "SHELLHIGH", THE SWITCHES /F and /MSG NEED TO BE DOCUMENTED, SO PEOPLE DON'T HAVE TO FIDDLE WITH THE SWITCHES TO SEE HOW THEY WORK. (as of now they're undocumented in the whole helpfile.)   pl