[Freedos-user] File Find Utility To Add To FreeDOS Distribution

2004-04-22 Thread No You!
Back in the old DOS days, I used to use a very good file finding program named WIZ. I just received an email from its author, letting me know he fixed it to work with Win XP, as well as a few other things. Here is his sstatement: WIZ now completely supports Windows XP and Windows2000, including l

Re: [Freedos-user] File Find Utility To Add To FreeDOS Distribution

2004-04-22 Thread Jim Hall
No You! wrote: Back in the old DOS days, I used to use a very good file finding program named WIZ. I just received an email from its author, letting me know he fixed it to work with Win XP, as well as a few other things. Here is his sstatement: WIZ now completely supports Windows XP and Windows200

[Freedos-user] Re: Printer Problems

2004-04-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi all, I contacted Matt and he wrote that he is using a very old FreeDOS which came with SuSE Linux 8.1 ... as far as I remember, even SuSE Linux 9.0 had quite old DOSEMU and FreeDOS versions included. Does somebody know about SuSE Linux 9.1? If not, we should probably remind people at SuSE to do

RE: [Freedos-user] File Find Utility To Add To FreeDOS Distribution

2004-04-22 Thread John Bond
Jim, Here is a REAL OLD program (Turbo Pascal 4.0) that I wrote called "whereis". Any one want to maintain it? Add copyright, pick an open source license, compile, etc.? *Begin Source Next Line* program WhereIs; {finds where files are located}

Re: [Freedos-user] File Find Utility To Add To FreeDOS Distribution

2004-04-22 Thread Joe Cosentino
I already submitted a search utility back in April 2003, one I wrote in 1997. You can download it from my website at http://www.geocities.com/xsaintx69/freedos It's called, "Search". Can you guess what it does? Later, Joe --- This SF.net e

[Freedos-user] Writing Utilities for FreeDOS

2004-04-22 Thread Jay Maus
This whole File Search Utility thread has gotten me thinking about DOS programming. I program mainly in either Win32 C++ for apps or Perl for scripts. However, I've played around with DOS C programming from time to time, and would like some 'real-world exercises', so to speak. So, is there a list

[Freedos-user] Re: Writing Utilities for FreeDOS

2004-04-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jay, of course FreeDOS has a list of utilities which need tweaking! You can go to www.freedos.org -> FreeDOS 1.0 TODO list, or to www.freedos.org -> Bugzilla -> query -> select sort by assignee. Chart of bugzilla entries: 23 kernel, 19 shell, 13 distro (installer etc.), 9 fdisk, 6 format, 5 c

RE: [Freedos-user] Re: Writing Utilities for FreeDOS

2004-04-22 Thread ileber
> SCANDISK - this should be implemented as an user interface to DOSFSCK Yes, for this you should strip down dosfsck (throw out delayed writing and the undelete feature). Then you should make it compile with turbo c++ and then with a litle bit of tweaking the rest of the code you should be able to

[Freedos-user] Re: Re: Writing Utilities for FreeDOS

2004-04-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Imre! > > SCANDISK - this should be implemented as an user interface to DOSFSCK > > Yes, for this you should strip down dosfsck (throw out delayed writing and I disagree: Delayed writing is perfectly useful because you can use the code to create an UNDO LOG before actually changing the disk,