Re: [Freedos-user] Re: "PNG" files in DOS

2004-05-09 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Eric Auer wrote: Hi, you wanted to convert PNG to something else: Not sure if that helps you, but the Arachne web browser can display PNGs and it can print pages into PostScript files... PNG is a pretty complex format, but I am sure there are free tools out there to process them - not only semi-fre

Re: [Freedos-user] "PNG" files in DOS

2004-05-09 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 9-Май-2004 00:38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lucas Pedrosa) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: LP> Does anybody know of any program for DOS that can LP> convert PNG graphics to other more common formats, such as BMP, GIF or PCX? http://www.pictview.com/pictview.zip http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/src/ ftp:/

Re: [Freedos-user] Using the internet with FreeDOS made easy

2004-05-09 Thread tassilo
hi > > You can even use Arachne to read your POP3 mail (tested, works, BUT > make sure to check "leave mails on server" in config menu unless you > want to move your mail to the DOS drive!) and to write SMTP mail. > Fun program, but I think I will use Netscape / Mozilla again most of > the time. S

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: "PNG" files in DOS

2004-05-09 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 9-Май-2004 05:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: EA> PNG is a pretty complex format, It smart, not "very complex". Most its complex part is compression (Deflate, which based on LZ and Huffman encoding). --

[Freedos-user] Defrag is very slowww

2004-05-09 Thread Yann Benigot
On a laptop with 4Mb of RAM,defrag is very slow then MS-Defrag. Why is it too slow? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson & Lucent use to deliver higher performing products fa

Re: [Freedos-user] Using the internet with FreeDOS made easy

2004-05-09 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, (By the way, Eric, a problem with my ISP destroyed your original message, could you send it to me in private?) PS: I did not test IRCABI because the LSM tells that you would need SLIP, while I have plain Ethernet / LAN. Do you think it would work anyway? I don't know about SLIP, but PLIP d

Re: [Freedos-user] Using the internet with FreeDOS made easy

2004-05-09 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Sun, 9 May 2004, Eric Auer wrote: > Hi, this is a fun followup to the problems of 8.3 names and > FreeDOS internet connection. [ that GPL requires 8.3 is bullshit indeed. Though it talks about equivalent access to the source code. If someone who can access the binary can't access the source co

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Using the internet with FreeDOS made easy

2004-05-09 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sun, 09 May 2004 10:02:42 +0200, you wrote: Hi, >Arachne is under GPL now! Quite some time ago, and some fans have new cores up to version 1.73 >I was very happy when i heard this news and wanted to help developing >it. But i am very said, that the code is very bad. I guess, ARACHNE's guy

[Freedos-user] Re: Using the internet with FreeDOS made easy

2004-05-09 Thread Florian Xaver
Hi! Arachne is under GPL now! I was very happy when i heard this news and wanted to help developing it. But i am very said, that the code is very bad. For example many functions has GOTO commands and it is very difficult to add new futures (if somebody would port it to DJGPP again). It also in