[Freedos-user] No mail this weekend (OT)

2005-05-12 Thread Jim Hall
Hi everyone. My ISP will be doing some hardware replacement this weekend, and it's very likely I won't have any _incoming_ mail starting Saturday evening. I'll still be able to send out, though, because I use my work SMTP server for that. -jh -- I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I didn't vote

[Freedos-user] text editor's and mem command

2005-05-12 Thread GNU_man
Ok this is two questions in one here, I just did a real minimalistic FreeDOS install via 5 1/4" floppy on my "new" computer. No DOS text editors work on this machine, they all crash - including TED tiny editor. I suspect it could be something do with the keyboard. Please don't tell me i'm stuck

[Freedos-user] Re: text editor's and mem command

2005-05-12 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I assume that your problem is because the used editors either use too much RAM or because they are optimized for 286 or 386 CPU... You should try EDIT 0.7b (edit07b.zip) as an alternative branch, maybe EDIT 0.82 is optimized for 286 CPU? However, even TED3 crashes, which is strange. You shoul

Re: [Freedos-user] text editor's and mem command

2005-05-12 Thread Gregory Pietsch
GNU_man wrote: Please don't tell me i'm stuck with edlin, but i will accept this fate if i must :-) Am I supposed to feel insulted? I tried to write a better edlin than edlin, and this is what people think of my work! ;-) Gregory Pietsch ---

Re: [Freedos-user] text editor's and mem command

2005-05-12 Thread GNU_man
LOL! Actually i love edlin. I was delighted to see a new release of edlin, and i downloaded it right away. But for practical purposes, such as editing source code or a batch file, i'm afraid i'm too spoiled by fullscreen editors :) BTW i still tinker with my Tandy 1000 PC with 128kb RAM, making

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: text editor's and mem command

2005-05-12 Thread GNU_man
Thanks for the info. I forgot about the freecom XMS swap thing, i'll look into that first. The reason i mentioned the keyboard is that when i first tried to fire up the computer (i just bought it yesterday) i got a keyboard error:100 Luckily i have a vast collection of old PC parts, including a