Re: [Freedos-user] International chacarters and Open Watcom

2006-06-15 Thread Aitor Santamaría
To display other character sets in your DOS console please check the DISPLAY and MODE commands, that will help you on that. There are many examples in the bootdisks to show how to use it. I don't know which character set, just tell us which are the settings of these programs in MS-DOS that you use,

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem -> PANIC: MCB chain corrupted System halted

2006-06-15 Thread chris evans
Candidate for kernel bug of the month perhaps? some underlying malloc() call that way prog handles memory block integrity of the structures and become damaged. Step through config.sys/autoexec.bat to see the bad wolf and remove it.. --chris Arkady V.Belousov wrote: >Hi! > >5-Июн-2006 11:48 [E

Re: [Freedos-user] Want to read FreeDOS mails in a sensible order

2006-06-15 Thread Wesley Parish
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 06:00, Adam Peart wrote: > With Thunderbird, you can also have it sort email by "threads", which is > how I have it set for this mailing list & another mailing list. Take it from me, sorting by threads is the only way to handle seriously large mailing lists. And making mailin

Re: [Freedos-user] Want to read FreeDOS mails in a sensible order

2006-06-15 Thread Jim Hall
Wesley Parish wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 06:00, Adam Peart wrote: > >> With Thunderbird, you can also have it sort email by "threads", which is >> how I have it set for this mailing list & another mailing list. >> > > Take it from me, sorting by threads is the only way to handle seriously

Re: [Freedos-user] Want to read FreeDOS mails in a sensible order

2006-06-15 Thread jp_freedos
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 07:44:08AM -0500, Jim Hall wrote: > I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I didn't vote for him. Clinton is not President anymore. -- I bought a house, on a one-way dead-end road; I don't know how I got there. Have a great day and don't forget to laugh! http://www.gcfl.net

Re: [Freedos-user] Want to read FreeDOS mails in a sensible order

2006-06-15 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! jp_freedos / gcfl.net wrote: > ... Jim Hall wrote: > > I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I didn't vote for him. > Clinton is not President anymore. I think it is obvious that this signature line was not about Clinton but about a certain cowboy. While there are urban myths about the IQ of th

Re: [Freedos-user] Want to read FreeDOS mails in a sensible order

2006-06-15 Thread Mark Bailey
Eric Auer wrote: > Hi! > > jp_freedos / gcfl.net wrote: >> ... Jim Hall wrote: >>> I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I didn't vote for him. >> Clinton is not President anymore. > > I think it is obvious that this signature line was not > about Clinton but about a certain cowboy. [...] > But

Re: [Freedos-user] Want to read FreeDOS mails in a sensible order

2006-06-15 Thread Michael Devore
At 08:26 AM 6/15/2006 -0500, jp_freedos wrote: >On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 07:44:08AM -0500, Jim Hall wrote: > > I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I didn't vote for him. > >Clinton is not President anymore. Clinton was, among other things, a Rhodes Scholar, and generally conceded as brilliant by hi

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS GUI opinions

2006-06-15 Thread Florian Xaver
> I looked at oZone 0.6 some. My first questions/observations while *running > it on a pure FreeDOS machine with DOSLFN loaded*: Cool - thanks! > 1) I take it that CWSDPMI is not required when FreeDOS EMM386 is loaded and > providing whatever DPMI support it has. True? (I did not notice any

Re: [Freedos-user] Want to read FreeDOS mails in a sensible order

2006-06-15 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi, I've never understood why mailing lists are so popular; surely NNTP is a far better and more efficient way to discuss things, plus it has the advantage of being able to manage archives and reduce bandwidth? Why would anyone want to send out and receive 100s of emails when you could simply

Re: [Freedos-user] SYS A: C:

2006-06-15 Thread Gerry Hickman
Gerry Hickman wrote: > OK, I guess I could use a FAT16 partition instead; if I do this, is > there some way to install the DOS 6.22 boot sector to C: without > actually inserting a floppy? e.g. read the saved boot sector from somewhere? OK, I tried it with a FAT16 partition 1. FDISK /PRIO:2000

Re: [Freedos-user] Want to read FreeDOS mails in a sensible order

2006-06-15 Thread Jim Hall
USENET is also pretty stuffed with spam. At least on the mailing lists, we have spam filtering to keep the noise down. Unfortunately, off-topic threads still make it through. ;-) -jh Gerry Hickman wrote: > Hi, > > I've never understood why mailing lists are so popular; surely NNTP is a > f

Re: [Freedos-user] Want to read FreeDOS mails in a sensible order

2006-06-15 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 15-Июн-2006 23:34 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerry Hickman) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: GH> I've never understood why mailing lists are so popular; surely NNTP is a GH> far better and more efficient way to discuss things, plus it has the GH> advantage of being able to manage archives

Re: [Freedos-user] Want to read FreeDOS mails in a sensible order

2006-06-15 Thread Ce
If they (T.H.E.M.) wish for my vote then I want universal healthcare and pls give break to 6.75/hr employees on taxation Geez 70 bucks in taxes is . Ow. --chris http://nxdos.sourceforge.net/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@li

[Freedos-user] Mailing list vs forum

2006-06-15 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:34:19 +0100, you wrote: Hi Gerry, >I've never understood why mailing lists are so popular; surely NNTP is a >far better and more efficient way to discuss things, plus it has the >advantage of being able to manage archives and reduce bandwidth? Why >would anyone want to s

Re: [Freedos-user] SYS A: C:

2006-06-15 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:41:13 +0100, you wrote: Hi, >5. SYS B: C: /oem:ms (it says "system transferred") > >When I reboot with the C drive marked Active I get two dots on a black >screen and a flashing cursor, that wasn't expected... I suggest SYS should check the target to see it's "bootable" o