Re: [Freedos-user] reminder

2017-04-12 Thread Rinaldo Guelpa
Hello Bret, All I want to do , the reminder should remind me of a birthday eiter on the date or a few days ahead say 5 or 3 days ahead , just have it in my .autoexec.bat file so on startup it will run and inform me of a person and the birthday. Best wishes Rinaldo. guelpa...@telkomsa.net

Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

2017-04-12 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 22:24:56 -0500, Rugxulo wrote: > My problem with always explicitly saying "short" is that it's both > unnecessary and verbose. Apparently not so "unnecessary" after all, if one really wants to use a short jump, and not some other contraption. > What disassembler are you

Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

2017-04-12 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 2:03 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 22:24:56 -0500, Rugxulo wrote: > >> What disassembler are you using here? I erroneously thought it was NDISASM. > > I don't use ndisasm for a very trivial reason - I am unable to redirect >

Re: [Freedos-user] reminder

2017-04-12 Thread Don Flowers
I have two that I have installed, Broderbund Memory Mate and Brown Bag Software's PC-Outline which was included with WordStar 5.5 Professional. PCO; and if you happen to use BB's PowerMenu a CTRL-\ will bring it up. https://www.pcorner.com/list/WORDP/PCO334.ZIP/README.1/ On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at

Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

2017-04-12 Thread Bret Johnson
> I double-checked, latest NDISASM still decodes as two separate instructions. A disassembler would not report two separate instructions unless the actual compiled code had two separate instructions. Every assembler/compiler I know of does little "tricks" to make the programmer's job a little

Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

2017-04-12 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 04:39:35 -0500, Rugxulo wrote: > It worked fine (redirecting) for me yesterday! I can't imagine why it > wouldn't work for you. > > Oh, before I forget, are you perhaps invoking NDISASM via some .BAT? > Of course a .BAT doesn't really redirect (under FreeCOM) without kludge, >

Re: [Freedos-user] reminder

2017-04-12 Thread Bret Johnson
Rinaldo: What you're wanting is pretty simple, so a full-blown calendar program is definitely overkill. I think I've seen references to programs like what you want to do before, but I don't use any of them myself and don't remember the names of any of them. Somebody else may be able to

Re: [Freedos-user] reminder

2017-04-12 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Bret Johnson wrote: > > What you're wanting is pretty simple, so a full-blown calendar program is > definitely overkill. > I think I've seen references to programs like what you want to do before, but > I don't use any > of them myself