What do these "Jack's Drivers" actually do?
On Friday, November 17, 2017, 1:59:11 AM MST, Eric Auer
wrote:
Hi Rugxulo,
you are not going to make Jack any more kind by publicly
sharing all private email details of your private fight...
Jack does update drivers
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Robert Riebisch wrote:
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>> For anyone relatively new to the FreeDOS email lists, Jack's drivers come up
>> every once in a while.
It's mainly because he obsessively updates them, and he craves
attention (despite being banned), even
Hi Rugxulo,
you are not going to make Jack any more kind by publicly
sharing all private email details of your private fight...
Jack does update drivers because he is a perfectionist,
but he is also known for not liking the FreeDOS community
(including in particular you) so it is no surprise
Hi Gregg,
> What do these "Jack's Drivers" actually do?
RDISK: Ramdisk
UDVD2: CD / DVD low-level drivers, UDMA, cache via UHDD
UHDD: fast UDMA disk I/O, cache (harddisk/SSD/CD/DVD)
XMGR: XMS / HMA memory driver
All drivers are optimized for low consumption of
DOS memory, while they can use
Hi,
On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 3:52 AM, Gregg Eshelman via Freedos-user
wrote:
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> What do these "Jack's Drivers" actually do?
Waste everyone's time.
(Just use Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux ...!)
(further response to Eric Auer inlined below)
> On Friday,
> What do these "Jack's Drivers" actually do?
nothing as they no longer work on FreeDOS.
btw: NEVER fullquote.
Tom
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Hi Rugxulo,
>> Jack does update drivers because he is a perfectionist,
>
> What good is a perfect painting if no one will see it? Why bake a
> gourmet meal and then throw it away?
Maybe he's working on it for his own joy?
> I don't know, but I tried. I really tried to solve the situation. I
>
Hi again,
On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 1:47 AM, Rugxulo wrote:
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> 3). https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html
>
> "What is free software?
>
> 'Free software' means software that respects users' freedom and
> community. Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to
Hi, all
I have the zips I posted set up in a freedos vm.
My problem with being unable to compile outside of the desmet folder
were solved by setting the variable "dinc" to where I am keeping the .h
files (as well as adding my desmet folder to my %PATH%).
The version I'm using is 2.1, and
On 11/17/2017 4:45 PM, Jim Hall wrote:
> [..]
>
> Reading this thread sucks any joy from me.
>
> Why is this thread still alive?
>
> Jack doesn't like FreeDOS, he doesn't release his drivers so that
> FreeDOS users can use them - and Jack's drivers are proprietary, so we
> cannot include them in
On 11/17/2017 11:36 PM, Random Liegh via Freedos-user wrote:
> Hi, all
>
> I have the zips I posted set up in a freedos vm.
>
> My problem with being unable to compile outside of the desmet folder
> were solved by setting the variable "dinc" to where I am keeping the
> .h files (as well as adding
Hi, Robert,
On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 9:19 AM, Robert Riebisch wrote:
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>>> Jack does update drivers because he is a perfectionist,
>>
>> What good is a perfect painting if no one will see it? Why bake a
>> gourmet meal and then throw it away?
>
> Maybe he's working on it
On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 6:25 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
Jack does update drivers because he is a perfectionist,
>>>
>>> What good is a perfect painting if no one will see it? Why bake a
>>> gourmet meal and then throw it away?
>>
>> Maybe he's working on it for his own joy?
>
>
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