Re: [Freedos-user] Some driver updates

2017-11-17 Thread Gregg Eshelman via Freedos-user
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

Re: [Freedos-user] Some driver updates

2017-11-17 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Robert Riebisch wrote: > >> 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

Re: [Freedos-user] Some driver updates

2017-11-17 Thread Eric Auer
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

Re: [Freedos-user] Some driver updates

2017-11-17 Thread Eric Auer
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

Re: [Freedos-user] Some driver updates

2017-11-17 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 3:52 AM, Gregg Eshelman via Freedos-user wrote: > > 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,

Re: [Freedos-user] Some driver updates

2017-11-17 Thread Tom Ehlert
> What do these "Jack's Drivers" actually do? nothing as they no longer work on FreeDOS. btw: NEVER fullquote. Tom -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org!

Re: [Freedos-user] Some driver updates

2017-11-17 Thread Robert Riebisch
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 >

Re: [Freedos-user] Some driver updates

2017-11-17 Thread Rugxulo
Hi again, On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 1:47 AM, Rugxulo wrote: > > 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

[Freedos-user] My experiences with Desmet

2017-11-17 Thread Random Liegh via Freedos-user
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

Re: [Freedos-user] Some driver updates

2017-11-17 Thread Ralf Quint
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

Re: [Freedos-user] My experiences with Desmet

2017-11-17 Thread Ralf Quint
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

Re: [Freedos-user] Some driver updates

2017-11-17 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, Robert, On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 9:19 AM, Robert Riebisch 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

Re: [Freedos-user] Some driver updates

2017-11-17 Thread Jim Hall
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? > >