Re: [Freedos-user] Connecting to a BBS via a modem

I think you helped keep an interesting piece of software from fading out permenantly. It has little practical use but is interesting to look at - a piece of historical art. Protected software usually disappears completely when it loses its usefulness. This way some younger people can see what it

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I wouldn't expect them to ever release the source but to put it back on the market for sale, like it use to be. Not everthing can be open and free. If you tell them you have a million downloads they may feel there is once again a viable market for their product and will sell and upgrade their dos

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>> I downloaded as-easy-as from your site. >> I didn't see a "LET command listed. Its a command >> that makes dos qpro special. None of my dos macros >> would run without it. >> Maybe you could talk to Corel or who ever owns >> the copyright and see if they could bring back their >> office

Re: [Freedos-user] Connecting to a BBS via a modem

On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, Jim Hall wrote: While I know that this helped a specific user request, I'd appreciate that we not share/link to "crack" tools that circumvent copy protection. Even for programs like Telix that aren't supported anymore. Your house, your rules. No problem. :) Free/open

Re: [Freedos-user] Connecting to a BBS via a modem

> On Mon, 16 Apr 2018, Dale E Sterner wrote: >> My copy asks for money for a key but noone left to collect it. >> I used up half my legal trys brfore it shuts down. >> What was that link again? On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 2:28 PM, geneb wrote: > You can also go here: >

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On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 6:40 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 5:12 PM, dmccunney wrote: > [..] >> Having it available under a compatible open source license will let >> Jim make it available as part of FreeDOS. >> >> Having it available

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On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 5:56 PM, geneb wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, dmccunney wrote: > >> Best case, you get what Embarcadero once did. They inherited the >> former Borland DOS products like Turbo-C, and were offering them as >> unsupported freeware downloads from a

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On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 5:12 PM, dmccunney wrote: [..] > If Jim can convince Corel to offer source uinder a license that will > let him add it the the FreeDOS distribution, I'll be surprised and > delighted. > > If anyone actually grabs that source, and uploads new and

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On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, dmccunney wrote: Best case, you get what Embarcadero once did. They inherited the former Borland DOS products like Turbo-C, and were offering them as unsupported freeware downloads from a community link on their site. There was no *paying* market for the DOS stuff, but

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 2:12 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > I wouldn't expect them to ever release the source but > to put it back on the market for sale, like it use to be. > Not everthing can be open and free. If you tell them you > have a million downloads they may feel there