Re: [Freedos-user] my FreeDOS review at OSnews.com

2006-09-09 Thread Daniel Franzini
wellthere are some ways to boot from CD when this is not supported by the BIOSone of these is to use SBM (Smart Boot Manager)...you just rawrite the image file to a floppy, boot from it, and can boot from CD-ROM...SBM presents a menu for you to choose the boot location or you can use the FreeDOS fl

Re: [Freedos-user] Need help ... calling COMMAND.COM from C

2006-09-18 Thread Daniel Franzini
wellthis is not the "right" way to do what you want to do...altough it seems to work, despite any possible problems with FreeCOMDOS has its own, more elegant, API for file/directory listing...look for functions findfirst/findnext...they should be avaliable on your C compiler... On 9/18/06, Marton <

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about Virtual Box performance.

2007-07-04 Thread Daniel Franzini
On 7/4/07, Giorgos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi!!! :-) > hi > Is someone here, familiar with it? what do you take for familiar? i have used it sometimes and it worked fine to me...Win95 for basic stuffi'm also in the quest of writing a driver for FreeDOS in order to allow one to use the

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about Virtual Box performance.

2007-07-05 Thread Daniel Franzini
does 2004's extensions work on virtual PC 2007? sounds interesting.altough writing a driver would be quite fun, i have some other DOS-related projects i'm involved in and it is really painfull to work on these without shared folders... WOW, i've found that i have a installer for the 2004 vers

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user Digest, Vol 14, Issue 2

2007-07-05 Thread Daniel Franzini
On 7/5/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > PS What is the easiset way to learn basic? Is Visual Basic and good place > to start? > in FreeDOS i think that FreeBASIC (www.freebasic.net) is a good place to start... > I am eager to learn Basic so that I can get FreeDos and be a

Re: [Freedos-user] details on free software

2007-07-20 Thread Daniel Franzini
On 7/20/07, NISA BALAKRISHNAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1.what are the various tools commonly used in free software or open source > projects to track different versions? mainly CVS and SubVersionthe later is more recent, the former, despite still being used, is coming into a deprecated s