Re: [Freedos-user] Quickview ver 2.60

2014-12-01 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
I really miss a word perfect clone, working on text console but with some updated features like support for png and svg images, export to html... El 01/12/2014 10:37, "Dale E Sterner" escribió: > I only use windows to get on the web for just about everything else I use > DOS. > My software is all

Re: [Freedos-user] Kolibri OS boot from Freedos 1.2 with syslinux

2016-12-31 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
Have you tried grub for DOS? Search as GRUB4DOS. I remember long time ago kolobrios used to have installers for several versions of Windows including win9x. El dic. 29, 2016 3:56 AM, "Wolfgang ANdreas Heisele" escribió: Hi, I played a little bit more with freedos 1.2 and kolibri os and now

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS inside Windows XP, virtual diskettes, and using Windows printers?

2011-02-04 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
I have used qemu and works great Download from http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/ Also there a device driver for Windows to mount virtual disk on Windows http://jaclaz.altervista.org/Projects/VDM/vdm.html 2011/2/4, john s wolter : > I need to have FreeDOS inside Windows XP, virtual A & B disk

Re: [Freedos-user] MT.COM not found in internet !! :(

2013-08-15 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
Euphoria requires a 386 or higher processor -- -+-+-+-+ Marco Achury 0414-3142282 www.achury.com.ve -- Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production

Re: [Freedos-user] Resize partition without data loss

2014-10-21 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
I'm the 90's I used a program named Fips, don't know if such program continues under development --+-+-+-+-+-+- Marco Achury 04143142282 El 21/10/2014 10:06, "J. Bulterman" escribió: > I guess this is where GPartEd comes in. > That is a Linux distribution that you can run from a CD or DVD that i

Re: [Freedos-user] Mpxplay won't be developed in the future...

2008-07-29 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
Sounds like port WINE to DOS :-) -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Marco A. Achury www.geocities.com/marcoachury - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with

[Freedos-user] Fwd: BGFAX for DOS

2008-07-30 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
-- Forwarded message -- From: B.J. Guillot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2008/7/30 Subject: RE: BGFAX for DOS To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, Marco. This is OK by me to include the BGFAX binaries and documentation in the freedos distribution. We would probably wan

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS-compatible modem dialer

2008-10-31 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
Mulinux is a one floppy linux distribution, the optional DOSTOOLS.ZIP includes tty.exe (13 Kb), intended for open a console linux session from DOS machines, I have used it to manually dial using AT commands. -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Marco A. Achury INFO ON SOME EXE PROGRAM ADDED (DOSTOOLS.zip) ===

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS-compatible modem dialer

2008-10-31 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
gt; to be fully automatable. > > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Marco Antonio Achury Palma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 1:02 PM >> To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS-compatible modem dia

Re: [Freedos-user] format and sys.

2008-11-11 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
As long as I remember on MS-DOS format /s is the same as use FORMAT and later use SYS. Transfer boot sector, hiden files and command.com -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Marco A. Achury 2008/11/11 kurt godel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Just found out that the '/s' in 'format C: /s' formats the drive and leaves

Re: [Freedos-user] fdDoc en castellano

2008-11-25 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
I'm translating this message for everyone: I want to comment you that the spanish translated web page (http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?n=FdDocEs.HomePage) has some translating errors. For example in the legal section says "software gratuito" instead "software libre". In the textual p

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS UnRAR?

2008-12-11 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
Check at: http://rarlab.com/download.htm There are versions of RAR for many OS's and languages... 2008/12/11, Jim Hall : > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Ray Davison wrote: >> Is there a DOS UNRAR somewhere I can get at? Every link I try, even tho >> it says DOS, takes me off into WinLand.

Re: [Freedos-user] Loading old DOS programs under FreeDOS

2009-01-23 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
My all times favorite DOS word processing program was WordPerfect 5.1, has a very hard learning curve, but once you learn the keystrokes is really eficient, I worked a lot with it and tested WP6.0 but was very slow on amy 486SLC with 2 Mb Ram... With WP you can make things like look for all ocurre

Re: [Freedos-user] Loading old DOS programs under FreeDOS

2009-01-24 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
Yes, I was able to extract plain text from OOXML, without any format code, is a first step. But is needed a lot of carefull check of the tags to get the rigth and of paragraf. Make this for example at prompt. 7z e -so -y yourdocument.doc > outfile.xml ex doc2txt.ex outfile.xml This is the code

Re: [Freedos-user] packages for fd 1.1

2009-02-15 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
I would like to see there: Euphoria programming language BGFAX 2009/2/15, Geraldo Netto : > Hi Guys, > > how are you doing there? > > News? > > i'm working on packages and until now i have: > > 7zipx.zipappe506s.zip > asgn-14.zip attrib121.zip > biew57

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos live cd

2009-03-09 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
I have noted that edit tries to write to disk and have problem when run from live-cd Marco Achury 2009/3/10, Blair Campbell : > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 7:02 PM, ramin wrote: >> Hi thanks for the response, so can I run the game of a usb thumb drive or >> maybe burn it on the live cd itself? >> th

[Freedos-user] Euphoria 4.0 alpha 3

2009-03-17 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
New alfa release for Euphoria Programming Language 4.0 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=182827&package_id=212123&release_id=667505 This is an alpha release, now includes a DOS distirbution zip file. -- -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Marco A. Achury www.geocities.com/marcoachury -

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-04-01 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
Norton utilities used to put a text file on each dir with long descriptive names. Also remember umsdos file system used to emulate unix file system over fat16 including long names and permissions 2009/4/1, Eric Auer : > > Hi! > >>> So why cant we just create a "database/table - file" that allows

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing programs on FreeDOS v1.1

2009-04-05 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
I agree is nice to have separated paths for base system and apps. This is the good old way to make things. The most of the dos apps are self contained without dependencies. One problem I remember is to have path to all the apps, sometimes become bigger than the available environment variable spac

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing programs on FreeDOS v1.1

2009-04-05 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
Any usual commercial and shareware apps for msdos with an install create its own dir. To have 100+ folders at apps is not good. why not: /office /dev /audio /video /games/adventure /games/arcade /games/puzzle 2009/4/5, Mateusz Viste : > On Sunday 05 April 2009 19:15, Marco Antonio Achury Pa

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing programs on FreeDOS v1.1

2009-04-05 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
Is better to do something like %DOSAPPS% so you can have apps on their own dir 2009/4/5, Blair Campbell : >> It appears that any binary package installed on FreeDOS goes to /BIN. >> Besides that, there's no clear directive about "how to install 3rd party >> apps". > > It should be %DOSDIR%\bin > >

[Freedos-user] Detect ramdrives Fwd: [basic-es] Hola, una pregunta

2009-04-16 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
This is a question originally sent on a spanish list about BASIC, but is more a DOS question, so I translate here... Writing a DOS app on qbasic or quickbasic to check the disk units on the PC (floppy, HD, CD...) Can check to first CD unit, later if exist a ramdisk how to check if the unit is a r

Re: [Freedos-user] Abandonware site...

2009-04-28 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
Simply put: User: user Organization: Unknow 2009/4/28, Robert Riebisch : > Michael Robinson wrote: > >> I could also complain that Microsoft ... >> ... doesn't have a right >> to sue people over it. > > Could you please explain this strange POV? > >> MS-DOS to my knowledge never asked for an inst

Re: [Freedos-user] Basic sound access in DOS.

2009-05-18 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
You talk about old apps that make hardware calls. Also would be interesting a standar sound library for new DOS apps. 2009/5/18, Christian Masloch : >> Linux has supported ac97 soundcards for years, why can't dos have >> a .sys driver that can be loaded at boot time to do the same thing? >> ther

[Freedos-user] X for DOS

2009-06-09 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
Reading at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11 I learned that in the past existed a release of X Windows System for IBM PC Version X10 released late 1985 for IBM RT/PC, AT (running DOS), and others Is this version available anywhere? Is free? Exist newer ports to X on DOS. Some times appear here

Re: [Freedos-user] A windows 9x replacement...

2009-06-11 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
As I understand there are two different requests 1- Substitute for the GUI win9x environment. This is made better by reactos and wine 2- Sustitute for DOS-Mode Win9x to run some programs not compatibles with current FreeDOS. This is more feasible. This included support for undocumented ms-dos f

Re: [Freedos-user] A windows 9x replacement...

2009-06-17 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
Yes, but the project was formulated with a clear object: Create a free replacement for MS-DOS. And take 10+ years to get it !!! Create a free replacement for a Win9x system is a bigger objective, and is different enough to be a different project. 2009/6/17, Mike Webb : > (Prior posters' names

Re: [Freedos-user] Thank you to kernel developers for new kernel 2038

2009-06-17 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
I like this. Why not release it now? -- -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Marco A. Achury Tel: +58-(212)-6158777 Cel: +58-(414)-3142282 Fax: +58-(212)-2410828 Skype: marcoachury www.geocities.com/marcoachury -- Crystal Reports - New

Re: [Freedos-user] Linux in fat partition.

2009-06-21 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
There are some other linux distros using "umsdos", this is a filesystem that emulates a unix file system over a dos fat disk. Was a common feature many years ago when the main OS was DOS and the people was interested in to test linux without partition hard disk. I remember my first linux expeienc

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS and network security...

2009-06-23 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
On DOS era the usual networking available was the BBS and terminal server programs. Someone dialing to your equipment can runs programs on your system. Of course you must be carefull and never give access to dangerous programs. 2009/6/22, Pat Villani : > You're pretty much on the right track.

Re: [Freedos-user] Cannot exit Dosemu/Freedos in a Console

2009-09-05 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
I remember old DOSEMU had a "exitemu" command 2009/9/3 Robert J. Thompson : > I entered a console, say Ctrl-Alt-F4, and entered dosemu/freedos. All > appeared OK. Then, I immediately tried to exit with"ctrl-alt-page_down". > Nothing happened. > What am I doing wrong? Bob T > > ---

Re: [Freedos-user] Executing a Linux Command from Inside DOS?

2009-10-16 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
That you need is a command to print a graphic file. I remember a lot of commercial dos software, but by sure exist any free option ... 2009/10/15 Blair Campbell : >> Chris: Guess I didn't include enough details of the question. I run Ubuntu >> 8.04 and then Dosemu 1.4.0.0. My printer, a HP Offi

Re: [Freedos-user] Executing a Linux Command from Inside DOS?

2009-10-16 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
2009/10/16 Marco Antonio Achury Palma : > That you need is a command to print a graphic file.  I remember a lot > of commercial dos software, > but by sure exist any free option ... > > Was not an utility graphics.com on msdos? Includes freedo

Re: [Freedos-user] Executing a Linux Command from Inside DOS?

2009-10-16 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/78123/en-us/ -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take Bl

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user Digest, Vol 322, Issue 2

2009-11-12 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
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[Freedos-user] Keyboard and install problems

2009-12-03 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
I have some problems to install freedos on a laptop Compaq presario 1245 The hard disk is 5736 Mb I made a 502 Mb partition for DOS and remaining used on Linux and Linux Swap grub installed on the second partition and running well. The second partition has linux installed with grub. - Using CD 1.

Re: [Freedos-user] Multitiasking under DOS ?

2010-04-07 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
Euphoria interpreter support multiple threads in the same program. On MS-DOS 5.0 had a task switch utility DOSSHELL. Was not very popular but offered a simple multitasking. Something like win31 on standar mode with all the programs on full screen mode. 2010/4/7, Eric Auer : > > Hi Geraldo, > >

Re: [Freedos-user] Any news on FreeDOS 1.1?

2010-08-10 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
I propose to release just a 1.1 base system boot + drivers + system utilities (sys, format and so on) just 2 or 3 floppies. So everybody can update the apps as needed on their own need and willing (as usual on msdos) 2010/8/9, Pat Villani : > We are assessing what needs to be done in order to

Re: [Freedos-user] Dualboot with Knoppix?

2010-08-16 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
I have now a multiboot system without any problem. First disk, first partition WinX first disk second partition: Gnewsense (Ubuntu based) Second disk first partition Freedos (Old Win98 fat32) Second disk second partition data space second disk third partition Knoppix 5.3.x (DVD version) 2010/8/

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS VMWare with Windows Softmodem

2010-09-27 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
By sure softmodem will give you a lot of problems. At bestdata.com there are some external serial modems. Look for their DOS compatible model, I have used it succesfully for dialup with arachne 2010/9/26, Braden C. Roberson-Mailloux : > -Original Message- > From: Eric Auer [mailto:e.a...