Hi,
On Fri, Nov 3, 2023 at 12:31 PM Ralf Quint via Freedos-user
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> In which way is "FreeDOS" limited to 2GB sized files? (Sorry, never
> bothered wit such large files on DOS (any DOS)? The file size entry in
> the FAT32 directory entry is a 4 byte integer. As a filesize can't be
>
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 2:55 PM Michał Dec via Freedos-user
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> Do you know maybe where do these limits come from?
>
> I thought it should be 4GiB for both since this is the file size limit
> for FAT32.
IIRC, FAT16 in something like classic MS-DOS 6.22 supports max ~65000
files and 2
Hi,
On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 1:13 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-user
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> I'm making a FreeDOS "2024" calendar, and looking for suggestions of
> what screenshots to include in it. Any ideas?
>
> Looking for suggestions of what screenshots you think would be great
> to have in the calendar.
Hi,
I'm not very knowledgeable about systems programming or DPMI, but I
don't think you can (normally) access ports under ring 3 (e.g.
CWSDPMI). Try CWSDPR0.EXE (ring 0) or WDOSX (run "stubit") instead.
Who knows what this was tested under (Win9x? JEMM386?).
On Mon, Oct 2, 2023 at 7:14 PM Paul
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On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 3:56 PM Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user
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> My goal is supporting the built in Ethernet infrastructure on the
> thinkpad.
> My understanding, perhaps incorrect, is that freedos has networking
> infrastructure in the system itself?
No, FreeDOS isn't
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 3:47 PM Daniel Essin via Freedos-user
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> What are others using freedos for: business, curiosity, running retro
> games and apps for fun, to avoid total dependence on the evil empire, or
> something else?
Evil empire? "Which one??" ;-) What evil are we
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 4:48 AM Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user
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> Finally, the primary installer currently uses grep (requires 386+) to parse
> some of the package lists.
DJGPP grep? Why not Xgrep? It's not as overpowered, but it works well
and is 8086-friendly. (N.B. It can be
Hi,
On Sat, Aug 5, 2023 at 3:18 PM Louis Santillan via Freedos-user
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> I daily drive Fedora Linux myself. But curling DOS software zip files on it
> is not as useful as doing that directly on 386 Dell I have sitting 3 feet
> away when I want to run a bit of new software on it.
What
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 3:33 PM Eric Auer via Freedos-user
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> Assuming that you just want to have MORE text on your screen,
> without actually wanting to use graphics mode, you can select
> quite a few modes with MODE CON or with various VESA tools.
Here's an old thread about it:
*
Hi,
On Sat, Jul 22, 2023 at 2:44 AM John Vella via Freedos-user
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> Thanks for the quick reply, Ralf. I have a work around, which did the trick.
> I just created four partitions, each less than 32gb on the stick, and freedos
> is happy with that.
Assuming your FreeDOS kernel has FAT32
Hi,
On Mon, Jan 1, 2024 at 6:04 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-user
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> On Mon, Jan 1, 2024 at 5:39 PM andrew fabbro via Freedos-user
> wrote:
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> > Whatever programs are most representative, they might have been
> > distributed as shareware. There's still "trial software" today but
> > not
Hi,
On Sun, Dec 24, 2023 at 10:34 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-user
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> I'm thinking about doing a video that shows how to do real work on DOS.
> I sometimes see comments on YouTube with people asking "could you really do
> *work* with DOS?"
> And the answer is of course you can, that
Hi,
On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 1:05 PM andrew fabbro via Freedos-user
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> I'm a bit perplexed trying to get networking working for FreeDOS 1.3 on QEMU.
> My physical host is an M1 Mac (Apple Silicon).
Which version of QEMU? 8.2?
> FreeDOS installs and boots fine, but I get this message:
Hi,
On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 4:30 AM Frantisek Rysanek via Freedos-user
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> my first PC at home was a 386DX/40 in about 1991/1992
I'm American, but we're roughly the same age, and I started with a 486
SX/25 in 1994.
> All the school had at the time was Pascal with objects
I've become a
Hi Karen,
On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 10:18 PM Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user
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> As many may recall I run msdos 7.1 instead of freedos for several personal
> reasons.
Do the volunteers (engineers?) who help you set up your systems
forcibly demand MS-DOS 7.1 exactly?
We've discussed this
"%COMSPEC% /c work.bat >file.txt" will succeed. Everyone knows that.
What I'm wondering is if the following (piping into a .BAT) is
considered acceptable or "standard" for DOS.
"prog1.exe | %COMSPEC% /c work.bat | %COMSPEC% /c fixups.bat >some.txt"
Does that work like I'd expect? (Seems to ...
Hi,
On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 4:17 PM Karen Lewellen via Freedos-user
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> Google intends removing all access to basic HTML, and is forcing the issue
> as of today.
Did they state a reason? Maintenance burden? Or just better security?
Because email was always plain text and pretty insecure.
Hi,
On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 5:30 PM Eric Auer via Freedos-user
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> the changes to nasm do not seem to affect the dos version either?
My announcement on BTTR (since at least ecm heavily uses NASM) said this:
Most of the changes came from 2.16.02 (April 4), e.g. "Fix external
references to
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