[Freedos-user] Little Sister

2010-10-26 Thread Willi Wasser
A new version of the network monitoring program LANSTAT (aka "little sister") is available and can be downloaded from here: http://www.bttr-software.de/products/jhoffmann/. It now also provides for logging, offers a considerably greater flexibility in the display layout and provides many minor

Re: [Freedos-user] pre 1.0 version

2010-11-24 Thread Willi Wasser
Saluton Rugxulo, you wrote: > ... I know that J. Hoffman uses BC31 without issues ... Well, this is correct but a bit misleading as i use BC31 under MS-DOS 6.22. But to be sure i just made a short test. Using a diskette to boot FreeDOS on the mashine where BC31 is installed and just starting th

[Freedos-user] DHCP

2011-01-14 Thread Willi Wasser
> The mTCP DHCP client is designed for the mTCP applications. You can > use it and adapt it to do other things, but you will have to write > some scripts or code to take the output from the DHCP client (a text > file) and make it usable for whatever app you had in mind. You might as well consider

Re: [Freedos-user] How to enable networking in a FreeDOS client?

2011-03-13 Thread Willi Wasser
cordat...@aol.com wrote: > An alternative is to use Mike Brutman's mTCP DHCP program. This is of course true, but there is another alternative . . . > So to sum up: if your application program uses the right > version of WATTCP then you don't need to do anything, > run the program and it w

Re: [Freedos-user] ntool help

2011-03-16 Thread Willi Wasser
> hello, > I want to use ntool to redirect output of dhcp to wattcp.cfg. > I am confused by the -g command line option. what does mean? > does anyone know what I would enter, using ntool to redirect output of dhcp > to wattcp.cfh? The short answer is: NTOOL -g " " > WATTCP.CFG Use one (or more

Re: [Freedos-user] ntool help

2011-03-17 Thread Willi Wasser
> i just tried to run ntool and i got back an ip address of: > MY_IP=0.0.0.0 NTOOL is a WATTCP application itself, one that is linked to a relatively recent version of the WATTCP library that does support dhcp properly. That means, it will try to get its ip parameters from dhcp if the WATTCP.CFG

Re: [Freedos-user] ntool help

2011-03-19 Thread Willi Wasser
If NTOOL tells you "bootp/dhcp failed" it means exactly what it says. But this can have two different reasons. Either your packet driver is OK, but no dhcp server answered NTOOL's request. In this case there must be a problem with the dhcp server. Or your packet driver did not load properly, p

Re: [Freedos-user] Lynx issues

2011-03-21 Thread Willi Wasser
> I wonder why I can't get Ntool to work? I think It would > be easier to automate stuff if I got Ntool to work. Could you be more specific? Or just re-rerad the various posting refering to that subjects during the last days.  ___ WEB.DE

[Freedos-user] mTCP / DHCP

2011-05-29 Thread Willi Wasser
On 5/28/2011 9:13 AM, Michael B. Brutman wrote: > Adding WATTCP support to my DHCP would be fine as well - > they are so close it makes sense. As long as this not done, a small batch procedure like the following one could do the job of turning a mtcp.cfg into a wattcp.cfg: @echo off FAM /M0(IPA

[Freedos-user] Licensing issues

2011-06-01 Thread Willi Wasser
> Some developers may not be too happy > about the license choice, especially > those who would like to grab your code > and try to make money from it by making > it part of an unfree software. Let's be serious! Is there still a market for any kind of DOS out there? Does it have any commercial va

[Freedos-user] Why I use FreeDOS

2011-06-05 Thread Willi Wasser
> You'd probably be amazed at how many embedded and industrial control systems > are based on DOS. Indeed! If someone pointed me out precize brands and models of systems that nowadays still use DOS i would really be amazed. (Are those systems just still around, or is there even real active deve

[Freedos-user] Licensing issues

2011-06-07 Thread Willi Wasser
I really didn't expect to trigger so much controversy with my initial questions. And i found it interesting to learn that companies like HP and DELL still offer DOS. But if one takes a closer look, it becomes soon clear, that DOS for them is more like the "compact spare wheel" of modern cars tha

[Freedos-user] New release of DOSUTILS package

2011-06-12 Thread Willi Wasser
I just want to announce a new release of my DOSUTILS package. Besides some minor improvements to already existing utilities it features two aditional programs. One of them is a rather versatile forms program intended as user interface for batch procedures (e.g. configuration scripts) but it can

Re: [Freedos-user] New release of DOSUTILS package

2011-06-15 Thread Willi Wasser
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 22:43:00 Eric Auer wrote: > For those who read mails but do not follow all URLs, > and to already give some feedback and plug ads for > similar tools, DOSUTILS contains: First of all thank you for your feed back. Though i think some additional comments could be useful :-) >>

Re: [Freedos-user] New release of DOSUTILS package

2011-06-17 Thread Willi Wasser
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:44:04 GMT Bret Johnson wrote: > You can look at my PRTSCR utility which works with the key, > available on my web site: > http://bretjohnson.us > It has quite a few options to let you "filter" the output to some degree > (like skipping "menu" lines at > the top or botto

[Freedos-user] (various subjects)

2011-08-03 Thread Willi Wasser
Subject: network drivers On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:58:24 Bernd Blaauw wrote: > However I'm not sure if complete stacks have > to be installed before the shims work or not > (as neither the Novell nor MS stacks are freely distributable) No. Well, actually i am not so familiar with the MS-stack but a

[Freedos-user] batch programming language

2011-09-21 Thread Willi Wasser
Marco Achury wrote on Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:29:19 -0430 > A more realistic goal to Freedos may be to expand the batch programming > language to be compatible with newer windows versions, but keeping retro > compatible with DOS batch programs. > Look this nice code that we cant run on Freedos > ht

[Freedos-user] New release of DOSUTILS

2012-02-14 Thread Willi Wasser
A new release of the DOSUTILS package is available and can be downloaded from here http://www.bttr-software.de/products/jhoffmann/ Three of the utilities the package consists of have been improved: RPN - a program that provides integer math to batch files e.g. for numeric loop counters or simpl

[Freedos-user] Hello!

2010-01-11 Thread Willi Wasser
Hello everybody. I just joined this list some days ago, but up to now didn't receive any messages. Is there really noboby out there, or have i misconfigured something? Greetings from Germany. Wiwa64 ___ Preisknaller: WEB.DE DSL Flatrat

Re: [Freedos-user] Hello!

2010-01-11 Thread Willi Wasser
Yes, eventually i received a Freedos-user Digest and i see, that there seems to be still a lot of activity here. >> I've never used FreeDOS before... >> Is it possible to log into a headless FreeDOS box from Linux? >> I'm considering setting up an electronic workbench PC with FreeDOS. > Interest

[Freedos-user] Software download

2010-03-05 Thread Willi Wasser
Hello everybody,i wrote a couple of programs for (any kind of) DOS and Robert Riebisch was so kind to host them on his server. Now everybody is invited to explore theese programs to see whether some of them might be useful to him (or her). They can be found under the following URL: http://www.bttr-

[Freedos-user] Software download

2010-03-08 Thread Willi Wasser
Hello everybody, i wrote a couple of programs for (any kind of) DOS and Robert Riebisch was so kind to host them on his server. Now everybody is invited to explore theese programs to see whether some of them might be useful to him (or her). They can be found under the following URL: http://w

[Freedos-user] updated DOSUTILS

2010-05-25 Thread Willi Wasser
 Hello everybody,I just want to announce that a new version of my DOSUTILS package is available. It is a collection of utilities which can help in writing batch procedures under true (MS-)DOS and can be downloaded from http://www.bttr-software.de/products/jhoffmann/ together with the following thre

[Freedos-user] updated DOSUTILS (agin)

2010-05-27 Thread Willi Wasser
Oops, i wasn't aware that my e-mail provider will silently send all mail as HTML attachment. So i now try it again, hoping that it will be sent as plain ascii this time. Here it comes . . . Hello everybody, I just want to announce that a new version of my DOSUTILS package is available. It i

Re: [Freedos-user] New networking software for DOS

2010-07-10 Thread Willi Wasser
Another source for network-related free software for DOS can be found here: http://www.bttr-software.de/products/jhoffmann/   ___ Neu: WEB.DE De-Mail - Einfach wie E-Mail, sicher wie ein Brief! Jetzt De-Mail-Adresse reservieren: https://pr

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos users list,Networking software

2010-07-15 Thread Willi Wasser
Ulrich Hansen wrote: > If someone else would like to help: > Both laptops have a network card and an appropriate packet driver loaded. > The LEDs on the network cards were on, so they found a network. > wattcp.cfg was configured to the IP adresses 192.168.0.1 (laptop 1) > and 192.168.0.2 (lapto

Re: [Freedos-user] networking software

2010-07-18 Thread Willi Wasser
Garrison Ricketson wrote: >... years back, like 15,or 16 years ago, I did connect my laptop, > the early, Tandy, ...I dont remember the whole name,... As Ulrich Hansen already wrote, this might have been the program laplink and Norton Commander provided a similar function. Both programs are com

Re: [Freedos-user] Recommondatipn of TCP/IP stack, DHCP client

2010-08-05 Thread Willi Wasser
E . . . first i don't quite understand why you need an NDIS(2) driver _and_ a packet driver? A packet driver suitable for your network card allone should already do the job. There are quite a number of TCP/IP stacks for DOS out there, many of them are commecial products. Rather popular and

[Freedos-user] Little Sister

2010-09-06 Thread Willi Wasser
Sorry folks, no exciting pictures of my little sister here ;-), i just want to direct your attention to my latest project: LANSTAT a LAN STATus monitor. Though it cannot compete with projects like "Big Brother" or "Big Sister", my "Little Sister" has got some interesting features too. It runs un

Re: [Freedos-user] Little Sister

2010-09-07 Thread Willi Wasser
> to me it's still unclear what it is supposed to do and whether it > works in (Free-)DOS at all, considering the shots you posted ;-( The program's purpose is to supervise a local area network (aka LAN). On a single stand-alone computer without any network connection, it is indeed of very littl

Re: [Freedos-user] Little Sister

2010-09-10 Thread Willi Wasser
> You are getting closer, but you have still not really explained what it > actually does. > What does "monitor" mean? > What protocols does it support? > What network stacks? > What network services? > What kind of monitoring? > What kind of display? > What information is displayed? > Doe