Re: [Freedos-user] MSdos 7.1 question

2023-11-04 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-user
> On Fri, Nov 3, 2023 at 12:31 PM Ralf Quint via Freedos-user > wrote: >> >> 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 >>

Re: [Freedos-user] languages

2023-09-29 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-user
Hi, > It's been a while since i use freedos on asus eeepc with portuguese from > portugal and if i recall i can't write the * with shift and *+" key and > since there is no numeric keypad. a) what keyboard driver are you using? b) IIRC (20 years later) there was 'portuguese' and 'portuguse

Re: [Freedos-user] languages

2023-10-03 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-user
Hi, > i' m from Portugal and i'm aware of the portuguese layout for 43 years. > When i press that key produces a A with a ring on top. it helps if you say "the key right of 'P' should produce '+' and '*' in shifted state. and indeed mkEYB has this wrong (for whatever reason). i just filed

Re: [Freedos-user] Basic freedos question before I try this?

2023-07-20 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-user
> I have it myself already, unless there has been a update, but wanted to ask. please explain this. Tom ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessing usb stick from freedos.

2023-07-24 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-user
> Newer version of Windows seem to have problems with accessing > drives/partitions over 32GB as well. I would be seriously surprised. Windows refuses to *format* drives above 32GB as FAT32, but simply works with it up to maximum capacity of (2^32 * sectorsize) which is usually 2TB.

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessing usb stick from freedos.

2023-07-24 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-user
>> The alleged 4 GB file size doesn't work on some OSes (FreeDOS, Windows >> NT?), only on old Win9x. So you're only guaranteed 2 GB individual >> file sizes, universally. > Wrong. You can use files of up to 4GB size on any Windows version that > supports FAT32. So does any reasonable version

Re: [Freedos-user] picoTCP: a modern, open-source TCP/IP stack for DOS

2023-08-05 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-user
Hallo Herr Aitor Santamaría via Freedos-user, > What is LIDOS? > (Couldn't find any reference on the Internet) it might help to use the intended spelling "Lidux" Tom > Aitor > On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 at 17:08, Alain Mouette wrote: >> Due to zero interest in the VM with Linux+FreeDOS that I

Re: [Freedos-user] AUTO SHIFT keyboard on DOS??

2024-02-08 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-user
Hallo Herr Thomas Cornelius Desi via Freedos-user, am Donnerstag, 8. Februar 2024 um 13:18 schrieben Sie: > Hi, > is it possible in DOS (using BIOS?) to implement a tsr or so which allows the > following: > holding a key longer to return a SHIFT-key on screen? > Example: > press key »a«

Re: [Freedos-user] AUTO SHIFT keyboard on DOS??

2024-02-09 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-user
Hallo Herr tsiegel--- via Freedos-user, am Donnerstag, 8. Februar 2024 um 23:41 schrieben Sie: > On 2/8/2024 3:34 PM, tom ehlert via Freedos-user wrote: >> only problem would be that your typin speed is now limited to 1 haracter per >> e.g. 500 milliseconds. >&g

Re: [Freedos-user] Coding in BASIC for Freedos?

2024-03-17 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-user
Hi Jim, > On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 6:26 AM Liam Proven via Freedos-user > wrote: > [..] >> There are good reasons that DOS went away some 35 years ago. It has >> its uses but not being able to flip to another window or another >> screen to consult documentation, or try something out, or look it

Re: [Freedos-user] Portuguese keyboard layout

2024-03-19 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-user
> Same problem, don't think that there is a solution. The current MKEYB should have this problem resolved. https://github.com/davidebreso/mkeyb/releases/tag/v0.52 Tom ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Freedos-user] Portuguese keyboard layout

2024-03-21 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-user
> Manuel > On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 5:12 PM tom ehlert via Freedos-user < > freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: >> >> > Same problem, don't think that there is a solution. >> >> >> The current MKEYB should have this problem resolved. >

Re: [Freedos-user] Dial-up emulation?

2024-04-24 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-user
> Indeed, I'm using an old-school program called Qmodem. > My question now is – would I be able to use the Internet using the emulated > modem? yes (if you had any idea what you are doing). But definitively not with QMODEM. Tom > Brandon Taylor > > From: Jim

Re: [Freedos-user] cannot boot installation media

2024-04-28 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-user
> Eh... I tried every single BIOS setting at least on my Dell notebook there is no such *setting*. instead I have to hit F12 while booting, this then sends me to a "select boot device", where I can tell it to boot from USB Tom ___ Freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] cannot boot installation media

2024-04-30 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-user
Hallo Herr Davi Ramos via Freedos-user, am Sonntag, 28. April 2024 um 05:28 schrieben Sie: > So, as I said in another message, I have a computer where I wish to install > FreeDOS. It is a *Compaq Presario 427, Intel Pentium N3700, 4GB RAM, SSD > 240GB, and a 14" screen.* > Unfortunately, I

Re: [Freedos-user] the msdos 4.0 sources has some multitasking code

2024-05-16 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-user
> I think, applying Hanlon's Razor here, that this was a chance > discovery by someone else, and led to the release. Microsoft is not > willing to go to even the minimal effort of searching its own archives > for the other versions to release them, but if someone else finds the > code, it will