Hi guys,
First post.
For many years I've been using the old Zortech C compilers for DOS,
together with a DOS extender called X32 from FlashTek. The compilers
are I'm pretty sure no longer available, but although the extender has
had a chequered history, it is still supported (I think:).
Hi there,
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, mihai argesanu wrote:
I've bought a cash register and I have an interface application
written in clipper. Under msdos it's work fine and the
communication between the computer and the cash register is ok.
Under dosemu + freedos I have some speed problems and
Hi there,
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
I'm running dosemu 1.0.2.0 with some proprietary .EXE file to
access some inventory hardware. This includes serial I/O to
upload an article database (and other data). Unfortunately,
I only reach about 60..70 kBit/sec which is *very*
Hi there,
On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Paul A. Sumner wrote:
I have tried the bin dist, an version back 1.0.1 rpm, and the source. I
can seem to get any to work Any suggestions? Thanks.
It doesn't work isn't very informative.
Try to help people to help you - give them some details... :)
73,
Ged.
Hi there,
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Francisco [iso-8859-1] Sánchez wrote:
b) When more than one station is woirking with the file, it takes some
time to write on the master file. This doesn't happend on Windows, that
OS write intantantly, but with DOSEMU, it apperas to use a Memory Cache,
or
Hi there,
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Oliver Ob wrote:
Gary Hinton schrieb:
What can I do about it?
all you can do is downgrade to the better old dosemu versions
Would you please let me know what you think are the best versions to try?
Thanks.
73,
Ged.
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Hi all,
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Justin Zygmont wrote:
hahahaha! I think your technician was new to computers too.
Who is gopher anyways?
Friend of Veronica's. You new too?
73,
Ged.
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Hi there,
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Justin Zygmont wrote:
It would be neat to be able to call telnet from within a running dos program,
does anyone know if there is a way to use TCP from dos without a dos stack
or if it's even possible?
You'd have to get a version of telnet for DOS for example
Hi there,
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Shitov Yuriy wrote:
I have data acquisition DOS-program, which works with hardware
(CAMAC controller)
Wow! That's a long time ago! When I worked with CAMAC they called it
the Committee for Arranging Meetings in All Countries...
using interruptions and
Hi there,
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Justin Zygmont wrote:
I'mmlooking to try out a TCP-IP stack for DOS
I tried the Microsoft offering (it's circa 1991 I think) and I had
some success. It was OK for telnet (yes, the NCSA version seemed ok
to me as another poster mentioned) but it couldn't seem to
Hi there,
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Joshua Gaines wrote:
Thanks for the quick response.
That's OK, but please cc the list. Private mail is generally
deprecated unless invited.
We've actually got an old FoxPro system that runs under DOS.
I guess what I'm looking for then are the instructions for
Hi there,
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, (or thereabouts) Bart Oldeman wrote:
dosemu-1.1.3.7
Great stuff!
Thanks very much for the work you put in to get DOS extender stuff
going. I can confirm that I can now run the extender versions of the
Norton (formerly Zortech, Zorland) C++ compiler, linker etc.
Hi Bart,
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Bart Oldeman wrote:
-- I may be blind but the instructions are up-to-date as far as I know.
Maybe not blind, maybe just a bit too close to it. :)
--
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Ged Haywood wrote:
I
Hi there,
On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Alistair MacDonald wrote:
Some web browsers have the annoying tendency to decompress files on download.
They don't tell you they are going to do it, they just do.
There is nothing wrong with the file size, or the extension.
No, there isn't, but then I didn't
Hi all,
On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Claudia Neumann wrote:
if it is a browser mistake, then Mozilla 1.2.1 has the same problem.
It could easily be that, but I still think there's more to it than
just the browser. I've used the same browser to download other .tgz
files today with no problem.
73,
Ged.
Hi Bart,
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Bart Oldeman wrote:
On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Ged Haywood wrote:
On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Claudia Neumann wrote:
if it is a browser mistake, then Mozilla 1.2.1 has the same problem.
It could easily be that, but I still think there's more to it than
just
Hi Stas,
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Stas Sergeev wrote:
Downgrading is the worst fix ever possible.
Not if it makes it work.
You're starting to sound like a developer... :)
73,
Ged.
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Hello all,
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Lark Miller wrote:
I Got My First A In College
I know this subject has been aired before, but this is getting beyond
reason. If the people who manage this lilst don't do something about
this spam and quickly, I'll have to unsubscribe.
73,
Ged.
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Hi Riley,
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Riley Williams wrote:
I now run my own spam filter which cuts out 99%
I run SpamAssassin 2.53 which gets up to all kinds of tricks to avoid
this stuff, it too stops lots of rubbish but a lot of the DOSEMU list
spam gets through. Today I think seven or eight sent
Hi there,
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After starting dosemu on a diskless client (root over nfs), I get the following
message:
bad or missing command interpreter : 2 - /P /E:286
Please enther the correct location (e.g c:\command.com)
You haven't put all the bits of DOS
Hi there,
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Darryl Perry wrote:
Does anybody have an hdimage file with MSDOS6.x
installed that I can use?
Do be careful. That sounds like abuse of copyright to me.
I'd make it myself, but I don't have a floppy drive on my linux box.
Installing a floppy drive is a lot
Hi there,
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, Jim Hartley wrote:
I think this one is WAY, WAY under the radar.
I'd agree if this weren't a public mailing list.
I'm more concerned with the reputation of the list. If it earns a
reputation as a place for swapping pirate copies of software, that
might not be a
Hi theere,
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Jochen Reinwand wrote:
The latest and best MS-DOS is as far as I know the DOS included in Windoze
98SE. The One from ME is much smaller and misses a lot of tools. Although it
is really there, no matter what M$ says...
I have an app for my business that's been
Hi there,
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Ryan Underwood wrote:
Here is my script to generate a dosemu config.
[snip]
I just wanted opinions on it. :)
My opinion is that it's an ouststandingly good effort and
it will probably be very useful to a lot of people.
Well done, and thanks!
73,
Ged.
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Hi there,
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, [iso-8859-1] Madhumohan MuthuKrishnan wrote:
I am using redhat linux version 8.0
I am a novice at linux
It'll get easier, I promise... :)
I installed dosemu 1.1.5
[snip]
No errors were seen during installation
That's good.
I am getting the following error
Hi there,
On 13 Jul 2003, Peter Celella wrote:
when I try to run any dos program, dosemu immediately closes and I
get the following error message in the terminal:
ERROR: MAPPING: cannot get IPC shared mem (Invalid argument)
This may have the following reasons:
- you do not have IPC
Hello again,
On 13 Jul 2003, Peter Celella wrote:
Another thing - I have a directory in my home directory named 'mydos'
where I've put freedos. I also have the binary for dosemu 1.0.2 here, so
even though 1.1.5 isn't working, I can still cd to this directory and
start xdosemu by typing
Hi there,
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Justin Zygmont wrote:
I'm suprised to see that I cannot add [write] permissions to others for
the /var/lock dorectory. It just stays at 775. Has anyone else had this
or know why? i'm using rh9.
You can, but I think you'll find that in your startup
Hi there,
On 14 Jul 2003, Peter Celella wrote:
The IPC in the kernel thing is what has me confused. I've searched
everywhere and can't find anything telling me what this is or how to
check it. Do you know how to check if IPC is configured in the kernel?
It should be in the .config file which
Hi there,
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Bryan Stillwell wrote:
Anyone here have a filesystem image working as a harddrive under
dosemu with the latest stable version?
I've never had any trouble with this, using 1.0.2 and 1.1.4-5 it
seemed to work just as documented. The image is an image of a DOS
Hi there,
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Bart Oldeman wrote:
Another thing that is broken on 2.6.0test is DPMI. That's a DOSEMU problem
and fixed in the CVS now (will be fixed in 1.2.0 proper).
No rush about this, but any idea when 1.2.0 will be out?
I need DPMI to work but I can wait until the stable
Hi all,
I have an old C/C++ compiler suite from Zortech, formerly Zorland,
later bought by Symantec, later I think dropped. I use it under DOS
to compile just one ancient application which still keeps several
businesses running.
Under dosemu I have never managed to compile the entire
Hi Stas,
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Stas Sergeev wrote:
Rejected. False alarm.
What kernel are you using? Some kind of 2.6?
2.6.0-test5
You have to upgrade your dosemu in that case.
Oh dear. Upgrade to what? Does it say that in the docs?
If so, where? I haven't found anything about kernel
Hi Bart,
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Bart Oldeman wrote:
people who are brave enough to try 2.6 test kernels
Nothing brave about it: if I plug in a USB device with kernel 2.4.xx
on my Athlon 1300 the kernel crashes, so I have to use 2.6 to get the
photographs out of my camera... :(
Ged.
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Hi Bart, Stas,
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Ged Haywood wrote:
I'll try CVS next.
Congratulations! Works fine with CVS.
I've been trying to compile this app under DOSEMU literally for years.
Finally it's done. Thanks guys. Great stuff, now I can throw a DOS
box away (well, turn it into a firewall
Hi there,
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Dr. Claudia Neumann wrote:
Do I need something to actually block the rest of the system from taking
an interest in /dev/ttyS0, perhaps? What might be trying to use just the
RTS line?
I am lost here. I don't know what a RTS line is.
Request To Send. See
Hi Stas,
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Stas Sergeev wrote:
Ged Haywood wrote:
the same version of DOS (6.22) running natively. This seems to me to be
a surprisingly big difference and I wonder if it means something to you.
Feel free to produce a -D9+M log for the case where it gets a stack fault
Hi there,
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Nicolai Kuntze wrote:
I need to deaktivate the mouse! How can I manage this?
Pull the plug out.
73,
Ged.
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Hi all,
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Stas Sergeev wrote:
I don't know why the *recording* of a midi file can be better under
dosemu that under linux. Even the midid, the helper program that
comes with dosemu, can record the midi files very well. From that
point of view I don't see the value of
Hi there,
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Bernhard Bialas wrote:
My favourite astronomy program Orbits3 works now under X too
Can you point me to any references for this?
73,
Ged.
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Hi Jan,
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
install from source works ... love dosemu ... developers are helpful
responsive ... one of the best projects in the free software world.
I agree, the project is in good shape.
like to have dosemu available to dummies, a.k.a. ordinary
Hi Jan,
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
Actually I dislike the verbosity,
My point was that I think *dummies* like the verbosity. If you are
a dummy, then of course I am mistaken.
Well we'll agree to differ on that point. Or those points. :)
but 'v' option or not, the
Hi all,
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Bart Oldeman wrote:
Then I booted Linux, started 1.0.2.? and - on same hardware, same disk,
using same program and same data set ran it again. right at 20 minutes.
sure, Linux is good at disk caching ...
And it can use a few gigabytes. DOS has trouble with
Hi Gerald,
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Gerald Pye wrote:
You could use a module for serial port support
The only slight problem that I have with that is that I do need one of
the serial ports to be working under Linux, so I have to have the loaded
somehow - don't I???
There's an option in the
Hello there,
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Nicolai Kuntze wrote:
I am using DOS 3.3 with netx and its working well. Freedos has an
known bug and DOS 6 is a little bit unstable.
What problems have you had with DOS6?
73,
Ged.
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