Tell me please -- does this blurb tell me that I CANNOT use the FreeDOS programs under Windows XP!!! What a waste of all your efforts! RMB
---- Original message ---- >Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 20:09:07 -0700 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Freedos-user digest, Vol 1 #180 - 3 msgs >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Send Freedos-user mailing list submissions to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos- user >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of Freedos-user digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. Latest results of limited Win3.10 testing under FreeDOS (kernel 2034) (Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze) > 2. Re: Introductory questions about ancient dBase II > and FreeDOS (Arkady V.Belousov) > >--__--__-- > >Message: 1 >Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 07:06:15 -0400 >From: Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [Freedos-user] Latest results of limited Win3.10 testing under FreeDOS (kernel 2034) >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >My limited testing of Windows 3.10 under FreeDOS ODIN 0.7 has had rather >impressive results. > >Last time I tested Windows 3 on FreeDOS, version 3.1 wouldn't load >completely at all, and 3.0 was highly crashprone even with programs like > WINFILE. Now, Windows 3.10 Setup completed flawlessly, and with WIN >/2, it was possible to start Windows from FreeDOS. I don't currently >have any 286-mode compatible apps to test, so I jsut played around with >the Windows apps. All ran well. A shell to the command prompt from >Windows, however, crashed with an Invalid Opcode while trying to run >command.com... Exiting from Windows was fine though. I was pleasantly >surprised that it worked as well as it did. (And w00t to QEMU) > >Note I was not using the latest kernel, and I was using IBM's himem, not >FreeDOS's. > >-uso. > > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 2 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: "Arkady V.Belousov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 16:41:51 +0400 (MSD) >Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Introductory questions about ancient dBase II > and FreeDOS >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Hi! > >3-=E9=C0=CC-2004 16:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jacobs Shannon) wrote to >[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >JS> The first question regards compatibility of FreeDOS with ancient dBas= >e II. >JS> Is there anyone who can speak to this issue? > > Why to speak? Just run dBase and see if it works or not. (I doubt th= >at >someone tests dBase II either with FreeDOS or latest MS-DOS, this is very >ancient software and may be incompatible with many things). > >JS> (FCB support is only one of the constraints.) > > FCBs are supported. > >JS> The second question is the most convenient way to access it from Wind= >ows XP. > > You can't. Windows XP doesn't allows to run other OS inside it. You = >may >only run machine emulator (Bochs, VMware) and run any other OS inside thi= >s >emulator. > > > > > >--__--__-- > >_______________________________________________ >Freedos-user mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > >End of Freedos-user Digest RMBrown ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
