Hello, I am new ,but have have been useing Dosodin,5., I downloaded from free
dos, about 6 months ago, however there never were any help files, since most of
the commands seem to be the same as other dos versions, I use that...however
some say incorrect dos version,
so I am wondering if ther is a group of help files, especiallly for D0SODIN 5...
ok I guess that si about it, I have also just a comment, on the USB sticks, I
have made sevral,that boot the computer, and use Dosodin( DOS 5)..they seem to
work fine, I am happy wirh them, how ever since I know almost nothing about
this stuff, when I made the boot sticks, I never did make,Or know how to create
particions, if any one can point me to where I can learn more on makeing
partitions, or give me some instructions, it would be appreciated...thanks,
form
garryricket...@yahoo.com
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3. Full Screen Sized Screen-Dumps (Robert J. Thompson)
4. Re: Minor nit: Norton Utilities slow with FDAPM APMDOS; FDAPM
APMOFF fixes. (Shane Baggs)
5. Possible KITTEN-B bug: HTMLHELP 1.05 hangs when NLSPATH set
wrong. (Shane Baggs)
6. Announce: dmidecode version 2.10 (Robert Riebisch)
7. FreeDOS on usb stick (M&tej)
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Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 01:00:01 -0500 (CDT)
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 18:02:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: mc510 <mc...@hotmail.com>
Subject: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS can't access boot partition
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
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Hi, FreeDOS noob here. Grub boots FreeDOS, which puts me in my win98
partition. FreeDOS is installed in a different partition, but when FreeDOS
is running I have no access to the partition from which FreeDOS booted.
Help?
FreeDOS was installed from fdbasecd.iso installer.
Grub was installed by debian installer and boots FreeDOS with:
root (hd0,1)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
On boot, FreeDOS says:
C: HD1, Pri[1], CHS=0-1-1, start=0MB, size=2098
Partitions are:
1: FAT32 (Win98) .............. this is where FreeDOS puts my command
prompt
2: Linux swap
3: Linux (debian root)
4: FAT16 (FreeDOS)
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 13:40:09 -0600
From: "Robert J. Thompson" <the_drb...@earthlink.net>
Subject: [Freedos-user] Full Screen Sized Screen-Dumps
To: FREEDOS-USER <" freedos-user"@lists.sourceforge.net>
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How do I get a full sized screen dump from inside an application program?
I am using Ubuntu 8.04, and dosemu 1.4.0.0, After entering dosemu from
the terminal, I then enter the full screen mode with Ctrl-Alt-F, and run
a fortran program which produces a full screen co;or graph. Pressing
"PrintScreen" results in a small (approximately 3"x4") print-out. Any
suggestion?
Thanks in advance - Bob T.
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 23:00:10 -0700
From: Shane Baggs <shan...@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Minor nit: Norton Utilities slow with
FDAPM APMDOS; FDAPM APMOFF fixes.
To: <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
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> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:45:47 +0200
> From: e.a...@jpberlin.de
> To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Minor nit: Norton Utilities slow with FDAPM
> APMDOS; FDAPM APMOFF fixes.
>
>
> Hi Shane,
>
> I read your suggestions about hunting that FreeCOM bug where it
> stops running programs, sounds good :-) Did you find a clue yet?
Yes! Please see my next post.
>
> > Norton Text Search (ts.exe) prints about four characters a second
> > when FDAPM APMDOS is running. Setting FDAPM APMOFF fixes this. This
> > may also affect other Norton Utilities.
...
> The workaround is to use FDAPM ADV:REG instead of FDAPM APMDOS
> which keeps most of the saving but ignores int 28 :-). Please let me
> know if it also helps with your Norton Text Search / TS problem.
Thank you! FDAPM ADV:REG works.
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 23:35:50 -0700
From: Shane Baggs <shan...@hotmail.com>
Subject: [Freedos-user] Possible KITTEN-B bug: HTMLHELP 1.05 hangs
when NLSPATH set wrong.
To: <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
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I notice that there's an HTMLHELP 1.06 out now. Apologies in advance if this
is old news.
> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:45:47 +0200
> From: e.a...@jpberlin.de
> To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Minor nit: Norton Utilities slow with FDAPM
> APMDOS; FDAPM APMOFF fixes.
>
>
> Hi Shane,
>
> I read your suggestions about hunting that FreeCOM bug where it
> stops running programs, sounds good :-) Did you find a clue yet?
Yes. I haven't found the cause of the FreeCOM bug, but I've found something on
the way there.
I was causing FreeCOM to crash on my P3 by running HELP.EXE after a normal boot
of FreeDOS.
I followed Blair Campbell's advice and set my debugger to stop on every DOS
call to INT 21 (instruction CD 21.)
When I ran HELP under MS-DOS, around the 12th DOS call HELP would check the
attributes of a file; then the next DOS call would open the file. The file was
"C:\FDOS\BIN\..\help\en\index.html"
after that, the program would continue to run normally.
When I ran HELP under FreeDOS, those two instructions would repeat over and
over, trying to check the attributes of and open a different file each time.
The files it tried to open were:
"C:\FDOS\NLS \EN \htmlhelp"
"C:\FDOS\NLS htmlhelp.EN "
"HELPPATH=C:\FDOS\HELP\EN \htmlhelp"
"HELPPATH=C:\FDOS\HELP\htmlhelp.EN "
"TEMP=C:\FDOS\temp\EN \htmlhelp"
"TEMP=C:\FDOS\temp\htmlhelp.EN "
"TMP=C:\FDOS\temp\EN \htmlhelp"
"TMP=C:\FDOS\temp\HTMLHELP.en "
and so on. I stopped here, so I don't know what happened when it got to the
end of the environment.
Anyway, that behavior looks very similar to this old bug in CHOICE 4.2
http://www.freedos.org/bugzilla/cgi-bin/show_bug.cgi?id=1666
The program breaks when NLSPATH is set to a nonexistent directory.
I checked and, sure enough, I did have an NLSPATH set to a nonexistent
directory when running FreeDOS. After I got rid of this variable, HELP.EXE
worked.
Furthermore, I could crash HELP under MS-DOS by setting an NLSPATH variable
that points to a nonexistent directory.
After that, I started looking at the source code. CHOICE 4.2 uses KITTEN-B.
CHOICE 4.3 uses a modified KITTEN-B that doesn't have the bug. There's a
KITTEN-C now.
FreeDOS 1.0 comes with CHOICE 4.4, so I assume this is fixed in CHOICE.
HTMLHELP 1.05 uses a KITTEN that is almost identical to KITTEN-B.
I suspect that's the problem.
(At the time I wrote this, I could not find source code to HTMLHELP 1.06 to
check.)
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:10:00 +0200
From: Robert Riebisch <r...@bttr-software.de>
Subject: [Freedos-user] Announce: dmidecode version 2.10
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Message-ID: <4a75f298.6040...@bttr-software.de>
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Hello!
On 02 August 2009 I finished my 32-bit DOS port of dmidecode version
2.10 using DJGPP version 2.04 beta.
Binaries, user manuals in ASCII format, and fully configured sources
plus some simple instructions on how to rebuild are available at
<http://www.bttr-software.de/ports/>.
About: Dmidecode reports information about your system's hardware as
described in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard (see
a sample output). This information typically includes system
manufacturer, model name, serial number, BIOS version, asset tag as well
as a lot of other details of varying level of interest and reliability
depending on the manufacturer. This will often include usage status for
the CPU sockets, expansion slots (e.g. AGP, PCI, ISA) and memory module
slots, and the list of I/O ports (e.g. serial, parallel, USB).
Robert Riebisch
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 08:30:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: M&tej <groma.ma...@windowslive.com>
Subject: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on usb stick
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Hello, I have USB stick with Grub and it is partitioned. I want to install
FreeDOS on partition FAT32 on usb, but I don't want to lost my partitioning
state (I have installed Mandriva on usb). How I can do that?:-( And how I
can add Freedos to Grub list?:-(( And where is FreeDOS kernel?:,( Please
help me, I am newbie.
And please explain solution easy.:-D
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