[Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.0 CD Label Image?
I'm glad to see that FreeDOS 1.0 is out. Thanks to the people who made it happen! As part of my own promotion of FreeDOS 1.0, I plan to make some CDs to distribute. Has anyone worked up an image file (.jpg,.png, .tif, etc.) for a FreeDOS CD label? If so, where is it available? I haven't been able to find one online. Thanks! - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Re: COCO 3 and freedos..
> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:05:05 -0700 > From: robinson-west user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I have a Tandy Color Computer 3. My 5.25" floppies are mostly dead. > What I'm wondering is, beyond software to read COCO disks under dos is > there software that will allow me to replace the disk drives via a > serial link to my dos machine? There is Drivewire, but I think it is > designed for Windows. > > http://www.cloud9tech.com/ > > Michael Robinson I'm not exactly sure what you're wanting to do, Michael, but if your drives are dead and the disks are readable, I just checked on eBay and there are a number of 5-1/4" drives being offered; 360K, 1.2M, and combo. Hope this helps. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Dumb question about 'xcopy'.
> Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 06:03:37 -0500 > From: "kurt godel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Here's a dumb question about the 'xcopy ' command: I have a source directory > called 's', and a destination > directory called 'd'; Both of them are in the same directory, say 'c'. If I > do: cd d, then xcopy s /s /e, I get a > "cyclic error"; but if I am more explicit and use(again from inside 'd'): > xcopy c:\s /s /e, then it works perfectly. > Is this a quirk of the 'xcopy' version in FreeDos, or do they all do it? I > mean if it's cyclic in the one case, > it should be so in the other? kurt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Kurt, while I don't know about the particular quirks in the FD version of xcopy, I do know that it's always best to specify both the source and destination in your command line whether it's the xcopy from MS-DOS, PC-DOS, DR-DOS, FreeDOS, or the xxcopy utility. Even if the destination is just specified as "." (current directory", you're more likely to get the results every time. Just a good practice. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] A windows 9x replacement...
(Prior posters' names deleted to protect the guilty) > > and - BTW - FreeDOS does NOT want to be a Windows 9x replacement. > Of course not. It wants to be a MS-DOS replacement. It continually amazes me how, especially in the Free Software world, non-sentient things like "software", "information", "music", "books", and now "FreeDOS" are described as *WANTING* to be some thing (MS-DOS vs. Windows 9x replacement) or some condition (such as free). Methinks this idea wants to be nuked. -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] De-Geekifying This List (Was: Some Simple List Rules)
> > From: Pat Villani > > Subject: [Freedos-user] Some simple list rules > > Date: Saturday, June 20, 2009, 8:46 AM > > > > 1. Please remember that this is a users mailing list. > > Many of these folks are non technical and may not under- > > stand the ramifications of what they are asking for. Pat, as a person who's been following this list for some time, I'm not sure that the purpose you've mentioned is being adhered to all that well. I have been a power user since the days when DOS was cool, and a lot of the posts still go over my head like a roof. Discussions of compiling, listings of scripts (config.sys settings?) that are far more complicated than I've ever used and many more things give me the impression that this is much more of a Freedos-Geeks list than a Freedos-User list. I just went to the Freedos site, the Wiki and the How-To pages and am still about as baffled as to how to make Freedos work for me as I have been all along. The impression I have (despite the statement that Freedos can pretty much run any software designed for MS-DOS) is that the kind of system I used as a 100% DOS user would not work, but requires a lot more stuff in the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT. Let me give as an example a basic CONFIG/AUTOEXEC setup for MS-DOS (5.x and higher); CONFIG.SYS: device=HIMEM.SYS device=EMM386.EXE files=40 buffers=40 devicehigh=NANSI.SYS AUTOEXEC.BAT: @echo off cls prompt $p$g path=C:\;C:\DOS;C:\BAT;C:\UTIL lh SMARTDRV.EXE 2048 cls c: cd \ ver (I've probably forgotten something; it's been quite awhile since I've written these files from scratch; or tinkered with them at all, for that matter.) I found nothing in the HOWTOs on the order of "Freedos for Dummies" or "Freedos for experienced MS-DOS Users." I honestly don't know what I could reasonably expect to do in a Freedos environment, using this configuration that would work just fine in an MS-DOS environment. If there are samples of basic CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files lurking around, I can't readily find them. And if I can't find them, people with even less knowledge aren't going to, either. I wish I could offer to pitch in on the kinds of things that I see are needed, but it's beyond my reach at this time. Plus, considering all the gobbledygook I read here, I'm not even sure where I'd begin. All I can say is that for Freedos' sake, whatever effort some of y'all can make to set out a "welcome mat" that explains the differences between MS-DOS and FreeDOS, particularly as far as configuration goes and how to resolve issues involving common programs that don't quite run "as-is" under Freedos would be very much appreciated, I believe. Thanks for "listening". -- Are you an open source citizen? Join us for the Open Source Bridge conference! Portland, OR, June 17-19. Two days of sessions, one day of unconference: $250. Need another reason to go? 24-hour hacker lounge. Register today! http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;215844324;13503038;v?http://opensourcebridge.org ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Getting Puppy to Work
> Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:45:23 -0400 (EDT) > From: Bonnie Dalzell > On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, kurt godel wrote: > > > Bonnie, I don't know if you are using a dial up modem, but I have cable > > company online, and the latest puppy > > for sure, is *instantly* ready to work, whether live cd or installed puppy; > > I have never used a dial up modem. > > --kurt. > I have a dsl set up. When I tried puppy a year ago it seemed to want a > dial up. *SIGH* Puppy Linux is inanimate; it doesn't *WANT* to do anything. Pet peeve aside, Puppy has been my primary OS for over two years (typing this from Puppy 3.01 using Seamonkey), and it does not have a default 'net connection. I have not tried it in dial-up mode, but it doesn't connect to anything via ethernet until you go through Setup and configure it to do so. That's apparently one reason it is such a light-weight distro; not as much automagical configuration overhead. Once it's configured, it DOES work beautifully with an ethernet (cable/DSL/etc.) connection to the .net. -- Are you an open source citizen? Join us for the Open Source Bridge conference! Portland, OR, June 17-19. Two days of sessions, one day of unconference: $250. Need another reason to go? 24-hour hacker lounge. Register today! http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;215844324;13503038;v?http://opensourcebridge.org ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
