LOL - remember that this is the hardware that DOS was designed for! A PII
could comfortably run Linux with X ... but my XT has a much more limited
selection of O/S's to chose from.
I bought it from the U.S. equivalent of a 'goodwill' store for $5
Canadian, and hey, it's still technologicaly
On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 17:16, GNU_man wrote:
> Ok this is two questions in one here, I just did a real minimalistic
> FreeDOS install via 5 1/4" floppy on my "new" computer. No DOS text
> editors work on this machine, they all crash - including TED tiny
> editor. I suspect it could be something d
I've just uploaded the latest revision of my DOS Networking HOWTO to
sourceforge. It can also be found at my home site
http://www.dendarii.co.uk/FAQs/dos-net.html
Comments and suggestion can be sent directly to me.
Note my DOS Internet Applications guide has also been updated
http://www.dendarii
I was wondering if long file name support is already in freedos b9sr1
or is it necessary to run another program like doslfn?
The reason I ask, is that while testing python for dos, the program
notes say that long file name support is needed/recommended. However
with freedos b9sr1 the python i
Hi Jim:
One option is to create a FAT32 partition on the Windows disk
drive and write to that. This can often be done using the
"free" space left on the end of the disk, or you can
resize the NTFS partition without destroying the data.
See http://www.k1ea.com/hints/DOS%20dual%20boot%20version%201.
Jim Lemon wrote:
Hi,
...
diskette drive now. What I am wondering is if FreeDOS has developed the
capability to write to NTFS filesystems so that I could run the tests
under FreeDOS on the CD-ROM but write the data to an NTFS filesystem.
NTFS is not directly supported by FreeDOS (nor any DOS that
Hi Jim,
> I have been using FreeDOS as a platform for a battery of human
> performance tests for a few years... as the tests take
> over system interrupts and do not work properly in a DOS window.
Yes, nice, huh? :-). But that is a problem of DOS *window*, not of
the brand of DOS. MS DOS would
Hi,
I have been using FreeDOS as a platform for a battery of human
performance tests for a few years. It has allowed me to keep a very
useful test battery going with the demise of MS-DOS, as the tests take
over system interrupts and do not work properly in a DOS window.
However, it is becoming
