Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 or 2.0...

2007-06-27 Thread Alain M.
someone escreveu: > -- Michael C. Robinson > > Replace memmaker anyone??? INHO memmaker is not very inportant for new hardware (newer then 386!). It was very important when UMB was complex and tricky made of many small memory areas. For some time now, it has become a contimous block of

Re: [Freedos-user] Recording sound

2007-06-27 Thread Jim Hall
Oops .. I'm still behind on my email, didn't realize this was answered already (suggesting to use Creative Labs.) -jh On 6/27/07, Jim Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Translated request: > > I need driver to record sound using "plate of sound" (?) with FreeDOS. > Does there exist a sound recordi

Re: [Freedos-user] Recording sound

2007-06-27 Thread Jim Hall
Translated request: I need driver to record sound using "plate of sound" (?) with FreeDOS. Does there exist a sound recording program for FreeDOS? Thanks. On 6/26/07, Josberto Vieira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In portuguese: Eu preciso do driver para gravar som usando "placa de > som" com o fre

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos not installing

2007-06-27 Thread Jim Hall
This is interesting ... I actually visited with Dell back in August (about a month before 1.0) as part of my work. We met with several folks there, including the guy responsible for Dell's Linux program. I let him know that FreeDOS 1.0 was on the way, and he promised to get 1.0 in the pipeline for

Re: [Freedos-user] How to block Windows98 IHC diskette label trash / SETVER news

2007-06-27 Thread Jim Hall
FYI: this has also been available on the FreeDOS ibiblio site since 2004. I worked with Matthias to find a home for it on the FreeDOS files archive, since it helped DOS users. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/win9x/ On 6/13/07, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, I jus

Re: [Freedos-user] Install fail

2007-06-27 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Ray, > I just downloaded and burned FDFULLCD.ISO... > Bootable CD install stops at "Configuring through DHCP". Then it tried to download further updates but failed to communicate with your ADSL router or similar device. > How can I determine what did not get installed because of this? I thi

Re: [Freedos-user] COUNTRY.SYS settings

2007-06-27 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello Tom, Actually they aren't. The decimal separator is arguably ' (see below), but the thousand separator is universally accepted (and known) as . in Spain (and NEVER the ,). As for the decimal separator, there's a typical controversy between "official" and "widespread". The official symbol is

[Freedos-user] Install fail

2007-06-27 Thread Ray Davison
I just downloaded and burned FDFULLCD.ISO. I installed it on a rather old machine: 1G P4. I have trouble getting any DOS to boot on some late model machines. Bootable CD install stops at "Configuring through DHCP". Someone else complained about this last November. I don't find a response. H

[Freedos-user] Install fail

2007-06-27 Thread Ray Davison
I just downloaded and burned FDFULLCD.ISO. I installed it on a rather old machine: 1G P4. I have trouble getting any DOS to boot on some late model machines. Bootable CD install stops at "Configuring through DHCP". Someone else complained about this last November. I don't find a response. H

Re: [Freedos-user] COUNTRY.SYS settings

2007-06-27 Thread Tom Ehlert
> I've seen one bug right now, shouldn't Spain be "34"? according to http://www.vfrazee.com/ms-dos/6.22/help/country.htm - yes unfortunately I took the 33 from a VERY old kernel35, the current has a 34 but still >>".",/* ',' # Thousand's separator */ >>"

Re: [Freedos-user] COUNTRY.SYS settings

2007-06-27 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Mateusz, > Is there any way to set up manually all configurations for the COUTRY.SYS > settings? I mean, how could I decide exactly which character I want to use > for decimals, which for hundreds separator, how to display the date etc...? > I know that I can choose between various countrie

Re: [Freedos-user] COUNTRY.SYS settings

2007-06-27 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Aitor, Tom, Mateusz, to continue this thread with somewhat shorter mails... ;-) What Mateusz wanted is: > dd.mm. hh:mm:ss 1'234.56 Country 41, Switzerland, is pretty close: > dd.mm. hh,mm,ss 1'234.56 Country 33, France, would use: > dd.mm. hh:mm:ss 1 234,56 In codepage 858,

Re: [Freedos-user] COUNTRY.SYS settings

2007-06-27 Thread Aitor Santamaría
I've seen one bug right now, shouldn't Spain be "34"? (Can't remember if the DOS country codes are the ones used in telephony, but in such case, it's definitely 34). Aitor 2007/6/27, Tom Ehlert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > BTW: > country=33 (spain) would be perfekt, it it wasn't buggy > (1000's/decimal

Re: [Freedos-user] COUNTRY.SYS settings

2007-06-27 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Looks ok to me, in what sense is it buggy? Aitor 2007/6/27, Tom Ehlert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > BTW: > country=33 (spain) would be perfekt, it it wasn't buggy > (1000's/decimal point swapped) > > /* Spain */ ,{ >33, /* = W1 W437 # Country ID & Codepage */ >850, >

Re: [Freedos-user] COUNTRY.SYS settings

2007-06-27 Thread Tom Ehlert
BTW: country=33 (spain) would be perfekt, it it wasn't buggy (1000's/decimal point swapped) /* Spain */ ,{ 33, /* = W1 W437 # Country ID & Codepage */ 850, _DATE_DMY, /*Date format: 0/1/2: U.S.A./Europe/Japan */ "EUR",

Re: [Freedos-user] COUNTRY.SYS settings

2007-06-27 Thread Aitor Santamaría
I ignore it, perhaps Eduardo (developer of NLSFUNC) has some tools for creating/editing such files, or Eric or Henrique have some ideas? Aitor 2007/6/27, Mateusz Viste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wednesday 27 June 2007 19:54, Aitor Santamaría wrote: > > Once with the unstable kernel, you should cre

Re: [Freedos-user] COUNTRY.SYS settings

2007-06-27 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Wednesday 27 June 2007 19:54, Aitor Santamaría wrote: > Once with the unstable kernel, you should create a "COUNTRY.SYS"-style > file with the settings you want. I understand that the only way to make FreeDOS changes date/time format is to choose a contry code, or make its own COUNTRY.SYS file

Re: [Freedos-user] COUNTRY.SYS settings

2007-06-27 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, Once with the unstable kernel, you should create a "COUNTRY.SYS"-style file with the settings you want. You can either load it at boot with COUNTRY= in CONFIG.SYS, or either load it "hot" with NLSFUNC (in this case, create your file in a way that the country code is the same as the country

Re: [Freedos-user] COUNTRY.SYS settings

2007-06-27 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Wednesday 27 June 2007 12:55, Aitor Santamaría wrote: > There IS NLSFUNC, but only for the UNSTABLE kernel, so I guess perhaps > hasn't been distributed in the official distributions. Okay, I have installed the unstable kernel (which, by the way, isn't unstable at all - at least for me). I hav

[Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 or 2.0...

2007-06-27 Thread someone
Do both ;-) Save Freedos 1.1 for all the bug fixes that have come out after Freedos 1.0's release. For Freedos 2.0, accept new programs such as free scandisk and/or a 16 bit freedos compatible win32 emulator. A 2.0 release to me means that compatibility is being improved and that more of the fam

Re: [Freedos-user] announce: fdapm update: bochs fix, acpi dump

2007-06-27 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Robert, > > - the APMDOS function [...] Background: Bochs BIOS implements the > > function but the Bochs 2.3 engine crashes if you use it [...] > > Thanks to Rugxulo for the VBE suggestion - a simple check > > and reasonably safe as "Bochs detector". As FDAPM will use > > non-BIOS "CPU

Re: [Freedos-user] announce: fdapm update: bochs fix, acpi dump

2007-06-27 Thread Robert Riebisch
Eric Auer wrote: > - the APMDOS function (the only function where FDAPM stays > in RAM as a resident tool) now avoids using the APM BIOS > "CPU idle" function if the VESA VBE BIOS "OEM name" string > starts with "Boch". Background: Bochs BIOS implements the > function but the Bochs 2.3 eng

Re: [Freedos-user] COUNTRY.SYS settings

2007-06-27 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Self-correction. There IS NLSFUNC, but only for the UNSTABLE kernel, so I guess perhaps hasn't been distributed in the official distributions. I wonder what is the criterion by which something goes from unstable to stable. I think NLSFUNC and the involved changes have been there for a long time alr

Re: [Freedos-user] djgpp snprintf?

2007-06-27 Thread Robert Riebisch
Robert Riebisch wrote: > Another solution is linking against GNU GLib, which has g_snprintf(). I could > tell you more tomorrow. 1) Grab `current/v2tk/glib126b.zip' from a DJGPP repository. 2) Expand `glib126b.zip' to your DJGPP installation. 3) Add the following to `src/speech.h'. #ifdef __DJGP

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and Foxpro problem

2007-06-27 Thread Robert Riebisch
Juan Matias Granda wrote: > The problem was me :) , the problem was a wrong autoexec.bat > configuration, sorry my DOS knowledge is bad :). Could you be more specific, please? What was "wrong" with your `autoexec.bat'? Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ -