Re: [Freedos-user] Abandonware site...

2009-04-26 Thread Michael Robinson
> > MS-DOS and Windows 3.x are clearly abandonware. If I want to > > use this abandonware, am I suddenly breaking the law? > > Not suddenly. It is and was breaking the law. Of course you can > hope that MS is too busy hunting people who steal Vista, but > you cannot just say that stealing MS DOS

Re: [Freedos-user] FDUPDATE and the 486...

2009-04-26 Thread Michael Robinson
On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 16:35 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: > Hi, > > > Has anyone gotten fdupdate to work with a 486? I lost the link to > > fdupdate v0.55 and the instructions on how to use it in fdupdate > > v0.54. If using a 486 is the problem because of a bug in the math > > coprocessor or somethi

Re: [Freedos-user] chkdsk broken?

2009-04-26 Thread Jim Hall
>>> When I run "chkdsk" it reports many problems: > >>> ChkDsk beta 0.9 >>> Copyright 2002, 2003 Imre Leber under the GNU GPL >>> >>> \KERNEL.SYS has an invalid size, the size should be about 4294901760, but >>> the entry says it's 45341 >>> \COMMAND.COM has an invalid size, the size should be abo

Re: [Freedos-user] Command prompt returns without commands executing

2009-04-26 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Blair Campbell schreef: >> the data from XMS... There might be some code which decides about >> whether restore-from-XMS is needed and which is too optimistic. But >> maybe I am totally wrong about that whole swap/overwrite topic... >> > > >From what I can tell it always swaps back from XMS an