Re: [Freedos-user] Unicode (It was 'Problem with USB keyboard in some computers')

2011-07-05 Thread Rugxulo
Saluton, On 7/6/11, Henrique Peron wrote: > > Em 05/07/2011 18:25, Rugxulo escreveu: >> >> Honestly, I very rarely use only Latin-3 (913), so please don't waste >> 500 hours on my account! ;-) It's very low priority. > > My friend, it is always a pleasure. I do hope that end-users have as > m

Re: [Freedos-user] Unicode (It was 'Problem with USB keyboard in some computers')

2011-07-05 Thread Henrique Peron
Saluton! Em 05/07/2011 18:25, Rugxulo escreveu: >> Before I forget, I noticed that you do use ISO codepages. >> I'll work on distinct packs of codepages and keyboard layouts for ISO >> 8859-1 ~ 16. > Honestly, I very rarely use only Latin-3 (913), so please don't waste > 500 hours on my account!

Re: [Freedos-user] [SPAM] Re: Basic networking abilities

2011-07-05 Thread Aitor SantamarĂ­a
Hi, > [Sorry to Aitor Santamaria for hijacking his email address. Looks like you > can't post to this list without subscribing or forging email headers so I > chose the latter. Bye!] Eric was right, wasn't me. Not my style to use harsh language. Just cowards do. Cheers, Aitor --

Re: [Freedos-user] Unicode (It was 'Problem with USB keyboard in some computers')

2011-07-05 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On 7/5/11, Henrique Peron wrote: > > Before I forget, I noticed that you do use ISO codepages. > I'll work on distinct packs of codepages and keyboard layouts for ISO > 8859-1 ~ 16. Honestly, I very rarely use only Latin-3 (913), so please don't waste 500 hours on my account! ;-) It's ve

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem with USB keyboard in some computers

2011-07-05 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On 7/5/11, Eric Auer wrote: > Unicode (now at 6.0) is pretty damn huge. I don't know if... >>> >>> While Unicode is huge, DOS keyboard layouts tend to be limited to >>> Latin and Cyrillic and some other symboly which is a tiny subset. >> >> Well, determining which "subset" (for us) is th

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing with no CD drive

2011-07-05 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On 7/5/11, Chris D wrote: > > I don't "need" FreeDOS on that machine, full install or otherwise. All > I wanted to do was take a look at FreeDOS to find out what it can do. I know, I mean, I figured that much. I just meant, "What apps do you want to run?" (The full FD 1.0 is quite huge for

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem with USB keyboard in some computers

2011-07-05 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Rugxulo, >>> Unicode (now at 6.0) is pretty damn huge. I don't know if... >> >> While Unicode is huge, DOS keyboard layouts tend to be limited to >> Latin and Cyrillic and some other symboly which is a tiny subset. > > Well, determining which "subset" (for us) is the main problem. You could

Re: [Freedos-user] graphics in dos.

2011-07-05 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On 7/5/11, kurt godel wrote: > > Maybe someone would know; was playing with old fashioned 16 bit graphics, > compiling with djgpp. The djgpp info warns that both bios and vga approach > go outside of protected mode, so that > mangling of the system is possible. VESA 2 supports pmode, IIRC, b

Re: [Freedos-user] Mouse must move

2011-07-05 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, just a guess but... >> If certain programs are loaded immediately after booting, the >> computer appears to be locked, but after moving the mouse >> everything is back to normal, and the machine will not lock again >> until the next boot. > If you're not loading the mouse high, I can't imagi

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing with no CD drive

2011-07-05 Thread Eric Auer
Hi :-) > (I know Eric promotes my "old" 2008 RUFFIDEA [three disks] sometimes, > or even his "Brezel" mini distro, but I halfway think mine's too old > and quirky to be generally useful, esp. nowadays. Alas. And it's just > too hard to update properly, and I have "real life" chapping my ass, > so

Re: [Freedos-user] graphics in dos.

2011-07-05 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Kurt, > Maybe someone would know; was playing with old fashioned 16 bit graphics, > compiling with djgpp. The djgpp info warns that both bios and vga approach > go outside of protected mode, so that > mangling of the system is possible. Such programs don't even run in NTVDM > dos emulator, but

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing with no CD drive

2011-07-05 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bernd, > For example the ideal FreeDOS drive to install to is a C: which is: > * part of a harddisk No really. > * harddisk is first harddisk on IDE/ATA/SATA controller Should be easy to check. > * partition is large enough > * partition has enough free space > * partition is writable > *

[Freedos-user] Unicode (It was 'Problem with USB keyboard in some computers')

2011-07-05 Thread Henrique Peron
Hi all! Saluton amiko! Before I forget, I noticed that you do use ISO codepages. I'll work on distinct packs of codepages and keyboard layouts for ISO 8859-1 ~ 16. >> While Unicode is huge, DOS keyboard layouts tend to be limited to >> Latin and Cyrillic and some other symboly which is a tiny sub

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing with no CD drive

2011-07-05 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 5-7-2011 15:54, Chris D schreef: > What I found was that the boot floppy created is incomplete and that > therefore the installation doesn't work. I got around that with help > from this group but found that this did not install a boot menu to allow > me to carry on using the existing PC-DOS,

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing with no CD drive

2011-07-05 Thread Jeffrey
Hi Chris, I have also had this problem several times. What I did was create a boot floppy with format, fdpkg and sys. Then sys the hard drive and copy all the packages into a temporary folder and install them with fdpkg. It took about 3 floppies to copy all the base packages > It also has a PCM

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing with no CD drive

2011-07-05 Thread Chris D
I don't "need" FreeDOS on that machine, full install or otherwise. All I wanted to do was take a look at FreeDOS to find out what it can do. What I found was that the boot floppy created is incomplete and that therefore the installation doesn't work. I got around that with help from this group b

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem with USB keyboard in some computers

2011-07-05 Thread STF
I'm curious to know how are all these related to *USB* keyboard??? Off-topic: in the old day, in order to type in Chinese, we loaded in some "modules". end-off-topic On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 08:55, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On 7/3/11, Eric Auer wrote: That could work with

[Freedos-user] graphics in dos.

2011-07-05 Thread kurt godel
Maybe someone would know; was playing with old fashioned 16 bit graphics, compiling with djgpp. The djgpp info warns that both bios and vga approach go outside of protected mode, so that mangling of the system is possible. Such programs don't even run in NTVDM dos emulator, but work in ,say, freedo

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing with no CD drive

2011-07-05 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, (sorry I'm late) On 6/20/11, Chris D wrote: > > I am having trouble installing FreeDOS on an ancient Toshiba laptop > which has no CD drive, only a floppy. Do you really want / need a "full" FreeDOS install? In particular, what apps do you really want / need? Games? Development? Networking?

Re: [Freedos-user] Mouse must move

2011-07-05 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, This is way beyond my expertise, but I kept it in my inbox anyways. And I don't remember anyone else replying, so what the heck On 6/15/11, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros wrote: > > If certain programs are loaded immediately after booting, the > computer appears to be locked, but af