Re: [Freedos-user] Modern Uses For FreeDOS

2012-01-25 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Bob Cochran wrote: > > I am pretty ignorant of how FreeDOS is used by the community as I am > sure my previous posts show. I would like to build a better > understanding of FreeDOS. What is it used for most commonly? I know it > is an operating system, of cour

Re: [Freedos-user] C compiler

2012-01-25 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Marco Achury wrote: > > Is there any "official" or recommended C compiler for Freedos? The "official" (if you can call it that) C compiler for FreeDOS is OpenWatcom, which is used to build the kernel. The "official" assembler is NASM (also used for a few file

Re: [Freedos-user] Using a menu for many options

2012-01-25 Thread Jeffrey
Hi Micheal, > I'd like to get some recommendations of how to work around this, either within > FDCINFIG.SYS or some combination of this and other files. The goal is to > present > a menu with the complete list of image types (or some way of drilling down > into > these items) and it's easy for t

Re: [Freedos-user] Modern Uses For FreeDOS

2012-01-25 Thread George Frothingham
On Wed, 2012-01-25 at 18:53 -0500, Bob Cochran wrote: > Greetings, > > I am pretty ignorant of how FreeDOS is used by the community as I am > sure my previous posts show. I would like to build a better > understanding of FreeDOS. What is it used for most commonly? I know it > is an operating sy

Re: [Freedos-user] Modern Uses For FreeDOS

2012-01-25 Thread George Frothingham
On Wed, 2012-01-25 at 18:53 -0500, Bob Cochran wrote: > Greetings, > > I am pretty ignorant of how FreeDOS is used by the community as I am > sure my previous posts show. I would like to build a better > understanding of FreeDOS. What is it used for most commonly? I know it > is an operating sy

[Freedos-user] Using a menu for many options

2012-01-25 Thread Michael
Hello FreeDOS people, At work I maintain CMOS images for a variety of different types of hardware. When we have a new server going out the door, we boot up FreeDOS on this machine and run a utility that flashes the correct image to the BIOS. Up to now, we've been using the Menu command in FDCONFIG

[Freedos-user] C compiler

2012-01-25 Thread Marco Achury
Dear Sirs Is there any "official" or recommended C compiler for Freedos? Would be great if such compiler come included on the distro so the user can create their own programs. I know djgpp and Watcom, are both compilers under active development/maintenance? -- -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Marco A. Achu

Re: [Freedos-user] Modern Uses For FreeDOS

2012-01-25 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Bob Cochran wrote: > I am pretty ignorant of how FreeDOS is used by the community as I am > sure my previous posts show. I would like to build a better > understanding of FreeDOS. What is it used for most commonly? I know it > is an operating system, of course, bu

Re: [Freedos-user] Re : Support for 4k byte sectors

2012-01-25 Thread Scott
Links please? On 1/25/12 1:46 PM, Bertho Grandpied wrote: > Just a note, Folks, /who/ said "advanced" format disks (presenting 512 byte > sectors) are with us for ten years - or more, so we should be little > concerned about having to support true 4K sector disks ? > > But I stumbled upon a cou

[Freedos-user] Modern Uses For FreeDOS

2012-01-25 Thread Bob Cochran
Greetings, I am pretty ignorant of how FreeDOS is used by the community as I am sure my previous posts show. I would like to build a better understanding of FreeDOS. What is it used for most commonly? I know it is an operating system, of course, but I don't know why it is used as an operating

Re: [Freedos-user] int notation.

2012-01-25 Thread C. Masloch
> The INT xx.yy notation has been around for a loong time, doubt > that there is anyone who can put a claim on having invented this b > now... ;-) As you can see by the way I phrased it there, I never claimed that Bret or I was the _sole_ inventor ;) And you're absolutely right, I might h

[Freedos-user] Re : Support for 4k byte sectors

2012-01-25 Thread Bertho Grandpied
Just a note, Folks, /who/ said "advanced" format disks (presenting 512 byte sectors) are with us for ten years - or more, so we should be little concerned about having to support true 4K sector disks ? But I stumbled upon a couple pages that say otherwise : "the industry" has agreed to sell AF

[Freedos-user] usbdos.

2012-01-25 Thread kurt godel
>what type of usb controllers. the usbhosts utility reports all uhci but one, a single ehci; the mobo is an MSI ms-7393,circa '04ish. I'm sure it.s the machine, because duse does the same thing, ant the old potthast free version does it too. The duse is even nastier, since rebooting won't cle

[Freedos-user] malware (was Re: (no subject))

2012-01-25 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 1:18 AM, TJ Edmister wrote: > > FYI this is v1agra spam. Probably sent by a malware infested PC. Curious > combination of email addresses in the "to" field... Not that curious, it's obviously sent to addresses beginning with the letters f, g, and h. So yeah, it's prob

Re: [Freedos-user] the int thing.

2012-01-25 Thread Bret Johnson
What kind of USB controllers are on the mobo (UHCI/OHCI/EHCI/XHCI)? My drivers in their current state will only work with UHCI. -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learn