Re: [Freedos-user] 7zip

2013-03-23 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros wrote: > >> Hence I suggest sticking with 7ZA920.ZIP or some version of >> p7zip 9.20.1 (despite bugs), at least under DOS. > > I downloaded this version: > > /pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/file/7zip/9.20.1/testing/p7z9

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2013-03-23 Thread dmccunney
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros wrote: > >> That's what I thought might be the case. Your source files are >> basically 7 bit ASCII. > >> I'd call your use case something to be handled by a Revision >> Control System. We normally think of them as used for progr

Re: [Freedos-user] LaTeX

2013-03-23 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros wrote: > >> Some (e.g. JED, which I need to package up for FreeDOS one of >> these days) also seem to have their own LaTeX modes too (not >> that I've tried!), if you're willing to switch editors >> temporarily. (TDE is great b

[Freedos-user] LaTeX

2013-03-23 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi Rugxulo, > Some (e.g. JED, which I need to package up for FreeDOS one of > these days) also seem to have their own LaTeX modes too (not > that I've tried!), if you're willing to switch editors > temporarily. (TDE is great but doesn't have lots of frills or > extensibility.) By "LaTeX modes" do

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2013-03-23 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mar 23, 2013 4:37 PM, "Marcos Favero Florence de Barros" < fav...@mpcnet.com.br> wrote: > > > That's what I thought might be the case. Your source files are > > basically 7 bit ASCII. > > > I'd call your use case something to be handled by a Revision > > Control System. We normally think

[Freedos-user] 7zip

2013-03-23 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi Rugxulo, > Hence I suggest sticking with 7ZA920.ZIP or some version of > p7zip 9.20.1 (despite bugs), at least under DOS. I downloaded this version: /pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/file/7zip/9.20.1/testing/p7z9201-latest.zip 2012-Sep-03 13:00:32 ... and here's a couple of observations

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2013-03-23 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi Dennis, > That's what I thought might be the case. Your source files are > basically 7 bit ASCII. > I'd call your use case something to be handled by a Revision > Control System. We normally think of them as used for program > code, but they can be used for manuscripts as well. Take a look

Re: [Freedos-user] VirtualBox

2013-03-23 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 3:32 PM, john s wolter wrote: > >> It's never going to be full speed nor perfect emulation. > > I'm aware an application running on FreeDOS inside of VirtualBox has to be > much slower. That said, understand the future of most legacy operating > systems that ran on ol

Re: [Freedos-user] VirtualBox

2013-03-23 Thread john s wolter
Rugxulo, It's never going to be full speed nor perfect emulation. It's too > tricky to emulate everything (esp. pmode). Anything to do with > segmentation is probably lower priority (due to complexity and > deprecation) than the bare minimum (686-ish pmode) that *nix and > Windows require. > I'm

Re: [Freedos-user] VirtualBox

2013-03-23 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 11:11 AM, john s wolter wrote: > > I've been using VirtualBox in Windows 7 on a Sony Vaio Duo Core /w 4 > gigabytes of RAM. VirtualBox's load times are okay but the execution of > MS-DOS & a particular character-display application program is usable very > but slow. I

Re: [Freedos-user] VirtualBox

2013-03-23 Thread john s wolter
I've been using VirtualBox in Windows 7 on a Sony Vaio Duo Core /w 4 gigabytes of RAM. VirtualBox's load times are okay but the execution of MS-DOS & a particular character-display application program is usable very but slow. Understanding this issue is best approached by examining VirtualBox and

[Freedos-user] VirtualBox

2013-03-23 Thread Mark Brown
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