Re: [Freedos-user] VirtualBox and FTP

2014-09-01 Thread Ulrich
Am 01.09.2014 um 21:51 schrieb Michael Brutman : > On 9/1/2014 12:30 PM, Tom Ehlert wrote: >> any good reason mTCP and DHCP can't update/use WATTCP.directly ? >> >> imho there should be a *single* network configuration file, used by >> *all* network stuff on the machine. >> >> changing mTCP to

Re: [Freedos-user] VirtualBox and FTP

2014-09-01 Thread Michael Brutman
On 9/1/2014 12:30 PM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > any good reason mTCP and DHCP can't update/use WATTCP.directly ? > > imho there should be a *single* network configuration file, used by > *all* network stuff on the machine. > > changing mTCP to understand WATTCP.CFG is trivial. (WATTCP.CFG has > been arou

Re: [Freedos-user] VirtualBox and FTP

2014-09-01 Thread Tom Ehlert
Hi, > I don't want to brag too much, but M2WAT shows the absolute brilliance > of separating the DHCP process from the programs. ;-0 The mTCP programs > do not know or care about DHCP; they behave the same whether they have a > static IP address or a DHCP obtained one. M2WAT helps the WATTCP >

Re: [Freedos-user] VirtualBox and FTP

2014-09-01 Thread dmccunney
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > DHCP separation can be nice, but it has also its downsides. > > It's definitely a nice choice because it makes programs a bit smaller. > However, a problem might appear in the (unlikely?) situation where a > user plays with a network-enabled p

Re: [Freedos-user] VirtualBox and FTP

2014-09-01 Thread Michael Brutman
The expiring lease problem is irritating. My answer to that is have people choose reasonable lease times and to run DHCP before doing something that might run a while. "Reasonable" generally means at least 8 hours ... If 8 hours is too long a nice work around is to configure the DHCP server

Re: [Freedos-user] VirtualBox and FTP

2014-09-01 Thread Mateusz Viste
DHCP separation can be nice, but it has also its downsides. It's definitely a nice choice because it makes programs a bit smaller. However, a problem might appear in the (unlikely?) situation where a user plays with a network-enabled program while his lease expires. Say, my DHCP router provides

Re: [Freedos-user] VirtualBox and FTP

2014-09-01 Thread Michael Brutman
I don't want to brag too much, but M2WAT shows the absolute brilliance of separating the DHCP process from the programs. ;-0 The mTCP programs do not know or care about DHCP; they behave the same whether they have a static IP address or a DHCP obtained one. M2WAT helps the WATTCP programs be

Re: [Freedos-user] VirtualBox and FTP

2014-09-01 Thread Ulrich Hansen
> Am 01.09.2014 um 17:05 schrieb Ulrich : > > Mike, what do you think - would it be a good idea to ship it with your mTCP > package? If this is Ok with Dave, I should have written of course. -- Slashdot TV. Video for

Re: [Freedos-user] VirtualBox and FTP

2014-09-01 Thread Ulrich
Hi Thanks a lot, Dave, for the program. I was eager to try it, so I downloaded OpenWatcom and compiled my first DOS program :-)) Had some time, while my son listened to some audiobook called "Mama Muh". :-) I copied the program lines to a file m2wat.c and used these settings: wcc m2wat /ms wli

Re: [Freedos-user] Is anyone installed FreeDOS from USB CD drive or other USB device?

2014-09-01 Thread Matej Horvat
How did you write the ISO image to the flash device? Maybe you can try Rufus: http://rufus.akeo.ie/ Don't choose the FreeDOS option (that will only make a bootdisk with nothing else), instead choose the ISO option and select the FreeDOS installation CD image. --

[Freedos-user] Reply:Re: Is anyone installed FreeDOS from USB CD drive or other USB device?

2014-09-01 Thread DOSforever
Hi, Christian Thank you very much for your detailed reply, because I'm not good at using English, so I cannot too much to participate in the discussion. I'd like to try the method that you introduced. In other words, in short, There is no way to install FreeDOS through FreeDOS ISO installatio