Re: [Freedos-user] Web browsers: Arachne search fails, Dillo works

2015-06-18 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, Keep in mind that I'm not very savvy about networking, so this is just links (no pun intended!) to various things! On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 7:00 PM, John Hupp wrote: > > I installed Arachne on the current rig (Pentium 150, 64MB) and found > that Google search returns a blank page, and DuckDuc

Re: [Freedos-user] Format floppy (format a: /u) bug

2015-06-18 Thread John Hupp
Now that I'm looking squarely at the issue, I have not been able to reproduce it yet! When I was dealing with it earlier, I was experiencing (as I wrote in the bug report), that the error ALWAYS occurred when I had unformatted D: and E: partitions, and when I formatted those, the problem seeme

Re: [Freedos-user] Web browsers: Arachne search fails, Dillo works

2015-06-18 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 7:00 PM, John Hupp wrote: > So I tried Dillo, which is graphical. Though it thrashes the hard drive > a fair amount, it did work in a quick checkout. This was v3.02b from > http://nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos.googlecode.com/files/DILLODOS-302b.zip, > written by

Re: [Freedos-user] Web browsers: Arachne search fails, Dillo works

2015-06-18 Thread Karen Lewellen
Granted I cannot speak to your setup. Still lynx is at 2.9.dev6 or so, at least for the most current. There may not be a dos port at that level however. On Thu, 18 Jun 2015, John Hupp wrote: > I installed Arachne on the current rig (Pentium 150, 64MB) and found > that Google search returns a bl

[Freedos-user] Web browsers: Arachne search fails, Dillo works

2015-06-18 Thread John Hupp
I installed Arachne on the current rig (Pentium 150, 64MB) and found that Google search returns a blank page, and DuckDuckGo produces some sort of loop. I found a post or two on Vogons.org noting the same. Ready to settle for the speed and stability of text mode, I turned next to Lynx, but I c

Re: [Freedos-user] mTCP - A better solution for moving files on the LAN

2015-06-18 Thread Michael Brutman
That version was a minor packaging fix to the previous version, which is why the date strings did not change. (Except for the one affected program.) On Jun 17, 2015 11:26 PM, "Mateusz Viste" wrote: > On 18/06/2015 00:32, John Hupp wrote: > > Now I have found mTCP, available in the FreeDOS instal

Re: [Freedos-user] Format floppy (format a: /u) bug

2015-06-18 Thread Don Flowers
I will test FreeDOS Format on my W98 machine also and report back. On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 12:04 PM, wrote: > Does it work on the w98 computer with freedos version of format? I am > trying to see if it is format, kernel, or both causing the issue. > > Thank you, > Jeremy > > >

Re: [Freedos-user] Format floppy (format a: /u) bug

2015-06-18 Thread perditionc
Does it work on the w98 computer with freedos version of format? I am trying to see if it is format, kernel, or both causing the issue. Thank you, Jeremy -- ___ Freedos-user mai

Re: [Freedos-user] Format floppy (format a: /u) bug

2015-06-18 Thread John Hupp
On 6/2/2015 10:55 AM, John Hupp wrote: > In the thread "Drivers or tips for 3 ISA sound cards?" I just reported > solving a problem with a driver installer that froze when it arrived > at the step where it analyzes the hardware configuration. It turned > out that it was choking on the fact that