Re: [Freedos-user] Preloading text files in C

2019-01-08 Thread Ken Yap
> Hi, > I have a short question about preloading text files for a user interface. > > I have x buttons on screen and for each button there is a description > shown on screen, once this button is selected. > > For now I am fopen()/fgets()/fclose()ing it on every selection change. > When run from

[Freedos-user] Preloading text files in C

2019-01-08 Thread stecdose
Hi, I have a short question about preloading text files for a user interface. I have x buttons on screen and for each button there is a description shown on screen, once this button is selected. For now I am fopen()/fgets()/fclose()ing it on every selection change. When run from floppy this i

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Internet Security Protocols and Graphical I nterface

2019-01-08 Thread stecdose
Another big problem is HTTPS. Since almost every site goes to HTTPS-only it impossible with older browsers to open. But anyway, the internet is a big place where WWW is only a part. You can use FDIMPLES to automatically download an install packages on your DOS system. You can use it for chat

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Internet Security Protocols and Graphical I nterface

2019-01-08 Thread Karen Lewellen
lynx has an html5 plug in. Perhaps if you actually did research instead of generalizing about what exists you would know as much. Further there are research articles here. www.w3c.org/wai which explain that sites following web standards are to be browser agnostic. I have no idea who "people,"

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Internet Security Protocols and Graphical I nterface

2019-01-08 Thread dmccunney
On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 7:32 PM Karen Lewellen wrote: > > I suppose what confuses me is the idea that one cannot do much in dos on > the internet. Perhaps you are speaking of direct connecting, although my > understanding that the Arachnid browser for dos supports > JavaScript just fine, although

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Internet Security Protocols and Graphical I nterface

2019-01-08 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi Bret, That was an interesting read. I suppose what confuses me is the idea that one cannot do much in dos on the internet. Perhaps you are speaking of direct connecting, although my understanding that the Arachnid browser for dos supports JavaScript just fine, although I have not used it d

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Internet Security Protocols and Graphical I nterface

2019-01-08 Thread Bret Johnson
For the wireless connection, Michael Brutman (maker of MTCP) has this page that discusses another option: http://www.brutman.com/Wireless_for_Classics/Wireless_for_Classics.html I haven't used on of these for DOS, but did use one (the one that Michael recommends) in another application where th

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Internet Security Protocols and Graphical Interface

2019-01-08 Thread Roderick Klein
On 8-01-19 23:15, Ralf Quint wrote: On 1/8/2019 12:13 PM, Thomas Vetere wrote: Hello FreeDOS community, I have an old IBM Thinkpad 600e that I am trying to refurbish for fun. With a Pentium 2 processor and 256 MB of RAM, I am considering using FreeDOS. I would like for this computer to be abl

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Internet Security Protocols and Graphical Interface

2019-01-08 Thread Ralf Quint
On 1/8/2019 12:13 PM, Thomas Vetere wrote: Hello FreeDOS community, I have an old IBM Thinkpad 600e that I am trying to refurbish for fun. With a Pentium 2 processor and 256 MB of RAM, I am considering using FreeDOS. I would like for this computer to be able to connect to the Internet via Wi

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Internet Security Protocols and Graphical Interface

2019-01-08 Thread Jim Hall
> > On 8-01-19 21:13, Thomas Vetere wrote: > >> I have an old IBM Thinkpad 600e that I am trying to refurbish for fun. > >> With a Pentium 2 processor and 256 MB of RAM, I am considering using > >> FreeDOS. I would like for this computer to be able to connect to the > >> Internet via Wifi, but

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Internet Security Protocols and Graphical Interface

2019-01-08 Thread Karen Lewellen
That looks amazing, but where did you buy the product? Kare On Tue, 8 Jan 2019, Roderick Klein wrote: On 8-01-19 21:13, Thomas Vetere wrote: Hello FreeDOS community, I have an old IBM Thinkpad 600e that I am trying to refurbish for fun. With a Pentium 2 processor and 256 MB of RAM, I am

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Internet Security Protocols and Graphical Interface

2019-01-08 Thread Pär Moberg
I did a quick search for "WiFi Ethernet bridge" and found that netgear makes one, I know that some of TP-Link travel routers support it as well. But this is assuming that there is a ethernet port available and is supported. //Pär Den tis 8 jan. 2019 21:32 skrev Roderick Klein : > On 8-01-19 21

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Internet Security Protocols and Graphical Interface

2019-01-08 Thread Roderick Klein
On 8-01-19 21:13, Thomas Vetere wrote: Hello FreeDOS community, I have an old IBM Thinkpad 600e that I am trying to refurbish for fun. With a Pentium 2 processor and 256 MB of RAM, I am considering using FreeDOS. I would like for this computer to be able to connect to the Internet via Wifi, but

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS Internet Security Protocols and Graphical Interface

2019-01-08 Thread Thomas Vetere
Hello FreeDOS community, I have an old IBM Thinkpad 600e that I am trying to refurbish for fun. With a Pentium 2 processor and 256 MB of RAM, I am considering using FreeDOS. I would like for this computer to be able to connect to the Internet via Wifi, but after browsing the FreeDOS wiki pages,