Re: [Freedos-user] Context out of memory

Thanks, Tom: I seriously recommend using a different operating system. I use Ubuntu. alternatively, please use a different mailing list. Today I'll confer at a Linux club. -- members.iinet.net.au/~kilgallin/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedo

Re: [Freedos-user] USB serial port

On 6 Jan 2021 at 11:23, Tomas By wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a way to get a USB serial port adapter to work? > This cannot be made to work for legacy software that accesses the UART registers directly, hooks an IRQ etc. USB is a whole different bus architecture, compared to legacy ISA. The

Re: [Freedos-user] Context out of memory

> {If this error persists, consider to increase some internal buffer, such > as history, directory stack, etc.} > I do not know how to do this. I seriously recommend using a different operating system. alternatively, please use a different mailing list. thanks Tom _

Re: [Freedos-user] Context out of memory

Hi Bryan, > {If this error persists, consider to increase some internal buffer, > such as history, directory stack, etc.} That sounds like a problem with FreeCOM, if I have to guess, and maybe one cannot change buffer sizes without recompiling, So the question would be: Which FreeCOM version d

[Freedos-user] Context out of memory

{If this error persists, consider to increase some internal buffer, such as history, directory stack, etc.} I do not know how to do this. -- members.iinet.net.au/~kilgallin/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lis

Re: [Freedos-user] Xcopy

Hello! Try XCOPY C:\GAMES\*.* D:\GAMES /E /S SOURCE: C:\GAMES\*.* DESTINATION D:\GAMES\ */E* Copy subdirectories, even if empty. */S* Copy subdirectories, except empty ones. Hope that helped On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 10:23 AM Bryan Kilgallin wrote: > I am trying to copy a tree, in th

Re: [Freedos-user] USB serial port

Tomas: Is there a way to get a USB serial port adapter to work? No. The mode command says there is no serial port (the usb adapter was there before booting), and the machine does not have a RS232 port. That is why I moved my DOS usage to an old 32 bit tower PC that has a physical serial p

[Freedos-user] USB serial port

Hi all, Is there a way to get a USB serial port adapter to work? The mode command says there is no serial port (the usb adapter was there before booting), and the machine does not have a RS232 port. /Tomas ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@l

[Freedos-user] Xcopy

I am trying to copy a tree, in the same way that Deltree removes one. The instructions at the following page, I find confusing. http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/xcopy.htm -- members.iinet.net.au/~kilgallin/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@l

Re: [Freedos-user] Any Gui?

Thanks, Ralf: It seems you have never used DOS before (or only a very long time ago). I was using DOS raw in my daily tasks over three decades ago! That "INSTALL" you are referring to is a special config.sys command to install (load) device drivers and such. It has nothing to do with "insta

Re: [Freedos-user] Any Gui?

Thanks, Johnpaul: To add to the wonderful GEM discussion, when I run GEM on my modern laptop running FreeDOS and OpenGEM, GEM produces a blank white screen. I have now gotten GEM working on a 32 bit Dell PC under FreeDOS. However, in safe mode, it works fine (though some pixmaps or character