Dear Frank:
As I've already written, I myself have investigated the dark rabbit
hole of MS-DOS networking for you:
http://frantisek.rysanek.sweb.cz/FD_NET.zip
Unzip the three directories to your DOS hard drive, take a look at
the config.sys suggested, and see if you can get your DOS box to take
Hi Joseph,
> On May 11, 2021, at 1:37 PM, Joseph Norton wrote:
> Jerome, if you’re seeing this, can I still follow the same instructions to
> update my build to the latest RC?
Mostly...
Since RC3, the Release Build Environment (RBE) has been redone.
You will need to pull the latest RBE sourc
Hi Felix: Wish I could chime in on this with a great solution, but, I’m still stuck in about the same place. When I talked with Jerome Shidell, he pointed me to the build environment and told me how to do the build. The only option was to build 1.3 RC2, I believe. Actually, that wasn’t a bad idea
Hi Felix,
> The primary reason is that I want to keep Windows on my hard
> drive and I don't feel confident about using a boot manager.
Disclaimer: The following only works if your Windows C: drive
is NTFS! It does not work with ancient Windows on FAT C: drive.
You could try the following: Use
Hi Eric,
Am Di., 11. Mai 2021 um 14:08 Uhr schrieb Eric Auer :
> given that you have a hardware serial port speech synthesizer,
> there is a lot more optimism now! By the way, why do you want
> to boot from USB? While many PC can boot from USB, the access
> speed can be quite low and a few BIOS fai
Hi Felix,
given that you have a hardware serial port speech synthesizer,
there is a lot more optimism now! By the way, why do you want
to boot from USB? While many PC can boot from USB, the access
speed can be quite low and a few BIOS fail to support writes.
I assume you also have the right DOS
Yay! I knew why I posted here. That's exactly the kind of data I'm collecting.
I'm going to try and create a FreeDOS bootable flash drive with the
help of Rufus or some such, and put a screen reader on it. Then I'm
going to dig out my old Juno speech synthesizer, connect it to COM1 of
my old pc, an
> Two follow-ups:
> 1. My installation is based on FreeDOS 1.3 RC3. Is there a stable
> version incorporating ASAP somewhere?
as ASAP seems to have commercial license: no.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screen_readers
> 2. I'd love to go native with DOS, preferrably booting from a USB
>
