Re: [Freedos-user] Request for developers... (fwd)

What is most needed is to compile DOS Arachne as 32bit Potential starting point: https://web.archive.org/web/20150215203536/http://www.drdosprojects.de/index.cgi/other.htm and to give it HTTPS capability via WATT32 & OpenSSL Or LibreSSL: https://github.com/markjolesen/openbsd _

Re: [Freedos-user] Video complains that DOS should not be maintained

On Wed, 29 Dec 2021 00:33:01 +0100 Liam Proven wrote: > On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 at 23:23, Deposite Pirate > Fascinating! Thank you very much. I learned something this evening. > :-) > No problem. If you poke around this website you'll also learn that earlier IBM were also behind a few utilities sh

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3 RC5 error when installing

So try 1.2 and see if that works and if so cool On Tue, Dec 28, 2021, 1:46 AM Jerome Shidel, wrote: > > > On Dec 27, 2021, at 9:19 PM, Pyros wrote: > > http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/img/uploaded/image24.jpg > > while installing freedos 1.3 rc5 i get the error that you see in the > image. No

Re: [Freedos-user] Jemmex and Semware editor

On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 9:30 PM wrote: > I have the Semware Editor, big brother to Qedit. > > I can use it fine under MS-DOS with EMM386.EXE, but, when I try to use it > under FreeDOS with the default config, I get something like this: > > JemmEx: exception 06 occured at CS:EIP=:0707, ERR

Re: [Freedos-user] Message delivered

On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 7:29 PM Jose Senna wrote: > > My message appeared on the list afer all. > I shall thank Jim Hall and the others at > Sourceforge who solved this problem. > I'd love to take credit for this, but I didn't do anything here. Most likely, the SourceForge email list server h

Re: [Freedos-user] Video complains that DOS should not be mantained

On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 6:28 PM Jose Senna wrote: > > Liam Proven said: > > There were DOS email and chat and FTP > > clients; that stuff's fairly easy. > > Were is the right word. Most email > servers nowadays require TLS, which > is not available in DOS email clients. > There are few remaining F

Re: [Freedos-user] Request for developers... (fwd)

Thanks. I've also added this to the news item on the FreeDOS website. Jim On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 4:40 PM Karen Lewellen wrote: > > Sharing the below, in case anyone here has an interest. > > > > -- Forwarded message -- > Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2021 12:01:57 -0500 > From: Glenn McCo

Re: [Freedos-user] Video complains that DOS should not be maintained

On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 at 23:23, Deposite Pirate wrote: > > > > If you know differently, please share some evidence, because I'd > > really like to know. > > > > https://www.os2museum.com/wp/dos/dos-3-3/ > > "A much less obvious but no less significant change was that unlike all > previous versions,

[Freedos-user] Request for developers... (fwd)

Sharing the below, in case anyone here has an interest. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2021 12:01:57 -0500 From: Glenn McCorkle Reply-To: LifeRaft To: LifeRaft Cc: arac...@freelists.org, internetin...@frelists.org, Subject: +[SurvPC] Request for developers... To

Re: [Freedos-user] Video complains that DOS should not be maintained

On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 19:56:26 +0100 Liam Proven wrote: > On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 at 19:45, Deposite Pirate > wrote: > > > > It's not up to Microsoft to release MS/PC-DOS > 2.x. IBM did the > > bulk of the work on "MS" DOS for a while after 2.x and they would > > have to have IBM's permission to even

Re: [Freedos-user] Video complains that DOS should not be maintained

On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 at 19:45, Deposite Pirate wrote: > > It's not up to Microsoft to release MS/PC-DOS > 2.x. IBM did the bulk of > the work on "MS" DOS for a while after 2.x and they would have to > have IBM's permission to even think about releasing it. With the exception of the versions releas

Re: [Freedos-user] Video complains that DOS should not be mantained

On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 at 01:27, Jose Senna wrote: > > Were is the right word. Most email > servers nowadays require TLS, which > is not available in DOS email clients. Ahh, that is a fair point. I hadn't thought about that. > There are few remaining FTP servers, > and I cannot tell how many also n

Re: [Freedos-user] Video complains that DOS should not be maintained

On Sun, 26 Dec 2021 22:27:26 +0100 Aitor Santamaría wrote: > I would dare say that even Bill Gates himself must have those sources > somewhere in one harddrive of his own (for historical purposes). :) > > Aitor It's not up to Microsoft to release MS/PC-DOS > 2.x. IBM did the bulk of the work on

Re: [Freedos-user] Video complains that DOS should not be maintained

> If Microsoft did not do it, imagine how nice it would be that there > were in FreeDOS an open source version of VMM32 with a good set of > well written VxDs  (and that the very first thing it does after > loading is NOT to find that KRNL386.EXE and run it). Of course, > that's an outstanding ch

Re: [Freedos-user] Video complains that DOS should not be maintained

On 12/26/21 3:18 PM, Aitor Santamaría wrote: My point here is, NT has indeed quite a bunch of more stable and better thought features of an operating system that was conceived in the late 80's rather in the late 70's (a better filesystem, more suitable to networks, and basically, a brand new

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.3 RC5 error when installing

> On Dec 27, 2021, at 9:19 PM, Pyros wrote: > > http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/img/uploaded/image24.jpg > > > while installing freedos 1.3 rc5 i get the error that you see in the image. > Now this is not your modern pc it's from