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2021-12-30 Thread Thomas Mueller
Excerpt from Liam Proven: > I have been using NT since the first version, 3.1, in 1993. There is > no built-in facility or tool to run DOS under it and never has been. > That is why I asked. This is highly relevant and important to the > question. There are no "dots" to follow. > OS/2 2.

Re: [Freedos-user] Country Code

2021-12-30 Thread Deposite Pirate
On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 18:40:07 -0500 dmccunney wrote: > You might be*able* to. I encountered a guy years back adamant that > Win2K should be run from FAT32. He thought it was faster. (I thought > he was a fool.) > > Why you might *want* to is another matter. "A file system DOS can > read and write

Re: [Freedos-user] Country Code

2021-12-30 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 3:04 PM Deposite Pirate wrote: > On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 19:21:36 +0100 > Liam Proven wrote: > > AFAIK XP *must* be installed in an NTFS partition. It cannot be > > installed on FAT. DOS can't boot from NTFS and can't read NTFS without > > additional drivers. So I still don't

Re: [Freedos-user] Country Code

2021-12-30 Thread Jon Brase
Dec 30, 2021 12:22:48 Liam Proven : > > I have been using NT since the first version, 3.1, in 1993. There is > no built-in facility or tool to run DOS under it and never has been. > That is why I asked. This is highly relevant and important to the > question. There are no "dots" to follow. NTVDM

Re: [Freedos-user] Country Code

2021-12-30 Thread Deposite Pirate
On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 19:21:36 +0100 Liam Proven wrote: > AFAIK XP *must* be installed in an NTFS partition. It cannot be > installed on FAT. DOS can't boot from NTFS and can't read NTFS without > additional drivers. So I still don't know what you're doing here. Windows XP can indeed officially be

Re: [Freedos-user] Country Code

2021-12-30 Thread Liam Proven
On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 at 13:19, JR wrote: > Too long ago, I can't remember. Probably just followed the dots at the > time. Runs in a Windows VDM as far as I know. I have been using NT since the first version, 3.1, in 1993. There is no built-in facility or tool to run DOS under it and never has bee

Re: [Freedos-user] Jemmex and Semware editor

2021-12-30 Thread Joseph Norton
Hi there: Thanks for trying this. I’m trying to run this with DOSBox-X. However, your message gave me a clue.   Now, I’ll try with VMWare and see what happens.  There may be a problem with DOSBox-X’s emulation. I just needed someone else with a different setup to try it. Now, I know it’s on my end.

Re: [Freedos-user] Country Code

2021-12-30 Thread Liam Proven
On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 at 11:39, JR wrote: First thing... > I am running FreeDos under Windows XP ... Er... How? 2nd thing: > included the line > "country=061,437,c:\windows\system32\country.sys" in the > c:\windows\system32\config.nt file Should this not be pointing to FreeDOS' directory and Fr

[Freedos-user] Country Code

2021-12-30 Thread JR
Hi there I have a really basic question regarding the date format. After decades, I decided I would like the date format to be -mm-dd instead of mm-dd-yy The "International English" country code of 061 will do the job. See. http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Country_codes I am running Fr

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

2021-12-30 Thread Louis Santillan
Doesn't Links2 do TLS? On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 3:45 PM Jim Hall wrote: > 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 nowada