[Freedos-user] New FreeDOSers Monthly Reminder

2022-02-28 Thread John Price
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Re: [Freedos-user] ECHO vs @ECHO

2022-02-28 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi Bret, > On Feb 28, 2022, at 6:42 PM, Bret Johnson wrote: > > This to me seems like a solution that could actually do what I'm wanting to > accomplish. I may experiment with that and see what happens. As you note, > there may be compatibility issues with some DOS versions (V8 power tools m

Re: [Freedos-user] Looking for easy to follow instructions on how to connect to Samba share

2022-02-28 Thread dmccunney
On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 8:41 PM Sean Warner wrote: > > Not sure if you saw my more recent post... I now have a version of FreeDOS > 1.2 with the NIC and MS Client installed and working. I went with v1.2 > because after some googling I read that 1.2 is more stable than 1.3 for > network sharing

Re: [Freedos-user] Looking for easy to follow instructions on how to connect to Samba share

2022-02-28 Thread Sean Warner
Thanks Liam, Not sure if you saw my more recent post... I now have a version of FreeDOS 1.2 with the NIC and MS Client installed and working. I went with v1.2 because after some googling I read that 1.2 is more stable than 1.3 for network sharing and things. Maybe that is not true anymore? At my

Re: [Freedos-user] ECHO vs @ECHO

2022-02-28 Thread Bret Johnson
Thanks everybody for the input! Lots of interesting suggestions/ideas. I think the proposed solutions generally fall into four categories: 1. Always use ECHO OFF without the @ and don't worry about it 2. Try to fix the problem before it happens 3. Just let the problem happen and "fix" the scr

[Freedos-user] KERNL86.SYS vs. KERNL86N.SYS

2022-02-28 Thread Robert Riebisch
Hi, the differences seem to be: 1) Support for LFNs with KERNL86.SYS, because of kernel compatibility level 7.10 (vs. 6.22). 2) Support for FAT32 partitions with KERNL86.SYS. Anything else? Cheers, Robert -- +++ BTTR Software +++ Home page: https://www.bttr-software.de/ DOS a

Re: [Freedos-user] Looking for easy to follow instructions on how to connect to Samba share

2022-02-28 Thread Liam Proven
On Sun, 27 Feb 2022 at 19:54, Sean Warner wrote: > > I installed FreeDOS 1.2 today in Virtualbox on Win 10. Why the out-of-date version? 1.3 is out now. It's usually a good plan to use the latest version. > I am trying to mount a Samba Share that is on another machine in my LAN as a > network d