Re: [Freedos-user] Retire from sending monthly reminder message

2022-08-21 Thread Travis Siegel
Nice script John. If Jim wants, I can run this on my softcon.com server, it won't be any trouble, and I just tested it by sending it to myself. it works just fine. Haven't tried it as a cron job yet, but I suspect that will work just fine too. Simple yet powerful piece of work there, nice w

[Freedos-user] Retire from sending monthly reminder message

2022-08-21 Thread John Price
It's been fun participaing in the FreeDOS development, but I think it's time for me to retire from the mailing lists, and also sending the monthly reminder emails. Attached is the script I use to send the reminder, run by a cron job on my Linux server. The error message (only sent if it can't down

Re: [Freedos-user] Minor Update to PGME

2022-08-21 Thread Liam Proven
On Sun, 21 Aug 2022 at 15:57, Jerome Shidel wrote: > > Hi all, > > Just letting you know, I spent a little time this morning and did a minor > update to PGME. > > Mostly, it improves compatibility with mouse drivers other than CTMouse. > > For example, the old MS-DOS 6.x mouse driver should be de

Re: [Freedos-user] Highlights from the FreeDOS YouTube channel

2022-08-21 Thread Jim Hall
I'll add that YouTube ads from these videos pay out only a tiny amount. These videos get a few hundred views to a few thousand views, which brings in just about enough to pay for monthly website hosting for www.freedos.org. This is not a money-making venture. (Professional YouTubers who post videos

[Freedos-user] Highlights from the FreeDOS YouTube channel

2022-08-21 Thread Jim Hall
You might know that we have a YouTube channel, where I share videos about how to use FreeDOS, or playing DOS games on FreeDOS, or programming on FreeDOS. https://www.youtube.com/freedosproject We've had the channel for about 3 years now, and the most popular videos have generally been about playi

[Freedos-user] Minor Update to PGME

2022-08-21 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi all, Just letting you know, I spent a little time this morning and did a minor update to PGME. Mostly, it improves compatibility with mouse drivers other than CTMouse. For example, the old MS-DOS 6.x mouse driver should be detected and usable now. https://fd.lod.bz/repos/current/pkg-htm