Re: [Freedos-user] PDF documentation

2024-10-24 Thread tsiegel--- via Freedos-user
Me personally, I turn most pdf files into html or plain text before viewing, since it loads my browser to view the stupid thing, I figure it may as well be in a native format.  The only problem is, the pdftohtml program puts each page in it's own file, which is fine for some things, not so much

Re: [Freedos-user] A new mTCP is available ...

2024-10-24 Thread Michael Brutman via Freedos-user
Thanks, The web server is a nice way to test the TCP/IP library. It needs to handle multiple connections concurrently, fetch real files from disk, and deal with the random noise/garbage that comes in on port 80. So far the machine has been up for 770 hours straight. It's gone over 5,000 hours in

Re: [Freedos-user] PDF documentation

2024-10-24 Thread Ben Collver via Freedos-user
> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:58:30 +0200 > From: Jose Senna > > Michael Brutman said: > > I feel bad shipping a 3MB PDF file on FreeDOS knowing > > that most people are not going to open it under FreeDOS. > > What are the present means to open a .PDF file > under FreeDOS (or any DOS, BTW

Re: [Freedos-user] A new mTCP is available ...

2024-10-24 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user
> On Oct 23, 2024, at 9:08 PM, Michael Brutman via Freedos-user > wrote: > > I'd like to ensure that you get it for the next test releases, but yes, I'd > like to have some way to gauge interest too ... > > Another potential discussion point is the PDF documentation - it's large. > Would s

[Freedos-user] PDF documentation

2024-10-24 Thread Jose Senna via Freedos-user
Michael Brutman said: > I feel bad shipping a 3MB PDF file on FreeDOS knowing > that most people are not going to open it under FreeDOS. What are the present means to open a .PDF file under FreeDOS (or any DOS, BTW) ? Best regards ___ Freed

[Freedos-user] Agena - a procedural programming language for DOS with some OOP

2024-10-24 Thread Alexander Walz via Freedos-user
Hello, I would like to introduce you to a programming language called Agena. Agena can be used in scientific, educational, linguistic, graphical, and many other applications, including scripting. The syntax resembles very simplified Algol 68 with elements taken from Maple, Lua and SQL.

Re: [Freedos-user] New user

2024-10-24 Thread the via Freedos-user
Fantastic thank you so much works perfect On Thu, Oct 24, 2024, 11:35 AM Jim Hall via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > *Another Edlin user! I like to write text in Edlin too, sometimes. * > > If you're using Edlin, note that Edlin will interpret special codes for > you,

Re: [Freedos-user] New user

2024-10-24 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-user
*Another Edlin user! I like to write text in Edlin too, sometimes. * If you're using Edlin, note that Edlin will interpret special codes for you, using backslash. To protect the backslash, type it twice when entering text: C:\\DOSSOUND\\DOSSound.com Then it will get entered into the file as: C

[Freedos-user] New user

2024-10-24 Thread the via Freedos-user
Hi all, new to freedos and trying figure it out myself following guides and instructions but I hit a snag when adding lines to FDAuto.bat and FD config.sys but it comes out messed up, I am typing in fdauto using Edlin C:\DOSSOUND\DOSSound.com but it turns to C:EWOSSOUNDOSSOUND.COM I know I must be