Hi,
I suppose already replied but, yes, you need an external add-in to be
able to use LFN.
Long time ago I did successful tests with one of LFNDOS or DOSLFN (I
never remember which one) with FreeDOS + an extender (CWSDPMI) + a file
manager that supports LFN, and had positive feedback.
Can lo
Hi,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
PS: You can even do dual VGA display with DOS ;-).
Can you? How does this work? (specially interested respecting to
codepages and such).
Aitor
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Hi,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
Hi all, as the "editors on old PCs" topic still has some
attention: My spin-off variant EDIT 0.7c works properly on
8086 / 8088 (PC-XT) computers, even with 84-key keyboard.
Hint hint ;-).
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/edit07c.zip
Aitor h
Hi,
Mark Bailey escribió:
Or, you may be able to access a USB memory stick (aka thumb
drive). There are two basic ways of doing that. One is if
your BIOS provides the correct support, FreeDOS may detect the
USB stick and be able to use it. (Note that this sort of
works on my Dell D600 lapto
Hi,
This mostly requires multitasking.
There's another possibility, but I don't know very much about it,
because I was too young when I first saw it to know what it was about.
It was called SideKick, and seemingly it was a TSR by which you could
open a calculator (perhaps a text viewer?). Some
Hi,
GNU_man escribió:
Ok this is two questions in one here, I just did a real minimalistic
FreeDOS install via 5 1/4" floppy on my "new" computer. No DOS text
editors work on this machine, they all crash - including TED tiny
editor. I suspect it could be something do with the keyboard.
It
Hi,
Kenneth J. Davis escribió:
For applications which are best run from pure DOS, but the user has
only NTFS (and Windows), and the max data stored is known ahead of
time, a possible solution involves creating the file ahead of time (in
Windows) and then in DOS either using a special driver t
Hi there,
Michael Devore escribió:
At 03:07 PM 5/3/2005 -0500, I wrote:
Ha! What is up with these goofball extender limitations? RAR32 uses
RSX extender. I can't decide if there is a weird bug in EMM386 that
makes DOS/32A unhappy with >256M and RSX >429M, or if the weirdness
is in the ex
Michael Devore escribió:
At 07:52 PM 4/29/2005 +0200, Eric Auer wrote:
More problems ahead. I tested several programs with EMM386 2.0,
setting X=TEST VDS. Many failed. Most of them did work, however, when I
added EMM=20480 to the settings, to disable the EMS / XMS / VCPI memory
pool sharing. Some p
Hi there,
Eric Auer escribió:
Hi Aitor, you are a little late...
Probably yes ;-)
Better late than never they say. Anyway, your history of DFLAT/EDIT is
very nice and clarifying.
Things started in 2003: I had sent
some AltGr handling patch to Joe early in 2003, but the patch turned
out to work
Hi,
Eric Auer escribió:
The readme file now makes clear that EDIT 0.7a / 0.7b are a separate
version and that the newest official / Joe Cosentino version is 0.82,
which has some differences to 0.7b - Whenever one of the two is
better than the other, I encourage the users to motivate the maintainer
Hi,
Jose Antonio Senna escribió:
MD>GNU-ish type stuff suffers from the "we despise everything related to
MD>Microsoft" and "Not Invented Here" syndromes, and its relationship with DOS
MD>is often uneasy. That said, DJGPP has never given me a problem when
MD>testing recent EMM386 versions.
I n
Hi,
Eric Auer escribió:
Hi Kristaps,
Well. I would like to see a password program (running from autoexec.bat) with
login/password database in crypted file which would set USER (logged in user)
and HOME (user's profile directory) environment variables on exit.
I gave a thought at this some
Hi,
Michael Devore escribió:
At 02:49 PM 3/18/2005 +0200, Kristaps Kaupe wrote:
I had problems with DJGPP (long compile times, mystical error
messages) until
I removed FreeDOS EMM386 from my CONFIG.SYS.
Heavy port I/O and use of software interrupts are way too freaking
slow in V86 mode, no doubt
Hi,
A bit going too far offtopic, but *very* interesting (for me) at the
same time. Any chance for the Lotus WordPro format? (LWP). After the
plain and nice format of the Lotus AmiPro files (SAM), WordPro seems to
have some sort of binary compressed format, that I have seen documented
nowhere,
Hi,
A bit going too far offtopic, but *very* interesting (for me) at the
same time. Any chance for the Lotus WordPro format? (LWP). After the
plain and nice format of the Lotus AmiPro files (SAM), WordPro seems to
have some sort of binary compressed format, that I have seen documented
nowhere,
Hi,
Kenneth J. Davis escribió:
...
Anyway... I'm surprised that it is so uncommon to run FD on an old
PC. IMHO it seems ridiculous to install FreeDOS on your P4
side-by-side with Windows XP like so many other people do. I mean
what DOS software is going to run properly on a 3Ghz CPU? Besides,
Hi there,
root escribió:
Oops - i forgot that Linux is going to label me as 'root' by default!
Anyway... I'm surprised that it is so uncommon to run FD on an old
PC. IMHO it seems ridiculous to install FreeDOS on your P4
side-by-side with Windows XP like so many other people do. I mean what
D
Hi,
Michael Devore escribió:
At 09:56 PM 2/16/2005 +0100, Eric Auer wrote:
If you use FreeDOS to load WinCE, please behave better than
Neoware.com which have hidden the FreeDOS copyright messages
on their old Eon systems (with FreeCOM 0.76b from 3/1999, FDXMS
driver from 1995, ancient kernel...). T
Hi,
Eric Auer escribió:
Hi, strange subject line, but:
Arkady, SYS C: is for transferring systemfiles from current drive ...
to C: and writing bootsector.
IIRC bootsector is not overwritten, unless you do /MBR (at least in MS's).
SYS does write the boot sector all the time - you a
Hi Bernd,
Bernd Blaauw escribió:
Aitor Santamaría Merino schreef:
I am thinking of a great deal of possibilities with my IDE/ATA=>USB
adapter provided that the target OS is capable of understanding
that it is being booted from such device... (I don't know if any of
the Windows would be able
Hi,
Jose Antonio Senna escribió:
Logically,both are defensible. I prefer DRDOS behavior. Has somenone
tested this under MS-DOS ?
Probably syntax errors, ALL MS-DOS books instruct you to use the quotes:
IF "%1"="XYZ" GOTO...
Aitor
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Hi there,
Sorry about the slight offtopic, but...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
I'm using a boot loader called "GAG" to multiboot all of my computers.
The laptop I'm using has FreeDOS, Windows XP, and Linux installed
now with the GAG boot loader in the MBR. C: is the FreeDOS
installation permanately
Hi there,
Eric Auer escribió:
Hi all, Michael is right, if you I=..., then EMM386 should just do
what you tell it to do. He is also right that autodetection should
be careful, not "overenthousiastic". Anyway, I like the suggestion
from Arkady:
Ok. Let make another question: how to make _cond
Hi,
Eric Auer escribió:
For "grab int 15 back from HIMEM", please have a look at kill15 from:
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/memtest-1.27.zip
Note that MKEYB hooks int 15 in a different way (int 15.4f keyboard
intercept, can be detected by "JNC notme / cmp ah,4f / jnz notme / ...",
so it is the ca
Hi there,
16BIT escribió:
Jim Hall wrote:
My brother was reading up on USB hard drives, when he found this
reference to FreeDOS being included with a Seagate USB drive:
I was reading this review of the Seagate 5GB USB hard drive, and I
saw this note: "Much of the documentations reside on the CD
There isn't any that I know, but I can try to help. Write to me in
private please.
Aitor - Spain
(Hola Óscar Rodolfo: escríbeme en privado si quieres que intente
ayudarte. Estaré un par de días fuera, en 2005 te contesto)
Oscar Rodolfo Garcia escribió:
I need support in spanish where???
Ok, so MOVE goes back to READY in the TODO list...
Aitor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
Hi,
I am hereby releasing a new version of move.
This version fixes the bug concerning the '..' problem from the move side.
This version should work fine.
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Hi,
It seems to be using Calmira as desktop...
Calmira is a new desktop for Win3.X that resembles later versions of
Windows. Hey, we could even have such shots for plain FreeDOS (running
Windows), if only any version of Windows 3.X would run on FreeDOS ;-)
Aitor
Jim Hall escribió:
This came in v
Hi,
Eric Auer escribió:
Hi! Ranting on...
Bad news.
Eric, you say your list is not to replace the official, then why you do
it? why, being over 70 bugs, do you waste your time (and mine) in
creating such a list?
I claim that my list actually saves me some time: I can annotate things
there
Hi,
This mail explains my position on the recent 1.0 list issue. If the
FreeDOS version 1.0 concerns you, please read this.
When I declared my intention to create the TODO list, I explained my two
major concerns about it. First of all is that I wanted it as a
checklist, and second, that I just
Eric Auer escribió:
Hi, I am proud to have finished the first version of my inofficial
FreeDOS 1.0 TODO list on:
Eric, so why you ask in private?
Can you please assume that the rest of us can be busy and maybe cannot
reply on the fly?
THANKS
Regarding the list itself it looks very well (too ve
Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze escribió:
Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote:
Hi,
Eric Auer escribió:
I think we can postpone SCANDISK to post-1.0, for example PC-DOS
does not have one either.
Everybody agrees?
Personally I agree. I think MS-DOS 6.20+ is the only DOS with a
surface scanner? DR-DOS
Hi,
Eric Auer escribió:
I think we can postpone SCANDISK to post-1.0, for example PC-DOS
does not have one either.
Everybody agrees?
PS: Shrinking DISPLAY to half size should be easy (it now has 2 buffers
for each font size I think), just let the 2nd buffer reside e.g. in XMS.
Changes are on
Eric Auer escribió:
Programs which are translated in another way are:
- FreeCOM (you can download a translation toolkit version of it), the shell
- CuteMouse (you can compile various localized/translated versions of it
(KEYB and DISPLAY in a similar manner too, check sources).
Aitor
Hi,
Carlos AB escribió:
Hi
I have a few questions and I hope someone can answer.
1) All programs have catalogs of messages to be translated to other
languages?
(I have interest to translate all catalogs to Brazilian-Portuguese)
No, this depends on the developer.
Also notice that there are some
Hi Eduardo,
Eduardo Casino escribió:
* Updated help to make clear that APPEND becomes an internal command
extension after its first execution (Bernd Blaauw)
Good! It just occurs to me that you could add a single line into the
readme file (if you haven't done it already) for dummy users lik
Hi Jeff,
In order to type those characters you need two things:
(1) that the characters you want to represent are printable on the
screen. For this, you'd use DISPLAY (see documentation and such),
because default codepage (character set) will not have the capital
accented letters (so you can wr
My apologies, file was ok. I couldn't open it until finally EXPLORER.EXE
crashed and reopened (but didn't show something was going wrong anyway,
I tend to consider it as a trustworthy unzipping utility).
Aitor
Aitor Santamaría Merino escribió:
Hi,
Bernd Blaauw escribió:
Hi,
Anyone willing t
Hi,
Bernd Blaauw escribió:
Hi,
Anyone willing to translate strings can have a look at
http://fdos.org/ripcord/beta9rc5/addon/strings.zip
I have been repeatedly trying to download this file (last time with
GetRight so that I ensure that file size is correct), and once
downloaded, I can't open.
Hi Michael,
Michael Devore escribió:
Finally, I added two new options which don't follow Microsoft standard. Why the heck did I do that so close to FreeDOS 1.0 release?
Well, I see no problems. In my opinion (and I think I've heard this
before), compatibility requirement means that adding mo
Hi,
Jay Maus escribió:
Wow, I'm impressed by all the discussion this has sparked. It's good to see
an active dev community. So I think I'm nearly ready to start futzing around
with FreeDOS code, but it's still a little foreign to me: I'm used to 32-bit
Windows C++. In Visual Studio, no less. Are
Hi,
Eric Auer escribió:
As you can see, there is always something to do for people who want to
train their DOS programming skills a bit. And I did not even mention
the post 1.0 wishlist (which seems to be offline right now) ;-).
Not quite right: actually online here:
http://fdos.org/ripcord/fd
Hi Jay,
The TODO list for FreeDOS 1.0 would be a place to start. Just mind that
some of them are quite a technical stuff that may require some DOS
technical reading before getting into that (see the freedos.org main
place) (see in particular the currently unmaintained PRINT? Mabe you'd
like it
Hi,
I'd like to announce my new FD-KEYB 2.0 (pre1), a complete rewrite of a
keyboard driver for FreeDOS
(I have been little by little incorporating some code into existing
stubs, but now I have managed to produce a version being all the code
new and coherent with each other (after 200b of optim
Jim Hall escribió:
Practically speaking, of course, I doubt the owners of these old DOS
games will complain much. These days, no one sells DOS games.
Maybe, maybe not. I have just seen the revival of some of these old
games (such as Prince of Persia), for mobile phones. I don't know how
much t
Hi Matthias,
Matthias Paul escribió:
[Resend]
On 2004-03-05, Henrique (BuSab) wrote:
On DISPLAY's side there's another thing that could be done: the fonts
can be set in a format called DR-FONTs, where they are compressed.
However, I don't know much about this format, and I don't know if
Henr
Hi,
Bernd Blaauw escribió:
OK, had a brief look
ZIP support is REALLY great! saves lots of space.
maybe Keyb or Display projects can borrow your code for this since
they have many files, bunt only a single one is used. zip them up :)
DISPLAY: Actually the file is opened by "MODE", copied ino a
Hi,
Eric Auer escribió:
http://www.xandros.com/about/faq.html
Xandros is the successor of Corel Linux, therefore it contains WordPerfect.
Well, just a little perfectionist note, the second clause doesn't
follow. I would have said "Xandros is the successor of Corel Linux and
contains WordPerfect
Hi,
Personally I prefer the new style. I was using the news archive to go
back and see which is the latest version of some items, and this way it
is easier (of course, ideal would be that you can run a search ONLY on
the news headers, but maybe that is too much to ask ;-)).
Aitor
Jim Hall esc
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