Re: [Freedos-user] USB external floppy drive and freedos?

> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 11:34:23 +0100 > From: molngab > Subject: USB external floppy drive and freedos? > > How can I access a USB external floppy drive from freedos? I can issue > the: command and it seems to work, but it doesn't take me to the > external floppy. > > Thanks I used an externa

Re: [Freedos-user] Arrow keys in QEMU

> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 09:59:58 -0500 > From: Jim Hall > ... > If you use QEMU, you can add *-global i8042.kbd-throttle=on* to the QEMU > command line. I haven't experimented with games yet, to make sure it's not > causing issues elsewhere, but so far it seems to work fine with other > regular D

Re: [Freedos-user] PDF documentation

> 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] Copying Files Between Linux And FreeDOS

> Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 14:49:21 -0400 > From: jer...@shidel.net > To: FreeDOS Users > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Copying Files Between Linux And FreeDOS > > Have you considered using EtherDFS or NetDrive? > > https://etherdfs.sourceforge.net/ I tried Ether

Re: [Freedos-user] Copying Files Between Linux And FreeDOS

> Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2024 03:27:18 +0200 > From: Eric Auer > > Even without the effort to create a network between QEMU > and the host Linux, have you considered using DOSEMU2? ;-) > > https://github.com/dosemu2/ I do not like dosemu2. See the [rant] section of the following post for details.

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user Digest, Vol 2670, Issue 2

> Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 14:49:21 -0400 > From: jer...@shidel.net > > Have you considered using EtherDFS or NetDrive? > > https://etherdfs.sourceforge.net/ > https://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP_NetDrive.html > I'

[Freedos-user] Copying Files Between Linux And FreeDOS

Copying Files Between Linux And FreeDOS === I boot FreeDOS both on real hardware and on virtual machines. During development i prefer to test DOS builds in a virtual machine for convenience. I often use qemu for this. Up until around 2019, i was using guestmou

[Freedos-user] DJGPP gawk.exe and FAT corruption

Good day, I am writing about a recent experience just in case it helps someone else in the future. I wrote an EPUB to TXT converter and announced it on the DOS Ain't Dead forum. It is an AWK script and it is named epub2txt.awk. It "shells out" to other utilities to do much of the work, includin

[Freedos-user] Printing to USB Printers

On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 13:41:46 +, Michael Perry wrote: > Using FreeDOS 1.3 on bare metal. Yes, I know that USB came well after > DOS's golden years. > > All of the parallel to USB adapters I've seen require Windows > drivers. I tried USBPRINT without success (although USBDRIVE works > grea

Re: [Freedos-user] odd news

> Date: Thu, 9 May 2024 00:29:44 +0200 > From: Eric Auer > > and a dos port of gnupg where important features cannot be used > because dos has no /dev/random (see bttr thread) be newsworthy? The DOS port of gnupg should be fully functional now, both on FreeDOS and MS-DOS. When generating keys,

Re: [Freedos-user] Coding in BASIC for Freedos?

> Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2024 19:26:05 +0100 > From: tom ehlert > To: "Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS." > > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Coding in BASIC for Freedos? > > > On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 6:26 AM Liam Proven via Freedos-user > > wrote: > > [..] > >> There are good reasons tha

[Freedos-user] jq 1.7.1 for DOS

Greetings, Here is a link to download jq 1.7.1 for DOS built with DJGPP and lightly tested on DOSBox and FreeDOS. jq is like sed for JSON data - you can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk, grep and friends let you play with text. htt

[Freedos-user] Walden for computer programmers

""" If there's a "Walden" for computer programmers, it would be a 4:3 display running DOS where coding can be done without any modern day annoying interruptions. """ From: https://fernandomeyer.com/microblog/2023-12-03-111519076247101245/ ___ Freedos-u

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos, or dos based mail clients?

Karen also asked about this on the lynx-dev mailing list. They reported that panix.com tested squirrelmail and roundcube in lynx and found that neither works because certain controls in both apps are proprietary controls not standard web controls. I don't do email on DOS, but if i did, i would

Re: [Freedos-user] Epson dot matrix printer emulator?

I wrote a post about how to do this on FreeDOS. It converts Epson printer data to image or PDF. DOSBox-X has similar Epson printer emulation built in, and you can install FreeDOS on that. Basically, the process goes like this: * Run prn2file to capture the printer data to a file. * Print from

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and the Gemini protocol

Another option is to use a gemini proxy. For example: C:\>lynx https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/geminispace.info/search%3Ffreedos This is an indirect way to access gemini://geminispace.info/search?freedos ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.