Re: [Freedos-user] USB support/IPod

2010-04-08 Thread Blair Campbell
>  > support that they might find an IPod hooked to a modern PC... > > I might be wrong, but iPod and certain cameras are in > some way special. Otherwise it would be easy: Almost > all other MP3 and MP4 players and many cameras or even > cardreaders simply look like USB sticks for drivers, > which

Re: [Freedos-user] cd burning?

2010-03-30 Thread Blair Campbell
> Yesdoscdroast is  still around, but it too is command line.  I prefer > command line actually works better from a speech standpoint since one does > not use a mouse with a screen reader. > The guy who puts together doscdroast could not confirm how audio cds are > burned which is why I decided to

Re: [Freedos-user] cd burning?

2010-03-29 Thread Blair Campbell
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > or DVD either for that matter? > I have come across a few for creating iso images, even backups, but am > wondering if others have ideas.  Hearts desire would let me create real > audio cds for play in a stand alone player, or at the least c

[Freedos-user] Clamav 0.95.3

2010-02-22 Thread Blair Campbell
The DOS port of ClamAV 0.95.3 is now available on ibiblio. Check it out at http://sites.google.com/site/blairdude/clamav . Also available is an updated FDAV built with ClamAV 0.95.3. It is available at http://sites.google.com/site/blairdude/fdav . This seems to be mostly a bugfix release withou

Re: [Freedos-user] Executing a Linux Command from Inside DOS?

2009-10-14 Thread Blair Campbell
> Chris: Guess I didn't include enough details of the question. I run Ubuntu > 8.04 and then Dosemu 1.4.0.0. My printer, a HP Officejet K80xi works fine in > linux for both text and graphical files (I just enter lpr filename and > either file prints fine with no further input on my part). After I e

Re: [Freedos-user] dos extender saga.

2009-07-12 Thread Blair Campbell
> Japheth, I tried what you said: ran hdpmi32 -r-m, then the exe, and it > worked; > then tried cwsdpmi -x then the exe, that also worked. Remaining question: > how do I "build-in" the '-x' switch at compile time? The sandman site does It likely isn't desirable to have cwsdpmi -x always enabled be

[Freedos-user] Updated ClamAV and FDAV

2009-07-07 Thread Blair Campbell
It's a little late but I've updated my port of ClamAV to 0.95.2 and updated FDAV to 0.2.1 to use the updated clamav engine. They are available from the usual spots ( http://blairdude.googlepages.com/clamav , http://blairdude.googlepages.com/fdav ). Nothing is new except for the changes to ClamAV.

Re: [Freedos-user] Could the MDADEBUG TSR be used to find this FreeCOM bug?

2009-07-04 Thread Blair Campbell
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Shane Baggs wrote: > I've posted before about the four machines I'm running FreeDOS on -- One is > exceptionally well behaved with FreeDOS 1.0 and another is exceptionally > quirky.  In particular, I've been experiencing the FreeCOM bug where the > command prompt ret

Re: [Freedos-user] Fwd: Announcement: New DOS USB Drivers

2009-07-03 Thread Blair Campbell
> Re-phrasing: all I have seen hav EHCI, but over randomly U/OHCI. Do you > agree with this? I understood that one of the two types was mainly Intel/VIA only > > Alain > > -- > _

[Freedos-user] Fwd: Announcement: New DOS USB Drivers

2009-07-02 Thread Blair Campbell
Anyone these days using UHCI? -- Forwarded message -- From: Bret Johnson Date: Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:49 AM Subject: Announcement: New DOS USB Drivers To: bretj...@juno.com Good day to you. My name is Bret Johnson, and I write DOS TSR programs.  I am sending this e-mail to yo

Re: [Freedos-user] A windows 9x replacement...

2009-06-13 Thread Blair Campbell
> I know about ReactOS, ReactOS is garbage right now.  It will probably be > garbage for 2-3 more years. Realistically, writing a Windows 9x replacement for FreeDOS would take years, probably more than 2 or 3 because developers are hard to find and it's a huge project, probably (correct me if I'm

Re: [Freedos-user] Command prompt returns without commands executing

2009-04-25 Thread Blair Campbell
> the data from XMS... There might be some code which decides about > whether restore-from-XMS is needed and which is too optimistic. But > maybe I am totally wrong about that whole swap/overwrite topic... >From what I can tell it always swaps back from XMS and there is no other memory block that

Re: [Freedos-user] Abandonware site...

2009-04-19 Thread Blair Campbell
>> On a side note, I could care less whether or not people use illegal >> copies of software on FreeDOS; that's a personal choice.  But don't >> try to force your opinion on other people. > > You mean the way you are trying to force your opinion on everyone? No I am not. I am saying "everyone, ma

Re: [Freedos-user] Abandonware site...

2009-04-18 Thread Blair Campbell
> Downloading commercial software that you own a copy of for personal > use is not illegal.  Downloading old commercial software that isn't > sold anymore which the author doesn't care about is not illegal. > To be illegal, the owner of the intellectual property has to raise > suit and why would th

Re: [Freedos-user] What about changing our packaging style for v1.1?

2009-04-16 Thread Blair Campbell
> No way... It would mean rewritting CATS/Kitten/Foxcubs for any existing > application, for a really not so great profit... > NLS files aren't that big anyway (few KiB...), and it's a great functionality > to be able to switch from one language to another just by typing SET LANG=xx. > :-) Actu

Re: [Freedos-user] New problems with Windows 3.1...

2009-04-09 Thread Blair Campbell
>> > If I don't load emm386.exe, freedos version, I get an error that I >> > have an unsupported dos version. >> >> Load the microsoft version that comes with windows, himem too. >> >> > >> > If I try loading windows 3.1 in standard mode, I get an error that >> > there isn't enough extended memory.

Re: [Freedos-user] New problems with Windows 3.1...

2009-04-09 Thread Blair Campbell
> If I don't load emm386.exe, freedos version, I get an error that I > have an unsupported dos version. Load the microsoft version that comes with windows, himem too. > > If I try loading windows 3.1 in standard mode, I get an error that > there isn't enough extended memory. > > Uge! > > > --

Re: [Freedos-user] HTGET for DOS?

2009-04-07 Thread Blair Campbell
ought to delete it > if we don't have sources. Maybe 1.05 is included in the watt-32 package. I would check there. > > -jh > > > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Mateusz Viste > wrote: >> Hi Blair! >> >> On Tuesday 07 April 2009 09:13, Blair Campbell

Re: [Freedos-user] HTGET for DOS?

2009-04-07 Thread Blair Campbell
HTGET was included in freedos 1.0 IIRC so you might find the source with the distribution somewhere On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > Hi there! > > I recently discovered a cool file retriever for DOS called HTGET, written > many years ago by Ken Yap. This program uses WatTC

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing programs on FreeDOS v1.1

2009-04-05 Thread Blair Campbell
> It appears that any binary package installed on FreeDOS goes to /BIN. Besides > that, there's no clear directive about "how to install 3rd party apps". It should be %DOSDIR%\bin > > I would propose the following rules: > - Any DOS replacement stuff (move, tree, format...) goes to \BIN\ > - Any

Re: [Freedos-user] chkdsk broken?

2009-04-02 Thread Blair Campbell
IIRC chkdsk does not support FAT32 filesystems. This might be your issue. On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Christian Groessler wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm using FreeDOS 1.0. > > When I run "dosfsck c:" it reports everything ok: > > dosfsck 2.11.DOS, 15 Apr 2006, FAT32, LFN > c:: 4191 files, 6623/62597

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 status???

2009-04-02 Thread Blair Campbell
> There is a problem here: There are 2 pirates programs there: pkzip and > arj. Can this be removed arj is open-source (http://arj.sourceforge.net/) and pkzip afaik can be redistributed (but not the source). -- __

Re: [Freedos-user] XGCDROM and CD/DVD Recording

2009-04-02 Thread Blair Campbell
> There is no physical SCSI bus in that machine. > The disk wodim found must be the virtual device > created by aspi.sys. Yes; cdrecord and wodim cannot use ATAPI devices directly in DOS; that's why they > Regards, >  JAS > > > -

Re: [Freedos-user] MS compatible CLIENT

2009-03-31 Thread Blair Campbell
> 2) MS compatible client need to fully support LFN read and write, but I'm not > sure the DOSLFN write action is safe or not Why isn't DOSLFN safe? I've used it plenty without issues. > > 3) You can leave out UNC support otherwise printer will not work, but this > will consume lot of memory > >

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-31 Thread Blair Campbell
> So why cant we just create a "database/table - file" that allows > lookup in a second area, either a file on > the hard drive or a separate partition. then based on the > file/directory "ID" and store that in the database table completely > separate from the FAT if we don't touch fat it should be

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-31 Thread Blair Campbell
> And this means that basically implementing FAT12/16/32 in order to > store and retrieve files, while using the old 8.3 filename scheme, in > FreeDOS is perfectly fine, you just can't implement long file names > and Extended Attributs as covered by those patents. What about the way UMSDOS used to

Re: [Freedos-user] Networking

2009-03-30 Thread Blair Campbell
> 1) Run the file crynwr.bat inside the directory FDOS If you've already installed the network driver in autoexec.bat, just skip that. > 2)As suggested by Eric Auer configure the file WATTCP.cfg file as follows: > > my_ip = dhcp > netmask = 255.255.255.0 > gateway = 0.0.0.0 > domain_list = your.d

Re: [Freedos-user] LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-29 Thread Blair Campbell
> Also according to > http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.Compatibility > it also seams doslfn is not the answer and needs bugchecking by a third > developer. Even kernel support would have some of those issues, it seems only "not very fast" and "risk to crosslink

Re: [Freedos-user] I want to port drivewire to freedos...

2009-03-24 Thread Blair Campbell
> I went and got djgpp beta v2.04 and pthread.h, but I still have > dependency problems. If pthread.h is used, you will also need to link to the matching library. > > Specifically: sys/socket.h >              sys/wtime.h >              sys/select.h If you get Watt-32, and include its include dire

Re: [Freedos-user] XGCDROM and CD/DVD Recording

2009-03-24 Thread Blair Campbell
>> I first loaded xgcdrom as usual, then loaded >> aspi.sys after >> (http://www.wolfgang-brinkmann.de/bcdw/aspi.sys), >> and used wodim to record (on my homepage at >> http://blairdude.googlepages.com/cdrkit) > >  Thank you for the help, but I still would > like to know what Oleg O. Chukaev uses,

Re: [Freedos-user] I want to port drivewire to freedos...

2009-03-24 Thread Blair Campbell
> I need pthread.h and stdint.h for djgpp. First of all I would use DJGPP 2.04 (beta) instead of 2.03. 2.04 has stdint.h. And pthreads (pth) is available at ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/pth207b.zip (precompiled libraries), and ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/pth207s.z

Re: [Freedos-user] XGCDROM and CD/DVD Recording

2009-03-24 Thread Blair Campbell
> Would you please inform whether you used XGCDROM as > driver, the recording program you used, any command line > options and where that recording program can be found ? I first loaded xgcdrom as usual, then loaded aspi.sys after (http://www.wolfgang-brinkmann.de/bcdw/aspi.sys), and used wodim to

[Freedos-user] FDAV 0.2

2009-03-24 Thread Blair Campbell
Hi. Finally the follow-up to FDAV 0.1 :-). The TUI was re-written from scratch (it's now based on newt) and now includes a file/directory selection dialog and a mostly-complete help-viewer (press F1). I need to complete the help file though :-). Progress dialogs during scanning now work properl

Re: [Freedos-user] Clamav 0.95 Port

2009-03-23 Thread Blair Campbell
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Blair Campbell wrote: > Hi I'm announcing a port of Clamav 0.95 to DOS.  The patch I used to > compile it is in the main clamav source distribution in contrib/DJGPP. >  For this release I have separated clamavx.zip into clamavx.zip and > clamd

[Freedos-user] Clamav 0.95 Port

2009-03-23 Thread Blair Campbell
Hi I'm announcing a port of Clamav 0.95 to DOS. The patch I used to compile it is in the main clamav source distribution in contrib/DJGPP. For this release I have separated clamavx.zip into clamavx.zip and clamdbx.zip. Packages are available at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/f

Re: [Freedos-user] XGCDROM and CD/DVD Recording

2009-03-22 Thread Blair Campbell
>> does ASPI.SYS by Oak require a ATAPI driver to be loaded first? > No. Programs like cdrecord and readcd can work without an ATAPI driver. No they can't if you're using an ATAPI drive. ASPI.SYS won't load if an ATAPI driver isn't loaded already. ASPI.SYS provides an ASPI-over-ATAPI interface;

Re: [Freedos-user] XGCDROM and CD/DVD Recording

2009-03-22 Thread Blair Campbell
> does ASPI.SYS by Oak require a ATAPI driver to be loaded first? Yes. Load xgcdrom or something first, then load aspi.sys. Using devload worked fine for me. > I hope to get the real system workable but no idea why it hangs. Wish I > knew if the GCDROM/ASPI.SYS combination actually worked, as t

Re: [Freedos-user] I want to port drivewire to freedos...

2009-03-19 Thread Blair Campbell
> Thanks for the pointers.  The 4th step is to get it working with > ncurses and djgpp.  Where do I get the 32 bit dos compatible DJGPP > compiler from???  A gem interface is clearly a stage 2 problem. GCC is available for DJGPP. I recommend getting DJGPP with GCC/G++ and various other packages a

Re: [Freedos-user] I want to port drivewire to freedos...

2009-03-19 Thread Blair Campbell
> Now then, the Linux version depends on specific Linux only C > libraries.  I need to know what the equivalent libraries are > under Freedos and as necessary I will need to recode if the > dos equivalent library is different. O.K. It looks like it depends at least on pthreads, curses, termios, a

Re: [Freedos-user] burning CD

2009-03-17 Thread Blair Campbell
>  Did you install aspi.sys over xcdrom.sys ? Would you please show the > proper lines in your config.sys ? DEVICE=path\to\aspi.sys should work after you have loaded xcdrom they way you normally do. you could also use devload to load it. No parameters are necessary.

Re: [Freedos-user] XGCDROM and CD/DVD Recording

2009-03-17 Thread Blair Campbell
> I do hope you can make a working copy, I've never succeed burning any CD/DVD > under DOS. Why don't you give it a test? :-) -- Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 wit

Re: [Freedos-user] XGCDROM and CD/DVD Recording

2009-03-17 Thread Blair Campbell
> Any chance all of your compiled stuff is available in public sometime? Ok; cdrkit is available at http://blairdude.googlepages.com/cdrkit (source and binary packages). > I'd love to test DVD recording as I've always wanted to be able to Yes please test and let me know the results. I also just

Re: [Freedos-user] XGCDROM and CD/DVD Recording

2009-03-15 Thread Blair Campbell
> At the end of recording wodim spit out an error message about not > closing the session or something, so I pressed Ctrl-C twice and it > ended the wodim execution.  I then manually ejected the DVD and So after further testing, cdrecord (original) also does this, but if I wait long enough, execut

Re: [Freedos-user] XGCDROM and CD/DVD Recording

2009-03-15 Thread Blair Campbell
Hey I just came up with this thought. Anybody with a USB CD/DVD-RW drive? I think it would be an interesting test to see if USBASPI.SYS works with cdrtools/cdrkit. On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Blair Campbell wrote: >>> points to the 7zip: http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/xg

Re: [Freedos-user] fdfullcd.iso, CD-ROM auto detection

2009-03-15 Thread Blair Campbell
>>> Why isn't this CD-ROM auto detection used for menu entry 1, 3,4 and 5? >> >> I don't really understand the question... CD-ROM drivers are loaded >> for 1, 3, 4, and 5; XCDROM.SYS would be the CD-ROM driver. > > But the other CD-ROM drivers, such as eltorito.sys are only load if menu > entry 1.

[Freedos-user] XGCDROM and CD/DVD Recording

2009-03-15 Thread Blair Campbell
>> points to the 7zip: http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/xgcdrm24.7z > > Would this driver work for recording? on any drive? > > Maybe I am just daydreaming :) No you're not :-). First, I compiled the latest version of cdrtools (the current one is way outdated), which is cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD 2.01.01

Re: [Freedos-user] fdfullcd.iso, CD-ROM auto detection

2009-03-15 Thread Blair Campbell
> Why isn't this CD-ROM auto detection used for menu entry 1, 3,4 and 5? I don't really understand the question... CD-ROM drivers are loaded for 1, 3, 4, and 5; XCDROM.SYS would be the CD-ROM driver. -- Apps built with th

Re: [Freedos-user] Cannot find CD

2009-03-13 Thread Blair Campbell
> PS: Another possibility is that the old MEMDISK used for our > 1.0 CD/DVD fails to boot on BIOSes without int 15.87 memcopy? I don't think so, because the kernel does display its init message before invalid opcode. > > I wonder if this is what makes FDAPM ACPIDUMP fail on EEE PC > and whether lo

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos live cd

2009-03-09 Thread Blair Campbell
he livecd itself > > -- > From: "Blair Campbell" > Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 8:15 PM > To: > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] freedos live cd > >>> Hi I have the latest free dos live cd and I was trying to run this

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos live cd

2009-03-09 Thread Blair Campbell
> Hi I have the latest free dos live cd and I was trying to run this old dos > game I have with the live cd. But every time I try to go to c: drive by > putting in cd C: I get a message that c drive is not accessible. I would > appreciate any input. If the C drive is NTFS or anything other than FA

Re: [Freedos-user] Dialog ported to dos...

2009-03-09 Thread Blair Campbell
> Is it possible, using DIALOGRC var, use colors with dialog under freedos? No; just setting TERM=djgpp should work. If TERM is unset, it defaults to "unknown", which I have compiled to 'link' to djgpp-m (monochrome) > > Thanks! > > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 1:41

Re: [Freedos-user] Dialog ported to dos...

2009-03-06 Thread Blair Campbell
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Fabrício Ceolin wrote: > It's a great idea, but I think dialog works well only under djgpp bash. > > I tried to use dialog under freedos, but there isn't a stderr, so all > options, inputs, forms and interface goes to stdout together. > It's very difficult to separa

Re: [Freedos-user] Commands under djgpp bash

2009-03-04 Thread Blair Campbell
> I'm trying to use some commands under djgpp bash, but the system report: > Not enough memory Are you using the 32-bit port? > > ex: dmi.exe > > There are some way to run this command under bash? > > -- > Fabrício Ceolin > ulevel.com > Diretor Executivo > > ---

Re: [Freedos-user] Cannot find CD

2009-03-03 Thread Blair Campbell
>> Google says rugxulo.googlepages.com and there a link >> points to the 7zip: http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/xgcdrm24.7z > > Would this driver work for recording? on any drive? I think using aspi.sys you can use cdrecord with it. Maybe I will test it if I can get FreeDOS to boot on my laptop (1.

[Freedos-user] Whiptail 0.52.10

2009-03-01 Thread Blair Campbell
Announcing a port of Whiptail 0.52.10 to DOS. Whiptail is a dialog-like utility to draw TUI dialogs and collect user input (most of the options supported are dialog-compatible). Mouse support is included via dos_gpm 0.3, and the binary is much smaller than dialog, although not as many options are

Re: [Freedos-user] Cannot find CD

2009-03-01 Thread Blair Campbell
> I have a 1.0 CD and a 1G, USB, thumb drive that brings up what looks > like the same menu as the CD.  Both try to load XCDROM and report "No > CD-ROM to use".  Of course the CD had to use the CD drive to get to that > point. > > Any idea what is going on? The CD-ROM contains a boot floppy image

Re: [Freedos-user] Dialog 1.1 for DOS

2009-02-28 Thread Blair Campbell
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Fabrício Ceolin wrote: > Hi, > > How can I get modified cells from dialog using --form under dos? > > ex: > dialog --title "aaa" --form "choice" 50 78 100 Form1 1 0 " " 1 30 55 256 > Form2 2 0 MG9310077 2 30 55 256 If you are trying to do complex scripts using di

Re: [Freedos-user] Poll and ideas compressed filesystem

2009-02-23 Thread Blair Campbell
On this topic, I've compiled dmsdosfs 0.9.2.3-pre2 with DJGPP and had some success. the executables are mcdmsdos, dcread, and dmsdosfsck. I tested with a drvspace-compressed floppy created by MS-DOS and I can extract some files but not all from it. Earlier dmsdosfs versions also included an alpha

Re: [Freedos-user] Hard Disk in Freedos

2009-02-21 Thread Blair Campbell
> Hi, I need a help, anyone here know how to access Hard Disk in Freedos? Mine > is a custom copy but I able to run Fdisk and see my hard disk, however I > can't access it, for example in Freecom when I type "C:" it says "Invalid > drive specified". Any help? Is there a formatted partition on the

[Freedos-user] Dialog 1.1 for DOS

2009-02-15 Thread Blair Campbell
Just announcing that I've uploaded my port of Dialog 1.1 for DOS to ibiblio. It is compiled with ncurses and gpm, so it supports mouse. For those of you unfamiliar with it, Dialog is a popular program in unix for adding a TUI interface to shell scripts. The sources and binaries are uploaded to: h

[Freedos-user] FDAV 0.1

2009-02-13 Thread Blair Campbell
Hi. Just announcing an MSAV-like TUI I wrote for libclamav. This is mostly a preview version. Some features are missing, but I've tested it in a few environments and I've found that it works. So if anyone wants to give me feedback, feel free. Eventually it should have a help-file viewer, and a f

Re: [Freedos-user] variable for boot device?

2009-02-08 Thread Blair Campbell
>> Well, I could introduce a ramdisk but I don't really like to. > > You have to. SET /E uses a temporary file for the output of the command, > just as pipes do. Yes; in a single-tasking environment, it is difficult to avoid using a temporary file for pipes, but you could also write a utility to

Re: [Freedos-user] variable for boot device?

2009-02-03 Thread Blair Campbell
>> FreeCOM and CMD support SET /E, not sure about >> other / older command.com variants here. >> > > Heh, I'd forgotten about "/E" - nice trick. > > > At least in XP, SET does not support /E, though. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I came up with /E myself :-). -

Re: [Freedos-user] Loading old DOS programs under FreeDOS

2009-01-22 Thread Blair Campbell
> Here is the exact error text from the Word 5.5 for MS-DOS load under FreeDOS > on a FAT16 partition: > > Illegal Instruction occurred > > > Illegal Instruction occurred > CS=0530 IP=3006 SS=394A SP=FFDD DS= ES=0317 > EAXX=0100 EBX=0530 ECX=0F00 EDX=0020 > ESI=05A8 EDI=

Re: [Freedos-user] Poll FreeDOS and NTFS

2009-01-14 Thread Blair Campbell
> True true... I wonder how bad it would be if Ubuntu and > Debian made this the default anyway. Instead of a script, I just installed Debian and dosemu and haven't had to change sysctl.conf at all. -- This SF.net email i

Re: [Freedos-user] Running Fractint under Freedos

2009-01-10 Thread Blair Campbell
> Last but not least, making a partition for DOS can be > hard because Vista will probably take all your space. > Luckily, Linux installers can shrink Windows partitions Actually, I find it kinda cool that vista includes a partition-shrinker that you can run right in the OS. Just right click on c

Re: [Freedos-user] NTFS4DOS

2009-01-05 Thread Blair Campbell
> NTFS4DOS has one problem...it isn'T a TSR you can start it at > commandline or autoexec.bat and it will start a second layer of > command.com. This will eat memory of 640k but should work with most > programs. Could it be loaded as the shell so it only stats a first instance of command.com?

Re: [Freedos-user] irc netsplit?

2009-01-05 Thread Blair Campbell
sorry I can see the bots on irc2.i7c.org and some people on irc.i7c.org Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Blair Campbell wrote: > I can see the bots

[Freedos-user] irc netsplit?

2009-01-05 Thread Blair Campbell
I can see the bots on tokai.i7c.org, but some other people on irc.i7c.org Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya -- __

Re: [Freedos-user] Arachne works!

2008-12-21 Thread Blair Campbell
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 7:38 PM, kurt godel wrote: > Ok, > downloaded the driver, did it's autoexec, did Arachne; soooweet! On the air! > The arachnoid even incorporates > the driver into the autoexec. Just one more dumb question: how to enable > cookies in the arachne browser? > I get to google o

[Freedos-user] LZMA-Utils 4.32.7 Port

2008-12-10 Thread Blair Campbell
Hi. I just added a port of lzma-utils 4.32.7 to ibiblio. It creates and extracts .lzma files which I have encountered a few times and the files are in http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/file as lzmax.zip (binaries) and lzmas.zip (source). It's very similary to gzip and b

Re: [Freedos-user] LFN

2008-12-10 Thread Blair Campbell
ange color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Ray Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Blair Campbell wrote: >> DOSLFN is the more-or-less official LFN driver for FreeDOS. > > Got it. It is not clear to me how much

[Freedos-user] ImageMagick updated.

2008-12-10 Thread Blair Campbell
Hi. I just updated my port of ImageMagick to 6.4.7 and the files are in http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/magick Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya ---

Re: [Freedos-user] W-LAN under DOS / DOS Hardware Database

2008-12-10 Thread Blair Campbell
AFAIR, there are three wireless cards supported in DOS, but only the PCMCIA and some PCI models. Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Alain M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Freedos-user] LFN

2008-12-10 Thread Blair Campbell
DOSLFN is the more-or-less official LFN driver for FreeDOS. Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Ray Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a LFN utility t

Re: [Freedos-user] ClamAV port updated.

2008-12-10 Thread Blair Campbell
t; magically appears in front of Blair Campbell: > >> The port of ClamAV (clamconf, clamscan, freshclam, and sigtool) has >> been updated from 0.92 to 0.94.2. From my testing, clamscan seems to >> work well. I still haven't tested freshclam because I don't have a >> D

[Freedos-user] ClamAV port updated.

2008-12-09 Thread Blair Campbell
The port of ClamAV (clamconf, clamscan, freshclam, and sigtool) has been updated from 0.92 to 0.94.2. From my testing, clamscan seems to work well. I still haven't tested freshclam because I don't have a DOS computer on the internet. People who are able to test should let me know if it works or

Re: [Freedos-user] image (.img) mount / manipulation software?

2008-12-07 Thread Blair Campbell
Doesn't the SHSU ram driver set include an image mounter? And shsucdx can mount .iso images IIRC. Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Michael Reichenbach <[EMAI

Re: [Freedos-user] Slow Packet Driver (e100bpkt - Crynwr)

2008-04-09 Thread Blair Campbell
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Spiro Gulgas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is one of the 3 things that i can't get working fully! > (others are Audio and USB) > > My Packet Driver: *Besides being falsely Autodetected by Crynwr* Is > Downloading slower then the internet speed. > > Here's my

Re: [Freedos-user] Burning cd on dos

2008-03-04 Thread Blair Campbell
> http://bootcd.narod.ru/cdrtools-2.01-msdos-bin.zip That website has a download for a file called aspi.sys. Try downloading this and installing it in config.sys. > > Thsi is a very slow demo.. > > http://www.goldenhawk.com/download_body.htm > > Someone have a suggestion for a valid program?

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't even get started!

2008-02-25 Thread Blair Campbell
I think there should be a direct link to the ISO right from the download page. On Mon, Jul 9, 2007 at 8:25 AM, someone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 17:22 -0700, chris evans wrote: > > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/fdfullcd.iso >

Re: [Freedos-user] LFN

2008-02-14 Thread Blair Campbell
try dir /lfn On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Ray Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Boot screen says: DOSLFN 0.40c > Kernel is 20 Sept 07 > Neither NC or VC 4.05 or DIR display LFNs. > > What am I missing? > > Ray > >

Re: [Freedos-user] Fresh ClamAV/DJGPP Port

2008-02-01 Thread Blair Campbell
Ok so I've uploaded new versions to the same location and this should fix the problem it had with removing temporary directories. Please re-test. And remember that clamscan needs >20M of memory/swap space to run. www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system On Jan 27, 2008 8:24 P

Re: [Freedos-user] Icon for cdrom is in GUI,but nothing happens.

2008-01-29 Thread Blair Campbell
I think what he means is that he installed OpenGEM with FreeDOS and it won't view the files on his cdrom drive. That would be a question for the OpenGEM list. On Jan 29, 2008 9:57 AM, Ron Spruell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'm interested to see this answer since I had no idea that FreeD

Re: [Freedos-user] Fresh ClamAV/DJGPP Port

2008-01-27 Thread Blair Campbell
I'm sure there must be one compiled with DJGPP... On Jan 27, 2008 12:54 PM, Mateusz Viste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 27 January 2008, Fabien Meghazi wrote: > > > > freshclam.exe > > > > I think I'm going to try with your package instead of Mateusz Viste's one. > > That will not help yo

Re: [Freedos-user] Fresh ClamAV/DJGPP Port

2008-01-27 Thread Blair Campbell
Try using --config-file=c:/fdos/bin/freshcla[m].conf and --datadir=c:/fdos/bin On Jan 27, 2008 11:02 AM, Blair Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > freshclam.exe > > > On Jan 27, 2008 11:01 AM, Fabien Meghazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Can you try it with D

Re: [Freedos-user] Fresh ClamAV/DJGPP Port

2008-01-27 Thread Blair Campbell
freshclam.exe On Jan 27, 2008 11:01 AM, Fabien Meghazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can you try it with DOSLFN loaded? Also, is DOSDIR set to c:\fdos? > > DOSLFN is always loaded on my box. > > yes, DOSDIR is set to c:\fdos > > In YOUR archive, does the freshclam executable is called FRESHCLA.EX

Re: [Freedos-user] ClamAV & CTorrent

2008-01-27 Thread Blair Campbell
> Your packages aren't really FreeDOS compliant, as they haven't /appinfo > and /packages directories... Nice work anyway ;-) /packages isn't necessary because fdpkg IIRC will create the directory anyway. Having the directory in the package is only needed if some post-install or pre-remove comman

Re: [Freedos-user] Fresh ClamAV/DJGPP Port

2008-01-27 Thread Blair Campbell
> I installed successfully clamav (I used the package of Mateusz Viste) > I've got an internet connection working on my dos freedos box. > I tried to use freshcla.exe but it fires up an error : > > Can't parse the config file /dev/env/DOSDIR/bin/clamd.conf > > I ran the command in c:\fdos\bin\ > >

[Freedos-user] ctorrent-ng Port Now Available

2008-01-26 Thread Blair Campbell
Now available are: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/torrents.zip (source) http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/torrentx.zip (binary) which are untested DJGPP ports of ctorrent-ng. IOW, users MAY be able to use this to utilize BitTorrent

[Freedos-user] Fresh ClamAV/DJGPP Port

2008-01-26 Thread Blair Campbell
I have just uploaded to ibiblio: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/clamavs.zip (source) http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/clamavx.zip (binary) which contains a DOS port of ClamAV 0.92. Unlike previous ports, this one contains four

Re: [Freedos-user] doslfn and 4dos

2008-01-19 Thread Blair Campbell
On 1/19/08, Florian Xaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you "win95lfn=yes" in your 4dos.ini ?? Shouldn't this really be default with a test to see if lfns are supported? > > LG > Flo > > 2008/1/19, Fabien Meghazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi all, > > > > I've got doslfn loaded in autoexec.bat.

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos update and 4dos

2008-01-18 Thread Blair Campbell
I am with Tom On 1/16/08, Tom Ehlert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 1) 4DOS in FreeDOS 1.1: Will it - the package - have the structure > >> of directory as the other programs? Or not? (freecom is in the > >> root-directory...) > > > You are right - FreeCOM should be moved to the BIN directory. >

Re: [Freedos-user] Running FreeDOS directly from CD-ROMwithoutinstalling on HD?

2007-12-27 Thread Blair Campbell
> 1) downloaded "fdbasecd.iso" > 2) used MagicISO to add two files to its structure (it is the bios flash > utility and new bios) > 3) saved the "fdbasecd.iso" and burned it without any problems. I don't think that fdbasecd.iso has the LiveCD part. Download fdbasews.iso or any of the fdfull??.is

Re: [Freedos-user] FDAPM

2007-12-26 Thread Blair Campbell
FDPKG basically replaces FDPM On 7/7/07, Florian Xaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > how is the status of this package manager tool > (http://fdpm.sourceforge.net/): It seems to work now? > > Btw: There should be a big link at FreeDOS homepage I think. I have > seen the great package manag

Re: [Freedos-user] Printing to a network printer....

2007-12-26 Thread Blair Campbell
> To begins, there must be some software installed in the PATH: > 1. WatTCP (http://www.bgnett.no/~giva/) > 2. LPT2FILE (http://sac-ftp.externet.hu/utiltext15.html) Perhaps LPT2FILE could be modified to pipe the data to JD.EXE instead of to a file, so that direct printing would be possible. -- F

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDOS

2007-12-24 Thread Blair Campbell
My first guess is that you didn't choose wget for installation On 12/23/07, Rob Larkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > 'Can't install FreeDOS. > > I tried to report this to Bugzilla but I'm not getting the confirmation > email(s) when I try to set

Re: [Freedos-user] New program for FreeDOS & FreeDOS Update

2007-11-30 Thread Blair Campbell
LSM stands for Linux Software Map. It has nothing to do with compression. It is simply a file that contains information about other files. On 11/30/07, Craig Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just found a great program to add to FreeDOS. It's called XXCOPY. It > works a lot like xcopy. It

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Updater

2007-11-30 Thread Blair Campbell
just adding my two cents, but there is already a directory on ibiblio with all of the 1.0 packages: www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/pkgs On 11/30/07, Florian Xaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you!! Very good idea! I will download the zip-files now... > > B

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2007-11-03 Thread Blair Campbell
Yes it is possible but it will require re-building of the ISO or inserting it into the ISO using something like MagicISO On 11/2/07, Badger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > Can anyone tell me if it is possible to add a Dos program to the live CD so > that I can run it from the cd ? I wish

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