Re: [Freedos-user] Resize partition without data loss

2014-10-21 Thread J. Bulterman
I guess this is where GPartEd comes in. That is a Linux distribution that you can run from a CD or DVD that is specialized in resizing partitions without data loss. On 10/21/2014 03:43 PM, Christian Imhorst wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 500MB FreeDOS partition on a 4 GB virtual hard disk. The rest >

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

2013-04-21 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Aleve Sicofante wrote: > > > 2013/4/21 Felix Miata > >> On 2013-04-21 18:19 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed: >> >> > Felix Miata composed: >> >> >> Because the first isn't a bootable OS anyway, I would definitely >> choose #1, >> >> the simplest. If the OS tha

Re: [Freedos-user] Copy from network drive

2012-12-13 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Dec 13, 2012 3:34 PM, wrote: > > Hi Tom, others, > > I tested again the copy from network drive. There were about 15 files in > the server, to be copied to the client, about 8 MB altogether. Results: > > - xcopy (FreeDOS): Copied only 3 files before getting stuck and abandoning > the task with

Re: [Freedos-user] LanTastic

2012-05-26 Thread R J Burling
As one who has used Lantastic extensively, I can assure you that it needs very little support so Email would be more than adequate. It is certainly more reliable than those pushed by others. On 27/05/2012 5:38 AM, Robert Riebisch wrote: Jose Antonio Senna wrote: Artisoft / Spartacom / PC

Re: [Freedos-user] Re : Support for 4k byte sectors

2012-02-04 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Improved support for sectors other than 512 bytes has been committed, I am still working on it, default support will still be for 512 bytes (currently not while testing). I have tested 256, 512, 1024, and 2048 byte sectors with tdsk (currently my only way to test). Using max sector size higher th

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 boot process ends with "interrupt devide by zero" and system halt

2012-01-15 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Jan 15, 2012 6:04 PM, "Ralph Deffke" wrote: > > Thanx all, > > but as I said its impossible to figure out what driver is causing the problem, the sequence doesn't seem to be logical to fix the problem. > it crashes AFTER the boot has finished. > > I installed version 1,0 ( 0.87 beta ) with no p

Re: [Freedos-user] Re : Support for 4k byte sectors

2012-01-14 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
At this time there are no plans to explicitly support 4K block sectors directly in the kernel. The kernel itself does not support any block devices directly, it relies on the BIOS interface, though additional drives or support may be added through device drivers. I would like to review the FreeDO

Re: [Freedos-user] Failure of Print-Screen (Screenshot) in Freedos Depending on How Full Screen was Entered

2011-10-31 Thread Robert J. Thompson
Eric Auer wrote: Eric, you said dosemu does not need sudo. This is one of things that happen when I don't - Bob T. "robert@robert-desktop:~$ dosemu can't open "/home/robert/.dosemu/boot.log" for writing robert@robert-desktop:~$ " small (approx. 2" by 4") window appears. I usually go to

[Freedos-user] Failure of Print-Screen (Screenshot) in Freedos Depending on How Full Screen was Entered

2011-10-27 Thread Robert J. Thompson
For your information (no longer a problem) Assume I am on Ubuntu Desktop. Then use terminal command sudo dosemu. A small (approx. 2" by 4") window appears. I usually go to full screen in 2 ways: (1) click in the box in upper right, corner; or (2). use the CTRL-ALT-F key combination. The Prints

Re: [Freedos-user] Weird UIDE.SYS (FreeDOS 1.1 Test) behavior under VirtualBox

2011-07-23 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Juan Castro wrote: > The first line (starting with "UIDE.SYS") stays there for 19 seconds. Then > the second one (starting with "IDE0 Controller") stays there for 49 seconds. > Then I get that error message. In  a real machine, UIDE loads lightning > quick. > > Sc

[Freedos-user] BIOS update from CD

2011-03-18 Thread Gustavo J Mata
do this? I'd prefer to use the iMac for this, but I could also use the Ubuntu machine. Thanks in advance, Gustavo J. Mata -- «La ignorancia, aliada con el poder, es el más feroz enemigo que puede tener la justicia.» (James Baldwin) Visite mi Blog en Apartaderos

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 distribution...

2009-11-01 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 4:38 AM, Michael Robinson wrote: > The newest kernel 2039 seems to fix a lot of problems.  Is there ongoing > kernel development? ... Yes, there is ongoing kernel development; but with a low frequeny of updates. Jeremy --

Re: [Freedos-user] What are .lsm files?

2009-10-21 Thread Robert J. Thompson
bert J. Thompson : My /usr/lib/dosemu/drive_z/appinfo directory has many (38) .lsm files. The first part of the file name seems like a dos command. Google didn't help. How can I open the files and view their contents? I'm trying to learn dosemu (Ubuntu 8.04). Thanks in a

[Freedos-user] What are .lsm files?

2009-10-21 Thread Robert J. Thompson
My /usr/lib/dosemu/drive_z/appinfo directory has many (38) .lsm files. The first part of the file name seems like a dos command. Google didn't help. How can I open the files and view their contents? I'm trying to learn dosemu (Ubuntu 8.04). Thanks in advance - Bob T. ---

Re: [Freedos-user] [Fwd: Full Screen Sized Screen-Dumps]

2009-10-21 Thread Robert J. Thompson
dos386 wrote: How do I get a full sized screen dump from inside an application program? FYI, you can get a full sized screen dump from inside an application program using DOS also :-) I am using Ubuntu 8.04, and dosemu 1.4.0.0 I don't, sorry ... Hi: I have a similar /rela

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

2009-10-20 Thread Robert J. Thompson
Blair Campbell wrote: 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

Re: [Freedos-user] Booting without hard disk

2009-10-18 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros wrote: > I built and support a DataPerfect database with 8 computers > networked through MS-Client. > > Since this network is completely dedicated to the database (i.e., > it needs not run any other software), I decided to get rid o

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

2009-10-14 Thread Robert J. Thompson
Chris Schumann wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Robert J. Thompson wrote: Is there a way that I can execute a Linux command from inside DOS? For example, "RUNLINUXCOMMAND" [lpr ~/Dosprog/roses.jpg], where "RUNLINUXCOMMAND" would be the dos command required. Than

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

2009-10-14 Thread Robert J. Thompson
Is there a way that I can execute a Linux command from inside DOS? For example, "RUNLINUXCOMMAND" [lpr ~/Dosprog/roses.jpg], where "RUNLINUXCOMMAND" would be the dos command required. Thanks in advance, Bob T. -- Come b

Re: [Freedos-user] Cannot exit Dosemu/Freedos in a Console

2009-09-29 Thread Robert J. Thompson
Marco Antonio Achury Palma wrote: > I remember old DOSEMU had a "exitemu" command > > > 2 > Thank you. It worked perfectly! - Bob T. -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only deve

[Freedos-user] Graph dosen't appear on screen in virtual console mode

2009-09-07 Thread Robert J. Thompson
When I run a fortran program producing a graph from Desktop (in Dosemu/Freedos), graph appers and all is well. When I attempt to run the same program from a virtual console. the screen goes dark until the graphics phase is ended, when it returns to normal. The graph is plotted in 640x480 resolu

Re: [Freedos-user] Cannot exit Dosemu/Freedos in a Console

2009-09-06 Thread Robert J. Thompson
Marco Antonio Achury Palma wrote: I remember old DOSEMU had a "exitemu" command 2009/9/3 Robert J. Thompson : I entered a console, say Ctrl-Alt-F4, and entered dosemu/freedos. All appeared OK. Then, I immediately tried to exit with"ctrl-alt-page_down". Nothing happe

[Freedos-user] Cannot exit Dosemu/Freedos in a Console

2009-09-05 Thread Robert J. Thompson
I entered a console, say Ctrl-Alt-F4, and entered dosemu/freedos. All appeared OK. Then, I immediately tried to exit with"ctrl-alt-page_down". Nothing happened. What am I doing wrong? Bob T -- Let Crystal Reports handle

[Freedos-user] Failure of "EXIT" command in virtual console

2009-09-05 Thread Robert J. Thompson
Dosemu/FreeDos works fine from a terminal opened on the Desktop. When I enter a virtual console, say CTRL-ALT-F4, there are some anomalies. This post discusses one: exiting. I cannot exit with CTRL-ALT-PAGE-DOWN. I have to reboot with CTRL-ALT-DEL? I've tried many key combinations , but nada. O

Re: [Freedos-user] [Fwd: Full Screen Sized Screen-Dumps]

2009-09-04 Thread Robert J. Thompson
Eric Auer wrote: > Hi Robert, > > Eric > > Eric: New (recurring) problem - I can't post : bounced with message: "Message has implicit destination". As there are no othet recipients (copies to anyone) I must have the wrong address. Is this correct: " freedos-user"@lists.sourceforge.net" ? I

Re: [Freedos-user] [Fwd: Full Screen Sized Screen-Dumps]

2009-08-26 Thread Robert J. Thompson
Eric Auer wrote: > Hi Robert, > > to find my GRAPHICS for DOS, check our list: > > http://www.freedos.org/freedos/software/ - base - graphics > > Maybe I should have mentioned the names graphpin, graph-hp > and graph-ps, as graphics is just a wrapper for the tree :-) > > > Eric: Found the '.dose

Re: [Freedos-user] [Fwd: Full Screen Sized Screen-Dumps]

2009-08-26 Thread Robert J. Thompson
Hi Eric: Finally back to computer stuff. Downloaded GRAPHICS but unable to unzip. Tried unz551x3.exe (closest thing on referenced site below) but dosen't work? Also, I have no .dosemurc anywhere on my computer (according to the command "sudo find / -iname '.dosemurc' -print". Please advise ? Bob

Re: [Freedos-user] [Fwd: Full Screen Sized Screen-Dumps]

2009-08-19 Thread Robert J. Thompson
Eric Auer wrote: Hi Robert, ...program calculates and displays a graph on the screen. Okay I understand more of your problem in Ubuntu now... If you use lp in Linux or copy ... prn in dosemu, the latter will basically assume that you want to print a plain text document. Lp might also

Re: [Freedos-user] [Fwd: Full Screen Sized Screen-Dumps]

2009-08-14 Thread Robert J. Thompson
Eric: Sorry for the delay in getting back to you (was in LA for week, then had a monitor failure. I tried to reproduce the problem. it did about the same thing although not exactly. Eric Auer wrote: Hi Bob, Some questions: Is that Fortran program running in DOS? The Fortran program is ru

[Freedos-user] Full Screen Sized Screen-Dumps

2009-08-01 Thread Robert J. Thompson
How do I get a full sized screen dump from inside an application program? I am using Ubuntu 8.04, and dosemu 1.4.0.0, After entering dosemu from the terminal, I then enter the full screen mode with Ctrl-Alt-F, and run a fortran program which produces a full screen co;or graph. Pressing "PrintScr

Re: [Freedos-user] translation

2009-07-12 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Anonym Anonymsen wrote: > Hi! > I am very interested in this operating system, and I would like to > contribute. > I can help by translating the operating system to Norwegian. I have started > translating the DEFAULT.LNG from FreeCOM. How do I upload the file to >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS boot sequence and sys.com workings

2009-06-28 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Simon Atkinson wrote: > Could somebody please point me to site/article that describes the FreeDOS > boot process. And I'm interested in finding out more about what sys.com > does/how it works, when copying The FreeDOS kernel ..kernel.sys. Does > sys.com change the

Re: [Freedos-user] Incompatibility with EMSDSK

2009-06-21 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 2:14 AM, jasse...@itelefonica.com.br < jasse...@itelefonica.com.br> wrote: > FreeDOS (kernel=2038fat16, freecom=082pl3) reports a wrong > (about 10% actual) size for a EMS ramdisk created with > Frank Uberto FU_RD v.19i. > ... documentation says both have just one FAT. I

[Freedos-user] UIDE.SYS

2009-06-08 Thread J C
Dumb question:  Is UIDE.SYS  _only_  for native  [[motherboard]]  controllers?  I tried it with two PCI adapter card controllers -- one IDE controller and one SATA controller and UIDE.SYS did not find drives connected to either of the cards. --

Re: [Freedos-user] deleting/overwriting files from bat file

2009-04-17 Thread J C
> If I want to delete/overwrite files from a script(batch), then either way, > it will interogate me:"are you sure?y/n"; > but I want the script to run unattended; is there a way to make it fully > 'hands free'?, possibly with a redirection > away from the keyboard, or some such thing? Try  AJZA

[Freedos-user] SHSU drivers

2008-12-08 Thread J C
SHSUCDX is indeed the 'secondary' driver for a cdrom.  'Primary'  [[load by CONFIG  or DEVLOAD]]  is XCDROM.SYS.  I am a no-nothing myself, so am not sure 'primary'  and  'secondary' are standard terminology, but I think everyone will understand this.  For a RAM drive,  SHSURDRV  is the one a

Re: [Freedos-user] FDISK & Format

2008-12-08 Thread J
Eric (and all),   The good news is that the data on this partition had been saved prior to this debacle.  I had made very few changes there recently.   I saw that the format program indicated that the unformat data had not been saved, and I guessed that this was because the data size (~15 GB? on

[Freedos-user] FDISK & Format

2008-12-08 Thread J
  Boy was I having fun getting my multi-boot flash drive to off of numerous operating systems.  That is, until I accidentally blew away a fairly large partition.   Yes, it was a careless and potentially costly mistake.  Fortunately much of the data was backed up, but not all of it.   I did this

[Freedos-user] Ghostscript

2008-11-11 Thread J C
Hi All I have been trying - and trying and trying - to read a large multi-page Postscript file  [[the REXX manual]] using FreeDOS.  The pages were too small to read when sent directly to screen.  So I sent pages to the pcxmono driver  [[-NOPAUSE  -sDEVICE#pcxmono  -sOutputFile#foo.pcx" ]].

Re: [Freedos-user] Using freedos to install win

2008-10-20 Thread Paulo J. Matos
David C. Kerber wrote: > See below... > >> -Original Message- >> From: Paulo Jorge Matos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 10:05 AM >> To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: [Freedos-user] Using freedos to install win >> >> Hi all, >> >> I have a licen

Re: [Freedos-user] Using freedos to install win

2008-10-20 Thread Paulo J. Matos
Eric Auer wrote: > Hi! > >> I have a licensed windows from uni which I need to install on my >> cdrom-less laptop. So, I created a usb stick with freedos... > >> 1) configure freedos to boot in the usb stick as something else as c:, > > You can sometimes boot USB sticks as (big) diskette, > depe

Re: [Freedos-user] Is Freedos a good OS?

2006-08-22 Thread Staffanson Brian J Civ 309 EMXG/QPE
I appreciate your willingness to help. I have been to the Dell website, and downloaded the win98 soundcard driver. I don't remember off the top of my head, what the specific hardware is. But can the win98 driver be adapted to DOS? Thanks, Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTE

[Freedos-user] Is Freedos a good OS?

2006-08-22 Thread Staffanson Brian J Civ 309 EMXG/QPE
I have a Dell laptop, with a P3 500MHz processor, and 512 MB ram, but the display is broken. The computer still works, so I want to do something with it. Then I came up with this (crazy?) idea of integrating it into a portable stereo that I have pulled apart, and making this stereo a MP3 player.

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos Future

2006-07-24 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Norbert Remmel wrote: ... > And I think none of you will say that qhimem is a bad product and > because of this Jack's memory manager has the right to be a part of > freedos, again, closed source or not. That really doesn't matter. ... The flamewar aside I wanted to make a correction to this; Jac

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM 5 freezes/hangs/locks on FreeDOS 0.9 SR2

2006-07-08 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Shane M. Coughlan wrote: > John Hupp wrote: > >>In the course of off-list discussion, I tested this problem much more >>extensively than I reported here. My own conclusion was similar to your >>Situation #3: HIMEM and EMM386 are not at issue, and OpenGEM has one or more >>incompatibilities wi

Re: [Freedos-user] Unable to use Windows for Workgroups with FreeDOS

2006-07-01 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Blair Campbell wrote: > You need to download a special unstable kernel for Windows enhanced > mode to work. Also, you never told me whether getting that other > kernel I pointed you to fixed the FreeCOM redirect on ramdisk problem. > Please do tell me. > also be sure to load FD share prior to

Re: [Freedos-user] SYS A: C:

2006-06-12 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Gerry Hickman wrote: >>So I should have issued >> >>SYS B: C: >> >>It probably still won't work, but at least I'll be using the correct >>command. > > > OK, this time it found the MS-DOS boot sector on the floppy and said > something like "MS boot sector not supported":( > Based on your othe

Re: [Freedos-user] SYS A: C:

2006-06-09 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Gerry Hickman wrote: > Hi, > > Today I did this from a FreeDOS bootable CD; > > 1. Use FDISK to delete all primary partitions, but leave MBR > 2. FDISK /PRI:2000 (2Gb FAT32 Ext13) > 3. FDISK /Activate:1 (boot to first primary at next HD reboot) > 3. FORMAT C: > > I now have an empty working C

Re: [Freedos-user] FDISK bug (sorry I don't know how to use bugzilla)

2006-06-07 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Johnson Lam wrote: > Hi, > > Actually it's not a BUG, FDISK always FORGET to write the "Master Boot > Record" to the hard disk, just test 2 hard disk this afternoon. > > That's why the original hard disk still boot up showing "LILO". > > Hope someone can patch the FDISK, it should be easy to fix

[Freedos-user] daily kernel builds WAS: Re: dual boot XP/FreeDOS DJ mechanism problem

2006-03-11 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Johnson Lam wrote: On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 08:20:30 -0500, you wrote: Hi Jeremy, There was a recent fix to the unstable kernel to better support floppyless systems. If possible please try a current 2035w from http://www.fdos.org/kernel/ and let me know if that makes a difference. Note: -W is t

Re: [Freedos-user] dual boot XP/FreeDOS DJ mechanism problem

2006-03-11 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Robert Ralston wrote: ... But with kernel 1.1.35w Build 2035w-unstable from the 1440 ODIN distribution, everything works with a laptop *if and only if* there is a floppy drive present. If there is a floppy drive either in a bay or connected via USB, then the FreeDOS partition boots normally

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS dialup

2006-02-18 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Jose Antonio Senna wrote: On Sun, 12 Feb 2006, dima wrote: Long time I used dosppp and lsppp while had real IP the address. Recently ISP has placed the users behind NAT and now users have grey IP addresses. The problem since then has begun - dilal-up connection is established, ping - is pres

Re: [Freedos-user] Linux Tools and FreeDOS Dual Boot LiveCD - New Procedure

2006-02-05 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
... I have updated the procedure to reflect the new CD. If you want a copy for now, (it's a pdf file) send me an e-mail. I will send Jeremy a copy and he may post the update. Please try this and provide comments and feedback. I would like to make this as easy as possible for anyone to do. Ma

Re: [Freedos-user] Linux Tools and FreeDOS Dual Boot LiveCD

2006-02-04 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
... The image is about 32.5MB. Does anyone want to try this image? The directions I have available use the same programs and are quite close. You could install FreeDOS using this in two reboots and burning only one CD. I can send you a very detailed PDF procedure. ... I have uploaded fdinst0

Re: [Freedos-user] Did anyone succeed to install MSWGC?

2005-11-08 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
s-takase wrote: > Hi. > > I tried to install MSWGC(MS workgroup connection) on FreeDOS with Dell GX110 honestly never heard of it till now (at least by its proper name) > > I succeeded it with MS-DOS but couldn't with FreeDOS. > PROTMAN doesn't seem to work on FreeDOS. I can't confirm nor den

Re: [Freedos-user] Impossible to start WFG 3.11 or Windows 3.11 in enhaced mode

2005-11-02 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Chema wrote: ... You can download it from MSDN on the subscriptors zone. Also you can ... 16 bits SDK and DDK. ... do you know what minimal level subscription is required? Operating System, Professional, Enterprise or Universal levels? Next year I may opt for a msdn subscription for vc, bu

Re: [Freedos-user] re: Maybe stupid question (LBA48)...

2005-10-20 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
... and Arkady's FreeCOM. ... What changes are in this? and where is it? curious, Jeremy --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsfor

Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup

2005-10-09 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've managed to install the mwave drivers with the MS boot floppy and there is no error messages while loading the drivers. But I can not test the sound because every applications which use sound says that there is no enough memory to run. I've setup the MS config.sys

Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup

2005-10-07 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
For a decent discussion of Mwave stuff (though slanted towards Linux) see http://www.adamcon.org/~dmwick/thinkpad/ with the site that might be about your card (being an ISA card and not part of a TP) see http://freenetpages.co.uk/hp/mjbou/mwave/boards/dsp2780/mc34w.htm or http://www.mikebouckl

Re: [Freedos-user] Soundblaster setup

2005-10-07 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Blair Campbell wrote: 1/That isa card don't work at all or 2/ I need to enable in in BIOS by assigning some system resources to it, but I don't have any documentation for Usually you must set %BLASTER% to the resources (IRQ...) of the sound card. If it is not a sound blaster, you also need a

[Freedos-user] Windows 3.x and FreeDOS kernel

2005-09-18 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
To avoid sending a bunch of updates and annoying those who don't care about Windows 3.x support please see link below for detailed information and any updates. Quick summary, the FreeDOS kernel is mostly compatible with Windows 3.x, including full screen and windowed DOS boxes and enhanced mod

Re: [Freedos-user] re: DOS Boxes working!!!

2005-09-17 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
I just some of you might be interested to know that the kernel (my testing done with dev kernel asis on my hd which does have a few uncomitted stuff which may or may not effect these results) also sorta works on Windows (3.11 not WFW) in Enhanced mode. No DOS box support, but otherwise seams f

Re: [Freedos-user] re: DOS Boxes working!!!

2005-09-15 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Eric Auer wrote: Hi all, thanks to Blair for telling me about HXRT and big cheers to Japheth for his HXRT DOSX variant :-). So yes, DOS boxes work in WIN /S (only full screen DOS boxes, which are suspended while they are not the foreground task - classical WIN /S style imho) with his DOSX in Fre

Re: [Freedos-user] Multiple DOS

2005-09-11 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Carl Spitzer wrote: Has anyone been able to multiboot PCDOS and FREEDOS? CWSIV I do somewhat often, but my procedure probably isn't what you want. (I use sys /bootonly /oem:XX where XX is FD or PC depending which I want to boot, but this option is only useful for floppies in the latest ve

Re: sys Was: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-19 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Gerry Hickman wrote: Hi, Regarding the MS install issue, one could do something like format with FreeDOS format, then use FreeDOS sys to install MS-DOS files/bootsector via its /UPDATEBS (and obtained by its /DUMPBS, winimage, any other bootsector extracting program, or even from a disk ima

Re: sys Was: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-19 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Bernd Blaauw wrote: Kenneth J. Davis schreef: It is documented, within kernel source doc directory and at http://freedos.sourceforge.net/kernel/docs/sys.htm Strange that it says WinME is unsupported, and doesn't mention if Win9x FAT16/32 bootsector works or is (still) broken. some

Re: sys Was: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-19 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Gerry Hickman wrote: Kenneth J. Davis wrote: It is documented, within kernel source doc directory and at http://freedos.sourceforge.net/kernel/docs/sys.htm This is very nice, but how do people find it from either FreeDOS.org or fdos.org (the sites we were given). I know, bunches of

sys Was: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-19 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Johnson Lam wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 21:59:00 +0200, you wrote: Hi Bernd, In sourcecode, SYS v3.6 is still under development :) If you didn't write here, I don't even know there're hidden switch, how can I test? It is documented, within kernel source doc directory and at http://freedo

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeCOM 0.84-Pre

2005-08-13 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Johnson Lam wrote: On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 15:08:26 -0400, you wrote: ... I've tested the CMDXMS.HEAD for a period of time, it's very stable thanks for testing I updated the descriptions a little, so hopefully it is clearer which are the recommended versions for more general testing/use.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-13 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Gerry Hickman wrote: Hi Kenneth, can't work out how these numbers relate to the directory listing on the fdos.org/kernel website. 4 different versions, 2034, 2035, and 2035a are on sourceforge file release page, cvs kernels are the ones (either stable, eg 2035a-cvs or devel 2035w-cvs) on

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-09 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Gerry Hickman wrote: Hi Bernd, ... *kernel 2034, 2035, 2035A and the CVS kernel Sorry, I don't understnad. It looks like four different files (?) and I can't work out how these numbers relate to the directory listing on the fdos.org/kernel website. 4 different versions, 2034, 2035, and 20

Re: [Freedos-user] Bulding FreeCOM? Where is suppl.zip?

2005-08-02 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all: I don't see an obvious problem with FreeCOM's delete function. I also won't be able to build a meaningful test case using Open Watcom. So, I need to build FreeCOM with some debugging code. The build instructions reference a precompiled SUPPL.ZIP file which I c

Re: [Freedos-user] re: More FreeDOS FDISK tests - failure is repeatable

2005-07-25 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Eric Auer wrote: Hi Jeremy, thanks for the updates but... - Changes from 1.2.1 version (see fdisk.diff at same location): From Eric, it has some changes to carry usage in extended int13 detection. No, I just sent you a minimized (i.e. excluding changes in whitespace and comments) between F

Re: [Freedos-user] More FreeDOS FDISK tests - failure is repeatable

2005-07-25 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Kenneth J. Davis wrote: ... I have a work in progress towards fixing these issues of fdisk, to try my current build - http://www.fdos.org/kernel/test/fdisk.exe I have updated the fdisk executable above. - Changes from 1.2.1 version (see fdisk.diff at same location): From Eric, it has some

Re: [Freedos-user] More FreeDOS FDISK tests - failure is repeatable

2005-07-23 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Michael Devore wrote: At 04:01 PM 7/21/2005 -0500, I wrote: When you invoke FDISK without arguments, it goes into the Interactive_User_Interface() routine. That, in turn, asks about FAT32 support, via Ask_User_About_FAT32_Support() function. OK so far. After that call -- without any furth

Re: [Freedos-user] More FreeDOS FDISK tests - failure is repeatable

2005-07-22 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Anyone know if Brian is on fd-user list? or otherwise been notified of these issues? I don't think it will be too difficult to correct (warn/abort at least) so maybe if I get time after work tommorrow I'll make a patch available to make fdisk safer to use. Thanks for reviewing the code, Jere

Re: [Freedos-user] re: FreeDOS kicks some serious Ass!

2005-07-18 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
(this message just appeared, else I would have answered sooner) Gerry Hickman wrote: Hi Eric, you should try ODIN or the bootdisks on fdos.org (fdos.org/kernel/ also has the newest kernel and shell versions, More zip files, more URLs! http://fd-odin.dosius.com/ (says it's the "primary" but

Re: [Freedos-user] Can FDISK destroy partitions using the examine partitions option?

2005-07-17 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, all: I just suggested that someone who was having trouble with NTFS4DOS not recognizing an NTFS partition run fdisk with the development kernel. I requested that he enable large disk support and use option [4], "List Partition Information." This appears to have

Re: [Freedos-user] Turbo C++ 3.0

2005-07-02 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Michael Devore wrote: At 04:08 PM 6/30/2005 -0700, GNU_manwrote: I just wanted to report that the Turbo C++ 3.0 IDE crashes under freedos :( Believe that was an open Bugzilla item (hard to check right now), but the original person reporting the problem didn't list a way for a non-owner of

Re: [Freedos-user] Writing to NTFS filesystems

2005-06-04 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: Hi, ... BTW, I have at work a laptop PC with a USB keyboard that behaves quite transparently, BIOS can acceed to it without problems (I know because I use a BIOS password), and I suppose the same would happen to DOS (I haven't been able to do tests yet). As

Re: [Freedos-user] freecom compile errors

2005-06-04 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Tom Lee Mullins wrote: " Hello All, I am trying to complie the freecom source using all the tools given by them on the site but i am receiving the error.. no such command or file as "make" i have turboc 1.01 and nasm and all the things given by the site.. i also have installed the late

Re: [Freedos-user] Freeware laplink/interlnk/svr ?

2005-06-04 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Christopher Evans wrote: Is there any free ware parallel link tsrs that use laplink cable instead of one from pcdos... i have a dos cdlink but it only works on cdrom drive letters.. I believe RIFS (remote installable filesystem) uses the laplink style parallel cable connection. However, I

Re: [Freedos-user] Writing to NTFS filesystems

2005-05-20 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Jim Lemon wrote: Hi, ... diskette drive now. What I am wondering is if FreeDOS has developed the capability to write to NTFS filesystems so that I could run the tests under FreeDOS on the CD-ROM but write the data to an NTFS filesystem. NTFS is not directly supported by FreeDOS (nor any DOS that

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos

2005-04-03 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
(please disregard my last note asking what the discussion is about, as this message finally found its way to my inbox :-) Geraldo Netto wrote: hi folks, ... where is bart, lucho, john elliot, jason hood, imre leber, daniel nagy, steve nickolas, steffen kaiser, joe cosentino and even where is Pat

[Freedos-user] Re: [Freedos-kernel] freedos

2005-04-03 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Geraldo Netto wrote: Hi folks, Some updates Some Eric's comments/suggestions: Hi, could you tell all lists that the discussion / saga continues on freedos-user? I am on freedos-user, freedos-devel ... what discussion? I'm on all the lists except maybe the doc one (though I haven't switched all t

Re: Re: [Freedos-user] HTML address for new Help file.

2005-03-23 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Bernd Blaauw wrote: Basil Holloway schreef: Got this reply on forum and have not be able to locate the new Free Dos 9 help file ... Can anyone please advise download web address. I have the fixed program, but will not redistribute it until next FreeDOS distro, as I need to provide proper credits

WordPerfect file format Was Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Question

2005-03-16 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Wesley Parish wrote: ... In relation to that, does anyone know where I can find the specifications of the native WordPerfect file format? And suchlike? I know O'Reilly's had something of the sort, and there might have been something similar published somewhere else - but I don't know where to

Re: [Freedos-user] Question

2005-03-14 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Theresa Westbrook wrote: So - What can I do with Freedos that I cannot currently do with my laptop? That really depends on what you can currently do. But seriously, FreeDOS allows you to do pretty much the same as any DOS does. For normal desktop usage, if your laptop already has Windows or Linu

Re: [Freedos-user] XMS Manager on '286

2005-03-12 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
... 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, what else are you going to do

Re: [Freedos-user] Any different between 2035a (official) and 2035w-unstable?

2005-03-04 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Johnson Lam wrote: Hello, I've use 2035w-unstable for a long time, because I didn't know the different between them, any document and comparison? Rgds, Johnson. 2035w is not any particular release, it is simply the current development kernel. Most bug fixes (and potentially bug causing changes) ar

[Freedos-user] freecom Was: Re:Edlin 2.4 italian binary

2005-02-11 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Bernd Blaauw wrote: Kenneth J. Davis schreef: Does this includes ITALIAN.ERR also? .ERR files are only generated by FIXSTRS if translation is not 100% correct, if I remember correctly. It's different from the 'critical error handler'. actually strings.log contains the missing o

Re: [Freedos-user] Edlin 2.4 italian binary

2005-02-11 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
... then it can end up in a binary compiled from CVS: http://fdos.org/AutoIndex/index?dir=kernel/&file=cmdxms.HEAD.NLS.zip Does this includes ITALIAN.ERR also? Ciao Yes, although it may not be clear from the log (because the main binary is the english build), I actually completely rebuild for eac

Re: [Freedos-user] Creating custom bootable DOS CD's under Windows XP

2005-01-29 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good day, all: I have come up with a procedure to create a bootable custom DOS CD, with a 2.88MByte boot sector, strictly under Windows XP. A ... I could use some help in describing how to tailor this to FreeDOS and how to set up the CD drivers to use the rest of the CD.

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: problem with Pictview under FreeDOS

2005-01-15 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Pictview 1.94 should work now with the latest development kernel (the 1.95 preview version works correctly under both branches already). Based sorta on Eric's patch email, basically the kernel is now a lot more picky about what it considers a search for VOLUME LABEL. If this breaks a program anyone

Re: [Freedos-user] Borland C++ 5.5 compiler freeware?

2005-01-12 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Eric Auer wrote: .. tells me that the compiler of BC++ 5.5 is available as a free download. What does that mean? Many people seem to use the non-free BC++ 3.x, so is this really the BC 5.5 one (without the IDE), or is it just Turbo C or Turbo C++ 5.5? Does it include TASM? Does it compile some typi

Re: [Freedos-user] Looking for a program that switch all file names to capital letters

2004-11-29 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Karim wrote: ... >There must be a diffrence in handeling lower- and upercase letters >between Dos and Freedos. >You can try it for yourself. http://pas2pic.tk > >Greetings Karim ... > K> I`ve tried to comppile in a > K> subdir and in the root dir of freedos, nothing worked. What versions are you us

[Freedos-user] All meds - No prescription needed!

2004-11-21 Thread Frank J . Hall
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Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS in the news

2004-11-12 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sory for this extremely late answer, but what i meant was: when did the FreeDOS spec get changed? Imre Such a change would be news to me. To my knowledge the standard is still Borland C++ 3.10 and TASM, or Turbo C++ 1.01 and Arrowsof

Re: [Freedos-user] Shsucdx & ATAPICDD.SYS

2004-09-03 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Bernd Blaauw wrote: ... You need to specify DEVICE NAME. ATAPICDD.SYS assumes some strange name, but definately not FDCD000x batchfile (cd will be drive X:): @echo off devload atapicdd.sys /D:FDCD0001 shsucdx /D:FDCD0001,X depending on which version will determine what the default name is (and ot

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS installation gone wrong

2004-08-13 Thread B or J Cox
Hello, I have just installed FreeDOS on my duel boot Windows / Linux PC. I attempted to install it on d: but it has interfered with Windows, which is on my C: When I select Windows from the lilo menu I now get the following message and the computer hangs:- Loading FreeDOS No KERNEL SYS H

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