Re: [Freedos-user] 4DOS - license issue, not included in FreeDOS 1.3?

Robert Riebisch said: Nevertheless, I was looking for a "pixel painter" (= bitmap> manipulation program for PCX, GIF, PNG, or JPEG files), which is EVE not. How about building on LXPIC ? It is already in FreeDOS repository, so probably has no license issues. I know it is a viewer, but

[Freedos-user] 4DOS-license issue (Sideline)

Robert Riebisch said: >I had a look at PAINT2 and it's a real mess! :-( >I was unsuccessful to convince makers of NeoPaint >(NeoSoft Corporation) or Desktop Paint (Alchemy Mindworks) > to release their products under a FOSS license. Does any one of them still offer their DOS products whatever t

[Freedos-user] DOSBOX Isn´t for everyone (off-topic remark)

Today userbeit...@abwesend.de (Robinson West ?) said: >Afaik there is no Linux that will run with only 8 MB of RAM. About 1998 I did run (plod was a better description) Red Hat 5.0 (kernel 2.0.32) in a 486 DX-50 with 4 MB of RAM, but in text mode only. The machine and the installation CD

[Freedos-user] Keyboard configuration

Phil Reynolds asked: > How would I configure and compile a new keyboard layout, > if for reasons of having a non-standard one I need to? XKEYB configuration files are text-only and well explained in the documentation for this software. You can configure nearly any keyboard layout using it. .

[Freedos-user] Booting FreeDOS from floppy

from: Jose Antonio Senna While it is no longer of use in the present case, I would like to add that I have a small (~2k) utility to write the boot sector on a floppy, and have used it for some 4-5 years. It is quite crude, as I wrote it for my use only but, if is anyone is interested

Re: [Freedos-user] Preloa

from: Jose Antonio Senna userbeit...@abwesend.de said: > The PC I will install on, is a Pentium-D, has >2 GHz and >3GB RAM Mateus Viste said: > You have to make sure tough that both computers use the exact same > CHS/LBA/Large addressing schemes to access the dri

[Freedos-user] Preload an

from: Jose Antonio Senna said: > I have an original Intel 80486 with 50 MHz that I want > to try FreeDOS on. I still haven't found the time so far > and my first attempt came to an early halt because I > couldn't get an installation media to start on this ma

[Freedos-user] HTTPS and

from: Jose Antonio Senna On 26 july, Thomas Mueller said: > ...(I) also have run Links with graphics > in DOS, but that was years back. Do you remember on what machine you did this ? > I used Doug Kaufman's DOS port of Lynx for > online commerce but not banking,

[Freedos-user] Booting FreeDOS from floppy

While it is no longer of use in the present case, I would like to add that I have a small (~2k) utility to write the boot sector on a floppy, and have used it for some 4-5 years. It is quite crude, as I wrote it for my use only but, if is anyone is interested, I may attach it to an e-mail. Regar

Re: [Freedos-user] Preload and start installer from installation target?

userbeit...@abwesend.de said: > The PC I will install on, is a Pentium-D, has >2 GHz and >3GB RAM Mateus Viste said: > You have to make sure tough that both computers use the exact same > CHS/LBA/Large addressing schemes to access the drive. > Your 486 probably needs you to enter these b

Re: [Freedos-user] Easy GUI desktop enviroment install

On 2016-01-27 Don Flowers XFDOS is the best GUI i have use. >https://code.google.com/archive/p/ > nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/downloads I followed this link and all I got was a blank page. I don't know whether this is an issue with my browser or my location, but would you please

[Freedos-user] I could not access archive.org using Lynx

There was a recent message in this list containing the link to https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary Lynx 2.8.5 fails to access that site without any error message. Did anyone access it using a DOS browser ? --

[Freedos-user] Lynx latest versions

On 12/22/14 Karen Lewellen said: > Latest stable and development editions of lynx. > Karen > >On Sun, 21 Dec 2014, Thomas Dickey wrote: > >> The current version of lynx is 2.8.8 >> >> It's available at >> http://lynx.isc.org/ >> ftp://lynx.isc.org/lynx2.8.8/ The last version of Lynx

Re: [Freedos-user] HTML5/Javascript/Flash (was: Re: Quickview ver 2.60)

Thomas Mueller said: > There are some Linux distros for older computers, and NetBSD and > FreeBSD can be installed on older computers. > But building packages or the system from source is likely to be > prohibitively slow on older machines. But these distros do not run newer browsers. Indeed

[Freedos-user] Quickview 2.60 (digressions)

On the matter of browsers for DOS, Lynx, which I am using now, supports https and has done so for 10+ years. What is not available in any DOS browser is javascript. Much of javascript in web pages is to load and reload advertising, which I don't miss at all. However, the (action) in many html for

[Freedos-user] TCP/IP TSR's

Yesterday, Matej Horvat said: > (And while we're at it, let's create a modern standard > for TCP/IP TSRs.) Who are "we" ? JAS -- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! In

[Freedos-user] Internet tools

On 12-7 dmccunney said: >Do a ping, whois, traceroute, or nslookup on it. > They are highly useful tools, and available online >as well in addition to being local commands. I have a copy of ping, and know whois as a site (whois.net), but are the other commands available for DOS ? >You nee

[Freedos-user] beyond config.sys

Miguel Garza wrote: >> ...Honestly, seems to be easier to run stuff in a >> "DOS" window in XP than booting straight to DOS... and Dennis McCunney replied: > It's not really a "DOS" window. Run a 16 bit DOS program, > and Windows spawns NTVDM to provide an MS-DOS environment, > and a cop

[Freedos-user] Lynx, links, elinks

On March 2 Karen Lewellen asked about a DOS port of elinks. My question is: What advantage(s) links/elinks have over lynx (I ask just about their DOS ports, not versions for other OS'es)? I did not yet find any, on the contrary, lynx has had https/ssl capability for the last 10 years, whil

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot floppy image files

Ricardus Vincente said: > While I understand that FreeDOS is a modern DOS not meant just for >older hardware, I thought that one of the purposes for FreeDOS was to >make older hardware relevant again. From the looks of it, I can't see >any reasonable way to get FreeDOS working on an old machine t

Re: [Freedos-user] Networking

Christian Masloch said: > Don't read "Dissecting DOS" though. Why not? -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT manage

[Freedos-user] Lantastic website

Robert Riebisch said: >No, the owner says: "LANtastic 8.01 __was__ backed by the best support >team in the networking business: Artisoft..." and "Today we keep >__limited__ support for our customers only by e-mail." Well, "recently" was about 2 months ago, so I may have forgotten the exact terms

[Freedos-user] LanTastic

On 05/24 Eric Auer wrote: >Artisoft / Spartacom / PCMicro LanTastic - dead product? I recently stumbled on this site: http://www.lantastic.ws/ which owners say they still develop and sell LanTastic for DOS (and Windows) as a commercial product, with license from the original copyright owners.

Re: [Freedos-user] a creative situation?

Karen Llewelen wrote: >I use links as well, but on a shell service which is has compiled it with >spider monkey to increase the java script friendly nature. Not under DOS, it seems. Weren't you who did post very similar questions on this list in February 2010 ? I would like to know how did

[Freedos-user] Lynx and DHCP issues

cordat...@aol.com said: >WATTCP will access one and only one config file. >First it looks at the environment variable WATTCP.CFG >which represents a directory (not a file name!) >if this environment variable does not exist it uses >the current directory. It looks first for the file name >WATT

Re: [Freedos-user] lynx

On March 14 Jim Collins wrote: >I don't think the wattcp.cfg file is a problem, at least >judging by the error messages I have been getting (even >though I did copy wattcp.cfg into the directory where the >lynxbat.bat file is located) >an error I get often is: >Configuration file /dev/env/DJDI

Re: [Freedos-user] lynx

In reply to my suggestions, Jim Collins wrote: >> set HOME=. >> set wattcp.cfg=%HOME% >> set wattcp_cfg=.\ >> with an underdash, not a dot. > I edited lynxbat.bat to have the underscore with no luck Did you try set HOME=.\ set wattcp_cfg=%HOME% I am not sure whether "." only shall wo

Re: [Freedos-user] lynx

James Collins said: >I looked at lynxbat.bat and the batch files says: >set HOME=. >set wattcp.cfg=%HOME% >so is the batch file expecting to find wattcp.cfg >in the current directory? It is telling lynx to search for wattcp.cfg in the current working directory. Note that (at least for the vers

[Freedos-user] CD drivers

I said >>Is XCDROM expected to write ? Robert Riebisch answered: >No. So, another question: Is there any CD-RW driver for DOS ? (That is, one that reads and writes). BTW, Is there any such DVD driver ? Regards JAS - Thi

[Freedos-user] XCDROM

Is XCDROM expected to write ? I am experimenting with a CD-RW drive in my computer and XCDROM does install correctly and allow reading (with shsucdx) but issues an "I/O error in writing to device" when cdmake tries to write to a CD-R in the drive. My computer has an ISA bus and so, neither UDM

[Freedos-user] x-comment to Jim hall's comment on Dillo

Jim Hall said: >I like the idea of Dillo on FreeDOS - it would be nie to have a web >browser for FreeDOS that supports modern XHTML. Arachne does a nice >job, but doesn't support everything I need. I use Lynx and had not (yet) any problems with XHTML support (it displays text-only all the s

[Freedos-user] rar-unrar

JIm Lemon wrote: >This is almost invariably an older version of unrar trying to uncompress >a file compressed with a newer version of rar. As Oleg noted, go to >rarlabs and get the latest version. Last time I did access I could not find any version of unrar (free), just winrar (includes unrar

[Freedos-user] X-comment to Accessing custom ISA cards

Eric Auer said: >PS: Another nice way to connect custom made hardware is to use the printer >port. Luckily that stays available longer than the USB lobby wants ;-). The USB lobby does not worry about the printer port for they did already succeed in discontinuing all peripherals that used to co

[Freedos-user] UNRAR

Ray Davison said: >Can you point me to an unrar utility that will work with DOS or OS\2. I >have tried several and gotten nowhere. I can see the directory but >cannot read or extract any of it. Try this: JAS

[Freedos-user] e-mails from DOS

Alain M. escreveu: > What would I use for sending emails (with attachement file) I use (including for this message) TCPMAIL, a DOS program I found at Attachments are OK, but you must mime-encode and attach them yourself. It has no automation at

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS dialup

Jeremy said: > (At least this is what I generally see it referring to) > Network Address Translation, commonly seen in home/small office type > broadband router/switches [e.g. Linksys, Dlink, Netgear, Belkin > products], it allows multiple (usually private) IP address to masquerade > as a sing

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS dialup

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 present, but TCP connection

[Freedos-user] DOS dialup

On 5 February Carl W. Spitzer IV said: >Sounds great but how do you dialup in DOS these days?? Try also (Lynx home) and search Google for "DOSPPP" JAS --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc.

[Freedos-user] EMM386

As everybody probably knows by now, EMM386 works with the 386-optimized freedos kernel. I am currently using it with kwc38616 build of 20 September. Stability with Lynx also improved . It seems that in this respect the classification of EMM386 shall now be "useable". A problem that appeared with

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

Eric wrote: >PPS: Acrobat/DOS can do PDF 1.1-almost1.2? Indeed old. But most current >are 1.4 / 1.5? I do not think so. My up-to-1.3 acroread/Linux displays >all files so far. Probably some companies thinking "it is new so everybody >must use it to force all others to use it as well", without thi

Re: [Freedos-user] re: FDISK MBR and FORMAT questions

Aitor Santamaria wrote: >One book I read (I think "Dissecting DOS") was considering the MBR as >part of the OS itself. I think "Dissecting DOS" it is not. It explains the MBR but says it is something independent form the O/S. JAS --- S

[Freedos-user] comments by Blair Campbell

Blair Campbell wrote: BC>I agree, the Ghostscript for DOS is extremely outdated and needs major BC>work. The version for DOS is only at 5.xx and the current version is BC>8.xx. I would be really nice if someone had the extra time to port BC>this. In the meantime, I can probably pre-package th

[Freedos-user] New FreeDOS install CD: comments to AitorSM and Blair Campbell

Aitor Santamaria asked: >What is the license of ACRODOS, for those that have used it? It is a license for unlimited use only . Explicitly forbids modification, any attempt to discover source code and any form of rental or lease. Blair Campbell commented: >Acrobat Reader? This is almost usele

[Freedos-user] Re: FreeCOM + Win98

It did appear yesterday on this list: >sure whether Win98's COMMAND.COM can be configured to default to insert >mode instead of overwrite. I do not have the MS-DOS version which comes with Win98, but MS-DOS 5 can be so configured by using DOSKEY /INSERT or DOSKEY /OVERWRITE BTW, I woul

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

Continuing the thread "HIMEM vs. FDXMS" started by Eric Auer: JAS>> If I use XMS but not EMS, I can save some bytes in UMB (real-mode UMB) by JAS>> using FDXMS instead of HIMEM... EA>How big is that difference at the moment? 70 (hex) paragraphs for FDXMS.SYS v0.94 against 9E paragraphs for H

[Freedos-user] HIMEM versus FDXMS

Eric Auer wrote: >Finally, HIMEM versus FD*XMS*: This is simple, HIMEM is better and >only HIMEM supports EMS/XMS memory pool sharing (as does e.g. MS >HIMEM, it is only that FD*XMS* saves a bit of space by not having >the support). Other than support for memory pool sharing, what are the advanta

[Freedos-user] SHSUCDX and other split-version programs

Jim Hall wrote: > Does Jack's version have any extra benefits over Jason's original? AFAIK,only smaller executable and resident sizes. >Sounds like there isn't a difference in functionality or bugs between >Jason's and Jack's SHSUCDX. That may be the deciding factor here. I did not yet fin

[Freedos-user] com2exe

Arkady's com2exe program is often mentioned in this list. Where can it be found ? Regards JAS --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the

[Freedos-user] ynx,Links... (x-comment Eric Auer message in fd-user list)

Eric Auer said: We dropped LYNX when it became outdated. A LINKS port would be nice. Two questions: 1) Why,exactly,is Lynx outdated (in comparison with other DOS browsers) ? 2) What is LINKS ? Thanks for the atention JAS --- SF email is

[Freedos-user] Flashplayer?

Does anybody know of a Flash player for DOS ? I ask because many websites now have just an .SWF animation as their home page and so are impenetrable to DOS browsers. Regards JAS --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read h

[Freedos-user] comment to Aitor Santamaria message of 19 March

ASM>Why not commenting on them, so that we know what the problem is, and ASM>help us fix EMM386? I did so several times in this list and,before I could post to it, directly to Michael Devore. As an update, I tried today to use EMM386 (version 15)while online. Lynx 2.8.5,which I recently inst

[Freedos-user] x-comment to Michael Devore's message of 18 March

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 never compiled anything using DJ

[Freedos-user] TEE truncates file

I tested TEE with commands like DIR C: |TEE CDIR MEM /d /f /x |TEE MAP and it always truncates the files,that is,some lines that appear last on screen do not appear in the file. I think this rules out the possibility of screen output being a mix of stdout and stderr. Can it be that TEE make

Re: [Freedos-user] TEE truncates file

Jim Hall wrote: >It's possible that some of the output you see on screen was printed to >stderr. TEE only works with output printed to stdout (that is, it only >reads stdin.) >stderr is often used to print warnings or error messages. I don't think so,because the output is one continuous tran

[Freedos-user] TEE truncates file

I have been using Tee to display and save output of a SMTP/POP client named TCPMAIL. One example of command line is: C:\!NET\TCPMAIL.EXE /q /d [EMAIL PROTECTED] |C:\UTLS\TEE .\MAIL.LST and noticed that it truncates the file (that is,some lines - perhaps 10 - that appear last on screen are not

[Freedos-user] Tee

Would anybody provide a link to the FreeDOS tee utility ? There is no file by that name in ibiblio.org directory Regards JAS --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Crea

[Freedos-user] Other FreeCOM nonconformity

I noticed another behavior difference between DRDOS and FreeDOS: If,in a batchfile there is the line: IF %1==XYZ GOTO LABEL and no argument is passed in command line when calling the batch file, Then DRDOS acts as if the comparison failed (that is,does not goto LABEL with above line,but goto LAB

[Freedos-user] problem with Pictview under FreeDOS

Michael Devore wrote: >You wouldn't happen to be using SHARE would you? I found and fixed a bug >in SHARE having to do with read-only files mid-late 2004. Earlier SHARE > versions than that can fail. No,I never used SHARE while testing Pictview. JAS --

[Freedos-user] problem with Pictview under FreeDOS

I merged in this message feedback I got from people at fd-user list about my comment that Pictview does not work under Freedos. EA>Hi Jas, Arkady, the described problem (on freedos-user) sounds like EA>the "findfirst/findnext has the wrong treatment for attribute selection EA>versus disk label"

[Freedos-user] problem with Pictview under FreeDOS

I downloaded version 1.94 of Pictview from pictview.com site (saw this link on a message about .png viewers for DOS Arkady posted on this list some time ago). In the initial testing,I found that it works OK under DRDOS,but not under FreeDOS kernel 2035. The conditions under which I did the tests

[Freedos-user] COPY user-unfriendly feature

Concerning COPY command in FreeCOM (noticed in latest versions;may do so or not in former versions): If one issues "copy filename.ext d:" and filename.ext does not exist in current directory but already exists in destination directory, FreeCOM responds with "D:\FILENAME.EXT Already exists.Overwrit