Re: [Freedos-user] Running Freedos on bare metal in the future ?

On 30 october Roderick Klein said in FreeDOs users: > But cloning a CPU I am very afraid is whole different ball game. > And I wonder if that is even possible for such small market. Perhaps not. The NEC UPD70236 is still made and sold by some Chinese company (I saw it in Alibaba at HongK

[Freedos-user] PDF documentation

Michael Brutman said: > I feel bad shipping a 3MB PDF file on FreeDOS knowing > that most people are not going to open it under FreeDOS. What are the present means to open a .PDF file under FreeDOS (or any DOS, BTW) ? Best regards ___ Freed

[Freedos-user] How to make FreeDOS display correctly the ã character

Frantisek Rysanek said: > If that's true, I would call this a > bug in the FreeDOS EGA.CPX ...? > Just fabulating, I haven't > analyzed this deeper. It is not a bug in FreeDOS, but a bug in codepage 850. ã is missing from it in every DOS I looked at. _

Re: [Freedos-user] Dial-up emulation

Robert Riebisch said: > This collection of **packet drivers** is still available at > . And packet drivers are typically for > Ethernet network cards, not modems. Thank you for pointing that most modems do not need device drivers. I had not used one for over 10 years. E

[Freedos-user] How can I make FreeDOS display correctly the â

I also had this problem, For some reason, the ã is missing from codepage 850. I use codepage 860 instead, which is the "official" Portuguese codepage. Or you may use Windows-1252 codepage, if this is available. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos

Re: [Freedos-user] Dial-up emulation

Tomas said: > network card =/= modem I never said nor implied they are the same. I said that, if an user has a machine with a network card, and a suitable DOS driver for the card is available, he/she may use it, instead of setting a dial-up connection.

Re: [Freedos-user] Dial-uo emulation ?

Brandon Taylor said: > Well, I did find a nice package in the > FreeDOS repository called LSPPP. Would that work better? It shall work if you have an internet service provider that supports a PPP connection. Anyway, you will still need a modem driver for DOS. There used to be many of them

Re: [Freedos-user] Way or utility in Freedos to have two applications running

Liam Proven said: > Just use archive.org or archive.ph > or archive.is or any one of lots > of others. Yes, it is available from the Wayback machine. Thanks. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourcefor

Re: [Freedos-user] Way or utility in Freedos to have two applications running

tsiegel said: > Actually, I did find one article that explains the multitasking versions > of dos quite clearly. > https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4363978/myth-dos-does-not-multitask > it doesn't cover all the versions of dos, but it does a good job of > hitting most of the major ones that d

[Freedos-user] What cd-rom drivers does FreeDOS use ?

Karen Llewellen said: > The driver providing an issue is one called vide_cdd Would you please tell what is the issue ? ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS based mail clients

Bret Johnson said: > The second difference is that IMAP is designed > to be used in a client-server configuration where > the e-mails stay stored on the server... But they also remain in the server if the POP3 client does not send the DELE command. _

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS or DOS based mail clients

This is not strictly a DOS remark; it applies to any e-mail but I think it can appear here. Eric Auer said: > PS: The older POP3 only allowed access to the inbox, > while IMAP also allows access to your other mail folders, > so I expect most mail providers to support IMAP now. I thoug

[Freedos-user] How do I change screen resolution?

If this is of any help, you can set an 80x28 resolution in VGA by selecting an 8x14 pixel font, instead of the more common 8x16. Some even look better. It is also possible to set the screen mode to an SVGA or higher resolution, but not all modes support BIOS text functions, and you need these for

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS code page Unicode compatibility

Vacek Nules said: > I'd like to ask the community's opinion and possible > endorsements to get the UTC to accept the [Forint] symbol Is the Forint still in use in Hungary ? Does Unicode still have vacant space in its character table? ___ Freedos

[Freedos-user] Tex et. al

Jim Hall said: | It was cheaper to render the document on my | DOS PC in my room, and print to my Epson printer. Please, how did you render TeX format in the PC then ? ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.so

Re: [Freedos-user] Creating a minimal freeDOS bootable image that runs...

Jim Hall said: > The /P switch in FreeCOM says that > COMMAND.COM is a permanent shell, > so it never exits (the EXIT command > does nothing). That /P ("permanent") > feature probably doesn't exist on > other applications, because they > don't need it. Then you mean the /P switch is

Re: [Freedos-user] Creating a minimal freeDOS bootable image that runs a simple text editor

Jim Hall said: | Let's say you wanted to run FreeDOS EDIT every time FreeDOS boots up. | The full path to EDIT is C:\FREEDOS\BIN\EDIT.EXE, so you would create | a custom FDCONFIG.SYS that probably looked like this: | | FILES=20 | BUFFERS=20 | SHELL=C:\FREEDOS\BIN\EDIT.EXE | | For #2,

[Freedos-user] I never saw one

Eric Auer said: > I would certainly prefer manual > partitioning over autocreated > FAT16 C: to ZZZ9: drives of which > only C: gets formatted anyway ;-) Is it possible to have a ZZZ9: drive in DOS (or other many letter ID) ? ___ Freedos-user mailing

[Freedos-user] ECHO vs @ECHO

Bret Johnson said: | In older versions of MS- and PC-DOS (prior to version 3.3), |and all versions of DR-DOS, the "@ECHO OFF" command does |not work at the beginning of batch files. I have not used any DOS for some months but, as far as I remember, @ECHO OFF worked with DR-DOS 5.

[Freedos-user] Video complains that DOS should not be mantained

Dan schmidt said: | Links and Lynx both do TLS currently on DOS. Which versions, please ? There is still the problem of javascript, much used in HTTP mail pages nowadays. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://li

[Freedos-user] State of play

Paul Edwards asked: | I'd like to ask a more fundamental question - why does | video not require a driver to be installed, but audio does? | Is audio more complicated than video or something? Or | was it never properly standardized by IBM or someone? | I think it is because the PC always had vid

[Freedos-user] State of play

Paul Edwards said | In particular I want: | | 1. Something to display JPEGs | | ... | | 4. Something to read and write text email | | 5. Something to send/receive email to gmail. I am expecting this to be DOS-specific For 1) above, I recommend LXPic: http://hplx.pgdn.de It is small, fast even on

[Freedos-user] Country code

This has drifted quite apart from the original subject, I will post. Robert Riebisch said: | why I should talk to 4 different mail servers. I have one | mailbox with multiple addresses and that's fine. One reason is that if a mail server does not work well, as this did for most of past ye

[Freedos-user] MicroWeb

Liam Proven said about MicroWeb: | Limitations | | HTTP only (no HTTPS support) | No CSS or Javascript | Very long pages may be truncated if | there is not enough RAM available Then DOSLynx http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/doslynx.htm is probably more useful. _

[Freedos-user] Message delivered

My message appeared on the list afer all. I shall thank Jim Hall and the others at Sourceforge who solved this problem. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

[Freedos-user] Video complains that DOS should not be mantained

Liam Proven said: > There were DOS email and chat and FTP > clients; that stuff's fairly easy. Were is the right word. Most email servers nowadays require TLS, which is not available in DOS email clients. There are few remaining FTP servers, and I cannot tell how many also need TLS. I never used c

[Freedos-user] Command line

Did anyone else look at this ? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00263-0 Command line is still (much) alive. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] What is the freedos fish ?

> I had always assumed that it was a whale because other operating > systems are large and bloated and a whale would be irony. I also thought it was a whale, but because it is a threatened species... ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.s

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS ethernet drivers

Greg Gerke asked: > ...has anybody tried Lynx on FreeDOS ? I used it for quite a few years, but now Lynx is (almost) no good, because -No Javascript -Obsolete secure protocols -Incorrect renderizing of frames, tables -Few sites still provide pages suitable for text-mode browsers

[Freedos-user] Dillo Web browser

The only Web browsers for DOS with TLS support I know of are recent versions of Links. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

[Freedos-user] DOS/16M

Randon Liegh said: >I'm not sure what DOS16/m is -it sounds like a DPMI server? If so, then it >provides 32-bit addressing >to dos programs. AFA I remember, DOS/16M is a DOS extender to allow use of DOS in protected mode. It predates DPMI specification and is geared towards the 16-bit protect