Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Package LSM Data Verification

Please illustrate me: Define Stallmanitis El 5/18/2016 a las 9:12 AM, Tom Ehlert escribió: >>> Without DOSLFN, no support at all for long filenames? >> Correct. Although, I hear the was another very buggy one that was >> around before DOSLFN. I don’t know the name. > THIS.IS.RIDICULOUS. > > one o

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

Old knoppix distro live-cd has the option to boot knoppix linux or freedos, On the isolinux prompt type "dos" Sadly last time I tested they old pre1.0 freedos distro. I asked editor to use an updated freedos image but they take everything from debian repositories, and this is the Freedos image

[Freedos-user] Tex for DOS distribution

Looking at: http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/tex/ There are a lot of files. Is this a Tex distribution or just some spre utils? Where to look for Tex for DOS ? -- -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Marco A. Achury ---

Re: [Freedos-user] HTTP_PROXY?

Try last knoppix wich uses as default LXDE desktop I run this system sucessfully on 300 mhz processor, 164 Mb ram. Take a long time to startup but later has an usable speed, runing from CD, installing on HD will have higher speed. Marco Achury www.achury.com.ve El 07/10/2013 03:13 p.m., Louis

Re: [Freedos-user] 'demo' fdnpkg repository with classic shareware games (test case for FDNPKG v0.95)

El 11/07/2013 12:42 p.m., Mateusz Viste escribió: > Hello, > > Just for fun, I created a gopher repository with a few shareware games > from the 90's. I used it mainly to test the FDNPKG gopher support. > > If you'd like to test it, you'd have to add such line in your FDNPKG.CFG > file: > REPO go

Re: [Freedos-user] Makehtml v0.0.1

Lynx web browser for DOS can convert html to formatted text. El 04/06/2013 01:17 a.m., dos386 escribió: >> Well, what program do you want written maybe I can help out with it > Ideas, if you want to deal with HTML: > > 1. HTML to text converter (with "nice" output) ... TOTALCOMMANDER has > a su

Re: [Freedos-user] Any Windows files useful for FreeDOS?

El 16/05/2013 07:18 p.m., Marcos Favero Florence de Barros escribió: > Hi, > > I got an old laptop with Windows 2000 Professional (NT). I will > now change the file system to FAT16, and install FreeDOS. > > However, before erasing Windows, I'm wondering whether there are > files, such as drivers or

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos bootup trouble

El 24/04/2013 10:14 a.m., Rugxulo escribió: > Hi, > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:35 AM, basteon wrote: >> On 24 April 2013 03:52, Rugxulo wrote: >>> On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 6:46 PM, basteon wrote: here how I making freedos iso... >>> But it (still) doesn't work for you, right? >>> >> I've tr

Re: [Freedos-user] Display offset by 1 character

This is a hardware problem. Allmost any screen have a control to adjust the image position. The modern lcd screens have an "auto adjust" function on the controls menu El 02/04/2013 07:56 a.m., Raymond WARICHET escribió: > Hi, > > When booting FreeDOS, my display is offset by 1 char, the left

Re: [Freedos-user] New release of the Dillo web browser for DOS

Amazing work. If you get abiword working on xwindows, you will get a modern looking workstation able to open .doc, .docx and .odt files !! Marco Achury El 20/03/2013 02:44 p.m., Georg Potthast escribió: > I made a new version of the Dillo internet browser for DOS. It is based on > v

Re: [Freedos-user] Bios limitation at 8 gb, and new hdd

On DOS this is a normal limitation. There a program "Ontrack Disk Manager" that help you to format big partitions. You can left 1 or 2 partitions for DOS (8 Gb each) and the remaining disk you can use it with another operating system. -- -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Marco A. Achury Tel: +58-(212)-6158777

Re: [Freedos-user] New standard FreeDOS text editor - what it should be (voting)?

El 29/01/2013 11:11 a.m., bruce.bowman tds.net escribio': > Any improvements to the current editors would be nice, but the > following things don't strike me as particularly important: > > -- external fonts > -- what language it was written in > -- built-in BASIC interpreter > -- calendar > > My bi

Re: [Freedos-user] WordStar documents

>From the same site: This program includes GPL license, may be you can consider to include it on FreeDOS distro or in the software list http://www.wordstar.org/index.php/downloads/downloads-fileconverters?download=1:wsconen El 31/12/2012 01:11 a.m., Marco Achury escribió: > > Follo

[Freedos-user] WordStar documents

Following this theme from another thread: Word Star internal format is relativelly simple, in DOS era many programs import WS data, and other programs as NortonCommander file manager included WS viewer in order to quick see the text inside WS document. Check at: http://www.wordstar.org/index.ph

Re: [Freedos-user] Printer Drivers needed for old DOS programs

On linux you can use Abiword or LibreOffice in order to open WP documents. El 30/12/2012 01:39 p.m., Carl Spitzer escribió: > On Sun, 2012-12-30 at 11:10 -0500, Karen Lewellen wrote: >> I cannot say firmly if they can be crossed of course. >> Still printer drivers for wordperfect are kept curren

Re: [Freedos-user] Made XP work okay...

I had "Warcraft II Tides of Darkness", is a DOS program, I used to run this program on a Win95 machine with 16 MB of RAM. Windows is required in order to run scenary editor, but the game itself is a DOS program. As long as I know "Warcraft II battle net edition" is a newer version, but I have n

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS compatibility with DOS applications

El 03/07/2012 03:45 p.m., Jeffrey escribió: > Hi, > >> The earlier version of edit was essentially a compiled batch file that >> called qbasic with its editor personality. I was *delighted* to see >> that finally changed. > Is there a way to do this from the command line without edit? > >> The rea

Re: [Freedos-user] fdupdate

I think "official" freedos release must be just 2 or 3 "floppies", as MSDOS was Boot system + basic drivers and tools (and both, cdrom and floppy image are required). No package manager needed for this "base system" Aditional to this, the community or any interested user can release cdroms with

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem with VirtualBox

El 16/05/2012 12:03 p.m., Wolfgang Schechinger escribió: > Dear experts, > > I have some floppy images I want to use with FreeDos that is running in a VM > (VirtualBox). The images work fine with e.g. Windows in such an environment. > > However with the virtual FreeDos, disk changes are not recog

Re: [Freedos-user] Unicode support in languages

El 13/04/2012 10:14 a.m., Mateusz Viste escribió: > I doubt you will find any DOS language that supports Unicode 'out of the box'. > However, there are Unicode-enabled DOS programs out there, so I'd say your > best shot is to take a look inside them. > > Blocek is a unicode editor written in Pasca

Re: [Freedos-user] Unicode support in languages

El 13/04/2012 10:03 a.m., Alex escribió: > Just to save me some time, instead of going through all the forums and > the documentation files (which would take forever), I ask this > question to you all: which of the (FreeDOS-based) languages support > Unicode? > > More specifically, does anyone know

Re: [Freedos-user] SoC X86

Some time ago I was in contact with this company. The system-on-chip includes sound, net and video chipsets on the same ceramic capsule where the processor is. A very nice idea, this system needs very energy to work. They offer systems with WinXP and a ligth Linux distro. Is an x86 compatible

[Freedos-user] Porting DOS to new processors

There is another thread about the future of DOS The fear is that we'll reach soon the point of no more new equipments will be able to boot a "real" DOS on native mode. At this point the options are to use emulators or to port DOS to new processors (new x86 based or totally different processor fa

Re: [Freedos-user] Long-term survival of FreeDOS

El 10/04/2012 10:07 a.m., Alex escribió: > Hi > > This topic is not about DOS vs other operating systems, or the fact > that users tend to gradually abandon DOS. It's about the survivability > of DOS vis-a-vis hardware. > The starting point for my reasoning is: what will happen with the > future de

Re: [Freedos-user] 32 bit FreeDOS?

El 07/04/2012 01:02 p.m., Ralf A. Quint escribió: > At 03:15 AM 4/7/2012, Alex wrote: >> In the recent threads there have been many mentions to the fact that >> FreeDOS is "only" 16bit (of course, that is what it is meant to be) >> and that it is out of touch with the modern computing world. Chec

Re: [Freedos-user] Best GUIs for DOS

El 06/04/2012 03:57 p.m., Alex escribió: > On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Ralf A. Quint wrote: > >> And what exactly do you mean by "GUI as development tool". That's a >> term that doesn't make any sense to me at least... > What I meant was simply a tool for developing GUI-based applications. >

Re: [Freedos-user] Catch-all Repository for legacy DOS

El 06/04/2012 02:36 p.m., Eric Auer escribió: > Hi :-) A nice thread to ponder some free alternatives for > all those fine classic DOS programs from "back then" :-) > >> Rugxulo: What was DOS most famous for?" >> >> In office software: Lotus 1-2-3 *and clones), DBase 3 and 3.5, >>

Re: [Freedos-user] Best GUIs for DOS

El 06/04/2012 01:25 p.m., Eric Auer escribió: > Hi! > >> Can someone please tell me what are the best GUIs available for FreeDOS? >> >> Naturally, this is a double question, since GUIs fall into two categories: >> >> 1) Text-mode GUIs >> 2) Graphical GUIs >> >> So, which GUI(s) would you recommend

Re: [Freedos-user] Catch-all Repository for legacy DOS software

El 02/04/2012 03:35 p.m., dmccunney escribió: > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Mark Brown wrote: >> as usual, we all need more and better freeware, >> and like the gnu flag says, free thinking... >> >> maybe someday someone will invent an operating system >> that promotes user programming instead

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

El 04/02/2012 09:45 a.m., Jim Hall escribió: > > > On Feb 1, 2012 12:46 PM, "dmccunney" > wrote: > > > > Whether this works will depend upon your BIOS. The box I have FreeDOS > > on will boot from a USB floppy drive, but *not* from a USB stick. > > BIOS limitatio

[Freedos-user] C compiler

Dear Sirs Is there any "official" or recommended C compiler for Freedos? Would be great if such compiler come included on the distro so the user can create their own programs. I know djgpp and Watcom, are both compilers under active development/maintenance? -- -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Marco A. Achu

Re: [Freedos-user] x windows server for DOS

El 10/01/2012 02:51 a.m., nospam escribió: > You may also be able to use Nano-X / NXlib which I have ported to DOS: > > http://code.google.com/p/nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/ > > The port of the Dillo browser is based on this. > > Georg > > -

Re: [Freedos-user] x windows server for DOS

as Marco suggested) and the > contact email I was able to uncover no longer works. I'd like to > discuss with them the possibility to release XAppeal under an open > source license, so others can continue to develop & use it. > > -jh > > > > On Fri, Jan 6,

Re: [Freedos-user] x windows server for DOS

;d like to > discuss with them the possibility to release XAppeal under an open > source license, so others can continue to develop & use it. > > -jh > > > > On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Marco Achury wrote: >> XAppeal is a proprietary X11 server for MS-DOS

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem with download Re: FreeDOS 1.1 released

El 05/01/2012 04:33 p.m., Robert Riebisch escribió: > Marco Achury wrote: > >> I thougth that my problem with download was caused by firefox, so I >> tried ftp program from winXP command line and dont works, Filezilla the >> same. I tried ftp.microsoft.com <ftp://

[Freedos-user] x windows server for DOS

XAppeal is a proprietary X11 server for MS-DOS based on XFree86. The web used to be http://www.xtreme.it/pub/xappeal/ but now appear to be death now. There is a mirror with a demo version at: http://download.unesp.br/msdos/xappeal/ May be some of you will fin

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

The torrent worked for me, thanks a lot. I think that torrent protocol is designed to look for a free port. -- -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Marco A. Achury Tel: +58-(212)-6158777 Cel: +58-(414)-3142282 Skype: marcoachury http://www.achury.com.ve El 04/01/2012 06:11 p.m., James Hall escribió: >>> And

[Freedos-user] Problem with download Re: FreeDOS 1.1 released

-+-+ Marco A. Achury Tel: +58-(212)-6158777 Cel: +58-(414)-3142282 Skype: marcoachury http://www.achury.com.ve El 04/01/2012 01:18 p.m., Ralf A. Quint escribió: > At 09:34 AM 1/4/2012, Marco Achury wrote: > >> I have discovered the wifi connection I am using have a locked ftp po

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

hmmm no idea what is the problem. On http link I can get the directory listing, I can read announce.txt but cant download the file. El 04/01/2012 01:18 p.m., Ralf A. Quint escribió: > At 09:34 AM 1/4/2012, Marco Achury wrote: > >> I have discovered the wifi connection I am using h

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

Skype: marcoachury http://www.achury.com.ve El 03/01/2012 06:10 p.m., James Hall escribió: > On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Marco Achury wrote: >> I cant connect ibiblio today, Appear that freedos release has colapsed the >> servers :-) >> >> Would be interesting

[Freedos-user] Euphoria library for DOS

At http://www.rapideuphoria.com/ is announced as recent user contibution a library by Tom Janes for graphic programming on Freedos http://www.temporalphysics.org/sources/DOS_API.ZIP -- -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Marco A. Achury Tel: +58-(212)-6158777 Cel: +58-(414)-3142282 Skype: marcoachury http://www

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

I cant connect ibiblio today, Appear that freedos release has colapsed the servers :-) Would be interesting to get downloads statistics in order to know how many people around the world is following freedos development... -- -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Marco A. Achury Tel: +58-(212)-6158777 Cel: +58-(4

Re: [Freedos-user] Dillo web browser for DOS

> H1 instead of an image. I can fix that on the web site. > > > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Marco Achury wrote: >> Here is a screenshot of freedos.org using dillo for Win32 and "View mobile >> site" >> >> http://tinypic.com/r/2q18ig0/5 >

Re: [Freedos-user] Dillo web browser for DOS

Here is a screenshot of freedos.org using dillo for Win32 and "View mobile site" http://tinypic.com/r/2q18ig0/5 El 21/11/2011 09:02 a.m., jhall escribió: > I guess I need to find some time to install Dillo and see what is not > rendering properly on the FreeDOS site. My guess is Dillo does no

[Freedos-user] batch programming language

Long messages have appeared from people that want a multitasking DOS. A more realistic goal to Freedos may be to expand the batch programming language to be compatible with newer windows versions, but keeping retro compatible with DOS batch programs. Look this nice code that we cant run on Freed

Re: [Freedos-user] Heads up: "DOS ain't dead" forum is closing

Would be great to keep the forum archive, at least for read-only so people ca nsearch answers to old questions, this is an important knowledge base. El 13/09/2011 07:30 p.m., Michael B. Brutman escribió: > Here is the link to the announcement: > > http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?

Re: [Freedos-user] {Spam?} [OT] Problems in the ReactOS community...

ReactOS ha one more problem, they must to avoid a lawsuit against microsoft, they must to know who is the contributor, they need to know that contributor have not access to microsoft's source code. El 07/09/2011 05:19 p.m., Michael C. Robinson escribió: > Freedos has it's place. Unlike ReactOS,

[Freedos-user] Fwd: Running (Free)DOS from ROM

This is an interested thread on usenet Mensaje original Asunto: Running (Free)DOS from ROM Fecha: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 10:08:37 -0700 (PDT) De: Ruud Organización: http://groups.google.com Grupos de noticias: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.misc,alt.os.free-dos Hallo allemaa

[Freedos-user] Visicalc

Visicalc (the first spreadsheet) is now free to download for non-comercial use only. http://www.danbricklin.com/history/vclicense.htm Would be nice to include it on freedos software list. -- -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Marco A. Achury Tel: +58-(212)-6158777 Cel: +58-(414)-3142282 Skype: marcoachury htt

Re: [Freedos-user] Why I use FreeDOS

Really is a great marketing oportunity. There a lot of great linux distros that never have received the oportunity to be marketed by HP and Dell What iso image they include on their machines? By sure 1.0 Would be great to have a new iso image with newer kernel, usb sotrage support and more apps,

Re: [Freedos-user] Why I use FreeDOS

El 05/06/2011 09:56 a.m., Willi Wasser escribió: >> You'd probably be amazed at how many embedded and industrial control systems >> are based on DOS. > Indeed! If someone pointed me out precize brands and models of systems that > nowadays still use DOS i would really be amazed. (Are those systems

Re: [Freedos-user] Code pages in dot-matrix printers

I found very interesting that all the required sizes are multiple of six, so is wise that glyph designer to use a matrix with 6 pixels... Only 9 pins high-res is exact multiple of eigth A simple way is to reduce the character with is to look for 2 consecutive columns with the same bits, and dele

Re: [Freedos-user] Code pages in dot-matrix printers

hensive than mine. However, it bases its characters > on a 16x16 matrix, instead of an 8x16 one. Anyway, I'll e-mail the author. > > Thank you for the info! > > Best regards, > Henrique Peron > > Em 6/5/2011 14:12, Marco Achury escreveu: >> Sounds very interesting.

Re: [Freedos-user] Code pages in dot-matrix printers

Sounds very interesting. Look around for the TT font named "GNU Unifont", contains a very big subset of unicode and is not vectorial, is based on bitmaps, looks ready for dot matrix printing. Your gliph file is freely available? Best regards Marco Achury El 06/05/2011 03:30 a.m.

[Freedos-user] Word processing

Is available any new wordprocessor for DOS? On this old talk recommend msword for DOS (free as free beer) http://www.computing.net/answers/dos/free-word-processor/16280.html -- -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Marco A. Achury -- W

Re: [Freedos-user] Code pages in dot-matrix printers

If you inform manufacturer and model is easier to find help. Many Epson printers use Esc/C control language, also I remember was possible to make a "hardware" config with litltle switches. El 04/05/2011 07:23 a.m., escape escribió: > Hello Henrique > > I have an good-old dot-matrix printer, but

[Freedos-user] OpenEuphoria project looking for DOS developers.

A serious bug keep frozen the development of Euphoria programming language for DOS about one year. Now the bug appear to be solved and is needed testing and help to update the DOS branch with new features included on Win and Linux. See at: http://openeuphoria.org/forum/m/113776.wc -- -- +-+-+-

[Freedos-user] Warning, dont left your freedos cd on the computer!!!

I left my FreeDOS 1.0 CD and shutdown the computer My mother (that can´t read english) turn on the computer and the computer boot fro the cd. The she seen an unkown menu press enter several times. Result, she begins a FreeDOS install on my computer first HD. Damaged my grub. Lucky appear that s

[Freedos-user] Euphoria Language Drop DOS support

The last alfa3 release for Euphoria 4.0 included DOS interpreter, even was made a zip DOS download. But remain some bug bugs that prevent the DOS interpreter to run under Win98 and because the lack of interest and no feedback from DOS users, the developers decided don't include to drop DOS suppor

[Freedos-user] Euphoria Language Drop DOS support

The last alfa3 release for Euphoria 4.0 included DOS interpreter, even was made a zip DOS download. But remain some bug bugs that prevent the DOS interpreter to run under Win98 and because the lack of interest and no feedback from DOS users, the developers decided don't include to drop DOS suppor

[Freedos-user] Uses for BGFAX

I have found BGFAX very interesting. Is a simple a ligth fax program you can control from command line and return %errorlevel% that inform you if the fax transmission was successfull or not. If the author decides to release the source will be great, but even if he never does it, you can use ca

[Freedos-user] Free DOS Fax software !!

If your fax modem is supported by DOS, there is a free fax software at: http://www.bgfax.com/bgfax.htm Originally shareware but last beta released as free ?? No source released and no clear about distribution terms, but at least free to download from the web... The author says would like to b

[Freedos-user] Access DLL functions from DOS

There is a nice library function for Euphoria at: http://www.RapidEuphoria.com/gendll03.zip Enables to execute from DOS functions at DLL libraries, also includes emulation for some very basic win32 API functions (as memory allocation). -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Marco A. Achury Tel: +58-(212)-6158777 C

[Freedos-user] Check Environment variables with Euphoria

This code runs well on FreeDOS Using Euphoria language you can put the whole environmental variables table on a sequence (array) -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Marco A. Achury www.geocities.com/marcoachury/eudos/ include machine.e -- Return memory segment of PSP segment for the current program. functio

[Freedos-user] Euphoria 4.0 needed DOS beta testers

Dear Sirs The work for Euphoria 4.0 is very active. Now the language supports a new platform: OS X. Is needed help to test the DOS interpreter. Last interpreter binary build updated near daily at: http://jeremy.cowgar.com/eubins/ (DOS version on zip file) The last function libraries at (tar.g