[Freedos-user] OT: What gives?

2017-05-06 Thread Wesley Parish
I just opened my inbox and found a pile of list emails from 2016-09-11 right up to 2017-04-8. Has it happened to anybody else? Thanks Wesley Parish "I have supposed that he who buys a Method means to learn it." - Ferdinand Sor, Method for Guitar "A verbal contract isn't

Re: [Freedos-user] Can you help me?

2012-07-18 Thread Wesley Parish
My bad. Sorry! On 12/07/2012, at 2:45 AM, C. Masloch wrote: >> There is also Dissecting DOS, ISBN: 0-20162-687-X, by Podolsky; > > Without commenting on my opinion of the book or RxDOS; no, I don't > think > the author's named Podolsky ;) > > Regards, > Chris > >

Re: [Freedos-user] Can you help me?

2012-07-18 Thread Wesley Parish
d be easiest to get your head around the i8086 for starters. Wesley Parish On 18/07/2012, at 9:11 AM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Jim Hall wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 7:32 PM, TR-DOS wrote: >>> I am a chinese boy,I like computer, want

Re: [Freedos-user] Can you help me?

2012-07-11 Thread Wesley Parish
start from there. Once you know where you want to start from, then everybody else will know how to help you. Wesley Parish There is also Dissecting DOS, ISBN: 0-20162-687-X, by Podolsky; its DOS clone RxDOS is re-entrant and written in assembler. FreeDOS is written in C. Most people prefer C

Re: [Freedos-user] The GPL license.

2009-06-14 Thread Wesley Parish
at contains no derivative of any portion of the Library, but is designed to work with the Library by being compiled or linked with it, is called a "work that uses the Library". Such a work, in isolation, is not a derivative work of the Library, and therefore falls outside the scope of

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot problems

2007-09-09 Thread Wesley Parish
, cd /mnt/"hard drive root partition", chroot /mnt/"hard drive root partition" and run lilo. That put lilo back onto the MBR, As I say, this works with LILO. I don't know if it works with GRUB becuase I've never done it with GRUB - but there shoulbe be

Re: [Freedos-user] Installed on top of WinMe: system unusable.

2007-06-08 Thread Wesley Parish
On Friday 08 June 2007 18:50, someone wrote: > Windows ME is a strange beast. Seems it failed miserably. > Nice thing about Windows ME was that it doesn't require > validation like XP does. It must only be about 7 years old, > but there's no support for it. Just as well perhaps, seems > like Win

Re: [Freedos-user] Linux freedos cross compiler

2007-03-21 Thread Wesley Parish
On Tuesday 20 March 2007 22:41, Eric Auer wrote: > Hi Wesley, > > > how does djgpp turn a Un*x binary into a DOS executable? > > There's a 32-bit DOS stub that gets attached... > > That is not the only difference. DJGPP also links with > a DOS specific C library, because for example the kernel > ca

Re: [Freedos-user] Linux freedos cross compiler

2007-03-20 Thread Wesley Parish
so it should work with an x86 Linux and FreeDOS. Wesley Parish > > thanks > - Original Message - > From: "Florian Xaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 8:10 AM > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Linux freedos cross compiler > > >

Re: [Freedos-user] X Window System for DOS?

2006-08-07 Thread Wesley Parish
of the XFree86/XOrg source tree will have gcc optimizations. Just my 0.02c worth Wesley Parish Quoting Escorter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi! > > Is there any XFree86/XOrg port for DOS? Quarterdeck made a > port of the X Window System for DOS in 1994, called > DESQView/X,

Re: [Freedos-user] Uninstaller?

2006-07-30 Thread Wesley Parish
I believe that may be overdoing it. PL/I is generally regarded as the simplest solution. ;) On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 17:53, Joe Cosentino wrote: > LISP might be fine too now that I think about it > > > > - Original Message - > From: "Marti van Lin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Sund

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS, Borland's current status and Borland's DOS software

2006-07-10 Thread Wesley Parish
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 05:30, Jim Hall wrote: > Wesley Parish wrote: > > There was a thread on getting writers and maintainers of old retired DOS > > software to release it as Open Source and I've lost track of it, > > otherwise I would be continuing it. My bad. > >

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS, Borland's current status and Borland's DOS software

2006-07-09 Thread Wesley Parish
r and database products as Open Source? I've considered doing it myself, but I don't know just who I should contact. Any ideas, brickbats? Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau ki ana, he aha te mea nui? You ask, "What i

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS "1.0" in the news...

2006-07-06 Thread Wesley Parish
s and suchlike, you could have some quite interesting things happening - including setting Win9x to boot to command.com instead of the Explorer shell. It's common knowledge. Microsoft _did_ stuff it up, of course - it made everything overly complex, and as a result, horribly fragile. Wesl

Re: [Freedos-user] Want to read FreeDOS mails in a sensible order

2006-06-15 Thread Wesley Parish
g lists. And making mailing list folders/directories so you don't have eveything piled on top of everything else. Wesley Parish > > Jim Hall wrote: > > BA HCL wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> It is painful to read mails in random order! > >> Can the mail

Re: [Freedos-user] Open Watcom full source code?

2006-05-27 Thread Wesley Parish
ere's been an error in downloading the file. Wesley Parish > > Regards, > Escorter > > > > ___ > Lakások már 3 milliótól! – http://ingatlanapro.origo.hu/ > > > > > -

Re: [Freedos-user] C compilers.

2006-05-24 Thread Wesley Parish
Didn't someone recently abstract all the DOS executables and put them up somewhere? On Wed, 24 May 2006 00:28, Marten Feldtmann wrote: > The development is done either under OS/2 or Windows, but you create DOS > code ... > > Marten > > > Sorry for the garbage. In the OpenWatcom site, I only find

Re: [Freedos-user] Patent granted on FAT

2006-01-10 Thread Wesley Parish
Offices. Go for the jugular. Wesley Parish On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:59, Shane M. Coughlan wrote: > Hi guys > > An important heads up. Microsoft have been granted a patent on FAT. > > http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=13256 > > This could quite seriously effect the Free

Re: [Freedos-user] OLD news: Patent granted on FAT

2006-01-10 Thread Wesley Parish
FWIW, LFN was an integral part of WordPerfect 5.1 - which predates MS win9x by quite a few years. The USPTO's just committing gratuitous fraud. Which is to say, there can be no excuse for such malfeasance. Wesley Parish On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:02, Eric Auer wrote: > Hi Shane an

Re: [Freedos-user] ReactOS -- take care

2005-11-04 Thread Wesley Parish
___ > > Freedos-user mailing list > > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > IIRC - ReactOS does have a mail list. Several actually. www.reactos.com is where you find the details. DOS hackers could make a con

Re: [Freedos-user] My experiment with Windows 3.1 on FreeDOS in VMware

2005-09-04 Thread Wesley Parish
It obviously works - but oh, the humanity! ;) On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 08:15, Robert Morales wrote: > I've read a couple of experiences with FreeDOS and Windows 3.1; I gave > it a shot in VMware, and recorded my findings (with screenshots) here: > http://robert.gotdaemon.net/win31-freedos/ > > Next I p

Re: [Freedos-user] [SEAL] and xdosemu just work

2005-08-24 Thread Wesley Parish
OpenGEM, or another FreeGEM > distribution? It's the shaneland distro, OpenGEM4.zip. It's the only one I've got around to testing. Where is this Ozone, and is it Free/Open Source? Thanks Wesley Parish > > Best regards > > Shane > Email: [EM

[Freedos-user] [SEAL] and xdosemu just work

2005-08-23 Thread Wesley Parish
SEAL works - somewhat. Any other graphical environments for DOS I could try? // //So thanks to all concerned. // //FreeGEM doesn't work in dosemu; it was only when I tried xdosemu that it came //to life. Now I'll have to try SEAL and - any others around? Wesley Parish -- Cli

Re: [Freedos-user] OT Novell emmulator

2005-08-22 Thread Wesley Parish
My bad. I didn't read your post all the way through. What's worse is I had a few books last year about NetWare 3.* and I chucked them out during a house-shift, so I can't help much there. There should be something at the Novell site on setting up a Novell network. Wesley Par

Re: [Freedos-user] OT Novell emmulator

2005-08-22 Thread Wesley Parish
novell.com/documentation/suse91/suselinux-adminguide/html/ch17s03.html http://www.compu-art.de/mars_nwe/ Enjoy! Wesley Parish > > >A other idea would be to use samba. but does anybody know a small (the > >client from microsoft doesnt fit on one floppy) and a generic (the one > >

[Freedos-user] FreeGEM and xdosemu just work

2005-08-21 Thread Wesley Parish
So thanks to all concerned. FreeGEM doesn't work in dosemu; it was only when I tried xdosemu that it came to life. Now I'll have to try SEAL and - any others around? Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You

OT Definitely, Was Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS kicks some serious Ass!

2005-07-28 Thread Wesley Parish
Sorry, definitely OT, but I held out as long as I could ... ;) Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people,

[Freedos-user] mouse puzzle

2005-07-02 Thread Wesley Parish
bout this? And ideas on what I should do to make the mouse useful to more apps? Thanks Wesley Parish Relevant info: "DPMI-Server Version 0.9 installed FreeDOS kernel version 1.1.33 (Build 2033) [Jan 31 2004 16:30:33] Kernel compatibility 7.10 - WATCOMC - FAT32 support (C) Copyright

Re: [Freedos-user] New TERMINAL (.com, ROM) released

2005-04-26 Thread Wesley Parish
> that I could access another computer trough the RS232 with that? ANSI/VT100 emulation - that means it can give you an account on another computer, a multiuser computer, by pretending to be a "dumb terminal" - the DEC VT series were a set of terminals for their midrange PDPs and VAX

Re: [Freedos-user] Fwd: Running DANCAD3D.EXE v3.7K under FreeDOS, help with Beta Test program

2005-04-11 Thread Wesley Parish
onfig hints, tips, etc. Thanks Wesley Parish On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 06:23, Jim Hall wrote: > Hi, > > Dan sent this email to me, looking for help to get his DANCAN3D program > to run on FreeDOS. If anyone can be of any help, please email Dan > directly at: Dan Hudgins <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Freedos-user] zip2exe sort of program

2005-04-10 Thread Wesley Parish
Firstly, thanks to everyone who answered. I found details on unzipsfx at the Unzip website and downloaded a more up-to-date unzip and zip than I had been using before. I'll try arj as well - back when DOS was the only thing I had on my PC, I remember it as a good program. Wesley Paris

[Freedos-user] zip2exe sort of program

2005-04-09 Thread Wesley Parish
I'm wanting a zip2exe sort of program, to convert a set of Openwatcom DOS zip files to self-extracting, so I can write a batch file to install the whole kit and caboodle without much manual interaction. zip and unzip doen't have it in the switches. Thanks Wesley Parish -- Cli

[Freedos-user] Galahad, Clarkson Uni's word processor

2005-03-28 Thread Wesley Parish
Professor - don't know how much luck I'll have. ;) Thanks Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Question

2005-03-16 Thread Wesley Parish
something similar published somewhere else - but I don't know where to get copies. Thanks Wesley Parish > > In either case, WinXP and MS Office are far too "heavy" for your very > old laptop. So you can only use it with Win95 or at most Win98se. In > Germany, it is lega