Re: [Freedos-user] De-Geekifying This List (Was: Some Simple List Rules)

2009-07-01 Thread Aitor SantamarĂ­a
Hello Mike, Thanks for writing and expressing your opinion. In fact, I think you brought an interesting topic that is also of my concern. When the freedos-user list was created, it was indeed created as a list for those users that need not have knowledge about the internals of FreeDOS itself in or

Re: [Freedos-user] De-Geekifying This List (Was: Some Simple List Rules)

2009-06-22 Thread Jim Lemon
Since there seems to be a sort of democratic process emerging on the direction of FreeDOS, I suppose I should at least state my opinion. I use FreeDOS for what it doesn't have, like: no multi-tasking to grab the CPU for housekeeping while I want it concentrating on business. or that I can turn

Re: [Freedos-user] De-Geekifying This List (Was: Some Simple List Rules)

2009-06-21 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Mike, you are right that config / autoexec often differ from what you are used to from MS DOS, among other reasons just because we now have newer and other drivers :-). > CONFIG.SYS: > device=HIMEM.SYS Try Himem.exe, or better Himemx.exe... You also need a line DOS=HIGH,UMB > device=EMM386.

[Freedos-user] De-Geekifying This List (Was: Some Simple List Rules)

2009-06-21 Thread Mike Webb
> > From: Pat Villani > > Subject: [Freedos-user] Some simple list rules > > Date: Saturday, June 20, 2009, 8:46 AM > > > > 1. Please remember that this is a users mailing list. > > Many of these folks are non technical and may not under- > > stand the ramifications of what they are asking for. P