Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs ms-dos 7.1

2019-09-19 Thread Mateusz Viste
A person from Argentina recently boasted on comp.os.msdos.misc about posting to the Usenet from his 286 PC using Minuet. Personally I do not have any experience with that, so I won't be able to provide any further pointers. Apparently it can be downloaded here: https://browsers.evolt.org/brows

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs ms-dos 7.1

2019-09-19 Thread Thalis Agáthōn
ok thank you 😊or any of these places accessible through FreeDos/DOS applications?  Like Usenet for example?cheersThalis-- Sent from Yandex.Mail for mobile20:23, 19 September 2019, Mateusz Viste :On 19/09/2019 19:53, Jim Hall wrote: But you can find knowledgeable people in these forums: FreeDOS @ Sl

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs ms-dos 7.1

2019-09-19 Thread Mateusz Viste
On 19/09/2019 19:53, Jim Hall wrote: But you can find knowledgeable people in these forums: FreeDOS @ Slack (although this is a quiet forum) DOS Ain't Dead forum at BTTR Software IRC.freenode.net ##freedos (I think this is a quiet channel, too) ...and on the Usenet, as well: comp.os.msdos.mis

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs ms-dos 7.1

2019-09-19 Thread Jim Hall
On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 2:38 PM Thalis Agáthōn wrote: > > Dear Eric > > Is there anyone I can call at the moment with a few questions I have about > Freedos? It seems too unwieldy to explain in email. I have questions that are > intertwined and depend on the answers etc, 5-10 minutes would be en

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs ms-dos 7.1

2019-09-16 Thread Thalis Agáthōn
Dear Eric Is there anyone I can call at the moment with a few questions I have about Freedos? It seems too unwieldy to explain in email. I have questions that are intertwined and depend on the answers etc, 5-10 minutes would be enough.Regards Thalis -- goodness = beauty = truth   16.09.2019, 17:25,

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs ms-dos 7.1

2019-09-16 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! If you ask me, you usually only want to install sources for one package at a time, while reading those particular sources, not for the whole system at the same time. Some sources are rather large. Regarding your aim, even really old computers are usually strong enough for a simple Linux, whi

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs ms-dos 7.1

2019-09-15 Thread Thalis Agáthōn
Hi  Eric, thank you for your  replyIt's nice to feel that one is not alone in Dosland :)Yes I was installing the source code aswel, because I am studying programming and I would surely like to have an idea of what's under the hood.  Ok I might install again on the Pentium MMX without the source and

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs ms-dos 7.1

2019-09-15 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Thalis! If FreeDOS took hours for you to install, you might have tried to install everything and the sources. This can be 100s of megabytes and if you are not a programmer, you will rarely touch the source code. To have a result more similar to MS DOS 7, simply install only the "base" packa

[Freedos-user] Freedos vs ms-dos 7.1

2019-09-15 Thread Thalis Agáthōn
Dear people of FreeDos, thank you for having me on your email list :)Can anyone convince me to use FreeDos over MS-Dos 7.1?I tried installing FreeDos on a Pentium MMX, with CD-Rom, and it took 8 hours of installing painfully slowly, before I did something that interupted the process. MS-Dos took me