Re: [Freedos-user] XST Basic

Oops, that is what I was looking for, Eric. Did anyone in the list had the chance to give a try too? Sounds like a good candidate for another BASIC tool... Aitor 2009/8/27 Eric Auer : > > Hi everybody, Angelo Rosina writes about a BASIC for DOS, > forwarding some info from him :-) Should we add

Re: [Freedos-user] Driver Problems

Hi, About the screen problem: I don't know that model, but in earlier laptops, text mode wouldn't fill the whole screen (pixels weren't "expanded"), and that may be the reason of your problem. Under Linux, many "text modes" are actually graphic modes (framebuffers and such), and not pure BIOS text

Re: [Freedos-user] keyb and freedos

Sorry, I was wrong. The problem is with the syntax: drop the 'CP' letters: keyb UK,858,keyboard.sys Regards, Aitor El día 11 de septiembre de 2009 15:48, Aitor Santamaría escribió: > Roberto, I gor your mail but am quite busy this week. > The person that may easily help would b

Re: [Freedos-user] keyb and freedos

Roberto, I gor your mail but am quite busy this week. The person that may easily help would be Henrique Peron (for knowledge). Regards, Aitor 2009/9/11 Eric Auer : > > Hi Roberto, > > I am no expert for KEYB,  but even if Aitor is too busy to > answer, I am sure somebody on freedos-user can help

Re: [Freedos-user] Malware5.

Kurt, I usually send such zip files renamed to .aaa and bypasses that annoyance. Just make sure to tell the picker to do the rename Back ;) Aitor 2009/9/17, kurt godel : > I just tried sending two versions to Pat, one the suspect tarball, the other > an 'rar' type file; the gmail accepted the ra

Re: [Freedos-user] Malware 5.5.

Ok, just a suggestion, as apparently works for me as .aaa, or at least did the last time I tried :) Aitor 2009/10/1, kurt godel : > Aitor, > thanks, but I already tried that with Pat; the gmail catches it even with > the rename!. kurtwb2...@gmail.com. > --

Re: [Freedos-user] Determining partition types (NTFS, etc)

Many many thanks, Alain!! Apparently, the Norton guys were not going to continue with PQMagic any longer, but this is great news!! I am particularly interested in moving/resizing. I don't know how Windows manages partition internally, but it concerns me that, when you are moving a partition, there

Re: [Freedos-user] Who needs WIndows?

Hi, 2010/2/25 Michael Robinson : >> > for merely recommending that open source compilers >> > and build tools be used instead of MSVC and the Windows SDK. >> >> Good, but how is this related to FreeDOS ? > > Well, I don't see anyone in the Freedos community insisting that > closed source compilers

Re: [Freedos-user] re:Re: (formmail) klavese

But is there any problem with that that needs to be solved? Does that mean that he can't use the keyboard under FreeDOS? I can help with that if need be. Aitor Eric Auer escribió: Hi Jim, this is badly spelled German (but .cz is in Czech Republic...): [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Es ist teinlic

Re: [Freedos-user] LFN support?

Hi John, John Price escribió: I've seen some mention of LFN support in FreeDOS. I wonder exactly how much support we are talking about... Is it supported in the kernel, or just command.com? In my understanding, there's no LFN support at all, except in the DIR command of FreeCOM, where an exist

Re: [Freedos-user] re: LFN support?

Eric Auer escribió: Hi, as far as I know, only "Windows-aware" programs generally notice it at all if you have LFN support active. Well, not always. I've seen several fancy editors, and ALL the programs made in FreePascal can also notice this, because LFN is supported when found automatically...

Re: [Freedos-user] re: graphics display problem

Hi, Eric Auer escribió: I guess you have some "hypermodern" graphics card which no longer contains a proper EGA 8x14 font (only CGA 8x8 and VGA 8x16 would still be there). To solve the problem, you can make your program use another screen resolution if possible (EGA is 640x350 etc.) or you can lo

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS.org is getting a facelift

Looks great! Just one thing in cas the font face can also be improved: some days ago I seem to recall browsing a page on mozilla.org (not current cover) that had a VERY NEAT and SMOOTH typeface, would be great that it could be adopted too. Regrettably I CAN'T remember which page was that, anybod

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS.org is getting a facelift

Found it, sorry: http://texturizer.net/firefox/ Also see that with current font face one can do nice things like: http://www.mozillazine.org/ but I still prefer the firefox link above. Just a suggestion, the guys at mozilla.org seem to have very good taste with web design... Aitor Aitor

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS.org is getting a facelift

Hi, Jim Hall escribió: The html errors you mention are "&" appearing in the news items - this is a result of laziness when I enter news items on the site. I'll have to clean that up, but it shouldn't cause your browser to have problems. This is a common validation error on most sites. I kno

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos

Dear Karel, This means that your program requires a DPMI server. The applications you are trying to run will probably come with CWSDPMI.EXE, that you will have to run before running the application. If you don't have it, then you can get it from here: http://clio.rice.edu/cwsdpmi/ Also notice

[Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: KC 1.0 ready

Hi all, I want to announce the availability of the KC (Key Compiler) tool, which is a tool for compiling text source keyboard descriptors into binary-type KeybCBs that will be used by KEYB2. In the binary pack, you have - the compiler, - documentation about the KEY language, that is used to desc

[Freedos-user] DISPLAY 0.10b ready

Hi, This is to announce a revision of DISPLAY 0.10, namely DISPLAY 0.10b. It just fixes a couple of bugs: - a bug that assumed a space to lead the parameter - a bug affecting the DISPLAY Installation check function (AD00h in int2Fh) MODECON.EXE also disappears from the distribution: please always

Re: [Freedos-user] Using the internet with FreeDOS made easy

Hi, (By the way, Eric, a problem with my ISP destroyed your original message, could you send it to me in private?) PS: I did not test IRCABI because the LSM tells that you would need SLIP, while I have plain Ethernet / LAN. Do you think it would work anyway? I don't know about SLIP, but PLIP d

Re: [Freedos-user] dualboot fdos and win98

Hi, Rafał Kula escribió: Can I dualboot Freedos and win98 on the same primary partition? I'm afraid about conflict of command.coms in root. Are they both have to be there? Not necessarily: you control the Shell you want to have loaded with SHELL= in config sys or better use fdconfig.sys to av

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS beta9 release candidate 5.

Arkady V.Belousov escribiÃ: Hi! 3-ÐÐÐ-2004 02:36 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mika Salakka) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: MS> As I understand it, FreeDOS' support for FAT32 is limited, though, but I MS> could be dead wrong on that one, too. FD suppors FAT32 completely. FreeDOS *KERNEL* supports FAT32

[Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: FD APPEND 1.0

Hi all, I'd like to announce FreeDOS APPEND 1.0, a very basic APPEND that I have created. With this, I could run WordStar Express in a mixed directory installation, as I intended. APPEND 1.0 is very basic. In particular, it is NOT implemented: - APPEND /E - FCB functions - The function 11 of the

[Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: KEYB2.0 pre2

Hi all, A minor update to KEYB, namely, KEYB2.0 pre2, is ready. - Fixes a bug that prevented KEYB from correctly executing the Advanced Power Management commands (suspend, turn off, etc) - Fixes several other miscellaneous bugs that I was reported - When you select a non-existing codepage, the exi

[Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: New version of KC

Hi, I have uploaded version 1.10 of KC, the keyboard layout creator for KEYB 2.X. In this version, a couple of minor bugs are fixed: - Corrects illformed KL files when strings are used - In case of program abort, any already opened file is closed You can get it at ibiblio, executable: http://www

[Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: DISPLAY 0.11

Hi all, I announce version 0.11 of FD-DISPLAY, with several new features: - It implements a new MODULE for the "CGA" hardware type (CGA adapters), thus making unnecessary the existence of a GRAFTABL tool for the FreeDOS project. This is yet untested (I have no CGA cards handy). Furthermore, any

Re: [Freedos-user] 4DOS free now!

Hi, Luchezar Georgiev escribiÃ: The next logical step will be releasing the source code :) Needless to say 4DOS is compatible with the FreeDOS kernel. I've used it for a long time under it and it's very stable. I attach the license under which 4DOS is now distributed. Does it allow its inclusion in

Re: [Freedos-user] 4DOS free now!

Hi, Luchezar Georgiev escribiÃ: Silly Microsoft for including a bitmap into a 220KB kernel which was also intended to be put on bootdisks with only 1.44MB capacity. Wengier's "Super Boot Disk" IO.SYS at http://newdos.yginfo.net/msdos71/ is just 123 KB. He managed to remove the bitmap logo ;-) H

Re: [Freedos-user] 4DOS free now!

Hi, Bernd Blaauw escribiÃ: Aitor, have a look at the batchfile at http://www.pcwelt.de/index.cfm?pid=239&pk=6626&p=2 it contains some batch code for creating a 32bit DOS out of a fresh installed Win98. The so-created 32bit DOS supports LFN's. No real usefullness, though. google search term: 32bd.b

Re: [Freedos-user] 4DOS free now!

Hi, Luchezar Georgiev escribiÃ: Best use is from a clean win98 installation. You might need to copy additional VXD files to the 32BD directory (or a subdirectory) to satisfy the registry requirements (netware drivers, for example). So this in fact is a mini-Windows... without windows ;-) Well, a

Re: [Freedos-user] 32BD.BAT

Hi, Luchezar Georgiev escribiÃ: So this in fact is a mini-Windows... without windows ;-) Well, a question of point of view. For me, this all is DOS, the DOS extender of Microsoft, and Windows is what comes behind KRNL386.EXE. After all, the same "Windows" application (KERNEL, USER, GDI) could b

[Freedos-user] Microsoft Windows runs on FreeDOS (and now for sure)

(new attempt) (NOTE: this is a copy of my infamous post, but this time WITHOUT the attachment; I hope we all don't get it three times later) (The attachment was a zip-ed BMP image (around 10KB) of Paintbrush over Windows 3.1 over FreeDOS) == Hi, From time to time I like testing h

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: corrputed disk

Hi, Arkady V.Belousov escribiÃ: Hi! 13-ÐÐÑ-2004 17:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arne Eckmann) wrote to "Arkady V.Belousov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: AE> I'm sorry to trouble you with this. FreeDOS really need to have an official AE> address to which unsuspecting people like I can address our anger, AE> disappo

[Freedos-user] Brief notes on using KEYB

Hi, For those of you that may find confusing the multiplicity of files used by KEYB, you can read some instructions in the FAQ item: http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/faq/cgi-bin/viewfaq.cgi?faq=Using_FreeDOS/249 (more info is to be appended with the forthcomming version FD-KEYB 2.0 pre3) In short, K

Re: [Freedos-user] XMS Manager on '286

Hi, Kristaps Kaupe escribiÃ: I don't know if DOS6's HIMEM works on 286 machines. Someone told me DOS 7.10 (Win98) only runs on 386+ machines. MS-DOS 5 and 6 HIMEM.SYS works on 286 machines, I have used it on my first PC (286) long time ago. In MS-DOS 7.10 (Win98) even kernel runs only on 386+

Re: [Freedos-user] Fox-cubs v0.1 appared!

Hi there, Kristaps Kaupe escribió: Tuesday 03 May 2005 21:43, Fox rakstīja: Hi there, I want to announce that I wrote Fox-cubs v0.1. It's a Pascal library (TPU unit) which supports using CATS/Kitten formatted language files into Pascal programs. With Fox-cube the programmer get a new funct

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.01

Hi Arkady, Thanks, I read that, but I was wondering if someone could explain a little bit more, does RSX/EMX provide DPMI as well, does it get the system into protected mode, running as a single task a-la EMM386 or such details Mere curiosity, but there isn't much documentation around. A

Re: [Freedos-user] text editor's and mem command

Hi, (Didn't I reply to this already?, just in case...) Because it is compiled for 286+ and in the resident code it uses 186+ specific opcodes (PUSHA, POPA,...) Planned to be changed soon anyway. Aitor GNU_man escribió: Actually, i discovered (thanks to Eric Auer) that TED3 works perfectly

Re: [Freedos-user] emx at sourceforge

Hi, coralline algae escribió: emtex which is the dos version of TeX also uses emx. I have not used it extensively but it seems to work ok on small documents. Also there is a dvi viewer which works under dos. I want also to mention that I have had problems with ghostscript under dos in th

Re: [Freedos-user] USB Driver Disk v1.1

Hi, Johnson Lam escribió: Hi, Talk for a year, finally after a lot of test ... The USB Driver disk (1.44MB floppy) was ready for novice user, in order to let them did their backup or GHOST job more easily. The driver should work on PentiumIII grade PC. I can access a 128MB Compact Flash card

Re: [Freedos-user] turbo c and c++ compiles of kernel source and freecom source

Hi, coralline algae escribió: Havent downloaded the cpp files from open watcom so do not know if it is possible to compile freecom with watcom. I may start looking into it. Personally I'd appreciate it very much, in my opinion, FreeDOS programs (mine included) should be able to compile unde

Re: [Freedos-user] XDMA and SHSUCDX V3.00/V3.02

Hi, Jim Hall escribió: Jim Hall wrote: Not sure what to do about the LSMs for either SHSUCDX or XDMA... Johnson Lam wrote: Attached 2 LSM, not 100% sure about the format ... Format looks good. I've edited the shsucdx LSM a little bit .. just to make sure the distinction is clear w

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS EDIT (was XDMA, SHSUCDX and other split-version programs)

Jim Hall escribió: Whatever. I had tried to contact Joe Cosentino off-list, but never heard back from him, even after several re-attempts. So I'll assume that Joe doesn't mind that Eric has forked a copy of FreeDOS EDIT. Just a little bit of info, I tried to contact him too, but I am unsure

Re: [Freedos-user] announce: devload 3.14

Hi, Eric Auer escribió: Please test if your devices can still be loaded with the new DEVLOAD version (DEVLOAD allows you to load devices from the prompt which otherwise would be loaded with DEVICE= or DEVICEHIGH=, but note that UMB support is limited, memory drivers like HIMEM / EMM386 should no

Re: [Freedos-user] How to report a kernel bug?

I have a machine where to reproduce this bug, or a similar one. It's a 286. Strangely enough, FreeDOS will boot from floppy and see C:, but will refuse to boot from there (locks at InitDisk I think, I haven't investigated into this). The bad point is that I wasn't able to investigate into this,

Re: [Freedos-user] re: New FreeDOS install CD

Hi, Eric Auer escribió: Could be used with software with restrictive licenses. Okay, I get it. Read: Antivirus stuff and VIDE-CDD. What else? By the way, Bernd just never got a reply from Acer about the driver, but they never said that you cannot put it on CD either. What is the license of

Re: [Freedos-user] re: More FreeDOS FDISK tests - failure is repeatable

Hi, Johnson Lam escribió: On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 03:17:48 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: Hi, XFDISK? I mean, XFDISK is open source. It only does not LOOK like the old MS DOS user interface, but hey, that was crap anyway... The correct procedure should be: 1) Contact Brian and ask him if he still

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS kicks some serious Ass!

In my opinion it is good that you have the option to buy a PC with or without the operating system. What really sicks me is that absurd idea of the "preinstalled OS". I got an Acer laptop, they (almost sure) charged me for the OS, but they didn't give me the official WinXP Pro disk: it was "prei

Re: [Freedos-user] re: FDISK MBR and FORMAT questions

Hi, Gerry Hickman escribió: What is the correct procedure for getting a "working boot program" into the "valid Master Boot Record", and who supplies this program? Is it Microsoft, Intel?? Hard drives usually have a default MBR, just as pre-formatted floppies have default FAT the information

Re: [Freedos-user] re: How to report a kernel bug?

Hi, Eric Auer escribió: Hm... why not ask on -kernel or at least on -devel? Because I was writing a follow up to someone else's message. I have a machine where to reproduce this bug, or a similar one. It's a 286. Strangely enough, FreeDOS will boot from floppy and see C:, but will refuse to

Re: [Freedos-user] Posts not showing up?

Same happened to me last night too... Glad to read this, I am becoming an anti-spam paranoid... Aitor Gerry Hickman escribió: Hi, Since this Saturday, my posts are not showing up on this list until I re-post them about three times? There's no bounce message, they just disappear... --

Re: [Freedos-user] PCI audio cards

Hi there, Blair Campbell escribió: Hi. I am reqesting that everyone with a PCI audio card that needs DOS-compatible drivers to run and has those DOS-compatible drivers available to send me the PCIsleep output for "pcisleep /q0401". This will help me to add PCI audio card detection to my ISOs a

Re: [Freedos-user] PCI audio cards

Yes, but my question is, there is no Audio standard to conform in DOS (as far as I know), so I suppose that a "DOS audio driver" means a driver that implements a well known API, such as SoundBlaster. Right? Aitor Blair Campbell escribió: I'm curious about this, "DOS-Compatible" means "SoundBl

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Bugzilla?

Hi, Easy to find in the FreeDOS main page: http://www.freedos.org/freedos/bugs/ Aitor Nick Bright escribió: Is there a bugzilla for FreeDOS? It seems rather inefficent for me to post bugs to the mailing list. I can if that's how ya'll would prefer it, but I thought I'd check before firing one

Re: [Freedos-user] [XT] Bug found - "zip" utility

You need to get a 8086 ZIP version, check with the InfoZIP page. If the ODIN docs says it to support XT machines, then that's a bug :) Aitor Nick Bright escribió: Just testing things about, I tried to zip a file, and received an error about requiring an 80386. The ODIN readme.txt file indicates

Re: [Freedos-user] OT: Web hosting needed for a binary distribution

Hi Shane, Quite OT, but I see serious quirks about Thunderbird that don't seem to exist in Mozilla Mail. In particular, with 1.0.6, for example, at times when browsing messages with the 'F' (next message) key, a new window won't open anymore, Thunderbird would remain in memory even if you clos

Re: [Freedos-user] re: FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list

Hi, Eric Auer escribió: Hi, I would suggest an extra column for the tables in the post 1.0 TODO list: Level / State of the wish. Example values: [ http://wiki.fdos.org/Main/Post_1_0_Todo ] I seem to like the idea of the categories , although I'd personally review what anyone puts anywhere.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list

Bernd Blaauw escribió: Arkady V.Belousov schreef: MD> HIMEM and EMM386 set up on a clean memory map. It certainly isn't clean MD> after loading device drivers of varying allocations, the DOS shell, and MD> various AUTOEXEC TSRs. Yes. But I say about difference between config.sys an

Re: [Freedos-user] re: FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list

Hi, Eric Auer escribió: So my suggestion is: Review the needs, and think about a new DEVICE variant CPUDEVICE[HIGH]=[minlevel],[maxlevel],[driver and args] or similar, where you could do for example CPUDEVICE=1,2,FDXMS286 ... CPUDEVICE=3,,HIMEM ... CPUDEVICE=3,,EMM386 ... (the CPUDEVICE command

Re: [Freedos-user] UPX compression, was FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list

Hi, Michael Devore escribió: After three days of on-and-off hacking on it, I built a mutant UPX 1.25 to compress EMM386.EXE and HIMEM.EXE to work both as a device driver and as a stand-alone EXE file. As almost always is the case, the actual changes were small, figuring them out was the hard

Re: [Freedos-user] Conventional Memory

Hi, Jesse Petre escribió: Eric & Bernd: Thanks for the info, I think I'll stick with beta 8 until the new one comes out (1.0 correct?). Will the new version be available on floppies like the betas? No, no 1.0 yet (http://wiki.fdos.org/Main/Todo_1_0). Aitor ---

Re: [Freedos-user] trouble with russian-named files

Hi, Arkady V.Belousov escribió: Hi! 17-Окт-2005 10:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: ao> (1) You'll need to use COUNTRY= setting with an unstable kernel version (in ao> the future stable one). Correction: with any kernel version. Withou

Re: [Freedos-user] re: Impossible to start WFG 3.11 or Windows 3.11 in enhaced mode

Only a quick look, but he seems to be running Windows with 32BDA and 32BFA off, I just wonder what's the use of WinForWG then, instead of Win3.1. Aitor Eric Auer escribió: A German guy has written a DOS GUI in StarTrek NG design (also interacts with Windows, plus it uses a storage of extra fil

Re: [Freedos-user] re: DOS operating systems

Hi, Chema escribió: For a DOS GUI, I would recommend GEM. Shane of Shaneland has made a really nice GEM distro. Free GUI with, quite important, quite a few apps available for it as well. Windows has more, sure, but Windows is complex. Still you can get that for "free" if you use ReactOS as stand

Re: [Freedos-user] Impossible to start WFG 3.11 or Windows 3.11 in enhaced mode

Hi, Robert Riebisch escribió: could help me? Nobody has developed a better vesa driver for Windows 3.xx? That would require the Windows 3.1 DDK from Microsoft which was/is not free! Oh, my! I wish there was ANY way to get a copy of this anyhow... depending of price I could even pay. Aito

Re: [Freedos-user] display size+resolution

Hi, A bit more of information is required. As you are talking about full screen, it seems that you are not running [Free]DOS standalone, but inside a virtualizer or emulator, which one? DOSEMU? Aitor seorge escribió: I've downloaded a bunch of old dos-games (some of them from '80s) for my d

[Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: DISPLAY 0.12 ready

Hi all, I want to announce that a new version of FreeDOS DISPLAY, ver. 0.12 is ready for download here: FOLDER: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/display/ SOURCE: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/display/disp012s.zip BINARY: http://www.ibi

Re: [Freedos-user] long live hotmail :(

So what is it meant by "Normal POP3"?? I have my share of virus problems with my POP3 accounts... Anyway I'm glad to hear that at least one mail system (gmail) may be regarded as somewhat reliable against spam. Aitor Bernd Blaauw escribió: I assume you mean you are receiving lots of emails w

Re: [Freedos-user] LPTLink

Little time here, but if it's Spanish I can try to help. Written Portuguese is partly understandable by me, but you'd better get someone else's help in thie case. Aitor Blair Campbell escribió: instead of specifying the port. After looking at the source code, it seems as if the port is hard-c

Re: [Freedos-user] FAT Patents of Microsoft

(Un)fortunately, FAT is so inherent to DOS in a way that no block devices can host other fs (all the rest are "network file systems"), that I doubt that these ideas, yet if marvelous, are hardly possible. Aitor Christian Voß escribió: Hi, I can't understand the crying about the FAT patent.

Re: [Freedos-user] Enumerating available drives in FreeDOS...

Hi, Some kind person on the net once submitted to me a very nice piece of Pascal code able (allegedly) to determine up to 30 different kinds of media. Unfortunately, I no longer know where I do have it. I wrote a small piece of code to detect 4-5 types for FreePascal some time ago, but I doubt

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS utility to insert keystrokes in the keyboard buffer?

Hi, KEYB implements such a "bigger secondary buffer" whenever you use STRINGS, as 16 characters is too few to decently support placing strings. True that you need the overhead of the STRING subsystem if you want this secondary buffer. I'd study to allow you to use the secondary buffer independ

Re: [Freedos-user] Open Source and/or Free Software?

Hello Jim, On Thu, 26 May 2016 at 23:48, Jim Hall wrote: > I usually describe "open source software" and "free software" as a > Venn diagram: All free software is open source software (all free > software requires that you make the source code available to others). > But not all open source soft

Re: [Freedos-user] How can I make FreeDOS correctly display the "ã" character?

Hello, On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 at 20:40, Eric Auer via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > LH DISPLAY CON=(EGA,,1) > rem or maybe for example DISPLAY CON=(EGA,858,1) or similar? > I am afraid that this is NOT correct, as the second entry refers to the "hardware" default codep

Re: [Freedos-user] How can I make FreeDOS correctly display the "ã" character?

Hello, On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 at 22:23, Frantisek Rysanek via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Let me suggest the following hypothesis: > > Your FreeDOS and graphical hardware is running with the HW-default > code page, known as Code Page 437. > https://en.wikipedia.org/w

Re: [Freedos-user] How can I make FreeDOS correctly display the "ã" character?

Hello, On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 at 00:35, Davi Ramos via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > That did it! "ã" and other tilde-accentuated characters are displaying > perfectly now. Thanks! > > Although I cannot say I understand the fix, it did work and now all > tilde-accentuat

Re: [Freedos-user] How can I make FreeDOS correctly display the "ã" character?

Hello, To answer this mail, and Davi Ramos' question of "what a codepage is". In classic text mode, your display adapter can only display up to 256 different characters (glyphs) simultaneously, which is obviously not enough for having all alphabets for different languages (even less all of Unicod

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

The character is in position 198. Can you check to issue ALT+198 (with the numeric pad) and see the character you find, with codepage 850 or 858 loaded? It would be to see where the problem is. Nevertheless, can you share your AUTOEXEC.BAT so that we can see your system's configuration? Aitor

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS Bug tracking

Hello, There has been a lot of movement on the FreeDOS Sourceforge bug tracker lately. However, as far as I know, since we moved source to GitLab, the official tool for but reporting is there. At least, I just wanted to point out that at some point in the past, I did a revision of whatever was in

Re: [Freedos-user] picoTCP: a modern, open-source TCP/IP stack for DOS

Hello! What is LIDOS? (Couldn't find any reference on the Internet) Aitor On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 at 17:08, Alain Mouette wrote: > Due to zero interest in the VM with Linux+FreeDOS that I uploaded, it is > unprobable that LIDOS will get much work done... > > Remember that for FreeDOS, picoTCP is

Re: [Freedos-user] picoTCP: a modern, open-source TCP/IP stack for DOS

Thanks! Now it works, Aitor On Sun, 6 Aug 2023 at 00:12, tom ehlert via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Hallo Herr Aitor Santamaría via Freedos-user, > > > > What is LIDOS? > > (Couldn't find any reference on the Internet) >

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

Hello, I would use MODE CON. After all, you want to reconfigure the console, and that is what MODE CON is for. Aitor On Sun, 6 Aug 2023 at 02:10, zerofive--- via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > This question may been asked a million times but I just can't figure it

Re: [Freedos-user] languages

Hello, Check KEYB an dKeyboard layouts in FreeDOS HELP: FreeDOS command: keyb (bootablecd.de) KPDOS v3.0 - Keyboard Layout Pack for DOS codepages (bootablecd.de)

Re: [Freedos-user] languages

Hi, The question is not very clear to me, but the installation of FreeDOS gives you choice for lots and lots of keyboard layouts (Keyboard) and codepages (screen), as well as many National Language Support for kernel. However, translation of messages can be a bit uneven, depending on the language.

Re: [Freedos-user] languages

Hello Joao, I think in the thread the bug was mentioned to happen in mKEYB, could you please try FD-KEYB to see if the bug is there and needs to be corrected too? Thanks, Aitor On Mon, 2 Oct 2023 at 07:26, Joao Silva via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Hi! > > i' m

Re: [Freedos-user] languages

and i can't find fdimples. > Where can i install it? > > On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 7:34 PM Aitor Santamaría via Freedos-user < > freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > >> Hello Joao, >> >> I think in the thread the bug was mentioned to happen in mK

Re: [Freedos-user] languages

Ok, thanks for the testing. Aitor On Wed, 4 Oct 2023 at 23:36, Joao Silva via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Hello. > > I used KEYB PO,850,KEYBOARD.SYS and worked like a charm. > > Thank you. > > On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 8:43 PM Aitor

Re: [Freedos-user] KEY language specification for custom keyboard layout?

with an answer. > > On 2/29/2016 4:31 PM, Henrique Peron wrote: > > Hi John, > > > > yes, the one and only route is to edit the US.KEY file, compile it and > > run it through KEYB. Correct. > > > > You'll have to check the documentation and look for Aitor

Re: [Freedos-user] R-Alt does not act like L-Alt

Hello, Sounds like it could be a bug in Edit, I'll see about it when I have a little time. Now for the original question: is it possible to make R-Alt work like L-Alt? It should be possible to do that with FD-KEYB.The idea is to intercept Right-Alt and then emit Left-Alt, and get back to the BIOS

Re: [Freedos-user] R-Alt does not act like L-Alt

Hello Eric, You are right. In Spanish it happens the same, and I assume in many other keyboard distributions out there. So, closed case. If someone wants R-ALt to act like L-Alt, maybe they can try the KEYB trick and let us know. Aitor On Sat, 28 Oct 2023 at 21:07, Eric Auer via Freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] What DOS programs represent the 1980s and early 90s?

Hello Jim, I'm giving my own view that I've lived from this corner of the world. As for operating systems/environments, it was mostly MS-DOS 3.X, 5.X and 6.22, and of course, Windows 3.1 (before the arrival of Windows95). I heard of machines having DR-DOS or OS/2, but did never quite catch up. A

Re: [Freedos-user] piping .BATs (input and output)

Hello! I am not quite sure how you intend to manage the stdin input inside the batch file, but I was wondering if you are looking for something like xargs (from Unix) and if a port of xargs to DOS would help (extra complexity for keeping global variables though). Aitor El lun, 20 nov 2023, 9:06

Re: [Freedos-user] How do i use Dflat+? where is the documentation of it i want to make somewthing with edit.exe code

Hello Victoria, I am afraid there is no written documentation. The idea of splitting former EDIT in EDIT and DFlat+ was also made to help learn to use it, as you can focus in learning from the small sources of EDIT without worrying to learn about the big sources of DFlat itself. Best luck with th

Re: [Freedos-user] Compiling a new keyboard layout

Hi, On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 at 03:46, Rugxulo wrote: > (Sorry for delay in replying. Also note that I'm not the maintainer of > these tools nor packages, nor am I an expert, having never rebuilt a > keyboard layout file.) > Sorry for the delay here too, > On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 3:54 PM Phil Reyno

Re: [Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

Hi, On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 at 18:50, Rugxulo wrote: > So you're allowed to have several code pages loaded in memory at once, > even able to switch them (in theory), even from within select apps. > Some apps can even detect your "country" and behave accordingly > (currency, date/time, uppercase, yes

Re: [Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

Hello, Old thread, but to clarify things. On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 at 17:22, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > I've been trying for the last two hours or so to find out how to use a > German keyboard with FreeDOS. There is enough information, but some of the > files cannot be downloaded anywhere. I'm running in

Re: [Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

Hi, On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 at 11:31, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > There is one thing still with keyb, though, that makes me wonder. > Shouldn't I be able to run it from autoexec.bat? I added "keyb gr" to it, > but it isn't executed (or it doesn't work at this stage). I have to run it > manually at the pro

Re: [Freedos-user] How to use German keyboard layout with FreeDOS?

Hi, On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 at 16:17, Tom Ehlert wrote: > Kai, > > an amazing amount of effort to get a german keyboard driver :<< > Due to an incomplete documentation (that the user read), a not very obvious file misplacement, and by following Microsoft's DOS compatibility on commandline. > > Th

Re: [Freedos-user] How to

Hi, El dom, 7 may 2017 a las 6:25, TOM EHLERT () escribió: > From: Tom Ehlert > > > That's the point where the circle starts (and ends). There are no plain > > keyboard layout files (.kl) in there, only the .key files. But these need > > kc for compiling to a .kl file. And there's nowhere you ca

Re: [Freedos-user] How to

Hi, El dom, 7 may 2017 a las 6:24, KAI SCHAETZL () escribió: > From: Kai Schaetzl > > Eric Auer wrote on Sun, 14 Aug 2016 17:50:31 +0200: > > Hi Eric, > > thanks for the quick reply. In the meantime I found out that I can load a > German layout with just "keyb gr", just not the layout file itsel

Re: [Freedos-user] Urgent Fre

Hello Vacek and Matheusz, Very interesting to know. Are you able to identify which is the codepage ID that the BIOS is implementing in those cases? Thanks, Aitor El sáb, 2 ago 2025 a las 22:29, Mateusz Viste via Freedos-user (< freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net>) escribió: > On 02/08/2025 21:

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