Re: [Freedos-user] I need an example

2006-06-09 Thread Blair Campbell
On 6/9/06, Arkady V.Belousov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > 8-Июн-2006 23:35 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Mayo) wrote to > freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: > > SM> Does anyone have a build environment they'd be interested in sharing, > that > SM> I can unpack onto a WIn XP system and get runni

Re: [Freedos-user] I need an example

2006-06-09 Thread Blair Campbell
I would consider it more of a bug in Windows' emulation of DOS... Also, in my experience, Win32 executables tend to run faster than DOS executables on Windows. On 6/9/06, Arkady V.Belousov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > 9-Июн-2006 21:13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Blair Campbell

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS GUI opinions

2006-06-16 Thread Blair Campbell
On 6/14/06, John Hupp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (Granted to all: This feedback for the oZone developer may be a bit > off-topic, unless it reveals any FreeDOS issues. Though I imagine that DOS > GUI's may be of general interest here.) > > Flo, > > I looked at oZone 0.6 some. My first questions

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

2006-06-17 Thread Blair Campbell
You may have to request that UPX binary; the file I send you contains a patch for the latest source code. On 6/15/06, Michael Devore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 08:26 AM 6/15/2006 -0500, jp_freedos wrote: > >On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 07:44:08AM -0500, Jim Hall wrote: > > > I'm sorry my president

Re: [Freedos-user] Bug in command.com

2006-06-29 Thread Blair Campbell
On 6/29/06, Norbert Remmel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I discovered a bug in newly compiled command.com from cvs. > Redirected output to a file isn't possible. > > "echo test>r:\test.txt" gives error "unable to redirect output to file > r:\test.txt". > r: is a mapped ramdrive by xmsdsk.exe > By us

Re: [Freedos-user] Unable to use Windows for Workgroups with FreeDOS

2006-07-01 Thread Blair Campbell
You need to download a special unstable kernel for Windows enhanced mode to work. Also, you never told me whether getting that other kernel I pointed you to fixed the FreeCOM redirect on ramdisk problem. Please do tell me. On 7/1/06, Neal Gompa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I downloaded and insta

[Freedos-user] Contributions towards FreeDOS 1.0

2006-07-07 Thread Blair Campbell
For those who would like to contribute towards FreeDOS 1.0 but don't know how to program, you might still be able to help. If you know two languages sufficiently to help translating, you can check which programs don't support your language on http://wiki.fdos.org/Main/Translations and make transla

Re: [Freedos-user] how much space for freedos

2006-07-11 Thread Blair Campbell
I believe that around 7 MB is sufficient for the BASE programs, but depending on how many other things you want to install, you will need more. On 7/11/06, Jethro Tull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to install freedos in dual boot mode with windows XP, but > what's amazing is that nowhe

Re: [Freedos-user] how much space for freedos

2006-07-12 Thread Blair Campbell
20MB if you want to install the source packages as well, I would assume. On 7/12/06, Jethro Tull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just saw the content of the iso file, and found a readme file in it. > Actually the minimum space needed was 20MB > > > >From: "Blai

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.0 Installer - User-specified partition?

2006-07-15 Thread Blair Campbell
DOS can only boot from C:, so if you don't want it to see a FAT32 drive, the only way to ignore it is to use the FAT16-only kernel flavour. On 7/15/06, Mark Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone: > > Will the installer version that will be in FreeDOS 1.0 allow installing > FreeDOS in

Re: [Freedos-user] grub kernel arguments for freedos

2006-07-16 Thread Blair Campbell
The best approach would be to copy an actual FreeDOS installation to the CD itself I think, and then boot FreeDOS throug GRUB through a bootsector file. On 7/15/06, paridoth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i am attempting to make a multibooting usb flash drive, which will contain a > couple of live

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.0 Testing distribution soon available

2006-07-17 Thread Blair Campbell
Soon available at www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0-Testing will be the files: fdfullws.iso - FreeDOS with all disksets and corrosponding sources fdfullcd.iso - FreeDOS with all disksets without sources fdbasews.iso - FreeDOS BASE diskset with corrosponding sources

Re: [Freedos-user] version 0.82 stability

2006-07-17 Thread Blair Campbell
Debian comes with FreeDOS beta9r5 which contains stable software as far as I know. On 7/17/06, dima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Larry wrote: > > > My Debian distro has Freedos 0.82. Is that a stable > > version? I've used earlier versions that would crash, > Sorry, I really

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos Future

2006-07-24 Thread Blair Campbell
Jack gets easily offended, and can't deal with any criticism, even when it's not meant to be offensive. That's why he requested that his programs not be associated with FreeDOS. On 7/24/06, John Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 09:36:33AM -0500, Jim Hall wrote: > > ... B

Re: [Freedos-user] web site (was: Freedos Future)

2006-07-24 Thread Blair Campbell
Looks the same under links -g :-). In Skipstone it looks nice though. On 7/24/06, Chris Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks good, but center the title graphic. :) > > my 2cent.. > > --chris > http://nxdos.sourceforge.net/ > http://aotksc.com/ > > > ---

Re: [Freedos-user] web site

2006-07-24 Thread Blair Campbell
Didn´t try :-) On 7/24/06, Florian Xaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Blair Campbell wrote: > > Looks the same under links -g :-). > > In Skipstone it looks nice though. > > What about Arachne? ;-) > > Bye > Flo > -- > Florian Xaver <http://www.flox.

[Freedos-user] 2nd FreeDOS 1.0 Testing release

2006-07-24 Thread Blair Campbell
This will probably be the final testing release. As usual, you can find the variety of ISOs at www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0-Testing . The old testing ISOs have been moved to www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0-Testing/old . And

Re: [Freedos-user] BUG "Redirecting output"

2006-07-25 Thread Blair Campbell
Thanks for not losing faith :-). On 7/24/06, Norbert Remmel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bug "Redirecting output to file" has completely gone in your yesterdays > compiled command.com. > > I tested this morning. > It works fine for floppys and ramdisks (srdisk and xfdisk). > > Great work, Blair. >

Re: [Freedos-user] BUG "Redirecting output"

2006-07-25 Thread Blair Campbell
> I tested also in this morning and I have found the old bug in command/084pre/ > testing > > problem is: "path=C:\fbb;c:\bpq" doesn't work > > It does not change from the root in a workpath around there a batch file to > implement. I don't get exactly what the problem is... -- Fall is my favori

Re: [Freedos-user] BUG "Redirecting output"

2006-07-25 Thread Blair Campbell
> In the autoexec.bat "path=c:\nc;" registered. > If I now at the root C: \ nc [ enter] enters, then the nc.exe in path the > NC.EXE would have to be started. > Does not function however. The same is likewise with other programs which I > from the root to start would like and under path is register

Re: [Freedos-user] Uninstaller?

2006-07-29 Thread Blair Campbell
> Is there a program to uninstall FreeDOS? Or do I have to write one? If > the latter, which languages are "allowed"? Umm, how many operating systems do YOU know of that have uninstallers?? -- Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

Re: [Freedos-user] Uninstaller?

2006-07-30 Thread Blair Campbell
> :: or just delete them since fd replaces it? No, FreeDOS is able to safely co-exist with other DOSes, since it can use an alternate config.sys name and an alternate autoexec.bat location. -- Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

[Freedos-user] Updated 1.0 Testing CD

2006-08-02 Thread Blair Campbell
Uploaded to www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0-Testing/fdbasecd.iso is an updated BASE CD-ROM ISO. Hopefully, the bugs that plagued users of the last distribution should be gone, and I would greatly appreciate testing from ones where it mangled the former contents

Re: [Freedos-user] Updated 1.0 Testing CD

2006-08-02 Thread Blair Campbell
On 8/2/06, Chris Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, can you guys add some better LFN support? I disagree with the Microsoft > kludge. M What do you mean? FreeDOS already supports the documented LFN interrupts if the DOSLFN TSR is loaded. And FreeCOM now also supports LFNs in most operations.

Re: [Freedos-user] Updated 1.0 Testing CD

2006-08-03 Thread Blair Campbell
> I renamed directory FDOS to FDOSALT. About 6,5 MB free space are left on C: > > - I booted from CD and select Install, FD does not complain! I am so sorry. I forgot to include the updated install.exe ! I have re-uploaded the ISO with the updated install.exe included. The localize problem

Re: [Freedos-user] Updated 1.0 Testing CD

2006-08-04 Thread Blair Campbell
I don't think it's too hard for a developer to add his makefile himself. Lots of the FreeDOS source packages come without makefiles or batch files. On 8/4/06, Arkady V.Belousov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > 3-Авг-2006 17:53 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to > freedos-user@lists.s

Re: [Freedos-user] FD 1.0 destroies hard disc with FAT32

2006-08-09 Thread Blair Campbell
On 8/9/06, Florian Xaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > my hard disc is trashed every time I want to install FD 1.0 pre-release on > a FAT32 drive! > (1,6GHz, one drive with one or more partition with "only" FAT32). > > The problem seems to be after the Install program (when the hard disc > s

[Freedos-user] 1.0 Just around the corner.

2006-08-11 Thread Blair Campbell
After finally resolving that Florian's hard disk trashing problem was related to LBACache, I think that 1.0 can be released as long as LBACache isn't loaded during the install process. The upcoming release features 100% powerbatch prompts and better language selection (top 10 languages presented f

Re: [Freedos-user] 1.0 Just around the corner.

2006-08-13 Thread Blair Campbell
to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Blair > Campbell > Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 12:29 AM > To: FreeDOS Devel; FreeDOS User > Subject: [Freedos-user] 1.0 Just around the corner. > > > > - > Using Tomcat bu

[Freedos-user] Hopefully last testing distribution

2006-08-19 Thread Blair Campbell
Uploaded to www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0-Testing/fdbasecd.iso is hopefully the very last testing distribution before 1.0 is released (and that emm386 update to be available soon should come with it). The new features are too many to describe, so you'll have to

Re: [Freedos-user] Results of testing fdbasecd.iso dated 08/19/2006

2006-08-19 Thread Blair Campbell
> The first menu (these are all text menus, BTW) > -- > The choices listed are: > > 1) Boot FreeDOS from CD > > Works. > > h) Boot from first harddisk (0x80) > > I fell into this because of the timeout. The next two lines on the > screen are: These are not handled by ISOLinux.

Re: [Freedos-user] Results of testing fdbasecd.iso dated...

2006-08-21 Thread Blair Campbell
Those are more likely ISOLinux issues, and most users will probably not be using PART (which seems to interpret ISOLinux somehow as a virus, which would somewhat seem like a PART bug to me at least). On 8/21/06, Arkady V.Belousov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > 21-Авг-2006 14:07 [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Freedos-user] Is Freedos a good OS?

2006-08-22 Thread Blair Campbell
> The most improtant step is to find the sound card driver of your DELL > PC. It may be a SoundMAX, REALTEK or CMI chipset (AC97), to make AC97 > work in DOS, as I remember only MPXPLAY can. AC97 can be unmuted quite easily in DOS with a utility. MPXPlay however does not require such a utility to

Re: [Freedos-user] Compatibility EMM386/HIMEM 2.25 New Release

2006-08-22 Thread Blair Campbell
About WASM: I have found it to be to a degree compatible with TASM; so much so in fact that it can generally assemble the output of tcc -S in Turbo C 2.01. On 8/22/06, Gerry Hickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Norbert, > > > The network client isn't loaded high at all. > > OK. > > > And if you

Re: [Freedos-user] When will 1.0 Release

2006-08-23 Thread Blair Campbell
End of month On 8/23/06, Dirk Bridgedale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone give me an idea when 1.0 epected to be released? > > Thank you! > > -- > Beer is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy - Benjamin Franklin > > Dirk Bridgedale > > -- Fall is my favorite season in Los Angel

Re: [Freedos-user] Update: CHKDSK 0.9 problems

2006-08-25 Thread Blair Campbell
Good thing it's not 1.0's default kernel. On 8/25/06, Diego Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > Seems that it has problems only with the 2.0.37w-UNSTABLE kernel, it > works fine with 2.0.36 cvs (version Sep 09 2005 compiled Jul 26 2006). > A kernel problem ?? > > > >

Re: [Freedos-user] Trouble installing FreeDOS using fd1440 diskette and cdrom

2006-08-25 Thread Blair Campbell
You have to use the floppy image that is on the CD-ROM (extract its files to a 1440kb floppy, then sys it), or you can use Smart Boot Manager to allow your computer to boot from a CD-ROM. On 8/25/06, Collin Donnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried posting something like this before - but > hav

Re: [Freedos-user] When will 1.0 Release

2006-08-25 Thread Blair Campbell
Actually re-including the graphical installer would go a long way against acceptance/marketing, because it has a huge tendency to crash on unsupported hardware. Whereas the text installer works virtually everywhere. Besides, I recently added eye candy to the text installer anyways. On 8/25/06, T

Re: [Freedos-user] Got FreeDOS installed! Now no loading?

2006-08-26 Thread Blair Campbell
Try SYSing your disk again. If that doesn't help, it's probably that strange and elusive SYS bug that affects only a few computers in the known universe. (including one of mine). Was the drive by any chance FAT32? On 8/26/06, Collin Donnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the help, I w

Re: [Freedos-user] SYS C:\ ?

2006-08-26 Thread Blair Campbell
Try SYS C: instead of SYS C:\... and SYS C: /BOOTONLY would be sufficient (it already has the kernel and command.com on the hd). On 8/26/06, Collin Donnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess my real question should be how do I sys C:\? I > got into the FD > setup and all that and then went to th

Re: [Freedos-user] Cutemouse locking up; suggestings on things to try?

2006-08-28 Thread Blair Campbell
Probably 1.9.1 for stability. Although 2.0a4 works quite well for all of my computers. On 8/28/06, Andrew Greenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Arkady, > > Which would recomend we use to work on the widest array of systems... > CuteMouse 1.9.1 or 2.0a4? We don't need any fancy support (we don

Re: [Freedos-user] Old program [ Directory Control v1.2 ] get a new breath

2006-08-29 Thread Blair Campbell
What's wrong with the current MOVE? I am perfectly happy with it. On 8/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dude, I have a webhost at www.aotksc.com 5gb disk quota if anyone want to I > can host for them.. giving that the page not pull huge load of bandwidth. > (Economy plan) >

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem with FD-KEYB 2.0 final

2006-08-30 Thread Blair Campbell
That's why 2.0 isn't included in FreeDOS 1.0 On 8/30/06, Aitor Santamaría <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /NOHI. > However note that it prevents if from using UMBs (XMS is never used). > > Aitor > > 2006/8/30, Bernd Blaauw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Diego Rodriguez schreef: > > > Hi! > > > > > > When I

Re: [Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: FD-KEYB 2.0 final ready!

2006-08-30 Thread Blair Campbell
Hi. About the 80386 code thing. It is not necessary to switch to protected mode to use large amounts of memory. This is possible with plain 8086 code. And XDEL has options close to what you wish with DEL. On 8/30/06, Johnson Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:05:44 +0100,

Re: [Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: FD-KEYB 2.0 final ready!

2006-08-30 Thread Blair Campbell
it only uses code that the compiler used to produce it creates. DJGPP just happens to use protected mode because it allows the executable itself to reach astronomical sizes :-). On 8/30/06, Johnson Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:45:28 -0700, you wrote: > > Hi Blair, > > >

[Freedos-user] Surprise!

2006-09-03 Thread Blair Campbell
Hey folks. If you check out the website, you may be in for a surprise. -- Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya - Using Tomc

[Freedos-user] DIGG story

2006-09-03 Thread Blair Campbell
Hey everybody! Login to DIGG.COM and vote for the FreeDOS story to help make it to the frontpage! -- Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya -

Re: [Freedos-user] Cool, 1.0 is on sourceforge

2006-09-04 Thread Blair Campbell
Try just rebooting and booting the hard drive. On 9/4/06, Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It looks like 1.0 is out.. :) > > However, i tried it yesterday and it seems that after install and the reboot > it hangs? I get the splash screen then just a blinking cursor.. :| > > No, havent had time

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos mirrors

2006-09-04 Thread Blair Campbell
I just moved them back because they are ready now. On 9/4/06, Jim Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've also emailed Markus offlist, but just to clear things up for > everyone else: > > I guess I misunderstood that the "full" ISOs in the "1.0" weren't ready > for release. In the meantime, I've m

Re: [Freedos-user] Updating from fdb9sr1 to 1.0 possible/senseful?

2006-09-05 Thread Blair Campbell
Hi. The BC 3.1 problem would not be related to FreeCOM, but the kernel. And if MSCDEX cannot fully access the CD, then it is most likely a bug in MSCDEX or the CDROM driver that was used. On 9/5/06, Axel C. Frinke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bonn,

Re: [Freedos-user] Not able to boot from FDOS 1.0 CD

2006-09-06 Thread Blair Campbell
Then please use the fdboot.img available on ibiblio. On 9/6/06, Collin Donnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I'm trying to install 1.0... and using can't seem > to boot from CD > using either the FDOS boot disk or smart boot manager. > In SBM it's > looking something like this: > > Booting from

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.0 CD Label Image?

2006-09-07 Thread Blair Campbell
Someone is already working on labels afaik. On 9/7/06, Jim Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > http://aotksc.com/img-bin/fdcd.jpg > > > > I have to get some pens to ink it OC. > > > Feel free to re-use the FreeDOS fish logo > (http://www.freedos.org/freedos/images/logos/

Re: [Freedos-user] Kernel question

2006-09-07 Thread Blair Campbell
I would definitely consider the 2036 kernel to be more stable, but not the one on sourceforge. Get the one from Eric Auer's homepage (google for Auersoft). On 9/7/06, Daniel Quintiliani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi FreeDOS team, > > Congrats on the release of FreeDOS 1.0 stable! > > As the mai

Re: [Freedos-user] Announcing FreeDOS on some newsgroups

2006-09-08 Thread Blair Campbell
I don't do news groups. Someone else who does can write whatever they want. On 9/7/06, Stegozor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Hall wrote: > > >> When is someone announcing Freedos 1.0 on news:alt.os.free-dos, > >> news:comp.os.msdos.misc , news:comp.os.msdos.programmer > >> and so on? I'd like

Re: [Freedos-user] LBAcache crash with EMS enabled under VMware

2006-09-08 Thread Blair Campbell
no, it is much different from Michael's. It may become known as EMM386 3.xx, but who knows. On 9/8/06, Arkady V.Belousov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > 8-Сен-2006 10:30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Riebisch) wrote to > freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: > > RR> Please try Japheth's JEMM386: h

Re: [Freedos-user] Newsgroup/Announcement - what do you think?

2006-09-09 Thread Blair Campbell
Sounds good. On 9/9/06, Florian Xaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, below you find a text which I would use to announce FreeDOS in all DOS > newsgroups. > What do you thing? If it is ok, I will post it to all newsgroups. > > -- > Hi! > > The FreeDOS Project has reached the "1.0"

Re: [Freedos-user] COMMAND.COM translation

2006-09-10 Thread Blair Campbell
The same way that you did before. Get DEFAULT.LNG from the FreeCOM source packages (www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/pkgs/commands.zip), get [insert language to translate to here].lng, and update the translation. On 9/10/06, Mateusz Viste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: [Freedos-user] Newsgroup/Announcement - what do you think?

2006-09-10 Thread Blair Campbell
It already happened. A very long time ago. On 9/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Support of more than 32MB ;-)) > > Is that gonna happen? > > > Sun, 10 Sep 2006 05:22:54 -0500, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> *New memory managers (HIMEM and EMM386) with support of

Re: [Freedos-user] CWSDPMI with FreeDOS...

2006-09-11 Thread Blair Campbell
Hi. I couldn't get any version of cwsdpmi that worked properly in QEMU, so since DJGPP apps look for cwsdpmi.exe I renamed HXDPMI to cwsdpmi.exe because it "just works". BTW, cheers to Japheth :-). On 9/11/06, Japheth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > C:\FDOS\BIN>cwsdpmi --help > > HDPMI32 v3.05 (c

Re: [Freedos-user] CWSDPMI with FreeDOS...

2006-09-12 Thread Blair Campbell
I tried all of those versions, with and without EMM386, and all fail. and cwsdpmi is unmaintained. On 9/12/06, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Blair, > > > Hi. I couldn't get any version of cwsdpmi that worked properly in > > QEMU, so since DJGPP apps look for cwsdpmi.exe I renamed HX

Re: [Freedos-user] Problems instaling 1.0

2006-09-14 Thread Blair Campbell
Just rename it to fdbootcd.iso. BTW, only UNZIP is used during the installation, not GZIP. On 9/14/06, Carlos Garces <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric Auer escribió: > > This probably means that the new cdrom drivers are less reliable > > than the old ones. Use MEM /d /p to see which driver you h

Re: [Freedos-user] 3c905btx driver problem

2006-09-14 Thread Blair Campbell
Hi. Get the driver from the 3COM site and follow their directions for installation. You probably want the packet driver, not the NDIS or ODI driver. On 9/14/06, scianagoryczy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > I installed FreeDOS 1.0 and I have 3c905BTX ethernet card and as I think > crynwr driv

Re: [Freedos-user] Need help ... calling COMMAND.COM from C

2006-09-16 Thread Blair Campbell
Hi. It almost sounds to me like the destination file isn't getting flushed to the disk. I would recommend doing the recirection internally in the C program, and then you have direct control of the file. A simple close(1); open("blah", O_WRONLY); /* system() stuff here: */ blah blah blah close(1)

Re: [Freedos-user] Need help ... calling COMMAND.COM from C

2006-09-16 Thread Blair Campbell
I did say that there were ways to save/restore the original stdout... I know that open("CON") is technically wrong, but at the same time it works in most cases. On 9/16/06, Arkady V.Belousov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > 16-Сен-2006 02:29 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Freedos-user] Need help ... calling COMMAND.COM from C

2006-09-18 Thread Blair Campbell
That would be the edition. On 9/18/06, Arkady V.Belousov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > 18-Сен-2006 04:44 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marton) wrote to > freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: > > M> With "current" you mean 1.0, or the latest build? 'cause I tried 1.0 > without > M> luck... > >> Tro

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS PR question - what LOOKS fancy in DOS?

2006-09-21 Thread Blair Campbell
Hi. Definitely OpenGEM and MPXPlay; if Ozone is stable then that too. On 9/21/06, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > now that FreeDOS 1.0 is out, people show up and > want to write fancy articles about it, sometimes > with pics or even (podcasts...) with filmed > material... The

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos vs ReactOS

2006-09-23 Thread Blair Campbell
In terms of fulfillment of goals, yes, FreeDOS is much farther ahead. In terms of things that can be done, ReactOS has much larger shoes to fill. ReactOS aspires to be able to do as much as Windows, whereas DOS is probably somewhat simpler to clone. But yes, FreeDOS is probably more useable at th

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOOM errs while loading

2006-09-26 Thread Blair Campbell
All I can say is that I don't have issues here. It might be hardware-related -- Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya - Tak

Re: [Freedos-user] Bolitare (Bolitaire) "Error loading datafile"

2006-09-26 Thread Blair Campbell
were you in the same directory as the executable? -- Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influen

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos on USB memor stick (partially solved)

2006-10-16 Thread Blair Campbell
uhh, that's been done for a few months. look at [distro dir]/pkgs (like www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/pkgs) On 10/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone thought of breaking the freedos.iso image into zip archives > and allowing users

Re: [Freedos-user] Cleaning up the ibiblio archive

2006-10-23 Thread Blair Campbell
No objections here. On 10/23/06, Jim Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shane M. Coughlan wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Jim Hall wrote: > > > >> Hi. I'd like to take a moment to start cleaning up the ibiblio > >> archive. > >> > > > > Er...hope you're not cho

Re: [Freedos-user] Set Command

2006-11-25 Thread Blair Campbell
Hi. All of the environment variables that you use above are used in FreeDOS apps, so depending on what you want out of FreeDOS you _do_ need those set lines. DOSDIR is used for fdpkg to install new packages, NLSDIR is used by kittenized apps to locate translated messages, HELPPATH is used by HELP

Re: [Freedos-user] Set Command

2006-11-25 Thread Blair Campbell
I can quote my previous response to answer that: PATH %DOSDIR%\BIN;... On 11/25/06, Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, everyone. Sorry that my original question wasn't very clear. > Arkady somehow managed to get what I really meant. To clarify, the > question should have been posted as: >

Re: [Freedos-user] Set Command

2006-11-25 Thread Blair Campbell
Of course, just for the record, SET PATH=blah blah blah does exactly the same thing and works just as well. On 11/25/06, Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> L: ok and now, which syntax is correct: > >> > >> PATH %DOSDIR%\BIN > >> > >> or > >> > >> PATH=%DOSDIR%\BIN > > > Blair: I can quote my p

Re: [Freedos-user] setup failed

2006-11-26 Thread Blair Campbell
On 11/24/06, Fritz ULBRICH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, I have just received FREEDOS (CD ROM) and tried to install it on my > Acer Aspire 1622, (Windows XP). There was no result. The setup failed by > following reasons: > quote: "shsurdrv cannot be found, setup.bat requires FreeCom 0.84pre

Re: [Freedos-user] Set Command

2006-11-27 Thread Blair Campbell
both are not correct, as the second one would need to be prefixed with SET to work correctly. On 11/27/06, Arkady V.Belousov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > 26-Ноя-2006 04:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lester) wrote to > freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: > > L> Ok, and now, which syntax is correct:

Re: [Freedos-user] Set Command

2006-11-27 Thread Blair Campbell
Well I don't understand why PATH=blah blah would be accepted but HELLO=blah blah wouldn't work. On 11/27/06, Arkady V.Belousov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > 27-Ноя-2006 11:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Blair Campbell) wrote to > freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >

Re: [Freedos-user] Set Command

2006-11-27 Thread Blair Campbell
EMAIL PROTECTED] (Blair Campbell) wrote to > freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: > > BC> Well I don't understand why PATH=blah blah would be accepted but > BC> HELLO=blah blah wouldn't work. > >> >> L> PATH %DOSDIR%\BIN > >> >> L> PAT

Re: [Freedos-user] Set Command

2006-11-27 Thread Blair Campbell
On 11/27/06, Arkady V.Belousov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > 27-Ноя-2006 12:57 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Blair Campbell) wrote to > freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: > > >> Who says about "HELLO="? We discuss "PATH " and "PATH=".

Re: [Freedos-user] Set Command

2006-11-27 Thread Blair Campbell
Any particular reason? On 11/27/06, Florian Xaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No. > > Bye Flo > > > On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:57:21 +0100, Blair Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > So who is for making HELLO=blah equal to SET HELLO=blah in Fre

Re: [Freedos-user] Set Command

2006-11-27 Thread Blair Campbell
Well, the source code's already been written, but I'd like a few more people's OK :-). On 11/27/06, Florian Xaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I like the idea. Sounds very practical. > > Bye > Flo > > > On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:33:10 +0100, Blair Campb

Re: [Freedos-user] Set Command

2006-11-27 Thread Blair Campbell
On 11/27/06, Arkady V.Belousov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > 27-Ноя-2006 13:14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Blair Campbell) wrote to > freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: > > >> BC> So who is for making HELLO=blah equal to SET HELLO=blah in FreeCOM? > >>

Re: [Freedos-user] use smb with freedos or nfs

2006-11-27 Thread Blair Campbell
There's also another one called XFS (not to be confused with the file-system) and probably some more. XFS IIRC was distributed with old versions of SuSE Linux. On 11/27/06, Sylvain Lavoie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > >I know no NFS drivers for DOS, but there > > Actually, there is suc

Re: [Freedos-user] virtual drive

2006-12-11 Thread Blair Campbell
Except on the FreeDOS kernel, SUBST fails to work properly. On 12/11/06, Arkady V.Belousov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > 11-Дек-2006 06:13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dima) wrote to > freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: > > d> How to create writeable virtual drive? not ram. > > Subst allows ass

Re: [Freedos-user] virtual drive

2006-12-11 Thread Blair Campbell
But that's only for windows. On 12/11/06, Marcel Tschudin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For a virtual floppy drive have a look here: > http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html#top > > > On 12/12/06, Arkady V.Belousov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > > > 11-Дек-2006 06:13 [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [Freedos-user] Long filename support in FreeDOS

2006-12-16 Thread Blair Campbell
In FreeDOS 1.0, the COMMAND.COM replacement supports long filenames, and some of the other programs do as well, but many programs do not. So yes and no. On 12/16/06, Florian Xaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > it includes a driver called DOSLFN, which brings LFN support for > FAT12/16/32. I

Re: [Freedos-user] Connect to internet through Router (resend)

2006-12-20 Thread Blair Campbell
Wattcp isn't really a stack that one can install, really. Yes it can use a global configuration setup, but each application must be built with the wattcp library to be able to utilize this configuration. Applications built with other networking 'stacks' require different configuration, obviously :

Re: [Freedos-user] Microsoft C/C++

2007-01-17 Thread Blair Campbell
DeSmet C is actually quite different than any of the other DOS compilers available. I would not recommend it if you are trying to compile existing source code, becuase its standard library lacks many of the extensions that DOS programmers (and even POSIX programmers) take for granted, like open().

Re: [Freedos-user] Unknown Config.sys entry

2007-01-17 Thread Blair Campbell
@ preceding a command simply prevents the command from being echoed on the commandline. Also, if echo off is issued before the said command, the @ prefix is unnecessary. On 1/16/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was studying a FreeDos bootable floppy relating to NTFS4dos.exe

Re: [Freedos-user] Microsoft C/C++

2007-01-30 Thread Blair Campbell
On 1/19/07, Alain M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Arkady V.Belousov escreveu: > > For applications, RTL usually is inherent part, so comparing RTLs > > (which also compiled by compilers) together _is_ relevant. On the other > > side, given examples make bias point - you may now enough to b

Re: [Freedos-user] Microsoft C/C++

2007-02-07 Thread Blair Campbell
They're the same as in linux, except not widely supported. All applications built with DJGPP 2.04+ support them. On 1/30/07, Alain M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Blair Campbell escreveu: > >> What about Blair's RTL? and it also has LFN... > > And syml

Re: [Freedos-user] Invalid Opcode at 214C 0583 0246 001E while booting FreeDOS

2007-03-29 Thread Blair Campbell
What's wrong with Virtual PC? I've used it, with success, plus, it's a free product right now. On 3/14/07, someone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 00:50 -0700, BrentMartin wrote: > > FreeDOS HIMEM64 3.26 [August 25 2006] (c) 1995, Till Gerken 2001-2006 tom > > ehlert > > HIMEM

Re: [Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: XGREP version 1.03

2007-03-29 Thread Blair Campbell
I like BSD better - more freedom On 3/15/07, Robert Riebisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tom ehlert wrote: > > > as the BSD license is more free then GPL 2 (or even later), just leave > > it as is. > > You say it. :-) > > Robert Riebisch > -- > BTTR Software > http://www.bttr-software.de/ > > ---

Re: [Freedos-user] Install Question

2007-03-29 Thread Blair Campbell
On 3/15/07, Lélio Ronei Knop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, I copy version ISO with source-code (Fdfullws.iso) of FreeDOS site. > In the hour to install it has 3 types of installation: Full Install, Base > and Custom. > > The Full Install version would not have question only the directory

Re: [Freedos-user] XCOPY

2007-08-17 Thread Blair Campbell
Ive already compiled xcopy with lfn support, but I dont have internet access to release it. On 7/10/07, Norbert Remmel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any possibility to have FreeDOS Xcopy with LFN-Support, or are > there any other alternatives to copy full directory trees? > > > ---

Re: [Freedos-user] Fwd: exFAT32

2007-10-22 Thread Blair Campbell
Didn't the Dr-DOS people already invent an extended FAT32 called somthing else? On 10/15/07, Bart Oldeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/16/07, Florian Xaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Found it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat32#exFAT. > > Would it be much work to add support of it at F

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2007-11-03 Thread Blair Campbell
Yes it is possible but it will require re-building of the ISO or inserting it into the ISO using something like MagicISO On 11/2/07, Badger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > Can anyone tell me if it is possible to add a Dos program to the live CD so > that I can run it from the cd ? I wish

Re: [Freedos-user] New program for FreeDOS & FreeDOS Update

2007-11-30 Thread Blair Campbell
LSM stands for Linux Software Map. It has nothing to do with compression. It is simply a file that contains information about other files. On 11/30/07, Craig Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just found a great program to add to FreeDOS. It's called XXCOPY. It > works a lot like xcopy. It

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Updater

2007-11-30 Thread Blair Campbell
just adding my two cents, but there is already a directory on ibiblio with all of the 1.0 packages: www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/pkgs On 11/30/07, Florian Xaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you!! Very good idea! I will download the zip-files now... > > B

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDOS

2007-12-24 Thread Blair Campbell
My first guess is that you didn't choose wget for installation On 12/23/07, Rob Larkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > 'Can't install FreeDOS. > > I tried to report this to Bugzilla but I'm not getting the confirmation > email(s) when I try to set

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