Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 2022 calendar

2022-01-03 Thread John Price
Are you doing this to make money for FreeDOS? If not, why not make the digital images available for free? I can see some taking this and adding their own country's holidays, etc. I personally don't need a calendar that only has one date marked (no disrespect to FreeDOS), but if it had other dates t

[Freedos-user] New FreeDOSers Monthly Reminder

2022-01-31 Thread John Price
omated message sent out to the mailing list at the first of each month. It is automagically downloaded from http://freedos.sourceforge.net/freedos/lists/remind.txt Feel free to contact John Price if necessary by replying to this message. */ ___ Freedos-

[Freedos-user] New FreeDOSers Monthly Reminder

2022-02-28 Thread John Price
omated message sent out to the mailing list at the first of each month. It is automagically downloaded from http://freedos.sourceforge.net/freedos/lists/remind.txt Feel free to contact John Price if necessary by replying to this message. */ ___ Freedos-

[Freedos-user] New FreeDOSers Monthly Reminder

2022-03-31 Thread John Price
omated message sent out to the mailing list at the first of each month. It is automagically downloaded from http://freedos.sourceforge.net/freedos/lists/remind.txt Feel free to contact John Price if necessary by replying to this message. */ ___ Freedos-

[Freedos-user] New FreeDOSers Monthly Reminder

2022-04-30 Thread John Price
omated message sent out to the mailing list at the first of each month. It is automagically downloaded from http://freedos.sourceforge.net/freedos/lists/remind.txt Feel free to contact John Price if necessary by replying to this message. */ ___ Freedos-

[Freedos-user] New FreeDOSers Monthly Reminder

2022-05-31 Thread John Price
omated message sent out to the mailing list at the first of each month. It is automagically downloaded from http://freedos.sourceforge.net/freedos/lists/remind.txt Feel free to contact John Price if necessary by replying to this message. */ ___ Freedos-

[Freedos-user] New FreeDOSers Monthly Reminder

2022-06-30 Thread John Price
omated message sent out to the mailing list at the first of each month. It is automagically downloaded from http://freedos.sourceforge.net/freedos/lists/remind.txt Feel free to contact John Price if necessary by replying to this message. */ ___ Freedos-

Re: [Freedos-user] Off topic: Linux Journals

2022-07-24 Thread John Price
Here is the image I attached. Just a pick of them on the shelf. I wanted it to be fairly hirez so you can zoom in and see all the titles and dates. https://gcfl.net/images/linux-journals.jpg On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 3:03 PM Jim Hall wrote: > On Sat, Jul 23, 2022 at 5:23 PM John Price wr

[Freedos-user] New FreeDOSers Monthly Reminder

2022-07-31 Thread John Price
omated message sent out to the mailing list at the first of each month. It is automagically downloaded from http://freedos.sourceforge.net/freedos/lists/remind.txt Feel free to contact John Price if necessary by replying to this message. */ ___ Freedos-

[Freedos-user] Retire from sending monthly reminder message

2022-08-21 Thread John Price
Last thing he (or anyone really) wants is 15-20 reminder emails a month, right? It's been fun! Remember, Don't Panic! So long, and thanks for all the fish! John Price jp_free...@gcfl.net linuxg...@gcfl.net jp31415...@gmail.com --- #!/bin/bash FROM=

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos Future

2006-07-24 Thread John Price
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 09:36:33AM -0500, Jim Hall wrote: > ... But unfortunately, Jack felt there was a personality > conflict with others on the project, and he chose to make his software > non-free, both in terms of source code and in terms of its use. Jack > specifically requested/insisted

[Freedos-user] CDROM drivers?

2004-02-04 Thread John Price
Exactly what do I need to add to config.sys/autoexec.bat to get CDROM support? Specifically I'm running FreeDOS in a VMware machine and all looks good, but ATAPICDD.SYS tells me it can't find any IDE CDROM drive. In config.sys, I have: device=c:\fdos\bin\atapicdd.sys /D:FDCD0001 If I can get thi

Re: [Freedos-user] CDROM drivers?

2004-02-04 Thread John Price
Thanx for the help. I found some info in Vmware help. "The mtmcdai.sys driver works fine and it can be found on www.mitsumi.com: under Drivers and Manuals look for ide158.exe. You will need to add the following modification to the config.sys and autoexec.bat files on your boot floppy (along with

[Freedos-user] Boot from disk-on-chip?

2004-02-05 Thread John Price
I've got a PC104 machine that I have been using with a really old version of FreeDOS (1.1.0, FreeCom 0.76-pre). I tried upgrading to the latest version just for kicks (and the fact that the latest is SO much better than the one I'm running) but it freezes after printing FreeDOS. I'm pretty sure t

[Freedos-user] Re: FreeDOS disk on chip?

2004-02-05 Thread John Price
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 12:37:16AM +0100, Eric Auer wrote: > Is that disk on chip visible as BIOS int 0x13 drive 0x80? Don't know. Tell me a good way to find out. > Does it support LBA? Don't know. > Which SYS / kernel / shell did you use? sys-of-2033 / 2033 / 0.82pl3 ? kernel 1.1.32a build 20

[Freedos-user] Re: FreeDOS PC104 boot hints...

2004-02-05 Thread John Price
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 01:01:44AM +0100, Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi, kernel 2033 is the current version, it comes with SYS 3.1, > so you should try the new kernel and especially the new SYS. I tried 2033 as you suggested and that worked! :) The web page for the box is here: http://gcfl.net/FreeDO

[Freedos-user] Kernel 16 vs. 32?

2004-02-06 Thread John Price
What is the different between ke2033_16.zip and ke2033_32.zip? Thanx, John -- There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works. www.GCFL.net (The Good, Clean Funnies List): Good, clean funnies five times a week, no ads, for f_r_e_e! -

[Freedos-user] LFN support?

2004-02-07 Thread John Price
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? Can I boot a machine with a kernel that has LFN support and command.com that supports LFN and then use long filenames on that system or

[Freedos-user] Check for floppy without error

2004-02-10 Thread John Price
I'm sure this is a classic DOS question, but it's been too long since I've developed with DOS, so excuse me please. In my program, how can I check to see if there is a floppy disk in the drive without getting the "Abort, Retry, Fail" error??? I used to do something like this, but that does not wo

Re: [Freedos-user] Check for floppy without error

2004-02-11 Thread John Price
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:45:49AM +0100, Steffen Kaiser wrote: > > Hook into INT-24 (Critical Error) and install: > > mov al, 3 ;; Fail the request > iret This helped some, but when I am writing a file to the floppy, and in the middle of the write I pop the floppy out, I get Error writing to

Re: [Freedos-user] Check for floppy without error

2004-02-12 Thread John Price
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 02:57:31PM +0100, Steffen Kaiser wrote: > > You simply keep INT-24 hooked the whole lifetime of your program. It gets > automatically restored, when your program terminates. I have INT 24 hooked and I'm still getting the error. See code below. > BTW: If you start your she

Re: [Freedos-user] Check for floppy without error

2004-02-13 Thread John Price
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 10:21:07AM +0100, Steffen Kaiser wrote: > > > void RestoreCritErrorHandler(void) > > setvect(24, OrigCritErrHandler); >^^^ INT-24 means the hexa-decimal 0x24 ;-) > He he... Yeah, I think you are on to something there... ;-) Have you ever noticed how picky

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2004-08-03 Thread John Price
I have a machine that was using FreeDOS and the on board serial port as a terminal. The on board serial port died, and I need to put a serial PCI card in the machine (there are only PCI slots). Has anyone used a PCI serial card with FreeDOS with success? I have no experience with using PCI cards

[Freedos-user] Re: Serial port card

2004-08-03 Thread John Price
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 10:44:44PM +0200, Eric Auer wrote: > > I assume that given the right BIOS CMOS setup the PCI card will > simply work with all DOS programs. True, but how does a DOS program know what IRQ and port to use? Can it use one of the predefined ones(4,3,4,3 & 2e8,3e8,2f8,3f8) or

Re: [Freedos-user] New FreeDOSers Bi-monthly Reminder

2004-09-01 Thread John Price
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 07:38:14AM -0500, Jim Hall wrote: > Hi John. A while back, I cleaned up the FreeDOS FD-DOC project, and > moved most (all?) of the mini-HOWTOs into the SourceForge documentation > system. The remind.txt file went away, at least from the URL you have. > > Email me off-li

[Freedos-user] Bad URL

2005-01-30 Thread John Price
The URL http://www.gcfl.net/pub/FreeDOS/kernel is invalid. The referrer URL was http://www.freedos.org/freedos/software/lsm.cgi?q=f&a=base/kernel.lsm Whoever is in charge of the kernel might want to change this to a valid URL. FreeDOS kernel work was fun while it lasted... :) Thanks! John P

Re: [Freedos-user] Bad URL

2005-01-31 Thread John Price
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 09:21:15AM -0600, Jim Hall wrote: > Jim Hall wrote: > >John Price wrote: > > > >>The URL http://www.gcfl.net/pub/FreeDOS/kernel is invalid. > >>The referrer URL was > >>http://www.freedos.org/freedos/software/lsm.cgi?q=f&a=ba

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