Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

2012-01-04 Thread James Hall
I have discovered the wifi connection I am using have a locked ftp port... That won't cause any problems, as there is an http download link presented on the FreeDOS download page for your convenience as well. ;-) That's btw the link I tested the other day... And in a few minutes, we'll have

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem with download Re: FreeDOS 1.1 released

2012-01-04 Thread James Hall
Correct, known before, unfortunately. Only solution is to wait for the mirror sites to catch up, as they do offer HTTP-only along with FTP. If you have a bittorrent client, you can now use the torrent seed listed at www.freedos.org/freedos/files/ Also, a few mirrors have sync'd with the 1.1

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

2012-01-04 Thread James Hall
And in a few minutes, we'll have a torrent seed, thanks to our friends at ibiblio. :-) That's working fine as well, about 3x as fast as http, with only 1 peer when I started (myself?, shows 6 peers by the time I was finished). But would be surprised if that would work for Marco, that an ISP

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

2012-01-03 Thread James Hall
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Marco Achury marcoach...@gmail.com wrote: I cant connect ibiblio today, Appear that freedos release has colapsed the servers :-) Would be interesting to get downloads statistics in order to know how many people around the world is following freedos

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

2012-01-03 Thread James Hall
Would be interesting to get downloads statistics in order to know how many people around the world is following freedos development... I'll see what stats we can get from ibiblio. Been a while since I needed stats from them, but they do track it. At worst, I may have to wait until the end of

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS in a Qemu box.

2011-12-27 Thread James Hall
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Tiago O. de Almeida toacyanide...@yahoo.com.br wrote: Are there any hints to install FreeDOS inside a Qemu box? I'm trying this right now, but the installation process is damn slow. This is the Qemu command line: qemu -cdrom ~/.qemu/fdbasecd.iso -hda

Re: [Freedos-user] Dictionnary program not working

2011-12-27 Thread James Hall
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Shérab sebastien.hinde...@ens-lyon.org wrote: Dear all, I'm trying to use with Linux + dosemu + freedos a french dictionnary which was published about 20 years ago with a search program running under MS DOS. For the moment, I'm not able to make this program

Re: [Freedos-user] AST driver problem...

2011-12-22 Thread James Hall
But according to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AST_Research as of early 2011, the dormant AST trademark appears to be being relaunched by a new, independent company named DATA ACCESS based in France. I don't know if that means they purchased the previous copyrights (Beny Alagem, founder

Re: [Freedos-user] AST driver problem...

2011-12-22 Thread James Hall
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:11 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:48 PM, James Hall jh...@freedos.org wrote: It's not an ideal situation for these old drivers, but we need to be careful here. And I'll admit that I'm not sufficiently motivated to comb

Re: [Freedos-user] Dillo web browser for DOS

2011-11-21 Thread James Hall
Thanks! Looks like Dillo doesn't support background images in CSS, and/or the display:none directive, so it's displaying the word FreeDOS in the H1 instead of an image. I can fix that on the web site. On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Marco Achury marcoach...@gmail.com wrote: Here is a

Re: [Freedos-user] Dillo web browser for DOS

2011-11-18 Thread James Hall
Thanks, I posted a news item on the front page. Looking through your library source files, I was happy to see all Free licenses: * FLTK: GNU LGPL with exceptions * Freetype: dual-licensed with the Freetype license, or GNU GPL * Microwin: dual-licensed with MPL, or GNU GPL v2 * nxlib: