Re: [Freedos-user] Quick FreeDOS 1.3 Live CD Poll
No. Allow access to internal hard drive. Don't make the user jump through new hoops to install or repair their system. On November 14, 2019 7:27:54 AM PST, Jerome Shidel wrote: >Hi, > >I’m just looking to do quick poll on you thoughts and opinion. > >When FreeDOS 1.3 is booted as a Live environment from the CD-ROM, >should it be permitted access to any internal hard drive(s)? > >Allowing access, can permit reading and writing files and/or >installation to the HDD. >(This will allow installation. partitioning and other operations >without a need to reboot out of the Live Environment) > >Preventing access, will prevent any accidental changes to the HDD and >provide a very safe playground. >(This will require rebooting the computer and selecting a different >boot option to install.) > > >Yes. Prevent access to internal hard drive. > >No. Allow access to internal hard drive. > >:-) > >Thanks, Jerome > >___ >Freedos-user mailing list >Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Tcl for DOS update
I have a gut feeling that expect requires true multitasking and IPC, which DOS doesn't offer but it may be available in some environments like Desqview/X. Not certain. On September 24, 2019 9:14:26 AM PDT, dmccunney wrote: >On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 8:35 AM ZB wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 08:25:43AM -0700, Ben Collver wrote: >> >> > Tcl is a script language originally created by Dr. John Ousterhout, >who is >> > currently a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. >> >> Thanks! >> I'm actually somewhat amazed, how underestimated TCL/Tk nowadays is > >The "killer app" for TCL is Expect, a TCL script from Don Libes at the >US National Bureau of Standards. Expect permits automated connections >to systems that don't support that out of the box. I've used TCL and >Expect to automate file transfer between a Solaris host and a NT >Server machine, to send nightly production reports to a public facing >server where the client could see them. > >TCL is also popular among QA Engineers. It's just the thing for >building test harnesses for running automated tests against code to >insure it behaves as specified. > >TCL has been overshadowed by script languages like Java and Python, >but fills a particular niche nicely. > >> regards, >> Zbigniew >__ >Dennis > > >___ >Freedos-user mailing list >Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Tcl for DOS update
Yes the main difference is that the [exec] command works in the updated version and there is a new revision number in the downloaded .zip archive filename. On September 24, 2019 9:08:34 AM PDT, Jim Hall wrote: >Are these different (i.e. updated?) from the versions mirrored already >on ibiblio? >http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/devel/tcl/ > > >On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 10:27 AM Ben Collver >wrote: >> >> Tcl is a script language originally created by Dr. John Ousterhout, >who >> is currently a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. >> >> This updated build adds a rudimentary [exec] command using code from >> mstcl73. This is based on the work of Tom Poindexter, Georg >Potthast, >> and Viktor Wagner. These builds also include Ck and Sqlite. Below >are >> download links for Tcl versions 8.4.20, 8.5.19, and 8.6.9. >> >> https://archive.org/download/tcl-8.4.20-for-dos >> >> https://archive.org/download/tcl-8.5.19-for-dos >> >> https://archive.org/download/tcl-8.6.9-for-dos >> >> >> ___ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > >___ >Freedos-user mailing list >Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Tcl for DOS update
Thia does not include BLT nor Tk. Eventually i would like to include Tcl-fltk on Fltkal. On September 24, 2019 8:34:36 AM PDT, Wayne Dernoncourt wrote: >Do you know if this includes BLT? > >This clown speaks for himself > >> On Sep 24, 2019, at 11:27 AM, Ben Collver >wrote: >> >> Tcl is a script language originally created by Dr. John Ousterhout, >who is currently a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford >University. >> >> This updated build adds a rudimentary [exec] command using code from >mstcl73. This is based on the work of Tom Poindexter, Georg Potthast, >and Viktor Wagner. These builds also include Ck and Sqlite. Below are >download links for Tcl versions 8.4.20, 8.5.19, and 8.6.9. >> >> https://archive.org/download/tcl-8.4.20-for-dos >> >> https://archive.org/download/tcl-8.5.19-for-dos >> >> https://archive.org/download/tcl-8.6.9-for-dos >> >> >> ___ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > > >___ >Freedos-user mailing list >Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
