Re: [Freedos-devel] TDSK related issues.

2011-08-08 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Kenneth J. Davis wrote: > Work in progress ... > As a side note, on my netbook using similar VirtualBox setup I have > found that I can only use devload without any memory managers - > something related to no UMBs so I need to see if it is a devload, > kernel, freec

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos 1.1. :Floppy distro

2011-08-08 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 11:50 AM 8/8/2011, David C. Kerber wrote: > > It's also the most logical one (unless you're American, but > > then they still like to use FFU's anyway) and IMHO, should be > >FFU? (I can see what FUU [Fd up units]) might stand for, but not FFU? "Fred Flintstone Units"... Ralf ;-) -

Re: [Freedos-devel] ancient new freecom external app running bug fixed yet?

2011-08-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bernd, > * has anyone managed to get SHELLHIGH working for whichever > shell/program? Might be that FreeCOM is simply too large. And it has only very limited use, given that most of FreeCOM will swap to XMS when available anyway ;-) > * does > http://ericauer.cosmodata.virtuaserver.com.br/

Re: [Freedos-devel] ancient new freecom external app running bug fixed yet?

2011-08-08 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Aug 8, 2011 5:13 PM, "Bernd Blaauw" wrote: > > Op 8-8-2011 22:31, Rugxulo schreef: > > > No, I don't think it's been fixed since even SourceForge's Files area > > still only has 0.82pl3 Besides, who's the maintainer these days? > > (Bart? Doubt it, he's always busy.) I haven't heard from B

Re: [Freedos-devel] ancient new freecom external app running bug fixed yet?

2011-08-08 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 8-8-2011 22:31, Rugxulo schreef: > No, I don't think it's been fixed since even SourceForge's Files area > still only has 0.82pl3 Besides, who's the maintainer these days? > (Bart? Doubt it, he's always busy.) I haven't heard from Blair in a > long while. I don't think there's any point i

Re: [Freedos-devel] ancient new freecom external app running bug fixed yet?

2011-08-08 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > A delayed reply to "Can't Install; FreeDOS 1.1 test release #2": > You might need FreeCOM 0.84-pre2, I think. It has "set /e" (but needs %TEMP% !!) and "cdd" works for "c:\path\blah.exe". Otherwise, you... > >>> I wasn't aware SE

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos 1.1. :Floppy distro

2011-08-08 Thread David C. Kerber
> -Original Message- > From: Ralf A. Quint [mailto:free...@gmx.net] > Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 2:01 PM > To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos 1.1. :Floppy distro > > At 09:11 AM 8/8/2011, Steve Nickolas wrote: > >On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Eric A

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos 1.1. :Floppy distro

2011-08-08 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 09:11 AM 8/8/2011, Steve Nickolas wrote: >On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Eric Auer wrote: > > > PS: ISO date/time seems to be popular, I see in another > > thread (2011-08-02 18:09:06 etc.) but nobody yet said in > > which COUNTRY this is the default anyway. USA, maybe? ;) > >Japan? It was for the longest

[Freedos-devel] 8x14 font helper for freedos 1.1 - was: EXE2BIN

2011-08-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! While I also wonder why we wonder for so long about which DOS versions had EXE2BIN (it is small, just include it :-))...: > Other commands which were dropped by the 6.22 era, or at least relegated > to a separate download/purchase, were ASSIGN (MS-DOS 6), BACKUP (MS-DOS > 6 and PC-DOS 6, alt

Re: [Freedos-devel] BIOS function support is going away for good

2011-08-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jims, > whitepaper from AMI on the BIOS-to-UEFI transition (very informative). > http://www.ami.com/support/downloadwp.cfm?DLFile=AMI_UEFI_Transition_Whitepaper_PUB.pdf&FileID=1387 > UEFI is taking over and slowly(?)/fastly(?) transitioning out BIOS > functionality. > This could either mean a

Re: [Freedos-devel] IPcalypse - off in the distance?

2011-08-08 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 8-8-2011 9:20, Jim Michaels schreef: > the folks who gave us IPV6 gave us IPV6 for *corporate and enterprise* > entities who need large blocks of IP addresses, with the needs for > tunneling and so on. their reaction to home users requests for IPV6 was > "Home Users? you mean there are home user

[Freedos-devel] ancient new freecom external app running bug fixed yet?

2011-08-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! A delayed reply to "Can't Install; FreeDOS 1.1 test release #2": >>> You might need FreeCOM 0.84-pre2, I think. It has "set /e" (but needs >>> %TEMP% !!) and "cdd" works for "c:\path\blah.exe". Otherwise, you... >> I wasn't aware SET /E requires a location to write. > > I can't remember if

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos 1.1. :Floppy distro

2011-08-08 Thread Steve Nickolas
On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Eric Auer wrote: > PS: ISO date/time seems to be popular, I see in another > thread (2011-08-02 18:09:06 etc.) but nobody yet said in > which COUNTRY this is the default anyway. USA, maybe? ;) Japan?

Re: [Freedos-devel] Testing & evaluating the 1.1 release

2011-08-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jim, while I agree that more and more software is creeping into the distro if we "add all interesting things", this list is still somewhat comparable to "full 1.0". Yet already 1.0 had exactly the "creep" problem that you describe. So first we should indeed get a more "basic" 1.1 ready before

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos 1.1. :Floppy distro

2011-08-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bernd, >> please remeber to create a distro with installer on floppy >> disk (1 or more 1,44 mb disk) > > * Is this intended for a networked computer or stand-alone machine? > * Is this for machines without any optical drive at all? Or machines > that have CD/DVD but don't support booting fr

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos 1.1. :F loppy distro

2011-08-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi guys, > networking, at least for me, is a nightmare. what packet driver? > how do you install it? what interrupt do you hook? is there any DOS > packet driver other than http://crynwr.com/drivers/00index.html which The Veder / Bart DOS network boot disks make that easy, by including many d

Re: [Freedos-devel] IPcalypse - off in the distance?

2011-08-08 Thread François Revol
Le 08/08/2011 09:20, Jim Michaels a écrit : > the folks who gave us IPV6 gave us IPV6 for *corporate and enterprise* > entities who need large blocks of IP addresses, with the needs for tunneling > and so on. their reaction to home users requests for IPV6 was "Home Users? > you mean there are h

[Freedos-devel] IPcalypse - off in the distance?

2011-08-08 Thread Jim Michaels
the folks who gave us IPV6 gave us IPV6 for *corporate and enterprise* entities who need large blocks of IP addresses, with the needs for tunneling and so on. their reaction to home users requests for IPV6 was "Home Users?  you mean there are home users? uh, well, I suppose we could maybe think

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos 1.1. :F loppy distro

2011-08-08 Thread Jim Michaels
I would like to assume an optical drive. as far as IPV4 goes, I think it's going to be around for homedwellers for quite a while, as routers and ISPs supply IPV4 addresses. I think having 2 types of floppy images would be nice, one with networking and cdrom, and one without networking and with c

[Freedos-devel] Realtek 8139 NIC drivers for DOS

2011-08-08 Thread Jim Michaels
http://www.realtek.com/Downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=6&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false#3 folks, this is covered under patents, including the OEM version, so I do not think it can be included in the FreeDOS distribution. but for those who have some generic NICs and n