Re: [Freedos-devel] dir issues

2023-07-23 Thread Louis Santillan via Freedos-devel
On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 8:52 AM Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel < freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jul 2023, tom ehlert via Freedos-devel wrote: > > > > >> ISTM that all the other graphical shells in FreeDOS are even less > >> useful than GEM, and it would be no loss to re

Re: [Freedos-devel] dir issues

2023-07-23 Thread Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
Hi, On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 7:08 AM perditionc--- via Freedos-devel wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 23, 2023, 7:54 AM Liam Proven via Freedos-devel > wrote: >> >> AFAICS you never explain. What is "HX"? > > https://www.japheth.de/HX.html > > HX DOS-Extender is a free DOS extender with built-in Win32 PE

Re: [Freedos-devel] dir issues

2023-07-23 Thread Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel
On Sun, 23 Jul 2023, tom ehlert via Freedos-devel wrote: ISTM that all the other graphical shells in FreeDOS are even less useful than GEM, and it would be no loss to remove them... but adding GEOS would be a win. in what way is GEOS even related to FreeDOS which runs on PC's? unless wikipe

Re: [Freedos-devel] dir issues

2023-07-23 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-devel
> ISTM that all the other graphical shells in FreeDOS are even less > useful than GEM, and it would be no loss to remove them... but adding > GEOS would be a win. in what way is GEOS even related to FreeDOS which runs on PC's? unless wikipedia has it completely wrong GEOS needs 6502 (commodore

Re: [Freedos-devel] dir issues

2023-07-23 Thread Paul Edwards via Freedos-devel
>> HX DOS-Extender is a free DOS extender with built-in Win32 PE file format support > I see. Remarkable! > Doesn't seem to make it much of a Win9x replacement to me, but hey, to > each their own. :-) I do all my serious work (developing software) on the command line. It doesn't make any differ

Re: [Freedos-devel] dir issues

2023-07-23 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
On Sun, 23 Jul 2023 at 13:08, perditionc--- via Freedos-devel wrote: > > https://www.japheth.de/HX.html > > HX DOS-Extender is a free DOS extender with built-in Win32 PE file format > support I see. Remarkable! Doesn't seem to make it much of a Win9x replacement to me, but hey, to each their ow

Re: [Freedos-devel] dir issues

2023-07-23 Thread perditionc--- via Freedos-devel
On Sun, Jul 23, 2023, 7:54 AM Liam Proven via Freedos-devel < freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jul 2023 at 02:52, Paul Edwards via Freedos-devel > wrote: > > > > My main interest is using Freedos+HX as a substitute for Windows 95. > > AFAICS you never explain. What is "HX"

Re: [Freedos-devel] dir issues

2023-07-23 Thread Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
On Sun, 23 Jul 2023 at 02:52, Paul Edwards via Freedos-devel wrote: > > My main interest is using Freedos+HX as a substitute for Windows 95. AFAICS you never explain. What is "HX"? -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.co

Re: [Freedos-devel] dir issues

2023-07-23 Thread Andrew Bird via Freedos-devel
On Sun, 23 Jul 2023 09:51:24 +0800 Paul Edwards via Freedos-devel wrote: > Hi. > > My main interest is using Freedos+HX as a substitute for Windows 95. > > Recent unrelated (PDOS/386) advances mean that this goal is > now possibly within reach - I'm still looking and I will be reporting > any i