On Tue, 15 May 2007, Bart Oldeman wrote:
Hi,
would people here support a conversion of the FreeDOS CVS repository
(kernel, freecom, install, mem) to Subversion (SVN)? One big plus is
that CRLF problems would be mostly a thing of the past... what has
happened a lot is that people check out
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Tony G wrote:
And just what is wrong with development in C? It could be worse, they could
have used B...
I agree, C can be as bloated or as compact as you want.
-uso.
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On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Ladislav Lacina wrote:
I would like to ask: which file manager is preffered for FreeDOS
distributions? I think it is very important thing - nobody will use DOS
without any NC clone. And it is stupid to not have such thing on the
distribution CD/diskette. Maybe
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Ladislav Lacina wrote:
It seems that FreeDOS project is in another crisis now. There is nobody who
develops kernel (compatibility with MS-DOS is still not perfect), we still
lack some disk utilities for FAT32 and so on.
There is too small number of active FreeDOS
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Jim Hall wrote:
This has always been my vision: Post 1.0, I'd also like to see more
utilities to make it possible to replicate some of the advanced
features we take for granted in modern operating systems, such as
Linux. I want to revive GNUish and replicate a modern
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Aitor Santamar?a wrote:
Jim suggested classic, another word (perhaps more precise) that
comes to my mind is legacy, but I'm not saying I like it better, I
just post the idea.
How about classic, legacy and also new ?
I don't see any reason DOS should be limited to being a
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Alain M. wrote:
In fact I made my own distro. It's a single floppy, single language and
install exactly where MS-DOS did: in C:\DOS
Some time ago, I tried to talk about that kind of distro, but every one
wanted a big, too-full, graphic, and I don't know what... so I made
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, tom ehlert wrote:
as far as I know FreeDOS works great on AMD64 (in good old real mode);
no need for such a (completely empty) project
Yep. I have an AMD64, never had trouble running DOS if I needed it.
-uso.
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, TG wrote:
I have a (silly) question. A brand new installation of FreeDOS 1.0 is
supposed to emulate what version of MS-DOS?
As far as I know, 3.31.
Right now, my base install of FreeDOS 1.0 reminds me of a cross between
MS-DOS 3.3 and MS-DOS 5.0. I know there will
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Alain M. wrote:
Eric Auer escreveu:
you have to decide yourself whether things are interesting
for the list. sometimes it can be better to mail a few
people directly first, and only start using the list as
soon as things start being of public interest.
That has been
On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Tony wrote:
Hi all,
Now I know most of us have a Windows machine with a legitimate copy of
Nero or maybe even a freeware ISO making utility so I was wondering...
Why hasn't anyone made a boot CD that boots using FreeDOS instead of
ISOLINUX?
Don't get me wrong, I
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Tony wrote:
Would boot floppy emulation (used on Windows 95/98) be easier to implement?
I'm looking from a marketing perspective. ISOLINUX throws Linux out there to
the enduser even though the result is FreeDOS on the machine. I think that a
FreeDOS install CD should boot
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Johnson Lam wrote:
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 11:48:35 +, you wrote:
Hi Imre,
After having an extensive private chat with Eric. I was wondering what
the overall interest of the project would be to move the FreeDOS
utilities to a DJGPP based platform.
Eric always have
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Joris van Rantwijk wrote:
Lyrical Nanoha wrote:
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, Joris van Rantwijk wrote:
For me, a FreeDOS that does not properly run on a real PC is utterly
useless.
DR-DOS still works on an 8086. ROM-DOS works on an 80186 (but not an
8086). I think even RxDOS
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Imre Leber wrote:
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Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] djgpp
Isn't there a stdio95.lib or something that's GPL and provides
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Frederic Logghe wrote:
Since several years, I'm using Turbo C on MS-DOS. Last week, my PC crashed
and I'm now planning to use FreeDOS. I just wonder if anyone has positive
experiences running Turbo C on FreeDOS?
Turbo C++ 1.01: No problems whatsoever.
-uso.
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Blair Campbell wrote:
I personally much prefer Debian, which is free in every form, easy to
install, and easy to use.
Yeah. Debian, or Ubuntu which is pretty much the same thing.
-uso.
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On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, Daniel Franzini wrote:
well...i'm not exactly an expert in the subject but i've noticed that
freepascal suports nasm output...and nasm can generate 16bit code...not sure
if it is 286 real or protected mode code, altough it seems to be real mode
(i've seen people writing
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Gregory Pietsch wrote:
After much looking around, I've seen two types of open-source C
compilers. The first type are monstrosities such as OpenWatcom and gcc.
The second type are old compilers such as PCC and DeSmet and toy
compilers that do not support C89, much less C99.
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Arkady V.Belousov wrote:
Borland C is, also as OpenWatcom, doesn't run on less than 80386.
But why you not complain about Borland C, but complain about more
functional and portable OpenWatcom?
Turbo C++ is also Borland C, though stripped down, and prior to v3 did run
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Jim Hall wrote:
We're still getting hit pretty hard on the web site, although traffic
seems to be dropping. We're down to about 50MB/hour. To help bandwidth
issues, I've updated the stylesheets to be very light on the images -
the FreeDOS fish logo and the (mandatory)
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Michael Devore wrote:
Not good enough? Probably not. I'll compress EMM386 with the option next
time, but unless a person with an 8086 is available for pre-testing, it may
not make a difference. Does anybody here have an 8086 and can act as a
test subject in a
On Sat, 19 Aug 2006, Andreas Bollhalder wrote:
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Markus Laire wrote:
I think it's quite clear that www.bootdisk.com is a warez-site.
Where did you read that ? Do you really know, that they don't have asked
for permission ? I saw this site
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Markus Laire wrote:
On 8/17/06, Mark Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Michael:
Try www.bootdisk.com. boot622.exe will extract a usable MSDOS boot
Is that legal?
I didn't find any kind of legal FAQ from that site.
Nope.
-uso.
On Sun, 6 Aug 2006, Blair Campbell wrote:
A pointer was getting overwritten earlier, this should fix the problem
people have been having with the PATH variable. And I have no idea
why the diff is so big; that was unintended.
I use diff -wu, might shrink the .diff a bit if whitespace is the
On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Michael Devore wrote:
Fixed, although I'm not sure a 286 would get there. Does UPX decompressor
run under non-386? If not, the decompression code will stop it first.
Yes. I've run UPX'd binaries on 8086 (Tandy 1000HX) before
-uso.
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Alain M. wrote:
FWIR path should not work as an envirenment variabla unless the /E optio
is usen on the first invocation...
alain
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On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, HCL BA wrote:
The version number is not important to me as FreeDOS has passed through some
milestones.
Being compatible to MSDOS 3.3 is good enough. Forget the Windows series,
List, Dbase 3, Lotus 123, Laplink and Wordstar just play well with 640K
memory.
I think
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Imre Leber wrote:
(I said)
I've myself mentioned a couple times (years ago) my plan to take FreeDOS
in a new direction but it depends on me being able to use certain tools
that do not yet work for me. (i.e., anything using WatTCP/WatT32). If I
could get WatT32 working on
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Blair Campbell wrote:
I'm preparing FreeDOS 1.0-pre1 as we speak.
Excellent. /BURNS
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On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Jim Hall wrote:
I don't _really_ think FreeDOS is dead. But we have stalled. There
hasn't been any new development with FreeDOS in a long time. The last
news item on the web site was posted 8 June, but the last FreeDOS news
item dates back to 16 May and 11 January.
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Arkady V.Belousov wrote:
Hi!
13-Июн-2006 14:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alain M.) wrote to
freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net:
AM OTOH, OW does not have all the Borland functions,
It have _no one_ Borland' function. Borland name for OW team has bad
reputation and there
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Blair Campbell wrote:
Given that a 8086/8088/80186 chip can't have XMS by definition, I'm missing
the conceptual bridge on its use as a support option.
Well, it makes it more possible to have a reasonably featureful
'universal' freecom so that the same thing can be used
On Sun, 28 May 2006, Aitor Santamaría wrote:
(4) My 2€-c about 4DOS: there were some clains of it's being
distributed under Open Source license, what's about that?
Until this happens, I am for placing it into a 3rd party software. I
am still dubious if it is convenient to include non-open
http://www.dosius.ath.cx/~andi/grodin.htm
This is a bit broken but it's my first try in a couple years at making an
ODIN disk. I think I'm a bit rusty.
This one is called GrODIN - the Graphical One Disk Installation. It's got
a FreeGEM distro on the disk.
I'm not sure how well any of
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