Re: [Freedos-devel] Update on website usability test

:37 PM Mark Olesen wrote: > > > > Just to chime in. Technically, FreeDOS is not for the novice. I > > wouldn't expect my wife or daughter to be able to install it and then > > figure out what to do with a prompt. > > > > Therefore, I suggest you try and understa

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update on website usability test

Just to chime in. Technically, FreeDOS is not for the novice. I wouldn't expect my wife or daughter to be able to install it and then figure out what to do with a prompt. Therefore, I suggest you try and understand your user base and gear it towards those individuals instead of trying to make it a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Lost in translation

AM Jerome Shidel wrote: > > Hi Mark, > > > On Mar 21, 2022, at 1:27 PM, Mark Olesen wrote: > > > > https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/ > > > > Port then migrate your current translations to PO format > > That’s not going to happen. We can’t even find

Re: [Freedos-devel] Lost in translation

https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/ Port then migrate your current translations to PO format On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 4:56 AM Jerome Shidel wrote: > > Hi all, > > As many of you are probably already aware, a while back I started > coordinating language translations for FreeDOS and related proj

[Freedos-devel] standard directories

Does FreeDos have standard directories for development then production libraries and headers? ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel

Re: [Freedos-devel] Sea Code by the C Shore

ver Just an idea, not sure if that is exactly what you are looking for? On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 7:52 AM Jerome Shidel wrote: > > > > > On Feb 8, 2022, at 8:50 AM, Mark Olesen wrote: > > > > Have you ever considered using xpm file format? > > Not specifically. >

Re: [Freedos-devel] Sea Code by the C Shore

Have you ever considered using xpm file format? On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 4:15 AM Jerome Shidel wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I’m not really much of a C (pick your flavor) user. Mostly I work in > Assembly, Pascal and other languages. However as I’m well aware, C is very > popular for development in

Re: [Freedos-devel] The FreeDOS Orphanage

A centralized location is very serious to me as a developer. Actually, I bought an MS-DOS 7.1 disk on ebay because things kept moving too much in FreeDOS. It's not stable at all. On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 5:55 PM Jerome Shidel wrote: > > Hi All, > > This a heads up notification. (Mostly) > > With t

Re: [Freedos-devel] Does FreeDOS (or something) sometime automatically break up an hard disk in 2GB sub-disks?

it's 2021? On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 4:50 PM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel wrote: > > Le ven., 24 sept. 2021 13:22:11 -0400 Eric Auer > écrit > > > > > Hi Jerome, > > > > > If ... there are no partitions on the target hard drive, > > > it tells fdisk to automatically partition th

Re: [Freedos-devel] DOjS - Javascript for DOS

no On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 5:29 PM Jim Hall wrote: > > I shared this as a news item on the website, a few weeks ago, but I > don't think the developer announced it on freedos-devel. (I saw it on > Twitter and on the DOS-Aint-Dead forum.) > > DOjS is a Javascript programming canvas for DOS, and Su

Re: [Freedos-devel] Allegro library would need to be recompiled with -fgnu89-inline ?

This is how I do it with DJGPP on FreeDOS https://github.com/markjolesen/fltkal/blob/master/doc/build.md#allegro-4 On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 3:51 PM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel wrote: > > Le sam., 26 juin 2021 18:20:36 -0400 Paul Dufresne > I wrote > >I now think that adding "exter

Re: [Freedos-devel] Package Survey

I got about half way and then let the rest be defaults. I like how you separated it into categories. It would be wizard to have a button on each col that selects/deselects everything in that category. I did not realize how big FreeDOS can be. It looks like some categories would need to be split i

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fw: FYI: FreeType going forward looses 8.3 naming conventions

not an option. On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 11:26 AM TK Chia wrote: > Hello Mark Olesen, hello Samuel V., > > > > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/doslfn.html > > Just run DOSLFN.COM whenever you want to access with l

Re: [Freedos-devel] FYI: FreeType going forward looses 8.3 naming conventions

wrote: > Hallo Herr Mark Olesen, > > am Freitag, 20. November 2020 um 21:30 schrieben Sie: > > > https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?59489 > > > > Anyone interested? > > > do you REALLY think that 8.3 filename limitations should be applie

[Freedos-devel] FYI: FreeType going forward looses 8.3 naming conventions

https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?59489 Anyone interested? ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel

Re: [Freedos-devel] Simplifying FreeDOS

. On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 10:22 AM Rugxulo wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 8:10 AM Mark Olesen wrote: > > > > That sounds fantastic. It is unfortunate development was abandoned. > > Having multiple choices seems like a good idea. > > TinyCore Linux al

Re: [Freedos-devel] Simplifying FreeDOS

Nov 7, 2020 at 2:24 PM Mark Olesen wrote: > > > > Great idea. I like minimalism. However, I don't think networking > > drivers are up to snuff to completely automate the process. > > This has already (unofficially) been done. > > * > https://www.ibiblio.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Simplifying FreeDOS

, extras cd and boot disk with internet install? > > > > On Sun, 8 Nov 2020 at 05:37, Mark Olesen wrote: >> >> Why not have a minimal install iso. Then have separate additions iso >> for each category? Could the install handle that? >> >> On Sat, Oct 24,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Simplifying FreeDOS

Why not have a minimal install iso. Then have separate additions iso for each category? Could the install handle that? On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 2:39 PM Jim Hall wrote: > > Some of us had this conversation a while back and I wanted to bring it up > again on the list. > > MS-DOS was a small operat

Re: [Freedos-devel] Open Watcom: Install, setup, compile and link your 'first' program

You can can compile and link in one step using "wcl" On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 6:39 AM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel wrote: > > Hi! It is said on: https://www.freedos.org/contribute/ that: > "Port FreeDOS utilities to OpenWatcom C and NASM—our preferred C compiler and > Assembler for FreeDOS." >

Re: [Freedos-devel] Kernel.asm question

Howdy, Your aligning by 16 byte paragraph On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 7:45 PM Quinton Cook wrote: > Hello all, > > I have recently taken an academic interest in the freedos project. My > current goal is to understand how the kernel was implemented. > > While reading the kernel.asm file located > in

Re: [Freedos-devel] LibreSSL port to FreeDOS

Had sometime today to investigate the crash. The problem is that wattcp32 requires dos4g. I fixed the problem and updated the repo. On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 9:35 PM Mark Olesen wrote: > LibreSSL is a work in progress. Server side will probably never be secure > enough. Consequently

Re: [Freedos-devel] LibreSSL port to FreeDOS

on ibiblio. That is good to know. Thanks. On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 5:58 AM Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 1:11 AM Mark Olesen wrote: > > > > OpenWatcom.com is back up. They have a message stating they are in > tropical storm season and they take the se

Re: [Freedos-devel] LibreSSL port to FreeDOS

OpenWatcom.com is back up. They have a message stating they are in tropical storm season and they take the servers down every once in awhile. TK Chia thanks for the tip on V2. I am aware of it's existence. On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 8:28 AM TK Chia wrote: > Hello Mark Olesen, >

[Freedos-devel] LibreSSL port to FreeDOS

For those that are interested, I ported LibreSSL to FreeDOS using OpenWatcom. It can be found here: https://github.com/markjolesen/openbsd As a side note, does anybody know what happened to OpenWatcom? I noticed their site no longer exists. Happy Coding. _

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS TUI Shell 0.3 have been released

Nice Job! On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 12:07 PM Ercan Ersoy wrote: > > Hello, > > I have released FreeDOS TUI Shell 0.3. > > FreeDOS TUI Shell is DOSSHELL command. It includes a file > manager internal application and running command internal > application. > > Short changelog of FreeDOS TUI Shell 0.3

[Freedos-devel] fltkcon pushed to git

I planted fltkcon an FLTK console port on github.Currently, DOS PM 32-bit is being worked on. There is allot of work that still needs to be done. It can be found here: https://github.com/markjolesen/fltkcon

Re: [Freedos-devel] Check if VGA is available

I converted some of it to assembly for FDOSTUI: http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/fdostui/v1/view/head:/src/dos16/video.asm The EGA test is: detect_ega: ; get EGA info ; returns: ; bh video state ; 00h color mode in effect ; 01h mono mode in effect ; bl installed memory

Re: [Freedos-devel] Check if VGA is available

https://github.com/shidel/DustyTP7/blob/master/INFO/INFO.PAS On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 9:08 AM, Mark Olesen wrote: > https::/gitub.com/shidel/DustyTP7/blob/master/INFO/INFO.PAS > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 4:51 AM, David McMackins > wrote: > >> I'm doing some graphics

Re: [Freedos-devel] Check if VGA is available

https::/gitub.com/shidel/DustyTP7/blob/master/INFO/INFO.PAS On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 4:51 AM, David McMackins wrote: > I'm doing some graphics programming, and I want to support many > different graphics modes, but I need a way of checking to see if they > are available. Currently I'm working on

Re: [Freedos-devel] Ideas

You may want to rip the logic from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/flcalc/ On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 4:16 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > Sort of a simplified version of GNU bc, then? I think that would be really > interesting. > > I hadn't used ACALC before, but looking it up online, it's a simple > com

Re: [Freedos-devel] Need help with Kitten library

Jim, Out of curiosity, I downloaded kitten source, and compiled it into your test program using openwatcom 1.9: cd \source\kitten wcl main.c kitten.c set LANG=TR set NLSPATH=\source\kitten I did not run into any issues. Regards, Mark J. Olesen On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 9:44 AM, Jim Hall wrote:

[Freedos-devel] Fl_Preferences port help

I need help in deciding how to port Fl_Preferences for fltkal (port of FLTK). Fl_Preferences is like an INI file. You basically have two registries: (1) Fl_Preferences::USER (e.g.) /home/username/fltk/vendor/application.prefs (2) Fl_Preferences::SYSTEM (e.g.) /etc/fltk/vendor/application.pr

Re: [Freedos-devel] fltkal a DOS fork of FLTK using Allegro and DJGPP

Again, this is a fork of FLTK to native DOS. Georg's port emulates a window manager such as Windows or X11. It does not contain native FLTK drivers for DOS. On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 10:35 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > On Wed, 07 Feb 2018 18:28:12 +0100, Matej Horvat wrote: > > Georg's port has a coup

Re: [Freedos-devel] fltkal a DOS fork of FLTK using Allegro and DJGPP

, 2018 at 9:12 AM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 12:54 AM, Mark Olesen > wrote: > > > > I am working on a project forking FLTK to run on FreeDOS. > > > > It is a work in progress but is coming around nicely. > > Looks good! > > BTW

Re: [Freedos-devel] fltkal a DOS fork of FLTK using Allegro and DJGPP

This is a native port of FLTK to DOS. It does not require microwindows/nano-x. The feature set is what FLTK provides, a simple GUI toolkit. On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 12:36 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > On Tue, 06 Feb 2018 23:54:32 -0700, Mark Olesen wrote: > > I am working on a project for

[Freedos-devel] fltkal a DOS fork of FLTK using Allegro and DJGPP

I am working on a project forking FLTK to run on FreeDOS. The github page is: https://github.com/markjolesen/fltkal A sample (lame) demo can be found here: https://youtu.be/FpA-R-ko_z4 It is a work in progress but is coming around nicely. Comments and suggestions are welcome.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Compiling with gcc

GCC is not capable of producing pure 16-bit binaries even with -m16. On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 11:37 AM, Jim Hall wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Oct 2017, David McMackins wrote: > > > >> I have been informed that gcc has a -m16 flag that actually outputs > >> binaries that can run in 16-bit mode. Is there

Re: [Freedos-devel] LS by Mark Olesen

I appreciate your feedback. Thank you. I ran on Windows 98 SE successfully. So, I am unable to debug because I can not replicate your exact issue (crash). However, there were output issues. I will at least try to debug those items. Regards, Mark J. Olesen On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Jose An

Re: [Freedos-devel] announcing DOSUTIL - LS

Great tips. I modified the makefile using your suggestions. Thank you. On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 7:22 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 8:02 PM, Mark Olesen > wrote: > > > > Just for fun, I created an LS binary for FreeDOS. > > > > It is ho

Re: [Freedos-devel] announcing DOSUTIL - LS

tp://core.suckless.org/ubase > [3] http://git.suckless.org/ubase/tree/ > [4] http://landley.net/toybox/about.html > [5] http://beastiebox.sourceforge.net/ > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 6:02 PM, Mark Olesen > wrote: > > Just for fun, I created an LS binary for FreeDOS. > > > &g

[Freedos-devel] announcing DOSUTIL - LS

Just for fun, I created an LS binary for FreeDOS. It is hosted on github and can be found here: https://github.com/markjolesen/dosutil It is released into the Public Domain. I was reading the FreeDOS e-mail list where Jim Hall was wanting Gnuish utilities for FreeDOS. So, I was curios as to how

Re: [Freedos-devel] Linux commands in DOS - Minibox

ftp link. My phone doesn't like ftp, I guess. > > > On May 26, 2017 6:31 AM, "Mark Olesen" wrote: > >> I was unsuccessful in finding any links that worked. Am I missing >> something? Did anyone have better luck? >> >> On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 1:35 AM,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Linux commands in DOS - Minibox

I was unsuccessful in finding any links that worked. Am I missing something? Did anyone have better luck? On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 1:35 AM, Steve Nickolas wrote: > On Thu, 25 May 2017, Jim Hall wrote: > > Minibox is an interesting project, but I wonder why implement >> everything in one large bin

Re: [Freedos-devel] .ini file handling (was: Re: Announcing FDOSTUI)

No thunder here. I appreciate your tip and will look into it. However, at this time I am not very enthusiastic to change the current implementation. Unless of course it blows it away. Thank you. On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 12:01

Re: [Freedos-devel] Announcing FDOSTUI

ure. > > Jim > > > On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 5:20 PM, Mark Olesen wrote: > > Your right about that. Thanks. > > > > I am looking into building an INI library (public domain). It's tempting > to > > just rip something off the shelf for this. > >

Re: [Freedos-devel] Announcing FDOSTUI

pport, I'd be happy to mention it as a news > item on our front page to get more exposure. > > Jim > > > On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 5:20 PM, Mark Olesen wrote: > > Your right about that. Thanks. > > > > I am looking into building an INI library (public domain). I

Re: [Freedos-devel] Announcing FDOSTUI

t; bloat is important > > At most, there could be 2 or 3 sets of parameters, not only that would > help but it can also serve as aguide for creating a new one > > Alain > > > On 02-02-2017 20:26, Mark Olesen wrote: > > Skinning at the moment can only be done by modifying co

Re: [Freedos-devel] Announcing FDOSTUI

, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: > > > On Feb 2, 2017, at 5:26 PM, Mark Olesen wrote: > > Skinning at the moment can only be done by modifying code (skin.c). I left > it out because I do not know the best method of providing a decent > configuration file without addin

Re: [Freedos-devel] Announcing FDOSTUI

which has a gray background... > > :) > Alain > > > On 01-02-2017 21:49, Mark Olesen wrote: > > Hello, > > I liked and made the changes you had pointed out. Thanks for the input. > > html pages affected: > > http://www.nongnu.org/fdostui/page_compiling.html

Re: [Freedos-devel] Announcing FDOSTUI

t 8:07 PM, Mark Olesen > wrote: > > > > FDOSTUI is a C++ library for creating text interfaces. > > > > The project homepage is: > > > > http://www.nongnu.org/fdostui/ > > > > Comments and criticism are welcome. > > Disclaimer: due to lack of

[Freedos-devel] Announcing FDOSTUI

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