[Freedos-devel] upcoming 1.4

2024-11-04 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Are there any plans when the "upcoming 1.4" will in about be published?Reason, I just finished in about 40 or 50 of more than 350 german help files. As much as I know Berki only worked on the turkish help files and I do not know how many he already translated. French seems to be not updated at all.

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Interim Build T2411

2024-11-03 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Question: is it correct, that:   { More Status Bar Text } 39:Title 38:version 39:usage: 40:[options]   39 is used twice? Or should it be 37?         Speaking of FDIMPLES, the English translation file on FD-NLS has two new keys.    Those new keys are for the long names of the two new p

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Interim Build T2411 (rcal)

2024-11-03 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi, if you run a md5 checksum over rcal.com on your mentioned sites AND https://rcal.sourceforge.net/ you will find out that all three files have the same hash value, meaning: they are identical.   I personally would prefer that you also create a folder rcal for the program as otherwise the con

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Interim Build T2411

2024-11-03 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi,   forgot to report the following message with the Bonus CD:   fdimples shows that fbc_help in section development is / will not be installed.  It exits with an error message: "Package contains a file that already exists locally:  c:\devel\fbc\lfnfiles.zip.   So fdimples shows the missi

Re: [Freedos-devel]   FreeDOS documentation

2024-10-27 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Does this mean that htmlhelp and the freedos help is no longer needed?Willi--Gesendet mit der mail.com Mail AppAm 27.10.24, 23:21 schrieb Jim Hall via Freedos-devel : It's finally moving forward. :-) I showed this on the virtual get-together this morning (and did some live-edits during the meeting

Re: [Freedos-devel] share

2024-10-22 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
t;E. C. Masloch" Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] share (I got a separate mail privately that this accidentally went to the list, explaining why it is in german as well. I decided I'll answer it to the list for the benefit of others however.) On at 2024-10-22 14:19 +0200, Wilhelm Spiegl via

[Freedos-devel] share

2024-10-22 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Sehr geehrte Frau Masloch,   ich wollte mich nur mal erkundigen, was eigentlich aus dem Update von "share" geworden ist, das u.a. NLS unterstützen sollte. Das Einzige, was ich gefunden habe, war: https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base/share/-/releases - aber das stammt aus dem Jahr 2006.     Ihr  

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Accessibility question.

2024-10-15 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi,I just noticed that www.svardos.org published something that may interest you: https://emubns.sourceforge.net/A svardos dos cd, maybe you remember drdos or novell dos. I did not test it, but I know two blind people  and learned that blind people can find it out. it is on the actual svardos site

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Wayback

2024-10-14 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
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Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Confirming I see malware inside FreeDOS official 1.3 release

2024-10-02 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
if you have a win machine goto https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/index.html and try to download some of the tools. anywhere there is a password-zipped file with all tools. download them or, if you find the password zipped file and enter the password your virus checker will have the job of its li

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: broken c::\Freedos\Links removing lame link is cruel

2024-10-02 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi Paul, first, hope you got a file from me. I reported the problems one day before you and noticed that some links did not work because of a wrong path, some ran into help, so most were useless for me. Well, I think if you start with these links, you should create a link to almost all

Re: [Freedos-devel] Virtual Woes

2024-10-02 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi, I am not so firm with this, but can the changelog give any information? https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog-7.1   Willi ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: vbados

2024-09-29 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
:14 AM, Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: Will vbados be in FDT2410? Or is there no decision till now?   Sorry for nerving you, but I think it will make work

[Freedos-devel] installed keyboards at FDT24xx

2024-09-29 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi, starting with the ticket: https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/bugs/87/  (I think modifying the text in kpdos is not very urgent) I tested the actual FDT2409 live ISO with hebrew keyboard. The result is as follows: There is no codepage prepared / installed. FDT simply installs "mkeyb he" - not

Re: [Freedos-devel] vbados

2024-09-29 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Will vbados be in FDT2410? Or is there no decision till now?   Sorry for nerving you, but I think it will make work easier, especially as virtualbox is one of the simple to handle vms, so I assume that many newbies will use it for testing.     Sent: Monday, July 22, 2024 at 9:11 PM From: "Eric

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS gitlab ticket: edit hangs on escape in submenu

2024-09-29 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi Eric, there are at least half a dozen of bug reports referring to edit. Simply search for them at sourceforge (tickets 2, 96, 112, 120, 214, 264, 350, 366) but also on Gitlab. One more bug that I found while testing hebrew and arabian codepages and keyboards was that the frames around each e

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS gitlab tickets: distro downloads

2024-09-29 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi Eric, I agree with you that there should be a link at the FreeDOS website to the latest FDT24xx versions - as FD13 is miles away from FDT2409. There were so many updates (thanks to Jerome who followed my hints among others) that replaced absolutely outdated programs to new one - so I always w

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Packages on the FreeDOS distribution

2024-09-23 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
I agree, especially as fdnpkg  makes it very simple to download other files that do not necessarily be on the cds. Additionally I think about adding a lot of network drivers, e.g. from Georg Potthast, see: http://www.georgpotthast.de/sioux/packet.htm, (can the drivers be added even if they

Re: [Freedos-devel] Xcopy 1.5

2024-08-05 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
I just stumbled over this old bug report referring to xcopy:   https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/bugs/346/   It is still active. means: It can happen that only some files will be copied, others not.   Willi     Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2024 at 7:20 AM From: "Jim Hall via Freedos-devel"

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Acer Aspire One

2024-08-04 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
I do not know which network driver you need, maybe this can help you:https://www.bootablecd.de/FreeDOS-Internet-version/help110/en/hhstndrd/network/howto.htmhave a look for the nicscan.zip link. --Gesendet mit der mail.com Mail AppAm 04.08.24, 23:33 schrieb Sean McCune via Freedos-devel : H

Re: [Freedos-devel]   vbados

2024-07-22 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Really no comment? No installation via fdnpkg wanted?--Gesendet mit der mail.com Mail AppAm 16.07.24, 17:22 schrieb Fritz Mueller via Freedos-devel : Hi, I just noticed, that vbados 0.66 is at FD Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/net/vbados . According to the FD site i

[Freedos-devel] ich hab das gefühl, das spamming fängt langsam an

2024-07-12 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
ohne textwilli--Gesendet mit der mail.com Mail AppAm 13.07.24, 00:03 schrieb Eric Auer via Freedos-devel : Hi armo...@mail.ee > It's obvious that Freedos is dying. What makes you think so? > I can probably revive it if I take a course towards the servers. Which serv

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: FreeDOS wiki is temporary offline

2024-07-05 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
On Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 1:21 PM Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel wrote: >> >> > I wonder how someone was able to come in? Bad configured server / not yet fixed linux bug or bad password? >> > Have I been pawned? shows interesting results for passwords. >> >

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: FreeDOS wiki is temporary offline

2024-07-05 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Freedos-devel : On Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 1:21 PM Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel wrote: > > I wonder how someone was able to come in? Bad configured server / not yet fixed linux bug or bad password? > Have I been pawned? shows interesting results for passwords. > M

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: FreeDOS wiki is temporary offline

2024-07-05 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
I wonder how someone was able to come in? Bad configured server / not yet fixed linux bug or bad password?Have I been pawned? shows interesting results for passwords.--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet.Am 05.07.24, 12:47 schrieb Eric Auer via Free

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Four in a Row

2024-06-09 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Sorry, I forgot to report: worked fine with dosbox-x, dosbox staging, virtualbox, i tested at least 10 times per vm.Started fine with qemu but aftet several trials quit did no longer work. No idea why.--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet.Am 09.06.2

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Four in a Row

2024-06-06 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
I will test it on vbox tomorrow and, if necessary, inform the programmer today, it is 12pm 24 here.Btw, did you check fdtui? Does it really make sense to keep it?Referring to localcfg, although it supports not all options at once, I found out that it is usable if you split the options and exec

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: FreeDOS on Pocket386

2024-06-02 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
If I remember right, FD tries to install as FAT32 system on a 2gb system. Maybe this causes the problem. You can check this on the vm image. It is worth a trial - and you have the ability to run other fs checking tools like chkdsk which support FAT16 only than dosfsck (the only one that suppor

[Freedos-devel] one more proposal for upload via fdnpkg

2024-05-30 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi, its once again me. At the fd gitlab account there is a game called row4, (four in a row) see: https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/games/row4 This version is out of date. There is an update at the programmers site, see:   https://akfoerster.de/dl/software/dos/fdos/ROW4.ZIP The game runs in english

[Freedos-devel] ClamAV and FDT24xx

2024-05-30 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi, one more question about fixing a FDT24xx thing:   Clamav is NO part of FDT24xx, but it can be downloaded via fdnpkg: fdnpkg install clamv    (downloads in about 7 MB) fdnpkg install clamdb  (downloads in about 33 MB) --> alltogether in about 40 MB. Database Version 51 of clamdb is the lat

Re: [Freedos-devel]   Email test

2024-05-28 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
replied--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet.Am 28.05.24, 17:33 schrieb Jim Hall via Freedos-devel : My email to the list bounced as undeliverable, but I'm sending this test just in case it was a temporary hiccup.  Can so

Re: [Freedos-devel] zoo

2024-05-23 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi Tom,   Thank you for not having a choleric attack! Telling the "Haus'l" that he has no clue is an honour for me! Why? Most of the information about bugs in FDT and about new versions are from me. FDT24xx are monthly trial versions (if I remember right, you know it for two or three mont

Re: [Freedos-devel] zoo

2024-05-22 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi, thank you for these important informations referring to zoo. But: A teacher would say: You have missed the point, I have to give you the worst grade for it. Reason: The comments will not create a bugfix packet. I am sure that the old version of zoo will be in FDT2406 too. OK, then let us k

Re: [Freedos-devel] zoo

2024-05-16 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
I ran one more test with zoo. It runs with FAT16 998 MB but not with FAT16 1025 MB.   So my question: Is it really necessary to keep it on the FD live CD as it is now? At the moment it can be installed directly from CD - but is not installed automatically.   Or would it be enough to upload it

[Freedos-devel] problems with moving in a long history

2024-05-15 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi, I have a problem with repeating overlong options, as they appear e.g. at the command "localcfg". This tool is made to create the local settings of country.sys Here is the problem: The command with all options is very long, e.g. for german file:   localcfg test.sys /country:49 /cp:858 /decim:,

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Terminal

2024-05-03 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
+1 for terminal and runtime.   Hi Jim, hi all, I fear to embarrass myself, but I have this account for in about 15 years now - and forgotten the access data. My problem is that I am not very trained in this mailing lists, and I do not like them, because hundreds of people notice it if I tell an

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Interim Build T2405

2024-05-01 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi Jerome, thanks for this statement.   I know that you are very very busy, and it is not really urgent, but it would be nice to keep it in mind.   http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/latest/apps/ - and there: doszip.zip or: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: FreeDOS wiki updates + questions

2024-03-20 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
I tried to update the section "examples" in fd help 1.1.0, some with the help of the programmers. Maybe it helps you too. It would be a win-win situation, if you find mistakes there, simply inform me.www.bootablecd.de. section freedos hilfe (help)Willi--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: NewDOS source code has been published!

2024-02-18 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
edos-devel : Hi Willi, On Feb 17, 2024, at 9:38 AM, Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: Hi Jim,   I forgot to mention that there is a

[Freedos-devel] NewDOS source code has been published!

2024-02-17 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi Jim,   I forgot to mention that there is another great new thing: NewDOS and its source code is free since 2024-02-06! NewDOS itself is freeware since 2018.   You can grab it here: https://www.newdos.de/home/download.htm   NewDOS from André Olejko is no complete OS but a collection of mo

Re: [Freedos-devel] Xcopy 1.5

2024-02-17 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi Jim, thanks for your response. Xcopy is not the only thing, maybe you remember tree 3.72 in this forum?   Independent from this here is an update of my actual list of tools / programs where you / the group should have your focus on. I simply copied them out of my actual list, I can / do not

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Updated HTML Help

2024-02-04 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
go to www.bootablecd.de, click on freedos-hilfe and you can download it.--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet.Am 04.02.24, 18:52 schrieb Jim Hall via Freedos-devel : One question I have is: is there a zip file where I can download all of HTML

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: FreeDOS package data fork, sort of

2024-02-03 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
The excel file is a result of my tests that I made while creating the new help version.I simply often looked if there is a new version with bug fixes available and sent the links to Jerome. The list is miles away from being complete. Till now I did not use it for other purposes that cause more

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: FreeDOS Interim Build T2402

2024-02-01 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
I have a still not yet completed libre office excel file with a lot of clickable hyperlinks to the different sites where I found the updates. If you need it, no problemWilli--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet.Am 01.02.24, 16:24 schrieb Eric Auer v

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: FreeDOS on Book8088

2024-01-30 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi Jim,I only wanted to let you know that the discussion went to bttr forum. Will be interesting to see if my 512 mb image works or not on this machine.Willi--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet.Am 30.01.24, 21:11 schrieb Jim Hall via Freedos-devel

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Question about edlin

2024-01-22 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
gesendet.Am 22.01.24, 21:13 schrieb Gregory Pietsch : I haven't shipped the NLS stuff since version 2.20 or so because I thought Jerome was handling that. -- Gregory On 01/22/2024 2:11 PM EST Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel

Re: [Freedos-devel] Question about edlin

2024-01-22 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
It would be great when edlin could support the 20 NLS files that are shipped with it some day. At least 1.24 till 1.29 of the NLS files are not supported. And I do not speak about Chinese.   Willi     Sent: Monday, January 22, 2024 at 6:23 PM From: "Gregory Pietsch via Freedos-devel" To: "Tec

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: FreePascal near to far pointer conversion

2023-11-13 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi,I want to excuse myself.The reason for this message was a little more complex. I know that many files are reported to be bad.Here is the story:Maybe you remember that I reported about a phishing attack and that Ralf Q. Laughed about me.The reason was a hyperlink where the text hides the rea

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Phishing attack - warning!

2023-11-09 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi Ralf, yes you are right. I noticed all this before (except the link itself because Android devices use no mouse and the link is not shown in that app). Nevertheless - at the end curiosity won. And I am not the first one and will not be the last one where this happens. Since I retired I got at

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Phishing attack - warning!

2023-11-03 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
ourceforge.net Cc: "Ralf Quint" Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Phishing attack - warning! On 11/2/2023 2:38 AM, Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel wrote: Hi all, I only wanted to tell you that I had a "FreeDOS" phishing attack yesterday.   The mail I got arriv

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Phishing attack - warning!

2023-11-02 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi all, I only wanted to tell you that I had a "FreeDOS" phishing attack yesterday.   The mail I got arrived at my n...@mnet-online.de account, with subject:   Re: [Freedos-devel] mode.com sender: m...@planet.com.pk Text:   Hi There, Please see the documentation contained in the url follo

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Interim Build T2310 - no free space on CD

2023-10-03 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi Jim, hi Jerome, hi everyone else,   About the theme "the installation CD has no longer free space":   It would be interesting to find out which clientele downloads the FreeDOS CD the most. I could imagine that games are particularly interesting for newbies, whereas programming tools are nee

[Freedos-devel] Wcd 6.05 is online

2023-09-28 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi Jerome, hi all,I just wanted to tell that wcd has a minor update to 6.05. As the DOS version seems not to support NLS the changelog is close to zero, but the file has a new size.Willy--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet.Am 29.09.23, 00:01 schrie

Re: [Freedos-devel] Interim Build Delayed

2023-09-01 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi Jerome, hi Bernd,   I just checked too, as anyhow it is also my baby (I tested a lot). Fdisk.lng is the replacement for fdisk.en, fdisk.de + other languages in one file. Reason: Space reduction in comparison to old versions, but a space waster on a diskette. It is not needed on a diskette as f

Re: [Freedos-devel] tree 3.7.2/3.7.1

2023-08-03 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
; wrote:   I will look into it.   Jeremy   On Wed, Aug 2, 2023, 12:07 PM Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: Hi all,   I just worked on checking tree 3.7.2 - it is a little bit tricky. The source code of 3.7.2 seems to be identical wi

[Freedos-devel] tree 3.7.2/3.7.1

2023-08-02 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi all,   I just worked on checking tree 3.7.2 - it is a little bit tricky. The source code of 3.7.2 seems to be identical with 3.7.1, but the .exe is identical with 3.7.0. I found information about 3.7.1 at archive.org, see: https://web.archive.org/web/20011212151852/http://www.darklogic.or

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Virtual get-together?

2023-07-30 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
No problem, beergarden at "deergarden", german, Hirschgarten was fine.--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet.Am 30.07.23, 20:16 schrieb Jim Hall via Freedos-devel : > On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 11:03 AM Gregory Pietsch via Freedos-devel > wrote:

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Second call for htmlhelp

2023-07-09 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
urrent AMB viewer implements it: https://amb.osdn.io/phpamb.php?fname=archiwum/format-20201216.amb&f=ama.ama Grüße, Bernd > Am 09.07.2023 um 12:32 schrieb Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel : > > Hi, this is a little modified copy of my mail to Jim. > &g

Re: [Freedos-devel] Second call for htmlhelp

2023-07-09 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi, this is a little modified copy of my mail to Jim.   Hi Jim, you are right, FreeDOS supports several tags, see: https://www.bootablecd.de/FreeDOS-Internet-version/help110/en/hhstndrd/authors/tags.htm   But please please keep away from doing this. There are a lot of reasons for this: a)

[Freedos-devel] Second call for htmlhelp

2023-07-08 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
Hi, meanwhile FDT2307 is published with Bernds new htmlhelp.exe. It includes the actual unfinished english version 1.1.0 of help, other languages are in version 1.0.8. With mail at: https://www.mail-archive.com/freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg14794.html I asked you to help me at the fol