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

Re: [Freedos-devel] useful HTMLHELP bug findings and proposals

2023-06-17 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
eeded for a contemporary operating system.   Thanks, Vacek   Wilhelm Spiegl <wilhelm.spi...@mail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2023. jún. 16., Pén 21:50): Hi Bernd, hi all,   thank you very very much for this update where I am waiting for more than 15 years now. You know that I work on the

Re: [Freedos-devel] useful HTMLHELP bug findings and proposals

2023-06-16 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
e great leverage to my proposal which is currently stalled due to internal disagreements in the Unicode Technical Committee.   Thanks, Vacek Nules   Wilhelm Spiegl <wilhelm.spi...@mail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2023. jún. 16., Pén 21:50): Hi Bernd, hi all,   thank you very very much fo

Re: [Freedos-devel] useful HTMLHELP bug findings and proposals

2023-06-16 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi Bernd, hi all,   thank you very very much for this update where I am waiting for more than 15 years now. You know that I work on the help htm site of this project. As it turns out, we are now close  to write the whole help in UTF-8 with htmlhelp AND amb in most European and American language

[Freedos-devel] Please ignore my last post

2023-06-07 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
It was private. Sorry for that.   Although it came from a single person mail.com sent the mail via "reply" to the whole group.   Willi ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fre

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS T2306

2023-06-07 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
eeDOS Developers" Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS T2306 Hi Willi,   On Jun 5, 2023, at 10:06 AM, Wilhelm Spiegl <wilhelm.spi...@mail.com> wrote: [..]  b) I had the hope that the english test version of help 1.1.0 would be in FDT2306 for testing, but nothing happened. I h

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS T2306

2023-06-05 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi Jerome, two things:   a) while working on updating FD help I found fdrc, freedos resident calculator. While testing it, I came so far that I was able to start it with "CTRL -" and got the UI, but I am too stupid to understand what I have to do to achieve simple results, e.g. 22+4 = 26 or 23*3

Re: [Freedos-devel] Minor problems FreeDOS 1.3 (Spanish translation)

2023-04-11 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
OK, I found some time to test today. I tested mem 1_10, 1_11, 1_11a and 1_12.   The garbled text was only in 1.11a. My editor recognises it as UTF-8 and when I run it, it shows the bad characters. When interpreting the text as CP858 it shows the characters of Aitors screenshot. 1.12 (latest) is

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Minor problems FreeDOS 1.3 (Spanish translation)

2023-04-08 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
massima di un blocco di memoria superiore (UMB) mem/nls/mem.sv.UTF-8:2.10:Största fria övre minnesblock mem/nls/mem.tr.UTF-8:2.10:En büyük boş üst bellek bloku To me it looks like the mem program itself will need changing to allow for the extra length strings. Andrew > &

Re: [Freedos-devel]   Minor problems FreeDOS 1.3 (Spanish translation)

2023-04-06 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi Aitor,I do not know who made the spanish translation, maybe Andrew Bird as I just noticed on the site, it is only one year old, creating a cp xxx and the unicode version was an idea of Berki, he started in about 3 years ago with this.I assume the translator started with Win cp 1252 or ove

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Virtual Woes

2023-03-28 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
    On Mar 28, 2023, at 5:45 AM, Wilhelm Spiegl wrote:    from my side "edit" is a good candidate to watch. In last time I had several freezes with it, and if you have a look at the different bug report sides... freezes, crashes etc.   It is possible that those are problems

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Virtual Woes

2023-03-28 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
from my side "edit" is a good candidate to watch. In last time I had several freezes with it, and if you have a look at the different bug report sides... freezes, crashes etc.@jerome, do these problems appear when you are doing nothing with the machine? Should we make a list with start option

Re: [Freedos-devel] mode.com

2023-03-26 Thread wilhelm . spiegl
Am 2023-03-21 14:48, schrieb Paul Dufresne: > Le sam., 18 mars 2023 10:49:48 -0400 a écrit > >> Hi all, >> >> sometimes trying to write FD help makes me crazy. >> >> Mode is a typical example. At >> https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base/mode/-/blob/master/DOC/MODE/MODE.TXT > [...] >> If

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: mode.com

2023-03-21 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi Ralf,thank you for this information, it confirms me a little, but I am not sure what to do.Adding both with a hint, but this would be embarrassing to me and the rest of the group.Or should I simply take out the whole errorcode sequence?Willi--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobilte

Re: [Freedos-devel] Bug or Not

2023-03-20 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi, I did not check the whole video, but there was a message: "Environment full?"   Possible solution: edit fdconfig.sys, goto the last lines and search for: "/E:1024". Change 1024 to 2048 (maybe a little more higher).   Did it help?   Thx for response   Willi     Sent: Monday, March 20,

Re: [Freedos-devel] mode.com

2023-03-18 Thread wilhelm . spiegl
Hi all, sometimes trying to write FD help makes me crazy. Mode is a typical example. At https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base/mode/-/blob/master/DOC/MODE/MODE.TXT there is a big explanation what the original mode.com from 1995 can do for me. But the last change was in 2015 - and as it looks like a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Booting and FDAPM

2023-03-17 Thread wilhelm . spiegl
I ran a test with idlehalt=0 / -1 / 1 and put fdapm to rem in virtualbox Fast speed with 0 and 1! idlehalt=-1 gave slow speed. After this I removed idlehalt and activated fdapm again - and then ran fdapm off : fast speed. Willi Am 2023-03-17 15:34, schrieb jer...@shidel.net: > On Mar 17

Re: [Freedos-devel] Open Watcom v2 DOS installer is abysmally slow in FreeDOS

2023-03-16 Thread wilhelm . spiegl
Hi Rugxulo, I am not sure if the issue can be closed. The problem from my side is: Is "lh fdapm apmdos" too hard for the fd live CD? Would a more soft version of power saving be enough? Willi Am 2023-03-16 12:25, schrieb Rugxulo: > Hi, > > On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 4:2

Re: [Freedos-devel] Open Watcom v2 DOS installer is abysmally slow in FreeDOS

2023-03-13 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi all, after several tests I found the reason for this strange behaviour. It disappeared when I booted from a virtual diskette without fdconfig / fdauto.bat and executed watcom.exe. Same from HD. Then I added fdconfig again - it was still fast. Finally I found out that line (in about 62) cause

Re: [Freedos-devel] Open Watcom v2 DOS installer is abysmally slow in FreeDOS

2023-03-10 Thread wilhelm . spiegl
Hi Eric, first I tried to install the exe within a 700 MB ramdrive created with rdisk. Extracting it needed in about 47 minutes instead of 58 minutes. Then I zipped the folder with all 4.018 files with FD zip within a few minutes (ca.4min). Then I run the FD unzip command over the original

Re: [Freedos-devel] Open Watcom v2 DOS installer is abysmally slow in FreeDOS

2023-03-09 Thread wilhelm . spiegl
I am no programmer, but I can test things like this for clarification: I downloaded open-watcom-2_0-c-dos.exe (an extracting .exe) at: https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2/releases/tag/Current-build 140 MB size. First I extracted it with Windows, it contains 4,018 files, and has a size of

[Freedos-devel] keyb kl

2023-02-06 Thread wilhelm . spiegl
Hi, J just try to change my email accounts to mnet as mail.com is no longer usable (when clicking on a mail they start with a video etc.). My problem is once again the FD help 1.1.0 (under construction). The documentation of keyb says that it is possible to work with keyboard.sys and keybrd2/

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: UEFI, virtual BIOS and virtual hardware - was: Goo gle Summer of Code?

2023-01-29 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
any reason you don't download VirtualBox for your platform, select> proper devices (there is even a Soundblaster16 emulated), install DOS> on it and go.>Ever tried? I have and I wrote up the result.>The main reason is that it's extremely hard to get any communicationsbetween the host and the g

Re: [Freedos-devel] Google Summer of Code?

2023-01-27 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
While this discussion is miles away from my original proposal, I understand that my proposal with GSoC is buried. Thanks for this interesting discussion. Your mouse-pusher.   Willi     Sent: Friday, January 27, 2023 at 4:15 PM From: "tom ehlert" To: "Technical discussion and questions for

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re:  Re: Google Summer of Code?

2023-01-22 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
fdisk, chkdsk, dosfsck, defrag and scandisk (not in distribution, empty gui).I have no problems to send you screenshots.fdisk, : https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/base/fdisk/-/issueswilli--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet.Am 22.01.23, 17:56 schrieb tom

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Google Summer of Code?

2023-01-22 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi,the proposal was from me. Maybe some of you know that I work on the text for a new help version.To do so, I use different sources, depending on what I can get. Sometimes documentation is very good, sometimes there is none, sometimes even command/? gives no information and I have to guess, read b

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Where to start and continue?

2023-01-10 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
I am sure that you can find older people that still have old laptops with ide hds for giving away. If not, "Amazon is your friend" as a former colleague said and thought.In most cases only the BIOS battery is empty. CR2032.Willi--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.c

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Usability testing for documentation

2022-11-29 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
newbie01 and 02 from help 1.1.0, already sent months ago--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet.Am 29.11.22, 00:23 schrieb Jim Hall : > > On 11/28/2022 2:52 PM Jim Hall wrote: > > > > > > Does anyone have documentation they would like to

Re: [Freedos-devel]   Interim Build T2211

2022-11-03 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Developers" Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel]   Interim Build T2211 > On Nov 1, 2022, at 1:23 PM, Wilhelm Spiegl wrote: > > did you remove or fix antivirus as i reported in this version, maybe also newer virus definition? > I found nothing about this in changelog. > > Willi

Re: [Freedos-devel]   Interim Build T2211

2022-11-01 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
did you remove or fix antivirus as i reported in this version, maybe also newer virus definition?I found nothing about this in changelog.Willi--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet.Am 01.11.22, 12:41 schrieb Jerome Shidel : Interim Build T2211 is

Re: [Freedos-devel] Fw: Aw:  I need win32nasmbase.zip

2022-10-15 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
"Samuel V." Subject: [Freedos-devel] Fw: Aw:  I need win32nasmbase.zip   http://web.archive.org/web/2831021746if_/http://www.phoenix.gb.net:80/x86/win32NASM.zip   Almost nothing is there, the file win32NASM.zip can only be downloaded up to 12% apparently.   - Forwarde

Re: [Freedos-devel]   I need win32nasmbase.zip

2022-10-14 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
did you try wayback? the site seems to be there--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet.Am 14.10.22, 22:42 schrieb "Samuel V. via Freedos-devel" : Do you have a copy of http://rs1.szif.hu/~tomcat/win32/ ? I need win32nasmba

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Interim Build T2210

2022-10-04 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
formation see: https://sites.google.com/site/blairdude/fdav   Willi             Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2022 at 4:59 PM From: "Wilhelm Spiegl" To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Interim Build T2210 Hi, a simple idea how to save 27 MB of

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Interim Build T2210

2022-10-02 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi, a simple idea how to save 27 MB of files:   I just tested the latest FD2210, c:\util\clamav, alltogether: 27.039.846 Bytes. There is a main.cvd (21.253.696 Byte) and a daily.cvd (2.517.688) together with some .exe files and some "xy.1" files with ending "1". So far ok.   Clamconf.exe exi

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Make fdpkg.sh to work with gitlab zip files

2022-09-05 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi Paul,did you or Jim or somebody else think about Google summer of code for FreeDOS, e.g. 2023 as this summer is almost over? Just a (bad) idea.https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/Willi--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet.Am 05.09.22, 19:17 schri

Re: [Freedos-devel] Interim FreeDOS Build T2208

2022-08-01 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
More than 55 of the NLS updates are from me - and NO real updates. I simply checked the original NLS versions and added an UTF-8 file to the german cp850/858 file as it was already done in French and Turkish. I am not sure if my and Berkis UTF-8 files should be in this FreeDOS version, they are on

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re:  Re: Another implementation of GRAFTABL

2022-07-12 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet.Am 12.07.22, 22:42 schrieb Wilhelm Spiegl : Hi, I just looked at my website http://home.mnet-online.de/willybilly/fdhelp-108a-internet/en/hhstndrd/base/graftabl.htm and noticed that the documentation for graftabl from 2007 is extremely short, strictly

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Another implementation of GRAFTABL

2022-07-12 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi, I just looked at my website http://home.mnet-online.de/willybilly/fdhelp-108a-internet/en/hhstndrd/base/graftabl.htmand noticed that the documentation for graftabl from 2007 is extremely short, strictly speaking: there is none.As I never learned what graftabl is really good for, could you

Re: [Freedos-devel] Thinking about FreeDOS test releases

2022-05-17 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi, I just wanted "to add my mustard" (=denglish, =german english) to make this FD update discussion a little useful for end users (for improved files) by adding the "to-do-list" and "plans for the future" that I found at the FD base section while working on help 1.1.0 (will surely not be publishe

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: How to access all drives on USB stick

2022-04-25 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi, I could try to explain you how fdisk, sys and format work together, but as i would need some time to write all this - and maybe you are not interested in this a little bit more complex system, i would say, lets start from the windows side.plug i the stick under windows, open explorer with

Re: [Freedos-devel]   Questions about FreeDOS Help

2022-04-04 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
at internet there is only the browser-built-in-> "go back" option to go back. If you start anywhere in the middle via an> Internet hyperlink you have no chance to find the rest. So I would add> at least a go back hyperlink (amb-solution) at the bottom of each side.>this refers to internet brow

[Freedos-devel] "FreeDOS Next" help files

2022-04-02 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi everyone, there is a corresponding question from me. I tried to reach Jim several times, but till now I got no satisfying response, so I put the question here:   In FreeDOS help there are a lot of outdated commands. See: http://home.mnet-online.de/willybilly/fdhelp-109/en/index.htm (my websit

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Thinking about FreeDOS 2.0

2022-03-09 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
please check with a file cd. If i remember right a music cd has no file system that you can open with a standard tool like dir.--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet.Am 09.03.22, 02:42 schrieb "richardkolacz...@hotmail.com" : Tom - thanks for

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Thinking about FreeDOS 2.0

2022-03-05 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
clamav seems not to work. if it should work i did not find out how. freedos av which is also available at ibiblio works with restrictions and a very old 20 mb database from clamav, an actual one has in about 170 mb and did not work.yes, i am in contact with Mateusz, but there are some more ba

Re: [Freedos-devel] Thinking about FreeDOS 2.0

2022-03-03 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi Jim, I think there is still so much to do on FreeDOS itself that you should work a little slower with updates and new version numbers. Some examples:   a) have a look at the bug list, e.g. xdel (reported by you), edit (reported by me has several bugs), fdisk (reported by me: sizes for a pri

[Freedos-devel] freedos 1.3 at german magazine heise

2022-02-25 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
sorry, german text onlyhttps://www.heise.de/news/Betriebssystem-Oldtimer-FreeDOS-1-3-mit-neuen-Programmen-und-Features-6515775.html--Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android Mobiltelefon mit mail.com Mail gesendet. ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-

Re: [Freedos-devel] LiveCD boot from floppy

2022-01-19 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
, January 19, 2022 at 3:04 PM From: "Jerome Shidel" To: "Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers." Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] LiveCD boot from floppy   Hi Willi     On Jan 19, 2022, at 7:39 AM, Wilhelm Spiegl wrote:    Hi to all, did you ever

Re: [Freedos-devel] LiveCD boot from floppy

2022-01-19 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
Hi to all, did you ever try to boot from the diskette with an inserted CD or from the diskette itself? As it is a live version the CD offers "Use FD in live environment mode",  "Install to harddisk",  "Boot from HD" and "Boot from diskette". When you choose "Boot from diskette" at this position

[Freedos-devel] setup.de and setup.en

2022-01-06 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
  Hi Jerome, hi Berki, sorry for nerving once again.   I wasted this day to update setup.de and setup.en, means: "Apostrophes" are in each text line now. I could not remove all those /c32 /s- as wanted as sometimes they are really necessary.   But I think apostrophes in each vecho line will b

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: mkey keyboard

2022-01-03 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl
there are three different keyboard drivers that all work in FDOS. keyb supports tr and tr440 (assume this is tr2), mkeyb does not support turkish at all and xkeyb supports tr only. it is your choice which of the three keyboard you want to use in your environment. --Diese Nachricht wurde von me

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