Re: [Freedos-user] text editor's and mem command

2005-06-04 Thread GNU_man
Actually, i discovered (thanks to Eric Auer) that TED3 works perfectly on the 8088. Being a bit speed-impaired, this is a more ideal editor FD Edit .7x for an XT. What is it about FD-KEYB that makes it 286 compatible, but not 8088? Hi, It seems you solved your problem, but for the records,

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.01

2005-06-04 Thread Michael Devore
At 09:13 PM 6/2/2005 +0200, Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: Michael Devore escribió: At 03:07 PM 5/3/2005 -0500, I wrote: Ha! What is up with these goofball extender limitations? RAR32 uses RSX extender. I can't decide if there is a weird bug in EMM386 that makes DOS/32A unhappy with >256

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.01

2005-06-04 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 3-Июн-2005 20:53 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aitor Santamar?a Merino) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: ASM> Thanks, I read that, but I was wondering if someone could explain a ASM> little bit more, does RSX/EMX provide DPMI as well, does it get the ASM> system into protected mode, running

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.01

2005-06-04 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi Arkady, Thanks, I read that, but I was wondering if someone could explain a little bit more, does RSX/EMX provide DPMI as well, does it get the system into protected mode, running as a single task a-la EMM386 or such details Mere curiosity, but there isn't much documentation around. A

Re: [Freedos-user] Writing to NTFS filesystems

2005-06-04 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Aitor Santamaría Merino wrote: Hi, ... BTW, I have at work a laptop PC with a USB keyboard that behaves quite transparently, BIOS can acceed to it without problems (I know because I use a BIOS password), and I suppose the same would happen to DOS (I haven't been able to do tests yet). As

Re: [Freedos-user] Writing to NTFS filesystems

2005-06-04 Thread kd4d
Hello, all: In many cases, it is a LOT easier just to shrink the Windows XP NTFS partition a bit and create a FAT32 partition for sharing files between Windows XP and DOS. You can even make this FAT32 partition bootable and install FreeDOS if you want. Partition Magic used to be able to do this,

Re: [Freedos-user] Is there a split screen app for freedos ?

2005-06-04 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 2-Июн-2005 22:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aitor Santamarэa Merino) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: ASM> because I was too young when I first saw it to know what it was about. ASM> It was called SideKick, and seemingly it was a TSR by which you could ASM> open a calculator (perhaps a te

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.01

2005-06-04 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 2-Июн-2005 21:13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aitor Santamarэa Merino) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: ASM> - what EMX is exactly ASM> - how does it relate to RSX.EXE? copying.rsx: RSX : DPMI-DOS 0.9/1.0 extender for 80386+ processors rsx.exe: RSX (32-bit 5.21) DPMI DOS extender for emx

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos b9sr1 long file name support?

2005-06-04 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, I suppose already replied but, yes, you need an external add-in to be able to use LFN. Long time ago I did successful tests with one of LFNDOS or DOSLFN (I never remember which one) with FreeDOS + an extender (CWSDPMI) + a file manager that supports LFN, and had positive feedback. Can lo

Re: [Freedos-user] Fox-cubs v0.1 appared!

2005-06-04 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi there, Kristaps Kaupe escribió: Tuesday 03 May 2005 21:43, Fox rakstīja: Hi there, I want to announce that I wrote Fox-cubs v0.1. It's a Pascal library (TPU unit) which supports using CATS/Kitten formatted language files into Pascal programs. With Fox-cube the programmer get a new funct

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Writing to NTFS filesystems

2005-06-04 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: PS: You can even do dual VGA display with DOS ;-). Can you? How does this work? (specially interested respecting to codepages and such). Aitor --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. Ho

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Re: text editor's and mem command

2005-06-04 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Hi all, as the "editors on old PCs" topic still has some attention: My spin-off variant EDIT 0.7c works properly on 8086 / 8088 (PC-XT) computers, even with 84-key keyboard. Hint hint ;-). http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/edit07c.zip Aitor h

Re: [Freedos-user] Writing to NTFS filesystems

2005-06-04 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Mark Bailey escribió: Or, you may be able to access a USB memory stick (aka thumb drive). There are two basic ways of doing that. One is if your BIOS provides the correct support, FreeDOS may detect the USB stick and be able to use it. (Note that this sort of works on my Dell D600 lapto

Re: [Freedos-user] Is there a split screen app for freedos ?

2005-06-04 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, This mostly requires multitasking. There's another possibility, but I don't know very much about it, because I was too young when I first saw it to know what it was about. It was called SideKick, and seemingly it was a TSR by which you could open a calculator (perhaps a text viewer?). Some

Re: [Freedos-user] text editor's and mem command

2005-06-04 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, GNU_man escribió: Ok this is two questions in one here, I just did a real minimalistic FreeDOS install via 5 1/4" floppy on my "new" computer. No DOS text editors work on this machine, they all crash - including TED tiny editor. I suspect it could be something do with the keyboard. It

Re: [Freedos-user] Writing to NTFS filesystems

2005-06-04 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Kenneth J. Davis escribió: For applications which are best run from pure DOS, but the user has only NTFS (and Windows), and the max data stored is known ahead of time, a possible solution involves creating the file ahead of time (in Windows) and then in DOS either using a special driver t

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.01

2005-06-04 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi there, Michael Devore escribió: At 03:07 PM 5/3/2005 -0500, I wrote: Ha! What is up with these goofball extender limitations? RAR32 uses RSX extender. I can't decide if there is a weird bug in EMM386 that makes DOS/32A unhappy with >256M and RSX >429M, or if the weirdness is in the ex

Re: [Freedos-user] freecom compile errors

2005-06-04 Thread Tom Lee Mullins
Kenneth J. Davis wrote: Tom Lee Mullins wrote: " Hello All, I am trying to complie the freecom source using all the tools given by them on the site but i am receiving the error.. no such command or file as "make" i have turboc 1.01 and nasm and all the things given by the site.. i al

Re: [Freedos-user] freecom compile errors

2005-06-04 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Tom Lee Mullins wrote: " Hello All, I am trying to complie the freecom source using all the tools given by them on the site but i am receiving the error.. no such command or file as "make" i have turboc 1.01 and nasm and all the things given by the site.. i also have installed the late

Re: [Freedos-user] Freeware laplink/interlnk/svr ?

2005-06-04 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Christopher Evans wrote: Is there any free ware parallel link tsrs that use laplink cable instead of one from pcdos... i have a dos cdlink but it only works on cdrom drive letters.. I believe RIFS (remote installable filesystem) uses the laplink style parallel cable connection. However, I

Re: [Freedos-user] About LOADHIGH with EMM386

2005-06-04 Thread Michael Devore
At 04:51 PM 6/4/2005 +0400, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: MD> If X=TEST without I= and the VDS option don't change anything, the best MD> thing to try is to do a full exclude of all high memory as in X=A000-EFFF MD> (keep VDS too), in order to be sure that the problem really is with high MD> memory l

Re: [Freedos-user] About LOADHIGH with EMM386

2005-06-04 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 4-Июн-2005 02:52 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: MD> If X=TEST without I= and the VDS option don't change anything, the best MD> thing to try is to do a full exclude of all high memory as in X=A000-EFFF MD> (keep VDS too), in order to be sure that the problem re

[Freedos-user] Re: About LOADHIGH with EMM386

2005-06-04 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! (Forwarded by Johnson Lam from Jack R. Ellis to me. I answer again in group, because this is not private topic): > trouble using a packet driver. If you know where to E-Mail Belousov > can you please send him the following??Thanks! Jack R. Ellis May address mentioned on

[Freedos-user] Freeware laplink/interlnk/svr ?

2005-06-04 Thread Christopher Evans
Is there any free ware parallel link tsrs that use laplink cable instead of one from pcdos... i have a dos cdlink but it only works on cdrom drive letters.. -- --chris 1-916-501-1423 http://bbx.flnet.org/nxdos/";>nxdos http://digiatoll.unixserverhosting.com/nxdos/";>nxdos mirror http://members.

[Freedos-user] Re: About LOADHIGH with EMM386

2005-06-04 Thread Michael Devore
At 05:54 PM 6/3/2005 -0300, Enrique Mora wrote: Hi. I have a problem. When i use EMM386.exe and HIMEM.EXE all the programs that I put in upper memory faild. 14?DOS=HIGH,UMB 4?DEVICE=C:\FDOS\FDXMS\FDXMS.SYS 4?DEVICE=C:\FDOS\UMBPCI\UMBPCI.SYS 12?DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\HIMEM.EXE 1?DEVICE=C:\FDOS\B