[Freedos-user] Unshield ported to DJGPP/DOS

2006-01-23 Thread Blair Campbell
Unshield (extracts InstallShield .CAB files) has been ported to DOS. Check out www.cow-net.com/kjbca for more details. -- Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya -

Re: [Freedos-user] Dual Boot WindowsXP and FreeDOS - Alpha testers needed

2006-01-23 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:32:55 -0500, you wrote: Hi Mark, >possibly, SP 1). And, Partition Magic is expensive >and has a restrictive license (use on one computer, >blah, blah, blah...). If it's 100% reliable, still worth to pay them, but it's not! >Many of the Linux installers don't automate thi

[Freedos-user] Speex port updated and FLAC port added

2006-01-23 Thread Blair Campbell
Check out www.cow-net.com/kjbca for more details -- Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. David Letterman (1947 - ) See ya --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do yo

Re: [Freedos-user] Dual Boot WindowsXP and FreeDOS - Alpha testers needed

2006-01-23 Thread Mark Bailey
Hi Johnson: I was thinking a bit more about automating this. We MIGHT be able to grab some stuff from a Linux installer to automatically, under carefully defined conditions, shrink the NTFS partition and create a new fat32 partition. AFAIK, it can't be done under DOS at all. Partition Magic jus

Re: [Freedos-user] Dual Boot WindowsXP and FreeDOS - Alpha testers needed

2006-01-23 Thread Mark Bailey
Hi Johnson: No, this is just an update to the procedure. Heck, I can't even use the FreeDOS automated installers, since they trash C: which is often a recovery partition. I suppose someone more skilled than I could script the Linux stuff and try to automate this. Mark Johnson Lam wrote: On S

Re: [Freedos-user] Dual Boot WindowsXP and FreeDOS - Alpha testers needed - Oops

2006-01-23 Thread Mark Bailey
Oops, I thought this was a private reply. The FreeDOS installer doesn't "trash" C:...it does automatically install a very clever dual boot technique on C: if it finds DOS (or possibly some versions of Windows) on that partition, with reference to another partition if you are installing there. Th

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS utility to insert keystrokes in the keyboard buffer?

2006-01-23 Thread David O'Shea
Hi Carl, > From: Carl Spitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 21:13 -0500, Jim Lemon wrote: > > I programmed something like this and it might do what you want. The > > following constants and function allow a program to place up to 16 > > two-byte characters in the keyboard buffe