Re: [Freedos-user] Want to read FreeDOS mails in a sensible order

2006-06-15 Thread Jim Hall
Wesley Parish wrote: On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 06:00, Adam Peart wrote: With Thunderbird, you can also have it sort email by threads, which is how I have it set for this mailing list another mailing list. Take it from me, sorting by threads is the only way to handle seriously large

Re: [Freedos-user] Want to read FreeDOS mails in a sensible order

2006-06-15 Thread jp_freedos
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 07:44:08AM -0500, Jim Hall wrote: I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I didn't vote for him. Clinton is not President anymore. -- I bought a house, on a one-way dead-end road; I don't know how I got there. Have a great day and don't forget to laugh! http://www.gcfl.net

Re: [Freedos-user] Want to read FreeDOS mails in a sensible order

2006-06-15 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! jp_freedos / gcfl.net wrote: ... Jim Hall wrote: I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I didn't vote for him. Clinton is not President anymore. I think it is obvious that this signature line was not about Clinton but about a certain cowboy. While there are urban myths about the IQ of those

Re: [Freedos-user] Want to read FreeDOS mails in a sensible order

2006-06-15 Thread Mark Bailey
Eric Auer wrote: Hi! jp_freedos / gcfl.net wrote: ... Jim Hall wrote: I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I didn't vote for him. Clinton is not President anymore. I think it is obvious that this signature line was not about Clinton but about a certain cowboy. [...] But of course

Re: [Freedos-user] Want to read FreeDOS mails in a sensible order

2006-06-15 Thread Michael Devore
At 08:26 AM 6/15/2006 -0500, jp_freedos wrote: On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 07:44:08AM -0500, Jim Hall wrote: I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I didn't vote for him. Clinton is not President anymore. Clinton was, among other things, a Rhodes Scholar, and generally conceded as brilliant by his

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS GUI opinions

2006-06-15 Thread Florian Xaver
I looked at oZone 0.6 some. My first questions/observations while *running it on a pure FreeDOS machine with DOSLFN loaded*: Cool - thanks! 1) I take it that CWSDPMI is not required when FreeDOS EMM386 is loaded and providing whatever DPMI support it has. True? (I did not notice any

Re: [Freedos-user] Want to read FreeDOS mails in a sensible order

2006-06-15 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi, I've never understood why mailing lists are so popular; surely NNTP is a far better and more efficient way to discuss things, plus it has the advantage of being able to manage archives and reduce bandwidth? Why would anyone want to send out and receive 100s of emails when you could simply

Re: [Freedos-user] SYS A: C:

2006-06-15 Thread Gerry Hickman
Gerry Hickman wrote: OK, I guess I could use a FAT16 partition instead; if I do this, is there some way to install the DOS 6.22 boot sector to C: without actually inserting a floppy? e.g. read the saved boot sector from somewhere? OK, I tried it with a FAT16 partition 1. FDISK /PRIO:2000

Re: [Freedos-user] Want to read FreeDOS mails in a sensible order

2006-06-15 Thread Jim Hall
USENET is also pretty stuffed with spam. At least on the mailing lists, we have spam filtering to keep the noise down. Unfortunately, off-topic threads still make it through. ;-) -jh Gerry Hickman wrote: Hi, I've never understood why mailing lists are so popular; surely NNTP is a far

Re: [Freedos-user] Want to read FreeDOS mails in a sensible order

2006-06-15 Thread Ce
If they (T.H.E.M.) wish for my vote then I want universal healthcare and pls give break to 6.75/hr employees on taxation Geez 70 bucks in taxes is . Ow. --chris http://nxdos.sourceforge.net/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list

[Freedos-user] Mailing list vs forum

2006-06-15 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:34:19 +0100, you wrote: Hi Gerry, I've never understood why mailing lists are so popular; surely NNTP is a far better and more efficient way to discuss things, plus it has the advantage of being able to manage archives and reduce bandwidth? Why would anyone want to send

Re: [Freedos-user] SYS A: C:

2006-06-15 Thread Johnson Lam
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:41:13 +0100, you wrote: Hi, 5. SYS B: C: /oem:ms (it says system transferred) When I reboot with the C drive marked Active I get two dots on a black screen and a flashing cursor, that wasn't expected... I suggest SYS should check the target to see it's bootable or not,