> True true... I wonder how bad it would be if Ubuntu and
> Debian made this the default anyway. Instead of a script,
I just installed Debian and dosemu and haven't had to change sysctl.conf at all.
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EA >
EA >Hi Bonnie and happy new year still :-)
Happy new year to you!
Are you suffering from the heating gas turn off for the gas line passing
through the Ukraine?
EA >
EA >Bonnie Dalzell wrote:
EA >
EA >> i use freedos from a dos formatted partition to
>> PS: What does all that tell us about compressed FS...?
>
> I'm a gentle and polite person, so I will try to answer your question, just
> in
> case you asked me: it probably tells us nothing about compressed FS.
>
> However, if someone decides to reply to your extraordinary brief posts then
> Ages ago there where some discussions about DOSzilla (Mozilla Firefox
> for DOS) but the project was never released and is dead.
> Firefox for DOS would be a killer application, pretty cool.
I remember the suggestion coming in from time to time but I also
remember the insane dependencies firefo
Hi Bonnie and happy new year still :-)
Bonnie Dalzell wrote:
> i use freedos from a dos formatted partition to boot into full screen
> freedos on a machine that also boots linux. i am happy with that.
>
> i also use freedos to boot from within a linux partition using xdosemu.
>
> i am happy w
i use freedos from a dos formatted partition to boot into full screen
freedos on a machine that also boots linux. i am happy with that.
i also use freedos to boot from within a linux partition using xdosemu.
i am happy with that except i have to run a little script first.
this is the script
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From: Michael Reichenbach
> Michael Robinson schrieb:
[...]
> > The advantage of supporting NTFS is that freedos could be
> > used as a tool potentially to work on and repair a modern
> > NT based Windows system.
>
> Yes.
>
There is ano
Michael Robinson schrieb:
> As far as compressed filesystems are concerned or supporting
> NTFS, you are getting away from being 100% MS DOS compatible.
No, it depends on how it's being implemented.
> Freedos isn't 100% compatible yet, more reverse engineering
> needs to be done to make it so.
T
Eric Auer schrieb:
> Hi Robert, Travis,
>
> Robert wrote:
>
>>> Would you want a compressed filesystem at all?
>>> My discouraging answer: I just don't need it.
>
>>> I think, what FreeDOS needs for daily use is a good graphical web
>>> browser, a nice e-mailer, a word processor like Abiword, FO
Robert Riebisch schrieb:
> Eric Auer wrote:
>
>> - would you want a compressed filesystem to be writeable?
>
> The question to me is: Would you want a compressed filesystem at all?
> My discouraging answer: I just don't need it.
I never used compressed filesystems anywhere, rather I buy a bigger
> PS: What does all that tell us about compressed FS...?
I'm a gentle and polite person, so I will try to answer your question, just in
case you asked me: it probably tells us nothing about compressed FS.
However, if someone decides to reply to your extraordinary brief posts then
it's virtuall
Eric Auer schrieb:
> Hi again,
>
> recently I had an off-list discussion about the
> possibility of booting DOS from NTFS... This
> leads to the question, how happy are you with
> the existing solutions?
Unhappy.
> - you can boot DOS from FAT, then load NTFS4DOS
> which is read/write, free for
Hi!
>> In what way would FreeDOS differ from Linux 2.4 then?
>> Apart from being worse in performance, multitasking,
>> having no GUI, no way to show several apps at once...
> it won't need an eternity to boot or reboot ...
Reboots are rare when you can hibernate instead :-)
But DOS boots so fa
Hi!
> I think a compressed file system is a good idea,
> for reasons mentioned before.
As you seem to have experience, please sketch the
possible usage and contents in a bit more detail.
> is instead of showing projected free space, show
> me the actual free space when i do a dir.
You could on
Hi Michael,
> I don't want a graphical web browser at all in freedos. The
> current option does not support out of the box filtering or
> plugins comparable to what Internet Explorer and Firefox have.
True for the plugins, but one could write ad-filters for
Arachne, too. On the other hand, maybe
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