Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 status???

2009-04-03 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Friday 03 April 2009 06:12, Blair Campbell wrote: > arj is open-source (http://arj.sourceforge.net/) and pkzip afaik can > be redistributed (but not the source). Hi! I think Alain is right. I didn't bothered checking before (I naively assumed that such old tools would be at least freeware by

Re: [Freedos-user] Command prompt returns without commands executing

2009-04-03 Thread Alex Buell
On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:20:40 +0100, I waved a wand and this message magically appears in front of Eric Auer: > Indeed a very annoying bug in FreeCOM 0.84 but nobody has yet found > a way to predict WHEN it happens. If you can find a way to make it > happen at a more specific time than "after a whi

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 status???

2009-04-03 Thread King InuYasha
I believe Info-ZIP has a suitable replacement for PKware's DOS pkzip and pkunzip (ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/msdos/). On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > On Friday 03 April 2009 06:12, Blair Campbell wrote: > > arj is open-source (http://arj.sourceforge.net/) and pkzip

[Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 status...

2009-04-03 Thread Michael Robinson
I'm still stumped as to why fdupdate works on my Pentium 4, but it doesn't work on my 486. When I run memtest 2.1.1 for dos, it doesn't find any errors. When I run ssh2dos, it works. When I run fdupdate, it crashes with a 2 near fnodes error. I wish I knew exactly what is causing the crash. F

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 status???

2009-04-03 Thread Alain M.
Mateusz Viste escreveu: > > As for ARJ (I am not talking about the OpenSource one, which is another > program), it is freeware. May be downloaded without restrictions from ARJ's > website, as far as we use it for a home usage. > http://www.arjsoftware.com/files.htm No, it is not freeware, jus

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 status???

2009-04-03 Thread Alain M.
King InuYasha escreveu: > I believe Info-ZIP has a suitable replacement for PKware's DOS pkzip and > pkunzip (ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/msdos/). Yes, it is compatible, just has a different command line (more unix like). I made the switch many years ago :) Definnetly ZIP and UNZIP shou

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 status???

2009-04-03 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Friday 03 April 2009 16:56, Alain M. wrote: > UNARJ.EXE may be freely used and distributed. Doesn't matter anyway - I just checked my repository, and there is only the OpenSource version of ARJ, so no license problem there :) Regards, Mateusz -- You'll find my public OpenPGP key at http://ww

Re: [Freedos-user] FDUPDATE crash

2009-04-03 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Friday 03 April 2009 16:08, Michael Robinson wrote: > When I run fdupdate, it crashes with a 2 near fnodes error. Hi, Please define the crash. When exactly is it happening? When FDUPDATE is starting itself, or when it run wget to retrieve the repository list? That's a verry important informa

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 status...

2009-04-03 Thread King InuYasha
Is fdupdate compiled with SSE or MMX or any other special instruction sets that are unavailable in 486? If so, just recompile with those disabled. On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Michael Robinson wrote: > I'm still stumped as to why fdupdate works on my Pentium 4, > but it doesn't work on my 486.

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 status???

2009-04-03 Thread King InuYasha
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Alain M. wrote: > > King InuYasha escreveu: > > I believe Info-ZIP has a suitable replacement for PKware's DOS pkzip and > > pkunzip (ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/msdos/). > > Yes, it is compatible, just has a different command line (more unix > like). I mad

Re: [Freedos-user] FDUPDATE crash

2009-04-03 Thread Michael Robinson
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 17:12 +0200, Mateusz Viste wrote: > On Friday 03 April 2009 16:08, Michael Robinson wrote: > > When I run fdupdate, it crashes with a 2 near fnodes error. > > Hi, > > Please define the crash. When exactly is it happening? When FDUPDATE is > starting itself, or when it run

Re: [Freedos-user] chkdsk broken?

2009-04-03 Thread Christian Groessler
--- Blair Campbell schrieb am Fr, 3.4.2009: > IIRC chkdsk does not support FAT32 filesystems. This might > be your issue. No, it's a FAT16 filesystem. When I boot MS-DOS 6.22 from CD it can read it fine and its chkdsk doesn't report any problems. chris

Re: [Freedos-user] FDUPDATE crash

2009-04-03 Thread Michael Robinson
> I'm not certain about what is crashing. Changing to curl makes no > difference at all. This works on my Pentium 4, so I suspect there is > something specific to my 486 that is causing the problem. I wish the > crash message was more descriptive. A dump of the processor's registers > and more

Re: [Freedos-user] FDUPDATE crash

2009-04-03 Thread Christian Masloch
> What is an fnode? What does a message that more than 2 near fnodes > are opened mean? The fnodes are a special data structure used inside the FreeDOS kernel. The F apparently stands for file, because the fnode contains information about an accessed file. Early versions of the kernel used to

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS localisation project

2009-04-03 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hi all! It has been a long time that the "poor translation management" was bothering me. There is no easy way to know what needs to be translated, and what is already translated but not shipped with the package for whatever reason. I worked a moment today on a new project: The FreeDOS localisat