Re: [Freedos-user] Help: FreeDOS serial support

2011-03-12 Thread Lee Eric
Thanks mate. It works well. Eric On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 2:45 AM, Mark Blain wrote: > Lee Eric wrote in > news:AANLkTik0R8PLJF5szh9Hfd9mZGqqL5sjeq0GH_=u8...@mail.gmail.com: > >> Dose FreeDOS support serial console device? Could I redirect the >> contents to a serial console device like Linux? I

Re: [Freedos-user] lynx

2011-03-12 Thread James Collins
Sent from my iPhone On Mar 11, 2011, at 9:54 PM, "Jose Antonio Senna" wrote: > James Collins said: > >> I looked at lynxbat.bat and the batch files says: >> set HOME=. >> set wattcp.cfg=%HOME% >> so is the batch file expecting to find wattcp.cfg >> in the current directory? > It is telling

Re: [Freedos-user] Help: FreeDOS serial support

2011-03-12 Thread Hui Li
BTW, if I wanna return to normal back. How do I do? My cmdline is ctty aux And furthermore, I notice that VIM cannot work properly under console mode, the contents will be shown on the screen not the console. Thanks. Eric On Sat, 2011-03-12 at 22:42 +0800, Lee Eric wrote: > Thanks mate. It works

[Freedos-user] Help: How to enable networking in a FreeDOS client?

2011-03-12 Thread Lee Eric
Hi, I installed FreeDOS with wattcp and FreeDOS has recognized the ethernet interface in the system. However, how can I get DHCP IP from the server? Here's C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT file content. @echo off SET dosdir=C:\FDOS REM C:\FDOS\BIN\BANNER2 REM C:\FDOS\BIN\BLACKOUT set PATH=%dosdir%\bin set NLSPAT

Re: [Freedos-user] Help: FreeDOS serial support

2011-03-12 Thread Mark Blain
Hui Li wrote in news:1299943360.7385.4.ca...@dhcp-14-156.nay.redhat.com: > BTW, if I wanna return to normal back. How do I do? My cmdline is > ctty aux > And furthermore, I notice that VIM cannot work properly under console > mode, the contents will be shown on the screen not the console. CTTY

[Freedos-user] Does FreeDOS make CPU sleep when idle?

2011-03-12 Thread Zbigniew B.
I read, that the source of CPU (over)heating problems under original MS/PC-DOS was the fact, that its "waiting for key"-loop (or however it is called) didn't set CPU idle, when user (or application) was idle. For example: when the computer has been left with the cursor blinking in the command line.

Re: [Freedos-user] Help: FreeDOS serial support

2011-03-12 Thread Michael B. Brutman
I had seen the original suggestion to use CTTY to redirect the console to a serial port but I had seen the original question on how to redirect DOS to use the serial port and I probably should have chipped in then, but now you know the limitations of CTTY. CTTY to a serial port only works for

Re: [Freedos-user] Does FreeDOS make CPU sleep when idle?

2011-03-12 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! On 12.03.2011 21:44, Zbigniew B. wrote: > I read, that the source of CPU (over)heating problems under original > MS/PC-DOS was the fact, that its "waiting for key"-loop (or however it > is called) didn't set CPU idle, when user (or application) was idle. You need a driver for that, it is not

Re: [Freedos-user] Does FreeDOS make CPU sleep when idle?

2011-03-12 Thread Zbigniew B.
2011/3/12, Eric Auer: >> I'm wondering, whether this misfeature has been fixed in FreeDOS? > > Yes! The good news is that newer FreeDOS kernels even have a simple > version built into the kernel itself. [..] Good news! Well, I should have googling for "FreeDOS idle CPU", instead of "DOS idle CPU"