Re: [Freedos-user] Best GUIs for DOS

2012-04-09 Thread David C. Kerber
-Original Message- From: Alex [mailto:alxm...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 3:48 PM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Best GUIs for DOS On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Marco Achury marcoach...@gmail.com wrote: El 06/04/2012 01:25

Re: [Freedos-user] 32 bit FreeDOS?

2012-04-09 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 8-4-2012 8:17, Michael Robinson schreef: Actually, I wish someone would release a Windows 3.1 driver that can get my ATI Rage 128, XPERT 2000, card to output 256 colors. For that matter, how hard would it be to make a Windows like graphical user interface that can run Windows 3.1

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 install errors...

2012-04-09 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 8-4-2012 19:44, Michael B. Brutman schreef: Some of us figured out that on ancient hardware (8088, 80286, etc.) the decompression process takes a long time. If you are running in a virtual machine and your underlying hardware/operating system does not fully support virtualization then you

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS lists messages

2012-04-09 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 9-4-2012 1:46, jasse...@itelefonica.com.br schreef: 1) there is not any useable .pdf viewer nor editor muPDF was ported a while ago, listed on BTTR forums somewhere. Still not experimented with it, nor anything else announced there. My usual experiments involve VMware but graphics modes

Re: [Freedos-user] Best GUIs for DOS

2012-04-09 Thread Alex
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 3:22 PM, David C. Kerber dker...@warrenrogersassociates.com wrote: It sounds like you're referring more to an IDE than a GUI. Actually, no. What I meant was a GUI proper. The reason why I mentioned OpenGEM (which, of course, is much more than a GUI), is that it is listed

Re: [Freedos-user] 32 bit FreeDOS?

2012-04-09 Thread Robert Riebisch
Bernd Blaauw wrote: Actually, I wish someone would release a Windows 3.1 driver that can get my ATI Rage 128, XPERT 2000, card to output 256 colors. For that matter, how hard would it be to make a Windows like graphical user interface that can run Windows 3.1 software? There should be

Re: [Freedos-user] Arachne Troubles

2012-04-09 Thread Kenny Emond
Okay, Thanks everyone! I filled in the my_ip section with my ip (according to dhcp.exe), but Arachne still points me to the Roadrunner search, saying Why Am I Here? - You entered a web address that was used to present site suggestions I tried a lot of things, one of which was filing in mtcp

[Freedos-user] mTCP: Telnet, TCP, etc.

2012-04-09 Thread Kenny Emond
Hey, I'm going to just not beat around the bush. I'll and ask it straight out. What the heck are Telnet, TCP and all those other programs that comes with mTCP for? --- A FreeDOS Newser (NEW uSER)

Re: [Freedos-user] mTCP: Telnet, TCP, etc.

2012-04-09 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Kenny Emond cheeseylem...@gmail.com wrote: Hey,    I'm going to just not beat around the bush. I'll and ask it straight out. What the heck are Telnet, TCP and all those other programs that comes with mTCP for? You can use Telnet to do certain things like

Re: [Freedos-user] Arachne Troubles

2012-04-09 Thread cordata02
FreeDOS user, Make sure that the NAMESERVER parameter is filled in your WATTCP file. This parameter should come back from the MTCP DHCP program and is probably going to be the same as your router IP address. For fun you can try the IP address 8.8.8.8 as the NAMESERVER if you are unsure on

Re: [Freedos-user] mTCP: Telnet, TCP, etc.

2012-04-09 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 01:12 PM 4/9/2012, Rugxulo wrote: Hi, On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Kenny Emond cheeseylem...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, I'm going to just not beat around the bush. I'll and ask it straight out. What the heck are Telnet, TCP and all those other programs that comes with mTCP for?

Re: [Freedos-user] Arachne Troubles

2012-04-09 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 01:05 PM 4/9/2012, Kenny Emond wrote: Okay, Thanks everyone! I filled in the my_ip section with my ip (according to dhcp.exe), but Arachne still points me to the Roadrunner search, saying Why Am I Here? - You entered a web address that was used to present site suggestions I tried a lot

[Freedos-user] Concerned about a site...

2012-04-09 Thread someone
There is a site that is putting out a bootable CD that allows you to reset NT passwords. Problem I see is, the OS used is freedos and the disc costs $34.95 to activate. I don't think they are charging for freedos, but there is a free Linux based password reset available if you google

Re: [Freedos-user] Concerned about a site...

2012-04-09 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 9-4-2012 22:55, someone schreef: There is a site that is putting out a bootable CD that allows you to reset NT passwords. Problem I see is, the OS used is freedos and the disc costs $34.95 to activate. I don't think they are charging for freedos, but there is a free Linux based password

Re: [Freedos-user] Concerned about a site...

2012-04-09 Thread C. Masloch
Problem I see is, the OS used is freedos and the disc costs $34.95 to activate. [...] Is the way freedos is being used here legal, or have I discovered an abuse? If they provide all required sources (ie of GPL- or similarly-licensed programs) along with their discs, it is legal. Free

Re: [Freedos-user] Arachne Troubles

2012-04-09 Thread BretJ
FWIW, I had problems with my computers also. The original DSL modem I had (provided by the phone company) worked fine, but it eventually went belly up. I bought a new one (made by ActionTec), but for some unknown reason DOS WATTCP doesn't like the DHCP server provided by the new modem. In

Re: [Freedos-user] Concerned about a site...

2012-04-09 Thread dmccunney
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:55 PM, someone plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: Is the way freedos is being used here legal, or have I discovered an abuse? Perfectly legal. All the GPL requires folks using GPLed software to do is provide the sources for the software upon request. There is nothing

Re: [Freedos-user] mTCP: Telnet, TCP, etc.

2012-04-09 Thread dmccunney
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Kenny Emond cheeseylem...@gmail.com wrote:    I'm going to just not beat around the bush. I'll and ask it straight out. What the heck are Telnet, TCP and all those other programs that comes with mTCP for? Internet connectivity is done through TCP-IP, a protocol