Re: [Freedos-user] VirtualBox

2013-03-23 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 11:11 AM, john s wolter johnswol...@wolterworks.com wrote: I've been using VirtualBox in Windows 7 on a Sony Vaio Duo Core /w 4 gigabytes of RAM. VirtualBox's load times are okay but the execution of MS-DOS a particular character-display application program is

Re: [Freedos-user] VirtualBox

2013-03-23 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 3:32 PM, john s wolter johnswol...@wolterworks.com wrote: It's never going to be full speed nor perfect emulation. I'm aware an application running on FreeDOS inside of VirtualBox has to be much slower. That said, understand the future of most legacy operating

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2013-03-23 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi Dennis, That's what I thought might be the case. Your source files are basically 7 bit ASCII. I'd call your use case something to be handled by a Revision Control System. We normally think of them as used for program code, but they can be used for manuscripts as well. Take a look at

[Freedos-user] 7zip

2013-03-23 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi Rugxulo, Hence I suggest sticking with 7ZA920.ZIP or some version of p7zip 9.20.1 (despite bugs), at least under DOS. I downloaded this version: /pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/file/7zip/9.20.1/testing/p7z9201-latest.zip 2012-Sep-03 13:00:32 ... and here's a couple of observations,

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2013-03-23 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mar 23, 2013 4:37 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros fav...@mpcnet.com.br wrote: That's what I thought might be the case. Your source files are basically 7 bit ASCII. I'd call your use case something to be handled by a Revision Control System. We normally think of them as

[Freedos-user] LaTeX

2013-03-23 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi Rugxulo, Some (e.g. JED, which I need to package up for FreeDOS one of these days) also seem to have their own LaTeX modes too (not that I've tried!), if you're willing to switch editors temporarily. (TDE is great but doesn't have lots of frills or extensibility.) By LaTeX modes do you

Re: [Freedos-user] LaTeX

2013-03-23 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros fav...@mpcnet.com.br wrote: Some (e.g. JED, which I need to package up for FreeDOS one of these days) also seem to have their own LaTeX modes too (not that I've tried!), if you're willing to switch editors temporarily.

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2013-03-23 Thread dmccunney
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros fav...@mpcnet.com.br wrote: That's what I thought might be the case. Your source files are basically 7 bit ASCII. I'd call your use case something to be handled by a Revision Control System. We normally think of them as

Re: [Freedos-user] 7zip

2013-03-23 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros fav...@mpcnet.com.br wrote: Hence I suggest sticking with 7ZA920.ZIP or some version of p7zip 9.20.1 (despite bugs), at least under DOS. I downloaded this version: