Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos hangs

Hi, On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Robert Moler wrote: > > I was delighted to discover FreeDos, because I have an old Music DOS > data base that I've been using since 1986. It runs in XP but not in Win > 7. So I loaded the virtual box and then FreeDos. except that it never > finished loading a

Re: [Freedos-user] "LBA" And FreeDOS.

Hi, On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Louis Santillan wrote: > > On Friday, December 6, 2013, Rugxulo wrote: >> >> So this is not entirely conclusive. Presumably you'd have to find >> explicit bugs or features in a particular kernel in order to truly >> identify it (esp. if it is compressed and hac

Re: [Freedos-user] "LBA" And FreeDOS.

Hi, On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Jack wrote: > >> I certainly agree with your stance here. I have been using one >> ms-dos 7.1 package since at least 2007 or so, easily and effort- >> lessly. I have helped others find it as well. It might be "easier" to just tell them to make a bootable f

[Freedos-user] Internet tools

On 12-7 dmccunney said: >Do a ping, whois, traceroute, or nslookup on it. > They are highly useful tools, and available online >as well in addition to being local commands. I have a copy of ping, and know whois as a site (whois.net), but are the other commands available for DOS ? >You nee

Re: [Freedos-user] "LBA" And FreeDOS.

Hi, On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:03 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Jack wrote: >> You may not consider it reliable, and Dennis may have some odd problem accessing it, but that website did give me, on 5-Dec-2013, a working 2-diskette copy

Re: [Freedos-user] "LBA" And FreeDOS.

Karen, > I certainly agree with your stance here. I have been using one > ms-dos 7.1 package since at least 2007 or so, easily and effort- > lessly. I have helped others find it as well. > I am not sure where the .bg country code is, but I could not > connect to the site when I tried it befor

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos hangs

the new virtualbox and the new uide don't do that. someone can show you where the new (uide) drivers are.   eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com On Satur

[Freedos-user] Freedos hangs

I was delighted to discover FreeDos, because I have an old Music DOS data base that I've been using since 1986. It runs in XP but not in Win 7. So I loaded the virtual box and then FreeDos. except that it never finished loading after reaching the point in the instructions (End of Chapter Five

Re: [Freedos-user] "LBA" And FreeDOS.

Greetings jack, I certainly agree with your stance here. I have been using one ms dos 7.1 package since at least 2007 or so easily and effortlessly. I have helped others find it as well. I am not sure where the .bg country code is, but I could not connect to the site when I tried it before wr

Re: [Freedos-user] "LBA" And FreeDOS.

Dennis, >>> Do a ping, whois, traceroute, or nslookup on it. Tell me what >>> you get. >> >> Wish I could, but I have none of those on my system ... > > They are highly useful tools, and available online as well in > addition to being local commands. What do you use as a browser, > and how do

Re: [Freedos-user] "LBA" And FreeDOS.

On Friday, December 6, 2013, Rugxulo wrote: > > So this is not entirely conclusive. Presumably you'd have to find > explicit bugs or features in a particular kernel in order to truly > identify it (esp. if it is compressed and hacked with internal strings > modified). For trivia's sake, this is why

Re: [Freedos-user] "LBA" And FreeDOS.

On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Jack wrote: > >>> You may not consider it reliable, and Dennis may have some odd >>> problem accessing it, but that website >>> did give me, on 5-Dec-2013, a working 2-diskette copy of V7.10 >>> which I was able to "install" on my system ...

Re: [Freedos-user] "LBA" And FreeDOS.

Dennis, >> You may not consider it reliable, and Dennis may have some odd >> problem accessing it, but that website >> did give me, on 5-Dec-2013, a working 2-diskette copy of V7.10 >> which I was able to "install" on my system ... > > Do a ping, whois, traceroute, or nslo

Re: [Freedos-user] "LBA" And FreeDOS.

On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Jack wrote: > You may not consider it reliable, and Dennis may have some odd > problem accessing it, but that website > did give me, on 5-Dec-2013, a working 2-diskette copy of V7.10 > which I was able to "install" on my system (up to the p

Re: [Freedos-user] "LBA" And FreeDOS.

Rugxulo, Re: your recent posts, I will summarize my feeling as follows: "LZ-DOS" and other copies of V7.10 MS-DOS are still available. You may not consider it reliable, and Dennis may have some odd problem accessing it, but that website did give me, on 5-Dec-2013, a work