[Freedos-user] Building Plan9's Sam text editor on FreeDOS? (+ Edlin without line numbers?)

Hello, I'm a new subscriber, not a programmer, but interested in lean systems -- and also a person with a DOS-y childhood. Now I'm getting to know FreeDOS, reading the mailing list archives. It is wonderful to find such a lively community around an "old" system (as in, it being a MS-DOS derivate)

Re: [Freedos-user] Print via network - a workaround to the Samba bug

Dear gentlemen, today I've tested some ideas... one worked, one did not. 1) put a UNIX-domain named pipe in the Samba share, locally on the server: cd /mnt/samba mknod print.q p chmod 666 print.q The above needs to run as user root. The following can run as an unprivile

[Freedos-user] Video and Blog: FreeDos with QBASIC From a Single Floppy

Hi, I just found this nice blog post on how to create a "cyberpunk" style DOS machine with FreeDOS and QBasic FreeDos with QBASIC From a Single Floppy -- CS signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Freedos-user] Quake / Blood CD driver audio question - PCEM emulator needs new maintainer

Speaking of CDROM2, I should give that another spin. I may have a bug to report. Regards, Michał W dniu 20.06.2021 o 18:28, Eric Auer pisze: Hi! Vladimiro has found an interesting detail about the "PCEM versus UDVD2 versus audio CD" problem: Playing a REAL audio CD works, but playing a CDS IM

Re: [Freedos-user] Quake / Blood CD driver audio question - PCEM emulator needs new maintainer

Hi! Vladimiro has found an interesting detail about the "PCEM versus UDVD2 versus audio CD" problem: Playing a REAL audio CD works, but playing a CDS IMAGE of one fails in a special way: My CDROM2 tool will say that the CD has audio tracks "A0-18" instead of "00-18" and therefore refuse to play a

Re: [Freedos-user] Print

Thanks, Ralf: As above in the mean time I have assigned printing to PRN (no longer to LPT2). OK, but that means your setup you have is different than the one you mentioned many times before. My setup changes according to trial and error experiment. -- members.iinet.net.au/~kilgallin/ _

Re: [Freedos-user] Print

Thanks, Liam: Bryan is not telling us the full story here. I found log files confusing. ... (whatever that means) so I am giving up here. Quitting may seem an easy option. But I have been going at this project for months! -- members.iinet.net.au/~kilgallin/ __

Re: [Freedos-user] Print

On 6/20/2021 9:02 AM, Bryan Kilgallin wrote: Thanks, Ralf: If you have mapped LPT2 to the network printer then you *must* print to LPT2. Sending to PRN or LPT1 won't do anything because there's no device there. I will henceforth direct printing to PRN. On the FreeDOS PC, in C:\MSNET>, I have

Re: [Freedos-user] Print

Thanks, Ralf: If you have mapped LPT2 to the network printer then you *must* print to LPT2. Sending to PRN or LPT1 won't do anything because there's no device there. I will henceforth direct printing to PRN. On the FreeDOS PC, in C:\MSNET>, I have edited LOGON.BAT. That now says the followin

Re: [Freedos-user] Print

On Sun, 20 Jun 2021 at 17:52, Ralf Quint wrote: > > That doesn't make any sense. There must be something else in play for > that to work. PRN: is an alias to LPT1: > > There should be no printout what so ever of you would send data to PRN: > and have the network printer assigned to LPT2: Agreed.

Re: [Freedos-user] Print

On 6/20/2021 7:06 AM, Bryan Kilgallin wrote: If you have mapped LPT2 to the network printer then you *must* print to LPT2. Sending to PRN or LPT1 won't do anything because there's no device there. I will henceforth direct printing to PRN. The easy way to print to any port is just to copy or e

Re: [Freedos-user] Print

Thanks for your interest, Liam: From the FreeDOS PC, I can print a little over a hundred characters. So does that meant that it _can_ print something? Yes. I have just got that function operating again. PRN: -- the default printer Hm, I'd like all printing to go to the Samba-network print

Re: [Freedos-user] Print

On Sun, 20 Jun 2021 at 13:44, Bryan Kilgallin wrote: > > From the FreeDOS PC, I can print a little over a hundred characters. So does that meant that it _can_ print something? > Because I want to print, and it's called "PRINT"! OK, but it is not like that. DOS inherits a lot of its design fro

Re: [Freedos-user] Print

Thanks, Liam: On the FreeDOS PC: * LMHOSTS lists the printer against its IP address; and * LOGON.BAT lists the server and print queue, and specifies "net use LPT2:, with the server, print queue, and password. That looks good! Great progress from when you

Re: [Freedos-user] Print

On Sun, 20 Jun 2021 at 10:17, Bryan Kilgallin wrote: > > I wish to print from a FreeDOS PC. That connects via Samba to an Ubuntu > server. That speaks via Ethernet to a Brother GDI printer. František has > been advising me on this project. > > On the FreeDOS PC: > * LMHOSTS lists the print

Re: [Freedos-user] Which paint programs and image viewers for DOS do you prefer?

Eric: I wonder what YOUR impressions are regarding those, because I would suggest to add at least 1 paint and 1 image viewer app to our "full" collection of applications. A Wacom graphics-tablet is a USB device. Anything would have to support that! -- members.iinet.net.au/~kilgallin/ _

Re: [Freedos-user] VGA Paint and other image paint and viewer apps for FreeDOS?

Yes, Jim: I don't use paint programs, so I don't know which of the open source paint programs is best. I use MyPaint with Ubuntu. My digital-media page is here. http://members.iinet.net.au/~kilgallin/art/digital/index.html Has anyone used the open source paint programs? Yes as above. Which

Re: [Freedos-user] Print via network - a known bug in Samba

Thanks, Frank: ...while looking for some existing "LPT port redirection software" for DOS, I've first found this proggie: I have tried using that. But I found its documentation limited! And I have not been able to get printing done thereby. It's a little TSR in .COM format that installs in m

[Freedos-user] Print

I wish to print from a FreeDOS PC. That connects via Samba to an Ubuntu server. That speaks via Ethernet to a Brother GDI printer. František has been advising me on this project. On the FreeDOS PC: * LMHOSTS lists the printer against its IP address; and * LOGON.BAT lists the ser

Re: [Freedos-user] Print via network - a known bug in Samba

...while looking for some existing "LPT port redirection software" for DOS, I've first found this proggie: http://info.elf.stuba.sk/packages/pub/pc/utiltext/lpt2file.zip It's a little TSR in .COM format that installs in memory, captures any printing on LPT1 (done using the BIOS printing service