Re: [Freedos-user] ... Issue 849 => DOS driver for controller-less modem?

2006-06-11 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 11-Июн-2006 13:46 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Serghiy M. FEDORYNCHYK) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: SMF> There are so called "controller-less" hardware modems, both SMF> ISA and PCI, which are some intermediaries between "win" and SMF> "usual hardware modems". (I have, for example

Re: [Freedos-user] Another CauseWay question

2006-06-11 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 11-Июн-2006 16:11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Escorter) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: E> With the DOS4GW based programs, you need to include E> DOS4GW.EXE, the extenders main executable. But what do I E> need to include with my CauseWay based program? I found 4 You should bind CW

Re: [Freedos-user] winmodems

2006-06-11 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 10-Июн-2006 19:13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (chris evans) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: ce> So how much actual hardware is there left on a winmodem then? This depends on manufacturer - sometime more, sometime less. There even exists classification like "softmodem" and "winmodem"

Re: [Freedos-user] I need an example

2006-06-10 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 9-Июн-2006 21:39 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Blair Campbell) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >> >> 3. binw\wlink doesn't rejects to run - it works, but _silently_ produces >> >> corrupted executable (some offsets in code calculated wrong). BC> I would consider it more of a bug in Wi

Re: [Freedos-user] winmodems

2006-06-09 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 9-Июн-2006 21:39 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (chris evans) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: ce> The guys ta linmodems.org have got some OSS drivers to work with ce> winmodems under linux. Maybe something opensource can be ported to dos ce> as a .sys file. Then this .sys driver shoul

Re: [Freedos-user] I need an example

2006-06-09 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 9-Июн-2006 21:13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Blair Campbell) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >> >> PS: There is bug in OpenWatcom binw\wlink, when it produces correpted >> >> executable, when runs in DOSbox. So, you should be sure, that under Windows >> >> you run tools from binnt\, n

Re: [Freedos-user] LCD

2006-06-09 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 8-Июн-2006 08:35 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Spitzer) wrote to FreeDOS : CS> I am finally considering LCD monitors. Most probably work fine in Win32 CS> and Linux but I wonder if any of them also work well in *DOS and Win311. OS doesn't depend from display type, video APIs and interface d

Re: [Freedos-user] I need an example

2006-06-09 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 8-Июн-2006 23:35 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Mayo) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: SM> Does anyone have a build environment they'd be interested in sharing, that SM> I can unpack onto a WIn XP system and get running in a few hours? A SM> compiler installation .zip, and a .bat file t

Re: [Freedos-user] FDISK bug (sorry I don't know how to use bugzilla)

2006-06-09 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 9-Июн-2006 22:48 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johnson Lam) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >> >> This behavior is by design and documented. If you want to use fdos' JL> Sorry, stupid me ... read through the documents in the ZIP file but JL> fail to locate the "skip MBR" details. MS

Re: [Freedos-user] IRQ 17 what?

2006-06-09 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 9-Июн-2006 15:33 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lester Vedrox) wrote to "freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net" : >> >> EA> irq are numbered 0 to 15, so what do you mean by irq 17? LV> The last IRQ on my system has number 22: IRQ numbers above 15 are function of Advanced PIC (APIC), which isn't supp

[Freedos-user] announce: OpenWatcom 1.5 distributive in .zip archives

2006-06-08 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Because there is no official distribution of OpenWatcom in .zip archives since version 1.4, I prepare OW 1.5 distributive in .zip-s at . Here you find archives with same layout, as OW 1.3 distributive, r

Re: [Freedos-user] why make partitions hidden?

2006-06-05 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 6-Июн-2006 00:13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >> >> JH> Is there any way to fix this "too many cylinders" problem, >> >> 1. Backup contents of questioned disk. >> >> 2. Remove (by FDISK) from disk all partitions. >> >> 3. Reboot and ensure, th

Re: [Freedos-user] why make partitions hidden?

2006-06-05 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 5-Июн-2006 12:43 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Haley) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: JH> When I set my boot manager to boot this other disk (F: in windows), it seems JH> to start considering it drive C: as evidenced by the message I get at JH> startup. This is because BIOS "ex

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition order

2006-06-04 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 3-Июн-2006 11:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (chris evans) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: ce> I always still wonder what the best order of partition types to use. ce> and have settled on in order (quadboot): 200mb NXDOS testing partition ce> (E:), DOS 2gb FAT16 (C:), 4-5gb WINXP NTF

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation

2006-06-04 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 4-Июн-2006 04:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lester Vedrox) wrote to "freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net" : LV> You can have up to three primary partitions and one logical partition. Wrong. To be precise: 4 primary partitions or up to 3 primary partitions and one extended partition with any qua

Re: [Freedos-user] Install has run amok on my hard drives

2006-06-04 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 2-Июн-2006 18:17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Blair Campbell) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >> >> I wanted FreeDOS to leave my Recovery Partition alone and to install itself >> >> on my D: drive. Instead, without any instruction from me, it has modified my BC> DOS (including FreeDOS)

Re: [Freedos-user] OpenGEM 5 freezes/hangs/locks on FreeDOS 0.9 SR2

2006-06-04 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 4-Июн-2006 13:46 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hupp) wrote to : JH> hitch I noticed is that a message flashed by at the outset - something about JH> TZ environment variable not found, I believe. This is dumb message from InfoZip. JH> But the installation did not JH> stop and seemed to fini

Re: [Freedos-user] Open Watcom full source code?

2006-05-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 27-Май-2006 14:14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Escorter) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: Is the full source code of Open Watcom available for the community? Yes, see links in answer of Wesley Parish. can't find some of the sources (e.g.: the source of the C and the C++ compile

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2006-05-26 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 26-Май-2006 07:35 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Hall) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: JH> list. But since you can only post to the list IF YOU ARE A MEMBER of 2Jim: Jim, one my letter to freedos-devel waits your approval, because I "not member of a group". What wrong? 2Bla

Re: [Freedos-user] C compilers.

2006-05-24 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Escorter wrote: I remember once I try to run wasm (included with OpenWatcom 1.2) under DOS, and it said: "This is a windows NT character-mode executable." This mean, you run tool from \binnt directory, where DOS-compatible tools reside in \binw directory. Are you sure the latest

Re: [Freedos-user] C compilers.

2006-05-24 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Blair Campbell wrote: this task. Issue is where and how to place these archives. Most ideal I can upload to ibiblio for you. How I can pass them to you? (You may come to private. When all be done, we will announce this in group.) -

Re: [Freedos-user] C compilers.

2006-05-24 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Wesley Parish wrote: Didn't someone recently abstract all the DOS executables and put them up somewhere? Sorry for the garbage. In the OpenWatcom site, I only find the installer for windows. No DOS version. I don't think this is hard - you may list separate .zip-s from older versio

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos a good choice for me?

2006-05-23 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 15-Апр-2006 23:06 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Mayo) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: SM> claiming many thousands. And it apparently calculated the maximum SM> necessary depth at every point in the call tree, because it would trigger SM> a stack overflow on the first call out of main

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos a good choice for me?

2006-05-23 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 15-Апр-2006 19:27 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Blair Campbell) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >> >> I tried compiling my code with Watcom. I got extremely strange behaviour - >> >> the compiler planted stack checking calls, and the stack checks were Also as (most) other compilers

Re: [Freedos-user] Not to flame but let others know ...

2006-05-23 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 20-Апр-2006 00:33 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johnson Lam) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >> >>Completely incorrect. If you release something under GNU GPL license >> >>you cannot revoke that license. "The GNU General Public License is >> >>intended to guarantee your freedom to share

Re: [Freedos-user] C compilers.

2006-05-23 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Escorter wrote: http://www.openwatcom.org/ Sorry for the garbage. In the OpenWatcom site, I only find the installer for windows. No DOS version. This is inconenient, but you may unpack this .zip self-extracting archive by zip-compatible utilities: pkunzip -d OPEN-W~1.EXE ---

Re: [Freedos-user] C compilers.

2006-05-23 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Escorter wrote: Could anyone suggest any good DOS ANSI C compilers for OpenWatcom Where can I find the DOS version of OpenWatcom? Here was hard to find your question among other garbage in your letter, which you not remove. Answer to your question: http://www.openwatcom.org/ -

Re: [Freedos-user] Command With Colour Escape Sequence

2006-05-20 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 19-Май-2006 12:15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lester Vedrox) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: LV> However, you have to remember that Echo and Eecho work properly only when LV> run at startup (they are placed in Config.sys). Of course. For other times should work PROMPT. LV> If you

Re: [Freedos-user] Command With Colour Escape Sequence

2006-05-20 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 19-Май-2006 11:13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lester Vedrox) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: What's the Esc code in FreeDos Edit.exe v 0.7d? If you give me link to this editor, I may try to check it. LV> Here is the link: LV> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/

[Freedos-user] news: another FreeDOS distribution

2006-05-20 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=14566 GNU/DOS 2006 SR1 -- another FreeDOS distributive Includes DJGPP with GNU programs, Arachne, OpenGEM, vim. Details: http://www.pikecountycomputer.com/gnudos/index.html Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=141816

Re: [Freedos-user] Command With Colour Escape Sequence

2006-05-19 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Lester Vedrox wrote: "If you don't know how to insert ESC code in your favorite editor use eecho command". What's the Esc code in FreeDos Edit.exe v 0.7d? If you give me link to this editor, I may try to check it. In other editors there is usually special hotkey, which allows to en

Re: [Freedos-user] Command With Colour Escape Sequence

2006-05-19 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Lester Vedrox wrote: The colour escape sequence in NANSI.SYS to get yellow letters on a black background is: SGR:ESC[33;40m How the command line should exactly look like? echo *[33;40m -^ Note: instead "*" should be Esc code. If you don't know how to insert this code (in your favor

Re: [Freedos-user] Customizing Startup Files

2006-05-18 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! chris evans wrote: That is true, ss:sp will always be set to some address. I seen programs that don't initialize SS:SP at start. All programs, compiled by OpenWatcom in non-tiny memory model are such. In that case one would think that would default to whatever was set prior to it b

Re: [Freedos-user] Not to flame but let others know ...

2006-05-18 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Johnson Lam wrote: Forward an email from Jack, hoping everyone can understand what's = Re: his comments to you that FD-HIMEM has "completed development", I have noted not 1 but 4 ERRORS in FD-HIMEM![... Text deleted ...] I not seen anywhere mentions and descriptions for these

Re: [Freedos-user] Kernel question

2006-05-18 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Michael McStarfighter wrote: I want to know if the "original" FreeDOS kernel is 16bit or 32bit. It always have 16-bit interface, notwithstanding if internally it contains only 16-bit code or some code optimized as 32-bit. I ask it because I coincidentally found the website http:/

Re: [Freedos-user] MENUCOLOR

2006-05-18 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OBJECTIVE: I would like FREE DOS to immediately boot up with a specific color setting and stay consistent regardless of what commands are later used This is not possible: scrolling screen contents in BIOS gets color of new line from the last character in

Re: [Freedos-user] Config.sys: FCBS & Country Commands

2006-05-18 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Lester Vedrox wrote: 1) What is FCBS=1 FCB is an old way to access files (though, in some cases it used up to now). FCBS=1 statement in MS-DOS reduces memory, allocated for FCBs, to one. In FreeDOS this statement shouldn't have effect, because FCBs there shared with file handles.

Re: [Freedos-user] Customizing Startup Files

2006-05-18 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! chris evans wrote: Well, I tought you only want to specify stacks if the program you are loading doesnt have a stack segment of it own. _All_ programs have own segment and there is not possible to not have own segment. stacks= statement controls only internal DOS stacks, which it u

Re: [Freedos-user] Customizing Startup Files

2006-05-17 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Lester Vedrox wrote: I'm trying to customize startup files and have a few questions. 1) STACKS=9,256. STACKS=0,0 seem a bit risky No so. When dealing many years with stacks=0,0, I found only only AT386 refurbished machine, which hangs with this setting at loading Win3.1. All other

Re: [Freedos-user] Right-ALT key (topic was Customizing Startup Files)

2006-05-17 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Henrique Peron wrote: What I meant was: The user will be using the characters available on VGA BIOS, because it is the default. I didn't mean that KEYB would be loading the characters on VGA BIOS. From your sentences, which are intermixed by mentions of KEYB, this is not clear. An

Re: [Freedos-user] Right-ALT key (topic was Customizing Startup Files)

2006-05-17 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Henrique Peron wrote: If you haven't prepared and selected any cp (codepage), then you'll be using the character table implemented in the BIOS of your VGA adapter which, [...] if you run KEYB under these conditions, Video adapter BIOS doesn't implements INT16, this service is com

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Problems Loading SHSURDRV.EXE

2006-05-17 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Blair Campbell пишет: INSTALL= commands are always executed AFTER the SHELL line because all INSTALL does is call %SHELL% to execute the command No. Kernel executes programs from INSTALL directly, without shell help. --- Using Tom

Re: [Freedos-user] Instructions for making USB key bootable. . .

2006-03-15 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 15-Мар-2006 02:36 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: MD> Yes. Creating a new partition with FDISK doesn't work. It thinks it MD> works, but the stick remains unusable until the HP tool reformats it. Why this may happen? ---

Re: [Freedos-user] Instructions for making USB key bootable. . .

2006-03-15 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 14-Мар-2006 16:51 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >> As I understand, this is not possible: diskettes do not contain MBR, >>disks do. And these schemes are not interchangeable. MD> Well, I have a couple USB sticks that don't know FDISK isn'

Re: [Freedos-user] Instructions for making USB key bootable. . .

2006-03-14 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 14-Мар-2006 17:21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bailey) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >> T> So, can you direct a fdisk /mbr to remove the mbr on a usb key to get >> T> back to the floppy emulation? As I understand, this is not possible: diskettes do not contain MBR, di

Re: [Freedos-user] Instructions for making USB key bootable. . .

2006-03-14 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 15-Мар-2006 08:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (TechFan) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: T> So, can you direct a fdisk /mbr to remove the mbr on a usb key to get T> back to the floppy emulation? >> As I understand, this is not possible: diskettes do not contain MBR, >> disks do. And th

Re: [Freedos-user] Instructions for making USB key bootable. . .

2006-03-14 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 14-Мар-2006 00:11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: MD> My own issue is that I can create a stick which either boots as a big MD> floppy (A: via USB-ZIP) or a hard drive (C: via USB-HDD), but I can't seem MD> to switch back and forth between the t

Re: [Freedos-user] liberate memory - how-to ?

2006-03-11 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 11-Мар-2006 09:32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Panigaz) wrote to : P> Have a example of emm386 in free dos ? Same as in MS-DOS: device=emm386.exe ram in config.sys. P> How to I change ? "Change" what? P> What I change ? ehehe ---

Re: [Freedos-user] liberate memory - how-to ?

2006-03-10 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 9-Мар-2006 13:04 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Panigaz) wrote to : P> execute says that the free of the he has little memory for you execute it. P> The developer of the program said that he already had this problem before P> with the linux. P> I have to change the memory for 612kb in the freedos to work

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS utility to insert keystrokes in the keyboard buffer?

2006-03-04 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 4-Мар-2006 05:19 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: ao> The keyboard buffer is a BIOS resource, and it many cases DOS (standard ---^^ always ao> CON device) just relies on BIOS to do this w

Re: [Freedos-user] To: Mark Bailey. Dual boot WinXP/DOS works great!

2006-03-02 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 2-Мар-2006 09:17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bailey) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: MB> NTFS partitions (default for XP) do NOT require MB> defragmentation. NTFS DO require defragmentaion. --- This SF.Net email is sponso

Re: [Freedos-user] p7zip native DOS/DJGPP port!

2006-02-10 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 10-Фев-2006 10:19 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Riebisch) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >> I just compiled p7zip with DJGPP with VERY minor changes to the source RR> Version 4.30 _beta_. Could you port a _stable_ version too? :-) Latest stable 4.32, latest - 4.33 beta. RR> M

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS utility to insert keystrokes in the keyboard buffer?

2006-02-07 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Салям! 7-Фев-2006 19:44 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David O'Shea) wrote to : DO> Check out http://short.stop.home.att.net/freesoft/keyb.htm There are tools DO> there that provide 124 or 64K characters. Maybe 16 isn't the BIOS limit DO> after all? It sounds like the tool that supports 64K characters is

[Freedos-user] forward

2006-02-06 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! To Jim Hall: Jim, I in private resend to you letter from "Peter Shih" from BenQ about bundling BenQ notebooks by FreeDOS. Do you receive it? --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for proble

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS utility to insert keystrokes in the keyboard buffer?

2006-02-06 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 5-Фев-2006 19:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Spitzer) wrote to FreeDOS : >> > > following constants and function allow a program to place up to 16 >> > > two-byte characters in the keyboard buffer. When the program exits >> > Why the limit of 16?? >> That's the size of the typeahead buffer mainta

Re: [Freedos-user] MS-DOS EXEs and FreeDOS

2006-01-26 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 26-Янв-2006 18:36 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael McStarfighter) wrote to Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: MM> I ask me all the time if applications, which are written for MS-DOS, are MM> compatible for working in FreeDOS. I know the question can't have a general MM> answer but perhaps some add

Re: [Freedos-user] Q about 4DOS

2006-01-19 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 18-Янв-2006 09:08 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Riebisch) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >> I see no such command there. May be, this is too new command (I have an >> 4dos 6.02)? RR> But why? Because I found it on my disks. RR> 4DOS 7.50 is free! http://www.jpsoft.com/do

Re: [Freedos-user] Q about 4DOS

2006-01-17 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 17-Янв-2006 20:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Riebisch) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >> When searching names in "for %i in (*.*)" under Win9x, 4DOS returns >> long file names. How to force 4DOS to work only with short names? RR> From 4help.exe: "lfnfor off"? I see no

[Freedos-user] Q about 4DOS

2006-01-17 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! When searching names in "for %i in (*.*)" under Win9x, 4DOS returns long file names. How to force 4DOS to work only with short names? --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? St

Re: [Freedos-user] re: Microsoft=92s patents

2006-01-14 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 14-Янв-2006 22:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: EA> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/download/hardware/fatgen103.pdf This link doesn't work. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Sp

[Freedos-user] Q from user

2006-01-12 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Below question from user. Please, answer directly for him (note: @ in address replaced by space). From: "Carl Kopin" Subject: Bootable disk I bought new computer recently. It does not have a floppy disk drive but can handle several other removable disks and memory sticks. I would like

Re: [Freedos-user] Printer driver

2005-12-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 25-Дек-2005 21:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edmund Swylan) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: ES> How does one go about finding a DOS driver for a given ES> parallel port printer (eg Epson Stylus C84, Epson LX-300+)? For which program? Each program under DOS works with own drivers, t

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS utility to insert keystrokes in the keyboard buffer?

2005-12-28 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 27-Дек-2005 16:36 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Greenberg) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: AG> 4DOS has a nifty command called "keystack" which allows you to insert key AG> Does FreeDOS have anything like this? Or does anyone have any ideas for how AG> I might be able to go about aut

Re: [Freedos-user] [OT] zip drive dos drivers

2005-12-18 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 18-Дек-2005 11:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Riebisch) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >> This is WinZip/16 selfextracting archive, which contains installer >> for Windows 3.1. RR> But where is the problem again? RR> Just do "pkunzip ioware~1.exe" and you get all the files you nee

Re: [Freedos-user] [OT] zip drive dos drivers

2005-12-17 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 17-Дек-2005 15:27 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Riebisch) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: RR> ftp://ftp.iomega.com/english.public/ioware31.exe RR> ftp://ftp.iomega.com/english.public/ioware31drv.exe This is WinZip/16 selfextracting archive, which contains installer for Windows

[Freedos-user] Q from user

2005-11-01 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Below question from user. Please, answer directly to him (note: @ in address replaced by space). Subject: FREEDOS From: "Tornau, Markus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We are using freedos 0.83 in one of our embedded systems and we need some help to make a change. We want to change the harddisk (a

[Freedos-user] Re: countdown menu line repeated on freedos boot menu screen. submenus in freedos

2005-10-25 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 26-Окт-2005 01:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Massimo Pizzolante Leuzzi) wrote to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> MPL> About submenus, I have implemented submenus in Ms-Dos by the command >> MPL> "submenu=," in the "config.sys" file; is there >> MPL> something in FreeDos too ? If yes, how is the syntax ? >>

Re: [Freedos-user] Maybe stupid question (LBA48)...

2005-10-20 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 20-Окт-2005 22:37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johnson Lam) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >> Probably, Jonson was mean "Jeremy's FreeCOM". :) JL> It's build by you, I forgot why I got this, but never mind, it works JL> fine. I never build FreeCOM. -

Re: [Freedos-user] re: Maybe stupid question (LBA48)...

2005-10-20 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 20-Окт-2005 20:10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johnson Lam) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >>FreeDOS has no such drivers, so as soon as it hits the >>first partition beyond the first 128 GB, it shows an error >>message and stops looking for drive letters. Otherwise it >>works fine and acc

Re: [Freedos-user] Maybe stupid question (LBA48)...

2005-10-20 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 20-Окт-2005 08:44 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth J. Davis) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: KJD> ... and Arkady's >> FreeCOM. KJD> What changes are in this? and where is it? Probably, Jonson was mean "Jeremy's FreeCOM". :) --

Re: [Freedos-user] trouble with russian-named files

2005-10-17 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 18-Окт-2005 01:43 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aitor Santamar?a Merino) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >> Correction: with any kernel version. Without correct country >> specification will be used US file name character conversions. ASM> Precisely in my understanding his problem is a

Re: [Freedos-user] trouble with russian-named files

2005-10-17 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 17-Окт-2005 10:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: ao> (1) You'll need to use COUNTRY= setting with an unstable kernel version (in ao> the future stable one). Correction: with any kernel version. Without correct country specification wil

Re: [Freedos-user] trouble with russian-named files

2005-10-17 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 17-Окт-2005 17:38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Maxim Kuleshov) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: MK> I got stuck with simple problem: freedos fails to access MK> files with national chars in their names. No matter where they MK> What should I change to beat that one? :) Insert into co

Re: [Freedos-user] Conventional Memory

2005-10-14 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Салям! 13-Окт-2005 23:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jesse Petre) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: JP> LOADHIGH C:\FDOS\BIN\CTMOUSE.EXE Not need. JP> dos=high,noumb -^ Why? JP> FILES =100 JP> BUFFERS=20 JP> FCBS=4,4 files 40 fcbs 1 -

Re: [Freedos-user] re: FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list

2005-10-10 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 10-Окт-2005 20:57 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: EA> selection. I also think that the kernel should EA> auto-detect floating point support, as several BIOSes EA> fail to initialize the FPU, so the OS should do so before EA> the first FPU-using progr

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list

2005-10-10 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 10-Окт-2005 13:35 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >> Even if I introduce new interface, then it will be useful only for new >>drivers. It will be useless for all existing drivers. MD> Wrong. It will be useful for _everything_: MD> CONFIG.S

Re: [Freedos-user] HIMEM from prompt (was: FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list)

2005-10-09 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 9-Окт-2005 15:20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: EA> WHY can you load FDXMS with DEVLOAD and WHY does the same EA> fail for FDXXMS and HIMEM? EA> One guess would be: FDXXMS and HIMEM initialize the A20 state EA> to off or leave the A20 off after init

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list

2005-10-09 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 9-Окт-2005 13:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >> Yes. But I say about difference between config.sys and command line, >> not about difference between loading himem/emm386 before or after other >> programs. Let example config.sys and autoex

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list

2005-10-09 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 8-Окт-2005 21:22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >>MD> As the front line guy taking most of the tech support on EMM386 (and >>MD> HIMEM), I herewith state that you are incorrect. HIMEM delayed loading >> I _not_ say about loading HIMEM fro

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list

2005-10-08 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
. then answer is simple - because loading himem and emm386 at command line is less useful (DOS process dos=high and dos=umb only at config.sys). There are no other reasons - and xmsmgr.exe, which loads XMM at command line, proves this. But again: I not require immediate implement loading XMS an

Re: [Freedos-user] emm386 on 286 (was: FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list)

2005-10-08 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 7-Окт-2005 02:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >>DEVICE=HIMEM... >>DEVICE=FDXMS286... >>DEVICE=EMM386... MD> Seriously, you think that stacking up duplicate drivers and expecting them MD> to all fail gracefully in line with the current CPU is

Re: [Freedos-user] re: re: FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list

2005-10-08 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 7-Окт-2005 14:36 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >> As far as EMM386, I am not sure one could ever reliably load EMM386 at >> the command prompt post CONFIG.SYS drivers and COMMAND shell, plus a BB> that would be a kind of virtual suicide indeed.

Re: [Freedos-user] re: re: FreeDOS Post-1.0 todo list

2005-10-08 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 7-Окт-2005 01:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >>So, it's runtime loadable (no idea if it would also crash on 8086) and MD> We've discussed loading HIMEM at the DOS prompt after CONFIG.SYS processing MD> before, too. It's a bad idea that coul

Re: [Freedos-user] Forensic FreeDOS version determination?

2005-10-04 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 4-Окт-2005 17:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andre Tertling) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: AT> Ah! I already saw the UPX! signature but didn't find the usual header. AT> Is the kernel using a customized upx engine? No. But kernel image customized after upx to make it .sys-able. Bu

Re: [Freedos-user] Forensic FreeDOS version determination?

2005-10-04 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Салям! 4-Окт-2005 17:10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Riebisch) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >>You can't, because kernal image along with all textial information >> inside it is packed (by UPX). RR> He could check sum the files and compare these with some predefined RR> values

Re: [Freedos-user] Forensic FreeDOS version determination?

2005-10-04 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 4-Окт-2005 16:44 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andre Tertling) wrote to Freedos User Mailinglist : AT> I am in the odd situation that I need to determine the FreeDOS version AT> of a given bootdisk without booting it. I already found that FreeCom can AT> display the version, but only if FreeDOS is runni

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-22 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 22-Сен-2005 09:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brolin Empey) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >> No, error message says parsing error, not read error. For me, there >> looks like broken memory contents. BE> The line in question is indeed syntactically correct. Yes, I see. BE> Th

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-22 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 22-Сен-2005 02:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: BB> it sounds like VDS again to me. That has the effect that no more can be BB> read from harddisk, BB> which would explain the error about the cdromdrive, which seems like BB> perfectly fine synta

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-22 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 21-Сен-2005 16:42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brolin Empey) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: BE> CONFIG.SYS* error in line 26** 12?DEVICEhigh=C:\FDOS\bin\vide-cdd.sys /D:vide BE> ^ BE> * this is wrong: FDCONFIG.SYS is being parsed, *not* CONFIG.SYS! BE> ** this too is

Re: [Freedos-user] pcdos freedos multiboot

2005-09-13 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 10-Сен-2005 21:44 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Spitzer) wrote to Eric Auer: CS> push it into the extended partition because PCDOS only sees 8gig. If CS> freedos has overcome these limitations then it will work, otherwise Ill CS> have to wait for the next major suse release then I can free up the

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: how to setup network on freedos

2005-09-05 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 5-Сен-2005 23:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerry Hickman) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: GH> What is "clipper"? Compiler. Syntax of language similar to (based on) dBase II/III, which, unlike Clipper, is an interactive TUI. Another beast in this niche - FoxPro and Clarion. ---

Re: [Freedos-user] re: My experiment with Windows 3.1 on FreeDOS in VMware

2005-09-05 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 3-Сен-2005 23:37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: EA> CuteMouse may fail to detect that Windows is active. Then CuteMouse EA> would keep trying to access the mouse hardware while the Windows EA> mouse driver is doing the same. Solution: Do not load Cu

Re: [Freedos-user] Q from user

2005-09-04 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 2-Сен-2005 22:50 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> do you guys have a image file that can simply boot from a CD and include >> CD-Rom BB> How come you always end up with these mails, Arkady? :) ? I answer myself to letters, which I may answer, and resend h

[Freedos-user] Q from user

2005-09-02 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Below question from user (about FreeDOS distributives). Please, answer directly to him (note: @ in address replaced by space). From: Eric S Subject: freedos boot CD-Rom image... do you guys have a image file that can simply boot from a CD and include CD-Rom drivers and such? --

[Freedos-user] Q from user

2005-08-30 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Below question from user (about removing FD from XP boot menu). Please, answer directly to him (note, @ in address replaced by space). From: "Kobbra" Please sir can you explane me how to remove free dos from harddisk beceuase I have a problem to boot XP, first it boot freedos, but xo c

[Freedos-user] Q from user

2005-08-20 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! Below question from user. Please, answer directly to him (note: @ in address replaced by space). From: hoboken Subject: Re: FreeDos ODIN >h> When I try to download the one-disk installer to a 1.44 floppy, I >h> receive error messages stating that there is not sufficient space on the >h

Re: [Freedos-user] Redirect LPT1

2005-08-12 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 11-Авг-2005 13:52 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Blair Campbell) wrote to FreeDOS User : BC> how to redirect the output of a printer device to a file? With help of utilities like prn2file, which available somewhere from PCMag. --- SF.Net email

Re: [Freedos-user] TDSK, SRDISK etc.

2005-08-05 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 4-Авг-2005 17:53 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: BB> if not "%errorlevel%"=="0" set ramdisk=%_CWD% if errorlevel 1 set ramdisk=%_CWD% --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Con

Re: [Freedos-user] VOL Command hangs HP Pavilion with EMM386

2005-07-31 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 30-Июл-2005 04:39 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: MD> After bootup, type debug to run DEBUG.EXE. At debug prompt, type d 0:12c MD> and press enter. MD> There will be a display of 2-digit hex numbers, the first line lists four MD> of them.

Re: [Freedos-user] NTFS4DOS and FreeDOS - Works with UMBPCI, Fails with EMM386

2005-07-24 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 11-Июл-2005 17:51 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: MD> Never load a driver, shell, or application before HIMEM and EMM386. They MD> are fundamental first loaders as they configure your basic memory MD> situation. That SHELL command has got to c

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