Re: [Freedos-user] Articles about FreeDOS

Hi Jim, Kudos for your articles! Just a small addition to your "Why DOS only has 16 colors" page and the statement "most traditional DOS programs were limited". FoxPro for DOS (a very famous development system at that time), even had a setting for BLINK or Enhanced colors. +--

Re: [Freedos-user] Contribution of Free Source Code without License for Everyone

Funny. a) your link doesn’t work. It’s a ZIP not a 7Z b) Your API.ZIP is flagged as “Malware Detected” by SourceForge. Download at your own risk. wOOdy Von: Samuel V. via Freedos-user Gesendet: Dienstag, 28. Mai 2024 18:17 An: Technical Discussion and Questions for FreeDOS Developers. ; Dis

Re: [Freedos-user] Coding in BASIC for Freedos?

quot; information and samples. If you're interested, I could zip that stuff for you. Mit freundlichen Grüßen vom Obinger See Jürgen Wondzinski Visual FoxPro Technologieberater Microsoft "Most Valuable Professional" von 1996 bis 2009, "Servoy Valued Professional“ 2011 -

Re: [Freedos-user] Date check

Hi Jerome, Perfect! Thanks for the pointer to that VSTR utility! wOOdy Von: Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user Gesendet: Dienstag, 30. Januar 2024 13:38 An: FreeDOS Users Cc: jer...@shidel.net Betreff: Re: [Freedos-user] Date check Hi, Sure. You can have date output the current date and save it

Re: [Freedos-user] Date check

Hi Omar, Where do I get a SNTP connection on 120 offline Mini-PCs? Sometimes , life isn’t as easy as we wish :) wOOdy Von: Omar Yabar via Freedos-user Gesendet: Dienstag, 30. Januar 2024 13:43 An: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS. Cc: Omar Yabar Betreff: Re: [Freedos-user] Date

[Freedos-user] Date check

Hi all, I'm currently facing some users which seem to have a bad BIOS battery and therefor aren't using the current date. Those users aren't even noticing that wrong date on their printed invoices of that day... Is there a simple way to check from Autoexec/FDAUTO for the year of the date, a

Re: [Freedos-user] What DOS programs represent the 1980s and early 90s ?

Speaking about BBS and CIS: At that dark medieval times around 1990, CompuServe was the "Master of all Bulletin Boards". In Germany, you needed to dialup into something called DATEX-P, which had just a handful of access nodes spread over Europe. In Germany we dialed into a node in Bern, Switzer

Re: [Freedos-user] What DOS programs represent the 1980s and early 90s?

(with 128Gb total it was the biggest database worldwide managed in FoxPro tables) for later analysis. Could go on for hours here :=) With kind regards from Bavaria Jürgen Wondzinski Visual FoxPro<http://www.msdn.com/vfoxpro> Evangelist Microsoft "Most Valuable Profes

Re: [Freedos-user] Some USB-Stick problems

thanks for the USB insights! Much appreciated! tried to understand the docs from the various USB drivers but got lost in between Jürgen Wondzinski Von meinem/meiner Galaxy gesendet Ursprüngliche Nachricht Von: Eric Auer via Freedos-user Datum: 26.10.23 23:26 (GMT+01:00) An: freedo

[Freedos-user] Some USB-Stick problems

Hi all, (this will get a longer story, sorry) I inherited a FoxPro/DOS application, which is in use in about 120 delivery trucks. They have a HP 1510 Thinclient with monitor, USB-keyboard and LPT-printer strapped on the passenger seat, powered by a 12V to 230V inverter. The app itself was fir

Re: [Freedos-user] Booting Windows 98 from FreeDOS

at Display, country, *.cpi and keyboard lines). Also that c:\windows\command path should probably point to the Freedos directory. Greetings from Bavaria, Germany Jürgen Wondzinski -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Michał Dec via Freedos-user Gesendet: Sonntag, 24. September 2023 22:50 An:

Re: [Freedos-user] ChkDsk / ScanDsk for Fat32

: Mateusz Viste Betreff: Re: [Freedos-user] ChkDsk / ScanDsk for Fat32 On 15/09/2023 19:42, Jürgen Wondzinski via Freedos-user wrote: > Is there a ChkDsk or ScanDsk etc available for FAT32? > The usual chkdsk92.exe doesn't support this. You might wan

[Freedos-user] ChkDsk / ScanDsk for Fat32

Thanks for any pointers :=) With kind regards from Bavaria Jürgen Wondzinski ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Anyone want to write an article about FreeDOS?

Just to chime in: There's still software in use written in FoxPro/DOS from 1994 :) In fact, I'm just upgrading and enhancing such a package. It's running from an USB-Stick (with FreeDos of course), which is plugged into a smallsized HP ThinClient. That beast is used in Delivery-cars, which sel

Re: [Freedos-user] System hangs on boot.

regards from Bavaria Jürgen Wondzinski Visual FoxPro<http://www.msdn.com/vfoxpro> Evangelist Microsoft "Most Valuable Professional<http://mvp.microsoft.com/de-de/overview.aspx>" from 1996 to 2009, "Servoy Valued Professional<http://www.servoy.com/>“ 2011 My XING Pro