Re: [Freedos-user] Help: FreeDOS serial support

2011-03-11 Thread Mark Blain
Lee Eric wrote in news:AANLkTik0R8PLJF5szh9Hfd9mZGqqL5sjeq0GH_=u8...@mail.gmail.com: > Dose FreeDOS support serial console device? Could I redirect the > contents to a serial console device like Linux? I think FreeDOS can > use serial console device. Try CTTY AUX. http://www.freedos.org/freecom

Re: [Freedos-user] Help: FreeDOS serial support

2011-03-12 Thread Mark Blain
Hui Li wrote in news:1299943360.7385.4.ca...@dhcp-14-156.nay.redhat.com: > BTW, if I wanna return to normal back. How do I do? My cmdline is > ctty aux > And furthermore, I notice that VIM cannot work properly under console > mode, the contents will be shown on the screen not the console. CTTY

Re: [Freedos-user] Code pages in dot-matrix printers

2011-05-06 Thread Mark Blain
Henrique Peron wrote in news:4dc2ebc0.30...@terra.com.br: > I just read a PDF file "Epson ESC/P Reference Manual". It explains > that 24-pin printers can "receive" definitions on 241 characters > into its RAM but those 9-pin LX printers cannot. They can only > receive 6 characters. It seems that

Re: [Freedos-user] Code pages in dot-matrix printers

2011-05-06 Thread Mark Blain
Henrique Peron wrote in news:4dc42724.7020...@terra.com.br: > Hi Mark, > > it's not about "willing to accept". Unfortunately, printing on > graphics mode seems to be the only common denominator among all > brands and models of printers. > > Naturally, if someone needs a character table which i

Re: [Freedos-user] Info for GUI FreeGem

2012-07-25 Thread Mark Blain
Jim Hall wrote in news:CAHvaD3Yo3uwpNDAAZoSGdt64sa5=rSJe6ybEyJmYe3PaCXbpyw@mail.gmail.c om: > Hi. Shane Coughlan was the main person behind FreeGEM. It is a > very nice GUI; I was also a fan of GEM back in the day. > > Shane's FreeGEM website at http://gem.shaneland.co.uk/ seems to > have gone

Re: [Freedos-user] DESCRIPT.ION files under FreeCOM

2005-03-28 Thread Mark Blain
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 17:37:46 +0200, you wrote: > I was using 4DOS for a long time, and I used a lot of the decript.ion files > support (descriptions of files/directories available for example with DIR) > Now I'm using FreeCOM, because of its localizing capabilities, but I can't > use > DESCRIPT

Re: [Freedos-user] GIF2PNG for DOS (not really FreeDOS related)

2005-03-29 Thread Mark Blain
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:44:24 +0200, Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (in part): > I'm searching a converter GIF -> PNG for DOS with transparency support, > anybody knows something about? NetPBM is a huge set of converters for graphics files, and a DJGPP version already exists. http://netpbm.sourcef

Re: [Freedos-user] LOADFIX

2005-04-09 Thread Mark Blain
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 23:42:41 +0200, Fox wrote: > I have a game which must be launched by LOADIFX (that's an EXEpacked chess > game). Unfortunately, I haven't found any LOADFIX executable in the freedos > distribution :( > Can I download it from anywhere? Maybe there is any other tool for FreeDOS

Re: [Freedos-user] | MORE as normal text?

2005-04-11 Thread Mark Blain
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 21:06:04 +0400 (MSD), Fox wrote: > 11-Апр-2005 18:50 Fox wrote to > freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: > > F> I want to redirect to a file a text containing the string " | more". How > can > F> ECHO my text | more my text >> myfile.txt > > echo "my text | more my text" >> my

[Freedos-user] More FreeDOS usage-Higher Price?

2007-02-27 Thread Mark Blain
A recent thread "More FreeDOS usage" mentioned that Dell provides a FreeDOS CD with some of its computers. There's a related discussion in grc.techtalk (http://www.grc.com/discussions.htm) regarding Linux on Dell pcs. It gave an example of one pc where Dell charges $53 (U.S.) more for a FreeDOS s

[Freedos-user] More FreeDOS Usage: Pricey

2007-02-27 Thread Mark Blain
A recent post (end of January) mentioned that Dell now puts a FreeDOS CD in the box of some of its low-end PCs. A related post in grc.techtalk (a discussion group at grc.com) regarding Dell bundling Linux on pcs indicated that, at least sometimes, Dell charges more for a system with FreeDOS tha

Re: [Freedos-user] Delorie.com?

2007-04-17 Thread Mark Blain
"Jim Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On 4/17/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Anyone know, by any chance, what happened to delorie.com? It appears >> to have vanished. >> > > > Looks like the web server is down, or otherwise unreachable: >

Re: [Freedos-user] Doubt on batch stuff

2007-04-26 Thread Mark Blain
"Geraldo Netto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > (actualy winnt cmd)... Winnt cmd is quite different than freedos command. If you are looking for an efficient winnt cmd solution, you may want to repost your question in