Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos & Arachne

2022-03-08 Thread andrea936
Thanks, to you and Louis, but also I have been using Links -g for a long time and am quite satisfied. However, as freedos still has Arachne in its package -in fdimples- and there is also a new release of Arachne 1.99, I thought it was still usable in freedos ( I still remember the polemic te

[Freedos-user] Freedos & Arachne

2022-03-07 Thread andrea936
Hi! I have used Archne for a long time many years ago. Currently, both in freedos 1.2 and 1.3, ( no dosbox ) even with the latest release of Arachne it is in fact impossible for me to use it. I know of arachne's well known issues with https and jv, but it also seems to not recognize the normal

Re: [Freedos-user] Linux-freedos boot

2022-01-26 Thread andrea936
Il 26.01.2022 00:39 Jerome Shidel ha scritto: >> On Jan 25, 2022, at 4:16 PM, andrea...@tiscali.it [1] wrote: >> >> OK, it's an old annoing question:I have a laptop with linux installed and I created another dos / fat 32 partition where I installed freedos 1.3. (before installing freedos I

[Freedos-user] Linux-freedos boot

2022-01-25 Thread andrea936
OK, it's an old annoing question:I have a laptop with linux installed and I created another dos / fat 32 partition where I installed freedos 1.3. (before installing freedos I activated C:ms-dos with part.exe). OK Freedos, but disappears Linux MBR, and I can't anymore access linux although I have

[Freedos-user] links v2.22

2021-03-25 Thread andrea936
Hi! there is a new release of links: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/net/links/ I've tried it a bit but still can't tell what the changes are from previous versions; however it is nice that there is still a dos browser (also gui) in evolution. Andrea ( seems no news

Re: [Freedos-user] networking/wifi

2021-03-19 Thread andrea936
Hi! Eric as for the wi-fi I have solved the problem in an empirical way: I have long bought a TP-Link TPL-MR3020 mini router which detects available wireless networks and which has an ethernet port to which I can connect my laptop . It also has the possibility to connect - on the move -

Re: [Freedos-user] fdnet.bat

2021-03-17 Thread andrea936
Hi I'm still doubtful about using fdnet in DOS machine - I'm not talking about virtual box, which I don't use. I have three laptops with freedos with pci ethernet cards (realtek, Via and Broadcom) and with Nicscan I found the drivers and they work very well. It would be nice, if (as in Slacko

Re: [Freedos-user] fdnet.bat

2021-03-15 Thread andrea936
Thanks for your interest: this is what appears when I load my ethernet packet driver: _2 DRIVE(S) AVAILABLE. _ _NOVELL LINK SUPPORT LAYER FOR DOS ODI V2.20 (960401) _ _(C) COPYRIGHT 1990 - 1996, BY NOVELL, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. _ _BUFFERS 6 1600 _ _THE CONFIGURATION FILE USED WAS "C:BROAD

[Freedos-user] fdnet.bat

2021-03-15 Thread andrea936
hi at all in freedos1.3 there is in C:/fdos/bin the program fdnet.bat. OK: WIKI.FREDOS.ORG EXPLAINS THAT IT IS A PROGRAM FOR VIRTUALBOX, AND THAT IN CASE YOU HAVE A FREEDOS WITHOUT VIRTUALBOX YOU HAVE TO WRITE A LINE FIRST WITH YOUR ETHERNET PACKET DRIVER. Well, i don't have virtualbox and i

[Freedos-user] FD13 on old laptops

2021-02-26 Thread andrea936
Allow me some advice to install fd13 -legacy or live - on old laptops. On my old Toshiba satellite about 15 years old, fd13 is fine. However, if your laptop is old it's possible that the battery is also old, although obviously charging with the ac-adapter without interruption; and if you choose

Re: [Freedos-user] dos ethernet drivers

2021-01-21 Thread andrea936
Il 20.01.2021 16:05 Frantisek Rysanek ha scritto: > On 20 Jan 2021 at 0:42, andrea...@tiscali.it [1]wrote: > >> Now I am trying to load a diver for a toshiba satellite with Marvell Yukon eth.card: I found the driver (yukodi driver) and it would seem to work, and system says it loaded odi pac

Re: [Freedos-user] dos ethernet drivers

2021-01-21 Thread andrea936
OK, maybe I didn't express myself well; I love dos and use Dos to surf the web; I posed the problem of how difficult it's for a new users to approach dos. Especially those who have a laptop must find the exact drivers for each card in special way ethernet card and it's not so easy . Otherwise no

Re: [Freedos-user] dos ethernet drivers

2021-01-20 Thread andrea936
Ok, it may seem like an archaeological work to look for dos eth. driver and in fact meaningless sense since you go online with other OS, But in using dos/freedos I believe that the possibility of going online is a basic problem. And this regardless of the limitations of browsers such as links and

Re: [Freedos-user] dos ethernet drivers

2021-01-20 Thread andrea936
Il 20.01.2021 01:20 Thomas Mueller ha scritto: >> Hi, I wanted to ask a question about dos ethernet driver. I think it's one of the most satisfying thing using dos to go online. You know the problem: is to find ad load the driver you need, especially for laptops. Ad it's very hard. For exampl

[Freedos-user] dos ethernet drivers

2021-01-19 Thread andrea936
Hi, I wanted to ask a question about dos ethernet driver. I think it's one of the most satisfying thing using dos to go online. You know the problem: is to find ad load the driver you need, especially for laptops. Ad it's very hard. For example I still use an old Acer aspire 1300 ad I load the V

Re: [Freedos-user] yt-dl in dos?

2020-12-19 Thread andrea936
Thanks you all for your interest in my question. Ok, I understand that it's impossible to carry yt-dl in dos. Obviusly it's easier ton use win or linux, but DOS is an hobby and it's fun to do with old PC mostly what you do with news ones faster and more powerful! In the old good days with

[Freedos-user] yt-dl in dos?

2020-12-15 Thread andrea936
You think is there any way to configure youtube-dl in Dos? I probe it in Linux, and in win xp - from dos terminal, text mode - and it work fine and fast, without tip and triks or publicity,and I download song/video. Download and source in http://www.github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl [1] I Know

Re: [Freedos-user]  Re: Dillo Web Browser

2020-12-08 Thread andrea936
Il 07.12.2020 09:29 Bryan Kilgallin ha scritto: > Kai: > >> La mia esperienza con Dillo in NetBSD è che a volte funziona e solo sui siti web meno complessi. Dimentica l'online banking! > > Avevo un computer vecchio e lento. Su quello ho usato software leggero come Dillo. Ragionando che se v

Re: [Freedos-user] Dillo Web Browser

2020-12-08 Thread andrea936
Il 07.12.2020 00:35 Thomas Mueller ha scritto: >> Ciao a tutti, > >> Ho installato il browser web Dillo alcune volte e non è nemmeno mai stato avviato. Ho corretto la variabile del percorso in DILLO.BAT ma senza successo. > Qualcuno pu > >> > span> La mia esperienza con Dillo in NetBSD è c

Re: [Freedos-user] Dillo Web Browser

2020-12-08 Thread andrea936
Il 06.12.2020 22:38 Dean Galloway ha scritto: > Hello all, > > I've installed Dillo web browser a few times and it's never even > started. I corrected the path variable in DILLO.BAT but no success. > > Can someone let me know if there are certain "tricks" that need to be > performed befor

Re: [Freedos-user] ytcrack.exe in Dillo/ links

2014-01-14 Thread andrea936
Il 13.01.2014 19:11 Georg Potthast ha scritto: > the ytcrack-apm can only be used with Arachne just > as the other apm's. > > Georg > > ok, pheraps I made wrong my question: I know I can use ytcrack.apm only in Arachne, but I would like to know if it's possible to use ytcrack (exe) in Dill

[Freedos-user] ytcrack.exe in Dillo/ links

2014-01-11 Thread andrea936
Hi at all, until I used Arachne - and I use it too - I could easy download video-music with ytcrack-apm, but I have no idea how to do it in Dillo or Links. Can you help me to use ytcrack.exe with these browsers? The istructions in the site - http://users.ohiohills.com/fmacall/#ytcrack [1]

[Freedos-user] desktop2 in freedos

2011-08-26 Thread andrea936
 Hi at allis there anyone who did develop the desktop2 program (by F. Ritter?)I use it by many years in dos & freedos. I think it's a true dos/gui, easy suitable in freedos  -save little defect-  with power to associate program/file, cute/paste/copy, & make tmp batch programs etc..  I'd probe Gem,

[Freedos-user] [SPAM] fdos & HX

2011-02-04 Thread andrea936
I use a freedos fullcd (150mb) distro on my PC.I've too  HX ( dos extender) in the path.I see many bin files ( hdpmi, dpmild32 ecc...) are the same in both the BIN of fdos and HX. Is it possible a conflict between these?Is it better put the HX/BIN in the BIN of fdos ( confusing the two BIN) and pu