Re: [Freedos-user] Sharing your open source story (off-topic)

2019-09-26 Thread OMGdaDPS
Ok so, I just decided to go ahead and format my drive that it is the hp pavilion and reinstall freeDOS. After installing, I selected option (1) at boot, to use JEMMEX. Well, long story short... PROGS is there now! I wonder why it wasnt there before? On Sep 26 2019, at 2:55 pm, OMGdaDPS wrote:

Re: [Freedos-user] Sharing your open source story (off-topic)

2019-09-26 Thread OMGdaDPS
Thank you for your help, both of you. all the best, Chris On Sep 26 2019, at 1:26 pm, andrew fabbro wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 9:17 AM dps (https://link.getmailspring.com/link/27890d37-0abd-4858-b050-831e3d1b7...@getmailspring.com/0?redirect=mailto%3Achristopherbwilliams1990%40gmail.com&re

Re: [Freedos-user] Sharing your open source story (off-topic)

2019-09-26 Thread andrew fabbro
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 9:17 AM dps wrote: > Ok so when I installed FREEMACS via FDIMPLES, I tabbed down to the info > panel and it shows a ton of different directories in which I'm guessing > that the program itself and it dependencies are located. > I see that there is a .exe file titled em

Re: [Freedos-user] Sharing your open source story (off-topic)

2019-09-26 Thread Jim Hall
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 3:47 PM OMGdaDPS wrote: > > My drive doesnt even contain the directory C:\FDOS\DOC\PROGS. It does have > down to \DOC, but there isnt a \PROGS in that directory. I also noticed that > my drive isnt labeled as yours is... maybe I did something wrong during the > installat

Re: [Freedos-user] Sharing your open source story (off-topic)

2019-09-25 Thread OMGdaDPS
My drive doesnt even contain the directory C:\FDOS\DOC\PROGS. It does have down to \DOC, but there isnt a \PROGS in that directory. I also noticed that my drive isnt labeled as yours is... maybe I did something wrong during the installation, or maybe there is stuff after the install that I am su

Re: [Freedos-user] Sharing your open source story (off-topic)

2019-09-25 Thread Jim Hall
I just installed Freemacs using FDIMPLES. It gets installed into *C:\FDOS\DOC\PROGS* as you indicated. Here is my *DIR /W*: Volume in drive C is FREEDOS2016 Volume Serial Number is 2174-170A Directory of C:\FDOS\DOC\PROGS [.][..] ABBREV.MIN ABBREV1.MINABBREV2.MI

Re: [Freedos-user] Sharing your open source story (off-topic)

2019-09-25 Thread dps
Ok so when I installed FREEMACS via FDIMPLES, I tabbed down to the info panel and it shows a ton of different directories in which I'm guessing that the program itself and it dependencies are located. I see that there is a .exe file titled emacs.exe, that has the path of 'c:\fdos\doc\progs\emac

Re: [Freedos-user] Sharing your open source story (off-topic)

2019-09-25 Thread Bob via Freedos-user
While I am new-ish to open source and don't have much of a story (yet), I now have some new stuff to read! Thanks for bringing this site to our attention! ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, September 24, 2019 5:01 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > Just wanted to share that OpenSource.com is alwa

Re: [Freedos-user] Sharing your open source story (off-topic)

2019-09-25 Thread Jerome Shidel
> On Sep 25, 2019, at 12:41 AM, dps wrote: > > That most definitely provided some clarification! Thank you! > Just to clarify: when I install a program, say from fdimples, a text file I > created and placed in the PACKAGES directory, and from there I am view it > with my editor of choice?

Re: [Freedos-user] Sharing your open source story (off-topic)

2019-09-24 Thread dps
That most definitely provided some clarification! Thank you! Just to clarify: when I install a program, say from fdimples, a text file I created and placed in the PACKAGES directory, and from there I am view it with my editor of choice? Can I move these programs around? Or would moving the exec

Re: [Freedos-user] Sharing your open source story (off-topic)

2019-09-24 Thread Jerome Shidel
As for ... where is that stuff I installed? There are a couple ways. 1) while in FDIMPLES, you can TAB down to the description area. Then scroll down to see a list of files in the package and there path information. Some paths are translated and changed durin mg installation. So, this is not e

Re: [Freedos-user] Sharing your open source story (off-topic)

2019-09-24 Thread OMGdaDPS
To be quite honest, I know it may seem a bit illogical to do but, I am trying to move myself towards a more traditional (retro?) way of computing. Learning how to use the Linux system from the terminal was the start, and now I am trying to use freeDOS. It is a bit of a learning curve though, for

Re: [Freedos-user] Sharing your open source story (off-topic)

2019-09-24 Thread OMGdaDPS
Oh man, that sounds great! I have a shirt history with the open sourced world ( I really didn't know that it even EXISTED), but I have a VERY strong love (maybe infatuation?) for it now. Something about the way everything is, and how unique the software can be, and of course the community is awe

[Freedos-user] Sharing your open source story (off-topic)

2019-09-24 Thread Jim Hall
Just wanted to share that OpenSource.com is always looking for people to write about open source software. I'm not employed by them, but I have written for OpenSource in the past - so I'm on their "writers" email list. One of the editors recently sent out a general reminder that they are looking f