Hi theere,
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Jochen Reinwand wrote:
The latest and best MS-DOS is as far as I know the DOS included in Windoze
98SE. The One from ME is much smaller and misses a lot of tools. Although it
is really there, no matter what M$ says...
I have an app for my business that's been
Hi!
I have an app for my business that's been running under DOS for about
20 years. I'm (still) working on porting it to Linux because it's
getting close to the point where MSDOS6.22 won't be able to cope with
the size of disc partitions I'm going to need. I've tried using the
W98 DOS to
Jochen Reinwand wrote:
AutoScan=1 ; Can't remember what that option is good for...
If I remember correctly, that is used by Windows only to automatically
scan disks at startup after a system crash or something. Not needed for
plain dos.
Nevertheless it would be possible to make this
Nevertheless it would be possible to make this distribution. But there
are a lot of things that have to be figured out. A basic problem: Do we
use a Windows/DOS or a Linux/Unix system for extracting the files from
Windows and for building the new system.
The following functions need
If he owns a legal copy of the product (he says he'd do it himself if he
had a floppy drive on the machine), one would have to be nitpicking in
the extreme to call this a violation. He COULD send his copy to someone
who would build the hdimage and send it back to him, that would be
legal,
Hi there,
On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, Jim Hartley wrote:
I think this one is WAY, WAY under the radar.
I'd agree if this weren't a public mailing list.
I'm more concerned with the reputation of the list. If it earns a
reputation as a place for swapping pirate copies of software, that
might not be a
DOS 7.10? I guess that's one of those M$-hidden-under-Windoze-DOS
versions? It gets confusing, since M$ used 7.x for those, while there is
also an IBM PC-DOS 7.0 which is a real DOS and that's the one I always
think of when DOS 7 is mentioned. That one is my favorite, I still have
copies
Hi there,
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Darryl Perry wrote:
Does anybody have an hdimage file with MSDOS6.x
installed that I can use?
Do be careful. That sounds like abuse of copyright to me.
I'd make it myself, but I don't have a floppy drive on my linux box.
Installing a floppy drive is a lot
