Re: [Freedos-devel] FYI: FreeType going forward looses 8.3 naming conventions

2020-11-20 Thread Mark Olesen
seriously tom, I am not talking about the whole world. FreeType has always followed those conventions up until recently. The good thing is, he is telling us that they will still make the first 8 characters unique --- no coillisions. That is quite cool. On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 2:50 PM tom ehlert w

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Old Timer reporting :-)

2020-11-20 Thread Jim Hall
> The biggest problem that I see with/for FreeDOS is the number of > people actually still interested in working with/for (Free)DOS. That > number has always been limited, but has gotten even smaller over the > years. Beside Jim, who started this, I might actually now be the > longest surviving mem

Re: [Freedos-devel] USB Boot Stick

2020-11-20 Thread Jim Hall
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 1:54 PM Charles Terrill via Freedos-devel < [email protected]> wrote: > I am trying to make a USB FreeDOS boos stick to boot my new Hyundai > Technology Mini PC. It has Windows 10 Professional pre loaded. I can boot > into Ubuntu from the USB Boot Stick bu

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS applications

2020-11-20 Thread Jim Hall
Hi Charles! On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 1:09 PM Charles Terrill via Freedos-devel < [email protected]> wrote: > I wrote my first DOS program in 1984 on my IBM PC. I loved that keyboard > back then but now it makes so much noise. Anyway, I am wanting to set up a > dev environment to

Re: [Freedos-devel] FYI: FreeType going forward looses 8.3 naming conventions

2020-11-20 Thread tom ehlert
Hallo Herr Mark Olesen, am Freitag, 20. November 2020 um 21:30 schrieben Sie: > https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?59489 > Anyone interested? do you REALLY think that 8.3 filename limitations should be applied to the whole world FOREVER? Tom ___

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS applications

2020-11-20 Thread tom ehlert
> A more "generally nice" and less "futuristic" thing would > be to add GPT partition scheme support to our kernel :-) supporting GPT partition scheme would actually be easy. unfortunately it would be almost useless as 'BIOS's booting GPT disks will only boot UEFI boot methods. > Note that tho

[Freedos-devel] FYI: FreeType going forward looses 8.3 naming conventions

2020-11-20 Thread Mark Olesen
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?59489 Anyone interested? ___ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS applications

2020-11-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Charles, welcome to FreeDOS! > Should I use Borland C or Turbo C++ or what. What version? http://www.freedos.org/contribute/ recommends OpenWatcom C. I suggest any current version, but preferably the DOS one. You can use Borland / Turbo if you happen to have it or if you want to compile thi

[Freedos-devel] USB Boot Stick

2020-11-20 Thread Charles Terrill via Freedos-devel
I am trying to make a USB FreeDOS boos stick to boot my new Hyundai Technology Mini PC. It has Windows 10 Professional pre loaded. I can boot into Ubuntu from the USB Boot Stick but can't seem to make a stick for FreeDOS. I tried Rufus but it won't boot. Is there clear directions on how to do th

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS applications

2020-11-20 Thread Charles Terrill via Freedos-devel
I wrote my first DOS program in 1984 on my IBM PC. I loved that keyboard back then but now it makes so much noise. Anyway, I am wanting to set up a dev environment to develop for FreeDOS. I was hoping to get some direction from the group on how to get started.  Should I use Borland C or Turbo C+

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Old Timer report

2020-11-20 Thread Jose Senna
Thomas Mueller asked: >Has anybody ever done online banking from (Free or other)DOS? >Tom I did, using MSDOS and Lynx, but this was before Y2K. Nowadays, bank sites would not even open, because of too much Javascript and required proprietary plugins.

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Old Timer reporting :-)

2020-11-20 Thread tom ehlert
> But what has become a > slow but seemingly steady stream is that there are new people > showing up once in a while, with a whole plethora of grand ideas, > that very quickly end up nowhere. As it seems, mostly because the > vast majority of those doesn't understand what DOS is. And th

Re: [Freedos-devel] New Old Timer reporting :-)

2020-11-20 Thread Thomas Mueller
> On 11/19/2020 3:36 AM, Harald Arnesen wrote: > > I have no idea if such a thing exists (and that is not my point). You > > were not aware of any standalone JS interpreters, I showed you that they > > exist - although not for DOS. > That is the whole point, after all we ARE talking (Free)DOS here