Re: [Freedos-devel] i did a thing! i ported fdnpkg to 16 bit! now u can network package upgrade on your 16 bit systems! like your PCs, XTs, or ATs! please test it and provide feed back or let me know

2025-10-17 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
> On Sep 23, 2025, at 10:32 PM, victoria crenshaw via Freedos-devel > wrote: > > https://github.com/sparky4/fdnpkg16 > > make sure u have the mtcp configured and ready to download files from online > for this one > Great. :-) Did you actually make FDNPKG 16 bit? Or, make FDINST network

[Freedos-devel] [FDNPKG16] multi package manipulation feature now live

2025-10-17 Thread victoria crenshaw via Freedos-devel
You can install more than 1 package at a time now! Took 12 hours to iron out all the bugs and  tried to check for any more. If you have trouble with unknown bugs let me know immediately via email! https://4ch.mooo.com/freedos/repos/1.4/html/en/net/fdnpkg16 get yours here! https://github.com/sp

Re: [Freedos-devel] Reminder: virtual get-together on Sunday

2025-10-17 Thread Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel
On 10/5/2025 8:11 AM, Bernd Böckmann wrote: Am 05.10.2025 um 17:04 schrieb Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel : On 10/3/2025 2:16 AM, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel wrote: Never mind, was posting before the first cup of coffee. Just realized it's an hour to go, 9am PST, not 8am PST, too working with Eas

Re: [Freedos-devel] Reminder: virtual get-together on Sunday

2025-10-17 Thread Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel
On 10/3/2025 2:16 AM, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel wrote: Hi everyone! I just wanted to remind everyone that the next virtual get-together is coming up on Sunday! It's our usual time, 11am to noon, US/Central. Use your favorite timezone converter to find your local time. We alternate topics fo

[Freedos-devel] international support help for FDNPKG16 (ALSO NEW VERSION WITH FORCE INSTALLATION OF PACKAGE CHOICE!) 0.99.822

2025-10-17 Thread victoria crenshaw via Freedos-devel
I need help correctly implementing this in FDNPKG16 it seems to not work in FreeDOS 1.4 I think it is the outdated kitten system i am using. can someone help me with this? Jim? Jerome? ALSO NEW VERSION 0.99.822 A rather small update. new force installation feature!

Re: [Freedos-devel] Beeps for tab completion

2025-10-17 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
> On 10/5/2025 11:25 AM, Ronald Hudson via Freedos-devel wrote: > > On the machines I am running, and even in DOSBOX there is a loud beep > > when one hits tab and there are multiple choices. It would be great if > > this could be turned off. It's not so bad on DOSBOX because I just use > > headpho

Re: [Freedos-devel] Question about 3-letter language codes

2025-10-17 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
On Sun, Oct 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM Jim Hall wrote: > > (replying under a new 'Subject' line so it's easier to find) > > On Sun, Oct 5, 2025 at 10:15 AM Fritz Mueller via Freedos-devel > wrote: > > > > As it is a technical meeting today, here a question you could > > discuss about: > > > > In NLS Jero

Re: [Freedos-devel] Beeps for tab completion

2025-10-17 Thread Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel
On 10/5/2025 11:25 AM, Ronald Hudson via Freedos-devel wrote: Hi everybody On the machines I am running, and even in DOSBOX there is a loud beep when one hits tab and there are multiple choices. It would be great if this could be turned off. It's not so bad on DOSBOX because I just use headp

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: FDNPKG16 has a new version! 0.99.81 and talk to me about this program!

2025-10-17 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
as you now have (at the moment not working) nls files (short / long options), can you combine them anyhow?and, please leave the license out of nls, as it will not be translated at all.when this is done, I will try to add more translations.Installation of very big files works again. I tested a file

[Freedos-devel] [FDNPKG16] updated

2025-10-17 Thread victoria crenshaw via Freedos-devel
we got international support added back! forced install of files option added! https://github.com/sparky4/fdnpkg16/releases/tag/0.99.8230 https://4ch.mooo.com/freedos/repos/1.4/html/en/net/fdnpkg16/ latest version always here! :D ___ Freedos-devel

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Interim Build T2510

2025-10-17 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
I have been extremely busy. So, there really is not a lot in this months update. Unfortunately, there are some things that became available in the later part of September that I could not allocate time to update or include. Hopefully, next month will contain those software updates and some new t

Re: [Freedos-devel] [FDNPKG16] multi package manipulation feature now live

2025-10-17 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
Hi, Some Questions… FDNPKG.EXE would look for its config file in the %DOSDIR%\BIN directory. However, you could use a different configuration file by setting an environment variable. For example: set FDNPKG.CFG=C:\MYREPO.CFG When you updated FDNPKG16 to look for its config file in the same di

Re: [Freedos-devel] Beeps for tab completion

2025-10-17 Thread Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel
On Sun, 5 Oct 2025, Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel wrote: On 10/5/2025 11:25 AM, Ronald Hudson via Freedos-devel wrote: Hi everybody On the machines I am running, and even in DOSBOX there is a loud beep when one hits tab and there are multiple choices. It would be great if this could be turne

Re: [Freedos-devel] Beeps for tab completion

2025-10-17 Thread Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel
On 10/5/2025 12:31 PM, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel wrote: That is not a DOS function. In what application are you pressing TAB, as that would be for me the first place to look at... The beep happens if you are at the FreeCOM command line and try to do tab completion for when there's more than on

[Freedos-devel] Invitation: Save the date: FreeDOS virtual get-together @ Sun Nov 16, 2025 11am - 12pm (CST) ([email protected])

2025-10-17 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
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Re: [Freedos-devel] announcement FDNPKG16 has an update 0.99.8248a

2025-10-17 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
On Sun, Oct 12, 2025 at 8:04 PM Michael Brutman via Freedos-devel wrote: > > The multiple announcements and versions per week are difficult > to keep track of. > > I would encourage you to work on the code, keep polishing it, > testing it, documenting it, etc. Then after a few weeks make > an ann

Re: [Freedos-devel] Beeps for tab completion

2025-10-17 Thread Ronald Hudson via Freedos-devel
Hi Everyone! I will check the BIOS for such a setting.  I know I have attached earbuds to the 'earbud port' and that does not re-direct the beep to the earbuds. --- No there only a setting to enable or disable a "power beep" that sounds when one connects or disconnects the external power. It

Re: [Freedos-devel] Question about 3-letter language codes

2025-10-17 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
On Sun, Oct 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM Jim Hall wrote: > [..] > > **For those interested, I'll write a brief history of Kitten in > another email reply. Unix and DOS have different methods to support multiple languages. Original MS-DOS created language-specific versions. So there was a version of MS-DOS

Re: [Freedos-devel]  Re: Question about 3-letter language codes

2025-10-17 Thread Wilhelm Spiegl via Freedos-devel
hi Jerome,this story goes deeper, e.g. country and country.sys eher there is no country number for estonia, latvia, lithuania, maybe some former yugoslavian countries.let us talk about this next week.willi--Gesendet mit der mail.com Mail AppAm 09.10.25, 11:31 schrieb Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel

[Freedos-devel] announcement FDNPKG16 has an update 0.99.8248a

2025-10-17 Thread victoria crenshaw via Freedos-devel
Get it here! https://github.com/sparky4/fdnpkg16 https://gitlab.com/sparky4/fdnpkg16 https://4ch.mooo.com/freedos/repos/1.4/html/en/net/index.html#fdnpkg16 i squashed alot of bugs since 0.99.8244 multi package update introduced like 50 logic bugs with the loop system. Most of the bugs is argum