Hi,
On Sun, Oct 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM Ronald Hudson via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> 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
> h
Hi,
On Wed, Apr 9, 2025 at 5:02 AM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> It's not exactly what you describe, but I bought the Pocket386 when it came
> out. Looks like you can still buy them
>
> It has a 386SX-40 CPU so you get everything that comes with that. It's a bit
> slow, but runs FreeDOS
Hi,
On Sat, Feb 8, 2025 at 2:06 AM Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> > On Feb 8, 2025, at 12:12 AM, Ladislav Lacina via Freedos-devel
> > wrote:
> >
> > Hi! I am still working on font editor Kasmar (WIP version here:
> > http://www.laaca.borec.cz/kasmar_f.zip )
> > And I would like
Hi,
On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 6:25 AM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> Tesing 1.4-RC1
> cd apps
> cd opencp
> (opencp is a multi-format music player)
> cp
> Sorry, this program needs DOS4GW.EXE to run
>
> Been a long time I did not seen DOS4GW extender mentioned...
>
> Do we provide it?
Hi,
On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 5:58 AM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> The place where functions of the library should be... is in the library...
> not in the program that include the library.
>
> Only prototypes... should be in the program .h files.
> If a function is inline... it's nam
Hi,
On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 12:18 PM Gregory Pietsch via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> I am sending a GPLed version of the Unix make utility in the hopes that other
> programmers can make it great again! Please send back improvements.
Since there is no binary included, but it relies on the GNU AutoT
Hi,
On Sat, Oct 12, 2024 at 7:16 AM Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> Since this happened Thursday and is still ongoing, I guess it is old news.
>
> But, I only found out today when I needed to (hopefully) go find some on the
> Wayback Machine.
>
> Apparently, the Internet Archive was h
Hi,
On Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 7:12 AM Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> As we are revisiting some issues reported, let me add another, rather
> strange one. Some programs crash under non-KVM QEMU, while working on
> all other configurations I tested (real hardware, 86box, DosBox etc.)
>
>
Hi,
On Sat, Sep 14, 2024 at 1:36 AM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> It had come to my mind that it could be great, to implement interrupts calls
> in a REXX implementation...
>
> apparently someone did it already:
> https://github.com/vlachoudis/brexx/
>
> You can see some in:
> https
Hi,
On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 10:01 PM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> It began when I did read:
> https://bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=22023
>
> Anyway, I wrote a small program to convert units ... it is using a bit
> sophisticated stuff... making it sadly probably not usa
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 9:16 AM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> Jim Hall wrote:
> > >
> > > I published an article last week on Both.org about how to convert
> > > WordStar files to HTML.
>
> I've added SAMPLE.WS and a few others in a 'wordstar' folder.
I'm mildly curious about your c
You forgot to include "sample.ws" (or any other test suite).
On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 3:37 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> I published an article last week on Both.org about how to convert WordStar
> files to HTML.
>
> Someone asked me if I could share the code from the article in a Git
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 3:28 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> ..I saw "Twilight was a physical collection of illegal software and
> games." So I haven't heard about THF because I don't deal in "illegal
> software and games." (I think this is what used to be called "warez" -
> also men
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 2:51 PM magic-girl--- via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> i'm an autistic girl of 12 years old. I try to convert ancient 16 bit ms-dos
> code to modern C#.
> However there is not even docs anymore about old ms-dos functions and i don't
> have ms-dos specific C knowledge.
T
Hi,
On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 9:39 PM Alexander Walz via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> you will find the DOS version of the latest release of Lua 5.4.7,
> a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language,
> and released around one month ago, at:
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/
Hi,
On Fri, Jul 12, 2024 at 7:44 PM Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> The first remaining “missing sources” package is CPIDOS. It is part of BASE
> and is always installed. Basically, it just contains some binary CPX files
> with codepage font’s in them along with some documentation. T
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 1, 2024 at 11:07 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> I've been having sporadic problems today when trying to access Ibiblio
> via the web. I'm not sure if that's my end ("The connection has timed
> out") or their end. For example, I was able to download the T2407 test
> relea
Hi,
(Sorry for being late to this discussion, I'm a bit backlogged.)
On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 7:05 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 4:12 PM Eric Auer via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
> [..]
> > *Runtime*
> >
> > Jim's version is a small C program, 120 lines, using catgets
Hi,
On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 6:41 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> You might be interested in this video I recorded yesterday about
> running FreeDOS on the Pocket386:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h96UseZs6Q
>
> It shows several apps and games on the Pocket386, mostly running some
>
Hi,
On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 6:42 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> I wrote a "how-to" article about FreeDOS on the Pocket386 for
> Both.org, but I also copied/pasted this into a wiki article on the
> FreeDOS wiki:
>
> Now that I've reinstalled the Pocket386, my next step is to test every
>
Hi,
On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 6:06 AM Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> Looking around on the ibiblio and my server:
>
> There is a version that has a timestamp from 2019 in the ibiblio mirrored
> files
>
> Then later, Jim found it as well in 2019 and mirrored it to ibiblio.
Actually, th
Hi,
On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 5:14 PM Richard Stoltenberg via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Just some notes; updates. People might want to stick to the pdfs if they need
> bigger font.
> LibreOffice may be able to save as html. Got the C Language book from Lulu
> on Monday 3rd June.
I forgot that eve
Hi,
On Sun, Jun 2, 2024 at 7:33 AM perditionc--- via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> DJGPP is where the cmdline env and extended command line processing is from I
> think, that or 4DOS.
> it's been a while, but it was based on and made to function like existing
> implementations.
I think it was a Wi
Hi,
On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 2:02 AM Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> C in general and Open Watcom in particular are good choices for DOS
> programming.
>
> The other free options supporting more recent C versions are GCC as part of
> DJGPP targeting 32-bit DPMI, and,
> despite being
Hi,
On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 11:17 AM tom ehlert via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> am Mittwoch, 22. Mai 2024 um 13:14 schrieben Sie:
>
> it seems that no knowledgable person finds zoo interesting enough to fix it.
> and those who care about zoo have no clue.
> I regret that I have to say this.
We had
Hi,
On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 2:14 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> And years ago, we used to include COMPINFO in a previous FreeDOS
> distribution, but I don't remember why we stopped including it. If I had to
> guess, probably it was the same question of "usefulness."
I'd have to double
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 8:19 PM Bruce Axtens via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> I stumbled over DX-FORTH this morning which purports to be "... a
> Forth language compiler and development system for MS-DOS and CP/M-80
> operating systems. It is intended to be a complete, easy to use,
> programming
Hi,
On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 9:19 PM Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> I think there may be a point where if one's going to run DOS on
> a modern machine, it'll have to be through some degree of emulation.
> Whether that be a KVM/QEMU-on-metal approach, or a 64-bit "DOS" which can
> emul
Hi,
On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 7:44 AM Eric Auer via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
>
> Hi! I just got reminded that (2017 news)
>
> http://www.os2museum.com/wp/vme-broken-on-amd-ryzen/
>
> VME is broken on AMD Ryzen of that time
Ryzen (Zen 1) was brand new in 2017, redesigned from scratch. I doubt
the cur
Hi,
On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 5:46 AM Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> On 12.11.2023 02:44, Rugxulo via Freedos-devel wrote:
>
> But I still have not found an elegant solution yet to do a widening
> conversion of an untyped pointer from near to far.
> Should be ra
Hi again,
On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 7:56 AM Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
wrote:
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> >
> > I believe int64 was originally from Delphi. (Isn't there also "long
> > long" support in OpenWatcom via "-za99“?)
>
> Yes, Watcom C supports 64-bit integer arithmetic, in contrast to Turbo C 3.1,
> which
Hi,
On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 4:39 PM Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> > Could you please post the exact message you got from the compiler?
>
> For something like this "FarPointer(@Buffer)" I get the following error
> message:
>
> "Error: Illegal type conversion: "Pointer" to "FarPointer
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 2:21 AM Walter Oesch via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> I want to build the FreeDOS Kernel.
Kernel 2043? Any particular reason to not use the stock build? Did you
modify anything or add any patches? Just curiosity?
> I use Dosbox in Ubuntu Linux and watcom comiler from Free
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 2:21 PM Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> the tests I did showed that FreePascal is perfectly capable of producing
> reasonably small binaries fitting the small memory model, if you do not
> require the full language feature set (stay away from ObjFpc / Delphi
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 1:42 PM Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> has anyone recently played around with the FreePascal 8086 cross
> compiler to generate DOS executables? I try to convert a near pointer to
> a far pointer while working under the small memory model, but that is
> not
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On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 11:07 AM Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> ...as did I. Mine wa
Hi,
On Mon, Oct 2, 2023 at 2:07 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Jim wrote:
> > I want to compile some things using IA-16 GCC in the new Interim Build
> > T2310, but neither the LiveCD or BonusCD have the DJGPP Environment
> > package on it. We had this on previous FreeDOS installs; to co
Hi,
On Sat, Sep 16, 2023 at 10:21 PM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Sorry, the address was in octal,
>
> with -Ax to have the address in hexa it feels ok to me:
Most people prefer "hexdump" these days:
* https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/hexdump.1.html
*
https://man.freebsd.org
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 5:28 AM Paul Edwards via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Sorry for the delay. I've been sick recently (possibly Covid)
> plus had other stuff to deal with.
No fun, get well soon.
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Hi,
On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 9:05 PM Michael Brutman via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Just an opinion, but it's bad software design to assume that the presence or
> a peripheral implies
> a certain class of machine. The presence of a CD-ROM should not imply a 386
> or better machine;
> it's orthogon
Hi,
On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 10:46 AM Kirn Gill via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 7:24 PM Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
>>
>> Wikipedia says the 286 "was designed for multi-user systems with
>> multitasking applications". OS/2 1.x targ
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 7:45 AM Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> On Sun, 30 Jul 2023 at 17:55, Rugxulo via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
>
> > I believe "task swapping" was one of the main benefits of a 286.
>
> It's not a 286 hardware feature, no.
&g
Hi,
On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 2:29 AM Paul Edwards via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> > FreeDOS should run on 8086, both kernel and shell. If it doesn't,
> > that's a bug or omission.
>
> Are you sure? I thought I was told that the standard
> distribution relied on an 80386.
Jerome's work on the distribu
Hi,
On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 3:24 AM Paul Edwards via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> > However, most people don't care about standards, and even the ones who
> > do don't really think anything "useful" can be written in them. Which
> > is untrue and a shame.
>
> It is only recently - perhaps only a few h
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 8:38 PM Paul Edwards via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Yes, if you're prepared to add a curses layer, then you can
> support both the standard, plus non-standard things like
> a PC BIOS. But neither fullscreen application that I actually
> used and care about (microemacs an
Hi,
On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 12:19 PM Eric Auer via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> VCPI was a small interface added to things like EMM386 which gave other
> apps access to things they would normally no longer reach after DOS gets
> locked up in a VM86 task by EMM386. While it is nice that it is small,
>
Hi,
On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 11:51 AM Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> For me, when I worked with, supplied and supported DOS in the late
> 1980s and early 1990s, the chronology went like this:
>
> [2] DOS 4 came along. It was a memory hog, but it had big-disk support
> (over 32MB) and DOS
Hi,
On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 11:03 AM Gregory Pietsch via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> Wasn't a virtual get-together supposed to happen about now? -- Gregory
Maybe Jim is still under the weather?
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On Sun, Jul 23, 2023 at 7:08 AM perditionc--- via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jul 23, 2023, 7:54 AM Liam Proven via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
>>
>> AFAICS you never explain. What is "HX"?
>
> https://www.japheth.de/HX.html
>
> HX DOS-Extender is a free DOS extender with built-in Win32 PE
Hi,
On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 12:46 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
wrote:
>
> In 1994, several of us got together around a pretty neat idea.
>
> We liked DOS, but Microsoft was clearly moving completely to Windows. "The
> next version of Windows," they said, "would do away with DOS."
>
> We wanted
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