Re: EtherDFS and EtherSL

Posted on 2021-04-06, 05:30

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by doshea

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There seem to be modern instructions on setting it up... just not the serial line method with all the layers between packet driver, odi, ndis. Oops, when I suggested that there were instructions, I forgot the context of it being over serial! Yeah EtherDFS is based on Ethernet Packet driver …

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Re: DOS software for ISA IEEE488 GPIB card

Posted on 2021-04-02, 01:30

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by doshea

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Have you made any progress with this?

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Re: "DOS Subsystem for Linux"?

Posted on 2021-04-01, 03:28

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Basic Linux 3.5 can be used in Dos on older systems http://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/ It also has the option to install on a formatted drive. It might be pedantic of me, but "used in" sounds to me like you're going to be "using" Linux while it's running "inside" DOS, but really I'm fairly sure …

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Re: EtherDFS and EtherSL

Posted on 2021-03-28, 08:46

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by doshea

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In desperation, I tried Microsoft Client but was drowned in terminology, commands, and configuration files I only vaguely understood. After days of fiddling I got nowhere. Finally, I decide it's more work to dig through the far reaches of the Internet than to hack something up on my own. I would …

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Re: Windows Services for NetWare 5

Posted on 2021-03-28, 00:27

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by doshea

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Hopefully this sparks some good discussion Not from me, I don't have anything to add :) Yes, it's a good solution and I've done it myself too, although I haven't used Services of NetWare in anger. does anyone have this software or know where I could get it? It seems I can buy a legit(?) copy at …

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Re: How to create colored windows in DOS

Posted on 2021-03-27, 05:19

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by doshea

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If I'm not mistaken, and remember correctly (sorry, it's been almost 30 years), but you can use TheDraw to draw those ANSI graphics and export them in various formats. One of them should be that can be used to "type"/output from/within DOS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw Yes, this is correct …

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Re: Making the "ultimate NETWORK boot floppy" ?

Posted on 2021-03-24, 10:41

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by doshea

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The thing is it's not that important for me if it's over 1.44mb because I will PXEload this anyway but for playing around purposes it's easier. Like In vmware you cannot attach in a larger floppy image, even if you do it will ignore the rest of the space over 1.44mb. Bochs and Qemu apparently …

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Re: Can you use .BAT files on Windows 3.1 as a startup program?

Posted on 2021-03-20, 04:40

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by doshea

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How should I make a .PIF for Cutemouse and COMMAND /K? Create c:\windows\mymouse.bat containing something like: @echo off c:\ctmouse Run PIF Editor: Open c:\windows\dosprmpt.pif (which is the one used for the default MS-DOS Prompt icon in Program Manager, this way we start with the same settings) …

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Re: How to setup FTP server on Windows NT workstation?

Posted on 2021-03-14, 09:56

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by doshea

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I downloaded Internet Information Server 2.0 from vetusware and installed it but it just freezes when launch. I'm following this youtube tutorial but it seems to be Windows NT 4.0 server instead of workstation. https://youtu.be/CQ6zdd2xIgg I take it you're using NT 4 Workstation then? Back in those …

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Re: Emulators with integrated debugger?

Posted on 2021-03-14, 09:06

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Here's a thought: In the 80s and 90s, there were some (very expensive) hardware debuggers such as Periscope IV. Nowadays they've largely fallen out of favor, presumably because of the proliferation of hw virtualization support (well that is my uninformed impression on the situation). How about …

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Re: Emulators with integrated debugger?

Posted on 2021-03-14, 02:33

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by doshea

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That's an interesting approach actually! There are many frontend contenders out there but most cater for gdb. I seem to remember finding quite a few frontends for Bochs's debugger too. I was planning to call mine BDG9000, subtitle "hopefully the 9001st Bochs Debugger GUI is the final one!" :) I'd …

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Re: Emulators with integrated debugger?

Posted on 2021-03-13, 10:17

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I guess for many purposes an adequate alternative is to use virtualization platforms and gdb (or whatever). As you said later, the line between emulator and virtualisation is blurry. I don't think anyone mentioned that both Bochs and Qemu have gdb stubs in them so you can use gdb to debug the …

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Re: Can you use .BAT files on Windows 3.1 as a startup program?

Posted on 2021-03-08, 10:55

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by doshea

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I am thinking about use the Startup directory for activating Cutemouse Why do you want to load cutemouse inside Windows? If you want Windows to use it (a) it has to be loaded before Windows starts and (b) are you aware that Windows doesn't need a DOS mouse driver installed? If you want to load it …

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Re: Coding help

Posted on 2021-03-07, 22:54

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by doshea

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And what about TSRs? I couldn't guarantee you that no TSR uses it, but I'm not sure what a TSR could hope to achieve by using the Intra-Applications Communications Area other than breaking things! I suspect as much as well. Unfortunately my collection of old beginner-level C/C++ books don't go into …

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Re: Making the "ultimate NETWORK boot floppy" ?

Posted on 2021-03-07, 08:21

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by doshea

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As others in the thread noted the network client sucks up the memory so you can't even run basic installers. Back when I was doing this with Windows 95 because it was actually the latest consumer version of Windows, the procedure my boss had me use was to boot from a network boot floppy, FDISK (and …

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Re: Automating dos FDISK and FORMAT

Posted on 2021-03-07, 06:23

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by doshea

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As an alternative maybe you could try using the SCANCODE tool I describe in the thread https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=78544 to automatically interact with FDISK. I tried passing input to FDISK the way I describe below for FORMAT but it didn't seem to work, so maybe you could try …

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Re: Coding help

Posted on 2021-03-07, 03:11

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I don't think I'd need more than 16 bytes of data, but I'm wary of using an area of memory that other applications may write to unexpectedly. Yes, it seemed a bit scary to me at first looking back at it until I realised that since under DOS there isn't multitasking, you won't have any other …

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Re: If in config.sys or some work around for it.

Posted on 2021-03-04, 11:04

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by doshea

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I dont understand this part, when i checked some code example above, it look as complete autoexec and config.sys replacement.. but i could be wrong.. How looks most basic, barebone configuration when you are using boot.sys? What happens, when autoexec and config are deleted, its still booting? …

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Re: tiny core on dell wyse

Posted on 2021-03-02, 22:38

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But here's the problem... I can't even start the FTP server, but I can ping to google on the wyse. The FTP server included with tiny core is TFTP and I did click the services button and clicked TFTP until the green box appeared as an attempt to start the server but I could not connect to it from a …

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Re: old software collection on CD

Posted on 2021-03-02, 10:03

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by doshea

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There are copies of SIMTEL CDROMS on archive.org; I would start from there. Good idea . Lots of shareware and freeware on those . There is also this http://cd.textfiles.com/nightowl/ and pretty much everything else on http://cd.textfiles.com For anyone who isn't aware, these - Simtel, plus …

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