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  1. doshea

    DOS vi editor?

    A Google search for "site:cd.textfiles.com stevie editor" includes the result http://cd.textfiles.com/simtel20/00_INDEX.TXT which contains: which is under http://cd.textfiles.com/simtel20/MSDOS/EDITOR/, alongside a ...X.ZIP file which is presumably the executable. Presumably TC2.0 means "Turbo...
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    nText Aurora editor for DOS - mailing list archive, macro help?

    I just remembered that the names of variables accessed via set and lookup don't need to be valid identifiers, so unless I need a way to walk through the full list, I could just attach a variable to an object whose name is "buffer_modes_for_" + buffer_id, and it could be an array {major_mode...
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    nText Aurora editor for DOS - mailing list archive, macro help?

    Background I used this editor a little back in the '90s, and then again last year, and thought it seemed pretty nice, but never invested much time in learning about all its power. More recently I've been looking for something that works like modern GNU Emacs - at least to the extent of having...
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    AGP compatibility question

    Is one potential source of problems on NT/2K/XP vs. 9x the fact that the former has filesystem permissions, preventing software from writing settings into its own install directory, the Windows directory, the root of the hard drive, etc.? I seem to recall this being an issue with older software...
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    PCI on 8086

    Hopefully I explain this properly/get it right, since I haven't written all that much code like this myself. For disks for example, there are some layers like: IBM/MS-DOS (interrupt 21h) PC BIOS (interrupt 13h) Whatever interface the actual hardware provides Compatibility decreases...
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    4DOS and Norton Commander

    I've hardly ever used NC so haven't got experience with the combination you're using, but in case nobody has any better advice: Norton Utilities 8 for DOS (includes their "NDOS" which is based on 4DOS. I'm not sure when they first introduced this. Perhaps it might be more compatible? I can't...
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    Missing threads/messages from the old forums

    I found an issue with search, which I think could be closely related. In this case the post exists but search can't find it. I remembered I'd read a post from one of the 8088 MPH folks which mentioned the DOS editor Aurora, so I searched for: Keywords: aurora Posted by...
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    Wanted: driver software for Maxtor RXT-800S SCSI WORM drive

    Sorry, I don't have any such drivers. Are you sure that you need additional software on top of CorelSCSI though? Out of interest, I did a search on DiscMaster and found http://discmaster.textfiles.com/browse/21175/Eagles_Nest_Mac_Collection_Disc_6.TOAST/Windows/CorelDos.zip, which seems to be...
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    Twinhead Subnote floppy (or other transfer method)

    Dave Dunfield's DDLINK can apparently do this too. I've never used it myself, just mentioning in case it's somehow easier than the other options. His original post in that thread doesn't mention it, but I suspect he might have subsequently made it open-source, as he's been gradually doing that...
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    Mid Atlantic IBM 3278 with keyboard

    I agree with you to some extent, but on the other hand, I can imagine some people replying "what, so some billionaire can sell it and profit instead?" after what happened to the LCM. Obviously a volunteer-run organisation like LSSM isn't in the same situation, but I imagine that the LCM could...
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    Building GNU fileutils 2.1 for DOS - what are *.cs files?

    I finally figured out what the files are by looking for other .cs files from around the same time using http://discmaster.textfiles.com - I kept finding things ported to OS/2 by Kai-Uwe Rommel, and eventually found one where he explained that you can build using his "Compiler Shell", which is...
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    Building GNU fileutils 2.1 for DOS - what are *.cs files?

    I'd like to rebuild GNU fileutils version 2.1 for DOS from gnufut21.zip which is available in various places (that zip file contains both sources and binaries). The source/os2/readme.os2 file describes it as "GNU file utilities for OS/2", but I guess they're family mode executables as they work...
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    ethflop - a network-backed floppy emulator for DOS

    Nice! I'd like to write a UI if I can find the time. My dream: - ability to connect user interface to ethflopd, Bochs, qemu, other things where I might wish to change floppy images - ability to jump to the next image with a single key press - perhaps some play list feature, where you can skip...
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    MS-DOS utility collections

    https://archive.org/search?query=pc+magazine+dos+power+tools brings up the book and the accompanying floppy disk. They had other useful utilities that weren't in that collection though, I recently found something I was looking for on a simtel CD (e.g...
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    ethflop - a network-backed floppy emulator for DOS

    Thanks, this sounds great! Unfortunately for me what I really want is the user interface on Linux, but perhaps I can run this under emulation :D It looks from the code like ETHFLOPD.EXE doesn't run as a daemon (I guess the DOS equivalent would be a TSR) but I seem to recall you didn't like the...
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    DCI 5250 ISA card Twinax drivers

    That seems strange! What version of pcomm are you using? Under Windows 95 I'm pretty sure that I had success with version 4.3. Edit: I checked the manual for the card I'm using and it says the default I/O address is "271X"/"31X" and I recall making sure it was set to the default. Edit again...
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    Windows 9x drivers and memory management

    I have no idea, but there could be documents on old Microsoft TechNet or MSDN CDs - including the Resource Kit, the DDK, or documents that describe migrating to 9x - which explain in detail what is going on.
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    MS-DOS File compression and file splitting

    Right now I only have access to a Linux version of arj, but from the man page, the commands are as I remember them being under DOS (and I think lha might have been similar): My recollection is that arj e will throw away the path name information and extract everything to the current directory...
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    DCI 5250 ISA card Twinax drivers

    I don't have any drivers specifically for that card, but some adapters are compatible at a register level with IBM adapters. The details shown in your screen shot look similar to those for my adapter from Maple (I can't check the exact values right now) so perhaps your card emulates an IBM...
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    Bring life back to a i8086

    I don't recall that myself but I might just have forgotten! In the MS-DOS 6.22 manual, against an example AUTOEXEC.BAT file, it says "The doskey command loads the Doskey program into memory" which I guess is meant to indicate that you need to run it. As far as I recall, MS-DOS didn't provide...
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