Activity for The FreeDOS Project
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Jim Hall created a blog post
Highlighting DOS in #DOScember
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Benjamin S. posted a comment on ticket #403
Perfect, thank you fritz especially for the part with the network and the VM. Perhaps a project for the future. I have used VirtualBox a couple of years ago, in my memory a good system for testing several things. Best regards Ben
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fritz.mueller posted a comment on ticket #403
hi, i am not absolutely sure if I understood you correct. you used two different cd rom drives? and it works with one of them? fdimples started from hd should support the cd and install everything that is on cd - or the programs that you have chosen. it can also remove programs. but even the life cd is only a part, there is also a bonus cd available that you can install, eventually in parts - with fdimples. as a next you could install additional programs via internet and fdnpkg. but this is not so...
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Hi Fritz, the jumper on the CD-ROM is set to slave, my HDD is working as Master, both share the same IDE Cable. I also thought about using my Soundcard IDE socket for the CD-ROM, but the system stops with an BIOS Error for the HDD Controller if I remove the CD-ROM from the IDE, so I was not going on with that try. But now I have another solution. I use the LITE-ON CD-ROM 40x Drive from the year 2000 I already used at the beginning, but now with the live CD. FDIMPLES works now quick an reliable during...
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hi, i think we come closer. if i remember right, the first cd rom drives came up in ca. 1993 - and they sometimes had exotic cd rom drivers for each different cd rom. and the first cd rom drives supported only (ca.) 640 mb, i cdirc instead of 700 mb. and you had to jumper them as master/slave on the backside of the cd rom. so it would be helpful to see what happens if you simply copy the whole content of the cd on the hd, e.g. to a folder, test with xcopy or doszip. if there are problems, fdimples...
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Good evening fritz, Fdisk and creating a big partition worked fine. I also replaced my CD-ROM Drive and I used scandisk to check for faulty sectors, everything seems fine. So I went on with installing FreeDOS in Minimal Setup, working like before. Then I started fdimples and figured out, that it is working fine without CD, of course it makes no sense, because I want to install new package with it. But then I remembered the live CD, I never thought about this option with my old hardware. The interesting...
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fritz.mueller posted a comment on ticket #403
xcopy is known to have problems with a lot of files sometimes. But in my last tests it worked fine, so I am not sure. If fdisk is able to recognize more than 512 MB (hopefully 2GB) you should first try to create a second partition (fdisk is a little tricky to handle if you never used it) and to format the second partition. dont forget the reboot after fdisk!!! If this works, it should also be able to create a big partition too. i assume the settings for legacy are set to 512 MB FAT16 (standard size)....
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You're right, It's an quite old machine. I didn't search about the two cpu sockets jet, but somebody told me, it's for the extra floating point unit when you insert an 486 without. Tank you for the manual, it's even written in my native language :) The computer has even the maximum possible RAM, it's equipped with 32MB. I already tried to copy the whole CD to HDD, but with XCOPY it stopped after a few files. Your idea with chkdsk sounds good, I haven't tried that yet, so my job for the next days....
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An interesting mainboard from 1993 if I saw right. I found a manual here: https://theretroweb.com/motherboard/manual/fts-systembaugrupped756technischeshandbuchde-10-1083520.pdf-5f63c43ea709c149819210.pdf the interesting thing that I never saw before that it had 2 places for different types of CPU. And there should be 4 MB RAM inside which explains why Win98 was able to work with it. At the moment I have no idea, why fdimples does not support (at least) the 500 MB HD partition, but if I understand...
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Hello Fritz, i didn't try a live CD jet, because I assume that my hardware is too old for that, so I used Legacy CDs. The small installation run fine, but when I start fdimples it freezes and is not working. So I tried an installation without ezdrive, taking in account that I only get one partition with 512MB, still the same, fdimples freezes immediately. I always took FAT16 with ezdrive and without. On the machine run Win98 befor in same configuration without any problems. The Mainboard is an Nixdorf...
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jSH version 0.99
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Hi, try to install a small installation first, as the big one writes the boot system at the end of installation, so the first installed files will not be bootable. but of course you can also run a sys c: from the cd if you run it from live cd.. If this works, you can first of all execute fdisk to see how big the partition is and if it is fat 16 or fat32. i assume that it is fat16 only as fd may have problems with ezdrive. when i am correct, try to run fdisk over the rest of the hd, so that we can...
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Anonymous created ticket #403
1.4 Installation stops with package install error
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I just ran a test on a real (working) diskette and had no problems. So I kept it as it was. AI said that a fix would be to set "assert(0);" in blkcache.c, line 322 to "rem".
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Would also work with the help of AI. But I am no programmer, I hope I can find a programmer to check all this.
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I also asked Google AI and she gave me a solution that works, but I am no programmer, so it can be sure that it added other bugs and will have to give it to a programmer for test purposes.
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Today I asked Google AI and this is the response: I noticed that chkdsk does not display a creation date if the volume has no label. After analyzing the FAT file system structure, it turns out this is not a bug in chkdsk, but a technical characteristic of the FAT design. Technical Explanation: The "Volume Creation Date" is not stored in the Boot Sector (BPB) alongside the Serial Number. Instead, it is stored as the modification timestamp of the Volume Label entry within the Root Directory. The Volume...
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Zork I, II, and III go open source
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DOjS v1.14.0
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Oliver created ticket #133
XGREP: Add a note to the XGREP package description that xgrep allows recursive search and runs on 8086/8088 CPUs
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Packet Drivers Collection for FreeDOS
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NASM 3.01
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FDNPKG16 ver. 0.99.8249
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HDPMI 3.23
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VSBHDA v1.8
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NetMount client and server, version 1.6.0
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FDNPKG16 version 0.99.8244
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NASM 3.00
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KazuGrid 1.0
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FDNPKG16 version 0.99.81
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FDNPKG16 version 0.99.81
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RPNV Calculator v1.0.0
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FDNPKG16 version 0.99.8
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jSH 0.98
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Diabaig adventure game for DOS
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Shidel posted a comment on ticket #401
Why did you open bug report 402 instead of replying to 401? Please do not open a new bug report each time you want to comment or send a message. I already know about the ZIP that is included in ARACHNE. However, I have not looked at it to verify it is 8086 compatible and contains sources. If you read my reply, this is one of the "possible alternatives" to which I was referring. Out of projects I am responsible (Online Repositories, FreeDOS translations, Release Media Builder, and others) and numerous...
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@Shidel - There is a 16 Bit Real Mode version of UNZIP.EXE in the ARACHNE package!
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This is not an unknown issue and has not yet been resolved. See, the https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/mailman/message/59222415/ thread. It discusses the problems with the current UNZIP which requires 386+CWSDPMI and possible alternatives. Those have not been fully investigated as of yet. A satisfactory solution will require a opensource UNZIP that does can run on a 8086 and will not automatically use a SWAP file on 386+ hardware.
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You obviously do not get it. There is no 16 bit Real Mode unzip Tool as ready to use executable on the FreeDOS CDs.
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blackcrack posted a comment on a blog post
which filesystem is this, is this samba or nfs from linux ? could be interresting ;) or is this a new fs ? Because would useful to have a clientsoft where supports nfs4 or smb for hang in out from a linux oder a WinNT server or.. supports smb on Dos like in linux a smb.conf, but therefor must support a multiuser-system in dos, therewith also then a multitaskingsystem too.... or .. setting up a singleuser and use this user in smb and nfs .. A bit moire explain about this sharing system would be interesting......
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NetMount client 1.5.0 and server 1.5.0
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Microsoft 6502 BASIC
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It's not DOS, but it's good to see Microsoft re-release some of its classic products under an open source license yes, right ! by the way Jim, i have make svg - Themes from w2k, WinXP and W7 at pling.com , if you need WinNT icons any where , take inkscape and export as a png, then do you have a png (or bmp) Keep it up Jim ! best Blacky p.s.: in the germen Winfuture was already an article : https://winfuture.de/news,153423.html
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It's not DOS, but it's good to see Microsoft re-release some of its classic products under an open source license yes, right ! by the way Jim, i have make svg - Themes from w2k, WinXP and W7 at pling.com , if you need WinNT icons any where , take inkscape and export as a png, then do you have a png (or bmp) Keep it up Jim ! best Blacky p.s.: in the germen Winfuture was already an article : https://winfuture.de/news,153423.html
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It's not DOS, but it's good to see Microsoft re-release some of its classic products under an open source license yes, right ! by the way Jim, i have make svg - Themes from w2k, WinXP and W7 at pling.com , if you need WinNT icons any where , take inkscape and export as a png, then do you have a png (or bmp) Keep it up Jim ! best Blacky
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It's not DOS, but it's good to see Microsoft re-release some of its classic products under an open source license yes, right ! by the way Jim, i have make svg - Themes from w2k, WinXP and W7, if you need WinNT icons any where , take inkscape and export as a png, then do you have a png (or bmp) Keep it up Jim ! best Blacky
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Microsoft 6502 BASIC
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MPXplay 1.68
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DOSLFN 0.42
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DOSLFN 0.42
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DOSember game jam
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@jerome: This is a quick and dirty italian translation made by AI. Please check. A first look at it showed me that it seems to be ok. Compare it with the screenshot above.
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@jerome: This is a quick and dirty italian translation made by AI. Please check. A first look at it showed me that it seems to be ok.
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I have a copy of fixkbd but am no sure if it is a good idea to upload it; as it only was a fix there is no documentation about the license. So: @Jerome + Jime: It should be published anywhere. As you can see: I am not alone with this problem.
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additional comment: This is a BIOS bug in some Acer Laptops (maybe others too). Bernd created a bugfix for this. Google for fixkbd.
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just an additional comment: I added two different Linux iso files on an actual virtual FD machine which a drive letter that has full 2TB FAT32 capacity (Bernds kernel) - and ran xcopy to copy all files (ca. 3,9 GB and ca. 2 GB) on to this HD. It worked fine. I noticed not problems, no crash, nothing. So I think it was a good idea to close the bug. Fritz Am 2025-08-12 02:02, schrieb Jim Hall: status: open --> closed-fixed Comment: Marking as closed-fixed since XCOPY was updated in a later release...
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@Jim: I think you can close this bug report as Bernd Böckmann solved the problems with htmlhelp. Overlong text in one line is always a problem, lets see what I can do some day with it.
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Stas Sergeev posted a comment on ticket #398
Sorry for not mentioning the exact packages for which I needed this. At least that seems convenient for DN2 and some networking apps, like wget, links etc that can be used from scripts.
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Bug Xcopy.exe can Fail when Destination Drive has 4+gb Free
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Marking as closed-fixed since XCOPY was updated in a later release to fix stack and disk space issues, as Fritz mentioned.
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There seems to be no Real Mode unzipping tool on the FreeDOS 1.3RC5 media
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Closing this bug since it was fixed. See issue 54 at GitLab for the LegacyCD
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I think this issue can be closed. Since this bug report was entered, we added unzip to the install media -- except for the LegacyCD, that request is in issue 54 in the FreeDOS GitLab tracker. We can close this bug and use issue 54 at GitLab for the LegacyCD.
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Request to update Agena DOS version at ibiblio to the latest one
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Cleaning up - I should have marked it as closed-fixed after it was fixed
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Deleting REN folder dumps the whole FreeDos installation
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Cleaning up - this was meant to be marked closed but was marked resolved
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Two wrong editing behaviors and bugs of the editor FED.EXE (Folding Text Editor)
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Marking as closed because this is not a bug, just behavior that the user did not expect: FED just behaves different from what you expect. So it's by design, but no bug. For what it's worth, I use FED all the time, and I prefer that it not go to a nonexistent "third" line in the file when the file has no third line (i.e. only 2 lines, no newline after line 2). Editors act differently, especially in DOS. This is how FED works.
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Can't give a floppy disk the same name for the volume label as an existing folder or file. Files get deleted! Serious Bug!
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Marking as closed because this issue is already being tracked. See issue 1 in the FreeDOS GitLab tracker
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Dos program error
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Cleaning up since this was indicated as resolved
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NANSI.SYS doesn't recognize that it has already been loaded.
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It is not really a bug, but there's a expectation in DOS systems that the user should not try to load the same driver three times. Closing as won't fix
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please populate links dir
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This feature request will likely not be addressed as it is not needed. I am closing as won't fix
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Not every program or package needs to have a link in the \freedos\links directory. Some larger packages do, and some games. For example, this is my \freedos\links from a FreeDOS 1.4 "plain DOS" install, plus installing the OpenWatcom compiler, IA-16 GCC compiler, and all of the games: C:\>dir /w /b freedos\links [.] [..] BLKDROP.BAT FLPYBIRD.BAT I16ADDR2.COM I16AR.COM I16AS.COM I16BUTIL.COM I16CPP.COM I16CXXFI.COM I16DWP.COM I16ELFED.COM I16GCC-A.COM I16GCC-N.COM I16GCC-R.COM I16GCC.COM I16GCOV-.COM...
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FYI - This was reported in the SF tracker, but we have moved to the tracker on GitLab. (The SF tracker link is 'crossed out' on our website.) So this bug report is unlikely to be seen by many developers. I'm not sure what is the root cause for this issue, based on the info provided. You describe that the system has Intel HD audio, and you are running SBEMU and SBEMU didn't report an error. Either there's a hardware compatibility issue on the board, or SBEMU is not 'talking' correctly to the board...
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PMODE/W v1.33
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VSBHDASF
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PMODE/W v1.33
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Nikkho posted a comment on a blog post
Good news! Thanks.
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Fontana 1.1
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PMODE/W v1.33
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Now it is MIT licensed, so I have mirrored it here too: https://github.com/javiergutierrezchamorro/pmodew
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Jaroslav Rohel modified a comment on a blog post
The NetMount project was originally created to allow an old lab instrument to access a directory on a modern server. This way, the instrument can read and write data and configuration files directly from the server. The device runs DOS with a measurement/control application. It has very limited RAM, an old, slow CPU, and no network card - only an RS-232 serial port and parallel port. Its built-in disk controller is broken, and the only available storage is a 1.44 MB floppy drive, which currently...
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The NetMount project was originally created to allow an old lab instrument to access a directory on a modern server. This way, the instrument can read and write data and configuration files directly from the server. The device runs DOS with a measurement/control application. It has very limited RAM, an old, slow CPU, and no network card - only an RS-232 serial port and parallel port. Its built-in disk controller is broken, and the only available storage is a 1.44 MB floppy drive, which currently...
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The NetMount project was originally created to allow an old lab instrument to access a directory on a modern server. This way, the instrument can read and write data and configuration files directly from the server. The device runs DOS with a measurement/control application. It has very limited RAM, an old, slow CPU, and no network card - only an RS-232 serial port and parallel port. Its built-in disk controller is broken, and the only available storage is a 1.44 MB floppy drive, which currently...
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The NetMount project was originally created to allow an old lab instrument to access a directory on a modern server. This way, the instrument can read and write data and configuration files directly from the server. The device runs DOS with a measurement/control application. It has very limited RAM, an old, slow CPU, and no network card - only an RS-232 serial port and parallel port. Its built-in disk controller is broken, and the only available storage is a 1.44 MB floppy drive, which currently...
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why not nfs-client n' Server as sys-file and tsr in config.sys where read the nfs.sys the exports in dos-folder and a fstab in dos-folder where is in any case in the System-path . whis would benefical to use an Linuxserver as dos-software-server and, this "nfs for dos" could also be in an sfx-zip on a Floppy/usb-stick where maby runs a bat-file as installer, so typing in the ip of the server and the export path (creating is not exist an C:\media\export if not exist therewith could the peoples also...
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why not nfs-client n' Server as sys-file and tsr in config.sys where read the nfs.sys the exports in dos-folder and a fstab in dos-folder where is in any case in the System-path . whis would benefical to use an Linuxserver as dos-software-server and, this "nfs for dos" could also be in an sfx-zip on a Floppy/usb-stick where maby runs a bat-file as installer, so typing in the ip of the server and the export path (creating is not exist an C:\media\export if not exist therewith could the peoples also...
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why not nfs-client n' Server as sys-file and tsr in config.sys where read the nfs.sys the exports in dos-folder and a fstab in dos-folder where is in any case in the System-path . whis would benefical to use an Linuxserver as dos-software-server and, this "nfs for dos" could also be in an sfx-zip on a Floppy/usb-stick where maby runs a bat-file as installer, so typing in the ip of the server and the export path (creating is not exist an C:\media\export if not exist therewith could the peoples also...
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NetMount client 1.5.0 and server 1.4.1
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DOStodon update
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PartUtil
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FreeDOS is 31 years old today
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RPNV calculator
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Debug/X v2.51 and JDeb386 1.4
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RPNV calculator
