• The state of DOS in 2019

    From Stephen Walsh@3:633/280 to Kurt Weiske on Mon Feb 18 13:17:32 2019

    Hello Kurt!

    17 Feb 19 17:56, you wrote to all:

    I thought I'd leverage this echo to see what people are doing with DOS
    and DOS environments these days.

    I don't use it all the time, but I have MS-DOS 6.22, Qemm, Desqview, Thedraw/Aciddraw installed into a 256Mb USB flash drive.

    It get's used mainly to edit & view ansi files, or for IO cards that only have DOS firmware update software. (Ie: Old LSI Raid cards
    that are still worth having, when put into JBOD mode)




    Stephen


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  • From Nick Andre@1:229/426 to Kurt Weiske on Mon Feb 18 00:13:10 2019
    On 17 Feb 19 17:56:35, Kurt Weiske said the following to All:

    I started using DOSBox-SVN Daum, a 64-bit DOS port, under 64 bit Windows 10 With it, I get telnet to comm-port redirection, a full-screen font that ren 80x24 text nicely on a wide screen, and lets me run my old COMM programs we there's a weird issue with uploads I can't solve. But, it's nice to emulate environment I'm so comfortable with.

    I would like to find a build of Dosbox that does not have the "caching" problem, in that, if the host OS manipulates the file system, the Dosbox session should see it.

    Nick

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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to Nick Andre on Sun Feb 24 14:23:28 2019
    Re: Re: The state of DOS in 2019
    By: Kurt Weiske to Nick Andre on Mon Feb 18 2019 06:30 am

    Agreed, that's the most aggravating thing about using a term program outside of DOSBOX to transfer packets. That, or solve the download/upload issues. Files transfer OK, but QWK packets are corrupted. REP packets don't make it to the other end.

    I did some poking around and found out that the Windows command line FTP can take a script file. I have a Windows batch file that runs a ftp session to download a QWK packet, then fires up DOSBOX or vDOS. Both have MM in their autoexec.txt files, so it goes straight into the emulator. The last step in the batch file will upload the .REP packet. we'll see how it goes later today.
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  • From Troy Tuttle@1:249/1 to Kurt Weiske on Tue Mar 26 05:29:38 2019
    I thought I'd leverage this echo to see what people are doing with DOS
    and DOS
    environments these days.

    I'm running QuickBBS on a P4 running pure DOS with QEMM/Desqview on it. I have it spawn another DOS session a few times a day that loads up the NDIS packet driver for the onboard ethernet and runs the DOS binkd to grab mail in the background. It's only one node at the moment but I do have the hardware to do up a second if I get any free time. :)

    _Troy

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  • From Troy Tuttle@1:249/1 to Nick Andre on Tue Mar 26 05:31:18 2019

    I would like to find a build of Dosbox that does not have the "caching" problem, in that, if the host OS manipulates the file system, the Dosbox session should see it.

    Nick


    You could call "rescan" before you do anything and that would solve that issue. It's not automagic but it's a step closer to what you're looking for.

    _Troy

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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to Troy Tuttle on Wed Mar 27 10:10:00 2019
    Troy Tuttle wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

    I thought I'd leverage this echo to see what people are doing with DOS
    and DOS
    environments these days.

    I'm running QuickBBS on a P4 running pure DOS with QEMM/Desqview on it.
    I have it spawn another DOS session a few times a day that loads up the NDIS packet driver for the onboard ethernet and runs the DOS binkd to
    grab mail in the background. It's only one node at the moment but I do have the hardware to do up a second if I get any free time. :)

    Is it open to the public? I'd love to take a look.

    I'm tempted to set up my old Maximus BBS again - I loved the lean
    look/feel of it, as my first attempt to run a BBS was with Opus.



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  • From Ivan Krouglikov@2:5020/2141.696 to Kurt Weiske on Thu Mar 28 19:46:24 2019
    Здpавствуй, Kurt!

    Среда 27 Марта 2019 10:03, ты писал(а) Troy Tuttle, в сообщении по ссылке area://dos?msgid=48.dos@1:218/700+2100e634:

    Troy Tuttle wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

    I thought I'd leverage this echo to see what people are doing with
    DOS and DOS environments these days.

    I'm running QuickBBS on a P4 running pure DOS with QEMM/Desqview
    on it. I have it spawn another DOS session a few times a day that
    loads up the NDIS packet driver for the onboard ethernet and runs
    the DOS binkd to grab mail in the background. It's only one node
    at the moment but I do have the hardware to do up a second if I
    get any free time. :)

    Is it open to the public? I'd love to take a look.

    I'm tempted to set up my old Maximus BBS again - I loved the lean look/feel of it, as my first attempt to run a BBS was with Opus.
    You can setup bbs via internet (is this telnet protocol?) and invite Us there.



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  • From Phillip Kimble@1:128/2 to Troy Tuttle on Wed Mar 27 23:09:36 2019
    On 26 Mar 2019, Troy Tuttle said the following...
    I'm running QuickBBS on a P4 running pure DOS with QEMM/Desqview on it.
    I have it spawn another DOS session a few times a day that loads up the NDIS packet driver for the onboard ethernet and runs the DOS binkd to

    Is this connected to the WildWildWeb? If so, is it taking a beating from all
    of the sweeps & malformed (not sure what to call it) traffic?

    I am working on a similiar system using RLFossil & pktdrivers but not sure if it will handle the nonsensical traffic.

    Cheers,
    Phil

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