Recent content by mbbrutman

I'm reading the technical reference and I see two things that scare me on a supposed PC compatible: It says you may only use the serial port through the BIOS functions. It does not have an 8259 peripheral interrupt controller chip So this tells me that most PC software which touches the...

Have you been to the warehouse or are you speculating? Those of us who have seen the warehouse would like it to be climate controlled, however the current conditions are not "practically criminal." I think it's time to calm down and start thinking before typing. The rhetoric is unnecessarily...

As though spending money now to get the trademark would improve anything? Sellam didn't get the trademark when he needed to decades ago, and other people used the name. At this point there is no point in getting a trademark, and it would not be possible given how diluted the name is. Nobody...

If you think that Jason Scott has been sloppy with his use of the letters VCF, well, I think you missed the point. I read it as a rant against accepting donations and then not taking care of them. Your umbrage is secondary to the main point. Either way, pointing out that Jason Scott has...

Sellam is pointing out that VCF (the festivals) are not the same as VCF (the federation), which is kind of splitting hairs at this point because the VCF (the federation) took over running the VCF West festival that Sellam founded many years ago. And the same group of people (the federation)...

If you have access to a network card and give me the disk geometry, I'll give you code that will image the drive over the network. You will boot from a floppy, load a packet driver, and then run the program. On the receiving system you'll end up with a raw sector-by-sector image of the BIOS...

As Plasma points out above, DskImage works well for non-copy protected disks. Runs on all flavors of DOS from 2.x to the newest versions. Is more aggressive about retries when reading to handle transient errors that appear on older disks. Can read and write any floppy disk you can express as...

Hi everybody. The forum rules ask everybody to remain civil. The personal attacks need to stop and we need to get back to technical discussions.

Without getting into the specifics, I can understand the frustration, and it happens quite often. Open source is great when everybody plays by the same rules and correctly credits who did the work. We have too many cases (hardware and software) where that does not happen, or a cheap knock-off...

I'd like to be able to help here, but I didn't ship a shell script. So the behavior you are seeing is coming from whatever shell script you are using, and not any code that I provide. On my servers I run the code in a shell script like that so if there is a crash it will restart, but that's...

Nothing in the server that I wrote will cause that behavior. You can either hit Ctrl-C twice on the window or use the "quit" command, and it should exit gracefully. How are you running/launching the server?

You don't need to shutdown the server for that. The server can serve multiple images at the same time from multiple computers. The client can use multiple images (each on a new drive letter) from multiple servers at the same time. From the DOS side you can disconnect the image and connect to a...

Calculon is the name of my server, not a command ... The format for the command is: netdrive connect <machine_name:port> <image_name> <drive_letter> Run netdrive by itself with no parameters to see the help. Also refer to the documentation for the details.

I'm just going to throw this out here and run ... "Does your DOS hard drive have an Undo feature?" (YT video from last night)

Boot using a disk that has a small ram disk utility in the config.sys. Copy command.com to the ram disk. Set the COMSPEC environment variable to point at the COMMAND.COM in your ram disk. I do this on low-memory machines to avoid the constant need to swap the DOS diskette back into drive A.