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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

Hi Sindi,

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 02:16:36 +0000 (UTC)
sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:


> > I will set up a BL2 and a BL3 download directories and post to this list. 
> >  Let me know what I should copy over from you, the URL where they are, 
> > and which BL they are for.
> 
> http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl  has the files
>                          /blfiles.htm describes them
> 
> Please mirror gs850.tgz and the lynx package (which I think James also 
> has) and David's dosemu.tgz They are for BL2 - the former with upgraded 
> libc 2.2.5.  And you can put a link to the others, or to the .htm file 
> with explanations of how to install/use them.

    I have set up the directories from:   http://www.ausreg.com/bl/
which feeds either BL2 or BL3.

     I have already uploaded to BL2: dosemu.tgz, the freedos....tgz that goes 
with it, and gs850.tgz.
I will upload the static lynx next time I am online.
 
     I have still to fix up the .html pages, so it is very bare-bones at the 
moment.


> >> Why use pkzip instead of linux unzip?
> >
> >    Because the Linux unzip doesn't work in DOS.  :)
> 
> But you could switch terminals to unzip something from linux.

   It is more convenient to use DOS progs in dosemu than to keep switching 
backwards and forwards - for me, anyway. And its not as if room is a problem. 
 My BL2 (modified) installation in which I am running dosemu is on a 32 GB 
partition.

> Dosemu is only on the terminal you started it from.  You could be running 
> BL2 on another terminal, and BL3 on a third terminal..

    :)

    I don't think you really meant that.   :)

> >> Is there some small viewer for X that adjusts image size properly?
> >
> 
> >    zgv is still a good option.  But you will find QuickView for Linux to 
> > be one of the best.
> Is it precompiled for slackware?

   I got my zgv from DeliLinux.

   QuickView is compiled for "Linux".  It works out of the box in BL2, but 
not in BL3.


> >    I don't have WP51 for DOS to look at.  Any idea where it can be 
> > downloaded ?
> 
> It is not freeware.

   No, I didn't think think it would be.  Oh, well !

> >> What is DOS controller?
> >
> 
> >   It is a DOS port of Midnight Commander (approximately) but a bit 
> > easier to configure. It has become my file-manager of choice for DOS. 
> > Unfortunately, under dosemu it doesn't find any of the "disks" except a: 
> > - the floppy drive, and that makes it unusable.

    Oops !  I should have said that it is a development on from Norton 
Commander, written in assembly, but with some coding errors taken out. It is 
very quick, and can act as a thin shell for commandline calls.
For DOS, I recommend it.  I will post it on my site.

> Odd.

   It seems that it doesn't deal nicely with "networked drives", which is 
what c:, d: show up as in dosemu.
It runs happily with both panels logged into a: .   :(


> >   I have found the following also usable under (x)dosemu: Breeze (word 
> > processor)  clock damp (MP3 player)  df46 (file manager)  display 
> > (graphics viewer) dosamp (mp3 player)  file maven (file transfer) 
> > laplink (file transfer)  mxdir (fancy version of "dir") ndn 
> > (Necromancer's DOS Navigator)  pv (graphics and avi player)  sea 
> > (graphics)  view (document viewer) mpeg.exe (mpeg player)
> 
> Good to know about laplink.  Saves learning to do a serial cable file 
> transfer. 

    It's only good for drive to drive.  Unless David has a way to access the 
parallel port from within dosemu, there is no way to talk to another computer.

>  I have SEA3.  Have you tried QPV (quick picture viewer) and 
> DISPLAY (viewer, free).

   Yes, they both work OK.

>  QPV needed DOS4GW and wont' even work easily with 
> DR-DOS.

   It runs OK in dosemu.

Regards,
         Ron

-- 
Ron Clarke 
AUSREG Consultancy      http://www.ausreg.com
Tadpole Tunes           http://tadpole.mytunebook.de/
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