It's an open source implementation of dos that's pretty much completely ms-dos compatible. On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 04:43:09PM -0800, Butch Bussen wrote: > I don't know what freedos is. > 73s > Butch Bussen > wa0vjr > > On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Gaijin wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 01:46:08PM -0800, Butch Bussen wrote: > >> I still use 4dos and love it and also run 4nt in xp. I'm not positive > >> of the numbers, but wasn't there a fus with Microsoft stealing the code > >> they used for double space or whatever they called it, > > :End-Quote: > > > > Yeah, my Win95 CD has that. Luckily their theft kept crashing > > and losing things, which prolly meant they only fixed the bugs in W98. > > <grins> Now if they'd just steal Acrobat, Real media, and Quicktime > > formats, I might buy Horizon/Panarama/View, or whatever they're gonna > > call the next release. I wonder if 4DOS will work with FreeDOS. I > > might not mind running Win 3.11 again if the screen reader works. > > > > Michael > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Avoid the Gates of Hell. Use Linux -- unknown source