DOS ain't dead

Try harder !!! (Announce)

posted by Japheth , Germany (South), 16.01.2010, 08:35

> The BUG was in WATTTCP.CFG :
>
> > my_ip = dhcp
> > dhcp.server = 192.168.178.1

This is not a bug, but the value which works for my PCs. It's described in WATTCP.CFG that this entry has to be adjusted when a DHCP server is to be used.

> OWB faults:
>
> - Text cursor not visible

Yes. I have no idea how OWB does create it. Quite obviously it doesn't use the Win32 "caret" functions.

> - Mouse arrow off

I'm able to see it - and it's adjusting its shape as expected.

> - Depends from MSVC??? files

I guess that OWB is compiled with MS VC 2005. It's perhaps possible to compile it with MinGW, so that MSVCR80 and MSVCP80 aren't needed anymore.

> - When no internet connection found, the error mesage is just a white
> screen

Use HX's WSTEST ( "WSTEST -v www.google.com" ) to ensure that the low level config is working.

> - No way to control Cookies, JS, Referee, User-Agent, History, Images,
> Privacy (any way besides DBAN ???

Yes. Also no cache and surely even more deficiencies. Noone said it's mature.

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MS-DOS forever!

Complete thread:

• OWB in DOS - Japheth, 09.01.2010, 11:03 (Announce)
  • OWB in DOS - Laaca, 09.01.2010, 18:05
  • OWB in DOS - Only White Board ??? | HX fixes :-) - DOS386, 14.01.2010, 09:14
    • OWB in DOS - Only White Board ??? | HX fixes :-) - Japheth, 14.01.2010, 17:12
      • Try harder !!! - DOS386, 16.01.2010, 04:55
        • Try harder !!! - Japheth, 16.01.2010, 08:35
          • Try harder !!! - DOS386, 16.01.2010, 09:09
            • Try harder !!! - Japheth, 16.01.2010, 15:07
              • problem with MSVCR80.DLL - Laaca, 16.01.2010, 20:27
                • problem with MSVCR80.DLL - Japheth, 19.01.2010, 09:57
          • Try harder !!! - rr, 17.01.2010, 18:57
            • Try harder !!! - Japheth, 19.01.2010, 09:58
  • OWB in DOS - Japheth, 22.01.2010, 09:22
    • OWB in DOS - DOS386, 24.01.2010, 11:08
    • OWB in DOS - Japheth, 26.01.2010, 07:27
      • OWB in DOS - DOS386, 27.01.2010, 12:22
      • OWB in DOS - DOS386, 29.01.2010, 11:22
        • OWB in DOS - Japheth, 29.01.2010, 13:31
          • OWB in DOS | Formula1 - DOS386, 06.02.2010, 09:33