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posted by fritz.mueller Homepage, Munich, Germany, 20.03.2024, 15:56

Sorry, its me again.
Thank you for your new OS, but I think I will stop with tests now and maybe continue in a few months.
At the moment I think it is too early that users test it.

>On the last two pictures the operating system did not think that it was booted from a diskette. As I
>wrote earlier, it always starts counting drive letters from A:, so if you remove all diskette drives,
>the first hard drive becomes the A: drive. It works just as intended.

This makes it more complex. I have an old laptop where I need an external USB diskette drive.
And in virtual machines removing the whole diskette controller is not unusual.
In this case the autoexec.bat (maybe others too) has several "C:\" inside that have to be modified via notepad.
For reasons that I do not know notepad.app (started from GUI - filemanager - directory: \leetos\ - filenames: notepad.app) starts the notepad window and exits at once (maybe working directory or something else is wrong).

> You can get the mouse working by installing a mouse driver. Cutemouse works. Also you can try the
> KEYMOUSE.COM keyboard mouse emulator.
Cutemouse worked. But I was unable to add it in autoexec.bat because notepad.app did not work for me (see above).

> You don't have to press ALT when using the shortcut keys. Just press the underlined letter key.
Several message boxes do not have an underlined letter key, e.g. OK, help, YES/NO etc. which makes it harder to
work without mouse.

A doskey would be helpful to repeat the last commands (e.g. to fix a typo).
I tried german keyboards (mkeyb gr and keyb gr,850,C:\dos\keyboard.sys - file was there) - both did
not work, mkeyb seems to freeze)
One more strange behaviour: As I do not know the finnish keyboard, I typed through my keyboard layout
(asdfghjklöä etc.) and after in about 25 keys there is a strange behaviour that I have not seen on other
OSes till now: Especially after ' the "go back <--" button doesnt work and sometimes it is no longer possible
to add other characters too. I am sure you can tell me a reason for this.
Several tools got a freeze, I do not remember them all. One of them was mkeyb.
A "?" in command line (C:\?) that shows the commands built in command.com would be helpful too, see:
https://www.bootablecd.de/FreeDOS-Internet-version/help110-no-fish/en/hhstndrd/command/question.htm
Setting an alias in autoexec.bat seems not to be possible (I tried "alias install=a:\leetos\install.com" to avoid not working installations of leetos)

I tried to create a new shortcut for notepad - looks simple, but I did not get it with the shortcut editor. Could you add the correct syntax in the window where you have to enter the values (e.g. notepad or notepad.app, working directory: C:\leetos or whatever, icon file: xy.ico with path or no path, can an icon that is already in use be used a second time, how can I create a new icon etc). This are typical standard user questions.

Sorry, but I hope you can understand me now. Maybe this helps you to add some positions at the FAQs,
e.g. why does format not work although setup asks for it, why do I use a non standard system on the OS (even X-Ways Forensics does not recognize it, but IMDISK can mount it), why does the HD use A: when diskette drive is removed etc.

Thanks.

Fritz

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