[arachne] Arachne boot disk

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Hi list, 

I created an offline HTML presentation in Czech language
on a boot CD with Arachne. The CD image (5.6 MB) can be 
downloaded here: 

    http://www.volny.cz/jezis/kurs-cd.iso

The contents of the presentation will probably not be interesting for 
anybody on the list as it is entirely in Czech. Anyway, the boot 
disk may be inspiring for people who want to distribute RAM-only 
versions of Arachne. 

When I looked for a legal way of distributing DOS with this 
(not commercial) presentation, I had to realize that 
DR-DOS/OpenDOS crashed on almost every newer PC I could find. 
The memory manager EMM386 coming with DR-DOS obviously does 
not support newer computer memory. Running without XMS was not 
really satisfying, QEMM sometimes worked, but I suppose it is not 
free. I ended up with FreeDOS that has improved a lot since 
the time, I installed it with dosemu on my Linux system. FreeDOS seems
to boot on any system, even on the latest PCs. In some areas FreeDOS
is superior to any other DOS and Windows, e.g. internationalization. 
There are, however, two things which are incompatible with (MS-)DOS 
and may cause some trouble when replacing MS-DOS with FreeDOS: 

- In MS-DOS the command line 

     drive:\path\file\  

  causes a change of drive. This undocumented feature of MS-DOS 
  does not work in FreeDOS. 
  
- Unfortunately the subst command does not work with RAM-drives
  and only very badly with hard disk drives. 

Regards, 
Christof Lange

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Ceskobratrska cirkev evangelicka - Betlemska kaple na Zizkove
Prokopova 4/216, 130 00 Praha  3, Czech Republic
Tel. (+420) 222 78 06 73 / 222 78 20 02 / 603 18 87 53
http://www.volny.cz/cce.zizkov

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