[Trlog] TR (DOS contest programs) wil outlive Windoze

[Steve London]

There actually is a TRLog Linux clone - 
http://home.iae.nl/users/reinc/TLF-0.2.html

I haven't tried it, but it looks interesting.

73,
Steve, N2IC

William Liporace - NA2NA wrote:
> Go to Linux.org for all sorts of flavors!!  I am a SuSE Linux fan. There are 
> lots out there to play with. It is nice to have some thing that works.... 
> Maybe we can get Tree to port to Linux.....
> 
> I do have a friend working on a neat Linux contest logging software. There 
> are also lots of others out there. Maybe I will get my shack PC to be 100% 
> Linux.
> 
> Will NA2NA
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "ke5c" <ke5c at hot.rr.com>
> To: "TARC Reflector" <Temple_ARC at yahoogroups.com>; "CTDXCC Reflector" 
> <ctdxcc at kkn.net>; <trlog at contesting.com>
> Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2006 12:21 PM
> Subject: [Trlog] TR (DOS contest programs) wil outlive Windoze
> 
> 
> 
>>This is not news to Linux-aholics, but I've rediscovered how easy it is to
>>breathe new life into old computers with Linux.  KD4D accidently got me
>>started with his DOS/Windoze dual boot posts for TR.  He uses Linux
>>utilities to do achieve that, and I only thought that was interesting at 
>>the
>>time, but it laid the foundation for this.  A friend recently gave me his
>>old Dell Desktop with a dead disk.  An old hard drive I had in my drawer
>>brought the machine back to life, but (fortunately) I didn't have an
>>available copy of Windoze to install - thank you Microsoft for making your
>>installs only work with one computer!  K5TR and NA5TT each gave me three
>>different shades of Linux to consider, and Ubuntu was common to both 
>>lists,
>>so that's what I chose.  There was some learning to do, and admittedly it
>>helped that I had done some UNIX work in a former life.  I also learned 
>>just
>>enough about FreeDOS (thanks to all those guys and gals too!) to create a
>>dual boot Ubuntu-FreeDOS environment on this old Dell.  TR runs fine under
>>FreeDOS.  Since this machine does not have a floppy, I gave up a small
>>amount of memory to install CDROM drivers, but even with that I have 615K
>>for TR.  I still do my email on my Windoze XP box, but Ubuntu (actually 
>>the
>>Samba package) networks easily, so I can boot the contest computer to
>>Ubuntu, transfer contest files, then reboot back to FreeDOS and TR.  Plus 
>>I
>>had the fun of learning about Ubuntu/Linux and FreeDOS.
>>
>>73, John
>>
>>Largest executable program size       615K (629,920 bytes)
>>Largest free upper memory block         0K (      0 bytes)
>>FreeDOS is resident in the high memory area.
>>
>>config.sys::
>>SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /E:512 /P
>>DEVICE=C:\QHMBOOT.SYS
>>DOS=HIGH,UMB
>>DEVICE=C:\QDBOOT.SYS /N
>>DEVICE=C:\UMBPCI.SYS NOEMS
>>DEVICEHIGH=C:\QHIMEM.SYS
>>DEVICEHIGH=C:\QDMA.SYS /O /D /F /L
>>DEVICEHIGH=C:\QCDROM.SYS /D:CDR1 /UF /L
>>FILES=40
>>BUFFERS=20
>>STACKS=9,256
>>lastdrive=H
>>
>>autoexec.bat::
>>echo off
>>prompt=$p$g
>>path=C:\;c:\tr
>>loadhigh c:\shcdx33a.com /D:CDR1
>>
>>
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