Hal, This is late getting out since I had server problems. I wish you well in your search. Please tell us what you finally end up with. I think that Steven...
Bob Williams
trillium@...
Mar 1, 2000 8:09 am
11165
... If you only wish to backup the DATA, try Pkzip. On my 286/16 I called pkzip with a batch file. Pkzip would search the hard drive for all (data) files...
Ed & Karen
karedat@...
Mar 1, 2000 12:25 pm
11166
... By golly, I just happen to have a couple disks with that on them! I never use them, but I have them... Well, go figger. bye,,,,,,,,,,,,,,(\ Yolanda...
pippi5@...
Mar 1, 2000 2:21 pm
11167
... What could I do with it? Not much, if I recall RS232C specs correctly. I don't think it'd be too happy with that much cable in there. For parallel the...
Ben A L Jemmett
ben.jemmett@...
Mar 1, 2000 4:34 pm
11168
Dear boB and folks, Well, these things would definintely make my list of things that I would like to improve about DOS. I've often thought about what...
Anthony J. Albert
albert@...
Mar 1, 2000 6:19 pm
11169
... Sure, Phat Linux is bloated with lots of extras. But the basic Linux OS fits happily on a single floppy disk. Try that with win9x. Cheers, Steven To...
Steven
ichi@...
Mar 1, 2000 8:50 pm
11170
... Don't forget the compiler and the kernel source code ! ... Slackware is best for low-resource systems. It has the smallest footprint of the mainstream...
Steven
ichi@...
Mar 1, 2000 8:53 pm
11171
... Are any of the big daemons (inetd, httpd, sendmail - oh, no, forget sendmail, please! No! Not sendmail! Argh!) running on ELKS yet? I haven't kept up...
Ben A L Jemmett
ben.jemmett@...
Mar 1, 2000 9:21 pm
11172
... http://bernie.arachne.cz/download/msdoskb.rar (ca 1.2M) http://bernie.arachne.cz/download/msdoskb.zip (ca 2.4M IIRC) Beware, the file size will grow very...
Bernie
bernie@...
Mar 1, 2000 9:59 pm
11173
... Win98 will format and write to these using Win9x long filenames. To a pure DOS 8+3 application, it appears as a corrupted FAT table. boB RTF.HTM found. Now...
boB Deering
sixforty@...
Mar 1, 2000 11:06 pm
11174
wonderful! conex sounds like the ticket and one of the things i miss using nettamer is zmodem, does not support it. i suppose a terminal program would be fine,...
karen lewellen
klewellen@...
Mar 2, 2000 1:31 am
11175
... Why were they "infamous"? Regards, Dale Mentzer If at first you do succeed, try not to look astonished. This mail written by a user of Arachne, the DOS...
Dale Mentzer
dmentzer@...
Mar 2, 2000 1:41 am
11176
... I guess the real advantage is if you just want to experiment with Linux. A person could look around, play with it some and then if they decide Linux/Unix...
Marc D. Williams
marcdw@...
Mar 2, 2000 3:07 am
11177
Hallo Floyd! ... Do you use Double density disks that were written in a High Density drive? -- Gunnar Thöle To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to...
Gunnar Thoele
gthoele@...
Mar 2, 2000 4:18 am
11178
Hallo Marc! ... The UKA_PPP package (look for it in a good search engine. The URL is quite hefty so i don't remember it) has a) TCPPORT b) The conex terminal ...
Gunnar Thoele
gthoele@...
Mar 2, 2000 4:20 am
11179
Yes, and almost daily. That is, for those things where fax is (still) needed. eMail has replaced most of it. And BGFAX is definitely the best PC-fax solution,...
hammer
hammer@...
Mar 2, 2000 5:48 am
11180
... Ah yes, the SOURCE. Something that's not part of your everyday Windows system install now! How could I forget. ... Agreed regarding mainstream...
Bob George
survpc@...
Mar 2, 2000 7:51 am
11181
Hello Folks... I recently decided to do the linux thing. I am enjoying it very much. I decided to go the UMSDOS route and have been very happy. I thing there ...
Jim Varnum
jimv@...
Mar 2, 2000 10:01 am
11182
Not a heck of a lot. That length of cable is *WAY* out of spec for standard RS-232 to deal with, especially if it's unshielded cable. However, there are...
Anthony J. Albert
albert@...
Mar 2, 2000 2:44 pm
11183
... Hello Karen: I would suggest you install a 250 MB ZIP drive on your system, or install another hard drive having a capacity of at least 144 MB. Let us...
Samuel W. Heywood
sheywood@...
Mar 2, 2000 5:20 pm
11184
3/2/00 12:43:49 PM Well, I guess I'll skip it then :-) Chad Fernandez Michigan, USA "Anthony J. Albert"-> 3/2/00 9:36:31 AM -> ... To unsubscribe from SURVPC...
Chad Fernandez
fernande@...
Mar 2, 2000 5:50 pm
11185
... Section 8.3 of the UMSDOS HOWTO says that file access is "probably" faster on UMSDOS. It also says that directory management is slower on UMSDOS and that...
Steven
ichi@...
Mar 2, 2000 10:00 pm
11186
... Slack's default basic install fits comfortably into 30meg of HDD. You can get this below 20meg by unselecting unneeded packages. ... A 60meg HDD is plenty...
Steven
ichi@...
Mar 2, 2000 10:06 pm
11187
HI, Oh, It's a new disk, just over a month old? Assuming that all the suggestions about BIOS that we saw did not do the trick, then it may be time to find out...
Brent Reynolds
jbr@...
Mar 2, 2000 11:16 pm
11188
Hi, It is possible that the read and write heads in one of those floppy drives is just slightly out of alignment. With expensive floppy drives now selling...
Brent Reynolds
jbr@...
Mar 2, 2000 11:18 pm
11189
This one will render DOS totally uncompatible to many things, but I would like to see DOS using a newer, better file system then FAT. How about the OS/2 file...
Or Botton
winterk@...
Mar 3, 2000 2:52 am
11190
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000 15:22:00 +0100 Gunnar Thoele <gthoele@...> wrote: <snip> ... Hello Gunnar: This sounds like a very interesting project. Please tell us...
Samuel W. Heywood
sheywood@...
Mar 3, 2000 3:09 am
11191
... Eventually, a file system organized somewhat along the lines of SGML. This would be a little like OS/2. ... Apps are always the problem. Add better...
boB Deering
sixforty@...
Mar 3, 2000 3:18 am
11192
... On a Data General minicomputer I used to work on, it used RS232 cables and connectors to connect the computer to the terminals, at 9600 bps. I know that...
Will Baldwin
whbaldwin@...
Mar 3, 2000 6:30 am
11193
... OS/2????? It comes with a special version of DOS and can also load any DOS you want from A: (usually means from diskimage). It is not brandnew, but do we...
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