... Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 08:21:43 -0500 From: Jugito <jugito@...> Reply-To: pcdiagnostics-owner@yahoogroups.com To: pcdiagnostics@yahoogroups.com ...
ANDY
geoghega@...
Dec 13, 2003 7:39 pm
18753
Dear list, regarding my still ongoing dispute with my ISP; www.fast.net I was able to obtain an additional alternative ISP; www.dandy.net which I now have/use...
ANDY
geoghega@...
Dec 15, 2003 10:16 pm
18754
http://www.b-for.org/shiba/ANIgreet.GIF -- Arachne V1.71;UE01, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to...
L.D. Best
l.d.best@...
Dec 26, 2003 2:18 am
18755
Call me a ludd-ite, but I still prefer dos to linux as a command based shell for an OS. Unix of all kinds has a lot of extra stuff built in designed for being...
howard schwartz
howardbschwartz@...
Dec 26, 2003 10:35 pm
18756
Wouldnt it be possible to setup the desktop so that if I leave the floppy in, it'll boot and find the dos drive, pulling up DW.exe, or whatever filemanager you...
Day Brown
daybrown@...
Dec 26, 2003 11:11 pm
18757
... From: "howard schwartz" <howardbschwartz@...> To: <SURVPC@...> Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 7:53 AM Subject: [SURVPC] Dos based...
Lance Lyon
llyon@...
Dec 27, 2003 3:09 am
18758
Hello Lance, Friday, December 26, 2003, 8:25:10 PM, you wrote: LL> Yes, I still use DOS, on a variety of machines (an 8088, 286 & 486). None of LL> these have...
Robert C Wittig
rwittig@...
Dec 27, 2003 4:42 am
18759
... Robert has a good point. I joined this list some time ago to keep up with things old and new concerning older hardware as I have a room full of it ...
GDB-Slack91-MOS
slugg0@...
Dec 27, 2003 4:47 am
18760
Day, your still around! Garry Hamilton and I have been wondering if you fell dow an Ozark hill and got lost? Glad to read your still at it. John Oram ...
JohnO
norami@...
Dec 27, 2003 4:57 am
18761
... I think BasicLinux might have a solution. 'Boot.bat' launches BL from the dos prompt to the hash prompt. Agreed, that my dos tools are generally better....
Day Brown
daybrown@...
Dec 27, 2003 5:05 am
18762
... Sadly, it hasn't been much of ANY sort of list as of late! ... Now that I have some room, I'm hoping to dig out my old XT and get it running properly...
Bob George
mailings02@...
Dec 27, 2003 5:43 am
18763
... Thanx for the encouragement. But my link to you all could go down at any time. my monitor slowly faded to black a few minutes ago. I dread monkeying around...
Day Brown
daybrown@...
Dec 27, 2003 6:58 am
18764
Nothing luddite at all there, dear Howard. I use this old DOS (only) machine still for about 90+ % of my work - and the rest, with non-text things, takes 90 %...
Heimo Claasen
hammer@...
Dec 27, 2003 7:23 am
18765
Hello Heimo, Friday, December 26, 2003, 11:57:30 PM, you wrote: HC> Nothing luddite at all there, dear Howard. I use this old DOS (only) HC> machine still for...
Robert C Wittig
rwittig@...
Dec 27, 2003 12:07 pm
18766
... folks might wanna check out http://www.basiclinux@... Now, I remember lotsa times when dos crashed, or whatever I was trying to do, that the...
Day Brown
daybrown@...
Dec 27, 2003 11:09 pm
18767
... With FAT, USUALLY, whatever files you have open can be corrupted, usually in the form of "lost clusters", while the rest are fine. If this happens several ...
Bob George
mailings02@...
Dec 28, 2003 5:57 am
18768
Hi Folks, ... An excellent match for the Linux prog. MC is DOS Controller (DC). Written in assembly, it is fast, versatile, configurable, double-sided, using...
Ron Clarke
ariadne@...
Dec 29, 2003 11:12 pm
18769
You wrote "I'm hoping to dig out my old XT and get it running properly again." Is that what you call my 286 IBM? I get XT and AT confused. Jim Fuller ...
J W Fuller
lists2610@...
Dec 30, 2003 1:08 am
18770
... Thanx for the link! there seem to be some impressive tools there. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to LISTSERV@... with unsubscribe SURVPC...
Day Brown
daybrown@...
Dec 30, 2003 6:25 am
18771
... The XT had only the 8-bit slots. The AT introduced the 16 bit, half again longer. but didnt they both run off a 286? It's been a long time aint it. The...
Day Brown
daybrown@...
Dec 30, 2003 6:55 am
18772
I'm kinda conjuring up this mutant system, with a smaller dos drive, and a larger ext2. The ext2 goes online, acts like a firewall for the dos drive. And kinda...
Day Brown
daybrown@...
Dec 30, 2003 7:52 am
18773
... Day, it sounds like you want both OS "active" at the same time, or? What sort of hardware are you running on? I recall from way-back-when that you'd tried ...
Bob George
mailings02@...
Dec 30, 2003 5:23 pm
18774
... The XT was an 8086. It introduced the hard drive as standard equipment. I *think* the XT introduced 8 (versus 5) slots as well. ... Aye, that it has! ... ...
Bob George
mailings02@...
Dec 30, 2003 5:37 pm
18775
Hey Day (and others interested), I'm doing one of my annual re-evaluations of Linux distributions, and I'm currently playing with Mandrake 9.2. I'm going to be...
Bob George
mailings02@...
Dec 30, 2003 9:41 pm
18776
... I believe the "A" In ASCII stands for American. So is was developed for English ;) -- Rob Steinmetz To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to...
Robert Steinmetz
Rob@...
Dec 31, 2003 12:34 am
18777
... True, pretty much all flavors of UNIX were designed for more flexibility than most of the flavors of DOS. ( Though there are least a couple of multi-user...
Anthony J. Albert
albert@...
Dec 31, 2003 2:44 am
18778
On 25 Dec 2003 at 14:19, Day Brown wrote: [SNIP] ... I believe I recall that "epppd", a DOS PPP package, does support MS- CHAP, though I'm not sure. I admit, I...
Anthony J. Albert
albert@...
Dec 31, 2003 3:18 am
18779
... Listening to talk radio, I suspect it's only a matter of time before someone suggests that using anything BUT ASCII is non-patriotic! *sigh* - Bob To...
Bob George
mailings02@...
Dec 31, 2003 4:03 am
18780
On 26 Dec 2003 at 8:25, Day Brown wrote: [SNIP] ... If you've got the DOS drive mounted, I suppose it could. I would think this very unlikely, though it could...
Anthony J. Albert
albert@...
Dec 31, 2003 5:32 am
18781
... Well, the nomenclature is a bit loose. The internet is based on 7 bits, but the IBM 8 bit, 256 character bitmaps which were used in text modes (both Linux...
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