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18822	Thanks to one of our members, listserv is operational again. For those of you who were wondering. Softcon suffered a rather catestrophic power failure (the...	Travis Siegel tsiegel@...	Feb 4, 2004 6:56 am
18823	Anyone interested in one or more older machines? There's somewhere around 8 macs, and various older pcs (386-486 mostly) if anyone wants them, let me know. I...	Travis Siegel tsiegel@...	Feb 6, 2004 4:37 pm
18824	Travis! Welcome back! "I am so pleased you are not dead!" By the way, for the forseeable future I will have access to a fairly large FTP server (several GB of...	Garry Hamilton kidrhino@...	Feb 7, 2004 12:33 am
18825	Heh. Actually, in a week or two, softcon will have plenty of bandwidth, but until I can get softcon back into a new box, disk space is limited. Too bad we...	Travis Siegel tsiegel@...	Feb 7, 2004 3:40 am
18826	Hi folks, Just dug an old VGA card out of my box o' bits for a project; it's a 256KB card made in 1988 by Headland Technology, who are now defunct as far as I...	Ben A L Jemmett ben.jemmett@...	Feb 11, 2004 5:49 pm
18827	hehe - I do have a "Headland" ISA VGA card which sat in '386 that has died; and that card just worked ... never touched the jumpers though, and there's no...	Heimo Claasen hammer@...	Feb 12, 2004 4:46 am
18828	Forgive the non-Linux question - but: At least windows 9x appears to start an initial command.com dos shell and read config.sys etc. before it continues to...	howard schwartz howardbschwartz@...	Feb 13, 2004 8:55 pm
18829	Because Micro$oft makes more money from Windows (now a generic term per a federal judge on Wednesday) than they ever did with their DOS products is the...	John Oram norami@...	Feb 13, 2004 9:36 pm
18830	... I can't speak authoritatively, but unless command.com was written to be re-entrant (I'll let the programmers get into the details), no. Basically, ...	Bob George mailings02@...	Feb 13, 2004 9:57 pm
18831	Hello Bob, Friday, February 13, 2004, 3:47:27 PM, you wrote: BG> I can't speak authoritatively, but unless command.com was written to be BG> re-entrant (I'll...	Robert C Wittig rwittig@...	Feb 13, 2004 11:11 pm
18832	... Try TweakUI for whichever Win9X you are running...if using 95, don't use TweakUI for Win98, etc. By the way, WinMe does the same. Alternatively, if you...	Glenn Gilbreath Jr. wizard57m@...	Feb 14, 2004 10:00 pm
18833	Hi, folks. I have Quickbasic Pro, aka Microsoft Basic PDS 7.1. I need to build a stand alone library, but it requires an object, b71obf.lib. Unfortunately,...	Will Baldwin wb@...	Feb 17, 2004 6:12 pm
18834	Thanks, Olle. those will work. -- http://my.voyager.net/~wb/Products/ <-- Home page of Horizon Investment Analyst http://www.geocities.com/pwb_1/Products/ <--...	Will Baldwin wb@...	Feb 18, 2004 2:54 am
18835	Glenn, You are talking about configuring windows so that it starts up in dos, and does not load all the extra drivers and so on for windows, until you tell it...	howard schwartz howardbschwartz@...	Feb 18, 2004 8:06 am
18836	In the same spirit of new hardware/software making old OS'es obsolete -- will empty slots on motherboards (e.g., PCI or ISA) become a thing of the past? Here...	howard schwartz howardbschwartz@...	Feb 18, 2004 8:11 am
18837	... modems ... electronic ... Not in my experience; this machine's motherboard has integrated sound, video and LAN, but an additional LAN card plus replacement...	Ben A L Jemmett ben.jemmett@...	Feb 18, 2004 12:25 pm
18838	... I think the answer to this will be, as with so many things, 'yes and no'. Consumer computers will, I believe, have fewer and fewer slots available. Many...	Anthony J. Albert albert@...	Feb 18, 2004 3:40 pm
18839	... I'm not so sure that what you're looking for is possible. I did a little playing around last evening with a memory scanner, and it appears, from my brief...	Anthony J. Albert albert@...	Feb 18, 2004 3:59 pm
18840	... All DOS apps have the ability to overwrite all but a very small part of COMMAND.COM in the RAM; this is because COMMAND.COM is split into two parts, the...	Ben A L Jemmett ben.jemmett@...	Feb 18, 2004 4:40 pm
18841	... had ... dos ... Let me make sure I understand: Is the memory of loading a 2nd copy you object to? Or the load time? Or the idea of loading 2 copies that...	Bob George mailings02@...	Feb 19, 2004 1:35 am
18842	I was able to make QEMM work with the beta version of W98. But never bothered to do much with it and never tried it with W98SE because by then no one was...	JohnO norami@...	Feb 19, 2004 4:16 pm
18843	Hi Folks, To run DOS CLI commands from with in Windows, have you had a look at a program called TakeCommand ? It offers a (graphic) commandline that you treat...	Ron Clarke ariadne@...	Feb 19, 2004 10:40 pm
18844	I just don't know enough about the real (nitty-gritty) things with ... Isn't it so that the Win$-"DOSbox" is just some _arbitrary_ RAM/mem area designated for...	Heimo Claasen hammer@...	Feb 20, 2004 4:28 am
18845	i just got this from jeff hogan on the EDTECH email list and ordered the CD-rom right away. Microsoft is offering a free cd that contains all critical updates...	Paul Pavlik pavlik@...	Feb 20, 2004 11:42 am
18846	... Yes indeed; my comments on the manner in which COMMAND.COM gets trampled by apps was intended more as an aside to show that the observation that Win9x ...	Ben A L Jemmett ben.jemmett@...	Feb 20, 2004 1:03 pm
18847	... updates ... and XP. Good stuff Paul. Thanks. - Bob...	Bob George mailings02@...	Feb 21, 2004 2:19 am
18848	Thanks, Ben - highly welcome precision ! Do you by chance know about another thing in that context - it's about the phsical arrangement of Windows system files...	Heimo Claasen hammer@...	Feb 23, 2004 1:18 am
18849	I finally succeeded in installing Win2000 on my pc PIII . It only took me many months to work up courage....and get my hard drives backed up. here are my...	Paul Pavlik pavlik@...	Feb 24, 2004 8:30 pm
18850	... Sure, just create the new user (Control Panel -> Users and Passwords) and (optionally) set the password not to expire (from Users and Passwords, Advanced...	Ben A L Jemmett ben.jemmett@...	Feb 24, 2004 8:56 pm
18851	... If they're protected, that's only within Windows; LOCK C: might override that protection, or might not. Outside of Windows (DOS or any other OS) they'll...	Ben A L Jemmett ben.jemmett@...	Feb 24, 2004 9:02 pm

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