Y2k.. The saga continues.. long post
This was just a recent topic, so I thought you guys and gals
would appreciate this.
Since this was apparently e-mailed it to all 675,000 docs in
the US, it seems that someone is taking the issue seriously.
Regards, Gregory.
Disclaimer:
Please note
From:Dave Ratti [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: new box? (bus tangent)
Bernie
OK, You asked for it, so here goes -
(snip )
Excellant and a lot of work. Thank-you.
From your description am I correct in assuming that 8-bit cards will
work in expansion slots up through VLB (that the
Does anyone know of any DeFrag utility that has support for LFN directories?
The one in M$-DOS trashes the directories, the files aren't affected at all.
This is really bothering me since my harddrive stores stuff that are meant
for W95 also (eg. things that I haven't put on CD-R yet.)
//Bernie
Bernie wrote:
Didn't the XT also have a HD as standard? Please remember
that I got into the PC buisness when AT was brand new, so
My first computer was an XT *without* a HDD. I've seen
many of them since. It was a great way for me to learn
good file management. When I finally got a computer
I wrote:
The addition of the new server caught me by surprise when
Bernie wrote:
Oh, I thought that Michael told us about it rather early?
Yes, I remember that, but I guess I missed the anouncement
that it *actually* had happened. I think I was expecting
a message that said:
Dale Mentzer wrote:
I have never seen a mobo with VLB and PCI. I would love to
find one of those as it is getting harder and harder to
find peripherals in ISA card format. So much stuff is PCI
now. Any idea where a fellow traveler could find one of
those? Thanks.
I've got one of those.
Pete wrote:
Cool, here is what I want to do. I have a CGA monotor,
and a zenith xt, the monotor is in good shape, the zenith
is not. I think one of the system cards finally gave out.
I have been hanging on to it in hopes I could find boards
parts ect, to get it to work. Short of that
On 6 Mar 99 at 12:30, Bernie wrote:
Does anyone know of any DeFrag utility that has support for LFN directories?
The one in M$-DOS trashes the directories, the files aren't affected at all.
This is really bothering me since my harddrive stores stuff that are meant
for W95 also (eg. things
From: Or Botton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 6 Mar 99 at 12:30, Bernie wrote:
Does anyone know of any DeFrag utility that has support for LFN directories?
The one in M$-DOS trashes the directories, the files aren't affected at all.
This is really bothering me since my harddrive stores
I'd just like to know why long file names are so widely used? I mean,
eight characters are enough to point it out and makes it compatible with
most machines then. I still remember the hell of having something pkunzip
an LFN onto my win3.1 machine. I knew next to nothing about computers and
had
Well, repartitioning and reformatting an hd isn't something you do by
accident, that takes quite a lot of knowledge, and even more are you sure
prompts. But let's just for the moment assume it was done with some
supper fast fdisk program that didn't even begin to prompt for safety
reasons, and
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 04:05:38 -0800
From: Ole Juul [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've got one of those. A rather nice one which will take a
number of different processors. I've even got the docs so
I can set the jumpers. The problem is, I've never seen an
EISA card in my travels. It seems that they
** Reply to note from SurvPC Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat, 6 Mar
1999 07:32:51 -0600
I'd just like to know why long file names are so widely used?
Most filesystems except FAT supports it.
I mean,
eight characters are enough to point it out and makes it compatible with
On 1999-03-05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
One thing I've
always wanted to try was putting an 8086 chip in place of the 8088
on an original PC - IIRC they have the same pin-out.
I have heard the exact opposite.that the pin-outs were not compatible at
all. That is a processor I wouldn't
I'd just like to know why long file names are so widely used?
Most filesystems except FAT supports it.
VFAT, FAT32 (actually using VFAT), HPFS, NTFS etx2, yeah, only FAT has a
small limitation, the MAC has 32 or something like that for the names.
VFAT can't have 254 chars in a file name, the
There's also the option of using MS's LFNBK utility to back up the LFN's
before defragging, restoring them afterwards. What I wish is that someone
would come up with a utility that could defrag a FAT32 drive from DOS, with
or without LFN protection (since there's always LFNBK). Defragging under
How does lfn work any way?
all I see from the dos level are things like c:\progra~1\textbr~1
p.s, what is it about old computers that you like so much?
in other words, I'm trying to work out why so many of you choose to stick
with a 286 or 486 or even an 8086. Is it just because of money
One thing I've
always wanted to try was putting an 8086 chip in place of the 8088
on an original PC - IRK they have the same pin-out.
I have heard the exact opposite.that the pin-outs were not compatible at
all. That is a processor I wouldn't mind having, Though.
Hmmm...
I would really like to find out how lfn works.
The LFN API is implemented under Windows NT 3.5 and above (NT 3.1? Hmmm) by
the shell (EXPLORER.EXE in Win9x, SHELL32.DLL(?) in NT) as a set of extended
INT 21h calls (Find First/Find Next (LFN) in the List IIRC). LFNs under VFAT
are stored in the
VFAT, FAT32 (actually using VFAT), HPFS, NTFS etx2, yeah, only FAT has a
small limitation, the MAC has 32 or something like that for the names.
VFAT can't have 254 chars in a file name, the directory length can only be 254
But *all* computer systems can read FAT, so it's the most usefull for the
At 12:12 PM 06/03/99 +, you wrote:
And the dumbest is "Program
Files".
Not dumb at all. It makes many US-Windowsprograms unusable in Swedish
Windows, which has "program" in
stead of "progra~1".
Per B.
I've been pondering that M$ might have done that as yet another means of
ensuring
At 12:12 PM 06/03/99 +, you wrote:
And the dumbest is "Program
Files".
Not dumb at all. It makes many US-Windowsprograms unusable in Swedish
Windows, which has "program" in
stead of "progra~1".
Per B.
I've been pondering that M$ might have done that as yet another means of
ensuring
At 05:55 AM 07/03/99 -0800, you wrote:
How does lfn work any way?
all I see from the dos level are things like c:\progra~1\textbr~1
LOng file name simply means that it can have more than 8 chars and even
contain the space. Like instead of "Ntscpcom.exe" it would be "netscape
communicator.exe"
pippi, I just didn't know how to ask the right question the right way, so
I'm sorry if it sounded like I thought you are funny in the head.
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To add to your list of resources, one of the better introductions
to the y2k problem I've read so far I found here:
Scientific American: Feature Article: January 1999
Y2K, So Many Bugs ... So Little Time, by Peter de Jager
http://www.sciam.com/1999/0199issue/0199dejager.html
All the best,
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