Re: [SURVPC] Disk compression trivia

1999-03-15 Thread Brent Reynolds
Hi, Here's the end of your basically accurate DOS and Disk Compression story. When MS settled their suit with Stac Electronics and payed them something like at least 114 million dollars, they released MS-DOS 6.22 with DriveSpace which contained some of the Stacker algorithm but was not a copy or

[SURVPC] Disk compression trivia

1999-03-15 Thread Ole Juul
Dale Hoogeveen wrote: There seems to be some measure of incompatibility in the utilities that come with MSDOS 6+. Perhaps my legacy equipment is not cherry enough. Perhaps when Microsoft adjusted those utilities from their original forms, they didn't get a perfect fit. DRDOS 7.02 is

[SURVPC] freeware networking

1999-03-15 Thread Ole Juul
DriftwoodDave wrote: Could anyone point me toward free networking software? I'd like to play with my home systems and see what I can set up. I use interserver which comes with MS-DOS 6.+. It takes only one line in the config.sys of the client and the rest is automatic. Your choice of

Re: [SURVPC] External dialing with Arachne

1999-03-15 Thread Or Botton
On 14 Mar 99 at 6:42, Pop wrote: Dialer that comes with Bobcat worked well for this purpose. But if you want to combine many DOS internet programs in one setup, maybe a custom dialer and login program that writes IPs and DNSs etc for each DOS internet program? Well, all these programs are

Re: [SURVPC] Chips In Spaaaaaaace!

1999-03-15 Thread Pop
Yeah bring it on! A 386 is more than enough. The 386 chip is soldered onto the board...no fan because it doesnt get hot enough...maybe the Indy and Rally teams would be more reliable if they used 386s too :) On Sunday, Charles Dye [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: ] Or Botton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes

Re: [SURVPC] Disk compression trivia

1999-03-15 Thread Pop
Thanks for that...I run 6.22, with it on for backing up...I think I only use VERIFY=ON at the start of the backup BAT file, then VERIFY=OFF at the end...interesting trivia about the cirrus... On Sunday, Lars-Einar Jansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: ] Hi! ] ] Re ScanDisk and trashed disks: ]

Re: [SURVPC] why a surv. PC?

1999-03-15 Thread Ole Juul
Hi Or, Where can I find this "Word Viewer" program? Cheers, Ole Juul Or Botton wrote: I must say that this makes the Word Viewer program the most valued software in my hard disk which was ever made by MS. Without it, I wouldnt be able to read anything people are sending me

Re: [SURVPC] Data monitors... (Slightly OT)

1999-03-15 Thread Ben Hood
On Sunday, Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: ] How simple would a data in one com port, data out another program be? ] You could set up another PC like my wooden 386 (which I'm typing this ] on now) which has the modem plugged in to the com port it needs to ] be. You connect your 'usage' PC to

Re: [SURVPC] Bill Gates - a good story? (was Bill Gates -the poor kid)

1999-03-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 03:54 PM 15/03/99 +1000, you wrote: A *good* story about Bill any one? I'm just tired of hearing about him now. good or bad, it's advertising/press/notoriety. bye, Yolanda UIN 4898262 http://members.home.net/pippi5 I thought I was funny but it's not unusual to find I'm wrong! To

[SURVPC] hard or soft, let's get quiet... (fwd)

1999-03-15 Thread Peter Torrano
FYI: I thought you'd get a kick out of this. As posted to comp.unix.sco.misc. On Tue, 27 Oct 1998 12:31:55 GMT, Tom Parsons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Alliban enscribed: | How can I disable the modem whirring when a client dials in to OSR5? My | computer is rack-mounted and will be placed in

[SURVPC] ZD puts Linux to the test

1999-03-15 Thread John Oram
Take a look at this one http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_3179.html Interesting to see "main stream" computer media doing evaluations of a non-main stream OS (main stream is the 85% dominance of M$) John O To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: [SURVPC] Linux checking dependencies (was Re: why a surv. PC?)

1999-03-15 Thread Peter Torrano
Might Linux be co-dependent of a renegade module? Might Linux want to cover up for a module that is underperforming by displaying a more pleasing status note: "Checking for module dependencies"?? Huh? HUH??? VBFG ~pete To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

[SURVPC] DMA controller

1999-03-15 Thread Constant Brouerius van Nidek
Having some difficulties with my sound card I started Norton diagnose and found that my DMA controller failed. According to the help file if this is the case the 8237 DMA controller has to be exchanged. How does this chip look like and is it a controller which can by any means be influenced by

[SURVPC] intersvr

1999-03-15 Thread Steven Darnold
Ole Juul wrote: - - When I set up machines for others, I sometimes just put - "intersvr" as the last line in the autoexec.bat and then - connect them to my machine. That way I can load software - Alternatively you can put this in the config.sys: device=c:\dos\interlnk.exe /auto - The advantage

Re: [SURVPC] Chips In Spaaaaaaace!

1999-03-15 Thread Charles Dye
Or Botton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Skylab lost its happy thoughts and fell out of the sky long before there was a 486. So what did it had? I don't know. Possibly some kind of Intel or Zilog chip, but maybe not anything we'd recognize today. (I am told, however, that early space shuttles

Re: [SURVPC] Bill Gates - a good story? (was Bill Gates -the poor kid)

1999-03-15 Thread Charles Dye
P o p [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ...So Bill gets his name and address and the limosine whistles off. A few days (?) later this kind man is in his local bank, making a payment on his mortgage, and the bank teller says "you have nothing owing, Bill Gates came in and payed the $10, 000 (?) owing on

Re: [SURVPC] why a surv. PC?

1999-03-15 Thread Bernie
Where can I find this "Word Viewer" program? Well, the nice program View can show you the text from Word files. And you don't have to start Windows :) The exact location? Hmm.. searching Oh, Netscape "took away" all my bookmarks, no luck there :( Anyway I found it together with some info about

Re: [SURVPC] intersvr

1999-03-15 Thread Stephen Lloyd
Believe you me, it activates reguardless of weather you have another pc connected or not. if I put interlnk.exe in my config.sys but don't bother to connect up the other computer, and I look and examine my memory for interlnk.exe, it's there alright! If I connect the other computer and startup

Re: [SURVPC] Chips In Spaaaaaaace!

1999-03-15 Thread P o p
Mmm, doughnuts. That would be quite heavy...640k would be out of the question. Or Botton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Skylab lost its happy thoughts and fell out of the sky long before there was a 486. So what did it had? I don't know. Possibly some kind of Intel or Zilog chip, but

Re: [SURVPC] converting msworks database file

1999-03-15 Thread Or Botton
On 14 Mar 99 at 19:32, Bernie wrote: I even think that swedish law says that I can't save a file for more than 5 years or something equaly stupid ;) (Or atleast this was the case a few years back) Do you mean, that if you create a file you are not allowed to keep it for more then 5 years?

Re: [SURVPC] Disk compression trivia

1999-03-15 Thread Or Botton
On 14 Mar 99 at 19:32, Bernie wrote: BTW: All of you that don't have W95 (with QuickTime 3) and want to see something from the trailer for Episode I: "The Phantom Menace" can visit my homepage I put some images up there (28 to be exact). Now I need to find out how to copy the sound from the

Re: [SURVPC] why a surv. PC?

1999-03-15 Thread Or Botton
On 15 Mar 99 at 4:57, Ole Juul wrote: Hi Or, Where can I find this "Word Viewer" program? There are 2 versions of it, one for 3.x, one for 9x. I cant really remember the exact URL.. lost it long time ago, but I do remember that I found it using Alta Vista (http://www.altavista.com) while

Re: [SURVPC] Chips In Spa

1999-03-15 Thread Dave Ratti
Charles, if I may; OK, a little background on coincident-current magnetic core memory. The original Random Access Memory, its predecessors were shift registers and delay lines, either mechanical, like the coil in an old reverb unit, or a glass tube filled with mercury with a piezo transducer

[SURVPC] intersvr

1999-03-15 Thread Steven Darnold
- Believe you me, it activates reguardless of weather you have - another pc connected or not. if I put interlnk.exe in my - config.sys but don't bother to connect up the other computer, - and I look and examine my memory for interlnk.exe, it's - there alright! If I connect the other computer