See copy of Usenet message below, about former DOS shareware now
freeware. Not tried it my self, just passing the message FYI
to survpc and dos-discuss.
All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
copy
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built in. Fine for the original IBM AT.
I've even used it on older COMPAQ 386 systems that require a STARTUP
disk.
All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
eofm
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and they seem to be working. See also
http://drdosprojects.de/ for patches/updates.
All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
eofm
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- who
/4os2304.zip
For those of you with money to spend: newer versions of 4DOS (7.50),
4NT (5.00) and Take Command (5.00) now available, see www.jpsoft.com
for more info.
All the best,
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Just sketching an idea, not testet. Requires OS to load first, but still - might be
useful.
Does not prevent infection, but lets you know on next reboot if something is changed
(if you
don't reboot often you could schedule this test to be run at certain intervals...)
Have a look at MBRWORK
for the commandline-junkies among us:
The Universal Command Guide For Operating Systems
see http://www.allcommands.com/.
Looks interesting, but with 1600 pages I fear it would
become one of those books I'd buy and forget - too
heavy, large and impractical I guess (havent seen the
book in print
Hi Heimo and everyone. I guess Keith Petersen will be truly missed, and
already is by many - obviously. See the newsgroup message from March
10. copied below. It does not explain your current problems per se, but
it should give you idea about what is going on...
All the best,
Bjorn
From:
Notice news item below where it says:
"Google provides a link to a plain text version"
---
The Scout Report -- February 9, 2001:
21. Google Now Indexes PDF Files
http://www.google.com/
The indomitable Google has recently begun indexing content in .pdf
files, allowing
On 17 Feb 01 at 17:10, Travis Siegel wrote:
Welcome back online Travis. Best of luck with your new home!
People, remember that from now on your messages will not only pass
through Travis server, but also his home, so be a nice! :)
All the best,
Bjorn
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On 7 Feb 01 at 15:08, Brent Reynolds wrote:
just about anybody's name add up to 666 if you play it right.
"This Bible Code," moaned Reverend Dix
"Puts my name in a terrible fix."
He was fit to be tied
When the code was applied,
And his name totaled six sixty six.
-
On 4 Feb 01 at 19:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all, been reading again. I am trying to make a back up boot disk
with all I need on it. The book wants me to place my working disk
into drive "A" and my new disk into "B" then copy "A" to "B" the
only problem is I don't have a working disk
On 4 Feb 01 at 12:40, Brian Brophy wrote:
from New Zealand (.nz) six months ago for: "Linux for low-resource PCs"
Do you mean Steven Darnold's:
"LINUX FOR OLD PC s"
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ichi
and his BasicLinux distro:
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ichi/baslinux.html ?
All the best,
For background and context see for instance:
RFC 2505 Anti-Spam Recommendations for SMTP MTAs
www.imc.org/rfc2505
RFC 2635 DON'T SPEW: A Set of Guidelines for Mass Unsolicited
Mailings and Postings. http://www.imc.org/rfc2635
Also, as mentioned by Wolfgang Redtenbacher:
RFC 2554, "SMTP
On 3 Feb 01 at 2:54, Howard Schwartz wrote:
Brain storming: Do you have access to a Windows 3.x og 9.x
computer? If so try an Run Pegasus Mail for Windows with the -Z 32
commandline tag. See HELP | Commandline switches., (can not remember
if PMAIL for Dos can do this, don't think so?)
It
On 3 Feb 01 at 2:54, Howard Schwartz wrote:
My corporate ISP just installed what the level-1 techs call a ``spam
filter'' for the SMTP mail server. As a result, this server refuses
to send mail out to anyone not already in its domain, unless my
mail transport software identifies me as a
On 3 Feb 01 at 7:22, Howard Schwartz wrote:
Howard, I am just on my way out (to have a few beers and something
to eat, just passing this along before I go:
You might want (or need) to dig into the Client-To-Host
Communication section and security sections here
http://www.imc.org/rfcs.html to
(Yet) Another freeware site I had not seen before.
Win stuff mostly it seems, but some DOS (**see endnote)
selections as well. All with telling descriptions.
"Survey of freeware" page.
http://home.tiscalinet.be/hanslr/freeware.htm
Sorry, above page use frames. But, you can jump directly to the
On 28 Jan 01 at 9:35, Mark at Cross+Road's wrote:
How do you get the mentioned editor "Bingo".
http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/editor/be400b.zip
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/editor/be400b.zip
"9960609 338K Bingo Text Editor v4.0b, Undo, large files ASP"
All the best,
Have a look at "MIMER - Make a message MIME compliant"
http://kapitza.ras.ru/people/leva/mimer.html
to see if this will do what you want.
Found this listed in the "Guide to Pegasus Mail Addons List"
ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/ibmpc/dos/apps/pmail/pmail-addons.txt
A copy of this document can
Hardly SURVPC related(?), but maybe of interest to a few of you:
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From: "Bjorn Simonsen"
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 05:26:45 +0100
Subject: Re: DOS and WIN/98
Priority: normal
On
On 27 Jan 01 at 5:31, Bjorn Simonsen wrote:
A similar patch can be found at:
http://www.dewassoc.com/support/winme/read_dos.htm
sorry URL should be:
http://www.dewassoc.com/support/winme/real_dos.htm
bjorn
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On 26 Jan 01 at 7:24, Oliver Chua wrote:
Does anyone know where I can find an old shareware editor called
qedit? I need the old version (version 3 or earlier, I think)
Try:
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/goldies/qedit215.zip
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/goldies/qedit3c.zip
All the best,
Bjorn
To
On 24 Jan 01 at 13:23, Alessio Palma wrote:
snipped message
snipped quoting of original message w/ footer
Please trim your messages! Can you read the footer!?
The habit of quoting entire post/thread often correlates with use of
Outlook Express. Is this e-mail client so difficult to
On 18 Jan 01 at 11:22, howard schwartz wrote:
However the best I can do write now is to check if the variable,
wattcp.cfg is set -- something I do when I load epppd. I suppose I
could do some horribly inelegant thing like dump the output of the
mem command to a file and then grep the file
Figured some of you might find this of interest:
#quote:
PC DOS 7 Technical Update
Document Number GG24-4459-00
February 1995
International Technical Support Organization
Boca Raton Center
Abstract
[...] This book is a technical
On 21 Dec 00 at 20:26, Hobart Floyt wrote:
Can anyone recommend a good diagnostic program?
[...] I especially need a good one to test the ram, [...]
Not recommend, as I just found out about it.
Not tried it my self yet:
DOCMEMORY. http://www.simmtester.com
free for a limited period of time
On 22 Oct 00 at 21:10, Eko Priono wrote:
Anyone know the spec or perhaps ready to use utility
to automagically powering-down any ATX machines under
DOS? TIA.
Have a look at ATXOFF.COM and NOOFF.COM, here:
http://www.informatik.fh-muenchen.de/~ifw98223/dostools.htm
All the best,
Bjorn
To
On 28 Sep 00 at 22:37, Wolff wrote:
The problem is that not everyone's cd rom drive is assigned a drive
letter d:.
Look here:
Check the readiness of any drive, living or dead
http://www.pressroom.com/~tglbatch/testdrv.htm
Get drive type: hard, floppy, network/CD-ROM, RAM, or unknown
On 28 Sep 00 at 12:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd ask here for suggestions but this is nowhere near the topic of
Hi Pippi. Suggestion: Subscribe to the PCBUILD list. Mostly about
newer hardware, rarely touches survivor pc issues. The list is
moderated, which means more on topic - less
IFA - Instant File Access for Win 3.x.: http://www.alexoft.com/
Now Freeware, formerly shareware.
From the FILEi_ID.DIZ:
Instant File Access v4.00 Adds LONG FILE NAMES, File/Directory
recall, Floating file lists, File Manager functions, etc., to
Windows 3.11 programs. Also
For the Win9x users among us who miss the old Win 3x File Manager
interface, and/or who can not stand Explorer:
quoting from a usenet post:
I found and installed this prog. yesterday under Win95 and it
works great.[...]
* FmLfns v1.1 32-bit for Windows 9x adds complete Long File
On 19 Sep 00 at 19:12, Karen Lewellen wrote:
remember when i was looking for edline a week or so ago? well, i
could never run the edition i got, dos kept giving me the "incorrect
dos version"
Correct, Edlin is version sensitive. You can download a hacked
"runs on any DOS version" from this
On 21 Sep 00 at 11:59, Or Botton wrote:
Can edlin be used to edit text files automaticly?
(example: search text file for keyword 'foo' and replace with
'bar'.)
Yes, by way of a script (I can think of other and easier ways
to do my search and replace though g)
EDLIN myfile.txt. EDLIN.SCR
On 21 Sep 00 at 2:41, Randy Goldenberg wrote:
Try the DOS port of sed, available from any simtel mirror
under "gnuish".
Yes, a much wiser suggestion.
See Eric Pement's sed pages (including his "one-liners")
and FAQ at: http://www.cornerstonemag.com/sed/
All the best,
Bjorn
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On 21 Sep 00 at 2:41, Randy Goldenberg wrote:
Try the DOS port of sed
And to put this all in context:
sed
its dad: ed
younger moron brother: edlin
big brothers:vi, vm,
On 21 Sep 00 at 6:51, Bjorn Simonsen wrote:
So just blend the above with your current command line,
so you get something like the following:
PKZIP -a -r -p - -xC:\@notcopy.txt a:\myback.zip C:\*.*
Ooops placed the @ charter after the drive letter
in the above, should be just after the x
On 27 Aug 00 at 22:08, Ioannis Panteleon wrote:
The other day I found a great essay on that topic on the net:
In the beginning was the command line..., by Neal Stephenson
(http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html)
Thanks, great! (those who missed it, notice the above page only show
the
On 14 Apr 00 at 15:53, Anthony J. Albert wrote:
I've tried the standard F1, F2, and DEL keys to try to get the
CMOS configuration to come up, without success. Do I need a
configuration disk? Anyone have experience with this kind of
motherboard?
Try any or all of these keyboard
On 15 Apr 00 at 0:57, Bjorn Simonsen wrote:
See also Ric Greens pages
http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/rlgreen/softlib1.htm
oops used old url for above site, correct url is:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/1401/softlib1.htm
All the best,
Bjorn
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On 7 Apr 00 at 11:48, Vrondi wrote:
There was a version for a whil with a dialer.
Maybe this is it (?)
http://liveweb.livjm.ac.uk/cis/download/
quote:
Dial-In Kit For Windows 3.1* NEW - Updated 12/02/99
NOT for NT/95/98
Requires 4 blank formatted 1.44 Floppy Disks
DISK1
Nice article, Survpc list on steroids you could say :
"Never Say Die" by Mark Frauenfelder
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.03/diehards.html
Here is an appetizer, from the introduction:
# begin copy
Sugarman's sound-bite slogan for the movement he hoped to
inspire was "Off the
On 25 Mar 00 at 17:22, Karen Lewellen wrote:
i was asking about the sector translation utility?
the one that is to make certain norton sees all of the drive?
Hi Karen, I received your other post. You seem to be talking about a
drive overlay software. This is used when the Bios do not offer
Blinux, combined from the words 'blind' and 'Linux'.
Article about Blinux:
*To Feel and Hear the Computer:
Blinux as a guide to new user interfaces*
URL: http://www.heise.de/ct/english/99/04/202/
All the best,
Bjorn
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On 10 Mar 00 at 23:31, Detailboy wrote:
I'd like to create a .BAT file that will issue a DIR command for a
directory so that it ECHOs to and appends to the same daily diary
file and each day I run the .BAT it will append the DIR to the end
of the same file so that when I want I can see what
On 9 Mar 00 at 7:46, Bernie wrote:
Reason I ask is because my ramdrive is loaded in a BATch file and is
currently at s: - but when I load interlnk it takes s: for the
servers c:
Get:
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/ramdisk/fu_rd19i.zip
(75K)
Contains:
XMSDSK.EXE using XMS memory.
On 6 Mar 00 at 19:39, Bernie wrote:
I was wondering if someone knows if it's OK to mix ordinary SIMM and
EDO memory.
Here is something I snipped from
http://www.mcp.com/resources/hardware/scott_mueller_faq/
(Don't know if url is still current.)
#quote:
6. Can EDO and FPM be mixed on the
Adding to what Gunnar Thoele had to say about 4DOS:
4DOS is a well-known replacement for the COMMAND.COM shell
4DOS by J.P Soft http://www.jpsoft.com/ is trialware with a limited
trial period of 21 days. Quite expensive, USD 69 last time I
checked. If memory serves me right, it will function
On 5 Mar 00 at 8:14, Bernie wrote:
desperate, I could guess my way across the setup - but with a max of
230 diffrent types to test and ca 80 seconds for each test it might
take me a while.
Try this - go here:
http://members.hyperlink.net.au/~chart/
look for hdp.zip
All the best,
Bjorn
To
On 5 Mar 00 at 9:42, Bjorn Simonsen wrote:
http://members.hyperlink.net.au/~chart/
look for hdp.zip
When I replied to Bernie's call for suggestions this morning I was
online and didn't have the time to find and include anything but
the URL in my reply. As I believe this utility could come
On 4 Mar 00 at 3:45, hammer wrote:
(Long live DOS - just type "shit" and you get the answer.)
Bad bad it says, but trust me - what it really
means is: "you don't know shit".
All the best,
Bjorn ;)
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On 28 Feb 00 at 18:28, Bernie wrote:
http://bernie.arachne.cz/download/msdoskb.rar
http://bernie.arachne.cz/download/msdoskb.zip
Got it. Thanks Bernie, much appreciated!!
An interesting thing to note is the file sizes:
ZIP 2,767,665
RAR 1,233,338
Well I think RAR must be even better than
On 26 Feb 00 at 9:07, Bernie wrote:
[...] and now it's gone.
No, I think Dale must have looked in the wrong directory, probably in
/softlib/mslfiles.
The MD-DOS Knowledge base can be found here:
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/peropsys/msdos/kb/
(1687 plain text files)
Win 3.x here:
On 25 Feb 00 at 9:52, Karen Lewellen wrote:
actually, if this is what you are like when half asleep, your
dream life must be unbelievable!
Well thank you Karen. But frankly I can't really say what my dream
life is like, I'm usually asleep when it happens ;)
this is a 2 gig, sorry for the
On 24 Feb 00 at 22:51, karen lewellen wrote:
Karen, I hope others here will correct me if I am wrong,
but as I see it the most likely causes are:
Either: Usually when a IDE drive shows lots of bad sectors, it is an
early warning about forthcoming sudden death. Backup your valuable
data right
On 19 Feb 00 at 20:40, Andrew Geoghegan wrote:
can I run this file in Win3.1? is there some
simulated 32 bit environment that these Win32s files belong to?
You and the other list members might find this useful:
If you send messages to MS auto-responder ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
with a "Q" followed
On 18 Feb 00 at 9:14, Brent Reynolds wrote:
Unfortunately, the disk did not work.
Hi Brent. Sorry to hear that.
This is different from the disk you get by just formatting a DOS
disk with system files and copying a few stacker utilities.
I did create a Stacker aware boot disk in DOS and
On 16 Feb 00 at 12:38, Brent Reynolds wrote:
if you could zip up a disk image of your Stacker rescue/boot
Brent, zip on its way ( I hope)
All the best,
Bjorn
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Also, trim this
Here is a follow up on the XOSL boot manger and lack of text mode
interface. As you can see from the reply copied below, the author,
Geurt Vos, will follow up on my text mode request. He is also in the
process of redoing his website, and will keep accessibility issues in
mind when so doing. As I
On 15 Feb 00 at 14:48, hammer wrote:
That seems a bit too rough, Bob George: problem is less
"bastardisms" but lack of consideration for one part, or even plain
ingorance conditioned by the technology in use (and *that's* the
problem, IMO).
I agree, Bob almost made it sound like we where
Heimo and others,
If you go to Rich Green's FSFD site, here
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/1401/softlib1.htm or
if you like to avoid the annoying popups from geocities, visit his
mirror site here: http://members.home.net/rlgreen2/softlib1.htm
and then navigate to the bootutil page
I figured you people on SURVPC and Arachne would find this one worth
reading. At least you'll know how and when the *.cnm extension
originated. Bjorn :)
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Priority: normal
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 23:38:08 +1300
Reply-to: Pegasus Mail
XOSL - "Extended Operating System Loader" by Geurt Vos.
"XOSL is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public
License (GPL). The source code of the entire XOSL project is
freely available at the official XOSL web site" :
http://www.xosl.org
I had a bit of a problem
On 11 Feb 00 at 12:49, Howard Schwartz wrote:
Great info Howard, thanks! (Have you considered sending a copy of
this to Rich, see if I wants to include (some of) it on his "WinDos"
page?)
Related, maybe: I recently picked up on a site/file that offers lots
of Win3/DOS tips, but I haven't found
On 9 Feb 00 at 9:10, Detailboy wrote:
upgrade Internet Explorer (IE) from 3.01 to 4.x. During the install
I kept getting blue screen crashes, IFSMGR and VxD. I also got
Windows registery error pop up crashes.
Maybe you "just" need to upgrade your w95? I don't know, but could be
some files
On 1 Feb 00 at 19:32, Bernie wrote:
I tested it today at my university and it did work :)
Thanks for the input...I mean output :)
Now, where can I get a free version that can handle this much RAM?
It is a bit illegal to use himem.sys from MS-DOS 7.x on a computer
that doesn't have a
On 29 Jan 00 at 14:16, Bernie wrote:
This was the interesting part (in a big mail that Bjorn sent me G)
To see up to 256MB (or maybe more),
use MS-DOS 7.x HIMEM.SYS DR-DOS 7.02 EMM386.
It works well, including multitasking, DPMI32 etc.
Just for the record, above suggestion was by Gautier
On 29 Jan 00 at 18:31, Bernie wrote:
MS-DOS 6.20 doesn't see more than 64MB (and my original question was
if DR-DOS would work instead - installing all the 5 floppies just to
test and see seems like a little much to do, unfortunately it
doesn't work according to the info you sent me).
Yes
On 26 Jan 00 at 12:55, Brent Reynolds wrote:
Hello Brent,
Thank you very much for your very informative reply to my question
about changes from PC-DOS 6.1. to 6.3. Much appreciated! I will
install 6.3 soon, I'm just waiting for a new disk which I just bought
second hand (should be in the mail
Anyone here know what the major or minor changes from PC-DOS 6.1 to
PC-DOS 6.3 was? If anyone kept any release notes etc, please send a
copy off the list.
I have searched IBMs websites, found my way to an searchable archive
(which of course I forgot to bookmark - ibm.inlink.com or something),
On 25 Jan 00 at 16:34, Bjorn Simonsen wrote:
Anyone here know what the major or minor changes from PC-DOS 6.1 to
PC-DOS 6.3 was? If anyone kept any release notes etc, please send a
copy off the list.
Found it. At last! When I sent my request to the list I had given up
searching
On 23 Jan 00 at 2:59, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
Is the IMAP4 protocol just the technical term for "web-based email"?
Do you or anyone on the list know the answers to these questions?
Probably more than you want to know here:
http://www.imc.org/mail-standards.html
Many of the RFCs are of very
On 4 Jan 00 at 18:04, Edenyard wrote:
A few years ago, I acquired a very useful file called
THEREF43.ZIP, which contained specifications of very many
different hard disks. I recently looked in it to identify a drive
that I had been given, but I fear that the file is now too
out-of-date to
On 19 Sep 99 at 17:59, hammer wrote:
doesn't know and cannot find how to suppress his M$-mailer's
diarrhea. As my own setup is almost completely M$-free, I have no
way to tell him anything but RTFM - but I suspect it's even more
difficult than that, kind of an almost hidden and uncomfortable
Bernie and Howard,
On 21 Jul 99 at 1:18, Howard Schwartz wrote
(concerning the package containing csplit.exe):
Actually there is a significant difference between DJGPP and MS C
compiling -- the opposite of what you surmised.
Duh.. I do not relate to programming stuff very often, so I forgot
Re-reading my own messages and Howard's reply: Sorry Howard and
everyone if I came across a bit snappy in my previous post. I truly
appreciate all the input and help I can get. And.. well let me just
say, after rereading Howard's reply - I consider his explanation
of how some of the DOS limits
Chop.exe did just what i wanted. As a test run I picked a 2,7MB
file, consisting of 365 e-mail messages. Chop handled this just
fine and I ended up with 365 new files (max number of chops set on
command line). Chop named the new files using the basename from the
original, and incrementing the
On 14 Jul 99 at 16:12, Travis Siegel wrote:
it wouldn't take much to modify the program to do what you ask.
Wow Travis, what can I say but...Thank you! Your offer is much
appreciated! As you probably noticed, Garry Hamilton posted
chop.exe - and it seems offer the flexibility I requested. I
On 14 Jul 99 at 12:33, Randy Goldenberg wrote:
Forget about sed and awk - what you need is Perl!
Randy, thanks for the input. I am sure Perl 5 for DOS can do what I
want, but the question is - can I? ;) Sure, I could probably learn to
fly too, but since there are a few others around that
On 3 Jul 99, Neo Sze Wee wrote :
I do not see any difference in the digest, MIME or not. I am using
Eudora 152 under win 3.11.
a) Most likely answer, your e-mail client - Eudora - do not support
the MIME digest format. b) Or, you have not enabled MIME in Eudora.
c) Or finally - the
On 4 Jul 99, Jerry J. Haumberger wrote :
Is anyone experienced with the PC DOS 7 (2000) programs INTERLNK
and INTERSVR? I'm having difficulty connecting a Toshiba Satellite
(Pentium MMX notebook 300Mhz) as a client with a 486DX2 50Mhz
server.
I experienced something similar with LapLink,
On 9 May 99, Fraser Farrell wrote :
Sometimes I wonder what Tim thinks of the subsequent development of
HTML and the various attempts by certain companies to "improve" it.
Tim Berners-Lee http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/People/Berners-Lee/
quoted in Technology Review, July 1996:
"Anyone who
On 2 May 99, Or Botton wrote :
Bjorn Simonsen wrote:
Tell the newspaper people to read this article about how US Fed gov
aims at implementing (new?) rules for WWW accessibility:
http://www.zdnn.com/a/zdnn041999/2243282
I tried to access this link, and I received a 404.
oops, try http
Add to what I posted about WWW accessibility in Re: fault with svd.se:
"Bobby" is a public online service by CAST where you can submit
webpages (urls) for testing against accessibility standards and for
browser compatibility. http://www.cast.org/bobby/
Or you can download their free software
On 1 May 99, Bernie wrote :
But, I'll send an angry (?) mail to Svenska Dagbladet anyway, they
can't just shut people out like that! I can understand if they claim
that NN 3.0 (or IE 4.0) and up should be used, but not force people
to use them!
Agreed, and SIGH... same old story. Still -
On 28 Mar 99, Per Backman wrote :
Yes, F-PROT;
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/virus/fp-304a.zip
Yes, very good, and it's free for personal use.
To find out what the current version is, and how/where to get it,
send a message TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
type only SEND VERSION in the message body. The
On 24 Mar 99, Gunnar Thoele wrote :
I have not seen any third party software that converts pdf files.
In my opinion the Ghostscript software will create and display/print
PDFs somehow. But if you can run Ghostscript, you can run Acrobat,
too...
Thanks for the tip Gunnar. I didn't know PDF
On 25 Mar 99, Antonio Quatraro wrote :
It is quite large and I cannot download it.
There must be a ftp email service, where you can order a file. I
tried at
Garbo.uwasa.fi with no answer.
You can find a list of operational mail servers, including FTPmail,
here:
Byte Magazine is back! Not in print though... only online, and of
course we don't know if it will ever be *the same*... apart from the
online format I mean.
See http://www.BYTE.com
Andthe press release:
*CMP Reboots BYTE*: http://www.wenet.net/~halfhill/cmppr.html
For some background on
On 18 Mar 99, Bjorn Simonsen wrote :
I just tried the new URL below, and Geocities reported trouble finding
it, and did not come up with the page.
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/1401/softlib1.htm.
Hmm it works if you drop the filename, odd...
Not so odd after all
(Ole Juul wrote:)
That went fine until I discovered that the more I accessed
the machine, the more the FAT got thrashed. Before I could
catch it, the whole drive was a gonner.
Same thing happened to me once. Never figured out why. Never
InterServ/Link since, used LapLink instead (only need
Clip from: Edupage, 16 March 1999
\\begin included text\\
COMING TO TERMS WITH BYTES
Computer terminology is becoming more precise: the International
Electrotechnical Commission, which creates standards for electronic
technologies, is adopting new prefixes to describe data values. The new
On 13 Mar 99, Charles Dye wrote :
There was no MS-DOS 6.1x. There was an IBM DOS 6.1, which included a
*coupon* for SuperStor/DS (which eventually was included with IBM DOS
6.3.)
You are wrong, but you could still be right. I've got PC-DOS 6.1 here,
and it came with SuperStore/DS! No
I came across this page the other day, which I guess some of you would
find right on topic for this thread:
Each Nerd In His Small Corner:
http://members.tripod.com/leedonley/nerd.htm
*Calling All Nerds - The Children of The Universe Need You.*
While I'm at it, a few
On 7 Mar 99, Ole Juul wrote :
I gather you realise I now have a very fast high class
pentium machine and that this is what I'm writing this
I'm sure you're proud, but it'll be old soon! g
Keep in mind though, that if people where not so anxious
to upgrade and buy the latest hardware,
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,
Your name on a customer list in such an investigation might
get you involved in a mess. Microsoft's lawyers are anal about
leaving no stone unturned.
A couple of questions- regarding licenses: Does Microsoft have a
license to kill? And/or a license to search your house without a
search
On 2 Mar 99, Gunnar Thoele wrote :
Hei Gunnar,
I have a second PC, a Thinkpad 300 (a 386-25) with 8 MB on it, which
should be more than sufficient given that you succeeded with less. So
I do no longer have that old version so I can't tell anything more
about it, sorry. But somehow it
On 26 Feb 99, Gunnar Thoele wrote :
Hallo Gunnar,
Speaking about the QNX internet demo which according to their web page
http://www.qnx.com/iat/modem/index.html runs from a bootable
floppy, on a 386 or better, no harddisk needed - but at least 8 MB
memory required.
. pretty amazing.
On 24 Feb 99, hammer wrote :
If the whole OS fits on one floppy why does it need 16 MB of
RAM to run ?!
Hmm yes... I found I was 4MB short g when I looked at the
following demo from QNX:
FROM: http://www.qnx.com/products/iat.html
QNX Products - Internet Appliance Toolkit (IAT)
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