On 1999-03-16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I used to have an Apple 2 E, whith Prodos and basic.system and
startup.bas on it, it was prety cool.
Yeah, I used to have one of those critters - next door neighbour
gave it to me instead of throwing it out in a garage clear-out. My
father
Where can I find this "Word Viewer" program?
There are 2 versions of it, one for 3.x, one for 9x.
Is there one for DOS?
As I have already stated there's a diffrent program (not made by M$) that
can access Word files (among other formats) for DOS.
View can be downloaded from:
On 1999-03-15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On 11 Mar 99 at 19:04, Casper Gielen wrote:
IMHO it's DOS (yes, especially MS-DOS which used to be the best)
and Apple who should be praised for opening up computing.
DOS and Apple did helped to open up computing, however IIRC MS-DOS
was not
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Or Botton wrote:
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.
Is there one for DOS?
~pete
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I used to have an Apple 2 E, whith Prodos and basic.system and startup.bas
on it, it was prety cool.
Yeah, I used to have one of those critters - next door neighbour gave it to me
instead of throwing it out in a garage clear-out. My father came back from
work the day after and said that his
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
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
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
Or Botton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes re: why a surv. PC?
Well, I really do need the multi-tasking features..
About the windows multi-tasking, the bad side is that it will
multi-task better Windows programs. Unfortunatly, you cant run more
then one DOS programs in most Windows 95 installs i've
Y'know, the windows bashing and gates bashing has left the arena of
intelligent complaints and gone into habitual rudeness. We really wanna
behave that way? I do see good things about windows. It has brought a lot
more people into contact with each other, people who can't drive a computer
Quite precise, Brent !
One interesting detail I read from a good observer who had followed
a European tour of Gates lately, and had even interviewd him: that his
often reported "shyness" might be a wrong interpretation, that the
observer felt that this was rather a "mistrusting, fearful"
On 11 Mar 99 at 22:38, Bernie wrote:
I guess that it only gives yet another proof that everything
bad also got a good side. :)
Here's a tough one: Windows
Well, Windows has these good things:
1. MultiTasking (or perhaps Multiswitching, but atleast you can have 2
diffrent kind of
Gates was born common, poor maybe, and used his talents ...
Snip--
Sounds somebody needs to do some biography reading. Bill Gates was born and
raised in a very wealthy family and encourraged from an early age to be
competitive and win at all cost. This attitude held whether he played
baseball,
Brent wrote:
Bill Gates got where he is partly, if not largely, by
ruthlesly stomping and smashing his competitors, licensing their products,
bastardizing them, and stealing the ideas, then marginalizing the licensors.
Yep, Worked briefly with him about 15 years ago and it was as you described.
behave that way? I do see good things about windows. It has brought a lot
more people into contact with each other, people who can't drive a computer
themselves. It has opened computing up to the ordinary man and woman.
Yeah, Windows has its good points. However, Microsoft tout most of them
Or Botton wrote:
I guess that it only gives yet another proof that everything
bad also got a good side. :)
Here's a tough one: Windows
--
Casper Gielen
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http://home.wxs.nl/~vcmeaned
--
The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the
day they start
At 09:44 PM 09/03/99 +0100, you wrote:
Or Botton wrote:
I guess that it only gives yet another proof that everything
bad also got a good side. :)
Here's a tough one: Windows
--
Casper Gielen
Y'know, the windows bashing and gates bashing has left the arena of
intelligent complaints and gone
But if the same hardware was made but was just improved, and software
was written better, there would still be an abundance of parts for
free, and we would have computers that were like Porsches - not 12
cylinders, not using automatically adjusted wings, but winning races
because they were
On 8 Mar 99 at 12:05, Or Botton wrote:
On 7 Mar 99 at 19:13, Bjorn Simonsen wrote:
Keep in mind though, that if people where not so anxious
to upgrade and buy the latest hardware, you would not
be able to find all the free parts you say you do g
I guess that it only gives yet another
Stephen Lloyd wrote:
oh, and btw: if I were you I wouldn't go
bothering big multi-trilion dollar companies to get their
programs to work in dos, probably the best you could do is
to try and get them to develop their programs to run in a
dos box under win32.
Check out the
On 7 Mar 99 at 19:13, Bjorn Simonsen wrote:
Keep in mind though, that if people where not so anxious
to upgrade and buy the latest hardware, you would not
be able to find all the free parts you say you do g
I guess that it only gives yet another proof that everything
bad also got a good
Bjorn wrote:
Keep in mind though, that if people where not so anxious
to upgrade and buy the latest hardware, you would not be
able to find all the free parts you say you do g
Sure I grinned too.
But nevertheless I do not share the analysis:
There's a fundamentally destructive process
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,
oh, and btw: if I were you I wouldn't go
bothering big multi-trilion dollar companies to get their
programs to work in dos, probably the best you could do is
to try and get them to develop their programs to run in a
dos box under win32.
Check out the statistics for how many
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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