On 14 Jan 00 at 17:39, L.D. Best wrote:
>>But if people can figure out how to overcome those problems, I can
>>easily set up a diskette to BOOT, create RAMdisk, run self-extracting
>>Arachne, run setup for video. Comm port would still be problem,
>>requiring "hand setup" under options, particularly if the system was
>>networked to reach internet.
>>
>>So, for networked terminal that would require customized diskette for
>>each. But once customized, it should work every time if can boot to A:
>>
>>For generic "Pocket Arachne" there remains the problem with COM port.
>>If a miniwizard of some sort were developed to locate & write COM port
>>stuff to arachne.cfg, then porting Pocket Arachne should be relatively
>>simple.
L.D., I used this technique to make a Pocket Goin' Postal disk of
Steve Lawson's Goin' Postal email program for the HP DOS palm
computers. I used this on my son's Compaq 100mhz Pentium and it
worked pretty well. Using this I did not have to install any software
on his machine. Fortunately his 19.2k modem was not a Windows Modem.
I thought of this before we visited him at Christmas and took an old
14.4k external modem that I would have used on one of his machine's
COM ports.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
I started out with nothing...I still have most of it.
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