On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:42:04 -000, Mike Millen wrote:
> Hi Clarence,
> CV>Ah Mike, the bootable 1.44 floppy is a demo in all senses of the word.
> CV>It loads itself into memory + ramdisk and runs 100% from there.
> That's ok. (I think)
> I'm not particularly interested in exploring QNX but if the demo
> includes a Browser that supports Secure Shell I thought I could
> just use it as a browser when Arachne can't cope.
The demo version of the QNX browser (Voyager), does not support SSL
(I know because I tried it last evening) :(
> CV>I wasn't even able to save my settings to floppy so I wouldn't
> CV>have to go thru the setup next time.
> And that includes configuring the browser, I suppose? Not so good. :(
Yes, you must do the setup (all of it), each time you boot from the
demo diskette. This requires perhaps 30 or 40 seconds to complete
This not a joke. 30 to 40 seconds is all it takes.
1) enter DNS number
2) enter phone number to dial
3) enter user name
4) enter password
That's it, done. It dials, connects and loads the QNX front page.
> CV>the advice Steven gave re: saving settings to floppy with his
> CV>Basiclinux may work here also.
> Are you going to investigate this? ;)
If I can figure-out a way of doing a "warm reboot" instead of the
default QNX shutdown of "cold reboot"...... We'll have it. ;-)
(yes, Cntl+Alt+Del is disabled in the demo)
> CV>The link to the Demo disk is:
> CV>http://www.qnx.com/demodisk/download/modem.html#windows
> CV>The main site is: http://www.qnx.com/
> Many thanks... I'll check it on the weekend (when phone calls
> are cheaper).
IMHO, you're going to love it. :)
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Glenn
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