On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Johnson Lam wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:41:13 +0100, you wrote:
5. SYS B: C: /oem:ms (it says system transferred)
Which it probably did...
When I reboot with the C drive marked Active I get two dots on a black
screen and a flashing cursor, that wasn't expected...
I
Hi Johnson, with a forum, you would have to log in
every time when you want to get the news. I prefer
receiving the DOS news in my mailbox automatically...
NNTP is more for higher traffic stuff and for situations
where most users only want to read a part of the
messages, plus, as Jim said, NNTP
Hi Eric,
5. SYS B: C: /oem:ms (it says system transferred)
Which it probably did...
Yes, but there's obviously some major problems with this. To be fair,
it's probably unreasonable to expect FreeDOS to be able to install an
MS-DOS 6.22 boot sector from a FAT12 floppy to a FAT16 partition.
Hi,
Hi Johnson, with a forum, you would have to log in
every time when you want to get the news.
I agree, also it's less efficient than NNTP and much more difficult to
manage large volume archives. The threading on NNTP is also much more
solid (e.g. if someone changed the subject line).
NNTP
Gerry Hickman wrote:
easy to skip over. I don't know how, but the NNTP groups have a lot less
spam than a year ago. I never see all that V_iagra stuff anymore.
Interesting! Before I put the underscore in the line above, sourceforge
refused to post my message!
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Gerry Hickman (London UK)
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, Gerry Hickman wrote:
NNTP is more for higher traffic stuff and for situations
where most users only want to read a part of the
messages,
I find it great for low traffic too. You don't have to do anything, just
...to do anything except pay to ISP or any NNTP provider
Hi!
The threading on NNTP is also much more
solid (e.g. if someone changed the subject line).
Email threading is not subject line based either - if
you use the proper email software ;-).
I find it great for low traffic too. You don't have to do anything, just
click the group and start
dima wrote:
...to do anything except pay to ISP or any NNTP provider for NNTP access.
I have no free NNTP access and not sure if I really need it.
Not really. You can connect to an NNTP server regardless of whether your
ISP offers free access. For example anyone can participate in Microsoft
Arkady V.Belousov wrote:
NNTP is only one protocol to distribute lists. And distribution over
email has its own advantages (for example, no depends from TCP/IP).
Eh? email use 110/25 pop/smtp and AFIAK those use tcp/udp.
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On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:31:08 +0200 (MEST), you wrote:
Hi Johnson, with a forum, you would have to log in
every time when you want to get the news. I prefer
receiving the DOS news in my mailbox automatically...
I don't mind, my software manage it well, just BAHCL feel pain.
Also this method
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 05:48:54 +0400, you wrote:
Hi,
Not enough information: which config.sys and autoexec.bat content on
those disk? After which statement in config.sys you get this message (what
you see on screen before this message)? Which kernel and FreeCOM version you
use (do you get
Hi Arkady,
Sorry, she downloaded the SR9 beta2 ISO and got MCB Chain corrupt, I
told her to try Odin 0.6, well it solve the problem.
The Kernel should be 2035a-unstable.
Rgds,
Johnson.
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