Dale wrote:
>>>I was crazy enough to actually download the entire knowledge base for DOS
>>>from their ftp server ;-)
>
>Crazy like a fox. ;)
I really don't follow you here, aren't a fox known to be smart? (Or was
that the reason you added the ";)" ? )
>P.S. BTW, I sent for the index and there did not appear to be
>anything about MSDOS or Win3.x. If it is now unavailable, you might
>have a real treasure there, Bernie.
It wasn't that long ago I downloaded it.
But yes you are right, I had a link for it in CuteFTP so I could easily
access it (I downloaded it in smaller portitions first, but then descieded
to take everything thta was left one day), and now it's gone.
Sadly, I don't have the once for Win 3.x so they are probably gone from
existience now.
Brent Reynolds wrote to me (I hope you don't mind me answering in public):
>HOw big is that entire Knowledge Base for DOS from MicroSoft, and how much
>less large does it become if compressed into a big .zip file? I'm almost
>tempted to get your phone number and have us set up a connection so I
>download the whole thing. It might be done some weekend night when rates
>are a little cheaper. Or, if the whole file will fit onto a Zip cartridge
>and you have a 100MB capacity zip drive, maybe I could snail-mail you a Zip
>disk to hold it.
It's 6,36M bytes, 1,13M bytes after using RAR on it. However it will take
much more space unpacked since there are 1681 files and 527 directories.
In any case uzing a ZIP drive seems a little much. And calling all the way
to Sweden seems a little expensive as well. (That reminds me, got to set up
a BBS soon - all calls in Sweden are local calls since a few weeks so BBSes
can start running again).
>Please let me know what you think. Of course, if you have enough available
>space, you could put the whole file on your web or FTP site temporarily so
>it could be downloaded.
Since I've got no limit (except HD space <g>) on my web space (thanks to
Michael Polak) I can easily upload it there. I'll let you know when I've
done so.
//Bernie
http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ...
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