Hello Howard - At 12:44 AM 4/4/2003 -0800, you wrote: >A while ago a friend gave me a brand spanking new/used beginning Pentium >running at a fast 1Mhz (I think PCs are now running at 2Ghz), to replace >my beloved old 486. This Pentium did not work, but I recovered the >partition with a few dos tools, and discovered a working copy of >Windows 95. After that I wondered why my interest in puttering on my >survpc dropped. It became clear the winblows experience was shutting down >another minor enjoyment in my life.
Yes, at times the graphics are necessary for WWW in particular. >Well I only use winblows for looking at websites that are undecipherable >without a browser that understands Java, javascript, frames, shows >pictures that contain the text, etc. etc. I've been using W31 for that until recently. >However, at this point windows 95 can probably be considered survpc >software. And win 9x still gives one a decent change to runs some dos >things (of course there is dosemu etc. etc.). Yes. DOS, W95/98/98SE are losing 'official' support from Microsoft now. >I became interested in seeing how much dos I could make my win 95 give to >me, so I could still run the dos CLI, and pop up to win for the occasional >browse. > >I took a while to learn how to make my favorite dos directory changer >(ACD), pop me up a chosen window (using the start command). I found some >small (!) windows programs written in assembler, and became interested in >making dos programs do the equivalent windows things (e.g., find a file). >Generally this means using a `dos box', since it takes too long to go from >so called dos (real) mode up to windows. I've recently added _real_ DOS to W2K. ;-) I spilit the drive and reformatted 9 gigs to FAT32 from NTFS and using dual boot I can get to _real_ DOS using v7.x from W98SE. >Any favorite tips about maximizing the functionality of dos boxes, >intermixing dos and windows programs For W95 you are fairly 'safe' in that the proper version of DOS won't trash your hard drive. For me using NTFS and FAT32 I have to be careful but fortunately when in DOS it can't 'see' the NTFS partition. If you limit your hard drive to FAT16 with an 8 gig total and 2 gig max partitions you can use most newer DOS (v4 or v5? and up) utilities. Going to FAT32 and larger partitions/drive size will deprecate DOS utilities very fast and make it dangerous to use those that bypass the DOS and go direct to hardware. Truth is, trying to avoid these problems tends to take the 'fun' out of the DOS CLI. To get the most from windows dosbox use I would recommend getting good at writing PIF files for your DOS applications. Charles.Angelich http:/www.undercoverdesigin.com/dosghost/ To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
