Subj : DOS and Inet.
To   : JEAN PARROT
From : Gerald Miller
Date : Thu Jul 01 2004 08:29 pm

Hello JEAN,

    Responding to a post in the LAN area:
    On Wednesday June 30 2004 at 10:27,
    JEAN PARROT [1:123/140] wrote to GERALD MILLER,
    about: DOS and Inet.

 GM>> Eventually, I want to move my Fidonet software over to the
 GM>> Windows 98SE box because it is my understanding that W98SE is the
 GM>> last version of Windows to have any support for DOS.
 JP>         Not nearly true. I use DOS Blue Wave to do my FIDO mail and it
 JP>  works quite nicely from an XPP boot. My editor, TSE Jr. also is fully
 JP>  DOS and as you can see, also runs nicely.

Hmmmm.  When XPP crashed last month, I took it to a tech (and it's my fault
that I wasn't explicit enough about two 20GB partitions with FAT-32 format)
and it is one 40GB partition with NTFS format.  I haven't tried to run any
kind of DOS programs on it yet.....  I'll have to get back to you when I
finally give it a try.

 GM>> Since I had 3.11 (never really used it),
 JP>         You have to get on a winning team to get some gold. I myself,
 JP>  would have stayed with a Commodore 64 or 128 as I learned on them but
 JP>  waning more options and "space" to do what I wanted, I switched.

I'm going to go visit a used computer store tomorrow and see if I can get a
reasonable computer system (for a respectable price) to set up W2k....

 JP>         It is nice to be a conservative but as you have seen, they
 JP> came second. I voted in QB, Bloke not Bloc.

With this last ditty, I would hazard a guess that you're a Canuck!  ;-))

As a side note, I finally tried the D&D on both XPP and W98SE copying files
from each -- success!!!  I pulled up Total Commander on both machines,
mapped each of the network drives and found it to be a #_LOT_# easier to
transfer files between the two boxes.

I will try doing some serious work on WfW311 this weekend (now that I know
I can use Total Commander for copying/moving files); it just means that I
will have to take my Fidonet system down because the mouse and the external
modem both use the same comm port....

[I swear the tagline is totally random...]

P.S. I will go searching for Zone Alarm and set it up this weekend (or
next) on at least the XPP.

           Cheers ... Gerald

.... Conservative: one who'd rather have 8% unemployment than 8% inflation.
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