Thanks, now I have a small project for tomorrow. That means I simply must putoff doing my taxes ;-)
George A ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 6:55 PM Subject: Re: Scouted: Dell follows Apple: Eliminates Floppies > Jon Gabriel wrote: > > > >From: "G. D. Akin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Subject: Re: Scouted: Dell follows Apple: Eliminates Floppies > > >Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 06:19:30 +0900 > > > > > >The only problem (a sentimental one) with this for me is I will have to > > >give > > >up my Borland Pascal 7.0. I still have the original 12 or 13 720Kb 3.5" > > >floppies and everytime I upgrade my computer, one of the first things I do > > >is install it. > > > > You may not have to.... you might be able to copy all the floppies to their > > own folders on a cd and then write a bat file to allow you to install them > > from the cd. > > Borland is easy. Copy all files from your disk onto a cd-rom, it isn't really > necessary to keep them in separate folders. But since CD space is cheep, you > could opt to make two versions. One for the programm as a whole and the other > with a directory for each disk. For install, <optional> just copy all the files > from the CD-rom onto your harddisk and </optional> run the install, it's any of > the exe files on the first 'disk'. You then have to tell the install where to > look for the files and where to install them to. Works like a charm. > > Sonja > > _______________________________________________ > http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l > _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
