Re: Your Computer

2002-11-05 Thread Laurie L Proud
On Mon, 04 Nov 2002 08:53:53 -0500, you wrote: > On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 18:40:28, Christof Lange wrote: >> In the age of Users' Edition, it should be possible to deactivate >> this function that is useful on some computers / DOS flavours, but >> crashes (most?) others. Accidentally pressing ALT+F2 ca

Re: Andy's Memory Problems in DOS

2002-11-05 Thread Laurie L Proud
On Mon, 04 Nov 2002 19:39:08 CST, you wrote: >> Hi all, >> I am having trouble running the DOS app; Arachne(arachne.cz) >> normally it would run with my 8MB RAM if I rem'ed out everything in my >> autoexec.bat and devicehigh'ed everything in my config.sys >> however, now I want to run it(

Re: 'on the fly' video setup (was Re: Your Computer)

2002-11-05 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Wed, 06 Nov 2002 02:35:45 +00, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote: > On Tue, 05 Nov 2002 10:12:57 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: >> On Tue, 05 Nov 2002 02:22:08 +00, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote: >> >>> There is another problem with the 486 ... too less colors. >>> How to run the screen setup f

Re: your computer hang

2002-11-05 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Tue, 05 Nov 2002 17:33:51 -0800, Ray Andrews wrote: > Hi Glenn, > I tried that rename of cdrom.ikn fix for the 'your computer' hang problem > with no luck. (I get exactly the same hang when I hit the "\\" button in > 'all files'). But riddle me this: I can access every drive on my computer

RE:Re: Antiword PDF2HTM

2002-11-05 Thread Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ
On Tue, 05 Nov 2002 20:05:17 +0100, Joerg Dietze wrote: > Hi Bastiaan and all, > On Mon, 04 Nov 2002 03:08:01 +00, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote: >> Hi Folks, >> as ANTIWORD has not yet been finished... why not use VIEW.EXE? >> I am very satisfied with this program in DOS and it runs insid

Re: 'on the fly' video setup (was Re: Your Computer)

2002-11-05 Thread Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ
On Tue, 05 Nov 2002 10:12:57 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > On Tue, 05 Nov 2002 02:22:08 +00, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote: > >> There is another problem with the 486 ... too less colors. >> How to run the screen setup for HI-COLOR mode without losing the >> complete installation details like

your computer hang

2002-11-05 Thread Ray Andrews
Hi Glenn, I tried that rename of cdrom.ikn fix for the 'your computer' hang problem with no luck. (I get exactly the same hang when I hit the "\\" button in 'all files'). But riddle me this: I can access every drive on my computer by typing the drive letter by hand up in the what-ever-you- call

Re: broke machine

2002-11-05 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 17:49:15 -0500 (EST), ANDY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all, > I tried following mostly Glenn McCorkle's advice > I forgot to tell everyone that my zip drive is a *parallel port* drive; > *NOT* SCSI!! > I ended up with an entry in my *CONFIG.SYS* that reads: > DEVICEHIGH

PDF2HTM (was Re: Antiword)

2002-11-05 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Tue, 05 Nov 2002 20:05:17 +0100, Joerg Dietze wrote: > Hi Bastiaan and all, > On Mon, 04 Nov 2002 03:08:01 +00, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote: >> Hi Folks, >> as ANTIWORD has not yet been finished... why not use VIEW.EXE? >> I am very satisfied with this program in DOS and it runs insid

Re: broke machine

2002-11-05 Thread Gregor Jones
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, ANDY wrote: > > I can't get to the C:\> prompt (: > Reboot the machine, and, just before DRDOS starts loading CONFIG.SYS, press F5. This will bypass both CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT and load only COMMAND.COM to give you a C:\ prompt... Alternatively, press F8 at the same

Re: PDF2HTM (was: Antiword)

2002-11-05 Thread Ron Clarke
Hi Folks, Joerge, On Tue, 05 Nov 2002 20:05:17 +0100, Joerg Dietze wrote: > And if there is > anyone interested: I plan a new version which is a bit easier to set up > and a bit more comfortable in navigating within the converted PDF. Well, I am certainly interested. I never got it to work in

broke machine

2002-11-05 Thread ANDY
hi all, I tried following mostly Glenn McCorkle's advice I forgot to tell everyone that my zip drive is a *parallel port* drive; *NOT* SCSI!! I ended up with an entry in my *CONFIG.SYS* that reads: DEVICEHIGH or DEVICE C:\ZIPTOOLS\GUEST.EXE (: this upon boot-up resulted/results in a DOS/EMS38

Re: Antiword

2002-11-05 Thread Joerg Dietze
Hi Bastiaan and all, On Mon, 04 Nov 2002 03:08:01 +00, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote: > Hi Folks, > as ANTIWORD has not yet been finished... why not use VIEW.EXE? > I am very satisfied with this program in DOS and it runs inside Arachne. > Images in a word document are not shown. Also a ni

Re: Glenn's correction

2002-11-05 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 10:42:59 -0500, Terri FitzSimons wrote: > On Tue, 05 Nov 2002 00:46:52 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: > >>> For those who have already D/Led and installed. >>> Here's how to fix the copy you have with reinstalling. >> Oops, that should read "without renstalling". > You we

Glenn's correction

2002-11-05 Thread Terri FitzSimons
On Tue, 05 Nov 2002 00:46:52 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: >> For those who have already D/Led and installed. >> Here's how to fix the copy you have with reinstalling. >Oops, that should read "without renstalling". You were right the first time. Terri OAGS

'on the fly' video setup (was Re: Your Computer)

2002-11-05 Thread Glenn McCorkle
On Tue, 05 Nov 2002 02:22:08 +00, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote: > There is another problem with the 486 ... too less colors. > How to run the screen setup for HI-COLOR mode without losing the > complete installation details like phonenumbers, passwords etc.? > Arachne Video Setup does not work

Re: Your Computer

2002-11-05 Thread Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ
On Mon, 04 Nov 2002 19:05:58 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote: >>> * more important would be blocking or changing the the ALT+F2 key >> Tried this one... same result as control+alt+del ;-( >> Is there a way to block Alt F2? > Just a thought.. > Do you have a CD drive setup? > If so, try booting

added RAM yet DOS app still out of low mem (:

2002-11-05 Thread Richard Menedetter
Hi ANDY! 04 Nov 2002, ANDY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A> normally it would run with my 8MB RAM if I rem'ed out everything in A> my autoexec.bat and devicehigh'ed everything in my config.sys why do you rem out everything in autoexec.bat ?? why not LH it ? A> I thought by adding more RAM thi