Mail Archives: opendos/2001/02/14/17:44:16
----- Original Message -----
From: "da Silva, Joe" <Joe DOT daSilva AT emailmetering DOT com>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 2:13 AM
Subject: RE: Web browsers, CD-ROM drivers (was Dr-dos... Installed!)
> See below ...
>
> Joe.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Patrick Moran [SMTP:pmoran22 AT yahoo DOT com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 14 February 2001 10:13
> > To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
> > Subject: Re: Dr-dos... Installed!
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "White Dragon" <white DOT dragon AT tin DOT it>
> > To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 11:18 AM
> > Subject: Dr-dos... Installed!
> >
> ----- snip -----
>
> > > Modem and tcp/ip support are in NWCLIENT?
> >
> > Not tcp/ip or an RAS. There are packages available for tcp/ip and
PPP
> > connects (and SLIP for that metter.) One I have is Minuet. You can
also
> > steal or use the stuff out of WEBSPYDER. It has all the rcp/ip and
PPP
> > stuff in it. In fact if you do not intend to set up a network, you
could
> > just remove the PNW and use WEBSPYDER. There is supposed to be an
> > improved version of it out there someplace. Archaine or something
> > similar. I'll be playing with that stuff soon as I now have a ISP
with a
> > shell account and they run Linux boxes.
> >
> [da Silva, Joe]
>
> Anyone know what was the last version of DR-Webspyder?
> (Was it 2.1b2? If so, as a browser, it is far too unstable.)
That is the last free version I have seen. Lineo seems to have a
commercial version that they talk about on their Web site, but I have
never gotten that version and don't even know what version it may be.
> > Now that you have the DRDOS multiboot installed, you use the
> > AUTODOS7.BAT and DCONFIG.SYS files for your DOS configuration and
setup.
> > Do not use the AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS fies. they could mess up
> > WINDOZE. If you put the CDROM drivers in the CONFIG.SYS file under
> > stupid 95, the dumb thing would try and load both the DOS and
WINDOZE
> > drivers and would crash the system. It appears that they fixed that
in
> > 98, but why waste the space if both are actually loaded?
> >
> [da Silva, Joe]
>
> Hmmm ... I *always* load the CD-ROM drivers (I have enough
> memory to fit them, so why not? I often boot just to M$-DOS
> 7.10 ;-) and never have a problem with Windoze 95B crashing.
7.10 is WINDOZE 98 DOS and like I said,they seem to have fixed the
problem in 98. 7.0 is WINDOZE 95 DOS. At least my OSR-2 is. There is
also an OSR 2.1 and maybe that version has MSDOS 7.10. But believe me we
had many problems with this when I worked for Gateway Customer Service.
Also which CONFIG and AUROEXEC are these located? If it is in CONFIG.SYS
and AUTOEXEC.BAT, this is what causes WINDOZE 95 to crash. I had to have
clients remove those lines or usually just changed the name of the files
so there would be no CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC at all. WINDOZE does not
need them. 95 was too stupid to know that the drivers had already been
loaded. I mean my God, when I try and load a driver on DOS, it tells me
that the driver is already loaded and refuses to load it again. DRMOUSE,
NWCACHE, NWCDEX or even if I try to load MSCDEX on top of NWCDEX.
WINDOZE 95 was one of the worse pieces of crap MS ever put out, but I
will never know which is the worst, because when you are scraping the
bottom of the barrel, how can you tell the difference!!!!!
Pat
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