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From: "Glenn McCorkle" <glennmcc AT cisnet DOT com>
Organization: Arachne Fan Club
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 22:11:48 -0500
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To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
CC: arachne AT arachne DOT cz
Subject: Re: DR-DOS and Windows Co-existing?
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Bernie,
 Great suggestion.(thanks for the tip)

 I found Gdisk v1.1.1 here....
http://www.whitehorse.com.au/~bevanne/GHOST51C/GDISK/gdisk.exe

Unfortunately the manual is in RTF format.
http://www.whitehorse.com.au/~bevanne/GHOST51C/GDISK/gdiskman.rtf

So, we need a way to view  RTF files in DOS.
I've just D/Led and tested Martha.com v1.7 (it works great)

http://www.cena.dgac.fr/~sagnier/index.html (French version)
http://www.cena.dgac.fr/~sagnier/indexa.htm (English version)
http://www.cena.dgac.fr/~sagnier/info/formats/conversions/martha_a.htm
http://www.cena.dgac.fr/~sagnier/info/formats/conversions/martha17.zip

Here's how to add it into Arachne so that we can view RTFs without exiting.

Change these 3 lines in mime.cfg
---old lines---
text/enriched            RTF
text/richtext            RTF
application/rtf          RTF
---------------

---new lines---
text/enriched            >HTM|@call rtf2htm.bat $1 $2
text/richtext            >HTM|@call rtf2htm.bat $1 $2
application/rtf          >HTM|@call rtf2htm.bat $1 $2
---------------

---rtf2htm.bat (place in your arachne_main directory)---
copy %1 temprtf.rtf
c:\1common\martha.com temprtf.rtf
copy temprtf.htm %1htm
rem Don't put a   ^^^^ '.' between '%1' and 'htm' in the above line.
del temprtf.*
--------------
(change the path to _your_ path to martha.com)

BTW2, Sorry for the 'cross-post'.
I figured that several members of the Arachne list might also find
this information useful.;-)

On Wed, 31 May 2000 18:08:16 +0200 (MET DST), Bernie <bernie AT mbox302 DOT swipnet DOT se>
wrote:

> Alain wrote:
>> To switch operating systems, I go to fdisk (whichever DOS is running) and
>> select the active partition. CAUTION: if your bios has lba but your drive
> is chs
>> don't use the current version of FreeFDisk (have a check if all this works
> before
>> you do too many instalations.

> I've done something simular - except that I hide the DOS partitions from
> Windows so it can't mess them up (and that my two HDs total 15G - 2G for
> Windows the rest for DOS). There's a program that comes with Symantecs
> Ghost called gdisk that can do this - if you search for gdisk you should be
> able to find an older version for download (instead of downloading the
> entire trial package on almost 15MB file just to get gdisk).

--
Glenn McCorkle glennmcc AT cisnet DOT com North Jackson, Ohio, USA
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