X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <006e01c096cb$f2d5f6d0$73822a40@dbcooper> From: "Patrick Moran" To: References: <01FD6EC775C6D4119CDF0090273F74A4021F57 AT emwatent02 DOT meters DOT com DOT au> Subject: Re: Web browsers, CD-ROM drivers (was Dr-dos... Installed!) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:12:13 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com ----- Original Message ----- From: "da Silva, Joe" To: 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" > > To: > > 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 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com