--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 118 WINDOWS Ref: F5G00195 Date: 04/22/98 From: PETER HARLE Time: 02:23am \/To: ALL (Read 4 times) Subj: Booting & Scandisk options * Crossposted from: Windows 95 Users Conference G'day all, In my efforts to use a remote control program I've come across a problem. If the Host computer has been powered down without exiting Win95B normally, scandisk automatically starts up the next time with the usual message asking for confirmation before restarting Win95B, effectively preventing remote access. Is there a way that this can be done without user input? I'm willing to accept whatever error correction scandisk may need to do in order to restart windows? I know that it's possible to run scandisk and allow auto error correction etc., without user input by setting the defaults in Win95 mode. However, I've not been able to achieve this when the computer has been powered down due to a power failure etc. I have not tried Nortons Utilities 2 for some time, I was trying to avoid using it as it tends to slow the boot up process significantly, but I vaguely remember that it does do this without user confirmation. Thanks for any info that may help. Peter H. --- EzyBlueWave V1.20 01fb000b * Origin: Mt.Druitt TAFE +61-2-9839-1310 FidoNet (3:713/709) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 118 WINDOWS Ref: F5G00196 Date: 04/21/98 From: BILL DAWSON Time: 01:49pm \/To: MATTHEW DAY2 (Read 4 times) Subj: Small System -=> Quoting Matthew Day2 to Bill Dawson <=- MD> If you want a small browser for lower powered machines, Opera is o MD> choice. If you want to get back to basics, look out for Cello, an MD> older browser, but nimble indeed on the less powerful machines. BD> I have an echo friend, Terry Durfee, in the Lubbock, Texas area with BD> a 486-33 that only has 8 MB of RAM and a 120 MB HDD that is already BD> very full. She cannot pay for more hard drive and needs both a *COM- BD> PACT* browser and a really inexpensive Inet access. Since she is BD> impaired, I think Texas Tech might allow her a free student-type ac- BD> cess account through their net connection, but even the W3.x versions BD> of Netscape are too "fat" for her little system. MD> Is the drive compressed? a 486 should take it without too much loss - MD> and if it's an older DOS version, move up to Caldera (free for private MD> use) with it's Stacker compression. I've mentioned DriveSpace to her in a current email -- haven't heard back whether she has a recent enough DOS to include it. BD> Her local Fido BBS is pulling the plug, and she needs to try to get BD> Fido via telnet, since it seems no other area BBS is keeping the BD> dawg.. MD> What's this "Juno" thing? we don't have it here, but it sounds like it MD> might be a possible answer. That's already the free email system Terry uses, but Juno is pretty well restricted to mail only. No FTP, no Telnet, no browsing. The system puts ads across the top of the screen as a way to make money while letting users read & write mail in its own built-in ("brain- dead") editor. When I saw the Opera browser turn up in Northern Lights BBS's file lists, I grabbed a copy for Terry, but the digits "32" appear as a part of the file name, so I suspect it isn't a Windows3 program.. I've heard of Arachne before, as a non-W95 browser. What's the gen on Cello? Bill D ... Sir..a large troll here to see you..says it's REAL important.. --- RemoteAccess 2.52+ * Origin: Northern Lights! * San Antonio * 210-499-6299 V34/VFC (1:387/23) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 118 WINDOWS Ref: F5G00197 Date: 04/21/98 From: WAYNE CHIRNSIDE Time: 04:25pm \/To: KARL SCHNEIDER (Read 4 times) Subj: yr2k Win 3.1 file fix? KS>.MSGID: 1:170/170.6 4ef33644 KS>.REPLY: 1:3603/140 bb0843e3 KS>On (20 Apr 98) WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to KARL SCHNEIDER... KS>KS> WC> Anyone have any idea whether Microsoft intends to offer KS>KS> WC> year 2k file fixes for its existing products such as KS> WC> Actually I got a positive response to this, w31filup.exe for 3.1 KS> WC> and wfwfilup.exe for WFWG's 3.11, also w95filup.exe but this one KS> Hi Wayne, yes I saw the response, and I found the file on the web KS> and grabbed it. But the odd thing was, I checked it out before I KS> 'installed' it, and my Windows didn't ...uh, 'garble' the date; it KS> just thought it was 1900. KS> So I put in the patch, and it didn't change anything. KS> I dunno... Well, does your BIOS support yr2k, mine does. I don't get the year 2001 but 01, me I can deal with that but I wouldn't want to do much accounting with this flaw. I dunno either.... * SLMR 2.1a * --- Platinum Xpress/Win/Wildcat5! v2.0 * Origin: Get Your Fido Fix Here. telnet://docsplace.dyn.ml.org (1:3603/140) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 118 WINDOWS Ref: F5G00198 Date: 04/21/98 From: ALAN ZISMAN Time: 12:00am \/To: LEWIS PHINNEY (Read 4 times) Subj: Zipdrives Lewis Phinney said to All on 04-19-98 15:08: LP>My zip drive will work in windows 95, but when I exit to DOS, it says t LP>Zipdrive directory is invalid. Help!!!! Your computer has no built-in support for Zip drives... in Win95, you have drivers installed to enable you to recognize it, but like W95's drivers for CD-ROM, sound, network, mouse, etc., these don't work when you've booted to DOS (they do work in a W95/DOS session)... you need to load DOS replacements. If you have a floppy diskette that came with your Zip drive, it should have a collection of Guest programs-- for W95, W31, and DOS. If you run the DOS version at your DOS prompt, it will try to locate the ZIP drive, and assign a drive letter for it. If you want something more permanent, there is a installation program, to install DOS drivers onto your hard drive, and rewrite your DOS startup files to do that each time you exit to DOS. _______________ Internet mail to: azisman@rogers.wave.ca Win95 FAQ at: http://home.bc.rogers.wave.ca/azisman/faq95.htm ___ * WR 1.31 # 126 * --- Maximus 2.01wb * Origin: Basic'ly Computers: Mooo-ing Right Along. (1:153/9) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 118 WINDOWS Ref: F5G00199 Date: 04/16/98 From: ANDY MANNINGER Time: 02:31pm \/To: PETER SHARPE (Read 4 times) Subj: Accessing BBS in W95 Hello, Peter! -=> Peter Sharpe wrote to Andy Manninger on 04-13-98 16:59 <=- PS> Once upon a time, Jerry Schwartz wrote... I'm not Jerry Schwartz. :-)) AM>> I'm a brand new convert from good ole DOS to W95, so excuse me if AM>> I ask a stupid question. Is there a way to access a BBS and AM>> up/download messages from within W95 without the benefit of a AM>> communication program such as Telix? PS> For the absolute dogs nuts in comms software, use Terminate. It is DOS PS> based, but runs fine under Windows 95 (I'm using it now). See the FIDO PS> Terminate echo for any and all questions regarding this software, PS> registration is 30UKP, money well spent. Terminate can be downloaded PS> from just about anywhere. Thanks, Pete, but I'm well satisfied with Telix. It does all I need to have done. Kind regards, Andy e-mail: andy.manninger@elab.canbbs.net ... For the ignorant old age is a winter - for the learned it's a harvest. ___ Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 [NR] --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: VKUG/VPCC Windows Echo - Richmond, BC (1:153/151) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 118 WINDOWS Ref: F5G00200 Date: 04/16/98 From: SHERYL DOUYARD Time: 06:42pm \/To: MARK LENTON (Read 4 times) Subj: Leap Year I am sorry. I was not around in 1900. I only know that when I was in school the teachers told us that leap year had to be divisible by four. If there are other rules that go along with this, I greatly apologize. --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: The Message Center, Jacksonville FL (1:112/115) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 118 WINDOWS Ref: F5G00201 Date: 04/16/98 From: PETE GRANZEAU Time: 06:24pm \/To: MARK FORNOFF (Read 4 times) Subj: Leap Year On 15 Apr 98 20:13:03, a Gin and Tonic at the Angler's Rest overheard Mark Fornoff say to Mark Lenton: MF>MSGID: 1:260/180.0 53591ed3 MF>Mark Lenton wrote in a message to Sheryl Douyard: SD> The true leap year rule is if it is divisible by four it is SD> leap year. the last leap year was 1996 therefore 2000 is SD> the next leap year. Sorry for sticking my nose in. ML> Why wasn't 1900 a leap year? MF>A century year must also be equally divisible by 400, and 1900 is not, MF>2000 is. What's interesting is that the Julian rule (which first established a leap year every four years, along with a normal year of 365 days and a leap year of 366 days) started with a leap year in 45 BC. Remember, now, that the Romans did not number their years as we do (and the birth of Christ was at least 40 years in the future at that time), instead they used AUC (Anno Urbs Conditae or something like that) to number years--and in addition, when he first established the year of the Burth of Christ, the monk Dionysius Exiguus (who got it wrong in the first place) chose the first year after a leap year for 1 Anno Domini--and that wasn't until 525 years later, regardless. So the first leap year in Dionysius' calendar just happened to be 4 AD. Otherwise we'd have some stupid rule like the year before a year etc. or two years after a year divisible by 4. Kind of like the rule for determining Easter, or the day of the general election in the US (it's the Tuesday following the first Monday in November). I guess I've babbled enough. Regards, PHG phg@exis.net ... Origin: 3701'48"N 7625'38"W (UTM unavailable) * Wave Rider 1.33 # 92 * --- * Origin: Little America BBS, Williamsburg VA (1:271/140) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 118 WINDOWS Ref: F5G00202 Date: 04/15/98 From: CAREY BLOODWORTH Time: 10:06pm \/To: BOBBY CRAIG (Read 4 times) Subj: DOS OR WINDOWS BC>I have just discovered that I have a copy of both HIMEN.SYS & EMM386.EXE n BC>C:\DOS and C:\WINDOWS and they are both different. BC>When running windows should I be using the DOS ones or the WINDOWS ones ? Essentially, it doesn't matter. Just use which ever one is newest. When Windows 3.0 first shipped, it had newer versions that what the DOS of the time did, so they were included with windows. When later versions of DOS came out, they had newer versions that what Windows 3.0 had, so it included the new versions. When Win 3.1 came out... When DOS 6.2 came out... When Win 3.11/wfwg 3.11 came out... When DOS 6.22 came out... Notice a pattern? Just use which ever is newest. That's also true with Smartdrv, which is also included with DOS and Windows. And there are newer versions of the mouse driver than what is included with Windows, too. --- QScan/PCB v1.19b / 01-0162 * Origin: Jackalope Junction 501-785-5381 Ft Smith AR (1:3822/1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 118 WINDOWS Ref: F5G00203 Date: 04/15/98 From: PETER LANE-COLLETT Time: 04:10am \/To: SHERYL DOUYARD (Read 4 times) Subj: Leap Year Sheryl, at 16:26 on Fri, Apr 10 1998, you wrote to All ... I'm sure you've had lots of replies but mail takes a bit longer to get Australia. SD> The true leap year rule is if it is divisible by four it is leap year. the SD> last leap year was 1996 therefore 2000 is the next leap year. Sorry for SD> sticking my nose in. Yes 2000 is but 1900 wasn't. In fact the rule is more complicated. It is a leap year if divisible by 4 unless divisible by 100 except if divisible by 400. 1000 - no 2000 - yes 1600 - yes 1700 - no 1800 - no 1900 - no The rule will be good for many years to come. Maybe when the fact that the Earth is slowing in rotation becomes far more noticable then something will change. Regards, Peter peter.lc@uq.net.au ---- http://www.uq.net.au/~zzplanec --- Msgedsq 3.10 * Origin: Montezuma's Revenge -= 61-7-3398-4288 =- (3:640/306) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 118 WINDOWS Ref: F5G00204 Date: 04/15/98 From: PETER LANE-COLLETT Time: 04:16am \/To: MARK FORNOFF (Read 4 times) Subj: Leap Year Mark, at 21:30 on Sun, Apr 12 1998, you wrote to Sheryl Douyard ... SD>> The true leap year rule is if it is divisible by four it is leap SD>> year. the last leap year was 1996 therefore 2000 is the next leap SD>> year. Sorry for sticking my nose in. MF> I think you may be mistaken here. I believe that the leap year also cannot MF> be equally divisible by 400, and 2000 thus would not qualify. Wrong way around. Regards, Peter peter.lc@uq.net.au ---- http://www.uq.net.au/~zzplanec --- Msgedsq 3.10 * Origin: Montezuma's Revenge -= 61-7-3398-4288 =- (3:640/306)