Re: OT diagnostic diskette

[J R FOX jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

--- "Patricia M. Godfrey"  wrote:

> from Jordan's later post that there's a version of
> PCI that should run from a floppy),

Yes, that's most commonly how I've run it -- both the
DOS version and the OS/2 port of it.

> but its licensing scheme is crazy.

That's a new one on me . . . but then, I probably run
the OS/2 version (maintained by Veit Kannigser) more,
and don't recall any licensing restriction there. Nor
on the DOS version, for that matter.

> And the freeware version won't let
> you print a report, so you have to jot down  >
what you're seeing on the screen.

Uhm, not really. That would greatly limit the
practical use of it. I normally *redirect* the
program's output to a text file. (Is it time for a
refresher in "DOS 1.01" ? Isn't that still an
advantage we computing veterans retain over the
legions of clueless Win-folks ?) When you do this,
all you lose is some flashing or highlighted text in
the file. And if anyone missed _that_ greatly enough,
there are probably some geeky ANSI tricks that would
preserve it.


Jordan