Re: I want to go geek .. DOS subsystem

["mhchoate" mhyerchoate@xxxxxxxx]

hi all... my electricity is off thanks to god of thunder... excuse typos
please ... I can't type and hold flashlight over keyboard at same time ....
(I have a generator that doesn't work but WILL SOON) ...
by loading DOS dir I mean I copied the DOS programs (by this I don't mean
programs that run under DOS, I mean the code that executes when you enter a
DOS command, like "dir" ....)
... don't remember specifics now ... and don't want to go researching, in
the dark ... but I remember I proved to myself that I was doing what I
thought I was doing ....
On topic of FUllScreen .... I am going to try again to come up with a color
system that will allow me to find the cursor easily in enough modes .......
I just reread the stuff on colors in my manual, and I now see a way to try
them all out that is much much much much easier than what I think I remember
doing when I was trying to do that in crisis mode ....
If I succeed at that, I may try -- just for the principled of the thing ...
to work in nonFullScreen mode ...

Going to look at the weather website now, then turn it all off ...
Bye ... Marge
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patricia M. Godfrey" 
To: 
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2007 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: I want to go geek .. DOS subsystem
mhchoate wrote:
to get back use of my then printer (no driver available for Win98) .... I
got it working by loading the DOS dir ...
I'm not clear on what you mean by "loading the DOS dir." One can log into
a dir (cd d:\mydir) or put it in the path, but I never heard of "loading"
one, as if it were an app.
But, to repeat what Robert has said several times, this obsession with DOS
as if it were necessary for Xy (useful for other things, yes) is, IMO,
misplaced. Xy runs on the VDM that is part of every Windows version--even,
apparently, Vista. Intermittent problems with jerky cursor in windowed
mode and (in Marge's case, and I think one other) of inability to get full
screen have been reported, but the first does not seem to be universal,
nor the second common. (I STILL suspect a hardware or BIOS component in
both, but too few people know what hardware they're running on to enable
me to get a handle on it.)
What I gather Robert is proposing with his BARTPC plug-in would be
slightly different: a whole, workable opsys for when yours goes down,
complete with Xy so you CAN do useful work while figuring out what's wrong
and getting it fixed. I nearly always have another PC to hand, but a thing
like that would come in darn handy if one was traveling, had to give a
presentation and give out some handouts one was still working on, and
one's laptop suddenly went kerflooey.

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Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx