Re: off topic, but just a bit--DOS dictionary

[marc@xxxxxxxx]

I'm not sure how your Dictionary 'installs' but perhaps you should create a
temporary folder on your desktop PC and create 12 folders, called '1' thru '12'.
Copy the contents of each floppy into it's respective folder and then burn that
to the CD.
On the Omni book, CD into the folder called '1' and run your installation from
there. As it prompts for the next disk, point it to folder '2' and so on...

Cheers

Marc



Quoting Mark Garvey :

> With listmember Joe Fisher's help, I'm now the proud
> owner of an awesome little HP Omnibook 800CT. It's
> running XyWrite just great, booting in DOS.
>
> My question relates to an old DOS dictionary I'm
> trying to run alongside my XyWrite--the Random House
> Webster's Electronic Dictionary and Thesaurus. I own
> the dictionary, but it's on 12 floppies. The FDD for
> my Omnibook doesn't work. CD-ROM drive works--as well
> as CF memory on a card--but no floppy. So...problem
> was how to get the Random House dictionary into the
> Omnibook.
>
> Let me preface this by saying I'm not a computer wiz.
> Not a complete beginner, but not a wiz. Here's what I
> tried: I pulled up a DOS window on my desktop PC,
> which runs Win2K. Using that DOS window, I installed
> the dictionary onto my desktop PC--everything went
> into one directory-- c:\rhwedt.
>
> I then burned a CD-ROM of the contents of that
> directory.
>
> I then copied the contents of that directory from CD
> into a rhwedt directory I created on the Omnibook's C
> drive.
>
> There are two ways to start the dictionary--as a
> standalone or as a TSR. In the past I've loaded it as
> a TSR. The command to run it that way is not working
> for me now. It does run, sort of, in standalone
> mode--only problem is I can't close it..so have to
> reboot. I'm fully aware that all this is most likely
> related to the goofy way I tried to get the files onto
> the Omnibook--i.e., as a copy of an installation
> instead of a genuine installation. I know such a thing
> would never come close to working in the Windows
> world, but I thought I might be able to get away with
> it in DOS...I've done it with my XyWrite installation
> for years.
>
> Anyone have any good ideas for getting around this
> trouble?
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
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