1) Thu, Nov 13, 2008 - 9:09:07 pm gregy new board
----------------------------------- 2) Thu, Nov 13, 2008 - 9:09:25 pm gregy last 11 posts:


----------------------------------- 3) Thu, Nov 13, 2008 - 9:10:29 pm gregy oops...last 11 posts:

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| 263) Wed, Oct 15, 2008 - 12:08:59 pm
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| Eric>
| gregy, Where did you go?? What happened with the flakey HDD?
| How's the "new" cat doing??
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| 264) Wed, Oct 15, 2008 - 4:45:31 pm
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| gregy>
| Eric.....Sam is learning to be a "house cat"....<g g g>....his
| brothers
| are learning to tolerate a somewhat pushy "new cat"....<g g g> ...
| ..actually, he just "wants to be one of the boys"....<g g g>...and
| he
| wants to sleep close to, and coddle a little with, his two beewfull
| bubbas....<g g g>
| ...
| His sister is sulking (I think she's actually his mother - don't ask
| me to explain)...so she only shows up occasionally....FWIW...the
| weather
| isn't harsh, so the cats are still spending lots of time outside,
| hunting, whatever....
| ...
| Sam will be able to go out some, after he gets more "home oriented"
| ...he's getting there, and does not seem to want to head "out the
| door"
| ...and, when outside, whenever something disturbs him, seems to want
| to head in through the cat port....but...that port isn't available
| 24/7, so he's got to be willing to come in when called, and stick
| around whenever the outside door is closed, until I open it and let
| him in....
| ...
| I expect it'll be weeks/months before that's true...
| ...
| Until then...he seems to be content to let his brothers/sister go
| out
| and stay inside himself...
| ...
| His physical prowess is vastly improved....his morale seems fine,
| and
| his spookiness seems to be diminishing....but he's still a little
| flinchy upon occasion..
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| 265) Wed, Oct 15, 2008 - 4:48:17 pm
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| gregy>
| He only goes outside, now, with me, on a leash/long lead....and sits
| contentedly at my feet, or on my lap, as I sit on my steps....but..
| it has been chilly these past few days, so he hasn't been out this
| week...
| ...
| The HDD....disconnected it, and jiggered my partitions (I have them
| set up to do that)...and it's operating okay, at half strength..<g
| g g>
| ...
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| 266) Thu, Oct 16, 2008 - 5:35:26 pm
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| Eric>
| gregy, you should check out the National Geo. Graphic for June 08
| I think you might enjoy the article on the snow leopard...
| great pictures.
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| 267) Thu, Oct 16, 2008 - 5:41:47 pm
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| Eric>
| Gregy, Also, in Popular Mechanics they mentioned a test that
| they did on an Iomega Go drive, portable HDD. They dropped it
| from 15 ft. then ran it over with a minivan and it still "kept
| ticking."
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| 268) Thu, Oct 16, 2008 - 5:47:32 pm
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| gregy>
| Eric....I have the "ATEN Parallel Port" HDD enclosure/drive
| software.
| ...I can hook that up....its capacity is only limited by the size of
| the HDD I put in the enclosure. But...it's lots better for me, at
| least, to have a new HDD installed in that slot...so...I'm digging
| out another of these little Micropolis Maverick 2.5Gbyte drives and
| will replace that blown one....
| ...
|
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| 269) Fri, Oct 17, 2008 - 1:18:52 am
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| Eric>
| gregy, What happened to Micropolis?? I don't see that
| brand mentioned much anymore. They were good drives.
| My SCSII drive on my old 486 is a Micropolis, a big ole FH bugger.
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| 270) Fri, Oct 17, 2008 - 1:24:29 am
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| Eric>
| gregy, I wasn't suggesting that you get an Iomega drive.
| I just found the article funny and a strange way to test
| a HDD. Next they will be throwing it out of an airplane like
| the Samsonite luggage. I wonder what type/brand of HDD it
| was that survived the space shuttle disintegration.
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| 271) Sun, Oct 19, 2008 - 8:02:42 pm
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| gregy>
| Eric....mine are 2.5Gbyte IDE "Maverick" drives....I bought a
| "gross"
| of them many years ago.....
| ...
| As for Micropolis...Where??? I can't remember who bought them out..
| ...
| It was one of the "biggies"...but...hmmmm...just a sec....
| ..
| Right...do a "wiki:micropolis_corporation"
| ...
| That's got a brief history....
| ...
| As for "what's next" and "what kinda HDD"...???
| ...
| Who knows....??? ("The Shadow Knows..."....<g g g>...)...
|
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| 272) Sat, Nov 08, 2008 - 8:30:03 pm
| URL
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| glennmcc>
| www.glennmcc.org/fprotdef.zip
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| 273) Thu, Nov 13, 2008 - 8:19:22 am
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| gregy>
| okay, I'm going to zero all these boards, tonight.
| ...
| If you want to save any posts, grab them before they're gone...<g g
| g>
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----------------------------------- 4) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 - 7:42:23 am gregy doggy type of animal....smaller than a dog (usually). Usually
characterized as "in the henhouse"..
..
over to ADEV

----------------------------------- 5) Thu, Jan 29, 2009 - 9:20:43 pm gregy Glenn....reading thru those yahoogroup messages....I noticed that
Udo says he's using EMS in order to give him DPMI-using-VCPI....I don't
think this is correct....I mean...he may be using VCPI to get him his
A20-shift of his CPU into ProtectedMode....but...the VCPInterface
(calls, locations, etc) is NOT the same as DPMI....and...in fact..I'm
remembering that VCPI is deprecated and not used because it has/had
some major problems....which was who DOS DPMI was implemented...and..
AND....the two are NOT the same, or interchangeable....so...maybe that
is why his VCPI/EMS imitation-DPMI is crashing....
...
But....I'm mentioning this here, because I do not want to embarass
Udo...and I'm NOT sure I'm right....I gotta go re-check my books, etc.
...

----------------------------------- 6) Thu, Jan 29, 2009 - 9:21:13 pm gregy Glenn...over on TEST....

----------------------------------- 7) Thu, Jan 29, 2009 - 9:22:13 pm gregy Ooops....forget that...meant to post that on MISC....<g g g>
...
(guess that I AM getting senile....<g g g>...)

----------------------------------- 8) Thu, Jan 29, 2009 - 9:36:01 pm gregy yeah....my memory didn't betray me...<g g g>....a quick wiki:vcpi/dpmi
confirmed what I was remembering....
...
You might want to re-read these....
...
Which means that Udo's dpmi-enabled-Arachne is actually a vcpi-enabled
compile....
...
I'm not going to broach this to him....I will check his vdpi-compile..
...but...but...that is NOT the way to go to make 16-bit Arachne a
dpmi-enabled app....
...and...also....I'm a bit foggy on how to approach that, too...
and how to operate Arachne once it's dpmi-enabled....I'm going to have
to do some studying...

----------------------------------- 9) Thu, Jan 29, 2009 - 10:03:40 pm gregy oh, and, of course Udo needs to use EMM386 with EMS...'cause that's the
only way VCPI works....but....true DPMI does NOT work that way...
...

----------------------------------- 10) Thu, Jan 29, 2009 - 10:05:48 pm gregy So, in order to test Udo's vcpi-arachne, I'll have to switch to
EMM386 ('cause he says that's what he uses) from QEMM386, and enable
EMS, etc...then try to run it....
...

----------------------------------- 11) Thu, Jan 29, 2009 - 10:08:47 pm gregy And...the possibility exists, that Udo is saying "VCPI" when he REALLY
means "DPMI".....I know a lot of people get confused about them...
..
I keep forgetting about their differences, and having to go back and
refresh my knowledge base on them....
....
So, maybe Udo is really talking about DPMI, but I think not, since he
keeps on mentioning that it needs EMS to run...

----------------------------------- 12) Thu, Jan 29, 2009 - 10:48:31 pm glennmcc IIRC,

The DPMI that Udo uses requires both EMS & VCPI to be enabled. ----------------------------------- 13) Thu, Jan 29, 2009 - 10:54:57 pm glennmcc o install DPMI Arachne, first install the normal Arachne v190J1, then replace
the file CORE.EXE with the DPMI version. You also have to copy the files
RTM.EXE, DPMI16BI.OVL and WIN87EM.DLL to a directory in your PATH (the file
WIN87EM.DLL cannot be distributed along with Arachne for legal reasons; it is
contained in various versions of MS Windows).

If you want to compile core.exe yourself, you need to have Borland C v4.52 and
Borland Powerpack for DOS v1.0 installed.
To compile core.exe, you need to compile the LOPIF and WATTCP libraries first.
In the sub directory LOPIF, edit the file vvd.mak to match the path to the
compiler on your machine, then run 'maker -f vvd.mak' (the file vv.mak is used
for the normal Real Mode version, there are also some experimental versions
which use the HUGE memory model that are denoted by the letter 'h'). Then run
hixlovd.bat to generate the lib file, hixlovd.lib.
In the dir WATTCP, go to the sub dirs SRC and ELIB, edit the makefiles and then
run 'maker'. The resulting library file wattcpdp.lib will be in the LIB dir.
Copy both hixlovd.lib and wattcpdp.lib into the directory CORE, edit cored.mak,
then run 'maker -f cored.mak to compile core.exe (core.mak is for the Real Mode
version, the makefiles with the letter 'h' are for the experimental HUGE model
version). If you prefer to have a version of core.exe without the debug info,
use corer.mak instead.

Udo Kuhnt
----------------------------------- 14) Thu, Jan 29, 2009 - 10:55:44 pm glennmcc http://www.drdosprojects.de./index.cgi/other.htm www.drdosprojects.de./index.cgi/other.htm ----------------------------------- 15) Thu, Jan 29, 2009 - 10:56:38 pm glennmcc http://www.drdosprojects.de./cgi-bin/download.cgi/aradpa2b.zip www.drdosprojects.de./cgi-bin/download.cgi/aradpa2b.zip ----------------------------------- 16) Thu, Jan 29, 2009 - 10:57:21 pm glennmcc That ZIP has everything except win87em.dll ----------------------------------- 17) Thu, Jan 29, 2009 - 10:58:52 pm glennmcc This is a version of Arachne v1.90J1 that I have modified to allow it to run in
Protected Mode using the DPMI (DOS Protected Mode Interface). It requires
Borland C v4.52 and Borland Powerpack for DOS v1.0 to compile. Other versions
might also work, but this has not been tested. There is also a precompiled
version available.

DPMI Arachne, as I have named it, is still in alpha stage, but is now able to
connect to the Internet and has been successfully tested on several machines.
It is known not to work on some machines, though, for reasons yet unknown.

If you decide to test it, you do it on your own risk. It might crash, so you
would be well advised to take precautions.

Feedback is welcome, and should be posted to either the Arachne Development
group at h-ttp://groups.yahoo.com/groups/ArachneDevelopment, the Arachne user
mailinglist at h-ttp://www.freelists.org/archives/arachne or the Enhanced DR-DOS
Forum at h-ttp://www.drdosprojects.de/forum/drp_forum .

Udo Kuhnt
----------------------------------- 18) Thu, Jan 29, 2009 - 11:30:17 pm gregy okay....I think I've got everything I need.....
1. this page saved as a tutor.
2. the two d/l packages from Udo's site.
3. the PING util he says to use for checking WATTCP is working.
4. WIN87EM.DLL (from my Win3.1 install).
5. the rest of the stuff (you said it was all in there, and it is).
6. the latest CORE (forgregyCORE) should be 1.95, and that's a
drop-in replacement for 1.90J1, isn't it...??? ...so I should be able
to just go with that, right...??

----------------------------------- 19) Thu, Jan 29, 2009 - 11:34:29 pm gregy And...since Udo's seems to be definitely using VCPI instead of DPMI,
and he IS using the Win3.1 WIN87EM.DLL....well, that is known, and
stated in numerous places, to be NOT compatible with Win3.x....so...
that is probably why it is "unstable"...but...here I am speculating..
...
No good, that...without even trying...just mentally wandering....
...<g g g>
...
Have to get it going here tomorrow (I think)...

----------------------------------- 20) Thu, Aug 20, 2009 - 6:15:58 pm glennmcc Obviously.... 'tomorrow never comes'
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