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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] interesting info for those with trident cards (possibly applies to others)
  • Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 07:18:06 +0000 (UTC)

(Slow connection, won't quote original while uploading a large file. Why is Earthlink transferring at 1500 cps?).

I use MS DOS 7.1 standalone because FreeDOS did not do scsi (does it now)?, did not recognize the hard drive on 2 or 3 of our computers, and I think did not work with DOS usb-storage driver. On two computers loadlin only worked with DOS 7 (2.2.26 may have fixed this).

I use DOS rather than lilo because I still use DOS programs:
WP51/DOS because I don't like GUIs. It does not work under Dosemu (4.1 does, somewhat better).

I tried VDE, which works well in DOS but under DOSEMU does not support upper ASCII, and some of the Ctrl-key combinations don't work - Ctrl plus
arrow key for moving one word at a time, Find, End of File.
I am used to some DOS viewers and other programs. Kermit works in DOS, as does lynx, w3m (not links), netpbm.... You can power off DOS at any point and access drives without mounting them.

I have not found a way to directly print email from my shell account with linux.

Linux does not work properly on TTL monitor. I can't see bold or underline with lynx, or inverse with VDE.

Only one or maybe two of my 360K drives works in linux.

I have not found any need for a 'full' linux. We put SW81 on one computer for a while to see what it looked like, and ran SW91 live CD to try out USB, but it is much quicker booting with BL.

Every time I come up with something that BL can't do, someone compiles it for me. Mutt, netpbm, mplayer, USB storage kernel and boot disk, parport zip drive floppy boot disk, chip-specific modelines. Or works out a script (sound, CD burning, mpg123 for streaming audio).

What is it you can't do with BL and need a larger linux for?

Yes my camera has a memory card and I got a card reader for it, which now works with the 2.4.31 USB boot disk (but not with DSL or un-updated XP).

A Smartmedia to PCMCIA adaptor sold for $20 used on ebay, another for 16 pounds. My card reader was $3 used.

A floppy disk or CD-ROM burning camera is large and heavy as well as more expensive.



keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org




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