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> I said:
> > I probably wouldn't recognize a pcmcia slot if one was looking me in the 
> > face...
> > ...but I'm always ready to learn :-).
>
> OK. No I don't have them...

Only our newest 486 had them (DX4, 75MHz).

> > Go to BL site, links to old BL1 site, download zgv and libvgagl packages
> > and 'pkg' them.  BL1 programs work with BL3.
>
> I've found these programs but I think I somehow missed what they were 
> for...???
> Would you mind clarifying that, please.

You will also need libvga which came with BL1.  My last copy of BL1 left 
on the 486 - anyone else have that library handy?  (You can get it from 
Slackware 4).

To view images without X.  Install BL1 packages zgv and libvgagl and also 
libvga.so.* from Slackware or BL1.  Unless you have a very strange video 
chip, it should display in VESA mode.  zgv imagename.


> > > ... a floppy which says "PARAC.EXE" (mean anything to you?) on the label.
> >
> > I don't know that program
>
> I'm not surprised. It turns out to be a Dutch program!  And although it tells 
> me the connection
> is OK it refuses to actually copy anything. Grr... This is between native 
> MS-DOS on the PC
> (i.e. not the Windows DOS box, that doesn't work at all) and MS-DOS on the 
> old laptop.

If you have DOS try interlnk/intersvr.  One at each end.

> I'll perhaps give this some though but I'll try plip first.
It often won't work on laptop parallel ports.
Can you get a copy of laplink pro for DOS?

> > > > If you have a landline phone, external modem plugged into serial port:
> > pppsetup, then ppp-on to dial
>
> OK. This is the success story of the week (for me) !!! I did not know any of 
> the details I had to fill in in the pppsetup
> but I patiently looked then all up (and guessed what I couldn't find). 
> Because of that last bit I didn't have high hopes
> but on entering ppp-on the old modem began to rattle, whirr, and whistle the 
> old tunes I hadn't heard for so long and
> almost before I knew it I was into the BL site via Links!!! Almost magic! ;-) 
> Thanks!!! :-) ).

Hooray!  If you sign up at http://freeshell.org and send them $1, you can 
use other text browsers that require more memory (telnet there first). 
Also cjb.net but I can't get it to work again.  You can also use your
laptop via serial transfer cable as a terminal for another computer at 
your end.


> > Nice to hear about your experiences.  Is your name Dick, or maybe Dirk?

> It's as I wrote it. Somewhat undervalued nowadays perhaps due to vulgar 
> usage ;-) but I'll stick with it just like Messrs. Cheney, Van Dyke 
> etc.. :-)

Dick is a nickname for Richard here.  Is it a legal name there?

> > Ik sprek geen nederlands.
>
> Enough I think, to understand the label which is still stuck to that old laptop of 
> mine... "geen garantie" !!!
How do you say 'got it' in Dutch?
I learned all my Dutch from a 12 year old when I was visiting her mother.

> Dick.
> Eindhoven,
> The Netherlands.


Sindi Keesan