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Steven Wabik said:
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Pegasus \(MVP\)
Ron Martell said:Larger cluster sizes and excessive "slack" space on the hard drive
once you get beyond the 500 mb range. Remember, DOS has lots of very
small files so an extra 16K or so of disk space per file can quickly
add up, especially on a small drive. Much more efficient to have two
smaller FAT16 partitions rather than a single 2 gb one.
The only issue here is "slack": With larger cluster sizes and lots of
small files you obviously get more unused space. However, 2 GByte
FAT partitions work as well as 512 MByte ones. Your statement
that they should be limited to 512 MBytes implies that there is a
performance or reliability issue, which there is not.
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Pegasus \(MVP\)
David Sanders said:I would suggest that instead of repartitioning and reformatting your
hard disk (an error prone operation), you use Virtual PC (a free
download from Microsoft). You can download a Windows 98 (or MS-DOS)
boot disk and use that to create a FAT32 partition inside of Virtual PC.
The OP does not want to load WinXP - he wants his word
processor to start from DOS.
R
Ron Sommer
:
: : > Steven Wabik wrote:
: > > my pc does not seem to support formating in fat16. what now?
: > > i have a windows 98 installation CD.
: > > how do i take MSDOS 7 off of it and turn it into a stand alone OS?
: >
: > I would suggest that instead of repartitioning and reformatting your
: > hard disk (an error prone operation), you use Virtual PC (a free
: > download from Microsoft). You can download a Windows 98 (or MS-DOS)
: > boot disk and use that to create a FAT32 partition inside of Virtual PC.
:
: The OP does not want to load WinXP - he wants his word
: processor to start from DOS.
:
:
This is a lot of wasted effort.
Who would want a word processor if you can't print. I haven't seen any
printer that would print from Dos for several years.
: : > Steven Wabik wrote:
: > > my pc does not seem to support formating in fat16. what now?
: > > i have a windows 98 installation CD.
: > > how do i take MSDOS 7 off of it and turn it into a stand alone OS?
: >
: > I would suggest that instead of repartitioning and reformatting your
: > hard disk (an error prone operation), you use Virtual PC (a free
: > download from Microsoft). You can download a Windows 98 (or MS-DOS)
: > boot disk and use that to create a FAT32 partition inside of Virtual PC.
:
: The OP does not want to load WinXP - he wants his word
: processor to start from DOS.
:
:
This is a lot of wasted effort.
Who would want a word processor if you can't print. I haven't seen any
printer that would print from Dos for several years.
Q
q_q_anonymous
Ron said::
: : > Steven Wabik wrote:
: > > my pc does not seem to support formating in fat16. what now?
: > > i have a windows 98 installation CD.
: > > how do i take MSDOS 7 off of it and turn it into a stand alone OS?
: >
: > I would suggest that instead of repartitioning and reformatting your
: > hard disk (an error prone operation), you use Virtual PC (a free
: > download from Microsoft). You can download a Windows 98 (or MS-DOS)
: > boot disk and use that to create a FAT32 partition inside of Virtual PC.
:
: The OP does not want to load WinXP - he wants his word
: processor to start from DOS.
:
:
This is a lot of wasted effort.
Who would want a word processor if you can't print. I haven't seen any
printer that would print from Dos for several years.
why? because printers nowadays use USB instead of LPT1?
Well, googling, there are USB drivers for DOS
when I did print in DOS, I don't recall ever even needing drivers
specific to the printer, or generic drivers! Though I only ever tried
printing plain ascii text files, not anything in wordstar.
LPT1 was supported, and you could print to any printer connected to it
so same probably goes for USB.
I can't comment on wordstar though
J
John
Steven said:how do i add ms-dos to boot.ini?
You would get better advice in any of the following news groups ...
alt.msdos
comp.os.msdos.prgrammer
alt.msdos.programmer
comp.os.msdos.misc
John
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Pennywise
Ron Sommer said:This is a lot of wasted effort.
Who would want a word processor if you can't print. I haven't seen any
printer that would print from Dos for several years.
Word.doc > prn:
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Steven Wabik
who said i was trying to print? i just wanted to have there so i could run
it, use it, and save my documents without running windows. i just wanted a
really fast way to get to a word processor without waiting forever to get to
it.
it, use it, and save my documents without running windows. i just wanted a
really fast way to get to a word processor without waiting forever to get to
it.
S
Steven Wabik
thanks
John said:You would get better advice in any of the following news groups ...
alt.msdos
comp.os.msdos.prgrammer
alt.msdos.programmer
comp.os.msdos.misc
John
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Ron Sommer
Put the programs on a floppy or a CD.
Have a Fat or Fat32 partition on the hard drive as a place to save your
documents.
--
Ron Sommer
: who said i was trying to print? i just wanted to have there so i could run
: it, use it, and save my documents without running windows. i just wanted a
: really fast way to get to a word processor without waiting forever to get
to
: it.
: : >
: > : > :
: > : : > : > Steven Wabik wrote:
: > : > > my pc does not seem to support formating in fat16. what now?
: > : > > i have a windows 98 installation CD.
: > : > > how do i take MSDOS 7 off of it and turn it into a stand alone OS?
: > : >
: > : > I would suggest that instead of repartitioning and reformatting your
: > : > hard disk (an error prone operation), you use Virtual PC (a free
: > : > download from Microsoft). You can download a Windows 98 (or MS-DOS)
: > : > boot disk and use that to create a FAT32 partition inside of Virtual
: > PC.
: > :
: > : The OP does not want to load WinXP - he wants his word
: > : processor to start from DOS.
: > :
: > :
: > This is a lot of wasted effort.
: > Who would want a word processor if you can't print. I haven't seen any
: > printer that would print from Dos for several years.
: > --
: > Ron Sommer
: >
:
:
Have a Fat or Fat32 partition on the hard drive as a place to save your
documents.
--
Ron Sommer
: who said i was trying to print? i just wanted to have there so i could run
: it, use it, and save my documents without running windows. i just wanted a
: really fast way to get to a word processor without waiting forever to get
to
: it.
: : >
: > : > :
: > : : > : > Steven Wabik wrote:
: > : > > my pc does not seem to support formating in fat16. what now?
: > : > > i have a windows 98 installation CD.
: > : > > how do i take MSDOS 7 off of it and turn it into a stand alone OS?
: > : >
: > : > I would suggest that instead of repartitioning and reformatting your
: > : > hard disk (an error prone operation), you use Virtual PC (a free
: > : > download from Microsoft). You can download a Windows 98 (or MS-DOS)
: > : > boot disk and use that to create a FAT32 partition inside of Virtual
: > PC.
: > :
: > : The OP does not want to load WinXP - he wants his word
: > : processor to start from DOS.
: > :
: > :
: > This is a lot of wasted effort.
: > Who would want a word processor if you can't print. I haven't seen any
: > printer that would print from Dos for several years.
: > --
: > Ron Sommer
: >
:
:
B
Bob I
Ron said::
: : > Steven Wabik wrote:
: > > my pc does not seem to support formating in fat16. what now?
: > > i have a windows 98 installation CD.
: > > how do i take MSDOS 7 off of it and turn it into a stand alone OS?
: >
: > I would suggest that instead of repartitioning and reformatting your
: > hard disk (an error prone operation), you use Virtual PC (a free
: > download from Microsoft). You can download a Windows 98 (or MS-DOS)
: > boot disk and use that to create a FAT32 partition inside of Virtual PC.
:
: The OP does not want to load WinXP - he wants his word
: processor to start from DOS.
:
:
This is a lot of wasted effort.
Who would want a word processor if you can't print. I haven't seen any
printer that would print from Dos for several years.
Epson LX300 perhaps?
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