-=> CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 WC> XPORT on the NEC machine.

 CA> Short version is the send from one end of the cable is moved to
 CA> the receive on the other end. Both null serial and laplink
 CA> cables can be purchased for around $8 US premade. Laplink (null
 CA> parallel) will do faster transfers. I use FileMaven for laplink.

When I snagged the program it got killed during a hard drive crash
though I'd backed up your file saved from OLR and can retrieve.
Saw several favorites along that line in Simtel.
I believe I can do a parallel to serial port transfer
with one of those tools and I have that cable.
Really fast I don't need and there's always the Colorado
tape drive option. 

 CA>> Compaq was like this. Their proprietary software is quite
 CA>> good IMO but they don't offer it for downloading. I guess
 CA>> they figured it was a lure to buy Compaq and didn't want
 CA>> it being used on competing equipment?

 WC> I could almost deal with Compaq without that proprietary
 WC> setup partition as I believe you're setup.

 CA> Yes, no special partition here on my two Compaqs and they work
 CA> fine and I can configure them using standard Compaq software.

Attempting to help a neighbor once the setup partition
would not load, so I download onto floppies  the 2 1.44
diskettes for a clean install of said partiton.
So what happens? Dang setup which I cannot access is setup
for 720 floppies so the software won't install, only other option was
boot to floppy at which point it first formats the drive and owner's
had no software on diskette or CD.
I developed an attitude towards Compaq's based on that experience.

I'm currently seeing great deals on  H.P. equipment for
the oddest reason, people are switching to Windows XP
and also loading up the taskbar with lots of shortcuts
both of which use up resources, slow the machine tricking the owner
into thinking they need faster equipment. 98 flies pretty high here
though after I get a CD burner for it I'm going to have to uninstall
a lot of crap.  I've also heard Win 2K does well on lesser machnes
than XP requires.
Also found out the blasted instant power save option can be disabled
by adding or deleting icons from the desktop which happened here.

BTW do you know what the registry in 98 is named?
I did a dir/s on reg* and came back with a slew of
names and not a clue which one to backup :-(
I've got to make the change in msdos.sys to boot DOS
by default too so my only recovery option won't be a 98 boot disk.

BTW thanks for the tip on Ad Aware, it actually snagged a
e-mail trojan call from a key entered into the registry.
I'll have to look at the log file one day and remove the executable
that  harmlessly resides somewhere.

Zone Alarm is showing my machine geting pinged so often
I shut down the popup alert because it was showing up every
15 seconds to several minutes even when staying
static on one site.
 
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