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Hello Wayne - 

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CA>> {COMMO} is freeware now too AFAIK. 

WC> Hmm may snag it to transfer files on local phone calls to
WC> friends. 

There is a link at my website for {COMMO}, I think from the
utilities page. 

WC> I had no trouble setting that one up. Nor Panther for that
WC> mater. Didn't COMMO actually compile some customized code,
WC> it's been some time. 

No, but {COMMO} has a macros page that controls it's functions.
Could be that is what you are thinking of. 

WC>> Panther had an auto-scripter too though not perfect with a
WC>> little editting you could get it to go on stubborn BBS's,
WC>> had a timed mail run function as well :-) 

Seems to me 'Panther' had a name change. I might have a link to
that one stored here somewhere. 

CA>> When I only used dialup BBS I used Telemate for that
CA>> reason. It could write login macros for you and it could
CA>> multitask from within Telemate. You could review download
CA>> file lists using the scrollback buffer and mark them for
CA>> downloading, all while downloading files in the background
CA>> and could load an editor on top of those to write replies
CA>> to echo messages. Quite unique for the time (DOS). :-) 

WC> I looked at Telemate, compressed using RAR wasn't't it and
WC> decompressed an impressive amount from the archive. That
WC> one actually put me off as there was TOO much in there for
WC> my needs to fully investigate it. 

It was a large install for a DOS app and a bit overwhelming at
first. 

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CA>> Another reason why I 'hide' icons on my desktop after
CA>> moving as many as possible into the 'start menus'.
CA>> Difficult to 'organize' them on the desktop screen but
CA>> easy to do within the construct of the 'start menu'. 

WC> I get the soft pedaled hint and to conserve resources will
WC> be moving apps. from taskbar to 'start menu.' Soon most
WC> everything will in there in my order of preference. 

Nothing wrong with keeping icons in the taskbar, I do that too. 

WC> Two 128 Meg RAM DIMMs on order so I'll be upping that from
WC> 96 - 256 Meg. 

I have 192 meg. One of the memory sticks was a slower speed and
was bogging down the OS so I took it out. 

CA>> I never liked the standard install of W9x for that reason
CA>> - too disorganized. Now that I have mine organized to suit
CA>> my needs I enjoy using it (W2K). :-) 

WC> This 98 is like silly putty and now I'm quite proficient at
WC> reconfiguring. Next month either a USB hard drive for
WC> backup or a 56k hardware modem. Now that I've researched
WC> and discovered USB drives are just regular drives in an
WC> external case they suit me better. Only thing I need to
WC> check out further is they all seem to need Win 98SE minimum
WC> so that may or may not be a problem. Has to be a USB driver
WC> issue 

I'm not certain W98 supported USB or maybe it was an early
version of USB. Can't remember. 

WC> but I can always pull the drive from case and set it up
WC> slave and xcopy32 over with appropriate switches. 

I don't recommend using xcopy32 there can be problems. Imaging
software or actual backup software is a better idea IMO. If you
do use xcopy32 the switches are 'RICHKEY'. 

WC> I may have to check into the prices on Win 2K. 

The main difference for a home user is that W2K can shrug off
crashed third party apps most of the time. I've had two or
three windows lock up on me and can bring up taskmanager and
just 'kill' them and go right back to whatever I was doing. I
leave the machine on for weeks at a time and usually only
reboot when I make registry changes. 

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