On (28 Mar 95) Roy McNeill wrote to Keith Richardson...



 RM> Hi Keith



 KR> i think that i got ripped, i paid i think $280 for v4.5 with docs and

 RM> an

 KR> extra copy of 4.0 thrown in. all i need is someone who wants an unused

 KR> copy of 4.0. all told, at the moment, i have 2 floppy copies of 4.0, a

 KR> 4.0, a 4.0s, and a 4.5 cd rom, the dos power pack, and vis solutions.



 RM> I ordered the dos powerpack the day after I read yr "goodbye for

 RM> now" msg, and I rather like it, although the docs could be better

 RM> (I'm stuffed if I can work out how TurboVision works out its

 RM> colours) but as of yesterday the first tv app is up, running, and

 RM> nicer than its ancestor. TV's next job is a decent front end for

 RM> Drip (yes, it's in *that* queue...)



glad to hear that you are making progress, i started to read the tv

manual, on the bus a while ago when my car was in for service, but i

haven't got around to using th knowledge (i'v got a queue like yours too

(: )



 RM> Borland are running a half-price special at the moment on the $200

 RM> add-ons. What will you accept for yr vis solutions pack? 



after buying a scanner, photoshop, and a modem, i cant aford anything

even at half price. ): photoshop seems to have been a good investment,

i've produced stuff for the wife person that has her looking at the pc

as something useful at last (now to justify the kilobuck for another 16

meg (: )



 BV> Same here. Frank went. Bob lost interest when he found out that it

 BV> required 128Mb of disk space and a CD-ROM to load it .



 RM> hey Brenton - shouldn't that be "and/or a CD"? A lot of the crap

 RM> that takes up piles of hd space is accessed infrequently enough

 RM> that it might as well stay on the cd.



i've got bc set up with the help files on cd. i couldn't see any way to

get this setup automatically though, i had to go in and edit the ini

files by hand. i tried to run 4.02 with a minimum cd install, it all

worked except that 32 bit dos exes would not run.



                        Keith



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